From the New York Times, unlike what is today in us, second day of attacks. President Trop says democratic, congressman, hate, the? U S and are free to leave the country, the Congress? One say they were used to be silent it's Tuesday joy, sixty judaizers. Where should we begin so last Wednesday? There was. This meeting. Is the weekly gathering at the house democratic caucus. There are there to talk about their legislative agenda, any issues that they need to address as a party What's going on that weak and The closed door meeting no

press is allowed inside, but because it was such a remarkable monologue from Nancy Policy. A number of sources you're in there and filled me and on what she said. And when she say so, she basically starts to say things leg, and some of you are here to make a beautiful, Pat, hey, but we're making sausage most of the time The process can be ugly. We don't always get what we want out of it, but in a week Have our ideal perfect outcome all the time and what she's focused on what she says House Democrats need to be focused on is coming out with the best version of what they can get given that they are just one chamber, the house in the Senate is controlled by Republicans and the president is a republican and obviously wants very different things. She says: don't play

Into their hands every day, some of our members have to fight the fight for their reelection. It's easy for me and my district, but then she goes on to say there are some members who are not in situation. These members, some of these moderate members. Actually The reason that we are in the majority, and so all of them representatives, even if they come from safe democratic districts, need to be thinking about them. When she saying there she's, essentially saying it's great to be idle, logically pure it's great to have the energy of the progressive base, but if you're not gonna things that are gonna advanced legislation that we can actually kind of deliver on. Then it can be detrimental and she ends her comments with a pretty sharp warning to her members to essentially keep these fights and the family. If they have a problem, she says they should come to her. She says you gotta complaint you come and talk to me

Why is the speaker giving this lecture at this moment when she up too well she's, really talking two four members in particular freshmen members of Congress Andrea, O, Casio Cortez from New York. On Omar from Minnesota or she D leave of Michigan and I on oppressively of Massachusetts, their known as the squad right and she sort of trying to tear down on this tension. That's been simmering between her and this group and between relieved. The broader democratic hocker in this group now for many many days in what are those simmering tensions really about, or they start. While they start in many ways, right after the mid term congressional elections where You know you had this new crop of way. I'm coming in, who had a very strong kind of progressive bands

made it very clear. They really wanted to dramatically change the direction of the institution changed the face of the democratic carcass and every one before the Congress even convenes right after the mid term congressional actions, some climate protesters stages didn't outside of Nancy Policies office. We energy! There is no and who joins them, but the newly elected congresswoman from New York, Alexandria, Cassio, Cortez, protesting pursuing Gb Speaker House now we ve got back me pursuing rested energy agenda that discussion And if this moment, where you can see that you know

she is coming to Capitol Hill. Really, as an act best with an agenda to really push things forward in a way that is not your typical member of Congo she's not sitting there you're waiting for her committee assignments, she's sitting in outside of Nancy Policies Office, but it also then starts play out over many weeks and months. Alexandra Cassio Cortez hasn't squat all vote for Nancy Policy for speaker and They all have some pretty good committee assignments. Thanks to Nancy Policy, they are able to have a seat at the table, but rather than simply acting like a most freshman members of Congress do where may be, introduced some legislation here and there and serve keep their mouths mostly shut there are very active sort of demand, ding action on various legislation that they think is not getting enough attention where we live.

The mother fucker and they start to make that very clear then it is using twitter and using the activists community that there are very close to just sort of really started criticise policy and some of their democratic colleagues for essentially sort of tiptoeing around what they think should be much older policies along a goal which is, as I say, the lie that fail: the fire seeing things like the green new deal, things like Medicare for all some of these multi trillion dollar progressive agenda. That are very serve popular with the base, and you see a lot of the democratic presidential candidates running with them, but realistically they don't have

