President that voted to impeach him. The fact that this is happening just hours after leaders of that party paid tribute to one of the victims of the Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick. Where his remains lie in honor, they decide what to do with freshman congresswoman margry Taylor Greene. Shes the Qanon Conspiracy Fan who called School Shootings false flag operations and questioned whether the plane hit on 9 11 and what caused the California Wildfires like social media posts calling for the execution of Top Democrats and fraud lies to the hilt. Democrats want republicans to strip her of her Committee Assignments including a seat on the house education and labor committee. Theyre threatening to bring the matter to the house tomorrow if republicans dont and its not just democrats upset about her there are republicans, conservatives like kevin cramer. She is very extreme to say the least. The antisemitism, ive never seen anything quite like it. The antisemitism, School Shootings arent real. She runs the gammitt. Forest fires are started by jewish lasers. I makes me wonder how she did get elected. Mitch mcconnell called her views cancer for the Republican Party but never named her in the criticism. Over on the house side, the members and leaders being called on to do something about it appear not to be too concerned. The congressman spoke at the meeting telling her colleagues her social media posts dont reflect who she is as a person, which to be fair, she said Behind Closed Doors and if thats not who she is, what was she doing posting and liking it . Exactly who is this person . The socalled plane that crashed into the pentagon, its odd there is never any evidence shown for a plane in the pentagon. There is an islamic invasion into our Government Offices right now. Kennedy getting killed in the plane crash is another one of those clinton murders, right . Again, this is a first term lawmaker, someone who would Ord Ordinarily a back venture or as Mitch Mcconnell warned, a cancer on it which House Republican leaders dont seem inclined to stop right now. Something Kevin Mccarthy signalled this afternoon in a statement that said in part quote past comments and endorsed by Marjorie Taylor greene on School Shootings, public violence and Conspiracy Theories do not represent the values and believes of the House Republican conference and her past comments now have much greater meeting. Margry recognized this in our conversation and i hold her to her world and ad and actions go forward. How did congresswoman greene show her appreciation for the pass . She attacked him in an interview tonight with the washington exa examiner. Kevin mccarthy and those are proving they are all talk and not action and about doing business as usual. Whats the difference between them and democrats . There isnt a difference. That attitude to party leader for saving her skin would once upon the time end the career of a downryoung representative. The main focus of criticism tonight isnt the anti s antissemitic congress woman, its the deadly insurrection on them and the Vice President a less than a month ago, that guy. Its that guy so many republicans still continue to defend the one whose name congressman matt gaetz invoked the other week when he went to wyoming for a rally against liz cheney. So i had a chance to communicate with President Trump yesterday. [ cheers ] he sends his love. He loves youall so much and President Trump is going to keep fighting for this country with every breath that he has. Now, republicans have a choice. Does the party still belong to him and the congresswoman hes such a fan of or not . Brian noble is at the capitol for us. Whats the latest . Is this meeting still going on . Reporter it is, anderson. For the better part of four hours these republicans are attempting to hash out issues within their conference. Were told essentially any member of the Republican Party in the House Of Representatives that wants to get up and Say Something about either of these two issues has been given the opportunity to do so. So far, there have been far more of these republican members that have come up to criticize liz cheney, who is the third Ranking Member of the house Republican Party for her vote to impeach President Trump. This could end up in some sort of a vote tonight, which will determine cheneys fate. Now we know that Kevin Mccarthy, the House Minority leader and Steve Scalise, the number two ranking republican have both voiced their support for cheney to stay in that post as the number three republican, but she has taken a lot of incoming fire tonight from many of these republicans angry with that vote. So were not going to know the outcome until the vote cast if there even is a vote. That is up to Kevin Mccarthy. Cheney would like the vote to take place which would indicate she believes she has the support of the conference behind her. Were still waiting to see what the outcome will be. Its incredible. The Republican Party now is looking about voting about liz cheney, not about Marjorie Taylor greene and her Committee Assignments. Is that just completely off the table as far as republicans are concerned . I know democrats could take her off and seem to want to. The republicans, has mccarthy decided they wont remove Marjorie Taylor greene from Committee Assignments . Thats what it looks like. This meeting is all about liz cheney. They talked very little about Marjorie Taylor greene. Wow. She got up and did speak herself for a few minutes and actually got somewhat of a Standing