I’m joined Now by Congressman Jasmine Crockett thank you so much for taking the time absolutely so uh as I think most people watching might know uh there was a little bit of a blow up a spat between you and Nancy mace at uh at this latest oversight committee meeting uh here’s a quick clip of that somebody’s campaign coffers really are struggling right now so she going to keep saying trans trans trans so that people will feel threatened and child listen I I I want y’all to tell me whether or not call me a child I am no child even I a

grown years old broken ceing climing my time you will not do that I am not a claiming my time if you want to take it outside Mr chairman the committee is not order order congresswoman what’s your reaction to being the latest Target of Nancy Ma’s I guess what’s now weekly her weekly bit of manufactured outrage yeah I mean listen if people can’t see the writing on the wall it isar C that number one she’s an unserious lawmaker and number two that she will do anything for clicks and anything for money that is what it’s

about and the fact that I was calling her out because I was simply trying to present um an amendment that would bring back the Civil Rights and um Liberties subcommittee which is um a subcommittee that historically has been a longstanding subcommittee of the oversight committee but it’s a it’s a subcommittee that would be committed to all of our civil rights all of our freedoms and the fact is she decided to respond and start talking about you know women being raped by trans folk and I don’t even know where she got that from

but I’m like that’s not even what we talking about and I made it clear that she has truly found out that if she talks about trans people then people will donate to her and so I was calling that out and then she decided she wanted to get an attitude and try to threaten an actual fight now when the rubber met the road and basically we said that that’s out of line and you can’t threaten violence then all of a sudden oh well she could have meant that you know she just wanted y’all to go outside and have coffee right go outside for a

smoke right yeah exactly so we’re not gonna move that that’s a violation like listen I don’t know who y’all think I am and I know y’all try to play me for dumb because I’m black and or because I’m woman but the reality is that I know what she meant by it just like she know what she meant by it but the reality is that she’s nothing more than a coward because she truly believes again that this is an opportunity for her to raise money so I’m sure the emails have already gone out I’m sure she was sending a text message while we were

sitting in committee and said let’s go ahead and raise money off of this but her threatening violence that is what gives license to the crazy Maga followers where she’s doing it to get a few dollars and the reality is that my staff has to listen to the death threats that real crazies follow behind her and give when I’m literally just trying to make sure that this country works for everybody and not just those that elected me you know the the irony of this is so she purposefully misinterpreted you saying child which is

just a term of dearment it’s like me saying bro I don’t think anybody’s going to actually think that I think that they’re my brother by virtue of saying it it’s just a word that people say so she she takes she does the whole manufactured outrage bit pretends that she’s upset about being called a child but then immediately goes on to prove exactly that thesis prove why she is a child prove the very thing that she’s claiming she’s not and so is there any acknowledgement from even her own colleagues that she is that she is doing

exactly that that she’s proving she’s the very thing she claims not to be no I mean listen I I think that there are certain people that are on their own islands and Nancy mace is one of those when it comes to the Republican Party um she’s on her own Island she’s doing her own thing we know that McCarthy wanted to get her out we know that she’s not really what I would consider to be one of those that is beloved um by the Republican caucus and so she’s found out though that by following in the footsteps of Marjorie because that’sa

exactly what she’s doing right is let me just say the most ridiculous things I can and I can raise money and that is why she’s decided you know she was talking about trans folk in the bathrooms I don’t know for how long and talking about how she’s scared to go in the bathroom last time I checked in the rules package that they passed with the Republican speaker they said no trans women in the bathrooms that’s the they they can’t allow the dog to catch the car because then they have nothing to complain about it’s the reason that

Republicans refus to pass the Border bill that they themselves claimed that they wanted in the 118th Congress because they they don’t want to solve the problems because then they would prevent themselves from having problem to run on exactly exactly and and so um first of all just a a quick note I think there is some irony in the fact that she tried to pick a fight when her last bit of manufactured outrage just the previous week was her pretending that she needed her arm in a sling because a handshake injured her so for that person

to go around picking fights is a is probably a little misguided um but the second thing that I wanted to bring up is isn’t it bizarre for her to go out on a limb and pretend that she is some Champion for women’s rights when her whole identity is really predicated on her allegiance to Donald Trump who has more than two dozen um sexual assault allegations leveled against him when he was just found um guilty and convicted of 34 felony counts for charges related to a hush money payout for an affair he had while his wife was at home with

their infant son uh he a judge came forward and said that he raped egene Carroll so on issue after issue after issue doesn’t is does the cognitive dissonance count for nothing here no I mean listen they play on the ignorance of those that support them that’s all it is this is cosplay for them you know when Democrats run for office we really believe in actual policies we believe in government we believe in governance they don’t everything that they do is about tearing us apart whether it’s about tearing the very government that they

have sworn that they are going to protect and participate in and serve they are trying to tear away our foundation which is the Constitution I mean they don’t believe the things that they say think about the fact that they’re like oh we’re gonna kick all the immigrants out and now they’re outraged because they’re like wait a minute wait a minute Elon said he want to bring more immigrants in and they’re like yeah it’s good for business this is what we’re trying to do because y’all aren’t and when I say y’all I’m talking about magga

y’all aren’t intelligent enough to do the jobs that we need done as you are all saying yeah get rid of the apartment of education and you’re the very ones that need it so yes everything is about Cosplay so no she is not a champion for women um she is someone that likes to say it but when it comes down to walk in the walk she’s not doing it that is why I wanted to emphasize that the data and the science is on our side when we say we’re protecting women it’s not just in our words it’s in our legislation it’s in the fact that we believe that women

