Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida accused a top Code Pink organizer of berating her before smacking her, and the entire exchange is on video.

Luna was walking from Congress after questioning Secretary of State Marco Rubio when Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin peppered her with questions.

‘These are not “allegations.” It happened. My staff was there when it happened and wrote statements.’

TMZ obtained the video from the anti-war organization and published it online.

“Marco Rubio has been sanctioning the Cuban people, which is hurting them by the billions!” Benjamin said to Luna.

“You just touched me! You’re going to walk away right now, or else I’m going to call Capitol Police!” Luna said to Benjamin.

“OK, I will walk away. Bye-bye!” she responded.

Luna posted on social media that she would be filing charges against Benjamin.

“After I questioned Secretary Rubio on Code Pink and their ties to the CCP, their organization followed me out, berated me, and then their head person here in DC smacked me. I will be filing charges,” she posted.

“Btw these are not ‘allegations.’ It happened. My staff was there when it happened and wrote statements for LEO,” she added.

Benjamin posted about the incident and accused Luna of lying.

“Today, a congresswoman lied to have me detained by Capitol Police. Why? To try to silence our work against U.S. wars in the Middle East and sanctions on Cuba,” she wrote on social media.

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Benjamin admitted that she “tapped” Luna with her hand but claimed Luna accused her of assault.

“Instead of defending these wildly unpopular policies, members of Congress target the activists working to stop them,” she added. “Thankfully, I was released without charges. No amount of intimidation will change that the majority of people in the U.S. want to stop U.S. wars and aggression. We won’t be silenced.”

The Code Pink organization did not immediately respond to Blaze News’ request for comment.

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The U.S. House of Representatives successfully passed a rebuke against the president’s U.S.-Israeli joint strikes on Iran on Wednesday.

Democrats in the House narrowly passed the resolution by a vote of 215 to 208, with four Republicans joining their political opponents.

‘I told Iran, “It’s time, one way or another, for you to make a Deal. You’ve been doing this for 47 years, and it cannot be allowed to go on any longer!”’

A White House official expressed to ABC News the view that the resolution is unconstitutional.

“President Trump will continue to protect our national security using his constitutional authority as commander in chief while being transparent with Congress,” the official said.

The official added that the resolution is unlikely to pass in the Senate, but even if it were to pass, it would have “no force or effect.”

The four Republicans who voted with Democrats were Reps. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, Tom Barrett of Michigan, and Warren Davidson of Ohio.

The Senate is working on a separate version that would force the president to end the war, but even if the Senate passed it and got approval from the House, Trump could easily veto it.

The president has been trying to negotiate a ceasefire agreement with Iran, but the regime’s nuclear program and control of the Strait of Hormuz have been sticking points between the two nations.

Also on Wednesday, Iran’s foreign ministry defended the regime’s attacks on Bahrain and Kuwait by accusing the Middle Eastern countries of allowing the U.S. to launch attacks from bases within their borders.

“Any hostile act will be met with an immediate, decisive response. What sanctions and war failed to achieve won’t be won with more war,” Iranian Foreign Affairs Minister Abbas Araghchi said.

Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana told reporters the wartime resolution was “dangerous” and “untimely.”

Trump berated Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to Axios, for threatening the peace negotiations by attacking Lebanon.

“You’re f**king crazy. You’d be in prison if it weren’t for me. I’m saving your ass. Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this,” the president said, according to a summary by one of the officials.

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On Tuesday, the president posted an update on negotiations on Truth Social that denied some media reports claiming talks between the nations had ended.

“The conversations between us have been going on continuously, including four days ago, three days ago, two days ago, one day ago, and today,” Trump posted.

“Where they lead, one never knows, but as I told Iran, ‘It’s time, one way or another, for you to make a Deal. You’ve been doing this for 47 years, and it cannot be allowed to go on any longer!'” he added.

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As fears over the impending AI takeover continue to mount, some politicians are proposing solutions. Earlier this week, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) published an opinion piece in the New York Times in which he announced a bill called the American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act.

