Joining us to start this off, monica alba, across the street from the white house, and nbc news correspondent Garrett Haake on capitol hill. Lets begin with you. Amid the new controversies and calls for Resignations Swirling around Marjorie Taylor greene, weve just learned that missouri Congresswoman Corey Bush moved her office after she said greene berated her and her staff in a hallway. How long can leaders ignore these issues being brought up by Marjorie Taylor greem . Yeah. A pretty disturbing report there. Marjorie Taylor Greene has responded with a video that she claims is of the incident. A selfie style video in which she can be heard yelling back and forthwith someone who we dont see on camera. So its not entirely clear whats going on here. The lack of response from Republican Leadership is the thing to watch. The resolutions about censure or expulsion. Other things that have been raised in discussions of miss greene are not going to go anywhere unless Republican Leadership dec
Trump which enraged wyoming constituents leading to a credible primary challenge. Those detractors argue leadership should speak with one voice but they were outnumbered 145 to 61. Republicans emerging from the vote saying they are more united than ever. They strip marjorie to the green of her committee assignments. Democrats refuse the Deal Mccarthy says was aimed at taking the temperature down but tonight they disavowed youanon, space later starting the 9 11 wildfires, tonight mccarthy asking why democrats are allowing Eric Swallwell to stay on the committee. The speaker has that appointment. She and i were both down in the skiff and heard the fbi was no way what i ever leave him on intel or homeland. I question if he should still be in congress. Shannon White House Correspondent kevin cork hits things off with a busy day. It has been a busy one. Reporter mistakes happen and we are all guilty of blowing it from time to time but to make what appeared to many to be a homophobic tweet a
Leadership position because of her recent vote to impeach donald trump. The Secret Ballot vote 14561. The full house will vote tomorrow under the control of the democrats, remember, On Whether To Kick Greene off her committees budget and education. Greenes past comments include but arent limited to her view that School Shootings were staged, clintons murdered john f. Kennedy jr. , theres no evidence that plane hit the Pentagon On 9 11. Goes on into violence against democrats and rabid antisemitism. Marjorie Taylor Greene is totally out of control. Why would Kevin Mccarthy continue to associate himself and republican conference with someone who leader Mitch Mcconnell has characterized as a cancer. P last time i checked, cancers need to be cut out and not allowed to metastasize. Republican Leader Mccarthy issued a statement after his meeting with greene this evening condemning her past statements, and went on to accuse the democrats of course of fuelling the controversy by scheduling the
That was so controversial they forced a secret vote on whether to keep her in power, a vote cheney ultimately won by a lot. Meanwhile congresswoman greene who built her public reputation as a supporter of anti semitic Conspiracy Theories and straight up Political Violence she got the opposite treatment. Republicans publicly rallying around her after she reportedly apologized for some of her past statements. Democrats are not so forgiving. They are going to force a vote on the House Floor Today that could strip greene of her committee assignments. I want to start with Garrett Haake on capitol hill. What are we going to see with this vote today . Reporter some of that will depend on how congresswoman greene chooses to handle herself going forward. Ill be curious to see if the apology she made Behind Closed Doors to republicans is the kind of thing she might repeat on the house floor in public. We do expect this vote to go forward this afternoon stripping her of committee assignments. Dem
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