from the president to the speaker to the members of the house, we all have a responsibility to elevate the public discourse. our words do matter. we all know politics is a contact sport. it s about time we lower the temperature all across the board. shepard: as you likely know over the weekend the president issues a series of statements targeting these four representatives now known as the squad. he wrote they can go back to the broken and crime infested places from which they came. congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez of new york, ilhan omar of minnesota, yana presley of massachusetts, they are all american citizens. only representative ilhan omar was born outside the u.s. and she has been a citizen since the year 2,000. they are calling his tweets racist and divisive, but the president is not backing down.
and they are going back trying to determine what are the words that might be offensive. the speaker has to be seated on the house floor and wait for them to read back those words and then the chair will determine whether they are parliamentary him or not this resolution has been problematic from the start when it comes to address this issue and i will tell you why, they used thomas jefferson s manual on congressional procedure. that s one of the three main volumes they use here and it s as you could not use language personally offensive to the presidents. there is also something they used, this is not the speaker, clarence cannon who was a congressman from missouri. his booklet says that personal criticism of the president any window, ridicule or out of order and so what doug collins is asserting is that nancy pelosi