i'm telling you now, lauren boebert makes all of them look like gandir. >> this is lauren boebert, a congresswoman from colorado. she was at a hearing and her background on her zoom is a whole bunch of guns. >> republican wong woman lauren boebert decided it to copy one of her republican colleagues and posted a photo of herself with her children, some of them rather young here, holding what appear to be semiautomatic rifles in front of their christmas tree. >> on the day she was sworn in, she released this flashy video. >> declaring she will be bringing her 9 millimeter glock to the halls of congress and streets of dsm krvment. >> it is our job in congress to defend your right including your second amendment and that is exactly what i'm here to do. >> boebert has attracted national attention for awhile. she owns a gun themed restaurant where she encourages her employees to be armed. >> i'm guessing you haven't had any sort of altercations or any attempted robbers or anything like that, since the girls started packing heat. >> no, we have had no altercations like that, nothing physica

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lauren boebert suggesting to her supporters that congresswoman ilhan omar was mistaken by capitol police for a suicide bomber. a terrorist in the halls of congress. boebert issued a nonapology apology, sorry for anyone she offended, not sorry to omar, and the two talked and things got worse. boebert doubled down on her islamophobic comments after the call, said she doesn't sympathize with terrorists like omar. this isn't like when my 3 and 5-year-old are culpable in a spat. lauren boebert is in the wrong here and so are republicans who are sticking up for her or republican leaders like kevin mccarthy who is sitting by doing effectively nothing about this bigotry and therefore enabling and encouraging it. >> she wants attention and mayhem. so these are just some of the adjectives that lawmakers are using lately to describe each other and public official liar, tattle tale, grifter, communist, murderer, suicide bomber, terrorist, sympathizer, buffoon.

lauren boebert, i called her when it came forward, we talked. she apologized publicly. she apologized personally. i contabted steny hoyer -- i contacted steny hoyer, maybe steny and i should be in the room. we should lower the temperature of this congress. we should work together and talk to one another. disagreements something goes astray, you apologize for t exactly what lauren boebert did. what's interesting to me, i didn't get to watch speaker pelosi's press conference, did any of you raise the question when someone on their side of the aisle said i work with the ku klux klan, referring to republicans? did anyone on your side of the aisle talk about when omar said the only reason i rise in supporter israel is about the benjamins, i never got a public apology or phone call. did anybody on your side of the aisle, i think you might ask speaker pelosi about this one, when congresswoman omar referred to american taliban as equal, because i remember speaker pelosi saying something to the effect, i could be wrong, it was to the effect that she did not denounce her for sayi

exactly what lauren boebert did. what's interesting to me, i didn't get to watch speaker pelosi's press conference, did any of you raise the question when someone on their side of the aisle said i work with the ku klux klan, referring to republicans? did anyone on your side of the aisle talk about when omar said the only reason i rise in supporter israel is about the benjamins, i never got a public apology or phone call. did anybody on your side of the aisle, i think you might ask speaker pelosi about this one, when congresswoman omar referred to american taliban as equal, because i remember speaker pelosi saying something to the effect, i could be wrong, it was to the effect that she did not denounce her for saying that. i think when somebody does something, that is wrong, they apologize. lauren boebert apologized publicly and picked up the phone and -- it took a lot of effort. she wanted to meet personally. denied the ability to meet personally. she picked up the phone and called congresswoman omar. she said i want

it is lauren boebert. it is lauren boebert. the source of it is someone who spewed hate, vile hate about a fellow member of congress, a fellow human being, about a fellow -- and the leadership does nothing, does nothing. they didn't do anything benz paul gosar when he tweeted a video, says it was a cartoon. he threatened to kill a colleague in a video, nothing done about it. not repudiated, rewarded, the leader of the house republican said he'll get his committee assignments back if they take the majority. marjorie taylor greene puts phone numbers online. that's hate speech too for republicans who voted for the bipartisan infrastructure plan, she gets rewarded. kevin mccarthy has not publicly called out hate within his ranks. that's the source of this. >> john, i want to ask you about a massachusetts connection to all of this. i want to ask you about the fact that the red sox traded for jackie bradley jr. before the lockout. i just learned that moments ago. we're not going to talk about jackie bradley jr.,

