joining us now is democratic congresswoman doctor maxine dexter from the great state of oregon. ery sorry for saying you were from maryland last night, and i did it twice. i apologize deeply. >> oh. >> no offense taken at all. i was delighted to hear you said my name. and thanks so much for having me, rachel. >> well, i had you on the brain anyway, because i had i had looked at that footage from the huge town hall that you had in your district this weekend. on saturday. it's one of the biggest ones that i've seen anywhere in the country. seeing that high school gym or middle school gym, that school gym fill up like that with your constituents and seeing some of the tape from there, seeing the energy. it was to me, it was very moving. i just have to ask you what you made of that and whether that was what you expected. >> i didn't. >> know what to expect. >> it was my first solo town hall. i'd had a couple with senator merkley, but i didn't know if anyone was going to show up. i was hoping, but rachel, i too was moved. there was one point in particular where it was a groundswell of

maxwell frost walked out, maxine dexter from maryland, andrea salinas from oregon, ayanna pressley, ilhan omar, pramila jayapal. we believe that's only a partial list. number of democrats left during the remarks. the president in his what we believe was ad libbing. we did not have prepared remarks from the president, which is unusual. white house is usually distribute prepared remarks. so we don't know what was digression from those remarks and what was outlined. but the president did repeatedly seem to be ad libbing when he was remarking on the expected impact of the economic decisions he's already made six weeks in saying that the american people would have to bear with him, that there would be a little disturbance, that there would be an adjustment period. and again, he said, a little disturbance, essentially suggesting that the roiling that we saw in the markets is something that he knows he caused. but he hopes people will not mind. for the record, the worst inflation in this country was in 1980. for the record. the economy that he was left by president biden was not a catastrophe. i

the other two that left the chamber were crockett and andrea salinas and maxine dexter. those democratic members walking out early in the speech. several other democratic members of the house and senate walked out toward the tail end of president trump's speech. senator bernie sanders and others. during the speech, some democratic members were holding up signs in protest to what they heard from the president. this is from the hill. democrats could be seen holding up signs during president trump's speech as a way to rebut the president on his remarks. one of the signs read false while the other read :musk s teal." when the president said a joe biden, the worst president in american history, a number of democrats held up signs that say false. peter: let's talk to kyrsten. good evening to you. what did you think about tonight? caller: good evening. i just had a really, some interesting perspective. i live in the urban core of kansas city. i am a black woman. and just kind of understanding the context of the conversation. one thing that i was glad that was brought up was aro

also, ayanna pressley, jasmine crockett, maxine dexter from maryland, andrea salinas from oregon, ilhanmelanie stansbury from new mexico, jamie raskin from maryland, who we spoke with earlier this evening, zoe lofgren from california, who is a member of the january 6th investigation. also, at least two democratic u.s. senators left the room, senator chris van hollen and senator bernie sanders. one of the things that we have all been most looking forward to hearing tonight and checking in on is the reaction to the president's speech tonight from the four fired federal workers, four very impressive people who jacob soboroff is with tonight in washington. he watched the speech with them. we told him that we'd come back to him after the speech and after the democratic response, to get the reaction of those four federal workers to what they heard tonight. really looking forward to hearing this. we're going to have that right on the other side of this break. stay with side of this break. stay with us. ♪(voya)♪ there are some things that work better together. like your workplace benefits and r