much chance of getting off of Capital Hill men for the first several months that the House Democrats are in control policy, keep support he tight rein on it and it all seems to be working out pretty well until a couple weeks ago and what happened then, we have gotten a clearer picture yet of the growing crisis at the southern border. So a couple of weeks ago. There are all these reports of the horrible overcrowding in facilities holding migrants at the border, and the report shows migrants held in standing room only cells for a week at a time, while others confined more than a month in overcrowded rooms, terrible pictures of sub human can actions in these places. Without hearing from a lawyer who visited one centre in Texas and a doctor visiting another, describing it as torture

the administration have been asking for some humanitarian aid funding, and there was an effort to bring a bill to the floor of both the house in the Senate to sort of deal with this. They needed to pass an emergency money and just get it to the border quickly, you kind of standard fun, the agency's fun the facilities as pose, you might say, kind of sausage, not better. Exactly- and you know they had. It- was gonna- be a strictly humanitarian and bill? They had already talked about the fact that there wasn't convening wall money. No, unfortunately, this was really just supposed to address the humanitarian crisis and for some members, including the squad was seen as a sort of a perfect opportunity to really protest the entirety of president trumps immigration agenda and because it was, must bill because it was in some ways Siena's, so pro forma, it was in their minds a perfect vehicle for really registering,

antipathy. Their discontent with the entire immigration agenda and in the end policy, is able to pass it with Oh overwhelming majority in all of the House Democrats, including all of the progressive vote for it, except for the Squire And what does this vote against this bill mean for the conflict settlement simmering between the squad and policy will it just brings them all to the four because ends up happening. Is that the House bill that the four of them voted against and getting scrapped? And the house has to accept a much weaker bill that the squad hates even war and that many Democrats hey even more and that's where the finger pointing starts. We didn't even bother to negotiate the squad- is really angry about this bill and instead, what we're doing is that were immediately going to just saying yes to work. I passed out of the Senate. Basically, can

or to be selling out to the Trump administration, letting them do what they like giving them a blank cheque. I will not support anything that broken dehumanizing people, but guess what Mitch Mcconnell sent you back something that was worth. It is very disappointing that the speaker would ever try to diminish our voices. In so many ways there making statements about Nancy Policy and how she's mishandled the process- and I think, with the democratic party- was so busy oftentimes shrines at peace. Everyone we end up using. No one else is chief of staff tweets that the moderate Democrats, who were supportive of this result, but he compares them to separate, business calls them the new southern Democrats. Well, yeah it gets pretty intense. He deletes the tweet, but it's really ratcheting up, and then you have activists on the left very upset a policy, article in the Huffington Post thing, you know what the heck is Nancy Pelosi doing and its

in the middle of all of this churn about her and the squad that she sits down with Maureen endowed our colleague and opinion. Almost our colleague great, who asks her again all of this blow back that she's getting from squad and from progressives in general. About. How she's handled this whole thing, and now this has become more than just about the humanitarian aid bill, its criticism of her whole leadership style and somehow painting her as an apology for president tromp. What does she think about in policy basically comes back to what touch this all off, which was this legislation and says- and I quote all these people We'll have their public whatever in their Twitter World they didn't have any following policy has this varies missive way of speaking about people and things. She basically says there for people, but there has for people and that's how many votes they got out in Ill Hano, more, not so happy with policy. For that comment and war, what are they to she's? Basically again,

call that they have a large public following their very active social media there, influential and that way, but in the way that managed Nancy Pelosi, which is advancing legislation coming up with a product. Pass. They don't matter at all, because there are only four of them and that so many votes they control so after Marines column runs, and these comments sort of go viral there's a almost immediate response from air Sea and the squad basically clapping back at policy. She tweets. You know that public, whatever is called public sentiment during, not toward policy and wielding the power to shift. It is how we actually achieve meaningful change in this country, so she's essentially saying you know you may dismiss us,

as nothing but twitter allowed mouths. But, like that's, the whole game is getting public opinion to our side so that we can actually make the change that we think needs to happen. It's not long after that. That policy calls this caucus together. To basically say all of this tweeting. All of this sort of public bickering has to stop what I said in the Caucasus. Yesterday we respect the value of every man, other carcass the diversity of it all is a wonderful thing. Diversity is our strength. Unity is power, and we have a big fight and were in the arena, and that's all I'm going to say on the subject of your wish, and do they take that message to heart? Not in time