doesn't get all the attention that a lauren boebert gets or an older member like a paul gosar gets. dan crenshaw says this is probably why -- >> there's two types of members of congress. there's performance artists and there's legislators. now the performance artists are the ones that get all the attention. they're the ones you think are more conservative because they know how to say slogans real well. >> he's absolutely right. he's absolutely right. in the sense, he made a point at the same event that adam kinzinger who is, you know, viewed as a pariah by trump world, voted with trump more than a lot of members of the -- the matt gaetzes and lauren boeberts of the world. she knows the progressives are mad at her, she knows she said racist and islamophobic things. you would think she would have a low profile. no, she puts out a picture of her and kids with weapons following another congressman who did the same thing. confrontation is her business. controversy is her game. >> absolutely. that's the republican party now. the idea that there's show horses and work horses in congress is

talking of course about lauren boebert and marjorie taylor greene. they have no real accomplishments. they have done no real work in congress. they are -- understanding of how washington works. really, what would be called back-bench nobodies back in the day. yet, they have managed to somehow kow most their party, especially the leadership, into silence. for that, they have been praised by the former president, of course, and have managed to raise more campaign dollars than the average lawmakers. in greene's case, roughly six times the average. so for them, this is a payday made even fatter, no doubt, by the continuing coverage. but to the extent that it matters who speaks for one of the two major political parties in this country, they sort of can't be ignored. and once again tonight, it's people like congresswoman greene and boebert who were doing the talking, not their leadership. greene today attacking south carolina republican nancy mace just for calling out boebert's bigotry. quote, mace she tweeted, you can back up off of @lauren boebert or ju

now you have congresswoman lauren boebert with her even younger children. there's one kid that the gun looks bigger than that child. they're posing around the christmas tree. shermichael, i know you're a gun rights guy, but you have to draw the line somewhere, right? these are children, the timing of it seems in very poor taste. >> yeah, alex, i can understand how people would say god, guys, come on, i don't think the timing is good on this. growing up in the south, i think i got my first rifle at maybe 6 or 7. my grandfather taught my brother and myself how to shoot. my sisters were quickly behind us. that's sort of a normal tradition of anyone who grew up in the south to be quite honest. were we taking pictures and putting them on postcards, no we were not. you know and the viewers know we're all living in this viral shock moment. everyone's trying to get more tweets, more re-tweets, everyone wants to be in the news headlines. that's really what this was, members of congress wanting to get their supporters riled up, is and quite honestly have us talking a

separately, lauren, i want to ask you, lauren boebert perhaps not surprisingly really it is on brand is now jumping into this recent controversy involving representative massey, who posted a christmas picture of his family fully armed. she is tweeting out a picture of her own with her children armed in support of massey. i say it is on brand because we know, well documented, she talks about it a lot, her love of firearms and of guns. but also, you know, you would argue she put that out there because she wants us to talk about this picture, she wants us to talk about something controversial. >> reporter: exactly right. this is always the challenge with someone like representative lauren boebert. really the challenges democrats are trying to grapple with in their own caucus. these are the kind of stunts that get media attention, that get you fund-raising, that get you noticed from your republican base. but obviously this is happening in the context of a horrible school shooting that occurred and representative thomas massie of kentucky faced a lot of backlash for a similar photo that h

