Do you do you know what we're here for? You know we're here about.
I think you know what you're here for. Well, you weren't talking about, I guess.
- I think you're fake. - Eyelashes are messing up.
Ain't nothing. Hold on, hold on.
Listen.
Order, Mr. Chairman. Beneath even order.
Regain order of your committee. Order, please.
Okay, so let's get into it. They certainly are.
That was, initially in that clip, Jasmine Crocker, Representative Crockett,
responding to Marjorie Greene prior to the clip, asking a question about the daughter
of the judge presiding over Donald Trump's hush money trial, which, to be clear,
has absolutely nothing to do with why Congress was in session right there.
That committee meeting was about whether Merrick Garland
should be held in contempt of Congress for not providing, like, the audio tapes
of Joe Biden being interviewed about his handling of classified documents.
So that was the actual context.
Marjorie tried to make a cheap point to appeal to the MAGA world.
And, when Jasmine Crockett pointed out that that had nothing to do with it,
that was when Marjorie decided to do the best she can.
She rubbed all three of her neurons together
and came up with a weak dog whistle attack against Jasmine Crockett's appearance.
So the hearing got suspended at that point briefly, but that was certainly
not the end of it when Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez jumped in.
I do have a point of order, and I would like to move
to to take down Miss Greene's words.
That is absolutely unacceptable.
How dare you attack the physical appearance of another person?
- Are your. - Feelings hurt your.
- Words down? 000 girl, baby girl. - Oh really?
- Don't even play baby girl. - I don't think we are going to.
Move and we're going to take your words down.
- I second that. - Motion.
Miss Greene agrees to strike her words. I believe she apologized.
No, no, no.
Okay. Hold on then.
After Mr. Perry is going to be recognized, then.
Miss, I'm not apologizing.
Well, then reserve the right to your words.
- I am not apologizing. - Now let's go.
- Come on, guys. - Why don't you debate me, Mr. Chairman?
- The minority. - Self-evident.
You're not. Yeah.
You're not.
- You don't have enough intelligence. - Chair recognizes Mr. Perry.
Okay, move to strike. To move to strike.
I move to strike. Order!
Generally, you hear comments like those coming from Greene being
shouted at like teachers at a PTA meeting or something like that.
Unfortunately, Marjorie Greene is actually a party to that meeting.
But again, that was not the end of it.
We're going to give Jasmine Crockett the final word.
I'm just curious, just to better understand your ruling,
if someone on this committee then starts talking about somebody bleach blond,
bad built, butch body that would not be engaging in personalities, correct?
Oh. What now.
Chairman, I'll make a I make a motion to strike those words.
- I don't think that's a. - Part of.
Trying to find clarification. On what, chairman.
The motion to strike those.
- Words you just said. - We're not going to.
We're not going to do this.
Look, you guys earlier, literally just you just just voted to do it.
Did it first. So you.
Order.
Order! I'm trying to get clarification.
Look at. Calm down, calm down.
No no no no. Because this is what y'all do.
Proceeding. I'm trying to get Mr. Crockett.
- You're not recognized, Mr. Crockett. - Here you with your yelling?
Don't want me. Calm down.
- Can you please calm down? - Tell me to calm down.
Calm down because y'all talk noise and then you out of control.
- Because if I come and talk about her. - Y'all gonna have a chairman.
Okay, so I certainly have thoughts, but, jenk.
What do you make of that?
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I'm going to do a slightly ironic defense of Marjorie Taylor Greene in a second.
And then I'm going to, also unleash on a couple of things that she said there.
But first, actually, I'm curious.
Mondale is the fake eyelashes thing racial?
I think I think the, the content, yes, absolutely is racist.
And I think it has has to do with, what, what European standards of beauty are and
not what, African women, African American women, women of African descent, classify.
So it's, again, a white woman trying to tell a black woman how and
what beauty is and what is acceptable as it pertains to what you add to your body
or take away from your body.
So in that context, I think that's the context that was
that people are making it about race.
Yeah.
So, and let me be clear, I like the Crockett strike back.
Okay.
And so the, the part that I'm, mildly ironically defending Marjorie Taylor
Greene on is I don't care about decorum.
So I think it's great that they had a shouting match.
I love that all rules of etiquette have been broken.
I don't think it's like, oh, my God, they're third graders.
I'm so disappointed with what's happening.
No, people in Congress need to be yelling at each other a lot more,
so I'm glad that that has begun.
Now, having said that, who's right? Who's wrong?
She says to AOC that she doesn't have enough intelligence
to debate Marjorie Taylor Greene.
See, that's why I like Crockett.
Strike back, because, okay, we're talking about looks.
Okay.
As long as it's all right to talk about looks.
Then I'm going to talk about looks. So let's be clear.
I mean, don't tell me that she doesn't have to apologize, but then I can't
say the same things that she said.
