Actually lead to increased mortality. And the jury is still out how these vaccines are going to work against these variants. Reporter this is new day, with Alisyn Camerota and john berman. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and all around the world. This is new day. Its thursday, february 4 tth, 6 00 here in new york. A moment of revelation for the Republican Party overnight. Days ago, it was mitt romney who said, our big tent is not large enough to accommodate conservatives and kooks. Days ago, it was Mitch Mcconnell who said, loony lies and Conspiracy Theories are a cancer for the Republican Party. But last night, it was Kevin Mccarthy, the House Republican leader who said, essentially, hold my beer. No action against Marjorie Taylor greene, the qanonsupporting House Republican who endorsed the execution of democratic leaders, harassed School Shooting victims, called Mass Shootings a hoax, reportedly trafficked in antisemitic propaganda about jewish space lasers. No action. She keeps her Committee Assignments. And received an ovation from half the Republican Caucus after speaking to them last night. Today, there will be a full vote in the house about her committee posts. Republicans will have to go on the record about where they stand on this. One other note, mccarthy made the claim overnight that he doesnt even know what the Conspiracy Group qanon is. He might want to check the tape from january 6th. Some of them were the folks who invaded his office. Meanwhile, the thirdmost powerful republican in the house, congresswoman liz cheney, reportedly got an earful from her gop colleagues, but she survived an attempt to remove her from leadership, because she dared to vote to impeach former President Trump for inciting that deadly insurrection. The final vote was 14561 and it was conducted in a Secret Ballot, meaning the republicans who stood behind her can remain anonymous. So we have a lot to cover. We begin with cnns lauren fox live for us on capitol hill. Whats the latest, lauren . Well, alisyn, last night, this hourslong meeting Behind Closed Doors of the republican conference, the first big test of what the future of the Republican Party is going to be after former President Donald Trump. And you had two members whose f fates were really up to their conference. Liz cheney and Marjorie Taylor greene. One who voted to impeach the former president , the other who holds extremist views. Reporter on capitol hill, a major test for republicans. Divided over whether to continue to be the party of former President Donald Trump or to leave him in the past. After an hourslong meeting with the house gop, Minority LeaderKevin Mccarthy declining to pick a side. We just had a very good conference. Reporter House Republicans voting congresswoman liz cheney will keep her Leadership Position in a 14561 Secret Ballot vote, according to several people in the room. The thirdranking gop member under scrutiny by her colleagues, after voting to impeach trump a second time. A move cheney told cnn wednesday she does not regret. We really did have a terrific vote tonight. Terrific time this evening, laying out what were going to do going forward, as well as making clear that were not going to be divided. Reporter cheneys win, a victory for traditional republicans. And wednesdays meeting was also a major victory for one extremist member. Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor greene. Dont mess with her reporter the Freshman Lawmaker from georgia facing backlash for her support of trumps lies about the election and for social media posts from before her election, promoting Conspiracy Theories and even calls for violence. Its a crime punishable by death, is what treason is. Nancy pelosi is guilty of treason. Reporter and despite Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell calling loony lies and Conspiracy Theories a cancer for the party, mccarthy dismissed his concerns, saying the georgia congresswoman privately denounced her extremist views. She said she was wrong. She has reached out in other ways and forms. Voters decided she could come and serve. Reporter the House Minority leader also ignoring calls by democrats to remove greene from her Committee Assignments. Calling their efforts a partisan power grab. House democrats are expected to attempt to do so in a house vote later today. I respect the fact that the people of georgia voted for her. But in congress, we have a responsibility to discipline our own members for their behavior. Reporter mccarthy arguing theres space for republicans like cheney and greene within their party. Its just an example, this Republican Party is a very big tent, everyones invited in. And you look at the last election, we continue to grow, and in two years, well be the majority. Reporter some House Democrats questioning mccarthys ability to lead the gop. In the past, weve been able to allow upon the parties to police their own, but apparently the Republican Party has changed. Reporter and of course, greene actually addressed her conference, her fellow republicans, in this closeddoor meeting. We are told that about half of the conference clapped for her after she spoke. She has yet to apologize, of course, publicly. Now, there will be that vote later today on the house floor, where lawmakers on both sides on the aisle, this is an easy vote for democrats, but a harder one for republicans, will decide whether or not she should lose her Committee Assignments, because democrats control the majority. We expect it will pass. John . Lauren fox, terrific reporting. Thank you so much. Keep us posted. Joining us now, cnn political analyst, Seung Min Kim, a White House Reporter for the washington post. Also with us, ryan lizza with politico, the coauthor of the political playbook. Ryan, whats the skinny . Give us some color on what went on Behind Closed Doors overnight. The skinny is that mccarthy decided on unity above all else. And that negative partisanship, you know, hatred of the other party, is a pretty powerful drug, right . Marjorie Taylor Greene was empowered by this process. She raised money off of it. She rallied the republican conference around her, as was shown by the Standing Ovation she got in there last night, by a number of members. She did not even face a vote within the conference to expel her. She did not publicly apologize. And mccarthy after the meeting did not demand that she publicly apologize for the previous comments. Well see today if on the house floor, she says something during this other vote. So, clear victory for Marjorie Taylor greene. And a clear victory for Kevin Mccarthy, whose number one goal is to win back the majority next year. And he decided that that whatever these comments were before she was elected as a member, it was better for him to keep his conference together, turn this into a democrats are the enemy issue, right . Thats how he kind of turned the dynamic around here. And move forward with cheney and greene, inside the tent, rather than either of them outside of the tent. See, seung minu, heres the problem. It wasnt just after she was elected. When she was given the chance as recently as 24 hours to clarify her public statement, to modify it somehow, she has loudly and proudly refused to. So 24 hours ago or 48 hours ago, she still believed all of those extreme things she said, the executions of leaders of the opposing