Ovation from a good portion of the conference that were told. You know, there was one congressman of illinois who has been of course a big critic of President Trump who got up and really attacked Kevin Mccarthy for Focussing More On Cheney and dealing with that and not doing anything to handle the situation with Marjorie Taylor greene but Kevin Mccarthy attempted over the past 24 hours to find a way out of this. He asked hoyer, the democratic Majority Leader if there could be a compromise perhaps put taylor green on another committee. Democrats are not interested in that. They dont want her serving on any committee and pushing forward so mccarthy essentially put his Hands Up In The Air and said i wont do anything about it and its also important to point out, anderson, in the statement that you read from Kevin Mccarthy, youll note that he never says that Marjorie Taylor greene apologized for the past statements that shes made about some of these wacky Conspiracy Theories. He says she recognized what she said and how it could be a problem, but she never apologized and were told that is actually what happened, that she never volunteered to apologize for the comments that she had made, which had been a specific request of democrats who had any hope of whether or not she would stay on these committees. So its pretty clear, there may be a reckoning with liz cheney tonight but Marjorie Taylor greene, republicans arent interested in doing anything to hold her accountable. Just incredible. Liz cheney is a conservative and, you know, outspoken in this case about the impeachment. Ma Marjorie Taylor greene, you know, has embraced qanon hoax. Shes been all in on it. She wasnt just a fringe player. She was all in on this. Doesnt believe the plane hit the Pentagon On 9 11. Believes the childs are behind lasers in space causing wildfires in california. This would be stunning. We are just getting word, ryan, i was told in my ear we do expect a vote tonight, not on Marjorie Taylor greene as you said, on liz cheney. No word on exactly when that will take place. Ryan, appreciate the reporting. Well continue to check in with you as warranted. Perspective from cnn political analyst Maggie Haberman and dana bash. Dana, i mean, this is the Republican Party deciding, at least in the house, deciding who they want to be. They sure are, anderson. The shock and surprise and disgust that you are i dont mean to put words or feelings into you or into your reaction, but its what everybody is feeling because people who have shouldnt say everybody. Everybody who is focused on the facts and focused on what is right or let me just put it this way, focused on the conservative principles that republicans have espoused for so long and that being their guide post. Things like lower taxes, things like Less Government in their lives. Thats not what is going on here at all. I mean, this is about somebody who voted her conscience because she thought that a president , regardless of party incited an insurrection on the building where she worked versus somebody who has repeatedly said things that are antissemitic and completely conspiratorial and effectively getting a pass. She did get a round of applause, some people did stand up when she, Marjorie Taylor greene spoke and liz cheney just like ryan just said, im hearing from sources, shes getting pounded. Some people are coming to her defense but for the most part, shes getting pounded. There is most likely going to be a vote on her leadership role because she wants one and has been working the phones for a long time with members of her conf conference. Maggie, do you have any sense how donald trump sees this without the white house or press ko core . Hes talked to her and shes certainly all in on him and Kevin Mccarthy kissing his ring at maralago. This must be what he wants. He still is the party leader, anderson, until there is another president ial nominee of this party or until the party starts to swing more in the direction of Mitch Mcconnell, the Senate Majority Leader Senate Minority Leader now trying to carve a different path. Marjorie Taylor Greene says that she has spoken to President Trump. We dont know that from his folks but it would certainly be in keeping hes been talking her up privately to a bunch of people and keeping with how he remade this party in his image and what im struck by over and over, anderson, watching this, if Kevin Mccarthy wanted to at this point, there is not a magic w wand he can wave to marginalize Marjorie Taylor greene. She has support of other republicans in the caucus and conservatism as its been practiced. That makes donald trump very happy. The longer he can keep his grip on the party, i think the Liz Cheney Vote will tell us a fair amount but the longer that donald trump can keep his grip on republicans, the longer he remains a factor and thats always what he wants. Do we know to what degree, maggie, the former president is remaining a factor . Has he been in touch with mccarthy today . Does donnie junior call him up . Do we know. There is a relationship they have spoken while things were fairly tense between Kevin Mccarthy and the former president. I dont know whether the two, Kevin Mccarthy and the former president had spoken today but they had been in touch after the former president was very angry with Kevin Mccarthy on the house speech floor and said President Trump did bear blame for the insurrection on january 6th. There are clear lines of communication. There are a bunch of aides they share in common so i dont think their