Today in the broader house regarding Marjorie Taylor greene . Democrats have the majority. We have at least one republican saying theyre vote to remove. So it seems Fait Accompli for her. Reporter this is something hardly ever done. The house taking action to strip a member of an opposing partys Committee Assignments. That is something that could create a precedent that future majorities could certainly replicate. But the democrats say they have to move forward now because of the dangerous views that Marjorie Taylor greene has expressed over her last couple of years, whether it is about the massacres at the Parkland High School in florida, or if it is about the promoting the qanon conspiracy theory. They say there is no room on congressional committees for her and it is time for the house to act. And that is exactly what they will do this afternoon. A simple majority will vote to remove her from the House Budget Committee and the house education committee. Now this came after the republicans refused to take action themselves. The republican leader Kevin Mccarthy tried to offer a compromise of sort, Swap Committees and the democrats said that was not good enough. They wanted her off all commit i yz altogether. And last night during the more than four hour Conference Meeting, a small portion focused on Marjorie Taylor greene. Mostly about liz cheney. But Marjorie Taylor greene walked back some of her views and Kevin Mccarthy who talked to us late last night suggested that that is good enough for him. She said she was wrong. She has reached out in other ways and forms. I think everybody should hear that. She has expressed that shes put it out from News Agencies and others. I think it would be helpful if you could hear exactly what she told all of us. Denouncing qanon, i dont know in i say it right. I dont know what it is. Reporter and he does know what it is. He said that qanon has no place in the Republican Party. He said that before and not last night. But the republicans did appreciate what she said privately. They applauded her and stood up and gave her a round of applause, im told but say number of them i talked to afterwards including mccarthy said she should say it publicly and denounce the things she said privately. No indication that she will do that and democrats regardless are moving ahead. So lauren, what is interesting is mccarthy standing up for Marjorie Taylor greene, like she doesnt really mean it or any this any more. But that is . Stark contrast to what she tchoe to tell the Washington Examiner in an interview. This occurred before the Conference Meeting last night. But i do think that is important to read you sort of what her mindset was going into that Conference Meeting. She said, quote, and House Minority leader Kevin Mccarthy and the leadership and everyone is proving that they are all talk and not about action and theyre all just about Doing Business As Usual in washington. And so what is the difference between them and the democrats. There isnt a difference. She also goes on to say if shes going to lose her committees, she is going to have more spare time to help try to foster an environment where conservatives could win in some of the house races. She said, quote, im going to push the party to the right of where it is, where they need to be and hold these people accountable and help people all over the country, hold them accountable because that is what needs to happen. Now we should underscore that this meeting yesterday that went about four hours was intended to try to bring about some unity for the republican conference. When mccarthy came out, he talked about the unit and being port to the future of the party. He said this is a big enough tent to include both Marjorie Taylor greenes views and liz cheneys views and i think that this interview underscores one of the pieces of that Going Forward which is that you have a house member who clearly thinks that her views should be the future of the Republican Party. Jim and poppy. A big enough tent to include people who lie about the results of the 2020 election and those who dont. It is as simple as that. Manu, so liz cheney, there clearly werent the votes to remove her. Far fewer than in the Freedom Caucus thought that they had or said that they had. Path forward for her in leadership . That is a big question. Lets say what happens in 2022, the republicans take the majority and there is a good chance that they could win the majority next year. Where does she lie at that point. Kevin mccarthy will run for speaker and will she have enough support to stay in the leadership position. That remains to be seen. This is what one thing about last night this is a Secret Ballot election. That means members could vote however they want without any accountability. I talked to dozen more than a dozen members after the meeting and they would not tell me which way they voted. Which is also showing you that not a lot of them we know that donald trump came after liz cheney pretty aggressively for her vote to impeach him but the members realize they dont have toy one way or another how they came down because their vote is not record and they have the freedom to whatever they want. At the end of the day. Liz cheney could maybe survive another leadership challenge but it could change dramatically in the next year, guys. And how much of that was because it was a Secret Ballot, right. Thanks, manu. Thanks, lauren. Lets discuss with former gop governor and congressman from South Carolina mark sanford. It is nice to have you. Thank you for joining us. My pleasure. You wrote a really interesting oped yesterday. Well get to that in a minute. But building off the conversation we just had with our colleagues, who represents the future of your party . Liz cheney or Marjorie Taylor greene . Well, that is the big contest in washington, d. C. And well see. My suspicion is that yesterday represented something of a waterloo moment with regard to trumpism within the caucus. I think the cheney vote was telling and though it was secret you still look at a twothirds on the side of cheney, onethird against. And given all of the hoopla that had been made by some of the Freedom Caucus members on cheney needing to go, the fact that she stayed and more importantly that the fact that mccarthy made the stand, i dont know how his brain is working these days. One minute hes on the trump side and then against the trump side and then for the trump side. Isnt that what politicians do . I hope not. Ideally there are some principles worth fighting for they have some duration more than five or ten minutes. But the fact that he made the statement that did he knowing that would be a publicly received message from donald trump, i think was telling. And so i think there is a little bit of hope in the water. Well see. All right. So your piece yesterday was super interesting. And you called on your party to recognize as a return to