republicans tried to do in the censure of paul gosar, the preview of this, by saying we ll go back and remove committee assignments for things that maxine waters said or members of the squad, the hobby horse demonization crew for all sorts of demographic reasons. lauren boebert, there is the danger of continually defining deviancy down. someone says crazy things so much, they re not held to the same standards of basic civility as their colleagues. that s what we re looking at with lauren boebert. republicans should be trying to police themselves, but mccarthy is afraid to do it because he recognizes there is a danger if he wants to be speaker. comments seem to get more extreme every day. john avlon, good to have you on. you too. be well. still ahead, after a series of bigoted remarks from some far right lawmakers as we were discussing, one congresswoman is calling the right wing as we noted the kkk caucus. we ll speak about that next.