Alexandria Ocasio-Cortezs Blunt Analysis Of Mike Johnson Has Chris Hayes Laughing

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) delivered a stinging assessment of House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) after House Republicans failed this week with their baseless bid to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

Lets just call a spade a spade here, Ocasio-Cortez told MSNBC s All In host Chris Hayes on Wednesday.

Republicans are dealing with not their first-choice speaker, not their second-choice speaker, not their third-choice speaker . Theyre dealing with the speaker that they could get and that they could agree on, Ocasio-Cortez pointed out, drawing laughter from Hayes.

Watch the exchange here:

That means an individual that does not have experience in party leadership, that is a relative newcomer when it comes to the [caliber] of member that youre used to seeing when they typically get the speakers gavel, the lawmaker continued. It means the experience in vote-counting is not quite up to the standard that we usually see in a speakership. 

There was also absolutely no evidence for an impeachable offense and the whole attempted impeachment was completely politicized, she added.

Ocasio-Cortez later mocked conservative complaints over their narrow 214-216 defeat that the Democrats hadnt provided them with their attendance counts as laughable.

It really speaks to the fact that youre working with people who are not used to being in this chamber, she said.

Hayes noted how some Republicans were mad they hadnt been told Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) would briefly leave the hospital , where he was undergoing abdominal surgery, to visit Congress and cast his vote against the impeachment.

Like, you should have given them a heads-up on that, he sarcastically suggested.

Ocasio-Cortez replied, I mean, if you didnt expect Al Green to be doing that, then you dont know who Al, reverend and Rep. Al Green is.

Watch the full interview here: