Rashida Tlaib: “This is so hard because as many of my colleagues know, my closest colleagues now, my very first day of orientation, I…”

“This is so hard because as many of my colleagues know, my closest colleagues now, my very first day of orientation, I got my first death threat. It was a serious one, they took me aside, the FBI had to go to the gentleman`s home. I didn`t even get sworn in yet. And someone wanted to be dead for just existing. And so, I asked my colleagues to please try not to dehumanize what`s happening. This is real. And, you know, many of our residents, from the shootings, in Charlottesville to the massacre at the synagogue all of it. All of it is led by hate rhetoric like this. And so, I urge my colleagues to please, please take what happened on January 6 seriously, it will lead to more tough and we can do better. We must do better. Thank you.”