Special adviser to the president Kellyanne Conway told 'Fox & Friends' this morning that despite their "moment of introspection" after the shooting of Rep. Steve Scalise, Democrats are not doing enough to tone down rhetoric which could spark violence.



"You had leader Pelosi yesterday pointing the finger," she reporter. "I think some people are unloading their shame and their guilt in the call for toning down the toxicity and the rhetoric."



Conway explains that she reviewed what was being discussed on MSNBC and CNN at 7:09 AM on Wednesday at the moment of the shooting: "As Steve Scalise was fighting for his life... You should go back and see what people were saying about the president and Republicans at that very moment."



"Look at Twitter. If I were shot and killed tomorrow, half of Twitter would explode in applause and excitement. This is the world we live in now," she said.



"We don't want to live in a police state because we can't get control of peoples' rhetoric," she said.



"You have images of the president being shot in rappers' videos, being assassinated in a production in New York City, the severed head. This is -- All of that is a toxic stew. There is nobody to blame but the shooter here, but with the calls for tamping down, there should be some introspection there," she concluded.