WATCH: GOP lawmakers confront leftist protesters who interrupt anti-communism event

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House Republican lawmakers confronted a small group of leftist protesters on Thursday after the activists attempted to interrupt their press conference urging President Biden to keep Cuba’s terror designation in place.

Four Cuban-American lawmakers – Reps. Maria Salazar, R-Fla., Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y., Carlos Gimenez, R-Fla., and Mario Diaz-Balart, R-Fla. – were just minutes into their press conference outside the U.S. Capitol when two members of the group Code Pink and one other person abruptly stepped in front.

The protesters were holding signs that said, "Take Cuba off Terror List" and refused to move from the area in front of the lawmakers’ display when asked.

"I wish the average Cuban could have the same privilege that you’re having right now," Salazar told the activists. One shot back, "Well, thank you for giving us the privilege."

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Salazar continued, "You know, I love this, because if we traveled to Cuba now, and you and I go … you will not be able to come close this close to the Capitol and speak your mind and have a dialogue like we could be having right now, because they will either put you in jail or put you back on a plane back to Miami."

"Isn’t it beautiful over there?" the