this was all before cawthorn even got into congress.f office, his scandals have definitely not slold down. most recently, you probably heard, he made headlines by claiming that other members of congress had done cocaine in front of him and invited him to orgies. which, first of all, snitch. ( laughter ) and, second of all, the whole thing was a lie. of course it's not true. these people are in congress! they're not throwing an orgy. that's way too complicated for them. they would have to secure funding for the sex toys, agree on a time and location, agree on the rules, and last minute joe manchin would show up and object and everybody would have to put their dicks back in their pants. ( applause ) but those orgy stories are in the past. way, way, like three weeks ago. nobody is even talking about that anymore, because cawthorn is getting into new trouble every damn day, starting with some really bad driving. >> newly released video shows congressman madison cawthorn getting his license revoked during a traffic stop in cleveland county.

now, madison cawthorn is made it easy for them. but why are they chosen madison cawthorn? what did madison cawthorn do deserve the stream? he did support the trump coup. but, that of course, wasn't a. they don't punish people for that. there was this comment about republican cole orgies. >> look at these people. you get invited to a sexual get-together at one of our homes you should come. unlike, what did you just asked me to come to? did she have to come to an orgy. the fact that some of the people are leading on the moon or trying to remove addiction in our country. he wasn't doing acute cocaine right in front of you. >> now, in the republican party, it is one thing to talk about how the -- it's a whole other thing to suggest that you republicans are doing the things that cawthorn allege there keep himself cocaine was the term. they were very upset about that interview the podcast. kevin kathy told colonial also stressing him, which is very serious. he's never even started to migrate taylor greene after she spoke to podium after a white holocaust denier and the even endo

madison cawthorn versus everyone. and daniel ricciardo this is "the daily show," with trevor noah. ( cheers and applause ) >> trevor: welcome to "the daily show." i'm trevor noah. thank you so much for tuning in. thank you for coming out in person. thank you for being here. thank you for being here. thank you for being here. everybody, thank you for being here. take a seat. man, we have got a great show for you tonight. our guest it one of the biggest stars in formula one. you probably know him from netflix's hit show "drive to survive." daniel ricciardo is joining us. the best smile in racing. plus desi lydic has your weekend weather, donald trump is terrified of fruit, and we introduce you to the most scandalous congress person in these streets. so, let's do this, people. let's jump straight into today's headlines. ( cheers and applause ). >> trevor: all right, let's tick things off with the latest news from afghanistan. for months now, we have known that the biden administration completely botched the exit of ameri

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hayes, madison cawthorn, let's talk about him. he's a rising star. but you recently wrote an article saying that madison cawthorn is run out of chances with the gop. you look at what senator tom tillis is doing, throwing his support behind one of his competitors. >> so madison cawthorn came out of nowhere to take over mark meadows' seat after meadows left. trump backed somewhere else in that primary, but cawthorn managed to win and win in a very comfortable republican state, sending him to congress. and early on, there was talk about him being the republican's answer to aoc. that he would be able to bridge this generational divide and bring new republicans into the party. but since then, the way i look at it is once you're in congress, people tend to be divided into either show horses or workhorses. he has most definitely not been very active in terms of shaping laws. and there are show horses, people who bring attention t issues, who raise money, who raise their own profile. and nah sense, cawthorn has been kind of middling, at b

, but so far, cawthorn has refused.is republican colleagues infuriated. what did you make of those comments? >> irresponsible. irresponsible. >> what he's saying can't possibly be true. >> i just think it puts us in a bad light. >> reporter: both senators say they will not back cawthorn, calling him an embarrassment. but he has one big name in his corner, donald trump, who announced cawthorn will be a guest at his rally in north carolina. >>> the cdc announcing it's ending a trump era policy that limited asylum at the u.s./mexico border to prevent the spread of covid-19 william covid cases dropping the policy known at title 42 will end may 23rd. homeland security chief alejandro mayorkas says they're ready the staff and vaccines. they're seeing 7,000 migrants every day, but after title 42 expires that number could climb to 18,000 per day. >>> a major victory for organized labor tonight. amazon workers at a facility on staten island have voted to form a union. after the results, organizers popped the cork on a bottle of