wishing are unknown to each other. Dana, if the Republican Party continues to choose to embrace the qanon wing essentially, which is, you know, also part of the trump wing, is that does that hurt i mean, they obviously think they dont think it hurts them, obvious ly they think thats where the energy is and votes are. Hard to see a lot of folks in, you know, the suburbs and voters who are, you know, more or dont believe in these hoaxes following along with that. Absolutely. And although, i understand maggie, what youre saying about the fact that Kevin Mccarthy cant wave a magic want and make conspiracy theorists go iaway, what hes not doing is trying to show leadership saying were not going to stand for this because it could be he could end up the next liz cheney. It could be that would be the outcome of that but hes deciding not to do that and i would argue one thing. It late at this moment. Oh, agree. Many points, i think the ship has sailed at this point. I agree. One thing that a source told me this evening who is familiar with some of the conversations before having with mccarthy kind of his Kitchen Cabinet is that what he could have done, like tonight was to say to her okay, lets go down the list of all the things that youve said. Do you still espouse the idea of these laser beams . Do you still believe its possible that a plane didnt really go into the Pentagon On 9 11 and keep going down the list and put her on the spot. Get her on the record whether its in front of the conference, which as we know now is still on going and the majority of the focus is on liz cheney, not on her or get her to do it in public and that didnt happen nor is it happening and the democrats have to put all the republicans in a box. Theyre going to have this vote on record. Do you like margry Taylor Greene to stay on these committees or not and those who say yes we do, that will be used against them in ads. Maggie, i want to read something carl rove told the new york times, your newspaper saying he said quote, the beneficiaries are democrats so the more we have purity tests and everyone has to think and act alike when it comes to former President Trump, its only helping democrats end quote. As long as the former president is playing a role in politics, will those purity test that rove is speaking about ever go away . I dont think so, anderson. Look, to your point, when you were mentioning Kevin Mccarthy at the top of this segment going down to maralago in your words kissing the ring, he was in palm beach anyway but the fact he made this stop to see the former president appear for this picture that where President Trump used that picture and put out a statement saying that, you know, my own endorsement is worth more than its ever been et cetera, et cetera. Mccarthy needs it to stop and went there to tell former President Trump essentially is mccarthy wants to be speaker, which we know and he needs the former president s help in trying to actually target democrats, not other repu republicans. Right. Has President Trump taken that message and adhered to it . I think how he behaves Going Forward depends on what we see next week in the senate trial. Yeah, you know, i think it was matt gaetz went the next day after Kevin Mccarthy it was that day. That day. Three hours later. Right. Three hours later gaetz was in wyoming to trash liz cheney where he putt donald trump junior on Speaker Phone on the microphone. Donald trump will keep one foot in each camp and torment until he thinks theyre on his side. And how much matt gaetz and other folks, what they really think of Kevin Mccarthy and his power. Man Maggie Haberman and dana bash, thank you. What congresswoman greene calls democrats criticizing her and later, with covid deaths crossing the 450,000 mark tonight, the heartache and hope on the front lines at a texas hospital. Your next celebrity cruise is ready for takeoff, with our biggest air offer ever. Save on every flight, from every gateway, on every sailing. And, with drinks, wifi and tips always included for everyone, you have everything you need for an unforgettable vacation. Celebrity cruises. Sail beyond. Questiwe have breaking newse vote whether liz cheney will maintain her leadership position. Have they started to vote . Reporter they have. They have voting and that process is beginning right now. Reporter they have. They have voting and that process is beginning right now. They have voting and that process is beginning right now. This could take211 republican h members. Each is Casting A Ballot. Unlike the house floor, we get a record, this is done in secret so they have to physically cast their ballot and the ballots have to be counted. We do know some Republican Leaders are already starting to leave the meeting right now so the process is wrapping up but it could take a little time before we know whether or not liz cheney will remain as the third ranking republican in the House Of Representatives. Brian ryan nobles, thank you. Congresswoman greene saying this about democrats criticizing her and im quoting her. How stupid they are. They dont realize theyre helping me. They dont realize how dumb they are. So congraesswoman thanks for being with us. Congresswoman greene says democrats are stupid and by trying this strip her of assignments, you and your colleagues are helping her to gain more power and get more republicans elected. Do you think there is some truth to that, not to the stupid part but to the building up her name recognition, focussing on her gives her more power than she actually would have . What zesshes focussing upon the fact shes been fundraising off this like crazy. The last report was 1. 