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Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees: Interview with Rep. Schakowsky

Interview

Date: Feb. 3, 2023
Issues: Legislative Branch

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First of all, thank you so much for having me.

It's just ridiculous. Marjorie Taylor Greene was so -- the hypocrisy is just overwhelming. I mean, this is a person, who had advocated violence, was talking about Jewish space lasers that were causing fires in California. And the vote to take her off her committees was bipartisan as well.

So, I don't know what the Speaker now is talking about. The hypocrisy is just overwhelming.

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Oh, lots of -- lots of feedback. About a million people, now, have seen what I've said, on the floor, of the House. And I would say the vast majority has been popular.

People have agreed with me. They think it is wrong, for this woman, Ilhan Omar, to be removed from her committee, especially after we have seen the anti-Semitism from the other side of the aisle.

And now, they're saying that she is not worthy of serving on the Foreign Affairs committee, the only Muslim person, on that committee, the only Muslim woman, of course, on that committee, for the last two years, without any problems.

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Oh, I don't think there's any question that a woman of color, a Muslim woman, that they don't want her on the committee.

And the accusation of being anti-Semitic? After we have seen, certainly, former President Trump, talking about how fine people, on both sides, were in the anti-Semitic rally, where a woman was killed? When we have seen several members, including the current whip, the new current whip of the House, Congressman Emmer, saying that Jews have paid for elections? And even Kevin McCarthy himself, who said that he thought that rich Jews were really buying the Congress?

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Oh, I don't think there's any question that this Republican majority wants to find the games that they can play that are going to try, and put Democrats, in a bad position.

But I think most people see that this is really fake and phony, and that what we have seen over and over, from the Republicans, advocating, for violence, advocating for insurrection.

And now they're going to blame this woman, who apologized, unlike any of them ever apologizing, for anti-Semitic remarks, to take her off her committee, where she has served well, for two terms in Congress.

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Thank you so much.

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