>> number one, they could censure lauren boebert just like they did with paul gosar. they could also strip her of her committee assignments which was done to marjorie taylor greene. and speaker pelosi could put a resolution on the floor that condemned islamaphobia. there was some internal debate about this last week, and some democrats are reluctant to have to constantly police the bad behavior of their gop colleagues. they really feel like the onus should be on house minority leader kevin mccarthy. but clearly that's not going to happen. so, momentum has grown in the democratic ranks to take matters into their own hands and hold lauren boebert accountable in some manner. >> and then, olivia, minority leader mccarthy says, oh, wait, he is still capable of leading. listen. >> the clashes that you've seen within your caucus earlier this week, if you're speaker, would that make it difficult for you to govern? >> um, no. we're going to be quite fine. >> what does that mean? >> look, i think mccarthy is basically saying you're always going to have certain members who are p

lauren boebert likes to go from offense to offense. she fund-raisies out of it, and we're talking about it. that being said, how do you not respond to an islamicphobic attack? what message does that send to little muslim boys and girls all over this countrisome >> i just don't know. at some point you have to be above the craziness and let them spin and toil and look bad. and you take the high road. scott, i don't know, am i wrong? what do you think of that? >> i think as a strategic matter, you raise exactly the point. the reason someone would tell this kind of a joke, the reason someone would fabricate this kind of a story is because they're trying to attract attention. and when you elevate it to the extent that it's been elevated in our public discourse, we have obviously been discussing it now for days and days and days and days. this is what they want, and the idea that we're going to strip someone of their committee hearings, i mean, do we think lauren boebert wakes up every day desperate to get over to a committee meeting? of cou

and extremists in the republican party, people like lauren boebert who has been arrested more than any other congress person, a person who has talked about law and order and who has ignored court orders and a person whose husband exposed himself to a bowling alley and matt gaetz, mr. family values, being investigated madison cawthorn who beats up trees and when he's not beating up trees he has been credibly accused of a sexual assault and who, by the way, told his viewers and audience, be armed and dangerous after the rittenhouse verdict, and marjorie taylor greene who believes in jewish space lasers that are causing wildfires and today, she compared cancer to coronavirus, realizing that basically she doesn't understand cancer, how cancer works because it's not contagious and 60,000 people wo die of cancer every year, how come we haven't shut down the government or the schools or this country over

one lauren boebert from colorado saying islamic things about ilhan omar, we-- is all of this kind of part of the political legacy here of bob dole? >> you know, what was interesting about the era that bob dole was in congress, there were also most members, who had served in the military. 75 percent of the members of congress in the early '70s had some level of military service. and i think there was something really important about that era because they could, as tamed said, fight on the floor, fight over issues, even get into, you know, prettee acerbic back and forth but fundamental fundamentally understand thed were on the same team, i may have a blue scrersee or red jersey, one of the powerful moments of bob dole's life, especially his later life, that in a way, liberal democrat from hawaii, also served in world war ii, also was grievously injured,

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lauren boebert is a danger to this country, she is a danger to her fellow members of congress, removing her from the community is the least we can do to protect every member of this body. while i definitely wish we did not have to keep coming back and assembling every few weeks to do this, once again black and brown women are carrying the water for this country by urging leadership to act to keep us safe. we stand here today united in calling for immediate consideration of our legislation to remove lauren boebert from all of her committee assignments. thank you. next we will have our charwoman of the congressional progressive caucus, none other than camilla judge. >> thank you, representative bush and congresswoman presley for bringing us together and showing leadership as we demand accountability for lauren boebert's anti-muslim rhetoric, islamophobia and dangerous and incendiary actions. i want to thank my friend congresswoman omar for showing such strength, destroying -- displaying such grace and being a peerless champion on behalf of her constituents, on behalf of muslims across ame

how do you solve a problem like lauren boebert? she's not the only one but how do you solve a problem like that? kicking people off committees could be a double-edged swords. vulnerable democrats telling cnn they don't want to vote on that. they're worried it's an unnecessary distraction as they fight to hold onto the majority. look, a lot of this stuff crosses the line. sometimes losing their committee assignments is warranted, but you could also be playing right into their hands by giving them more attention, which is something that we struggle with every single night on this program. can we put the crazy grifty tweets of lauren boebert up because she's trying to make money off an appeal to the crack pot wing nut part of her party. do we put that up? does that actually help americans? does it inform our viewers and our electorate? in some ways i guess you need to know about it, but it's just playing right into her hands because she wants it out there. because she thinks it's cool and funny and it's going to help her, and maybe it

