have exclusive conversations with iran's foreign minister and china's ambassador to washington, cui tiankai. also, the military in myanmar consummates another coup. what is behind the arrest of nobel peace prize winner aung sang suu kyi? i will explain. but first here's my take. we're all wondering how the republican party, the party of abraham lincoln got to the point that it has an elected member of congress, marjorie taylor greene, who has suggested nancy pelosi could be executed for treason, cast doubts on the events of 9/11 and speculated that the jewish cabal used lasers to start california's wild fires? the answer is in plain sight, the continual accomodation of extremism by the party's leaders. this week the republican congressional caucus declined to censure greene in any way. house minority leader kevin mccarthy pretended not to even know what qanon was. in the senate mitch mcconnell has finally drawn the line, describing greene's views as looney. but it is too little, too late. the party has been encouraging looney views for years. today we rightly applaud mitt romney for his pol