bianca is off today. just ahead there were a lot of chaotic meetings in the trump white house and this one was described as probably the most chaotic, the most unhinged. cnn has learned that the far right house freedom caucus did vote to remove marjorie taylor greene from the hard line group. beijing sees yellen as this voice of reason within the biden administration. she has pushed to maintain economic ties with china. twitter s newest rival is off to a strong start and in response twitter is threatening to sue. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is friday, july 7, 4:00 a.m. in washington and we begin with exclusive cnn reporting
melanie zanona has the details. reporter: cnn has learned that the far right house freedom caucus did vote to remove marjorie taylor greene, a donald trump ally, from the hard line group. this vote according to sources occurred just before the july 4th recess. in talking to my sources the reason that they voted to remove her boils down to really two reasons. one, that greene has become a staunch ally of gop leadership and specifically speaker kevin mccarthy, and, two, she has been publicly critical of a number of her house freedom caucus colleagues. she publicly criticized freedom caucus members when they didn t support kevin mccarthy for the speakership, she publicly criticized members when they didn t fall in line with the bipartisan debt ceiling deal. and the real straw that broke the camera s back according to a mefbt freedom caucus was a heated confrontation that mrgree had with lauren boebert. greene had confirmed to cnn at
keep it civil. you get the sense moderate republicans are mad about how all this went down all the concessions mccarthy had to make? it s pretty clear from what i was able to see, and who i was able to talk to, that the moderate republicans, if you can describe them as that, or frustrated to say the least. and infuriated at some point about the process they had to go through, and how their entire caucus was being dictated to, and sort of rolled, by this small, local, hard-line group, within their ranks. remember, mccarthy had gotten 200 votes, in each of these rounds of voting. and it was this very small hard-line group that itself is not a monolith. they were really dictating the entire show. and that i think sent a lot of republicans who were just looking to get past this vote, to get along with the business that they were there to do. a lot of this jobless
good job and handles his caucus well, the merits of any one member complaining wouldn t be that much of a threat. so that s one way to see in this. the other way to see it is that absolutely this group of dissidents can come up with one member at anytime who will, you know, suspend any productive work that the caucus and the chamber is doing and throw it to a vote which will take a long time, and maybe you re right, mccarthy will survive with majority support. but after every iteration of that, he will look even weaker, and the republican party and this is, again, the key to me will look weak as a whole because voters watching will not distinguish this hard-line group from the party. they will see it as a party that has no control over its members and can t meet the basic responsibilities of majority control of the house. and that s a big problem for the
iran deal in january of 2016. and the same question was asked, why would they do that? they do it to derail there s a hard-line group that does not want to see any rapprochement with the u.s., and they tend to do these things. and it s also embarrassing. look at what zarif did to macron before lining up the g7? he tries to set up this back channel meeting, and before zarif lands, he says ballistic missiles are off the table, we re not going to talk about ending subset clauses. sunset clauses. this is just what iran does. kristin: you have senator lindsey graham calling for possibly a retaliatory attack on iranian oil refineries, the type of attack that would, quote, break the regime s back. do you think that s possible? that s in the pipeline? something president reagan did back then. i think as we look at the intelligence over the next week, basically narrows where this attack comes from, we re going to be able to put pressure on the government in iraq, on