early. What happens is that a see clearly felt that she and three other members were being singled out, and she then says to the Washington Post after policy has given her behind closed doors, Lecture She essentially feels bullied by polygamy, and why is it that policy feels the need to call out for women of color and target them in this way? And she doesn't say it outright. But the clear implication is that this is somehow about their race and about the fact that their women of color, who

who are threatening to her in some way and that the leadership of the Democratic Party is complicit in this as well? And that's basically, where things stand when President Trump decides to send a series of tweets about the squad, Moderate back up work is giving one million dollars and talent grants to business is working to counter the ongoing impacts of cuban nineteen as the world's largest network of remote professionals, their connecting existing teams with remote experts intact, creative and operations in an effort to help them lives and rebuild the economy to learn more gotta upward dot com, slash work together for a wash her now were present.

Europe has sparked a storm of outrage after a series of racist tweets, targeting them of Congress or women of Color Doolittle about the president's tweets, so the present wakes up on Sunday morning. He is at the White House and he starts tweeting about the president. Sunday called out progressive democratic congresswomen quote unquote, progressive democratic, Congress, women tweeting? Why don't they go back and help fix the totally broken in crime infested places from which they came? Who he says originally came from countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe, the worst most corrupt and in it where, in the world now loudly ambitiously telling the people of the United States the greatest most powerful nation on earth, how our government is to be run, and he basically says why don't they go back and help fix the total broken and crime infested places from which they came. Why don't they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came,

ever mentions Ale Sea or ill Hon, Omar or IONA, Presley or Rashid, its leave only one of whom not born in the? U S, but he clearly is targeting them and he he ends the series by saying these places need your help badly. You can't we fastened I'm through that Nancy policy would be very happy to quickly work out free travel arrangements, so he is clearly talking about them and alluding to their kind of rift with the speaker? And what do you make of that? Did the president and the leader of the Republican Party decides in the middle of this democratic battle to send that tweet. Well, I think it's the couple things. I think that the president is trying to really sort of focus attention on these four democratic women who he views as extreme, and he thinks most voters, republican democratic, independent think are being

outside of the mainstream and really trying to essentially drive a wedge among Democrats and make it clear that, when you say democratic Party, these are the four people I want you to think about, but I also think that its notable that he mentions policy and he likes the idea that she has these divisions that she has done sort of bridge and that in some way she's not in control of her caucus. He wants to call attention to the problems he sees. Democrats are having, rather than, of course, anything to do with him, like his immigration ray it's that are also unfolding over the weekend or his labour secretary, whose just had to resign or Jeffrey Epstein. Who has horrendous charges against him and whose pleaded was worked out by his labour secretary me. There are all sorts of things he would like to distract from and basically pointing up democratic divisions and drawing attention to democratic members of Congress, who he considers radical, are much more comfortable place for him to be in

work. Did this racist trope drive a wedge between a squad and their speaker no not at all. They all sort of very quickly came out with statements in tweets. This is our country and no amount of hate filled. Bullying from the White House is going to change that we're gonna fight back together and we're gonna come stronger for it. The squad reacted directly to him freshly tweeted back today. Quite this is what races looks like we are what democracy looks like and we're not going anywhere, except back to DC, to fight. Families you marginalize and vilify everyday, basically saying that you know he was wrong and they were what America was about. He wasn't and so for a new cycle or to his comments and the reaction that they got and how, beyond the pale were basically shifted. The focus away from all of these in fighting

then going on and allowed them to do exactly what Nancy Pelosi had told them. Last week they should be doing, which is essentially dont director fire at inside the party directed at President Trump right, and I noticed Pelosi, came out very quickly and very prominently to defend these lawmakers right. You basically says You know when he targets them. She said he reaffirms its plan. To make Amerika great again has always been about making America White again. So it's her opportunity to really prove what she has been saying privately, which is that she's not trying to target these women she's, not trying to take them down she's trying to protect her caucus, but also when it comes.

