Senior Congressional Correspondent Chad Pergram Watching all of this live
on Capitol Hill.
Chad, what can you tell us about what's going on
here with regard to Congresswoman to leave?
Good afternoon, Martha. Well, last week the House voted to
block an effort to censure Rashida Talib.
Not today. A full censure vote will come tomorrow.
Most Democrats are offended at Talib's inflammatory rhetoric.
Many Democrats cite free speech as reasons they oppose sanctioning
to leave.
I'll tell you how this democracy dies.
There's lots of ways it dies.
One of the ways it dies is if we start
sanctioning each other for our constitutionally protected speech.
I think it was at best,
massively insensitive. I mean, she in her own head may
believe that that that is an aspirational slogan.
That's not the way. Certainly Israelis or Jewish people or
most people hear it.
Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren tweeted that hate speech and violence
against Palestinian Americans is,
quote, alarming, but warns that nothing about violence against Jews.
House Democratic Caucus Vice Chair Ted Lieu says Jews in
his district are scared when someone like Talib uses words
which parrot the charter of Hamas.
The phrase the river to the sea calls for the
elimination of Israel.
They also call for the killing of all Jews.
So if someone repeats that phrase in America,
it is highly inflammatory. Why not have the Democratic caucus
then take some action against her if her remarks are
genuinely so offensive,
as Mr. Liu laid out?
As members of Congress, we have outsized platforms so we
can individually criticize,
commend, say whatever we want about any issue we want
to.
The *** for tat continues.
Democrats have a resolution to censure GOP Florida Representative Brian
Mast.
He called Palestinians Nazis, Martha.
OK, thank you very much.
We'll keep an eye on it,
Chad, with your help Chad program on Capitol Hill.