SCOOP: Inside Stephanie Bice and Markwayne Mullin's Oklahoma town hall

Rep. Stephanie Bice (R., Okla.) rolled out a special guest for the first time ever at her latest town hall: Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R., Okla.).

The bicameral duo tackled questions from Oklahomans on topics ranging from Medicare to reconciliation to impeaching President Donald Trump.

However, at times the questions grew heated in the latest instance of how far-left groups have been attempting to hijack Republican town halls across the country.

The Bice-Mullin town hall was a live telephone town hall, which the pair did in order to reach tens of thousands of Oklahomans throughout the Fifth Congressional District. It also prevented the need for taxpayer funded security as left-wing agitators block constituents from accessing their representatives.

Bice has now done 30 telephone town halls, averaging about one every month. While her guests are normally people like caseworkers from the Department of Veterans Affairs, her decision to invite Mullin helped broaden the perspective she could give to her constituents.

The Washington Reporter listened to the town hall led by Bice and Mullin, and found that many of the answers that the duo gave could help Republicans in districts across America as they deal with contentious questions from their constituents.

On the issues of the day, Bice let her constituents know the difference between the incoming reconciliation package and funding for Medicare and Social Security.

“Medicare and Social Security are not part of any reconciliation package,” she said. “Medicaid, which is the state portion that is taking care of individuals, typically children, pregnant women, and the elderly, we are looking at ways to revise the program.”

“But again I want to be clear actually in a reconciliation bill, you can't touch Social Security. It's not even allowed,” Bice continued. “And Medicare, the president has been very clear that he is not going to touch that program either.”

“And on the Medicaid front, I think it's important to realize that many states have been taking advantage of the program and the way they've been doing that is providing health coverage for illegals,” she added.

Mullin also took the opportunity to clarify that “we're not going to touch any of the reimbursements.”

However, he added, “that doesn't mean at some point that we won't take a hard look at the fraud that's inside Social Security,” he said. “That doesn't mean we're going to cut any benefits. We are not touching anybody's benefits when they're eligible for it.”

“We're not cutting the ones who are eligible, what they're eligible for in dollar amount. But there's a tremendous amount of waste in all these programs and actually throughout government,” Mullin said.

Democrats, Mullin said, “don't want to look at the waste.”

“They don't want us to look at the fraud that's going on. They don't want us to look at the Social Security disability to where they put a lot of people who shouldn't be there. That's literally bankrupting those that Social Security was intended for. We're trying to save Social Security right now. We're trying to save Medicare. We're trying to save Medicaid. But you're gonna have to get the waste and fraud out of it. And so no one 's benefits that are eligible for any of these programs are going to be cut.”

Critics of telephone town halls note that it’s easy to screen to only allow supportive callers to ask questions.

That clearly did not happen during this call. Another questioner asked if the Republicans will ever support impeaching Trump. Mullin took the opportunity to hammer Democrats for “play[ing] politics with impeachment” like they did in Trump’s first term. Some Democrats are already planning to impeach Trump for a third time.

“I swore to uphold the Constitution and so did Stephanie, above all things,” Mullin said. “But what I will not do is play politics with impeachment like the Democrats have done.”

“I got asked multiple times ‘why aren't we dropping articles of impeachment on Obama? Why aren't you dropping articles of impeachment on Biden?’ and I always said ‘show me what he's done that's unconstitutional that we know of, and I'll be happy to run that flag to the top of the flag pole,’” Mullin said.

Mullin, a conservative whose time in Congress dates back to the Obama administration, added that he’s “not playing politics with it.”

“What the Democrats do is they constantly drop articles of impeachment…The Constitution is very clear about the three things that we can impeach a president for: high crimes, misdemeanors, and treason,” Mullin said. “That’s it, and if we have a President of the United States, when I'm in Congress…and they do that and it's proven that they've done that, not assumed, but proven, they've done that, then we'll be happy to roll through…I'll be happy to do whatever I can to hold anybody accountable for breaking the Constitution.”

Other questions focused more on Bice’s day-to-day priorities, like the SAVE Act, which passed the House via the Committee on Administration. Bice used the town hall to clear up some of the misinformation that Democrats like Hillary Clinton have promulgated about the law, which prevents non-citizens from voting in federal elections.

“If your wife has changed her name legally and she has a real ID, then that is proof of citizenship,” Bice explained to one of her constituents. “As a married woman, when I had to change my Social Security card after I got married, I had to have a copy of my birth certificate and a copy of the marriage certificate. That's all you need. It's not hard.”

“The SAVE Act explicitly directs states to establish a process, allowing them to register individuals to vote, and they will take the potential name discrepancies into account,” she continued. “The rhetoric from the left that women are not going to be able to vote because the names don't match is pretty ridiculous.”

“Frankly, I think it's a scare tactic and for me it's interesting because I wonder, why don't the Democrats want people to verify that they are who they say they are when they go to vote in Oklahoma?” Bice said.

“Election integrity is crucial to our election process and for someone to say that we shouldn't make sure that someone is a citizen, I think it's just really strange,” she added.

This town hall came after cops escorted multiple left-wing agitators at an in-person town hall hosted by Rep. Mike Lawler (R., N.Y.). For weeks, Republicans have cautioned that not all of the anger at these town hall is as organic as it seems.

“This has become a well-organized project that is sometimes funded by George Soros groups and others, where they will go and just flood the zone,” Speaker Mike Johnson (R., La.) told the Reporter in a separate interview.

“So you'll have people come in from outside the district. They bus them in sometimes. They show up an hour and a half or two hours early to the event,” Johnson said. “They fill all the seats in, wherever the venue is. And then the actual constituents of the member of Congress can't even get in the building, and so it's of no use in that way.”