lauren boebert is simply picking the fruit of a cancerous, diseased tree that was planted by the gop two decades ago. and they have been cultivating this, and they have been working it. and they're now exploiting it. she wouldn't have told that lie if she had not known there was an audience there ready to receive it, and that's because they work real hard to create this disease. so, yeah, removing her from committees is one thing, but we've got to root out the disease. the gop really has an islamaphobic problem. they have a problem with bigotry and xenophobia. and it's -- it's a problem. we saw donald trump -- donald trump the recipient of it. he fed it but he also played into a crowd that was already there for him. >> so, james, talk to me a little bit about because you have such institutional knowledge of washington, d.c. muslim staffers don't have the same protections as many other members of staff. why isn't there, for example, like a muslim association of staffers? i mean, there's been a perception from those i've spoken to it wouldn't be widely accepted because it would draw at

how do you solve a problem like lauren boebert? she's not the only one but how do you solve a problem like that? kicking people off committees could be a double-edged swords. vulnerable democrats telling cnn they don't want to vote on that. they're worried it's an unnecessary distraction as they fight to hold onto the majority. look, a lot of this stuff crosses the line. sometimes losing their committee assignments is warranted, but you could also be playing right into their hands by giving them more attention, which is something that we struggle with every single night on this program. can we put the crazy grifty tweets of lauren boebert up because shaes e's trying to mak money off an appeal to the crack pot wing nut part of her party. do we put that up? does that actually help americans? in some ways i guess you need to know about it, but it's just playing right into her hands because she wants it out there. because she thinks it's cool and funny and it's going to help her, and maybe it will. who knows? the real problem here, tho

mace, you can back up off of lauren boebert or go hang with your real gal pals, the jihad squad. so mace responded this way saying -- >> make no mistake. marjorie taylor greene is a liar. she's crazy, she's insane. she's bad for the party. >> well, greene, of course, returned fire tweeted she had spoken with trump about mace, responded saying this is about greene's anti muslim rhetoric. >> what it says to me is if you say something that's bat shit crazy, you're going to raise money. that's the only reason she does that. she's a grifter of the first order and she does that to raise money. >> cnn's melanie zen known nah joining us from capitol hill. nobody said congress was neat and polite, not sure you thought you'd be spending your days this way. how is, if at all, minority leader kevin mccarthy handling this public feud? it was a little quiet in the beginning when it was dealing with boebert and her comments about ilhan omar. where do you stand this morning. >> reporter: kevin mccarthy is working behind the scenes. he knows this is a huge distraction for republicans. they would

lauren boebert is a bigot and her comments are reprehensible. but do you think pelosi is concerned this vote doesn't put food on anyone's table, doesn't help bring down inflation, doesn't help provide day care. what's going on? >> particularly at a time when the president and democrats are trying to get his build back better agenda across the finish line before the end of the year and you have congress expected to leave town in the next few days, potentially to come back for the debt limit vote. but this is certainly not what they, democrats, even want to be focused on at this point. >> and olivia, progressive congresswoman priscilla is leading this. she said this about why she's taking this route. >> inaction is to be complicit. so we need accountability. representative boebert should be stripped of her committees. as i said, the world is watching. this is not just about representative omar. it's about every muslim that calls this country home. and i might add also a formidable voting bloc. >> traditionally would something like this be sent to

it will be a question that donald trump will be encouraging. >> lauren boebert doesn't care about having her committee assignments taken away. it isn't exactly a sanction that carries a lot with it for her. you brought up donald trump, about how republicans are beginning to position themselves for the presidential race in 2024. >> it's already happening. yes. they are self-separating into three different tiers at the moment because of the looming trump question. will he run, will he not run. we still don't know. he is definitely teasing a 2024 presidential run. the jury is still out amongst his aides and even amongst trump himself. we are seeing candidates coming out immediately and saying if donald trump runs, i'm not going to do it. i'm not going to invest in a race, put together a campaign. i'm out. others are saying if he does run, i'm still trying to make a decision. do i see a lane for myself, approaching this with a bit more open mind. then you have candidates like ran desantis, pompeo, who have notably said -- who have notably been quiet. they haven't come out and said i'm not ru