, but so far, cawthorn has refused. republican colleagues infuriated. what did you make of those comments? >> irresponsible. irresponsible. >> what he's saying can't possibly be true. >> i just think it puts us in a bad light. >> reporter: both of north carolina's republican senators say they will not back cawthorn in his upcoming primary, calling him an embarrassment. saying he lacks the basic standards of a congressman. but he still has one big name in his corner, and that is donald trump, who announced today that cawthorn will be a guest at his rally in north carolina. whit? >> rachel, thank you. >>> the cdc announcing it's ending a trump era policy that limited asylum at the u.s./mexico border to prevent the spread of covid-19. with covid cases dropping, the policy known as title 42 will end may 23rd. homeland security chief alejandro mayorkas says the administration is ready with more staff, more resources, and more vaccines. dhs says they are currently seeing some 7,000 migrants every day. but after title 41 expir

cawthorn: wow. >> usa, usa, usa, usa. rep. cawthorn: there is no better place to be than a rally for the 40 fifth and 47th president of the united states, donald j. trump. i am from the mountains of western north carolina. i am very happy to come out to this congressional district. bo heinz is going to represent this area. incredible. i come from the mountains. my ancestors settled those mountains 270 years ago and they fought the revolutionary war there. i and dissented from patriots. it's the greatest honor of my life. we are individualistic, we love our independence, we want the government to stay out of our lives like most americans do. i will tell you, the levers of power in washington dc are controlled by dark forces. we have halls of congress being shoveled by cowards. we have a geriatric despot in the oval office. my friend, what's going on in our country, it is hard. we are facing dark times. i know that many of you recognize that we are facing dark times. you also realize that america's greatest comeback happened whe

and senator tom tillis from cawthorn his home state went so far as to endorse cawthorn's primary challenger, cawthorn blame the left and the news media, because that's so much easier than just actually taking responsibility for your own actions. charles, joyce and dean are all back with me. charles, i'll start with you. mccarthy said that cawthorn admitted his claims were exaggerated. but what could possibly motivate cawthorn to make those claims about his own party members in the first place? >> first of all, let's start with the idea that it's exaggerated. what does that mean? which word was exaggerated? is what is this definition of an orgy? what kind of drug, is it not cocaine, some other drug? like i'm very curious to have an answer to this idea of which struck, and which part of this phrase is the exact reason. that said, i think the problem here is that they will tolerate all manner of conspiracy theorists, theories, and all manner of things inappropriately said, and losses against democrats. when it became about them, that was the bridge too far, and that was why cawthorn is facing

when trump has madison cawthorn on stage, that is good for cawthorn.to be difficult to unsee if you have too many people, basically it is going to default to the income. >> even though we see the cocaine or two comments, the reporting that the support is dwindling for somebody like madison cawthorn, who bile accounts people is saying is a liability to the party. we still have the feeling that he's maybe going to be able to hold this seat? >> income it's also always way. he did at one point talk about moving to another seat, and then changed his mind. he is not a long history of, let's just say, exaggerating. he could not tell the truth about being accepted into the naval academy. the man who put him in a wheelchair, he did not tell the truth about his status or roll in the car crash, or how healthy he was afterwards. madison cawthorn said he was basically dead, that is not true. the cocaine organs thing kind of fits within this pattern and -- >> brand. >> exactly. big fish, about a man who seriously exaggerates everything, it seems like that is madison

senator thom tillis from cawthorn's home state went so far as to endorse cawthorn's primary challenger's so much easier than just actually taking responsibility for your own actions. charles, joyce, and dean are all back with me. mccarthy here said that cawthorn admitted his claims were exaggerated. but what could have possibly motivated cawthorn to make those claims about his own party members in the first place? >> first of all, let's start with the idea that it's exaggerated. what does that mean? i do words for a living. which word was exaggerated? what is an orgy? what kind of drug? is it not cocaine? some kind of drug? i'm very curious to answer the idea of which drug and which part of the phrase is the exaggeration. that said, i think the problem here is they will tolerate all manner of conspiracy theories and all manner of things inappropriately said as long as it's against democrats. when it became about them, that was the bridge too far. and that is why cawthorn is in trouble. >> yeah, i know you bring up a really good point on the language. i didn't even think about that beca

