Greene took to the floor of the house and tried to defend herself from charges that she spread lies and Conspiracy Theories. She attempted to do so by telling lies and creating a new conspiracy theory. This one blaming the news media for, quote, taking teeny tiny pieces of comments she made so as to cancel her. That is not true. That is not at all what happened. The full context of congresswoman greenes bigoted theories and stunts have been recorded for all of us to see by her. Videos, live streams. We took screen shots. Here she is on video Accosting Parkland Activist and School Shooting survivor david hogg in 2019 calling him a coward. He was a teenager at the time. Here she is trying to find muslimamerican Congresswoman Tlaib and omar, trying to force them to swear in on a christian bible. Claiming falsely that they were not legitimate democratic representatives. Heres congresswoman greenes long unhinged Facebook Post accusing the wealthy jewish family, the rothschilds, of using a space laser to cause a deadly forest fire so as to enrich themselves as well as senator feinsteins husband, richard blum. Heres greene liking a comment that called for the assassination of the speaker of the house, nancy pelosi. None of that out of context. None of that teeny tiny piece. Now, today greene said School Shootings are real. Thats a general comment that does not specifically address the social media post in 2018 in which she agreed with the crazy notion that the parkland shooting, the specific School Shooting, was a fake, planted operation. Exactly, she wrote. Today greene admits that 9 11 happened even though shes on camera in 2018 in an extensive video in which she doubted specifically whether or not a plane hit the pentagon, which, of course, it did. Todays speech just as a factual matter was an attempt to rewrite history ahead of this vote that is happening because Republican Leadership, frankly, has refused to take any action against her as normally would happen in the past. In fact, in a meeting of House Republicans yesterday, roughly half of the Republican Caucus gave greene a Standing Ovation. A source in the room tells me. Let that sink in. A Standing Ovation for an Obvious Impempirically bigoted person, antisemitic, islamophobic, and deranged Conspiracy Theories. This is about more than one member of congress. This is what her party stands for, the Republican Party and how much House Republicans will continue to embrace these lies and Conspiracy Theories. Though, of course, it, frankly, might be tough for them to push it away. Given the fact that twothirds of the house Republican Caucus went along with the lies and Conspiracy Theories about the november election. A big lie that led to the january 6th insurrection. So, given the opportunity to denounce Marjorie Greenes lies, perhaps, its no surprise that Republican Leaders have abdicated responsibility. As cnns ryan nobles reports. Reporter in a lastditch effort to save her spot on House Committees the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from georgia. Reporter republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor greene went to the house floor to ask her colleagues to give her a second chance. I was allowed to believe things that werent true, and i would ask questions about them and talk about them. And that is absolutely what i regret. Reporter in a more than tenminute speech amid a debate about her future, greene attempted to put distance between herself and the vile Conspiracy Theories she said she once believed. School shootings are absolutely real. And every child that is lost, those families mourn it. I also want to tell you 9 11 salu absolutely happened. Reporter in the past greene has promoted conspiracies such as there not being evidence a plane hit a Pentagon On 9 11 and the 2018 shooting at a Florida High School was fake or staged. Shes also promoted the qanon conspiracy. I never said any of these things since i have been elected for congress. These were words of the past. And these things do not represent me. Reporter but as recently as last december, greene defended Qanon Believers in an interview with cnn. I think its unfair to criticize regular American People that just are looking things up on the internet. Reporter during her remarks greene spent as much time attacking her detractors as she did trying to clean up her past comments. Democrats said greenes remarks were too little too late. I didnt hear anybody apologize or retract the a antisemitic and islamophobic remarks that have been made, that have been posted over and over and over again. So as you can see there, democrats were not moved by Marjorie Taylor greenes speech on the house floor today. It is very likely she will be removed from those House Committees in the next couple of hours. The question is, how Many Republicans will join their democratic colleagues to vote to kick her off those committees . At this point its pretty clear that the majority of republicans will argue that they do not want to set a precedent of a Majority Party taking minority members off committees. At this point, jake, maybe only a handful of those republicans call for her to be removed off of those committees. Its a bad precedent, but the point is usually the leaders of the party in the house take the action so it doesnt have to go to the Majority Party. Ryan, thanks so much zb. Lets discuss with two former House Republicans. Former congresswoman mia love who represented a district in utah. Former congressman Paul Mitchell l represented a district in michigan. Congresswoman love, let me start with you. I want to start with this rewriting of history were seeing today from congresswoman greene. What was your reaction . Well, first of all, you cant rewrite history. I have so much to say about this and its its not like i have any skin in the game except for my life, my childrens life, and the lives of the American People. Right . The internet is there and what you say will be used against you. And you cant just say that you didnt say it and whats important is that this is not something she was apologetic about a week ago, two weeks ago. Its when her rear end was in hot water. Now all of a sudden she wants to full back. This is what i have to say. If you do not have any friends, if you do not build any coalitions, youre not going to be able to get anything done. Things that her constituents are depending on her to do. Youre not going to be able to have any leverage or any room to have anybody help you with any legislation. Congressman mitchell, i mean, these arent comments that she made when she was 16. Comments, you know, actions that she took in