. ♪ ♪ >>> outrage growing for lauren boebert's unhinged behavior. they want to strip her committee assignments citing anti muslim comments towards congresswoman ill han omar. >> it's shameful we had to wait this long for meaningful action, for meaningful accountability but here we are. for a member of congress to repeatedly and unapologetically use hateful, racist and islam phobic tropes is dangerous. >> the day after boebert put out this christmas photo showing her four children holding semiautomatic style weapons. ana navarro and scott jennings here. good evening to both of you. this is getting out of control. kevin mccarthy nowhere to be found and the leadership is absolutely astounding. >> it is. obviously kevin mccarthy wants to be the speaker of the house and he know he has a problem on his right flank and trying not to rile them up. what is being shown is a lack of a moral compass. it should not be hard to admonish somebody for making discriminatory statements. >> let me get both of you to respond to this. when you have people who do this wac

that's what we're looking at with lauren boebert. republicans should be trying to police themselves, but mccarthy is afraid to do it because he recognizes there is a danger if he wants to be speaker. >> comments seem to get more extreme every day. john avlon, good to have you on. >> you too. be well. >>> still ahead, after a series of bigoted remarks from some far right lawmakers as we were discussing, one congresswoman is calling the right wing as we noted the kkk caucus. we'll speak about that next. ♪ i'm a reporter for the new york times. if you just hold it like this. yeah. ♪ i love finding out things that other people don't want me to know. mm-hmm. [beep] i just wanted to say... ♪ find yourself in these situations and see who you are. and that's just part of the bargain. ♪ when it comes to autism, finding the right words can be tough. finding understanding doesn't have to be. together, we can create a kinder, more inclusive world for the millions of people on the autism spectrum. go to autismspeaks.org [coins clinking in

i think lauren boebert views her job as a member of congress to troll the left. most members of congress see their job as legislating, getting things done pore their district. unfortunately, brianna, these sorts of things, boebert, matt gates does this, marjorie taylor green, or these things animate the base of the republican party at the moment, which means you will see more of it. but trolling whoever you like is not a part of the job as a member of congress. we seem to have forgotten that. the main job is to represent your constituents and get things done for the country. this isn't that. . >> i look at that and i see, look, four beautiful kids. but i think of four beautiful kids in michigan who are not there with their parents. . >> yep. . >> who were on the other end of the gun. i just wonder about the indecency of a member of congress putting this out there as they are suffering ahead of not having their kids for the holiday. it's just unbelievable, chris. . >> totally agree. . >> thank you. >>> and "new day" continues right now. >>> i'm brianna keilar alon

. >> colorado's lauren boebert's rants are facing congress to be stripped of her committee assignments. gosar, the response from republican leadership, slow and weak. >> i think when somebody does something that is wrong they apologize. lauren boebert apologized publicly and then picked up the phone and called congresswoman omar and said i want to personally apologize to you and that's what she did. >> except that's not really went down. according to omar and others present, the conversation between she and boebert evolved quickly after boebert doubled down on her comments as they spend their time demonizing people of color in congress, ali of "the daily beast" argues that it's time for democrats to flip the script and shows what sort of people they're dealing with. unlike the squad, modern republicans are violent, dangerous extremists who support insurrectionists and terror. they love the big lie, promote antisemiity being conspiracy theories and endorse a violent insurrection and have a history of disobeying law and order. joining me now is rajat ali, and guerrero and auth are on of