his fellow lawmakers had done cocaine and invited him to orgies were exaggerated and added that cawthornd him he, "doesn't know what cocaine is. guys [ laughter ] you got to keep your denials believable it's okay if you know what cocaine is i mean, look at this guy [ laughter ] he knows what cocaine is maybe he never did any but every guy who looks like that hangs out with eight other guys who look exactly like that. and one of them always has cocaine. oh, hold on. yeah, no, it's in my puffy vest. [ laughter ] mccarthy also added that cawthorn has lost his trust, which is tough because once you lose kevin mccarthy's trust, you almost immediately get it back [ laughter ] organizers of sunday night's academy awards said in a statement yesterday that will smith refused to leave the oscars after slapping chris rock and added that they, "recognize we could have handled the situation differently," like maybe hiring younger security guards [ laughter ] you got to go. [ laughter ] got to go. you got to go. i don't think he's going to go [ laughter ] whoa [ light laughter ] new york mayor eric ad

and congressman madison cawthorn speaking out about being caught with the loaded gun in the airport, a string of controversies for the youngest member of congress, but is he still all but certain to get reelected? let's go "outfront." i'm erin burnett, "outfront" tonight, the breaking news, kyiv under attack and another potential warning shot from russia to the west, missile attack on ukraine's capitol while united nations secretary-general antonio guiterrez finishing a visit there, fire breaks out in 25 story residential building, ukraine says at least 10 people were wounded and no ings didn't the u.s. secretary-general was there and russia did fire those missiles. earlier this week, defense secretary lloyd austin didn't rule out that russian forces were targeting him and the u.s. secretary of state antony blinken by striking rail lines only a few hours after the two left kyiv by train. this comes as russia ramps up its warnings to the west to stop helping ukraine. here's russia's foreign ministry spokesperson today. >> translator: they are openly calling on kyiv to attack rigs ah i

this is all madison cawthorn really knows.ter out of house of cards because that's who he sees himself as being and that's what he's been taught being a politician is all about. >> he learned from them, but then when he defames republican leaders, is he just not as skilled at this dark art? >> well, he is very skilled in terms of presenting himself in a certain way. what he didn't understand were the lines. you can accuse democrats of any sorts of thing. if he said, oh, democrats had invited me to these sorts of parties. democrats had done drugs in front of me. i think that would have been treated very differently than when you're accusing members of your own party of that exact behavior. members of your own party that you're working with every single day. he didn't understand where the lines were. you know, josh holly understands where the lines are. he understands you can get away with basically accusing judge jackson of being friendly to pedophiles. ted cruz understands where the lines are. he understands you can accuse jud

cawthorn called it a, quote, flat-out mistake on his instagram caption.hen ashville regional airport agents found a different gun in his carry-on bag, his team told them last year he brought the gun by mistake. his run-ins with law enforcement not limited to air travel, cawthorn set to appear before a judge in may on charges of driving with revoked license, dash cam video obtained by a news organization shows the march third stop for driving left of center and an expired tag where a trooper tells the youngest member of congress that his license is revoked, though the reason is unclear. but the record that has republicans on the hill riled up isn't his legal one, it's his pattern of controversial comments. >> madison is wrong -- >> reporter: calling ukrainian president volodomyr zelenskyy a thug. >> remember the ukrainian government is incredibly corrupt and evil. >> reporter: claiming he's been invited to cocaine-fueled orgies in dc. >> hey, we're having a sexual get together at one of our homes, and you realize they're inviting you to an orgy and doing a

sources say cawthorn was asked to publicly apologize. overnight, he claims his comments were taken out of context. >> congressman, what did you make of those comments? >> well, irresponsible. irresponsible. >> reporter: but all of it has left his republican colleagues on capitol hill frustrated. >> i just think it puts us in a bad light. what he's saying can't possibly be true. >> reporter: cawthorn still has one big name in his corner, donald trump. the former president announced cawthorn will be a special guest at his rally in north carolina. rachel scott, abc news, capitol hill. >> our thanks to rachel for that report. >>> now to the pandemic. a ruling overnight allowing new york city's mask mandate for young children to remain in place amid a recent uptick in covid cases fueled by that new omicron subvariant, ba.2. phil lipof joins us now with more on that. phil, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, guys. it is a win for new york city this morning allowing the mask mandate to remain in place for anyone in a child care setting age

found it so extraordinarily offensive had to reprimand cawthorn. >> and madison cawthorn's statementthe criticism is coming from the republican party. he had a stern meeting behind closed doors and spoke publicly about it, which he doesn't normally do. feeling comfortable because seeing a lot of republicans come out and criticize cawthorn for the comments, wrong and unfounded. gives interesting insight how cawthorn balances his caucus. >> speaking at a white supremacist conference but don't do this? >> willing to give marjorie taylor greene back her position and yet he take as harder line with someone like cawthorn who made the comments about orgies and the like, and does he think he can manage cawthorn more than taylor green? >> the big point kaitlan's making, conservatives in the freedom caucus to the extent it exists they were critical and then you see potentially minority leader mccarthy take a stand on this. we all know he'll have a huge challenge if he becomes speaker. imagine the new members coming. a big challenge for, if he's speaker, for mccarthy, even as minority leader. h

