Dem lawmaker who sat next to MTG dishes on her 'muttering' during Biden address

On MSNBC's "The Weekend," the Democratic lawmaker from Wisconsin who sat next to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) during President Joe Biden's State of the Union address provided the hosts with a play-by-play on what the controversial House member was raging about to herself during the speech.

According to Rep. Gwen Moore (D-WI), she took the seat because she arrived late and didn't want to stand for the speech after also being advised that no one wanted to sit next to the controversial Georgia Republican.

Pressed by the hosts about the experience, she stated, "I thought I would just ignore her but I couldn't, you know? I was fact-checking her in real-time."

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Asked for examples, she replied, "I was trying to draw — bring out some empathy and to see if she had any, you know, and to recognize that, you know, instead of spending all of our time, you know, being surprised and shocked at Donald Trump having these supporters to try to listen to them."

"For example, this is a really good example," she continued. "When he [Biden] talked about Bettie May Fikes, who I have met on the march to Selma to the Edmund Pettus Bridge when he talked about her being there and voting rights and John Lewis. She said, '1965?' She was really truly surprised, I think. 'Nobody is having their — being prevented from voting.' Now, that was 1965. I said 'no girl, they tried to take my vote from me,' because I voted and used a drop box in the last election.' "

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She later added Taylor Greene continued to fume and grew outraged at the mention of Covid.

"She was muttering about how we shuttered businesses and so forth during Covid," Moore recalled. "I said, 'Girl, well, Covid was a real thing. My eldest son almost died from Covid and was in the hospital on a ventilator for a week."

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