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the legislation is a culture war battle plan, including limits to abortion access and strange under care and eliminating old diversity, equity and inclusion offices at the pentagon. and when it comes to the culture wars, some folks just cannot help saying the quiet part out loud. >> and it has nothing to do with whether not colored people or black people or anybody can serve, okay? it has nothing to do with -- >> mister speaker. >> any of that stuff. >> what in the bowl, connor? arizona congressman eli crane's descriptor was stricken from the congressional record and he did ask for h...

The party that mccarthy is jeopardizing military readiness for what? owning the lives. how democrats are planning to navigate the space, trying to get good, positive legislation done, import legislation, particularly national defense legislation accomplish? >> sure. you mentioned a couple of things. first, with respect to our military, more than 20% of our military members are female. 20% are people of color. it is the diversity of our nation that we find in our military and we need to serve in places all over the world to protect our defense and our national security. if we're gonna focus on ...

Graduation and speak to the recruits. you see full diversity of our nation. if we're going to succeed in defending our nation and securing our national interests, when you need a diverse and full military that reflects our country as the people we are. >> congressman, i'd like to get your reaction to speaker kevin mccarthy is doubling down on what is in this bill. let's take a listen. >> just focus on the military. stop using taxpayer money to do their own book-ism. the military cannot defend themselves, if you train them in woke. we don't want disneyland to train our military. we want our men...

Memberships in appropriations bills, i guess it might be helping with a hard-core republican base, but it's also helping you and your effort to get democrats elected to the house? >> will you kind of put in quotes there are the words leadership. there has been no leadership. leadership is not caving to the most extreme in your party over and over again. if anything you just talked about this with the defense legislation, it went from something that was bipartisan. he came to not extreme parts of his party and it became extreme legislation. really take it things done, we need legislation that g...

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