cawthorn of north carolina, i inform the house that mr. cawthorn will vote yes on h.r. 1218.he speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from maryland seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. brown of maryland, i inform the house that this member will vote yes on h.r. 1218. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from arizona seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. huffman, i inform the house that mr. huffman will vote yes on h.r. 1218. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from tennessee seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by mrs. hartzler of missouri, i inform the house that mrs. hartzler will vote yea on h.r. 1218. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from virginia seek recognition? ms. wexton: madam speaker, as the member designated by ms. porter, i inform the house that ms. porter will vote yes on h.r. 1218. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? mr. gomez: madam speak

okay, back here in washington, congress' youngest member, north carolina's madison cawthorn, is facing slew of controversies, and questions of misconduct. the freshman lawmaker's recent troubles include allegations of an improper relationship with a staffer. here is cbs' nikole killion. >> reporter: tonight, north carolina republican madison cawthorn defending himself in a new ad... >> i've never folded in washington, and i never will. >> reporter: ...after a complaint was filed by an opposition group with the office of congressional ethics. it alleges multiple violations by cawthorn and one of his house aides, claiming the congressman provided free housing and travel, loans, and citing various social media postings that indicate a personal relationship. >> i would like to see your naked body beneath my hands. me, too. >> reporter: on twitter, he called it a coordinated assault. it's the latest in a string of scandals involving the 26-year- old lawmaker who was once considered a rising star in the republican party. >> take notes, madam spaker. >> reporter: earlier this week, police say

tsa officials say that's when they discovered a loaded handgun in congressman cawthorn's luggage.s cited for bringing that handgun through tsa. that is standard operating procedure for them to offer a citation. but as you mentioned, he had no comment to us earlier today when we tried to ask him about it. and it's not the first time this happened. just over a year ago back in february of 2021 it was an unloaded hong and a loaded magazine that he brought in his carry-on. that went through the asheville airport in north carolina, don. at the time, again, he claimed responsibility and they took it to the side. but, again, two times in just over a year. >> so the question is, is he -- does he know better or is he doing it for publicity because he thinks it galvanized his base because they are second amendment folks. one would think one would learn the lesson from the first time you bring a gun to the airport. i mean, no? >> right, well and keep midmind, don, like he has a primary coming up next month. and there are republicans running against him in his home state. and you have house m

clearly has been an embarrassment at times cawthorn compared the real life washington to the netflixouse of cards," and in the process, made some pretty crazy allegations about what goes on in d.c >> the sexual perversion that goes on in washington -- i mean, being kind of a young guy in washington, remember the average age is probably 60 or 70 and i look at all these people, a lot of them that i, you know, i've looked up to through my life, always paid attention to politics guys that, you know -- then all of a sudden, you get invited to, like, "oh, hey, we're going to have kind of a sexual get-together at one of our homes. you should come. and you're like, 'what did you just ask me to come to?' and then you realize they're asking you to come to an orgy. or the fact that, you know, some of the people that are leading on the movement to try and remove, you know, addiction in our country, and then you watch them do a key bump of cocaine right in front of you. and it's like, wow, this is this is wild. >> seth: come on, man. do you really expect us to believe that congress could plan and

cawthorn: wow.crowd chanting "usa"] there is no better place to be this evening than the rally for the 46th and the 47th u.s. president of the united states, donald trump you what i am from the mountains of north carolina. i'm happy to come out to this congressional district. you guys have a great candidate was going to represent this area. incredible. but i come from the mountains, where my ancestors settled out 200 to seven years ago -- 270 years ago. i'm to from patriots pay with the greatest honor of my life. -- i'm a patriot. the greatest honor of my life. but i will tell you, whoever is in power and washington, d.c. is controlled by dark forces. we have the halls of congress that are being shuffled by cowards. we have a geriatric despot who sits in the oval office. my friends, what's going on in our country? it's hard. we're facing dark times. i know that many of you recognize that we're facing dark times, but you also realize that america's greatest comebacks happened when things seem the har

