CNN host Jake Tapper questioned Democratic Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett about her recent exchange with Republican Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene during a GOP-led Oversight Committee hearing this week.

Crockett appeared on “State of the Union” to discuss her viral confrontation with Greene during an Oversight Committee hearing late Thursday night. Lawmakers were voting on whether to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress when Greene made a comment about Crockett’s eyelashes, derailing the meeting. This led to Crockett responding with a remark about Greene’s “beach blonde, bad built, butch body.”

“You‘ve really embraced what you said. You‘re printing it on swag, I think we have an image of the shirt here that you‘re selling to help raise money to elect Democrats. How would you respond to say it‘s inappropriate to respond to an attack on somebody‘s physical appearance. You hear the congresswoman AOC say you shouldn‘t be attacking somebody‘s physical appearance, but then you did the same thing. You attack her physical [appearance],” Tapper stated.

“So to be clear, what I asked for was clarification on the ruling. If her words were taken down, that meant that she was going to have to leave the committee for the evening, which actually would have helped everybody out because the source of the chaos is always Marjorie Taylor Greene. But the chairman was concerned about his votes. He was concerned about whether or not he will be able to move forward with contempt,” Crockett stated, essentially sidestepping Tapper’s point.

“So therefore, I’m like, ‘Well what are we doing?’ What are the parameters? And I generally wanted to know, so I did not state anything to her. I specifically asked a question and I didn‘t even mention her name. So it was for clarification and that‘s what I asked for. And he obviously didn‘t hear me,” she added.

Tapper continued to challenge the Democratic Texas representative, pointing out that while Greene initiated the argument, Crockett responded with much greater intensity. Crockett stated that she did not regret her comment and criticized supporters of former President Donald Trump, claiming they don’t “respect rules” or the law.

“Okay, yeah. And I hear that. But she went after your appearance and then like you went back at her a thousand-fold,” Tapper pushed back.

“I did. In a very lawyerly way,” Crockett responded.

“But do you — obviously she started it, I‘m not disputing that, but do you regret that at all?” Tapper questioned.

“I don‘t because here‘s the thing. I signed up to be a member of Congress. That didn‘t mean that I was supposed to walk into a position where I‘m going to walk in and be disrespected. It‘s already a hostile work environment being there and we do have rules,” Crockett stated.

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