deserves. >> steve, lauren boebert is not dissuaded by the criticism. she's encouraged by it. she's trying to compete with congressman massy tweeting out her little children holding firearms, which someone should call child protective services. i know people have have guns. people don't do that. it's a weird play of violence. you think i'm violent? she's calling congresswoman omar a terrorist but she's cosplaying terror ris tick behavior. >> she's certifiable. period.istic behavior. >> she's certifiable. period. she has no business serving in the house of representatives by any standard of dignity or comportment which all of us attached to this institution. when you look at that building, it's awe inspiring. that dome, it's awesome. lit up at night, the honor to be able to serve under it in this year where we've seen the capitol, the floors out house, the floors of the senate desecrated and so i'm sympathetic to nancy pelosi here. you figure out this when you're a parent, which is that punishing your children, which sometimes is necessary is more work f

>> i think we're sending a message to lauren boebert. if you can spew out this kind of vitriol, i would support stripping her of her committees. i'm not at that point right now, but if she continues this kind of conduct, then she should be censored and stripped of her committees. >> okay, but look, republicans have been reluctant to take action. that's something the speaker has said that needs to be done. kevin mccarthy, do you have any confidence that he will take any sort of action and push back against lauren boebert and the kind of things she's said? >> so historically it's always been the caucus. speaker pelosi made no -- had no qualms about stripping congressman rangel of his authority as ways and means chair when he was censured. so the fact that kevin mccarthy is unwilling to do that suggests that these fringe members of his party control him, that he has no ability to control them, that he has a precarious hold on his caucus because of his bid to try to become speaker. in many respects he has a ring in his nose now and the marjo

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mace, you can back up off of lauren boebert or just go hang with your real gal pals, the g-hog squad. make slammed greene on twitter and said this -- >> make no mistake, marjorie t taylor green is a liar, crazy, insane, bad for the party. >> after that, congresswoman greene tweeted that she had spoken with trump about mace, to which mace responded bless her f'ing heart and did not abbreviate. in comments later saying this about green's anti-muslim rhetoric. >> what it says to me is that if you say that something is brash or crazy or extreme, you're going to raise money. that's the only reason that she does that. she is a grifter of the first order. and she does it to raise money. >> joining us now, jackie alameny of "the washington post," writes the early 202 and jonathan martin, national political correspondent at "the new york times." i think of this in terms of small children but i think small children behave better than marjorie taylor greene or lauren boebert in this case. i wonder what you think about kevin mccarthy pulling both of these members of congress into his office, tell

. >>> plus, some democrats concerned about the push by progressives to strip congresswoman lauren boebert's committee assignments, saying this could just play right into the republicans' favor. we'll get a progressive congressman's take this hour. >>> and a little bit later this hour, the late senator bob dole returning to capitol hill, where he will lie instate today and we'll bring you that memorial live. enjoying chocolate cake. now, she can have her cake and eat it too. nexium 24hr stops acid before it starts for all-day, all-night protection. can you imagine 24 hours without heartburn? this season, give from the heart, with 25 to 50% off everything. don't miss the last big sale of the year. and celebrate every kiss... ...with kay. ♪ what the he- -henry? ♪ thanks! if it's “out decorating the neighbors” season, it's walgreens season. the new sensodyne repair and protect with deep repair has the science to show that the toothpaste goes deep inside the exposed dentin to help repair sensitive teeth. my patients are able to have that quality of life back. i recommend sensodyne repair

. >>> we hope to punish the far right congresswoman lauren boebert for anti-mus lick remarks is getting stronger tonight. the controversy is raging. >> she is, indeed, seems to be emboldened as pressure builds for some kind of discipline to be given to this rogue congresswoman, questions are running whether she will be disciplined. >> we the people -- >> reporter: tonight a resolution to strip freshman republican house member lauren boebert of her committee assignments has been introduced by democratic congresswoman ayanna pressley and other progressives. >> it is shameful we have had to wait this long for meaningful accountability. here we are. >> reporter: the move comes after recently surfaced video showing ilhan omar who is muslim could have been mistaken for a terrorist in a capitol hill elevator. >> i looked to my left. there she is. ilhan omar. i said, well, she doesn't have a backpack, we should be fine. >> today we're here. >> reporter: boebert also recently said this about omar and another muslim congresswoman democrat rashida tlib. >> she is the last part of the evil women. >

