Monday on CNN’s “The Situation Room,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) dismissed Delegate Stacey Plaskett’s (D-VI) text message exchange with Jeffrey Epstein during a House hearing because he said Republican lawmakers text with President Donald Trump.

Co-host Pamela Brown said, “I want to ask you about Democratic Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett last week, as you know, there was a failed censure effort over her texts with Epstein during an oversight hearing in 2019. He was a known sex offender. She acknowledged Epstein’s influence in her line of questioning during that hearing on this show when we had her on, but would not say it was an error in judgment. Here’s how you defended her on the House floor last week. So our viewers can listen.”

Last Tuesday on the House floor, Raskin said, “However ill

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