Daily briefing this hour. Chuck schumer announces the senate has finally, nearly a month after the Georgia Senate results has finally reached an agreement to give democrats the gavels in this 50 50 chamber. Public Health Officials at the White House Strike a cautiously optimistic tone at this mornings Covid Briefings as cases and hospitalizations decline but warning about what lies ahead remain dire. Well speak with one of the white house top covid advisers about the road ahead, coming up. Well, welcome to wednesday. Its meet the press daily. Im chuck todd. Wednesdays have been pretty consequential. The sources confirmed that House Republican leader Kevin Mccarthy that they will take her off of one committee if they put a resolution not to strip her of all assignments. A moment ago the the democratic Majority Leader rejected the offer saying the house will vote tomorrow on the resolution about stripping her of all of her Committee Assignments even though it will set a dangerous precedent. These developments come on what could be one of the most important days in the Republican Partys future. Greene has come under fire for espousing dangerous and unhinged Conspiracy Theories and promoting violence against. Trump has thrown his support behind her. The other is the number three. Liz chaney who is facing pressure to step down from Leadership Post or be removed forcibly from Leadership Due to her support for impeachment. Shes expected to address the caucus later today. The pressure on chaney and the Leadership Handling over green has made it clear that much of the Republican Party, right now, remains loyal to donald trump. Despite his incitement of a siege on the capitol that threatened their own lives. Ronald reagans famous speech said its a time for choosing. Joining me now is nbc news capitol hill correspondent kasie hunt. Shes also the host of way too early weekdays at 5 00 a. M. Here on msnbc. We are in this unchartered waters which is something, phrase we probably overuse a lot these days because we keep find ing ourselves in these unprecedented situations. The house majority, it will be up to the entire house on what to do about Committee Assignments for Marjorie Taylor greene. What kind of precedent will this set . Its a tricky one. Democrats are betting the risk they are taking here is worth it. Republicans in the senate have used words like cancer and kook to describe greene. The house leader now the Minority Leader has been behind closed doors trying to talk to greene, urging her to apologize for what she has said in the past saying she should give up her spot on the Education Committee but it seems like those asks have not worked. I think youve seen that attitude from greene since the day she walked in the doors and we learned that before she took office this was the case too. She has gone straight to President Trump and tweeted her defiance. Shes called Republican Leaders like Mitch Mcconnell incredibly weak saying the only thing they are good at is losing gracefully which is a pretty remarkable statement. It seems like shes treetstreatr own leadership in the house that way too. The Liz Chaney Question is part of this. I wonder if liz chaney may end up better off. If they do this on the floor and its democrats end uptaking action, whats to stop any majority from removing any person from a committee for any reason at all. Thats the slope that they are poised at the top of. Brendan you were there when guys like steve king would become problems whether speaker ryan had to deal with them or speaker boehner. I cant believe im saying this but i feel like steve king was a more Cooperative Problem Child compared to what were seeing with Marjorie Taylor greene. Is that the way you see things . Kasie hit on something. Kevin mccarthy is trying to see if shell apologize. This is who she is. We shouldnt expect her to change. So much for the basis of doing this so swiftly early on in her time in congress is that it all most of it before she came to congress. People ingeorgias 14th Congressional District elected her. They knew she was like this and sent her here any way. Youre going to punish someone even though their voters were well aware and sent them there. That is disenfranchising them. In the house your Committee Assignments is all you have to control policy. I also really worry about the prcedent of the Majority Setting for the minority. Were entering a whole new era of dysfunction. You can bet republicans will try to dictate where democrats can serve. The king steve standard, they are holding steve king more accountable. House republicans took his Committee Assignments away. Why isnt this House Republicans willing to hold her up to a standard they created not two years ago. I wish they would. I was proud of Kevin Mccarthy when he did remove steve king. It became an accumulation of the things he had done and said. I think they probably feel this is really early on. Look, mccarthy would probably going to be forced to do this. Hes obviously not taking proactive action. Really this happening either way. Theyre doing this. I dont understand what they were trying to do by going and trying to cut a deal. Im with the republicans would do this on their own. It would avoid the precedent. Democrats moving forward with it with be really unpopular. I wonder if all of this anger will end up hurting liz chaney because members will be so fired up because they will want to take something out. I hope thats not the case. I think we should appreciate. Removing greene from her committees while it seems obvious as the right thing to do. It will be wildly unpopular in the house and most people will not be supporting it. Write down this vote. I think democrats dont feel bad about Making Republicans cast this tough vote. How many republicans will view this as a tough vote. Standing behind her wont be controversial. Why would Kevin Mccarthy want to try to avert this. While brendan is right and his experience governing was trying to figure out what to do with the right flank and whether they are called the tea party or the Freedom Caucus. They have gone through many names in the last decade or so because the people that will ultimately win back the majority in the house are people that will find this to be a tough vote. If they do want to win back the majority in 2022, they are going to have to pick up some of these seats that flipped mostly in 2018. Some of those flipped back in 2020. Obviously when President Trump pushed up turn out. We know where the Freedom Caucus is. We know where the right wing of the party is on this. This is why Mitch Mcconnell is out there being so aggressive. He knows if the Republican Party becomes the party of qanon, false flag events for School Shootings where traumatized parents are tweeting to politicians to make them stop reliving this horrible grief, if thats what people see as the Republican Party, they will not be able to win back a Governing Majority in washington. Mcconnell blames trump for the loss of his majority in georgia and in some other places and knows that if they continue down this path, thats going to be it for them. Mccarthy is in a tough spot because his conference is difference but his majority comes from the same place. If he wants to stay in charge, if he doesnt wand to cede his power to someone on the right side of his conference, we may see him choose greene over liz chaney and the people that would make a