to be clear, lauren boebert deserves punishment like gosar and greene. but not censure or loss of committee assignments. these efforts may carry weight in congress but for the average person they just ensure the offender becomes more relevant. in the cable world and a punch line on late night tv. censure is not as severe as expulsion but it's stronger than a reprimand. censure used to mean something and be feared by members. like when in 1983, representatives gerry studs and daniel crane were censured for having sex with 17-year-old congressional pages. yeah, that happened. in 2010, representative charlie rangel, then the chair of ways and means, was censured after having been found to have committed multiple violations of ethics rules. for rangel, that was a big deal. giving censure to boebert or greene are like handing car keys to a teen who just misbehaved. it presumes these members are there to legislate, which they are not. today, they are there to evoke passion and raise money. the best punishment for that trio is to ignore them. make them the vold

that after mace condemned anti-muslim bigotry from gop congresswoman lauren boebert against ilhan omar. >>> a deadly shooting at a michigan high school. three students killed. i want to turn to cnn's adrian br broad does. three teenagers are dead, many more injured and a 15-year-old sophomore in custody. a lot of new information from that sheriff in that press conference a short while ago. give us the latest, please. >> reporter: don, lots of new information, including the names of the three deceased. i'd like to share them with our viewers tonight. 16-year-old male died today. his name was tate meyer, and he died in the patrol car while deputies were transporting him to the hospital. the other two victims were females, a 14-year-old, hannah saint julienne as well as a 17-year-old female, madison baldwin. in addition to the three deceased, eight others were injured including a teacher. and their injuries range from critical to we know the teacher was released this afternoon. she sustained a gunshot wound, but the sheriff told us a 14-year-old is in critical condition tonight fighting f

if lauren boebert wants to stand up there and lie and say things that are crazy, she can do it. if people in his own caucus want to stand up there and say the election was stolen, he's not going to stand in their way because at the end of the day he wants everyone to think that next year, if the republicans manage to win, whether it's through redistricting and gerrymandering and whatever, he wants to be speaker of the house. he'll make that deal with anybody. >> even though he was the one on the phone screaming -- >> call off the insurrection. >> telling donald trump to call off the insurrection. and now he's reversed himself. >> exactly. >> it's one thing when you reverse everybody else, you want to be speaker. it's -- he contradicts himself. >> and then he went down to mar-a-lago and kissed the ring after january 6th. first thing he does. >> that is a guy that should have blueberry pie on his face. >> there's not enough blueberry pie in the world for him. >> zerlina, who should i be giving some slices to? >> so, i think that the main blueberry pie is anybody that put forward t

house progressives are pushing to strip lauren boebert of her committee assignments. boebert has implied on several occasions that congresswoman ilhan omar is a terrorist. lauren fox is on capitol hill. speaker pelosi hasn't committed to taking any action. why not? >> reporter: well, i think she's in the middle of a dispute right now among democrats a little bit about what the best action is to take right now. she has repeatedly said that what she wants to happen is she wants republican leaders like kevin mccarthy to take care of their own conference. and when a member like this makes these kinds of racist remarks, she wants him to stand up and decide what to do with his own members. that is a step that former speakers and former leaders have taken among members of their own conferences and caucuses. yet, pelosi is arguing that it's not clear exactly what the direction is going to be. she said earlier today at her press conference that she wanted mccarthy to handle this, and other people who are close to her say that there is really a discussion right now as to whethe