6 million off this. It the race to the bottom for the Republican Party here. Its so interesting. In her statement she said about in that interview she did, she also says she was asked about, you know, being taken off Committee Assignments that doesnt look like it will happen from the republicans doing and she seemed to indicate she didnt really care because it allowed her more time to focus on what she wants to focus on which means fundraising and building her name and throwing rhetorical molotov cocktails, lets hope rhetorical ones and that seems to be really what she wants out of serving in congress. Well, i dont think shes really interested in serving in congress, clearly shes interested in being on twitter and spouting whatever pops into her head or into qs head or whatever. I mean, since the moment she hit town, shes done everything she can to, you know, excite people. It doesnt matter if its true or not. When she first got to town, she was tweeting about not being able to go to the gym and put out a tweet about working out. Shes all about the publicity and fundraising. Its not about public service. Shes a want to be Influencer Instagramer and antissemitic Conspiracy Theory believes. What is really concerning to members of congress is shes also about inciting violence. She totally bought into the ex president s big lie he hadnt actually lost the election and she was part of the crew that helped to incite the attack on the capitol and the attempt to disrupt a joint session of Congress Just a month ago today. Do you we still had our Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick was lying in state in the capitol today. Do you think democrats could or should remove her from her Committee Assignments . That would be really an unprecedented step or at least highly unusual step. Its certainly highly unusual. In the past weve been able to rely upon the parties to police their own and it wasnt that long ago that the Republican Party did police its own just the last term or term before, the Republican Party removed steve king from his assignments because hed said despicable and false things. The things that the representative from georgia has done are much, much worse but apparently the Republican Party changed. House Minority Leader mccarthys statement tonight in which he says he takes Marjorie Taylor greene at her word, that shell hold herself to a higher standard now is almost a parody of what one might expect from him at this point. I think it was dana in the last segment pointed out its not as if he sat her down and point by point said okay, do you really believe that the roth childs are behind lasers from space causing wildfires . Do you really believe that, you know, the leaders of the Democratic Party eat babies and drink their blood for a chemical, which is part of q. Its like hes basically just giving her a pass and just sort of saying just dont talk about that kind of stuff now. Well, i mean, were taking her at her word and her word is that shes incited violence against members of congress and shes espoused crazy theories that are not going to help us do our job to help the american people. What does it say about the party they are talking about stripping liz cheney of power when shes trying to hold the ex president accountable for siting an insurrection and elevating this new member who is inciting violence and just, you know, doubling down on Conspiracy Theories. Whats it like working in the capitol now . Its never been more important given the stakes of our country and at the same time, not in our lifetime has it ever been as surreal. Its extremely surreal. I havent been here that long but weve certainly had our fair share of unusual events the last three years. But it has been really different the day after the couple days after january 6th, when i would see colleagues from across the two reactions, one was avoiding and scuttle by quickly and the other is sheepish and wow, that was really wild what happened and oh, gosh, were all in it together. But thats turned. Now that theyre into this oh, we need to move past, we need to move past six people dying. We need to move past an attempt to over throw the government. Thats the most surreal thing of all. I mean, one of the quotes that came out of this meeting republicans are having now is one republican lawmakers who is a reporter of the georgia congresswoman saying that liz cheneys crime was that she aided and abetted the enemy. The idea that thats how he or she i think it was a male views this as the other side is the enemy. But the other side is just anyone who opposes trump at this point. Exactly. Yeah. The Republican Party has no platform other than whatever their leader wants. Yeah. Literally they did not have a platform. Not just rhetorical. Right. Appreciate your time. Thank you. Thank you. If the Republican Party is having a crisis over the identity in the future, our next two guests are not. Rick wilson is author most m memoirbly everything trump touches dies. Rick you have the greatest title of any book in history. What does it say to you about it is completely being spared from any accountable and cheney is at real risk of getting boothed . The real leader of the house is Marjorie Taylor greene. Shes effectively the leader. Shes forced in her alliance with trump and the crazies and qanon people Conspiracy Theories and laser theory, thats the dominant strain. It is now what has taken over from