cawthorn said in a sort of qa qanon-adjacent allegation that 60 and 70-year-old congress men are doingticism, right? but the base heard this and believed it. and so they had to put it out. but, you know, paul gosar or marjorie taylor greene speaking to white supremacists didn't arouse anger from the base so mccarthy didn't feel the same pressure to put it out. >> someone tweeted to say, there are only two things you can do to outrage kevin mccarthy, the house republican leader, accuse his colleagues of orgies and cocaine or demand accountability for january 6th. that's it. >> that's about it. republicans are very, very lucky they have the wind at their back politically. you can see in a different time, in a different context, a lot of these things could ruin their chances for the midterms. but right now, i think kevin mccarthy is operating purely on the assumption that he has to do whatever he can that doesn't threaten him taking back power. i think he probably will. >> so speaking of donald trump, north dakota senator kevin cramer has basically joined donald trump's call for vladimir

madison cawthorn said law makers had invited him to orgies and did cocaine in front of him, then admittedt was not true. facebook quietly running a negative media campaign against tiktok. there is hunter biden whose firm got millions from a chinese energy company with the washington post joining "the new york times" in reporting more aggressively, more than a year late, on the president's son. there is donald trump calling on president putin to release dirt on the biden family. it's inevitable that after six weekings public interest might fade somewhat, but the media, to their collective credit, are covering it courageously led by correspondents on the front line. russia's horrifying assault on ukrainian citizens is the global challenge of our time in defending democracy. we cannot let up on chronicling vladimir putin's war crimes and is lies. i'm howard kurtz, and this is "mediabuzz." ♪ ♪ howard: joining us now from lviv, ukraine, is fox news correspondent alex hogan. alex. >> reporter: hi, howie. there is devastating foot an of the northern participants of ukraine,s some of the areas th

madison cawthorn, i hope, i pray to god, given the appearance of many of the members of congress thatt true and he was lying, lying to make himself look good like an outsider, what he forgets is, when he says that, was implicating fellow republicans of this and they say well, madison, you can say anything you want about the election being stolen, say whatever you want about whatever kind of flummery you want but you can't intimate there are drug-fueled sex parties going on among republican congressman because that makes us look bad and could jeopardize the election. >> i tried to ask madison cawthorn about this, didn't answer this question either, but this week trump brazenly asked putin to release dirt on biden's family and we've heard something like this before. let's watch. >> russia, if you're listening, i hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. we had a perfect phonecall with the president of ukraine, everybody knows it. >> as long as putin now is not exactly a fan of our country, let him explain where did, because chris lales wouldn't let me ask the question

madison cawthorn at the save rally.e themselves from the congress member after the comments of drugs and d.c. sex parties. both have the endorsement of the former president. in the mini have left in the show, i want to bring in the former communications director. doug, good to see you. we are talking about these individual whose will be on stage with former president trump who support the big lie he is pushing. the lie the 2020 election was stolen. it was not. how does that play in north carolina? what will we hear? >> if you are a republican in north carolina where i'm from. you will be receptive to whatever he says. does trump do what he does? does he take a shock at cawthorn about his troubles? it is not just leadership with issues over cawthorn. the republican senator from north carolina does as well. i have seen internal polling that cawthorn is in trouble. one of the things voters are learning about and seeing is his voting report is one of the lowest in congress. he is not showing up to vote as often as colleague

by not naming names, cawthorn has implicated the entire g.o.p.n, the guy with the orgy and cocaine could be any-- matt gaetz. ( laughter ) ( applause ) we've got a great show for you tonight. my guests are sandra bullock and comedian hannah gadsby. but when we come back, "meanwhile!" join us, won't you? it ♪ ♪ ♪ dawn is flipping the way america does dishes. new dawn platinum ez-squeeze. it's an upside-down bottle... with no cap. just grab, squeeze and platinum's upgraded formula breaks down grease faster. tackle grease wherever it shows up. no flip, no mess. dawn ez-squeeze. oh, hello! lucky for me, there's some great golf here in the carolinas. whether you golf or not, geico could help you score some great savings on car insurance. maybe even hundreds of dollars. whoa! [chuckles] hole in one! and that's a par five, mind you. geico. switch today and see all the ways you can save. check out this vrbo. oh man. ♪♪ come on. ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ if i go to sleep right now, i can get more.... four hours. that's not good. what is time? time. time is just a