the things we once stood for but in the same breath you said we couldnt go back. And you called for a tone that is not tone deaf. A reembrace of reason and you called on people to reembrace science and reembrace math. Are they going to do all of these things . Is there political reward for doing that . There hasnt been over the last four years. I mean, i think there that has been sort of a strange fever existing within the Republican Party that i still dont completely understand. I understand its basis, its origin, which is going back to what you said a moment ago, what politicians do, one thing and then the other. And people got sick of it on the right. And what Republican Base has been told if you have just giving you the house well have deliverables for you. But if you just give us the senate well have deliverables for you. But then if you just give us the white house and they got sick of it. And so i understand the origin of the frustrations but the way in which trump harnessed it i think was extremely dangerous and created within the party and now based on Cheney Versus Greene Question before us today is do we go back to the origins of what made the parry great and a bast of conservative thought within the debate that is important or stay on this weird island that were on right now. I hope we quickly head back to the places that i think brought the party to prominence. So, you obviously disagreed with President Trump on a lot. And so you ran against him. And but now it is pretty clearly the party of trump. Hes holding a lot of the power still even from maralago if you look at the poll numbers. What do you think . Would you make another run for it if the Party Remains like that . Well, again, my run was never a real run. It was the buddies that brought it up, theyve already invested 25 years in your life. For sure. But for standing for something different, i guess. Right. But their point was what is another couple of months if you might and it is only might, be able to elevate the debt and Deficit Spending issue not a part of the National Debate on the republican side and i think that is tragic and i think it is wrong and a mistake. And so that was the attempt and it was a total waste of time. But i think that other people certainly need to run against the current trumpism element because i think it is leading us in a direction that is a problem for my four boys, i think in the political sense it leads us to some sort of desert that we are into the coming back if. You look at the peel off with suburban women or young millennials, there are some astoundingly bad things happening in political terms in addition to policy terms that suggest we ought to take a different path. Well they cant say they werent warned bia number of people and you. It is very good to have you, mark sanford and i encourage people to read your piece. It is good to hear those voices. Ahead well speak to bill cassidy who backed up Mitch Mcconnells decision to rebuke Marjorie Taylor greene. What he thinks about mccarthys decision to punt on this. Plus it is an issue so many parents are facing. Im sure many of you are watching right now. Home schooling and working at the same. 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When that happened the cdc got in contact with the u. K. To continue investigations into this specific variant. So this is being looked at directly. And here is what cdc director dr. Rochelle walensky had to say about this in particular. Have a listen. We know that some of the variants have increased transmissibility. There is increasing data that suggest that some of the variants, the b117 variant may increase lead to increased mortality. And the jury is still out with regard to how these vaccines are going to work with regard against these variants. So you see, jim and poppy, there are still many questions left to answer. Again, looking at the death rate and how deadly the variant might be, and again looking at vaccines. And how effective are vaccines against not just the b117 variant but against other variants as well. So this is something the that cdc is looking into closely. That is the headline i think were being left with here. And all of the data is coming in in realtime. The cdc director dr. Walensky also made this argument. She said that vaccinating teachers and school staff, though a good idea, not a prerequisite for schools to reopen safely. Tell us what theyre basing this on . Yeah, this has been somewhat of a debate. And it sounds like what theyre basing this on, there has been a new study that was just put out by the Rockefeller Foundation that shows how if certain measures are followed, Wearing Masks, physical distancing, and testing, Rapid Antigen Testing and then we could see a significant decline in covid19 in schools and that provides a certain level of protection which could help ease concern around getting vaccinations done more quickly. That is what i believe theyre basing this approach on. This study specifically found that if antigen testing is put in place weekly for all students and staff and teachers, there could be a 50 reduction in infections in high schools. 35 reduction in primary schools. Jim and poppy. That is good data. We know it works. And it is good to see that something does. Jacqueline, howard, thank you very much. Joining us now, dr. Mark lapel, director of the Duke Margolis center and former commissioner of the fda and sit on Johnson Johnson board of directors. Good to be with you. I would like to focus on the good news and i just want to get your sense of where things stand. I mean vaccinations do seem to be picking up. This is the key to ending this thing. Dr. Fauci said he wont be surprised if the j j vaccine gets Emergency Authorization soon. Biden administration is directing shipments to private pharmacies to get more people out there that could vaccinate us. Where do you see this going . Do you see the number of vaccination picking up and soon . Yeah, the ramp up is underway and we need to make more progress. As you said, were picking up the number of vaccines being administered daily up to an average of about 1. 3 million per day, more than 35 million americans have now been vaccinated including a lot have gotten the second shots. We do need to make it go faster, though, to stay ahead of those variant strains and to really help contain the pandemic. If you look ahead, the doses available, the pfizer and moderna vaccines are supposed to reach 100 million each by the end of march, plus if the j j vaccine does come online and as you mentioned im on the board, that is still in process and still needs a close review by the fda an that could happen soon and that could mean 300 million more doses available in the next quarter. Now if we were going to pick up the pace to use all of the vacs, it would be available by may or june, just about all adult americans could be vaccinated by the may june time frame but we