have a right to choose because I can look at how many women are dying or being subjected to death right now in my home state of Texas I also decided to bring out the fact that our ridiculous Governor I didn’t talk about this specific part of it but our ridiculous governor governor Abbott said when we were looking at trying to figure out how we were going to protect women as relates to say those maybe that are being raped because we have no exceptions for abortion in the state of Texas he said oh that’s okay I’m gonna

get rid of rapist right well next thing you know how’s that going 26,000 women with reported rapes in the first year in the overturning of the roow decision so you tell me how Pro you are you tell me what Christian values you have especially when you’re out here talking about just making up random stuff because no trans person has ever attacked her in a bathroom or tried to rape her that has just never happened so the fact that you want to put this out there in committee and to stoke this fear about something that you know that

your base does not understand does not choose to understand is wrong look there is a part of me that understands the incentive structure for these Republicans to do this while they’re in the minority it’s not like any legislation is getting passed with with split control of government anyway but now that Republicans are in the majority one might think that they would have a little bit more incentive to actually get the done that they want to get done as opposed to pulling these stunts that are only intended to get them

attention when when nothing else can be done and so what does it say that really nothing has changed from when Republicans had no control of government to when they have full control government with Donald Trump getting sworn in in a few days that still Nancy mace and people like her the Margie tell greens and Nancy Maes of the party have to rely on this kind of basically instead of really trying to get anything serious done for their constituents yeah I mean you’re absolutely right listen but these guys are going to be failures we know that

right now Mike Johnson is going to have to be perfect and if there’s anybody in congress that ain’t perfect I’m going say it’s pick any Republican you want to on that side right um because the reality is that the numbers are about to come down to 217 to 215 this means that literally they have to stand together lock step and every single one of them will have to vote for their mandate that they keep telling us that they have um that the American people have given them completely ignoring the fact that so many American people a lot of Democrats

just decided to stay home you don’t have a mandate but but if that’s what you believe then get it done homie because I’m not here to help you tear away other folks rights so we will see what happens but if they they are going to have to rely on Democrats or they’re just going to have to be perfect because if one person one of them decides to go the other way then that means that it fails so I am looking forward to seeing them get their mandate agenda across the finish line but let me tell you if they end up Banning trans folk in sports

which I think the numbers are in the 0. percentag of trans folk that actually play sports if they somehow succeed then what is it you going to campaign on in two years right right what you gonna campaign on there’s a there’s a part of me that’s like they’re going to get somebody to tank it at the last second just because they they can’t they can’t deprive themselves of this as a campaign issue that was so potent in in 2024 finally let’s finish off with this um you come from a state that’s often the the unfortunate recipient of natural

disasters there was a freeze in Texas a couple years ago that Ted Cruz had sked away from um there’s obviously hurricanes that that have very recently hit places like like Houston um right now I’m major fires we had major fires know that’s where you’re going I’m coming to you right now from Los Angeles obviously we’re contending with with the Palisades fire the Eden fire and and a number of others there is right now worry um that Republicans with their new majority are going to condition Aid to California and of course this is being

pushed not only by Donald Trump but somebody like Mike Johnson who by the way way is from the state of Louisiana of all states where it might not be that smart to to establish the precedent of conditioning Aid relief Aid it might be Louisiana among the top of them so um do you have any indication of whether they’re serious about this the or the push back that Democrats are going to be able um to to to build up in the face of these threats by Republicans yeah so it it’ll be interesting because I don’t know the current makeup of the rules

committee and I don’t know who’s going to be what and which way they will go so one of the really big issues that they had in the 118th Congress is that they had a bunch of their obstructionist on rules and so while they may be voting with democrats for different reasons they weren’t necessarily with us but it was the same vote right and so therefore they have to put a lot of things on suspension so I don’t really know what the Dynamics are going to look like and if we end up in that scenario but let me tell you what the first thing that I

want to tell you uh I am I am so sorry for what everyone in California is going through and I mean that from the bottom of my heart and that is coming from a Texan but more importantly that it’s coming from someone who considers herself a US Representative before anything else and I can tell you that while Tennessee can’t never vote the right way as far as I’m concerned while Florida ain’t been right since the hanging Chads while North Carolina you know every once in a while may get it right and while Georgia for sure we

never know which way George is going to go but historically has gone the wrong way more often than not I can tell you that when it came down to that AE there was not any portion of me that said you know what based upon how y’all voting I’m not going to support that yeah because as US representatives by the time the election is over we should be focused on doing what is right for those that are in the United States and so it doesn’t matter that y’all vote the wrong way it doesn’t matter to me all of those things what matters is what does it look

like to do right and for those that believe that they somehow have been sit here by God himself and believe that they somehow are God’s right hand let me tell you as the child of a preacher that this is not what you are supposed to do if you really consider yourself to be a child of God at the end of the day we should be looking out for Americans regardless of the fact that the state as a whole May understand that we would have been better off having a KLA Harris as president so no I am absolutely going to do everything that I can in defense

of those that have been victimized and a lot of it has truly been based upon the failed policy beliefs of them saying climate change ain’t real it is real it is here it is impacting all of us and one of the things that I have said over and over as we had to listen to the idiots like margorie Taylor green as she continued to say that somehow Democrats were controlling the weather and that is the reason that we ended up with the storms that we had that hit the East Coast the reality is that if Democrats control the weather don’t y’all think

that the Democrats controlling California would make sure that the fires would not be Ablaze like you can’t have it both ways right and at the end of the day we did right by y’all and y’all need to do right by those that are in California and we need not play games with people’s lives because that is not the Christian thing if you really want to rely on your Christianity perfectly put we’ll leave it there Congressman thanks for taking the time today uh sorry for the fact that you were the latest Target of Nancy Ma’s um you know

eventual fundraising plea but I appreciate you taking the time to speak with us I appreciate you