Right.
So that I enjoy a lot, in terms of, and then the the calm down trick
that they did on Representative Crockett drives me crazy.
So that's the number one trick that folks use on me when we get into
a debate about Israel, you know, they'll say horrible, disgusting things.
And then when I respond, they're like, oh, just calm down.
What's the big deal? Right?
As if they're the calm ones, etc..
But guys, this is what I'm curious about in terms of both of your reactions.
Look, I think that etiquette has kept, these folks from criticizing each other
about the most important thing in the world, which is money in politics.
They're all taking or not all, but a lot of them are taking bribes,
legalized bribes.
And I want all of this decorum b'zz to break down.
So. And then it's beginning to happen on the right and the left,
where they're beginning to say, yeah, look, I got a problem with your eyelashes.
I got a problem with the fact that you're have a busted body
or whatever that thing is.
But also, I have a problem with that guy over there taking tons of money
from oil companies and defense countries.
That has begun to happen in the perfect decorum world.
That never happened, and I would much rather have that happen
and have some fights along the way than not have it happen.
So that's my potentially unique opinion. Mondale, what do you think?
I don't think it's unique.
I think our politics are absolutely too nice, fake, nice with decorum
and all of these rules.
I appreciate the back and forth that I grew up in a I grew up in a community
that cracking jokes on people was a thing.
And I think Marjorie Taylor Greene might have just found out that in 1
in 1 we call it snapping session.
She just got she got the B word means something completely different.
Now on one take. Her little allies joke.
Took her all the way into black culture.
She learned real quick how quick we are when it comes to snapping jokes on people.
I think I think there's a, beyond the funny part.
I think there's some truth to what you're saying in that we need to be, we need to
have people screaming about how ridiculous it is, how sickening our politics are,
where that Donald Trump is a candidate for somebody, whereas the Supreme Court
can show up in the manner that they are and the, the, the gerrymandering
that is a part of our politics.
Also, somebody should be screaming about that as well.
So I'm super happy about it. I was hoping for more.
I'm I'm sad it's only a three minute clip.
And, you know, I just remembered Mondale.
For those of you who don't know, Mondale is the mayor of Enfield, North
Carolina, and he's the one that took down the Confederate statue there.
And people thought that that was a violation of etiquette and decorum.
And I'm and the reason he's on here in the first place, so after all those years, is
because he violated decorum and etiquette in a way that I absolutely loved.
And.
We loved here at the network. So. So that's a good principled position.
John.
Yeah, I look, I mostly look I find it to be fun.
I do I like parts of it. I don't like others.
I agree, like with the general idea of what you're saying, I just I don't know
if this is a great example of it.
Like if it was being willing to like call out like either hypocrisy
or their funding or something like that, then that would be one thing.
But the the origin of this was Marjorie Greene decided that this BS hearing,
which is already BS, it was they want tapes of Biden.
There's no crime that they think is going to be found on the tapes.
They just want the tape because they think it'll make Biden look bad or whatever.
And so they're doing the hearing.
And that's not even enough for Marjorie Greene.
So she has to bring up the the New York judge's daughter, again,
has nothing to do with anything.
The content of the actual hearing is BS. This is more BS than that.
And Jasmine Crockett points that out.
And that's what starts the the breach of decorum, the attacking of the eyelashes.
She points out that Marjorie Greene doesn't seem to know what the hearing
is about, which is accurate, because she's not talking about
what the content of the hearing is.
And then Marjorie Greene, it's not just that it's a dog whistle.
What the hell are her eyelashes supposed to do with her ability to hear
what people are talking about?
Like, if it's gonna be decorum breaking, if it's going to be impolite or whatever,
at least do what Jasmine Crockett did.
Which is it's clever. It's snappy.
If Jasmine Crockett had just yelled that she was a bitch or something,
it wouldn't be interesting.
I wouldn't be giving her a lot of points for that.
And that is the best that Marjorie Greene can do to yell.
Why don't you debate me? You're not.
You don't have the intelligence. That's just.
It's pathetic.
If we're going to have, you know, like a UK style parliamentary fight
or what occasionally happens in Japan or something, maybe minus the punching.
I just wanted to at least be clever.
And unfortunately, with Marjorie Greene as a part of it, that's unlikely to happen.
Can I throw one extra thing out before we talk?
Just because there has been a lot of criticism of this, and I want to give AOC
credit for criticizing one of the critics.
So John Fetterman had tweeted, in the past, I've described the US House
as the Jerry Springer Show.
Today I'm apologizing to the Jerry Springer Show, to which AOC said,
I understand you likely would not have stood up for your colleague
and seemed to be confused about racism and misogyny being a both sides issue.
But I stand up to bullies instead of becoming one.
And to the women of Pennsylvania, I'd stand up for you to enjoy your Friday.
