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Sloppy phrasing its caused a lot of people to misunderstand what i meant. >> im sorry to have interrupted you, but i wanted to underscore your very point that you were making. >> yeah. you know, a lot of people laughed at this because they dont like cruz, and i dont like cruz either, but i view this with dread because what this is is authoritarian party dynamics, literally, they have a party line and its not just about repeating propaganda. you have to enforce it, and this is what dictators do w...

Sloppy phrasing its caused a lot of people to misunderstand what i meant. >> congresswoman, sloppy? >> no, you know, it is again absolutely outrageous for him to come on the air groveling the way that he was doing to tucker carlson. you know, they get their talking points from fox news and he absolutely was on television showing that he has no courage, no integrity so he grovels. you know this man has no credibility. we have watched him constantly as he has grovelled and as hes played to trump a...

Because the way i phrased things yesterday, it was sloppy and it was frankly dumb. . >>st i dont buy that. whoa, whoa, whoa! i dont buy that. i have known you a long time before you went to the senate. you were a supreme court contender. you take words seriously as any person in the senate. i do not believe you used that accidentally. i just dont. >> so, tucker, as a result of my sloppy phrasing, it has caused a lot of people to misunderstand what i meant. >> well, we will get to the groveling i...

And you sit hear in statuary hall and you realize how sacred this place is, any american who would enable or look the other way or dismiss what happened or refuse to do their duty to get to the bottom of it is i think failing to live up to their oath of office and to their duties to this great nation. >> that night, senator cruz that night was apologizing on fox, apologizing for having described the events at the capitol january 6th as a "violent terrorist attack." >> tucker, as a result of my s...

Was frankly dumb. >> i dont buy that. w.h.o., w.h.o., w.h.o. i have known you a long time. you were a supreme court contender. you take words as seriously as any man in the senator. i do not believe you used that accidentally. >> as a result of the sloppy phrasing it caused people to misunderstand what i meant. >> my next guest wrote about this for msnbc.com. steve, thank you for joining us. i want to start where you started with a joirch orwell quote. he became simply a mouth that uttered a han...

Rhetoric. the former attorney general has the most points, two that we need to out organize the other side to, motivate voters to get out there. thats going to be a tough task when so many voters, including parts of the democratic base, the african american voters, are so disenchanted with the idea that there hasnt been much done on voting rights. it has been a week of setbacks with part of the -- struck down with the supreme court. build back better act is certainly in limbo, right now. thats a...

>> we are approaching a solemn anniversary this week and it is an anniversary of a violent terrorist attack on the capitol. >> so, no reasonable person really could challenge that sentiment, which is why fox news tucker carlson proceeded to do that. senator cruz scramble to get back in his good graces by getting on his program and trying to set the record anything but straight. >> as a result of my sloppy phrasing it caused a lot of people to misunderstand what i meant. what i to say, i wasnt sa...

I just dont. >> tucker, as a result of my sloppy phrasing, its caused a lot of people to misunderstand what i meant. i wasnt saying that the thousands of peaceful protesters supporting donald trump are somehow terrorists. i wasnt saying the millions of patriots across the country supporting president trump are terrorists. and thats what a lot of people have misunderstood. >> joining me now, rachelle richie, former press secretary for the house democrat, policy and communications committee. susan...

>> bret: so different phrasing there and there was obviously a lot of pushback even within his own party about that original speech in atlanta. >> yeah that original speech a lot of people in the media loved it but it went over like a led balloon on capitol hill calling people racist for opposing his fairly radical voting changes legislation. the thing is this whole issue, whether he is softer on the rhetoric or not has been extreme gaslighting of america. nobody thinks that we have a voting rig...

>> reporter: yet his cellphone pinged in the area which happened to be near dianes neighborhood. and those women calling in that described a big man with big nose and beer belly, could they help make a case against tony? >> we had so many women that had let him into their homes in different neighborhoods all over austin, south austin, north austin, even real estate agents that he had called when he wanted to look at vacant houses. >> stand in your assigned position. >> reporter: but could any of...