your own? that s a very legitimate question because obviously, lauren boebert likes to go from outrage to outrage and offense to offense because it s click bait and she fund raises out of it and gets higher profile out of it and we re talking about it. that being said, how do you not respond to an islam phobic attempt? do you stay quiet? little muslim boys and girls all over this country. maybe you can put out a statement. i don t know. i think at some point you have to be above the craziness and let them spin and toil and look bad and you take the high road. scott, i don t know. am i wrong? what do you think of that? i think as a strategic matter you raise the point. the reason someone would tell this kind of a joke, the reason someone would fabricate this story they re trying to attract attention and when you elevate it to the extent it been
here is the deal, in the gop conference, they consider conservatives the fringe. this town up here thinks conservatives are the fringe. we re not the fringe. we are the base of the party. you know, for once i actually agree with marjorie three names. she and her fell he maga groupies laid sieged to the party and seized control of it. but what does that mean for the party lincoln turned party of trump? it means to be considered a republican in good standing you need to express unwavering support for your dear leader and whole heartily embrace the big lie and condone racist, islam phobic and violent rhetoric and it also means getting nothing done in congress both only policy goal being to quote troll the libs. forget governing.
how incredibly dangerous it is to move now from the jokingly way that she was trafficking her islam phobic troops to now explicitly identifying a member of congress as a terrorist and the kind of violence that that can incite. i mean, if you were at home and you were hearing that, you would be alarmed to think that there is a terrorist in the house of representatives. it should be alarming to everyone and i just want to make people understand how dangerous the usage of her words can be because i am afraid that somebody like the people who have been leaving voice mails in my office will feel compelled to
health care, help education, do a lot of things in fighting climate change that are essential to do. so, my answer to you is, look, we think those ought to be in there, but if they are not, if the senate can t pass them, i believe that we will certainly pass the remaining parts of the bill, which will be extraordinarily important for the american people. let me ask you about something else we ve covered here on this show, and i know you are well-aware. i think on the republican side and the democratic side of the islam phobic comments. you now have the heads of five democratic caucuses calling on boebert to be removed from her committees after that. is that something you support, leader? we are having conversations as to the appropriate actions that ought to be taken. as you pointed out, we have
and then marjorie taylor greene responded by saying she spoke to trump about nancy mace, which could be interpreted as a veiled threat of sorts. if it is a threat, though, nancy mace, not scared by it. she responded by saying that this is the equivalent of greene tattling to the principal s office because she can t stand stand on her own two fight. the gop is wrestling with islam phobic, and bigoted resident rim its party. kevin mccarthy has worked behind the scenes. he tried to broker a meeting between lauren boebert and ilhan omar, and called nancy mace today and spoke to her by phone amid this feud with marjorie taylor greene. he does not want to be focus on the infighting, he wants to focus on the biden agenda and bring back the majority. he s trying to bring the temperatures down, but it s not working. it s playing out on twitter in realtime.