Joining us this hour. Heres an interesting thing. Sort of a personal thing, but also a news thing. Right before President Trump was impeached the first time, i published a book called blow out and the weird surprising to me thing about blow out is that tended up being oddly well timed. I had no idea it was going to be well timed when i set out to write it, but thats how it landed. It was a book about the Oil And Gas Industry and the political power and geopolitical power of that industry. And a big chunk of that book was about all of the craziness and Corruption In Ukraine. And of course, then, right at the time the book came out, all the craziness and Corruption In Ukraine ended up being the setting, like the Playing Field for what President Trump got impeached for the first time he got impeached. I did not intend it to land that way. It was fortuitous and i hope helpful to people trying to figure out that landscape while we were looking at that first impeachment. Now, of course, mr.
Proving once and for all there is no real civil war between the trump republicans and the establishment bush era holdovers. If there ever was, its over. One side absolutely walloped the other. Not only did the republicans not discipline this member, according to reports. A lot of people in the caucus apparently gave her a Standing Ovation. A division in the party has been amplified because of two contentious figures that the gop house caucus has been trying to figure out what to do with. Now, the first is georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor greene. Representing the trump republicans, much of the Republican Base, she is a wealthy Construction Heiress who shifted her district to a district she didnt live in and spreading insanely violent conspiratorial nonsense on the internet. Rothchild jewish lasers started California Wildfires and support for executing prominent democrats including Speaker Pelosi. Just today mother jones reported she was a moderator featuring Death Threats and racis
All about the craziness and Corruption In Ukraine. And of course, then, right at the time the book came out, all the craziness and Corruption In Ukraine ended up being the setting, like, the Playing Field for what President Trump got impeached for the first time he got impeached. I did not intend it to land that way. It was foretuittous, and i hope, helpful to people trying to figure out that landscape while we were looking at that first impeachment. Well, now, of course, mr. Trump is being impeached for a second time, and its kind of uncanny a lot of the things that i wrote about in that book that came out during the first trump impeachment. Theyre sort of coming home to roost now. The whole reason i wrote that book is because i think we were pretty consistently underestimating the sway of this one industry, how much sway the Oil And Gas Industry has over politics and whole governments, both here in the United States and around the world. And so, i thought it would be helpful. I thoug
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
She cant ignore the literal elephant in the room, the gop. Thats because right now republicans face a reckoning. It centers on two key figures representing two directions for the party. Congresswoman Marjory Taylor greenes comments are putting her party on the spot. Today, lawmakers will have to go on the record over whether or not to strip her of her committee assignments. In the next hour, the white house or rather, the house will start proceedings to make that happen. When it comes to conference chair liz cheney, republicans were okay saying one thing about her publically after she voted to impeach former President Trump but in a closeddoor meeting last night, a majority voted to keep her in a position of leadership even after her break with the former president. More on that in moments. Right now, the white house is trying to keep the focus on Foreign Policy. That includes a trip to the State Department and President Bidens first major policy remarks since taking office. In 30 minu