party. All of that stuff, she refused to this was on radio shows. This was on her own social media. She stands by it. So Kevin Mccarthy can, i guess, ask the public to believe him over their own ears. But no one in the public has ever heard her say that she has a different viewpoint than the viewpoint that shes expressed in all of that violent rhetoric. I mean, i think thats a really critical point here. You heard Leader Mccarthy say in the clip that you just played earlier that she forcefully denounced the comments that she had made. That she disavows them, that she disavowed the Conspiracy Theories. But we as the public are not hearing that from her. I would be interested in hearing if she does sort of make those remarks later today. But youre right, she has stood by those comments, has not disavowed them at all. So we are kind of left hanging on Leader Mccarthys word that she has disavowed them. And i think it would be really critical for her to say that in public. But just with the larger point on mccarthy, i mean, he has talked he talked last night, which republican sources tell us that it was kind of his best remarks as a republican leader, about bringing the conference together, that you can have liz cheneys and you have Marjorie Taylor greens. But the problem is, there are many other people in the Republican Party, many senior officials in the Republican Party, believe that the Republican Party should not have amore jair taylor green in their ranks. That the gop disavowed those kinds of remarks. And thats why youve seen such a different, you know, tact from, you know, Kevin Mccarthy to Mitch Mcconnell, who, as we heard multiple times earlier this morning, has called her views a cancer on the party. But mccarthy is making a clear political calculation here. He wants to win back the majority. He wants to be speaker in the year 2023. And hes Making A Broadly political calculation then perhaps a moral one for the future of the Republican Party. Until she makes a public apology or a public clarification, this is basically the girlfriend in canada, right . We dont know it exists other than the word behind the scenes. And its more important than that, also. Because of the people who believe in these things. They need to be told its not true. Else, we see what can happen. We see the dangers and the threats on peoples lives that emerge from it. Today, there will be a vote in the full house. Full house will vote about whether to strip her of her Committee Assignments. And Marjorie Taylor greene in an interview says, basically, its the obiwan kanobie defense. Strike me down, and ill be more powerful than you can possibly imagine. She said, how stupid they are. They dont even realize theyre helping me. Im pretty amazed at how dumb they are. Ryan, thats a suggestion that democrats are overstepping the line here. But republicans are going to have to go on the record today. Arent they in a bind, as well . Well, yeah, were going to have another number at the end of today. We have the number 61. Thats the number of republicans who privately voted to take cheney down from leadership, right, in the Conference Meeting last night. So how many republicans . Whats that number going to be today to strip Marjorie Taylor greene of her Committee Assignments . Will it be above 61 . I doubt it. I think it will be a much more partisan vote. Youll have a lot of republicans saying, well, whatever you think of her, her former views, we dont want to set the precedent of the Majority Party telling the Minority Party what committees their members can sit on. And theres this other principle they will bring up of comments before you were elected should not be met with the kind of Death Penalty here. And you can probably quibble with both of those things, but those are the main arguments youre going to hear, and i doubt very much that youre going to get more republicans voting to strip Marjorie Taylor greene of her committees than you got last night, of them trying to kick cheney out of leadership. And that will be a very telling contrast, right . More people trying to get rid of cheney than get rid of Marjorie Taylor greene. Maybe im wrong about that. Maybe republicans will step forward and condemn her and vote to and vote with democrats. But it seems very unlikely. It seems much more unlikely that this will be a very partisan vote. On the other hand, it will be interesting to see if there are any democrats who decide, no, we dont want to do this, because we dont want to set that precedent. Well, just to remind everybody, just one of the gems that she perpetuated. This is the violence against Hillary Clinton and president obama. There was a comment on social media that said, when do we get to hang them, Question Mark . Meaning h and o. Marjorie Taylor Greene responded, stage is being set, players are being put in place, we must be patient. This must be done perfectly or liberal judges would let them off. So in other words, you know, lets well figure out how to hang them, literally, but we have to do it carefully. And so when republicans try, sung min, well, look at what Maxine Waters once said. It wasnt executions. It wasnt physical violence. It may have been offensive comments, but it wasnt executions. A and so i thought it was interesting what jim mcgovern, democrat of massachusetts said it best, that a member of the house is calling for assassinations. Thats the new precedent. Thats the new line. So thats when the other party can try to remove you from your committees. Thats now the bar. Right, right. And the precedent issue is a really interesting one, too, as well. And youve seen just you know, for all democrats and perhaps for some republicans later today, those kind of offensive, really alarming remarks may be the final line or maybe just kind of the final draw. But it does seem like republicans are going to kind of lead on a more processed, procedural argument later today, saying we, you know, im sure a lot of republicans will Say Something along the lines of of we you know, i condemn her remarks, those are abhorrent, but we dont want to set a precedent Down The Line of removing members from committees for actions or things that they said before they were elected. We dont want to let the Majority Party dictate the Minority Partys Committee Assignments. And to me, thats not unlike a lot of the Process Arguments that Senate Republicans leaned on last week when it came to former President Trumps Impeachment Trial. You know, they may say, they disagree with the former president s behavior, what they said in his role in inciting that riot on january 6th, but they leaned on a Process Argument to kind of get themselves out of this hole. They said, we dont believe this trial is constitutional and that it shouldnt continue. That you cant go ahead with these proceedings for someone who is out of office. And it just, you know, its giving House Republicans and Senate Republicans kind of an out, rather than really confronting these issues within their own party and kind of the bigger issue writ large. So it will be really interesting to see vote counts later today, what republicans lean on just the substance of representative greene and what she represents to the Republican Party and who she represents, the politician versus again leaning on these Process Arguments and procedural arguments. All right, guys. Stand by. Kevin mccarthy made