Colbert: Why So Much Muscle to Remove Al Green? It Was Found that He ‘Smuggled in a Spine’

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COLBERT: “Just minutes into the speech, all hell broke loose. Democrats stood up, started booing. Speaker Mike Johnson threatened them with expulsion if they didn’t sit down. And ultimately, Johnson called in the sergeant-at-arms to remove 77-year-old Texas Congressman Al Green. Now, some people, some people have questioned why so much muscle was needed to remove one old man with a cane. But it turns out it was for a serious reason. When security searched him, they found that he had smuggled in a spine. 
(Cheering and Applause)
Yeah. It’s dangerous. You can’t have that. You can’t have that.”