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greene. marjorie taylor greene, in a few more, we re going to have a lot of republicans running our way. isn t she amazing? oof. let s bring in punch bowl news cofounder and msnbc political contributor, jake sherman. i have to say, this is certainly a strategy that came auch the state of the union. he s really naming names when it comes to the right wing of the republican party. what more are you hearing about the strategy? is this going to become part of the strategy of the democratic party going forward? it s a good strategy in that it ties every republican or attempts to tie every republican to marjorie taylor greene. obviously she s the outlier of the party. he made those comments behind me, the house democratic retreat in baltimore. i mean, listen, to your earlier question, the main question
which kicked off yesterday. no senate leadership, just one member of house leadership, one republican governor and a very noticeable lack of potential 2024 candidates. so where is everyone? a lot of familiar names, including governor ron desantis, former vice president mike pence have opted for a rival event in florida hosted by the conservative club for growth, donald trump, who is slated to close out cpac on saturday was not invited. joining me now from the national harbor in maryland where cpac is being held is nbc news correspondent dasha burns. we know it s obvious the former president s invite did not just get lost in the mail. this is very deliberate. what is the message here? this split that we are seeing? reporter: well, we re seeing the split screen within the republican party, right? the club for growth has been sort of distancing itself from former president trump for the
anymore, until they render any kind of financial decision or make a recommendation. a lot of folks wondering what s going to happen if in fact they find anything. kevin mccarthy gave us a little bit of a clue of that last month, saying, quote, if ethics finds something, we re going to take action. at this point, that is a very real possibility with this official launch. so what does action from your reporting look like? they could do a series of things, and they could make a series of recommendations, especially if they re looking on the campaign finance side of this, there are other entities looking into his campaign finances. yes, george santos has a congressional ethics problem which he s always had, but he s also got problems at the state and local level because other entities and agencies are looking into specifically the campaign finance pieces of this, and whether what he filed was