Country. That is a question, manu, that cannot be left unsaid, that Kevin Mccarthy went to maralago to Kiss The Ring of the former president. Marjorie Taylor Greene tweeted out a day or so after the meeting that she was on trumps side. Wearing a mask that said free speech, she said she wants to work with everybody about keeping america first, using the language of donald trump, essentially sending a message she expects to survive this. The party still talks badly about her and about the embrace of Conspiracy Theorists or at least not expunging the party of Conspiracy Theorists. A number of Senate Republicans dont like the way republicans handled this last night in which they took action on their own to make clear there is just no room for someone in the party like Marjorie Tyler green. Tom thune told he am morning that a party is, well he had raised caioncerns that the part was focused on qanon, so there is a concern here from a number of republicans about the way forward, and we heard mitch mcconnell, the republican leader, talk about her views as cancerous to the Republican Party. I asked this morning about the efforts to keep her off the committee on the house side. He did not respond. Well see if he responds after the vote today. Very important votes, plural, inside the house of representatives. We will see if that speech helps her pick up support from americans and or democrats. This is the point manu was just making, republicans fear this elevates her even more, and she has said she regrets these public comments. Brianna keilar will pick up the coverage right now. John, thank you, and lets pick up this conversation where they left off. The republican Conspiracy Theory congresswoman who has peddled lies and Conspiracy Theorists blatantly both on camera and in writing tries to pull a m mea culpa before a House Committee trying to strip her of her committee assignments. She tried to compare the media to qanon, saying theyre just as responsible. Conspiracy quackery that she once subscribed to, and let me just say that when a member of congress has to get up on the floor of the house to say that School Shootings and the attacks on 9 11 happened, that they were real, that is not the medias fault. Joining me now is our cnn chief political analyst gloria borger, also Sophia Nelson with us, House Investigative Committee counsel and adjunct professor. She said these are words of the past and we should note some of these are pretty recent, even though they werent when she was in congress, and she clearly wants to put this behind her by saying that, but did she, really . I dont think she did. I think there are going to be some republicans, obviously, who will be very, very willing to listen to her if they vote to support her, not to take her off the committees, because they could say, look, she got up there and she apologized. As you pointed out, she did not. What she said was if there were not those tweets, wouldnt be anything. Weve seen the video with david hogg about parkland, and the video where she said, did we see the plane go into the building . She is trying to make herself a Cancer Culture in the Republican Party as someone who has been canceled unfairly. At 10 30 this morning, she sent out a tweet that doesnt sound very apologetic, and she said its not just me they want to cancel, they want to cancel every republican. Dont let the mob win. Suddenly she is a symbol for republicans, and i think republicans will look and say, no, no, no, you are not my symbol for anything. What did you think . Im christian, we all want people to be forgiven, we all want people to have redemption, but this is not. Marjorie Taylor Greene represents Maya Angelous most famous quotes when she says, believe people when they show who they are. She has shown time and again that this is who she is, and i find it interesting that in the 11th hour when shes about to face consequences for her actions, now shes con ttrite. What i fear is that weve given this woman a lot of air time, a lot of oxygen over the last couple weeks, and now someone who was kind of a Whacky Georgi Congresswoman is touting the president s big lie, its lying to the people, its false equivalency, its whataboutism. Thats my fear for the future of this democratic republic. I dont know if we can withstand where half of the country or a good portion of it believes outright craziness and untruths and false equivalency, and many of us are saying, no, no, thats not right. This is a candidate who was voted in a congress by a lot of voters who was elevated by the Republican Party and the president of the United States, and i would just add this is the reality were dealing with. This is someone with a huge platform and what do you say to that . Look, the people of georgia, a sovereign state, have the right to send whoever they want to congress whether we like the person or not. I agree with that. But her platform just grew bigger, exaand this victimizati i could say so much about it that we dont have time for, and how race and gender play into this, and how shes victimized herself and made herself a vi victim, and its kind of one of those karen moments that we could talk about another time where shes taken herself as someone who is a victim when shes been very aggressive and very damaging to the Parkland Kids and sandy hook, 9 11. Thats who you are, marjorie Taylor Greene, and i think that she probably helped herself with the remarks, brianna, when she said, i think the republicans will use this and go, see, see, see, see, shes really not that bad, and it will be interesting to see what the democrats do, because theyll end up looking like the bad guys out of this because they disciplined her, as they should, for what shes said and done. What do you say about that, gloria . She got a Standing Ovation from republicans. That was remarkable to me that they spent more time last night dealing with liz cheney who took a vote of conscience than they did with marjorie Taylor Greene. I think here, and im going to say, i dont think the democrats are going to look terrible in this because what she is doing is standing up, essentially taking a page out of Donald Trumps book and saying, i am not who i am. I am not the person who said all those things on the video even though now you can watch the video, so dont believe what i said. The fact that she did not run as qanon was because she wanted to get elected. And i think that you have to take a great leap now to suddenly believe that a person who has been doing something for years has had some kind of a transplant because she is under threat and is no longer who she is. Im going to repeat, she tweeted this morning about the mob. The mob she is talking to is not the mob that invaded the capitol on january 6. The mob that she was talking about is the democratic party. And that is who she is. And so i think that if shes going to stand up there and give a speech, let her answer direct questions from members of congress about when did you stop believing that there were not jewish