Barbara Sprunt

He talks about Muslims being part of America and the contributions that they make to society as doctors and lawyers.

and how they need to be treated with respect.

And he has a line about, like, in our anger, you know, we can't forget that we need to treat our fellow Americans with respect.

He talks about women who cover their heads being, you know, afraid to go outside and how that that is inherently not an America that he wants to see play out.

There's the Trump factor, too, in all of this.

And I think, you know, in large part, why I felt like I was seeing sort of like a doubling down instead of a distancing from some of these comments that Ogles made this last week is because the Trump playbook, which so many Republicans are adopting now, is never apologize.

It's not in your interest to back down, you know, and like you can weather whatever storm it is if you just say it loudly enough and keep on carrying on.

And and even that can be contrasted, not even going all the way back to the comments that President Bush made.

But in 2019, Steve King, then a member of the House Republican from Iowa, gave an interview in which he questioned why the terms white nationalist and white supremacist were considered offensive.

And there was widespread condemnation, not just by leadership, but by rank and file Republican members.

And he was stripped of his committee assignments, one of the only sort of tangible punishments that you can get as a member of Congress.

And so I just think that even within those six or seven years, you know, you're seeing like a big difference in the way that people are responding to their colleagues saying something of this nature.

There's not a lot of nuance in our conversations these days.

It's far beyond inappropriate.

It's dangerous, as Odette said, and everyone should be concerned about that.

What did we learn?

Well, Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters the reason for the attacks was what he called an imminent threat to the United States.

Well, one thing that really stood out to me was hearing from Senator Mark Warner, the top Democrat on Senate intelligence after the briefing,

He came out and he said that he thinks the administration has kept shifting the reason as to why this happened now.

And now we hear it's about sinking the Iranian fleet.