claim: says "paul ryan shut off the c-span cameras when the democrats started their sit-in."
author: stephen colbert
evidence_1: jun 23, 2016 ... a previous attempt by speaker paul ryan to end the sit-in didn't turn out so well.  ... shut off the normally unblinking eyes of the c-span cameras to try to hide the  ... demand a vote and said they'd stay there as long as it took to negotiate one. ...  house democrats began broadcasting their sit-in on periscope, ...
evidence_2: jun 23, 2016 ... "john lewis and i started out this journey on october 1960 seeking the right to ...  john lewis says as he ends house democrats' gun control sit-in ... while  republications are mia, the c-span cameras are turned off, and the ... thumbed  its nose at house speaker paul ryan when he cut off tv cameras ...
evidence_3: jun 22, 2016 ... the house majority, not c-span, controls the cameras. ... cameras covering the  house floor were turned off on wednesday as democrats staged a sit-in to try to  force ... and the cameras that feed c-span, and said they would be kept off until  ... without the live cable feed, democratic members took to their ...
evidence_4: jun 22, 2016 ... democrats are staging a "sit-in" on the house floor in protest of the gop's ... it is  the house's video, their feed, their audio, their camera angles. ... paul ryan (r- wisc.), said on twitter that "the house cannot operate without members  following ... with the cameras turned off, c-span began broadcasting a ...
evidence_5: democrats continue gun control sit-in as paul ryan adjourns house. image ... " but they don't even want to start that process," castro said of the republicans. ...  while the gop leadership ordered that c-span's cameras be turned off, ... ryan  ignored the outbursts and pounded his gavel in a vain attempt at restoring order.