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ROTHMAN: “Yeah, absolutely. I agree with everybody. And it should be pretty easy. One of the problems here with those remarks in 2012 is that it's an insult to his voters to suggest that’s something they would believe and respond to. And it seems like something, as everybody had said, should happen and I agree. What's missing in a lot of this is the presumption of good faith. I saw on the Republican side of the aisle, the conservative side of the aisle, consternation with Mark Meadows for hugging Rashida Tlaib because she has invoked the dual loyalty standard, an anti-Semitic trope as old as time, which you should be fully aware of if you’ve had the requisite education and clearly she has not. But to suggest that there should be no sort of dialogue here would block off any sort of reconciliation and renewal and the understanding in one another that, A, it's necessary to make a good legislator and legislature function, but, B, to choke off dialogue in the extremes, on the fringes that are engaging in this sort of stuff in the grassroots. I mean, that is how Twitter functions, right? You can't have this sort of interaction and it's so raw, tribal, partisan and aggressive that it resents this kind of interaction when it occurs. But as Kimberly said, if we can assume that he perhaps wasn't aware of this sort of thing, although it stretches the imagination that Mark Meadows is not aware of the sending African-Americans back to Africa trope as being offensive, it seems pretty obvious, similarly Rashida Tlaib should be aware that saying Republicans have a dual loyalty to America and Israel is really deeply offensive. And unless we have dialogue about that sort of thing, it’s only going to continue.”