Police officer responds to GOP claims that Capitol rioters were tourists:

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'If that's what American tourists are like, I can see why foreign countries don't like American tourists'

A Metropolitan Police officer on Tuesday cracked a joke when a Democratic lawmaker asked him about Republican claims that the rioters who stormed the Capitol on January 6 were "tourists."

"Some of our colleagues have been calling the violent insurrectionists not terrorists but tourists," said Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin, referring to Republican Rep. Andrew Clyde's earlier claim on the matter. "Why do you call the attackers terrorists, and what do you think about our colleagues who think we should call them tourists?"

"Well, if that's what American tourists are like, I can see why foreign countries don't like American tourists," the MPD officer Daniel Hodges deadpanned, as lawmakers and the audience broke into laughter.

He continued: "But I can see why someone would take issue with the title of 'terrorist.' It's gained a lot of notoriety in our vocabulary the past few decades. And we like to believe that that couldn't happen here - no domestic terrorism, no homegrown threats.

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