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After Kyle Rittenhouse was found not guilty Friday, North Carolina Rep. Madison Cawthorn offered the 18-year-old an internship and told his own supporters on Instagram to "be armed, be dangerous and be moral."
Anything about it. >> i cannot apologize for my passion. >> when i saw him not apologize, i said, and have that be so public, i said, we cannot show people that this is what's acceptable and we're not going to allow for this to play out this publicly anymore. >> i'm sure you've seen the audio of your speech underneath tiktok videos. >> some of them. representative yoho put his finger in his face. called me crazy, out of my mind. he called me dangerous. representative yoho called me, and i quote, a. >> young women putting on their red lipstick and so forth, in particular, the i am somebody's da...
>> i was able to find kinship and friendship and sister. >> announcer: h >> that helped her get through when got in her face on the capitol steps. >> will refer to you as i'm quoting here, last year. >> later apologized, sort of. >> having been married for 45 years with two daughters, i'm very cognizant of my language. the offensive name calling words attributed to me by the press were never spoken to my colleagues. >> which led to this response from ocasio-cortez. delivered from notes she scribbled down just ten minutes before. >> representative put his finger in my face, called me disgusting...
He called me dangerous. he called me a -- >> young women who are putting on their red lipstick and so forth, in particular, the i'm somebody's daughter line was incredibly resonant. did you know that at the time as you were delivering it? >> the fact that he's somebody's father -- someone is my father too and i'm someone's daughter. and the value that i have as someone's daughter is -- are the values that my parents raised me with. and i think that that ultimately is what that moment was about. i didn't know how resonant that would be when that happened. >> the ted yoho fight was not one she w...
From ocasio-cortez, delivered from notes she scribbled down ten minutes before. >> the representative put his finger in my face. he called me crazy, out of my mind. and he called me dangerous. he called me a -- i'm here because i have to show my parents that i'm their daughter and that they did not raise me to accept abuse from men. >> he made some very memorable remarks on the house floor. i've covered congress for -- i'm not going to do it as long as you've been alive. but for a very long time. and i stopped in my tracks. >> in the moment, i was really shocked. and for whatever it's worth, w...