A, quote, cancer to the Republican Party. Question is, will we see action against her in the house . And a key day in the second impeachment of donald trump. Today is the deadline for his formal response to the charge against him. Question is, whats his defense . Its way too early for this. Good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that has some fond memories of bayside high. Weve really missed you, screech. Im kasie hunt on this tuesday, february 2nd. Well start with the news. Its looking more and more likely that democrats will push through the Biden Administrations nearly 2 trillion Economic Relief package with or without republicans. The president met with a group of Senate Republicans for about two hours in the oval Office Yesterday to pitch their much smaller 600 billion package. But the message from the white house is that it doesnt meet the moment. Senator Susan Collins said the meeting was very productive and cordial, but when it comes to striking a compromise, the sides are far apart and the white house says the president is not going to delay the aid to try and win over republican support. Meanwhile, democrats on the hill have already started the process that would allow the bill to pass with only democratic votes. Yesterday, White House Press secretary jen psaki was asked exactly what the president would consider to be bipartisan. Would you consider a Bill Bipartisan if it doesnt have any republican support in congress but it has, you know, support among Republican Voters . Well, i think you touched on an interesting point, which is that 74 of the public, according to recent polls, supports this package. And the key opponents of this package. Democrats and republicans we just saw the republican governor of West Virginia come out earlier today and advocate for a big package. So, you know, when the president talks about unifying the country and bringing the country together, hes not suggesting that he is going to make one party out of the democratic and republican parties in congress, but he is meeting with republicans today, ten republicans who have sent this letter, because he feels they made a goodfaith effort to put the top lines of a proposal forward and he wants to have that engagement and encourages that sharing of ideas. And were going to get to more on the president s relief plan when Top White House economic adviser Jared Bernstein joins morning joe coming up later on this morning. And in the wake of mounting controversy, Senate Minority leader Mitch Mcconnell is condemning congresswoman Marjorie Taylor greenes outlandish antics and claims. Mcconnell released a statement yesterday on the republican lawmaker from georgia. The statement reads, quote, looney lies and spiros theories are cancer for the Republican Party and our country. Somebody who suggested that perhaps no airplane hit the Pentagon On 9 11, that horrifying School Shootings were prestaged, and that the clintons crashed jfk jr. s airplane is not living in reality. This has nothing to do with the challenges facing American Families or the robust debates on substance that can strengthen our party. Greene later responded via tweet. She wrote, the real cancer for the Republican Party is weak republicans who only know how to lose gracefully. This is why we are losing our country. Okay. Meanwhile, House Democrats are mounting an effort to strip congresswoman greene of her committee assignments. If Minority LeaderKevin Mccarthy doesnt do it first. A group of democrats introduced a resolution yesterday that would remove greene from the house education and Labor Committee and the house budget committee. Tomorrow, the rules committee is expected to meet to consider the resolution that is the first step in moving this to a vote on the house floor. A source tells nbc news that House Majority leader steny hoyer spoke to mccarthy, the Minority Leader, yesterday, and told him he needs to take action about, do something about congresswoman greene. Hoyer released a statement saying, quote, it is my hope and expectation that republicans will do the right thing and hold representative greene accountable, and we will not need to consider this resolution. But were prepared to do so, if necessary. Congressman greene hit back in another tweet yesterday, writing, quote, if democrats remove me from my committees, i can assure them that the precedent they are setting will be used extensively against members on their side once we regain the majority after the 2022 elections. And congresswoman greene is touting support from at least one person. You guessed it, former president donald trump. Greene boasted on saturday that she had spoken to trump over the phone and in an interview with one American News yesterday, she went a step further, saying that they would soon be meeting facetoface. Im excited to go visit him soon and continue to give him a call and talk to him frequently. Great news is, he supports me 100 , and ive always supported him. President trump is always here for the people and hes not going anywhere, so i look forward to joining him and what his future plans may be. Joining us now, cofounder of punch bowl news, jake sherman, an msnbc political contributor as well. Jake, good morning. It is always great to have you here. This is, of course, the week that mccarthys supposed to meet with greene to try and do something about this. Im curious what your take was on Mitch Mcconnells statement, the fact that he put it out at all the way he put it out, what he said. Is it intended as a signal to republicans across the capitol to actually do something, or is there Something Else going on here . Yeah, you know, kasie, ive been trying to figure this out. I mean, i have gotten we note in punch bowl this morning that, was this coordinated with mccarthy . We dont have any idea at this point whether it was coordinated with mccarthy. Neither side will answer that question. But this is incredibly rare, to see mcconnell weigh in on this kind of House Republican internal politics. He also weighed in on behalf of liz cheney, the House Republican conferencewoman who was under House Republican conference chairwoman who was under criticism for supporting Donald Trumps impeachment. So, put these two things together, kasie, Mitch Mcconnell is taking a more active role, so to speak, after four years of donald trump, a more active role in trying to right the Republican Party in his estimation, it seems. But incredibly rare here. And the real question to me is what will mccarthy do . Like, the behavior Margery Taylor green Marjorie Taylor greenes behavior is unacceptable to everybody, making antisemitic comments, saying jews have a laser in space to start fires is ridiculous. This is not the kind of behavior, the kind of rhetoric you would expect to hear from any sane human being, let alone a member of congress. So, what will mccarthy do here . I mean, that needs to be the question of the week, and thats what were looking out for early on this