Marjorie Taylor Greene

The top U.S. congressional Republican on Sunday demanded an apology from Joe Biden over the murder of an American student for which an undocumented migrant was arrested -- a case helping to put immigration squarely at the center of the 2024 presidential campaign.

The president "is cowering to his base and showing deference to a man who deserves none," House speaker Mike Johnson said on X, the former Twitter. He said the alleged killer "is an illegal immigrant who brutally murdered Laken Riley."

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.' "

On MSNBC's "The Weekend", former Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele went on a blistering rant aimed at outgoing RNC head Ronna McDaniel's tumultuous tenure by pointedly stating, "I was winning elections. What did you do?"

With McDaniel walking away — only to be replaced by Donald Trump loyalists — and asking for "unity," Steele, from his perch as the co-host of MSNBC show, wasn't having it.

"The unity thing is a two-way street, he lectured. "And you don't have unity when you refer to Republicans like me as a RINO [Republican In Name Only] who's been in the party for over 50 years. You don't have unity when you disavow and break apart the very foundations of a once proud party based on the principles and ideas of Lincoln and Eisenhower and Reagan and Bush."

"So y'all need to check the unity conversation amongst yourselves first before you bring it to others because that's where the disunity is," he continued. "It's not with me. I was doing just fine until your behind showed up. I was doing just fine. We were — I was winning elections, right? What did you do?"

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"You've just been showboating. You allowed [Georgia Republican] Marjorie Taylor Greene to show up in the House and disrespect your own house and the Republican brand by wearing some dumb behind cap on her head?" he exclaimed. "Come on folks, let's be real about what it is and what it isn't, and what it isn't is the stuff that myself and a lot of others have been fighting for."

"Look, I'm at a table with people that I would love to engage on public policy about, but we are talking about your dumb stupid stuff right?" he added. "This is the reality that you put us in. So unity is a two-way street. Y'all need to work on your end of the block because it's messed up as hell. "

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President Joe Biden was on the receiving end of backlash from his own party after he used the word "illegal" to describe a Venezuelan man who entered the U.S. without documentation and who has been arrested and charged with the murder of college student Laken Riley.

According to Newsweek, Biden didn't intend to call the migrant "an illegal," and instead was expected to stick to prepared remarks that he did read: "I will not demonize immigrants, saying they 'poison the blood of our country,' as [Donald Trump] said in his own words."

House Democratic Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries took Republicans to task for criticizing President Joe Biden's State of the Union Address Thursday night.

The President’s speech was widely praised by the left, and by some on the right, while many Trump-supporting Republicans declared he was too “loud,” or appeared to be “angry” and “shouting.” Others called the address too “political.”