‘The Word Sh*tter Has Now Been Entered Into the Congressional Record’: Abby Phillip Interviews House Democrat Who Teed Off On Republicans In Hearing

CNN’s Abby Phillip interviewed Rep. Jasmine Crockett (R-TX) on Friday, and speculated the lawmaker may have authored the first-ever instance of the word “shitter” to appear in the Congressional Record.

On Thursday, the Republican-controlled House Oversight Committee held its first impeachment inquiry hearing into President Joe Biden. Republicans alleged that Biden has been involved in his son Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings to the point of illegality. They have yet to furnish evidence of their claims.

During the hearing, Crockett cited Republicans’ lack of interest in the four criminal indictments facing former President Donald Trump. One of those involves what the Department of Justice says was his willful retention of classified documents upon leaving office, and his efforts to obstruct their retrieval. Photos included in the indictment show the material in question stored throughout Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida. One photo shows boxes stored in a bathroom.

Phillip kicked off the segment by declaring, “The word ‘shitter’ has now been entered into the Congressional Record,” before showing a clip of Crockett in the hearing.

“When we start talking about things that look like evidence, they wanna act like they blind,” Crockett thundered, holding up a photo from Mar-a-Lago. “They don’t know what this is. These are our national secrets! Looks like in the shitter to me.”

“That was quite a moment,” Phillip told Crockett on Friday’s CNN Primetime. “I don’t know if that went exactly as you planned. But why did you go there?”

“To be clear, Nancy Mace continued to cuss in this hearing,” Crockett responded, referring to the Republican congresswoman from South Carolina. “And my attitude is, I will match your energy or exceed it. And I felt like I was gonna use a better, you know, way of using the word when I used it. So I did. And that was that.”

“Matching energy with energy,” Phillip echoed. “Is that always the right strategy? What do you say to people who say it’s not?”

“I say that they don’t understand what’s going on in Congress and they don’t understand what’s going on in our country,” she replied. “Right now, I think historically – and I applaud those who have come before me – Democrats have always wanted to be the ones to say, ‘This is how we are supposed to conduct ourselves.’ And they think that just by maintaining that type of decorum, that MAGAs and others will respond and do the same. But they don’t. And so sometimes you’ve gotta make sure that they know that you can bring it as well.”

Watch above via CNN.

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