the old Republican Party that believed in however i imperfectly they believe that Hillary Clinton eats babies under a pizza restaurant. This woman barely could contain herself to try to behave for 15 minutes tonight and mccarthy essentially didnt even bother to slap her on the wrist. I mean, but i got to say, democrats should be delighted by this and revel in this. This is the new face of the gop. This is who the Republican Party is now and shes dcrazy as an outhouse rat in a Sugarcane Field i like to say. Shes truly going to be the face of the gop. Democrats should love the fact shes there breaking off more and more americans from the Republican Party. Marry y kathryn, havent see you in awhile. Great to see you. What do you make of what is going on . This is truly a moment to e did fine what is going on and they are choosing a hell of a path. It not going to deal with greene at all and turn around and possibly discipline liz cheney. I mean, that is quite a contest and many republicans will say well, the media is taking it a contrast and democrats are turning it into this fight. Youre also making the contrast for everyone else. Thats what were its just what is out there right now. Are you going to deal with it . Do you wish back suburban voters, more moderate voters and many in this past election voted for biden but may have crossed over and voted for republicans for senate and house. There were plenty of those voters. Do you want to lose all of them . Do you want to claw any of them back . There are many people in these Battle Ground states particularly the new Battle Ground states, georgia and arizona that would like a viable alternative for dealing with things, the covid fallout and dealing with kids not in school not being instructed in person. There are real problems that republicans could speak to but not if Marjorie Taylor greene is leading everyone around and like leadership matters. Do i think mccarthy could have made a difference awhile ago . I think that could have happened but now that ship seems to have sailed. And i appreciate, by the way, cheney wanting a vote. Its a useful and instructive line on where this party is. Rick, we have a bit of new reporting from that republican before the vote over liz cheneys fate, mccarthy delivered a unity speech, which is his kind of remarkable, too, as well. He was talking about unity, you know, and said everybody, you know, cut this stuff out. Was it a week ago and then right away, matt gaetz shows up in wyoming attacking liz cheney. Right. Yeah. Smack i think i will just say this, anderson. I would love to see liz cheney and matt gaetz go round. She would flat him in a hot minute. Nobody made matt gaetz go to wyoming to torment her other than the incentives of the current version of the Republican Party. So he went out there to try to burn down a fellow member of the gop. Were so far in the past of the Old Regan World never speak ill of your fell ow republicans but Kevin Mccarthy is the most ineffective leader. The guy got his job by being the chairman of the alphabet to rush committee. Now there is a crisis he doesnt have the Mental Capacity to handle. It is really showing and the party is going to fall apart underneath this guy and, you know, they won some seats this year but with some dumb luck but right now, the people rising in prominence to power and volume in the house are going to be the very people as mary kathryn says, they will push away those folks you want to claw back in the 2022 mid terms. House Minority Leader Steve Scalise said he wants everybody to air grievances to move forward. Where does it move forward to . Is that how this works tonight . They air their grievances and it goes back to regular . Look, like you could have moved forward because there was a close precedent in taking steve king rightly off of the off of his Committee Assignments. He was later primaried and no longer an embarrassing problem, right . Thats kind of how it goes. He could have said we have a chance to say hey, were going to deal with this on our own side. I dont understand tactically, what do republicans get because democrats will likely do this anyway. Shell be gone from the committees. Shes right shell become more popular and do the things she wants to do and are extremely bad not just in the Republican Party but in American Politics to be as you said, anderson, an infl influencer. They had a chance to put this person in a place where this could be manageable and now theyre just all going to have to be on record about this anyway. Its the democrats doing it for them and do i think they may come to regret that and this will lead to something bad for everybody . Probably so. Mccarthy could have short circuited that today. Appreciate it. Just bizarre, bizarre night. Up next, more on the vote happening on the fate of liz cheney over wanting the former president impeached tied to the lies of the ex president. Well talk to a former Dhs Cybersecurity expert that debunked those lies ahead. The new lexus is. All in on the sports sedan. 