college. This is just a couple years ago. And shes been, frankly, saying wild things since being elected to congress, too. Well, i think this emanates, first, from a failure of leadership to engage in the primary. They should have engaged in the primary. As you recall, i engaged in a primary where i was an initial contributor to steve kings primary opponent because of things he said and he had done. I was involved in leadership and removed steve king from committees as well as duncan hunter. The republicans should have taken action to address her long before she hit congress and they should have taken action, not had this drawnout process. This really detracted from where theyre trying to go because theyre in some manner trying to defend Marjorie Taylor greene. Shes an embarrassment to the Republican Party. Shes an embarrassment to leadership there. And you cant she failed to apologize. She failed to renounce specific things she said. Youre absolutely correct, renounce the discussion of the shooting School Shootings werent real, say it, parkland was real and im sorry. She didnt do that. Yeah. She cant do that, i believe. For that, we have a real problem. Congressman kinzinger, a source inside the room tells me, hes somebody i know both of you appreciate as standing up for what the Republican Party should be, Congressman Kinzinger took Leader Mccarthy to task, im told, from somebody in the room because he extensively for, like, maybe four minutes defenddefend defended Marjorie Taylor greene and halfheartedly defended liz cheney for maybe a couple sentences i was told. Is there not a Leadership Problem here, Congresswoman Love . Well, i said this, and i think that the im going to say it again, this is an opportunity for Kevin Mccarthy to stand up and be a leader for the Republican Party, not look to former President Donald Trump to be the leader of the Republican Party. And also, this is i find it really interesting that they went after liz cheney for a vote versus going after representative greene for comments that are really bad for the party. And the last thing im going to say about this is if it werent for congresswoman liz cheney, steve king probably would still be there. It wasnt until she became the Conference Chair that they finally stripped him of his Committee Assignments because it was bad for the party as a whole. So, i find this really interesting. Yeah. And congressman mitchell, republican Leader Mccarthy also now pretending he doesnt know what this deranged conspiracy theory, this cult, qanon, is. This is what he said in august. Let me be very clear. Theres no place for qanon in the Republican Party. I do not support it. Yesterday, he was acting as though he had no idea what was going on. Theres a it seems to me like theres a real problem in the house Republican Caucus about lies and dishonesty. Not just about qanon but also just the big election lies that you were pushing back against that so many House Republicans endorsed. Well, two comments on that. I think youre right, i think there are too many members that are afraid of the small minority of the party that are loud, that are obviously they came to the Capitol Steps and attacked the capitol. Theyre afraid to stands up and say, you know, there was no stolen election, were done with the lies, the Conspiracy Theories. The other item for you is your comment about leadership, i think, is very real. I said it on twitter just today, you cant placate all sides of this and lead. Kevin mccarthy needs to stand up and lead. He should have led on the Marjorie Taylor greene thing. He sohould have led on the issu with cheney. Somebody said shes entitled to take the vote she believes to represent herself and those people, the people she represents. They claim they had 140, 160 sign signatures on a petition. If you have them, show me the signatures then well talk about it. Talks cheap. He didnt do that. Yeah. Leadership is needed in a time of crisis. I wish both of you were still in the caucus, i wish both of you were in leadership. Thanks so much for joining us today. We appreciate it. Congresswoman love, congressman mitchell. Appreciate it. Were going to continue to watch the vote on the house sffloor a bring you updates. Also breaking today house Impeachment Managersing democrats, asking trump to testify. The former president just responded to their request. Parents, teachers, mayors, medical experts trying to get kids Back To School safely. Can that happen before teachers get vaccinated . Well take a look. Stay with us. 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We just got that response from the demand from House DemocraticImpeachment Managers that trump testify in the trial. Testimony under oath would get trump on the record about his conduct and actions surrounding his spreading of the big lie and his incitement of the january 6th capitol hill attack. This request for his testimony comes after his lawyers made claims in a legal brief that were undermined by trumps own public statements. Lets bring in cnns jim acosta. First, jim, what are trumps lawyers saying about the request that he testify . Well, theyre throwing cold water on the idea. Theyre calling it a publicity stunt. A as you were saying a few moments ago, jame b trumps spokesman is saying, no, the former president will not be testifying at this Impeachment Trial. House managers, house Impeachment Managers wanted the former president to testify because they say that this filing coming from the trump Impeachment Team a couple days ago was filled with factual inaccuracies. For example, the trump Impeachment Team was saying that the former president never tried to subvert the counting of the electoral votes on january 6th. Thats just not the case. This is what the trump Impeachment Team is saying in response to the house demo demodemo democdemo demodemo democrats. It says were in receipt of your latest Public Relations stunt. As you certainly know, theres no such thing as a negative inference in this unconstitutional proceeding. Your letter only confirms what is known to everyone, you cant prove your allegations against the 45th president of the United States whos now a private citizen. The use of our constitution to bring a purported impeachment proceeding is much too serious to try to play these games. Jake, the question is at this point whether or not House Democrats or Senate Democrats for that matter would vote to compel the testimony of the former president , i. E. , vote to subpoena the former president. He did not testify, obviously, during the first Impeachment Trial, and nor was he called to do so. They didnt have any witnesses at that fi