hutchinson on cnn this morning, reacting to boneert s comments. do you think mccarthy should be publicly condemning this kind of behavior? i do. i think whenever even in our own caucus, our own members, if they go the wrong direction, i mean, it has to be called out. it has to be dealt with. asa hutchinson saying, listen it has to be dealt with, not with a lot of, i should say not with a lot of enthusiasm in saying it, but he said it nonetheless. you heard mccarthy s statements yesterday, not even condemning bow bert s comments, saying i had a conversation with her and she has since apologized. what do you make of it tara? kevin mccarthy is a political coward. he demonstrated that more than
the pus that bubbled to the top. i think she should be held accountable. i don t expect mccarthy to do anything and i don t take her apoll jooi gee with anything more than a mountain of salt. democratic congresswoman debbie wasserman schultz of florida. thank you. good to see you on this sunday afternoon. appreciate it. i want to bring in my panel, emily tisch cessman, also terra tara set myer. welcome to both you ladies. thank you for joining us. tara, let me start with you. with that i am going to play off a little bit of what we just heard from the congresswoman from florida reacting to boneert s islamophobic comments towards ilhan omar. i want to couple it with sound we heard earlier today from republican governor asa
one quick point about the four congresswomen, don. this is a small point, but i think an important one, is that i ve heard some of the republicans like senator graham coming out today and talking about them and referring to congresswoman ocasio-cortez as aoc. he likes to be called senator graham. i assume. he should be. why is he calling her aoc? he s she s a fellow member of congress. people in congress are not on a pedestal. what the president said was wrong to say to anybody. but you re talking about four women who took the same oath that he did. their names are representative pressley, representative tlaib, representative omar, and representative ocasio-cortez. the idea that people just think, oh, they re young women. they re girls. they just got here. it totally undercuts what we re doing here in this democracy. i just want to ask real quick, tara, literally i have less than a minute here. you saw what george conway wrote. the husband of kellyanne conway who is the god bless
understand that there are plenty of policy arguments that we can take against these people and many on the left, but we do not need to go to this level. make it about policy and not personal. tara, you re shaking your head. why? because i can t belief we have to have this conversation with grown adults that are elected members of congress. we actually have to lecture them about the importance of calling out racism when we see it. i mean, the fact they just cower behind the president because they don t have the courage to call out what they see is really upsetting to me. i m not going to give a gold star to the few who did come out and say something because they did the right thing. no. the soul and fabric of our country is being ripped apart by donald trump. and he s using this racial resentment in order to gain favor with people in the base who are who because fear and racial resentment is a motivating factor, unfortunately, and it s really unearthed how deep that goes in this
the president doubling down on his attacks on the four democratic congresswomen known as the squad. and those congresswomen are responding tonight. this is a distraction, and we should not take the bait. this is not the first nor will it be the last time we hear disgusting, bigoted, language, from the president. this is the agenda of white nationalists. this is his plan to pit us against one another. i want to tell children across this country is that no matter this country belongs to you. and it belongs to everyone. let s discuss now. bakari sellers is here. alice stewart. david swerdlick. and tara set myer. good evening to all of you. let s do it. all right? bakari, the women were defiant, up afraid to condemn the president. what did you think about their response?