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In our breaking news, the Republican Party voting not on the qanon fan Marjorie Taylor greene but liz cheney and whether to strip her title. Their answer it seems to her vote to impeach after the capitol insurrection last month, deadly riot links to the lies his lawyers perpetuated yesterday in the formal impeachment response to congress. Joining me is the former Trump Administration official fired after debunking the ex president s election lies in charge of election cybersecurity in the department of homeland security. Christopher, great to see you. As a republican, what do you make of this intense fighting within the Party Tonight . I mean, obviously some of it stems from the former president s false Election Fraud claims and the subsequent insurrection impeachment and some of it from the seeping of qanon into the gop. What goes through your mind when you see this . Well, thanks for having me on, anderson. Great to be back. I see representatives like adam step up and speak truth to power on the side of congress and thats what i would expect out of the Republican Party right now not embracing or tepid denouncements of Conspiracy Theories that ultimately led to the lose of life. L lets be clear qanon is much broader than election fictions, it also extends into things like covid, anti masking, anti vaxing, its a broad Base Conspiracy thats taken root in all corner of our society now and the fact we dont have across the board resolution to denounce qanon and denounce those among the members, to me it just dont make a lot of sense and this is an inflection point, i think for the Republican Party. Mccarthy said in a statement the last year the congress denounced qanon but he didnt seem that he didnt actually, you know, go down the list and ask this congresswoman well, do you still believe there was no plane that was flown at the pentagon as dana bash was saying earlier . Do you still believe that, you know, babies are being eaten by democrats . He just kind of gave a pass. To me, its interesting. I kind of am trying to get to root cause here. You know, who holds whom . Is it the qanon followers in the Republican Base that are holding the republican members in or the other way around. To me, those who can step forward like those that can step up, liz cheney, those are the ones that are again, like many of us have done or a few of us that seem to be growing that are putting country over party and thats to me a sign that there is some flicker of life in what i used to know as the Republican Party. As i sit here, im trying to figure out if the party left me or i left the party. When you were fired for President Trump for stating the facts and explaining reality, did you think it would get this bad . I mean, not just for your party but for the country . It you know, Rearview Mirror and all that, it certainly was on the path of escalation to violence like we saw on january 6th and, you know, there was going to have to be a reckoning. I talked about it before. You know, everybody is talking about a cancel culture were in the midst of instead, should be, an accountability culture. These lies that snowballed into something much more significant and graver that led to january 6th and the armed storming of the capitol, it doesnt just go away unless you get to root cause and you hold those that are accountable, those that are responsible accountable and i think the position of officer Sickn Sicknick Lying In State while we have this debate about a congresswoman and her affiliation or support of qanon to me is remarkable were even where we are right now. It is, yeah. That position is painful and really just very disturbing. You know, former President Trump the former president s legal Team Included his debunked claims of Election Fraud saying there is insufficient evidence to make a judgment on the claims even though they have been rejected in some 60 courts. As somebody that knows all about election security, its stunning to me they would even raise that. I cant. I cant even with that. Its a quadruple negative, i think. Look, the things that jumped out at me in their filing were two points. One is the mootness of the impeachment and, you know, i think reasonable minds can disagree on that but i think there is precedent with the Secretary Of War back in 1876, to me, its bad Public Policy if you can run out the clock and do a bunch of crimes or badness before your term ends and think youll get away scott free. There has to be accountability. We see democracy under siege, it is important to be the beacon of hope and democracy and then the second piece is that jumped out in the filing was the Freedom Of Speech as a private individual and i just find that absurd on its face the president of the United States is long ago blurred the line between his private, you know, speech and whom he what he says is the president , you know, the hatch act violations using the white house for his convention. You know, anything he says at that point is as the president and he has a significant amount of influence with his words. You know, just from a security, National Security standpoint, i think a lot of people who were not supporters of the former president , you know, breathed a sigh of relief after the Election Results and, you know, after, you know, after the attack when order was restored. The thing is, a lot of those folks are still out there. I mean, i know some of them are being quiet because theyre afraid of being arrested by the fbi now because they were posting stuff on social media, but there is an awful lot of folks who, you know, if they werent in the halls of congress, they were right outside and wished they were in the halls of congress and theyre still there. Absolutely. And you are seeing a more forward leaning and aggressive posture from the Department Of Justice and fbi and i saw something earlier today that foreign partners are considering groups like the proud boys in wipe supremacists groups along the movement and so that is showing me that the chickens have finally come home to roost and domestic terrorism and home grown violent extremism is at the top of the Priority List for this administration. Christopher krebs, appreciate your time as always. Thank you. Thanks, anderson. As the political turbulence continues, the coronavirus death toll surpasses 450,000 people. Especially hard hit, south texas. 