on this cawthorn thing, he has had the month from hell.nd carrying a loaded weapon through an airport. he was cited for that. in this case, he is being accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a staffer. there's video attached to the complaint that's bizarre. his office put out a statement. they ran through a lot of it. they said the staffer was a second cousin. some of the specifics weren't true. they didn't go -- cawthorn is saying, aren't you glad there aren't cell phones around for all of you older folks in congress? you would have had similar problems. it's a messy situation for he and his party. >> hasn't he tried to humiliate some of the older members with false or strange charges as well? he hasn't made any friends. >> no, he hasn't. this looks like what happens when you talk about fight club. cawthorn was quick to come out with allegations that he subsequently had to take back about cocaine fuelled sex parties. it looks like what's happening now is an effort to create a viable challenge in his congressional primary. th

cawthorn's team said last year that he brought the gun by mistake. judge in may on charges of driving with a revoked license, dash-cam video obtained by a coalition of north carolina news organizations showed the stop for driving left of center and an expired tag where a trooper tells youngest member of congress -- that his license is revoked, though the reason is unclear. but the record that has republicans on the hill riling up isn't his legal one. it is his pattern of controversial comments. >> madison is wrong. >> like calling volodymyr zelenskyy a thug. >> he is a thug. remember the ukrainian government is corrupt and it is incredibly evil. >> reporter: and claiming he's been invited to cocaine fueled orgies in d.c. >> we're going to have a sexual get together at one of our homes. you should come. and i'm like, what do you just ask me to come to? and then you realize they're asking to you come to an orgy and watch them do cocaine in front of you. >> that lands him a meeting with the officials. >> eelt have to earn my trust back. >> members of hi

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the tsa says a loaded gun was found in north carolina representative madison cawthorn's carry-on bage airport. security located the weapon at a checkpoint tuesday morning. this is the second time a gun has been found in cawthorne's possession at an airport in his home state. >>> novak djokovic will be allowed to play at wimbledon without a covid vaccine. the shots are not required to enter britain. the tennis star missed the australian open and was deported from the country because he's not vaccinated. for more news, download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connected tv. i'm wendy gillette, cbs news, new york. ♪ >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." >> we begin tonight with what could be good news. today the white house took steps to make a pill for treating covid available to millions more americans. pfizer's antiviral drug paxlovid has been shown to reduce hospitalization or death in people with covid by nearly 90%. the drug that was once dubbed the biggest game changer since the vaccine hasn't had a true impact due to lack of availability. the free antiviral drug

there were a number of guest speakers, most notably congressman madison cawthorn. was about urging supporters to build towards that point, basically making the argument that they need to send republicans into the house and senate and rebuild the republican majority. the rally also featured a lot of the familiar grievance, a lot of lies about the 2020 election, but also, as you mentioned, a lot of eyes where on one of the special guests, representative madison cawthorn who has been in the news a lot recently for controversial comments he's made. he called the president of ukraine, zelenskyy, a thug. he said on a podcast that he had been invited to orgies and witnessed people using cocaine in washington, dc. and all of those remarks have led some of his colleagues, his republican colleagues, to pull away from him and to grow incredibly frustrated with him in recent days. but if the crowd here in north carolina was any indication, cori, those comments haven't cost him support among conservatives in this state, he received one of the warmest welcomes, besides trump, of

cawthorn for five minutes. mr. cawthorn: madam speaker, left has ripped away the pain of truth from the author of life. they have exchanged natural science for a party platform and declared war on biology. your left wing movement is forcing children to endure radical expresses of sexuality. and yet you can't even define what a woman s you might amend a bill, but you'll never amend biology. science is not burger king. count just have it your way. i am the youngest member of the house of representatives. and i never imagined that one of my sacred duties in that chamber would be to explain to the house speaker the difference between a man and woman. take notes madam speaker, i'm about to define what a woman is for you. xx chromosomes. it's simple. yet today this proclamation of fundamental scientific fact will cause the woke liberals in silicon valley strip you of your voice and ban you until you bow at their alter of falsehoods. patriots like charlie kirk and tucker charlson have been muzzled on twitter for promoting

