And one that cowers in fear of its apparently extremist base. The sad truth is that democrats in congress had to discipline Margie Q Greene because House Minority leader Kevin Mccarthy was unwilling to do so himself. Mccarthy was willing to hold a Secret Ballot on the fate of republican congresswoman liz cheney, his own third in command who received a resounding if anonymous show of support to remain in Republican Leadership last night but he couldnt muster the courage to reject the qanon congresswoman. With this vote tonight, house republicans, many of whom stood up and gave Greene A Standing Ovation in a caucus meeting yesterday will now be defined as supporting someone who backed calls for assassinating Speaker Nancy Pelosi and threatened the nonwhite Women Members of the squad in social media ads. She promoted an antisemetic and Islam Mow Phobic video that had been reportedly circulating among neonazis. It claimed a, quote, unholy alliance of leftists, capitalists and zionist supre
Lets go straight to capitol hill, our congressional correspondent, ryan nobles is watching all this unfold. We have heard a lot of powerful debate going back and forth on representative greene. So explain to our viewers where things stand right now, ryan. At this moment, wolf, were just awaiting the vote on the house floor that will determine the fate of Marjorie Taylor greene. This is a vote of the entire house. A simple majority will be enough to remove her from both the education and Labor Committee as well as the budget committee. And this vote comes after a lengthy amount of debate from both republicans and democrats, making their case as to why she should stay on those committees and why from the democrats perspective, Sheh Hshould Beple off those committees. The most dramatic moment happened just a few moments ago where the House Majority leader steny hoyer came to the house floor with a big picture of a tweet that was once set out by Marjorie Taylor greene. Listen to what he ha
There was none of that for congresswoman Marjorie Taylor green who for years has spread lies and conspiracies rooted in bigotry. Greenes no longer the outlier in her party and the pervasive spread of lies, much of it on social media, has trickled down to exploit fears. When President Biden was sworn in i was just crying. I mean, i couldnt stop. It was that ugly cry that you do, just kept going. I was like, oh, my gosh, im seeing the funeral of our country. I went into panic mode. I called my mom and i told her, were all going to die. Were going to be owned by china. I might have to pull my daughter o you the of school because theyre going to take her. I was scared to death. Thats someone who does not believe the lies anymore but she wasnt forced to confront reality until trump left office. The spreads of qanon and likeminded conspiracy groups have left those outside the party looking in. So today republicans will have to go on record about what kind of party they want to have. More fro
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Country. That is a question, manu, that cannot be left unsaid, that Kevin Mccarthy went to maralago to Kiss The Ring of the former president. Marjorie Taylor Greene tweeted out a day or so after the meeting that she was on trumps side. Wearing a mask that said free speech, she said she wants to work with everybody about keeping america first, using the language of donald trump, essentially sending a message she expects to survive this. The party still talks badly about her and about the embrace of Conspiracy Theorists or at least not expunging the party of Conspiracy Theorists. A number of Senate Republicans dont like the way republicans handled this last night in which they took action on their own to make clear there is just no room for someone in the party like Marjorie Tyler green. Tom thune told he am morning that a party is, well he had raised caioncerns that the part was focused on qanon, so there is a concern here from a number of republicans about the way forward, and we heard