To House Democrats she's going to defend them against this kind of attack from the president. So what do the president's tweets and are doing to this conflict? It's kind of a reset button on the whole thing where, instead of talking about their differences there talking about the press and how unacceptable what he has said is and how united they are and pushing back against it, and it's also kind of the creation of what policy has said to them privately, which is, if Democrats Sir divided and making a big public fuss about being divided. That only helps the president he's gonna, take that and run with it, and that is exactly what done what I welcome everyone to the White House where very excited to be hosting our third annual made in America Showcase He saw him just sort of double down on

at the White House outgoing while I dont merge United, names and on Monday, where he just went out at an event about manufacturing and. If you are not happy here, then you can leave basically restated everything. He said in his tweets, only morceau or some concern. If you hate our country. If you're not happy here you can leave and that's what I say all the time. That's what I said in a tweet, which I guess some people think it's controversial. A lot of people love it and said that he's women hate America. He made all sorts of accusations about not living their country, one of whom is falling of eight percent of all their holding is in the gutter. He said, and we should point out that all of these claims are unfounded. Their island and then again he's talking about women all, but one of whom

born in the United States, if they're doing nothing but criticising us all the time you see these people walking down criticising the United States any suggesting quaint, inexplicably quite recently, and quite without any practicality that they would somehow leave the United States right, and he is also making the point that somehow, if you criticise the United States, that you are on American, that you don't belong here and that you need to lead about. Thank you all very much like you. What are these four freshmen supposed to do with the lesson of this moment? It was like their stuck between these two divergent strategies. On the one hand, there is the policy strategy, which is to say that the squad is,

not the entire party that it's just a small part of the party and to project a message of moderation that can keep the parties control over swing. Districts. Trump strategy, on the other hand, is to portray these four house freshmen as absolutely the face of a Democrat. And to mark them and, by extension, the rest of the party as radical and so when they're are loud about the policies that they think need attention. The moderate, the party has a whole get branded as something that it's not both of these strategies. The policy strategy and the trumpet energy punish these lawmakers for being outspoken. I think that it's a really hard spot for them to be an because part. Why they came to Washington was to be lightning rod. They always have seen that as part of their role to serve attract attention, attract conversation and by doing so pull the debate in the direction they think it needs to

and so you have a speaker whose saying you know, keep quiet, keep this within family and that's not what thereabout and, at the same time have a president who is essentially confirming what their own saying that you know he needs to be confronted in an aggressive way and he needs to be held to account not insert of an incremental way, but in a very kind dramatic way that matches his own tactics as a. What do you expect them to do? think that they're gonna keep being who they are they're gonna, keep being LAO and insistent about what they believe needs to happen, because you have President's constantly kind of goading them and goading Democrats to essentially where they naturally are comfortable going, which is to be activists not really legislators.

And to work outside the system, rather than within it joint. Thank you very much. Thank you Michael on Monday speaker Nancy Pillows, called for a resolution in the house to condemn the, It s remarks about the for democratic congressman were first, I want to say I think

to all of you for being here today, and I want to send a message of gratitude and thanks to the solidarity that we have received from every corner of our country? A few hours later during a joint news conference in the capital Representatives, Presley o cause you Cortez Omar and to leave, denounced the president's attack on them, calling it an attempt to disrupt

strapped from their agenda, despite the occupant of the White House, attempts to marginalize us anti silencers. Please now that we are more than four people are squad, is big. Our squad include any person committed to building a more equitable and just the world, and, given the size of this squad in this great nation, we cannot, we will not be silenced and now by representatives will be right back deep, running, color and bursting with flavour northwest sweets areas. Pack, a serious health bombs that may help Americans manage the impacts of stress studies have shown amazing health benefits when including we cherries in your diet, like lowering blood pressure, reducing inflammation and improving quality of sleep, whether you enjoy them by the handful or as part of a low guy, see MC recipe. Cherries retreat for your body as well as you too

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