Im erin burnett. Out front tonight, the breaking news. Shes out. Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor greene has officially been removed from both the education and budget committees. Those Key Committees. But only 11 republicans made a move for her to lose that position. Only 11 Republicans Holding her accountable for her fringe Conspiracy Theories and dangerous rhetoric. These 11 include Adam Kinzinger and brian fitzpatrick. They joined 219 democrats who Vote Today Strip Greene from her assignments object the education and budget committees. Let me just do the math for you. What that means is that 199 republicans looked the other way when it came to punishing greene for her bigoted and deranged comments and views. They represent nearly every state. They include Kevin Mccarthy and liz cheney, the number three House Republican. These elected officials gave greene and these comments their stamp of approval. The socalled plane that crashed into the pentagon, its odd, there is never any evidence
The School Shooting survivor she harassed. David hogg will join us next hour. Instead, she seems to blame some giant, mystical force that allowed her to believe it all and repeat it all and lie all over the place. And that leads us right to the second trump Impeachment Trial. House managers making a highstakes gamble, asking the former president to testify. Mr. Trumps defense Team Shooting down that idea. And breaking this morning, moments ago, Vice President Kamala Harris cast a tiebreaking vote to pass a Budget Resolution that allows President Bidens 1. 9 trillion Coronavirus Relief package to go forward without republican support. Joining us now, cnns senior political reporter, niamalika henderson, and cnn political analyst, david gregory. And nia, you say, Marjorie Taylor greene, while she lost her committee assignments, you say qanon won and keeps winning. Why . I think thats right. Even if you listen to her words in that speech, at some point, she equates the media with qanon, an
Attack unlike any weve seen in our lives. The managers case straightforward and comments by his violence supporters to show he instigated the attack and plan to rebut the notion a president cannot be tried after leaving office. As for the defense, well, their brief begins with a mistake, a pretty sloppy one at the top of page one as you see there, the lawyers misspelled United States. Those are the ex president s lawyers. From there they argue an ex president cannot be convicted on constitutional grounds. In addition, they make a claim thats easily disproved, reading from their brief quote it is admitted that after the november election, the 45th President exercised his First Amendment right under the constitution to express his belief that the Election Results were suspect. The brief goes on to say quote insufficient evidence exists upon which a reasonable juriest could conclude the 45th President s statements were accurate or not and thereafter denies they were false. Insufficient ev
Want to interfere. Should she will come to washington, see that is not going to be given much opportunity. Because we do have standards and once you stalling the children who live you will a mass shoolting, thats where you draw the line. Lets start there. Amanda carpenter, thank you so much. Thanks, don. This is cnn tonight. Im don lemon. Thank you so much for joining us. The scene at the capitol tonight, beautiful, stately, mournful. Honoring a fallen herery, officer Ryan Sicknick who lost his life defending our democracy on january 6th. Just think about the desecration there a month ago when a mob of insurrectionists tried to take down our government nasm as the second Impeachment Trial for the president is looming. Officer sicknick, he lies in state in the capitol dome. House democrats laying out their case in an 80page brief saying, quote, If Provoking An Insurrectionary rite after losing an election is not an impeachable offense, its hard to imagine what would be. And they laid ou
Honor, ra a reminder of the insurrection that caused his death on the 6th of january. The United States senators whose lives and staffers lives he died protecting is being asked to show bravery, as well. House Impeachment Managers and the ex president s legal team today presented their briefs in next weeks Impeachment Trial and the insurrection at the heart of that trial is not ancient history. They will be weighing decisions with the seat of American Democracy and their workplace still showing the scars from an attack unlike any weve seen in our lives. The managers case is straightforward. They plan to use video of the president s rally leading up to this and comments by his violent supporters to show he instigated the attack and plan to rebut the notion a president cannot be tried after leaving office. As for the defense, well, their brief begins with a mistake, a pretty sloppy one at the top of page one as you see there, the lawyers misspelled United States. Those are the expresiden