know, party on party fighting here. republican on republican threats and danger here. what are you hearing along those lines? we know about liz cheney and adam kinzinger, but are there more? well, it s about how you talk to your colleagues and it s about how you talk publicly about your colleagues. you know, i asked one democrat, representative stephanie murphy, who is a moderate from the state of florida, about what she thought of a toxic work environment, and i apologized and said i don t know if toxic is too strong of a word. she said no, toxic is the perfect word. she then said there s plenty of dem on dem violence. and she talked a little about this fight that the democratic party has been in for the last month or two months now on capitol hill as they ve tried to pass both the bipartisan infrastructure bill and that larger social safety net bill. eventually, they were successful in those pursuits. but there was a lot of of pain sort of along the way and she said she felt like t
and to the extent that you have republicans who are looking not just to him as somebody who is their leader but also looking at a common enemy in their view in democrats, and trump has certainly stoked that, that is in his to his benefit and in his favor and it is something that he prefers. he wants republicans to look at democrats as their enemy. and i do think lauren makes a point, that you do hear a lot of complaints from republicans that the atmosphere is just toxic across the board now, it is no longer just republicans. but there are these threats that democratic lawmakers in particular are facing and that is part of why the climate is so bad. donald trump is very good and has been historically, john, at throwing gasoline on a fire. not tamping it down. and i think that s what you re seeing here. it s interesting, you say donald trump wants republicans to see democrats as the enemy, lauren. but your reporting also points out that there are some, you know, party on party fighti