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Then youre going to look at Maxine Waters as a chair of what she incited . I wonder if they put the same standard to someone else. Never in the history of congress have people been deciding where other parties are putting people on committees. Senator mcconnell said her views amount to a cancer for the Republican Party. I denounce all of those comments that were brought up. Everybody. She came inside our conference and denounced them as well. She said she was wrong. She has reached out in other ways and forms. And nothing that she said has been based upon since shes been a member of congress. The voters decided she could come and serve. When she [ Inaudible Question ] inside our chambers. To apologize for her past comments. That is exactly what she did. Publicly though. That is what she did inside our conference. Do democrats deserve to hear that . I think everybody should hear that. She expressed she has put it out from News Agencies and others. I think it would be helpful if you could hear what she told us denouncing qanon. I dont know if i say it right. I dont know what it is. Any from the shootings. She said she knew nothing about lasers or all the Different Things brought up about her so from that perspective she is now a member. If we are going to start judging what other members have said before they are members of congress i think it will be a hard time for the democrats to place anybody on committee. [ Inaudible Question ] oh, i think people, now that youre a member of congress, now it is a responsibility of our conference to hold people accountable and you know the unique thing is, we have a long history of doing that just as we were going to change something here. Its on the democratic side that it is very difficult that they dont ever do that. When omar made her comments, wouldnt have kept her on went and kept her on foreign affairs. We removed steve king. What is unfortunate is democrats dont keep the same standard. He asks a lot of stuff. Let me let the whip talk and let liz cheney our Conference Chair, who just got a resounding shot in the arm that we got a team and remember what this team is. This is the exact same team that didnt lose one seat in the last election. When i saw a lot of you write stories about whether this team would survive after we would lose 15 or 20 seats. No. We didnt lose one member. We gained. A little later this week well gain another seat as well. Well be at 213, the slimmest majority in the history of modern history for congress. You know what that means . Two years from now well win the majority because this conference is more united. We got the right Leadership Team behind it. I look forward to watching to make sure we have the right focus for this country of putting it back on track. What was the vote count . All right. Thanks, kevin. Liz. Tonight our conference rounded a really important corner. We spent hours where members on every side of this issue looked each other in the eye, aired grievances, and were very candid and honest with each other but addressed this as a family and a team and ultimately finally worked to have a vote where we kept the entire team together. We came out much stronger. Because now while weve aired those grievances everybody tonight was united. And knowing that what is happening right now on the house floor, spending today over 2 trillion on a shell budget with no real accountability for what theyre going to do with the money when there is over a trillion dollars Still Available to help people get businesses open. President biden alone in two weeks has signed Executive Orders to destroy millions of american jobs and ship those overseas. In many case s where theyll emt more carbon making the same things we used to make here in america and his climate czar admits he flies around on his own private plane emitting 40 times more carbon than on a commercial liner. The hypocrisy is very clear. The damage they are doing to our economy is very clear. Our resolve to unite and fight for the hard Working Families of this country to round the corner on covid, to get our economy back on track, to safely reopen schools, that resolve has never been stronger after looking each other in the eye, talking through the differences that we had, and finally coming back together as a stronger, united republican conference. With that our Conference Chair liz cheney. Thank you very much, whip. Thanks, leader. We really did have a terrific vote tonight, traffic time this evening laying out where were going to do Going Forward as well as making clear were not going to be divided and were not going to be in a situation where people can pick off any member of leadership. It was very resounding acknowledgment that we need to go Forward Together and in a way that helps us beat back the really dangerous and negative democrat policies. Thank you guys. Its just an example this Republican Party is a very big tent. Everyone is invited in. You look at the last election. We continue to grow and in two years will be the majority. Thank you all very much. Speaker Kevin Mccarthy there. The headline obviously that liz cheney has survived the vote that was taken on her leadership position. She is the third highest ranked republican in the house. Lets go to ryan nobles on capitol hill. What else are you hearing about what happened . Reporter we should point out what the vote total was, 145 supporting cheney. 