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