lauren boebert is simply picking the fruit of a cancerous diseased tree that was planted by the gop two decades ago. and they have been cultivating this and they have been working it and they're now exploiting it. she wouldn't have told that lie if she had not known there was an audience there to receive it. that's because they worked real hard to create this disease. removing her from committees is one thing but we got to root out the disease. the gop really has an islamophobic problem. they have a problem with bigotry and xenophobia and it's a problem. we saw donald trump -- donald trump is the recipient of it. he fed it but he also played into a crowd that was already there for him. >> so, james, talk to me a little bit about it because you have such institutional knowledge of washington, d.c. muslim staffers don't have the same protections as many other members of staff. why isn't there, for example, like a muslim association of staffers? there's been a perception from those i've spoken to it wouldn't be widely accepted because it would draw attention to them, as you mentioned, citi

republican congressman marjorie taylor greene and lauren boebert have repeatedly attacked the sponsor of the bill, the congressman ilhan omar, with racist, islam phobic. just last month, video surfaced of lauren boebert, this woman, congressman from colorado, in front of a laughing, cheering crowd of supporters, comparing congresswoman omar to a terrorist. those shameful, racist comments had real-life consequences for congresswoman omar, because that kind of racism is actually infectious. it emboldens and encourages other racists. congressman omar presented evidence of that fact in a chilling press conference, where she played a voice mail that she received in the wake of lauren boebert's anti-muslim attack. democratic congresswoman ilhan omar of minnesota joins me now. congresswoman, thank you for being with me. i appreciate when you take time, but it sickness me this is the topic we're talking about. you've been involved in politics for a long time. you've heard the insults. islamophobia is not new to either you or me. but this threat that you got, this voice mail that you played ou

if lauren boebert wants to stand up there and lie and say things that are crazy, she can do it. if people in his own caucus want to stand up there and say the election was stolen, he is not going to stand in their way because at the end of the day, he wants everyone to think that next year if the republicans manage to win, whether it's through redistricting and gerrymandering or whatever, he wants to be speaker of the house. he will make that deal with anybody. >> even though he was the one on the phone screaming -- >> call off the insurrection. >> -- on january 6th. telling donald trump call off the insurrection and now he's reversed himself. it's one thing you reverse everybody ems, you want to be speaker. it's contradicts himself. >> and then went down to mar-a-lago and kissed the ring after january 6th. first thing he does. >> there is not enough blueberry pie in the world for him. >> zerlina, who should i be giving some slices to? >> so i think the -- the main blueberry pie is anybody that put forward these covid vaccine conspiracy theories or suggested that you shouldn't g

to be clear, lauren boebert deserves punishment like gosar and greene. but not censure or loss of committee assignments. these efforts may carry weight in congress but for the average person they just ensure the offender becomes more relevant. in the cable world and a punch line on late night tv. censure is not as severe as expulsion but it's stronger than a reprimand. censure used to mean something and be feared by members. like when in 1983, representatives gerry studs and daniel crane were censured for having sex with 17-year-old congressional pages. yeah, that happened. in 2010, representative charlie rangel, then the chair of ways and means, was censured after having been found to have committed multiple violations of ethics rules. forma for rangel, that was a big deal. giving censure to boebert or greene are like handing car keys to a teen who just misbehaved. it presumes these members are there to legislate, which they are not. today, they are there to evoke passion and raise money. the best punishment for that trio is to ignore them. make them th

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i'm lauren boebert out of control. they were having a complete and total meltdown. instead of focusing on the problems of the american people, they are attacking each other. some that is not a three-way circus, it's a four-way malignant circus. the so-called leader has no control over what is happening. this morning how speaker nancy pelosi lost her patience when a reporter asked her, and not congressional republicans to explain to american voters why the federal government was this morning facing once again the looming threat of a government shutdown. >> how do they explain to the public that they are shutting down government because they don't want people to get vaccinated. why don't you go ask them. this is so silly. this is so silly that we have people who are anti-science anti-vaccination, saying they will shut down government over that. and they're asking me what is our message. our message is we have to respect governments, and we have to respect science, and that is what we are doing. >> tonight, the shutdown was averted once again when democrats in the hous

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