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Posted: 2021-03-31T02:08:21Z | Updated: 2021-03-31T13:22:10Z

A Fox News segment went off the rails Tuesday when Democratic strategist Chris Hahn torched conservatives opposing COVID-19 vaccine passports, calling his fellow on-air guest a grifter and slamming Republicans for peddling conspiracy theories.

Hahn, a frequent Fox News guest, joined former Trump campaign senior adviser Mercedes Schlapp on the network with host Gillian Turner to debate the idea of issuing documentation that would prove an American had been vaccinated and could travel and enter businesses safely. The Biden administration is working with private companies on a solution but has said it would ultimately be a private sector-led initiative.

A number of Republicans, including Fox News host Tucker Carlson , Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, have grasped the issue as their latest culture war grievance. Carlson declared it Orwellian. DeSantis said it was unacceptable for the government or the private sector to require proof of the coronavirus vaccination to be able to participate in normal society.

During the Fox News discussion, Schlapp said that Democrats are against Republican-led efforts to curtail voting rights, including adding additional ID requirements, but support vaccine passports. Thats the illogical mentality of the left.

She declared that the Biden administration is working with Big Tech to develop the passports.

Heres whats troubling, Hahn replied. The private sector is driving it, not the government. But Republicans, like everything else theyve done during this horrible crisis weve been through, are pushing these conspiracy theories that the government is trying to control you, which is causing some of their followers not to get vaccinated.

People like Tucker Carlson, like [Ohio Rep.] Jim Jordan , like Mercedes here right now ... trying to convince people that the government is somehow watching you. That is very irresponsible.

Its the private sector that wants to make sure that people coming into their venues are vaccinated so that their patrons can be safe from COVID-19.

I didnt hold back.

The right is spreading conspiracy theories and its costing lives. pic.twitter.com/babrxl0EyU

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I didnt hold back.

The right is spreading conspiracy theories and its costing lives. pic.twitter.com/babrxl0EyU

Chris Hahn (@ChristopherHahn) March 30, 2021

I am not going to take this from you. You are not going to call me a liar, Schlapp fired back. You are not going to call me a conspiracy theorist, youre not going to call Tucker Carlson a conspiracy theorist. That is wrong.

He is. You are, said Hahn.

The two proceeded to yell over one another, with Schlapp claiming she stood for the freedom of the American people, and Hahn telling her No, you dont. Youre a grifter.

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