‘This terrorist manifesto reads like a One Nation immigration policy’: David Koch explodes in fiery Sunrise interview with Pauline Hanson over Christchurch terrorist attack
- Senator Pauline Hanson and Sunrise host David Koch came to blows on Monday
- One Nation leader asked whether anti-Muslim policies drive white supremacists
- Followed Friday’s Christchurch terrorist attack which claimed 50 lives
Federal Senator Pauline Hanson has come under fire from Sunrise host David Koch in an explosive live television interview on Monday morning.
Koch didn’t hold back when the One Nation Leader appeared on the Channel Seven breakfast program, where she was grilled on her anti-Muslim policies in the wake Friday’s Christchurch terrorist attack which claimed 50 lives.
Alleged Australian gunman Brenton Tarrant released a 74 page terrorist manifesto on social media the day before the tragedy.
Sunrise host David Koch (pictured) clashed with Pauline Hanson live on air on Monday
‘This terrorist manifesto almost reads like One Nation immigration and Muslim policy. Do you feel complicit with this atrocity?,’ Koch asked Hanson.
A defiant Hanson hit back.
‘David, I feel for those people and I feel for those families who have lost lives. The same across the road here when we had the Lindt Cafe terrorist attacks.’
‘We have problems but you’ve actually got to discuss it and debate the issue. Why we have these terrorist attacks in this country. Why is it happening around the world? Why is it happening in many places?’
Many viewers came to the defence of One Nation Senator Pauline Hanson (pictured)
A fired up Koch then claimed terrorist attacks were (carried out by) right-wing white supremacists egged on by your comments, by your anti-Muslim comments’.
‘(Things like) ‘they don’t deserve to be here’, ‘they will take over our country’. Can you understand how that empowers a white supremacist … into seeing it as a call to arms?’ Koch asked.
Ms Hanson then turned the focus to what’s happening in the UK and then accused Koch of not knowing what’s happening.
‘You don’t know what is happening out there. People are frustrated with politicians because they want answers to this.’
The pair clashed over the
Many viewers disagreed with Koch’s grilling.
‘I am disgusted with yourself and Sunrise. Regardless of agreeing or disagreeing with the views of. she was set up for an ambush this morning. Still the same old, boys club mentality in politics and television,’ one viewer tweeted.
Another added: ‘Turning off bias. Absolute disgrace. Nothing but an ambush on Pauline Hanson.’