lasers starting fires. Right, starting fires. When did you stop believing the junk about 9 11, the junk about School Shootings . Lets talk about when you had your transformation. These are questions she has to answer, and one speech just doesnt do it. No. She talked about how she is a sinner and she has fought forgiveness, and for be it from us to get in the middle of that. She sought forgiveness from the lord, and, look, that is for her to sort out. But the judgment day that shes facing today is not before the lord, it is before the house of the representatives. Amen. Right. And she has to stand up and say qanon is destructive. Qanon is lunacy. Lets hear that. Shes not going to say that. Brianna and gloria, we agree. Im not saying she is bad, its the spin that Kevin Mccarthy disparaged little girls dont disparage little girls. Youre right, and i take that back. That they need to forgive and they have godliness in their heart, this is about accountability before unity. That needs to be the tag line we all use Going Forward until the people who ran up on our capitol and participate in qanon and do what they do, until theyre held accountable. What im saying is i didnt hear a lot of contrition. She tried to be contrite, but what she did was try and turn it on its head and say, the democrats are victimizing me, and i am now a victim which is, of course, something weve heard from donald trump for the last four years, that whenever something was wrong that he did, somehow he became the victim of the cancel culture or the democrats or whatever else, and this is just a pattern that is now repeating itself where no one gets to take responsibility for what theyve done or what they said and have to live with the consequences of it. Look, were going to see how this plays out. Well see politically how it plays out, who is up, who is down. I will say one thing for house republicans, it doesnt get easier from here. This does not get easier from here for them. 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Donald trump is no longer in office, and their argument is there is no reason for him not to testify. This letter was written by jamie raskin, who is the lead house impeachment manager, sent to donald trump, and it says, if you decline this invitation, we reserve any and all rights, including the right to establish a trial that your refusal to testify supports a strong adverse inference regarding your actions and inaction on january 6. Now, what they dont say here, brianna, is whether they would subpoena donald trump if he declines to testify. That is going to be a question Going Forward. A simple majority of senators could vote to subpoena donald trump at the Impeachment Trial, and democrats have the majority. So how far do they press this issue . Thats going to be a key question in the days ahead. They argue the reason where theyre seeking this testimony is that the president s legal teams have provided a brief this week in the view of jamie raskin. He says in this letter that there were critical facts that were inaccurate and they needed the right to provide testimony, theyre saying, under oath before or during the Impeachment Trial to discuss these facts or the facts as they were presented by trumps legal team in their brief earlier this week. So the question now is will donald trump do this . Will he appear . We had heard some rumblings that he might want to appear. We dont have any sense ofthat that is the reality at this moment. The ball is in his court, and if he did come, would that be a game changer and how far would Democrats Press it . All ahead of the trial to charge trump that he incited the insurrection on the capitol on january 6, brianna. Lets bring Kaitlan Collins into this conversation as well. Kaitlan, President Trump did not show a propensity for wanting to testify. When he was president , of course, part of his defense here is that this is not constitutional to be having this trial while he is no longer a president , and i know this news just broke that house Impeachment Managers want to call him to testify. But any sense of where he or his legal team might come down on this . Reporter so its not clear. Weve asked his legal team and those who are representing him right now if he has a response to this, so were waiting to see what it is hes going to say. But we should note this comes amid a pretty turbulent time with his legal team, because it was just a little over a week ago when his entire legal team that was supposed to be defending him in this trial resigned and walked away from the team en masse. Of course, there were several disagreements about that. One thing you noted was their effort to try to defend him on this, on the constitutionality of trying to remove a president from office once hes no longer in office. I was told by sources that the president wanted them to argue that he had actually won the election, so the statements made that incited that january 6 riot are not founded, which, of course, they are. The question is whether he will show up and give testimony under oath to these democrats, to these Impeachment Managers. This is something he normally would tweet about. Of course, he doesnt have access to twitter so were waiting to hear from representatives. Last year during the first Impeachment Trial, he had flirted with the idea of going to capitol hill to defend himself. And his legal team talked him out of it. That was the white house counsel, jay sekulow, other attorneys that were part of that big team. None of them are around this time, so its unclear what advice these two new attorneys that were just brought on the team just days before the briefs were due will give advice to the president , what they will say, whether or not this is an idea he will entertain. I should note that sources who spoke with the president say he has been pretty checked out of this process. He hasnt been as involved as you thirnk he would be as to wht this would look like as he doesnt think they should vote to convict him, but well listen to see what they have to say in response. Laura coates, what are your thoughts as you hear these news, that the democratic Impeachment Managers want former President Trump to testify under oath at his trial . Well, of course, its important to think about what theyre trying to prove here, and part of what theyre going to need to show is intent. They need to show this was not protected speech, brianna, that it was intended to incite violence, that he had the intent to imperil the government. The best thing is to get it out of the horses mouth. What did you intend to do . What were your actions . But that would be for someone who would be transparent. Remember, hes a private citizen now, but if he were amenable to it, i suspect he would try to rely on the privilege that may have been available to him as the president of the United States in terms of being able to have deliberations with people who are his advisers, Executive Privilege he may try to assert as well. But it shows you the intent that th