margorie taylor greene that you have spoken to. the next couple of years look like if the republicans take control of congress, especially for congresswoman greene? >> what she wants to do has been clearly laid forth, anderson. it's an open question whether or not the republicans will be able to govern, will be able to get past the things they want passed. certainly, it will be first and foremost the party of retribution. they will punish democrats for having removed greene and others from their committee assignments. they will likely introduce articles of impeachment against president biden. then we'll see if they use social issues tied to the matter of the debt ceiling that we only agreed to raise the debt s.e.a.l. ceiling if they finish the wall. these are all goals, and the republican party, for a very long time, has not been very keen to passing legislation since the tea party, really. and it remains to be seen whether they can develop any kind of consensus and hold their own party together. >> does congresswoman greene have th

. >> that comes after margorie taylor greene said this at a trump rally in michigan. >> i'm not going to mince words with you all. democrats won't republicans dead, and they've already started the killing. >> when joe biden gave a speech describing the "semi fascism" in the maga movement, trump allies claimed he was being unfair. >> he looked like he was in the depths of hell. he was talking about how half the country are basically domestic terrorists. >> but watch how conservatives embraced that description at the right-wing cpac summit a month earlier. >> ladies and gentlemen, we are all domestic terrorists. >> joining me now is rick wilson, and christina greer, professor with fordham university. my thanks to both of you for getting our show kicked off. rick, i'm going to start with you. violence didn't work out so well for them on january 6th. so why aren't they disavowing this rhetoric? are there no sane adults left in the room? >> the party that was the republican party has abandoned any ideology now and it's about the retention of power and they'll get to however they have to. t

my colleague, margorie taylor greene in facebook posts, called for her being found to have committedason, and saying that execution was appropriate. and gop candidate for senate in the arizona primary last year ran a super bowl ad featuring him shooting nancy pelosi in the ad. so this type of dangerous, violent rhetoric is going to lead to the natural result, which is violence. that's what happened with paul pelosi. >> so is it your belief that, if it were margorie taylor greene or minority leader mccarthy, if they were to say more forcefully singling out people who are coming from a particular persuasion, not to be violent, not to help incite violence, to stop saying aloud the dangerous things that you just reiterated. how much of a difference might that make in your view? >> i think a big difference. denouncing political violence of all stripes would make a big difference. whether it's by elected officials or by former presidents like donald trump, or by candidates for office. and let me just say one other thing, i think that we have to look at the role of social media and amplifyi

democrats are pro margorie taylor greene has said, democrats want republicans dead. the alternative candidate election used before the age of primaries and most other major democracies is the smoke-filled room. in this system, candidates are selected by party bosses. but consider who these bosses have traditionally been. ald alderman, mayors, governors and legislators at all levels. these are people who have won general elections by appealing to the entire electorate. people who have a feel for the broader public. no group of party elders, for example, would ever choose a candidate like herschel walker. primaries, by contrast, entrust candidate selection to the most radical section of the party. social media has added fuel to the fire by amplifying the noisiest and angriest voices within the party, who are an even smaller group than prime minister voters. while the problem is far worse and much more dangerous on the republican side, these pressures do also affect democrats. many of the issues where joe biden is constrained in his actions, in particular, immigration a

and speaking of removing and putting lawmakers on committees, margorie taylor greene, this is what sherk times." i think that to be the best speaker of the house and to please the base, ie, her, he's going to have to give me a lot of power, and a lot of leeway. if he doesn't, they're going to be very unhappy about it. i think that's the best way to read that. and that's not a threat at all. i just think that's the reality. >> i mean, look, i think that she's overstating her power, number one. i do think that there are other members of the hard right caucus within the house majority, what would be a house majority, who are going to make life hard for kevin mccarthy. but a number of them are going to take their cues from what donald trump wants. because at that point, donald trump, even if he's not a candidate, is going to be dictating a lot of what he wants to see his allies in the house do. i think you'll see kevin mccarthy raising hell in the ways that jonathan said. >> he learned a few lessons from john boehner. >> it will be how he can justify getting the basics of governance done,