60 against her. One voting present. That isnt really close. She truly had the support of the House Republican conference here tonight and i think we need to point out how important it was that this was a secret ballot. This really allowed republican members to vote their conscience and not have to worry about the blowback of Casting A Ballot in support of liz cheney and that somehow being interpreted as a vote against President Trump. So even though cheney did receive strong support here tonight we cannot ignore the fact that President Trump in his the former president i should say still looms very large over this conference and it will be interesting to see the juxtaposition of the vote total for liz cheney here tonight and how many republicans vote to remove Marjorie Taylor greene from those Committee Positions on the house floor tomorrow. Remember, that will be a public vote. We know who will vote for or against that. So those republicans will have to be accountable. It is quite likely here tonight that well see republicans that voted to keep liz cheney in her position but will also vote to keep Marjorie Taylor greene on those committees tomorrow even though there will be more democratic votes and she will likely be pulled off of those committees. Lets be clear. There is not going to be the republicans chose not to hold a republican vote on Marjorie Taylorgreene. They could have done that, could have had a secret vote and chosen to remove her or not from those committees. Now theyre just going to let the democrats do it and then attack the democrats. Thats a hundred percent right, anderson. Republicans could have taken this action on their own. Kevin mccarthy could have taken this action on his own. He chose not to do that for whatever reason. He talked there in the Press Conference that we just had before you came to me about how he wanted to remove her from committees. He was looking for some sort of compromise and he blamed the democrats for being belligerent on that point. The fact remains he had the option to take some action. He chose not to. Now the democrats are going to do it for him. There is still going to be an opportunity for republicans to have a voice in the process. Just because they chose not to do it in this forum they have to vote on this tomorrow and they will be held accountable for that vote either for or against it. I have to imagine there are a lot of these members of congress that represent districts President Trump won by solid margins that will be very reluctant to cast a vote in opposition to Marjorie Taylorgreene because of her close connection to the former president. For mccarthy to say they are more united, trying to get the exact words but united bigger than ive ever seen here in the past, that seems hard to believe. I dont think you are the only one having a hard time believing the House Minority leaders rhetoric as he comes out of that meeting. To his credit it is not uncommon for the republicans to have closed door meetings where they really hash it out and yell at each other about their differences but there is still a pretty big divide in this party. There are significant Republican House members that are very angry Marjorie Taylorgreene is part of their party and is going to still represent constituents under the republican banner for sometime to come. Lets not forget we are only talking about the house tonight. There is a whole flock of Senate Republicans that are have come out and very strongly denounced her role, said she should be removed from committees and so far as to say she should not be part of the Republican Party. This is a divide that maybe tonight theyre showing somewhat of a unified force. But this is a lingering problem that is going to continue to exist as republicans try and forge their way through this process. A lot of it comes down to winning elections, right . It tends to be that you can win an election as a primary candidate when you run close to president donald trump. We are now starting to see a consistent pattern outside of those strong Republican House districts that are drawn in a way that have more Republican Voters that is becoming more and more difficult to win with someone aligned with President Trump in a district or in a state that is even somewhat moderate. I mean, you dont have to look any further than the results in georgia, a republican state for a very long time, to see the outcome there. This is the future of the Republican Party. There are still a lot of people who believe it should be close to President Trump but there is still a portion of the party that believes it is time to move on. Appreciate your reporting tonight. The news continues. Want to hand it over to chris for cuomo primetime. Chris . The house gop conference just voted on ousting liz cheney from leadership for standing up against the incitement of an insurrection. Cheney survived the vote. I want you to hear the numbers. She got 145. Okay . But 61 republicans in the house voted against her for her telling the truth about the accountability of donald trump for what happened on january 6th that we just remembered last night. Those men and women were hunted, too. And yet they voted against somebody who decided to vote her
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