In short, Sanders argued that big AI companies got rich by using everyone’s data, writings, and ideas without permission or compensation. His bill proposes that the government take 50% ownership of the biggest AI companies — including voting shares and board seats — and place them into a public sovereign wealth fund that would supposedly benefit all Americans.

Glenn Beck believes this might be Sanders’ worst idea to date.

“For the love of little baby Jesus, hear me!” he pleads. “Do not allow our government to get deeper in bed with these AI companies.”

While Glenn agrees with Sanders that AI developers “have taken and built this entire system on your back,” government involvement will only further corrupt an already depraved system.

He explains that for years, AI developers have been using Google data to “map” human brains to learn how to effectively “manipulate” us. In other words, they’re learning how to bring about “the death of free will.”

Couple this astonishing power with the government’s “evil schemes,” and you’ve got a dystopia that would shock even Orwell.

To illustrate the danger of public-private partnerships, Glenn recounts how during the COVID-19 pandemic, the government made secret agreements with companies like Pfizer to receive royalty payments for every vaccine sold.

“Now you want to give Bernie Sanders 50% of these AI companies, which would give [the government] a seat at the table? … Not on your life,” declares Glenn.

“That is unimaginable power that you’d be giving to the United States government.”

Executive producer for “The Glenn Beck Program” Ricky Ratliff-Fellman notes the hypocrisy of Sanders’ sudden desire to work with AI developers. “It’s interesting that Bernie Sanders, who has historically been very skeptical … of Big Tech, is suddenly finding a way to get into bed with them,” she remarks.

Glenn believes the unprecedented power such a union would create is just too tempting even for Big Tech skeptics.

“Can you imagine how far in the rear-view mirror we would be if we had politicians on the board of directors of these tech companies, where [they] had a 50% vote and voice?” he asks.

“We will be the Soviet Union making the ZiL, the worst car ever made, overnight.”

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A far-left radical who made millions as a Silicon Valley software engineer and then worked on Wall Street before going into politics just ran into a political brick wall.

Saikat Chakrabarti worked on the Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) presidential campaign in 2016 before founding Justice Democrats to push the party to the far left. His signature victory was helping Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D) oust a party boss in New York in 2018.

‘We’re thinking about kind of, like, how much of myself I’m pouring into this and how much of myself we want to make sure that we’re, you know, pouring into the task at hand.’

Now he’s known for spending the most money in the primary race for California’s 11th district — and failing to even compete.

Despite outspending his main competitor $9.2 million to $3.9 million, Chakrabarti was able to garner only about 15% of the vote and was boxed out of the general election.

State Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat, got the most votes at 41.3%, while San Francisco Supervisor Connie Chan (D) progressed to the next election stage with 28.6% of the vote.

Chan was able to soundly defeat Chakrabarti despite spending only $650,000, or about 7% of the massive spending by Chakrabarti. As of Wednesday afternoon, the final tally for the primary has not been reported, but the election has been called for Chan and Weiner by NBC News and others.

Chakrabarti worked as the chief of staff to Ocasio-Cortez for a time before branching out on his own. In that time, he was accused of illegally funneling money to her campaign through payments to her boyfriend.

Ocasio-Cortez denied the allegations but did not answer directly if the description of the transfer of money was accurate.

She also shrunk back from endorsing Chakrabarti in the campaign to replace 86-year-old Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who is retiring from the seat after winning it 20 times.

“I think for me overall it’s more about I’m trying to think about the role that I am trying to play more broadly in these things,” she said in April when asked about a possible endorsement for her former chief of staff.

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“We’ve got 435 seats in Congress, right? And there is this kind of moment where it’s like when — and not just with this race, with any race — once you go in, then it’s like, what about this? What about this, what about this one? And I’m one person with, you know, a pretty amazing crack but also lean team,” she added helpfully.

“And so we’re thinking about kind of, like, how much of myself I’m pouring into this and how much of myself we want to make sure that we’re, you know, pouring into the task at hand,” she continued.

She went on for almost another minute.

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