week. Well, and of course, the reality is, he and others didnt do very much to try and stop her from winning this seat back when they had a chance in the primary. They decided that being hands off was the best way to go there. You have to wonder if theyre reevaluating that decision. And of course, jake, all of this splintering in the Republican Party makes it in some ways harder for them to actually negotiate with democrats on this massive bipartisan bill thats coming down the pike. Some of the people that went to the white house yesterday have also denounced greene. They come from a different place entirely. Mitt romney, Susan Collins were at this meeting yesterday at the white house. What is your sense of what the administration wants to do here . And do you think its the same thing as what Chuck Schumer and democrats in Congress Want to do . Do you think that the Biden Administration is more interested in spending time getting these republicans on board than, say, schumer and Progressive Democrats that hes trying to keep happy . I think bidens trying to will the senate, kasie, to a period that you and i know its not in, right . I mean, these republicans are 1. 3 trillion apart from senate democrats. So, unless we believe that democrats are going to writ large, en masse, pair back their demands and decide that they are now for a 1 trillion deal, instead of a 2 trillion deal, i just dont see this happening. I think republicans are looking for a Palate Cleanser from the administration, and many of them want to try to legislate with biden early on while ground is still fertile, and i think thats what this is about. Well, we shall see. It seems like theyre moving as quickly as they can here, which in washington seems slow to everyone else, but you and i know that doing a bill like this in a month, month and a half is a pretty quick timetable. Punch bowl news jake sherman, thank you, as always, my friend, for being up early with us. We really appreciate it. Still ahead, Major League Baseball looks like it will get under way sooner rather than later after the Players Association rejected a proposal to delay the start of the season. 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The union did not make a counteroffer to the leagues plan, which would have pushed back the start of Spring Training from February 17th to march 22nd, delayed opening day from april 1st to the 28th, and cut eight games from each teams regularseason schedule. The mlb also proposed expanding the playoffs to include 14 teams, instead of 10, extending the Designated Hitter to the National League for a second straight season, and keep the experimental rules for seveninning doubleheaders and beginning extra innings with a runner on second base. In a statement, the Players Union said it did not make this decision lightly, adding, quote, we appreciate that significant challenges lie ahead and we look forward to promptly finalizing enhanced health and safety protocols that will help players and clubs meet these challenges. The league issued a Statement Last night, saying its instructing teams to report on time, writing in part, quote, our 2020 season taught us that when the nation faces crisis, the National Game is as important as ever, and there is Nothing Better than playing ball. We were able to complete a 2020 season through hurricane lean efforts and sacrifices made by our players, club staff, and mlb staff to protect one another. We will do so again together, as we work towards playing another safe and entertaining season in 2021. And in the first coronavirusrelated issue ahead of sundays super bowl, the defending champion Kansas City Chiefs have placed Wide ReceiverDemarcus Robinson and backup Center Dan Kilgore on the reserve covid19 list due to close contact with an infected person. The players could still be activated for the big game against the tampa bay buccaneers, if they return negative tests on five straight days. We wish them health. Lets go now to the nba and last nights matchup between the Detroit Pistons and denver nuggets, which was postponed minutes before tipoff, because Contact Tracing left detroit without the leaguerequired eight available players for the game. It marks the 23rd Nba Contest postponed so far this season. Espn reports the pistons were watching pregame film when they learned the game would be postponed because one of their players returned a positive or inconclusive test. Sources tell the network that the team remained in denver to retest players before departing for Salt Lake City where theyre expected to face the utah jazz tomorrow. All right, time now for the weather and theres a lot of it. Lets get to meteorologist bill karins for a check on the forecast. Bill, looks like you got a lot of snow there, and there are some others up in the northeast who are still getting it this morning. Yeah, kasie, im sour this morning. I just heard the plows go by. Ive already done the end of my driveway three times. And you know, then the plow goes by again and just pushes more there. And its going to be one of those days. Yeah, 20 inches in my front yard. But heres the highest totals state by state. Mendham, new jersey, with 30 inches, about a half hour from me. Lords valley, 28, rye, new york, 22, danbury, connecticut, 19, and maryland, sabillasville, never even heard of them before 19 inches of snow. Top 20 alltime snowstorm for central park, 16. 8 inches. Hartford almost a foot. Philly had about half a foot. Were adding it up still in albany. Boston was too warm, mostly rain mixed in right along the coastal areas. Interior sections did a lot more. So, we still have temperatures in the 20s and low 30s. We still have areas of blue. Thats light snow out there through many regions, even around washington, d. C. , this morning and philadelphia. We could see an additional coating to an inch in the areas of white, and when we get to the blue and the pinks, thats the heavier snow. Thats mostly going to be confined to Northern New England and areas of maine during the day today. So were almost done with this storm, but we will see a lot of light snow and snow showers during the day today. The rest of the countrys looking pretty nice in the middle of the country. Look at denver today, almost 60 degrees and sunny skies. Beautiful in dallas, too. But that storm in the northwest is going to move across the country in the next couple days. And here we go, kasie. Our european Computer Model over the next seven days pinpointing areas of purple with the potential for heavy snow. That would be in the great lakes on thursday and the possibility of a noreastertype storm in new england as we go through super bowl sunday, especially sunday night into monday. Well have more details on that as we go throughout the week. Lets get done with this first one. Yeah, for real. Never a dull moment. Bill karins, thank you so much, my friend, and good luck shoveling your driveway yet again. Still ahead, with a senate trial looming, Presi