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CROCKETT: "Because I'm sorry, but, like, we don't have ethical, like, rules that say that you can't receive text messages or you can't respond to text messages, especially if somebody has a certain record and you can't do it in committee? We all be sitting on our phones and, yeah, people be texting. I mean, our staff takes texts. Like, everybody takes texts. Like, people — I remember when I had the 'Bleached blonde' situation. You know who was texting me? My pastor, okay? So let me be clear, there is no ethical violation. And so the idea or the audacity to decide that you want to strip a black woman of her committee assignment because she was texting with Epstein..."