Obviously referencing him being incredibly dismissive towards that protest.
You see, that's a breach of decorum I can get behind.
Fetterman was wrong. She's pointing it out.
She's not being polite, and it's substantive, I like that.
Yeah, but if we hadn't had the original break of decorum,
we wouldn't have gotten to Original Sin.
Yeah, we wouldn't have gotten to AOC going after Fetterman.
And let's keep it real.
She's going after Fetterman because of Israel, Gaza, and the fact
that Fetterman has become one of the most conservative members of the Senate.
So it's not just about that one tweet.
And so she's like, hey, you don't get to lecture me.
And I love that kind of talk. So look, it got.
Racial and got into sexism in a way that I'm not.
That's why I asked Mondale. Wait, is this racial?
I'm not sure because I don't.
I'm not familiar with that concept of the eyelashes, etc.
But also it was all women, so I don't know how it became sexist, but
so that I don't love that kind of stuff.
But I love AOC and Crockett fighting back in general.
I like them fighting back against Fetterman even more.
And and I like the idea of being able to strike things from the record.
Okay, so from now on, whenever John says anything I don't like,
I'm going to strike it from the record. Okay?
- And so it's part of my calm down. - Can you calm down then we'll talk.
Yeah.
So that's part of why I think the whole thing is goofy about like
striking things from the record.
What difference does it make? We already heard it.
Yeah.
I think though for me, I think the, I think the, the messy part of it
that works is it's going to be great.
It's going to turn some young people who weren't paying attention
to Jasmine Crockett, and politics and her politics specifically,
which are extremely progressive.
They'll they'll definitely have an eye on her now, because I've already seen,
like the battle rap world already remix it and made a song out of it.
People are doing a dance with it. So and I think it was up in 15 minutes.
It had like 100,000 views in that on that remix.
So I think I'm all about bringing in new eyes and, you know, this is that
that's going to be better, for Jasmine Crockett's campaign than any ad that
consultants are going to charge her way too much for and pay way too much to run.
Yeah, super. Last thing.
I couldn't agree more with Mondale there.
When you fight back, you get the upside of the publicity of this kind of, you know,
squabble, fight, whatever.
And and you could use that publicity then to do good things in the world.
And I'm seeing Jasmine Crockett, be progressive.
I've seen her do some good things but not get enough, attention around it.
And now maybe it'll get more attention. So, ironically.
- Thank you, Marjorie Taylor Greene. - That's that's so funny that you said that.
Because even in her fight, they didn't mention her.
If you look at the the the headline that we just put up with, Fetterman,
it actually said, the fight the broke down on the committee was between AOC
and Greene and leaves out Crockett.
Yeah.
And that's because, yeah, her name is not large enough, but now it becomes a
little bit larger and a little bit larger, so that I hope her policies can come out,
better in terms of getting covered more.
And that's a bad title, too, because yes, AOC was involved and they did trade barbs.
But the biggest barb by far was Jasmine Crockett.
Like, you have to put her in the put all three names.
Come on, put a little bit of work into it.
But, like I said, I want to throw out just a little bit more context.
Jamie Raskin was asked if it was worth investigating if drinking
might have been a part of this.
And apparently there was a report of a bunch of House members
drinking late last night.
And who knows? It's not necessary.
We know what sort of person Marjorie Greene is, but she definitely
gives off like Pinot Grigio mom vibes.
So I don't discount the possibility that she was drinking or.
Strike that from the record. Sorry, I apologize.
Stricken from the record.
You can strike it, but I'm not apologizing.
So that's definitely the case.
I will also just say, and this is why I think we will see
more from Jasmine Crockett.
Because this is not the first time that Jasmine Crockett has been,
like, on fire in a committee hearing.
She's sharp. She does her research.
She has that thing that AOC has, that Katie Porter has, and a few others.
And I think that's why this really happened.
Fundamentally, it probably doesn't even need to be pointed out.
But Marjorie Greene likely has a poster of AOC in her house, maybe a shrine.
She wants to be AOC so bad in every way. And also Jasmine Crockett.
Marge just wants to be snappy and sharp and witty and make those points.
And Jasmine Crockett has that. She has that charisma.
She's also like, just if we're going to talk about, look, she's a beautiful woman.
And so I am sure that the jealousy just overwhelms a simple creature like Marjorie
Greene every time she looks at them.
And finally, it was AOC and Crockett against Marge.
It didn't have to be. Lauren Boebert was sitting right there.
And you'll notice Lauren Boebert didn't want to help her at all.
And I love that. Any other thoughts before we move on?
Yeah, that's the bigger fight within the Republican Party.
So God bless on that fight too.
Let's turn this thing into the UK Parliament, okay?
And have everybody screaming at one another.
It's a lot better than the boring, business as usual status quo b'zz
that I've seen my whole life here.
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