for ex confederates applies to madison cawthorn.d any future insurrectionists. that ruling is so bizarre that not one outside expert has stood up to defend it. and the court of appeals has agreed to fast-track our peel. and furthermore, win them greene try to use that exact same argument in federal court in georgia, the judge said that both she and north carolina's judge were wrong. so, marjorie taylor greene is going to have to answer questions on friday. >> and there have been a pair of law professors, i understand, ron, that published an op-ed in the new york times, arguing that section three is not self executing. that congress must establish or at least authorize the process that affords accused insurrectionists an opportunity to contest the allegations brought against them. what do you make of that theory? that legal theory? >> they quoted an old case. and i wished they had supplied more context. which is, that that case came from a period that was quirky, during reconstruction, when virginia was under federal military occupat

and in the swing districts, okay, it's not going to be decided on madison cawthorn.it's going to be decided on again, gas prices. on issues closer to home. the pandemic. the inflation crisis. so, i think that the democrats should stop reacting and they should start getting their message straight. >> let's look at one example, tim, that i think a lot of people are examining, to see where this is going. ohio. j.d. vance. of course, his numbers surge with trump's endorsement, but republican challenger matt dolan is keeping the race competitive. and there's still a lot of undecideds. how do you read that race now? and maybe more to the point of this conversation, what will the outcome of that primary tell us about the power of trump and the state of the republican party? >> i don't know that the outcome is going to tell a truth that much. because we know right now that trump has a plurality support within the party. what's happening in ohio is that dolan who is running as maybe your traditional gym bush kind of republican, is one of five candidates. and then there are fo

cawthorn recently appeared on something called "the warrior poet society." sounds like a ridiculous name, but i have a lot of respect for warrior poets. do you have any idea how long it takes to write a sonnet with an ar-15? gu-gu-gu-gu-gu-- shall... gu-gu-gu-gu-gu-- i... gu-gu-gu-gu-gu-- gu-gu-gu-gu-gu-- compare thee... gu-gu-gu-gu-gu-- ( laughter and applause ) on the society-- on the society, cawthorn explained why-- why you should never meet your heroes. >> the sexual perversion that goes on in washington, i mean, being kind of a young guy in washington, where the average age is probably 60 or 70-- and i look at all these people, and a lot of them that i've, you know, looked up to through my life, always paid attention to politics, guys that, you know-- then, all the sudden you get invited to-- like, "well, hey, we're going to have kind of a sexual get-together at one of our homes, you should come!" and i'm like, what did you just ask me to come to? and then you realize they're asking you to come to an orgy. >> stephen: yeah. it took him a moment to real

it had to do with another member of congress, madison cawthorn.? what are the distinctions? because we're not hearing from him in a trial or hearing, are we? >> we're not yet. we are proud to represent voters in his district as well who are bringing this challenge to madison cawthorn for his role in the insurrection after taking an oath of office as well. but the reason why that case has not moved forward is because a federal district court judge, a trump appointee, decided that he could interfere effectively with stopping the hearing from going forward in north carolina before the state board of elections on the grounds that an 1872 amnesty law, designed to provide amnesty to exconfederates after the civil war from the mandate of section 3 of the 14th amendment, that that amnesty law applies 150 years later to madison cawthorn. there is no constitutional scholar we've heard who believes that that argument is correct. and it's contrary to the text and to the legislative history of the 14th amendment and of the amnesty law of 1872. we have filed an

in an interview with axios, mccarthy said cawthorn admitted his claims were exaggerated. in washington aside, but i want to get to your piece which is titled, that's no party. that's the republican hot mess. you write in part, at this point, the republican party really ought to change its name. it's not a coherent political party anymore. to comply with truth and advertising standards, it should call itself the republican hot mess. and yes, this is an election year, and the hot mess could take control of one or even both houses of congress at a time of overlapping crises at home and abroad. that is a gamble the nation should not take. and an outcome democrats and independents must do everything in their power to prevent. gene, elaborate a little bit on this. this is something joe talks about all the time, the republican party ceased to be the republican party some time around five or six years ago when a lot of it, anyway, just became the trump party. >> exactly. this is just your periodic reminder the republican party is no longer a functioning political party as we once

in the video posted online cawthorn said there's no compute for it but then said fly safe may, sure youg. house democrats are now calling on the tsa to crack down on the rising number of guns confiscated at airports. >>> we turn now to the big night in las vegas. the first night of the nfl draft did not disappoint. and will ganss has all the top moments. >> reporter: nfl draft day. an event when old traditions come roaring, or booing back. special guests make new appearances. >> everybody, ice cube! >> reporter: and the next generation of football superstars are introduced to the world. >> he's like a combination of godzilla, the cookie monster and the incredible hulk, and this guy is unbelievable. when he's on the field he says i'm the captain now. >> reporter: and what an impression so many made on night one in las vegas. number one overall pick trayvon walker, a defensive end from university of georgia going to jacksonville. >> me and my father, i'm really thankful for him for being so hard on me as a young kid. i really do thank you for that. >> reporter: second overall aidan hutchi

