Don Young Gets Grabby With Congressional Aide (Updated)

Young confronts an aide who tried to stop him from entering the side door of a House Republican meeting. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
Young confronts an aide who tried to stop him from entering the side door of a House Republican meeting. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
By Warren Rojas
Posted July 31, 2014 at 6:25pm

Updated 8:12 p.m. | With the August recess in jeopardy and House Republicans in total disarray, the arm-twisting on Capitol Hill is getting pretty intense.  

Just ask the unfortunate aide who dared cross the path of a tardy Don Young.  

NBC News producer Frank Thorp V caught the late-for-the-conference-meeting Alaska Republican’s manhandling of an unsuspecting staffer on camera. Per Thorp’s Twitter feed , the aide had attempted to redirect Young to enter the already in-progress GOP strategy session through another doorway when things got physical.  

“While returning to the GOP conference meeting to discuss the ongoing situation on our southern border, I was caught off guard by an unidentified individual who was physically blocking me from reentering the room," Young said in a statement. "Regardless, my reaction was wrong and I should have never placed my hands on the young man.”