So much for toning down the violent rhetoric. Sen. John Kennedy made an appearance on Fox's The Story with Martha MacCallum this Friday, and was asked about the upcoming vote on Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's proposal to extend the Affordable Care Act subsidies for a year in return for ending the shutdown, and Kennedy made this thinly veiled threat against Schumer in response while just straight up lying about what extending those subsidies would mean for people's insurance premiums.

MACCALLUM: What is your response to Chuck Schumer's proposal here to keep those ACA benefits going for another year? Bipartisan committee to work on those and reopen the government with a clean CR.

KENNEDY: God, please give me patience, because if you give me strength, I'm going to need bail money. What

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