>> well first chris they just want to clarify that the case in north carolina against madison cawthornactually under appeal. and we're working on that. so that's moving forward in that appeal. but in terms of the text message. we have actually gone back to the judge, even though the hearing is over and move to supplement the record. and we pointed out two things. first of all, this just adds to her complete lack of credibility. throughout that hearing on friday, she claimed not to remember anything that made her look the slightest built guilty. although of course she had supposedly a perfect memory for what she thought would be helpful to her. but secondly, it also shows that the insurrection didn't entirely end on the early morning hours of january 7th. rather, it continued at a low simmer perhaps right up until the moment of the inauguration. >> what do you think about the hedge they are using, that she says, she said the someone after, she's been read that the texas now she says well i'm not going to confirm it but if you member what i said, i said i don't know about all that. they'

clearly meaning madison cawthorn. and it appears that madison is now in the proverbial finding out phase with leak after leak after leak of salacious allegations and repeated calls for ethics investigations. in other words, republicans can discipline their own when they want to. while circling the wagons around the other loudest insurrectionist, paul gosar, margie greene, lauren boebert and others, it is very, very weird. but republicans do seem to agree 100% that they are all in getting it right if and when they repeat the coup next time. that is the warning from retired conservative federal judge michael j.luddig. a perennial supreme court short-lister and ted cruz's former mentor. he also advised former vice president mike pence against overturning the 2020 election. and now michael luddig is sounding the alarm about the republican blueprint to steal the next election. he writes that lies about voter fraud are the shiny object that republicans have tauntingly and disingenuously dangled for almost a year and a half

. >>> plus congressman madison cawthorn out with a new statement about his, quote, orgies and cocainements. we're going to tell you who he says is really to blame. >>> and then a victory for those fighting a florida election law that critics call racist. a judge's biggest decision and the fight still ahead in that state. all of that is ahead. so, stick with me. >>> we're wanting to begin, though, with that fresh evacuation attempt in the besieged city of mariupol. the international committee of the red cross once again leading a convoy of more than 50 ukrainian buses to rescue trapped civilians after being forced to turn back yesterday. nbc's ali aruozi is in lviv for us. tens of thousands of people still trapped in that besieged city of mariupol, without food, without water. the situation incredibly dire for those that have had to be left behind. these are individuals that are elderly, that are sick already, needing extra care. walk us through these evacuation attempts and why exactly it was shut down yesterday. >> reporter: hey, yasmin. well, it's been a string of failed evacuation

you mentioned madison cawthorn, congressman from north carolina. that was blocked.lor greene, the judge is open to it. it appears. what is the difference in the two cases? >> sometimes you hate to draw these conclusions but i got to point out that the judge who was overseeing the madison cawthorn case was an appointee of president donald trump and reached a conclusion that a lot of the constitutional experts that i've talked to are pretty skeptical of and that judge really shut that process down. the judge overseeing this case with congresswoman green, she's an obama appointee and she may, at least was indicating that she was leaning in favor of letting this thing move forward to the next step. it is not a sure bet. it is not even close to over. but it seems like it likely will move on to the next step and then everybody could have their day in court. dana. >> marshall, thank you for bringing that really interesting developments in both of those cases. >>> and i am dana bash in washington. thank you so much for joining me today. the news continues next with victor b

and i think was interesting is when you compare her to gates, cawthorn, marjorie taylor greene, these people getting elected and super safe seats. in deep red seats where they win a primary, and then they run. alaska is a more complicated. it's a statewide election, it's a complicated system. it's interesting best-case of how feasible this model is. >> well, it's also an incredibly important seat. one of the things that most people don't appreciate is that this is a long congressional seats. their only handful of states and representatives. that seat is more powerful than the senators. they're more powerful than lisa, then dan sullivan. that's a big deal. so, i think they're going to be a lot of guns out for her and she will have to look out. i don't know what it ultimately ends up happening in this race, but she has come to this moment understanding what trumpism is, and a lot of ways, better than donald trump did. let's not forget that if trump dona >> that's "allld t rump did let's not forget thain" on this monday night. ali velshi has the rachel maddow show. >> i'm joining you fro