CNN anchor Brianna Keilar called out a House Democrat for using a vulgar slur to label Elon Musk at Wednesday's DOGE oversight subcommittee meeting.
Keilar asked Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA), "During the Hunter Biden affair, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, who now chairs this subcommittee, she had put up some censored, but still quite revealing, photos of the first son who was nude and with alleged prostitutes -- photos that she said were taken from his laptop. Today, you harkened back to that moment with this one in the DOGE subcommittee hearing. I want to play this."
Keilar then rolled tape of Garcia saying, "Now, I find it ironic, of course, that our chairwoman, Congresswoman Greene, is in charge of running this committee. Now, in the last Congress, Chairwoman Greene literally showed a 'd--k pic' in our oversight congressional hearing. So, I thought I'd bring one as well."
With that, an aide handed Garcia a poster-sized photo of Elon Musk.
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"Now, this of course, we know, is President Elon Musk," Garcia continued. "He's also the world's richest man. He was the biggest political donor in the last election. He has billions of dollars in conflicts of interest."
After the video, Keilar asked, "Do you think that calling Elon Musk a 'd--k' is effective messaging for confronting what is a potentially an irreversible transformation of the U.S. government?"
"Well, he is a d--k," Garcia countered, "and I think he's also harming the American public in an enormous way. And what I think is really important, and what the American public want, is for us to bring actual weapons to this bar fight. This is an actual fight for democracy, for the future of this country. And it's important to push back on the chairperson of this committee. I mean, Marjorie Taylor Greene talks about having decorum, about bipartisanship. This is the person that lies more than anybody else in the entire Congress. And, so, if she is going to make a mockery of hearings, I want to make sure that us as Democrats are bringing that same level of energy.
"And, of course, after those comments, we went into exactly what Elon Musk is trying to do dismantling the Department of Labor, dismantling the Department of Education, dismantling all of our consumer protection agencies. And so it's all important, but it's also important to get the attention of the American public and call Elon Musk out for what he is, and to make people know that Marjorie Taylor Greene is not a serious legislator, and she shouldn't be treated as such."