republican speaker of the house instead of Minority Leader. Very quickly, im old enough to remember that people like mo brooks and paul gossar would have potential and problems with maybe Censure Resolutions for their role in in the insurrection. That seems dead and buried at this point. Is there anybody going to pay a rice for this Capitol Insurrection other than liz chaney . No. Theres no evidence that theres any appetite for punishing anybody. Those people would see that as an opportunity, badge of honor, a way to raise money, way to become famous. Thats politics. I think kasie hit on the critical question. We saw polling out from the Trump Campaign that looked back and why did they lose. It was suburban, educated voters. The party is being dominated by increasingly crazy Conspiracy Theorists and you dont win back College Educated suburban voters by making these people the face of the party. Right now Marjorie Taylor greene is the face of the Freshman Class of house of representatives. Its a really big problem. Its a tremendous segue that you both did there. Thank you both for getting us started. I want to turn to a sitting member of the House Republican conference. Somebody who won because of the support of suburban voters. Hes republican congressman don bacon of nebraskas, probably the most famous Congressional District because its so important to the electoral college. The Second District in nebraska. What do you believe should be their futures . Chuck, its good to see you again. Were going to talk to both. We got to make sure that the statements from congresswoman taylor are wrong. The threats against the speaker are inexcusable. The talks about the School Shootings, we cant condone that. The 9 11 conspiracy. The israeli satellite starting a fire in california. I think we will make clear right up front those are wrong. I think brendan had a good point these were made before she was elected. I think she will admits they are wrong and apologizes. It will be a bit about how she responds. She was elected in this district and the statements were made before the election and thats a factor. Its also kasie made a great point. What will happen in two years when the majority as the average pick up in a term or off year is 30 seats. Are we going to go after Maxine Waters because she said people to get in their face at restaurants. Theres a bad precedent being set here. I think our conference can handle this. Well meet in two hours to get there. Liz chaney is a good friend of mine. I served with her. I admire the fact she spoke up before the 6th of january, as did i. To talk about the dangers of this vote. Its going to be a loselose. President trump had no way to victory after the 14th Of December and we should have made that clear. Said there was false hopes being sent that something could be done. I think liz chaney did a good job speaking on that and tried to let the conference now we were making a bad turn. I admire her for doing that. I dont think anybody is comfortable with this decision being punted. You seem to think that, do you believer her Committee Assignments should be at stake based on her the language she used . Do you think that would be fair punishment . She stays in congress. She was elected. Being on a committee was a privilege. Do you think that would be fair conference . Well get a chance to hear her in about two hours. I think they will be decisive in how the conference proceeds. If she admits they are wrong, shows a little humility. I think we can get through this but normally the partys themselves decide if they will seat something in committee or not. To have the Democratic Party decide who the republican will seat is a terrible precedent. They will regret it in two years. Its not the right thing to do. I think the republicans will look at this and be response based on how she will respond, i think. You found College Graduates are the Driving Force for democrat gains since 2016. A second conclusion, the gender gap between republicans and democrats is nothing new. The difference in support for Democratic Candidates averaged about 8 . In 2020 the gap did not expand but held steady around 10 as it did in 12 and 16, which is perhaps will help explain how you were able to hold on. How would you is that the best way to look at this is youre one of the examples one of the few people able to win biden voters because you clearly did. We won by 5 . President biden won by 6 . We lost suburban men. The suburban women stayed about the same. Maybe 2 more. We lost a pretty significant percentage of suburban men. My main take away is are republican conservative values ideas win. I ran on those and did well. Also, the differences is civility. This election became about values versus personality. If its going be about values and policy, the republicans will win at the national level. We did congressionally and at the local level, we did well. Suburban voters want civility and decency and i think they saw that lacking and i think that in our district, thats what i try to present to our voters. I think we did well. Well, look, Marjorie Taylor greene is already being used in attack ad against you. Youre one of the early targets. I feel like the conclusions you have reached and main Street Partnership has reached, basically run smack run right into this greene story. If shes the face of your party in this Freshman Class, i got to think thats pretty damaging for people like you in your district. We have do make a decision. Do we want to be a party of 180 bright red congressMen And Women or do we want to have 240 and 250 purple districts we hold. Thats the challenge. I believe that our values and our ideas compete well. Ive had three tough elections that came out on the right side of that. Our voters also want people with a kind and diplomatic demeanor. I think the ad youre talking about will backfire in our district. They spent 22 million in ads against me. People know the truth. I oppose qanon. I voted for it when we condemned it and i voted to certify the election. Our voters are smarter than what the Democratic Party gives credit for. Are we being naive here or you being naive . You and ben sass have come from a very red state. Youre obviously from the Swing District of that red state. Are you concerned in some primary theres a price to be paid here that youre not as combative and not as defensive of donald trump . Sgla there is a possibility of that. I try not to run in fear of a primary or general election. I try to do the right thing. I try to be as truthful as i know how. My goal is to present the values and ideas i believe in. Provide results if our district. I defeated the only incumbent democrat in 2016 that lost. We did pretty well this year. I think the truth with decency and hard work pays off. It could be a threat from the primary or the general. I cant run from fear on that. I just got to try to do the right thing. Republican from omaha, nebraska. Appreciate you coming on sharing your perspective with us. Its always a pleasure. More folks hear from all sides of these issues. I really appreciate it pch. Up ahead, the rush to vaccinate as Many Americans as possible. Can we go faster and how many more vaccines could be made available to make that happen . The Senior Adviser to the covid White House Response Team joins me next. E covid White House Response Team joins me next. 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