Crockett speaks out about fight in Congress with Marjorie Taylor Greene

Tonight, Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett is not backing down, calling her Republican colleague Marjorie Taylor GREENE racist after a contentious committee meeting. A late night House oversight markup last night was derailed for nearly an hour after GREENE mocked Crockett. You can see for yourself. Do you know we're here for you know we're here. I want you. You know what you're here for. Well, you don't want to talk about. I think your fake eyelashes are messing up. This ain't nothing. Oh, no, no. This order, Mr. Charles. Beneath even more. Your order of your committee. Order, please. Is a point of order. We have a point of order, Mr. Lynch. I do have a point of order, and I would like to move to. To take down Ms.. Greene's words. That is absolutely unacceptable. How dare you? A little slap in the face of another person. Are your feelings her words down? Oh. Oh, 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 for a second. That motion. Now, after that, there was a failed vote to strike Greene's comments from the record, and she was allowed to continue her remarks. And that's when Crockett stepped back into the fray. I'm just curious, just to better understand your ruling, if someone on this committee then starts talking about somebodies beliefs, blond, bad built, butch body, that would not be engaging in personalities. Correct. What now, Chairman? I make I make a motion to strike those words. Order! Order! Trying to get clarification. Look at. Calm down, Calm. No, no, no, no. Because this is what do proceed. I'm sorry. You're not recognized. Mr.. I hear you with your yelling. Oh, wait, calm down. No, please call me to calm down, because y'all have gone down in there. You're out of control, man. Dogs didn't have. GREENE brushed off any criticism that she got over the last 24 hours writing this. AOC is an intelligent Jasmine Crockett has fake eyelashes. These aren't attacks on personalities. These are just facts. Congresswoman, thanks for being here. First of all, I wonder in that moment in the hearing room, why did you react the way that you did to the comment that Marjorie Taylor GREENE made about you? So I want to clarify that I actually did not react instantaneously. I actually was trying to allow the process to work. So you heard from AOC, who is our vice ranking member, and you heard it from Jamie Raskin, who's our ranker as we attempted to go through the process and there was an agreement and of course, Marjorie had to be Marjorie, and she refused to actually apologize. Therefore, I needed clarification as to why the chairman refused to actually take our words down, which meant that she would be kicked out of the committee room for the rest of the hearing, which would have been appropriate. Now, the part that I think really kind of frankly caught the Internet afire is when you described GREENE in this request for clarification as a bleached blond bad belt. But everybody had to look at my notes to read. Any regrets about that kind of language, especially given that you were trying to make a point, frankly, about decorum in the hearing room? I have no regrets, and I'll tell you why. Because Marjorie Taylor GREENE is the type of person that if you give her an inch, she'll take a mile. And the fact that they continue to allow her to break the rules of decorum over and over and over, whether it's the State of the Union that the president is delivering and she's wearing a MAGA hat or otherwise. The reason that she didn't have committee assignments before was because she did not know how to conduct herself as a member of Congress. And so if I just sit there and say, Oh, well, Marjorie said it about me, what's to stop her to continue to do it again and again? And at the end of the day, I was elected as a representative of Congress. But that doesn't mean that I'm supposed to be somebody who's a doormat. But Michelle Obama famously said, when they go low, we go high. Are those days basically over? I don't know that we can even call this a low. I mean, she goes to hell. And then I do my best to remind her as to why she should not cross me. So one of your colleagues, Jamie Raskin, actually suggested that some members might have been drinking. Others have said that as well, making that suggestion, That's a pretty serious allegation. Do you think that that played a factor here? I think when Marjorie Taylor GREENE, it doesn't require alcohol for her to be unhinged. I'll be perfectly honest. I don't know. I don't have any facts to that. So I won't say and I won't participate in rumors when I don't have any facts behind it. So you also called GREENE racist for what she said about you. Why is that? Yeah. Because as I've received so many amazing compliments from MAGA America throughout my time in Congress, a lot of times when I would go viral, instead of them trying to address the things that I laid out in a very factual way, what they would try to do was say, Oh, look at her hair, or look at her nails or look at her lashes. And they would all then associate anything that I do as a form of beautification with being quote unquote, ghetto. And so to me, she was just basically repeating the nonsense that MAGA world is constantly putting out there, because I am not the only woman in Congress that wears lashes. And there are women on her side of the aisle that wear lashes as well, as well as hair extensions. But she's never felt like that was a dig that she needed to take at anyone except for me, a black woman who sits on the committee. And then, of course, she went after AOC and called her unintelligent, a brown woman that sits on the committee. CNN actually asked her for comment, and this is a statement that we received. She said The only member that brought up any reference to color was Congresswoman Crockett. She's putting that on you. I brought it up when when we were in committee. It definitely did not come up. When I was asked about whether or not I felt like she was being racist. I told the truth, which was absolutely yes. But ultimately in committee, that was not part of the conversation whatsoever. So House Speaker Mike Johnson weighed in on all of this. He called the situation regrettable. He stressed the importance of decorum. Here's part of his statement. He said, It's