marjorie taylor green. who is still pushing the big lie in a town hall tonight. >> we have done a lot of work in our preparation. talked to a lot of people. looked a lot of evidence that i think still needs to be looked at. and should be presented in court. i truly believe that. >> still, still, and they know it's a lie. marjorie taylor green has removed dozens of facebook posts from 2018 and 2019 in which she endorsed conspiracy theories, repeatedly indicated support for executing prominent democrats. executing prominent democrats. but cnn has attained video so shocking that i want you to hear them, and i want you to think about the fact that marjorie taylor green is now a united states congresswoman. okay? so, pay close attention to your screen. we don't know the exact dates but we believe that they are recorded over the past few years. before she was elected to congress, in november. so, listen to her false, racist claims about black men and gangs. >> okay. so, going on. you know -- you know, what keeps

because marjorie taylor greene is just a shiny object. just like donald trump was. symptom of a much larger problem. that's the trap. if you get blinded by marjorie taylor greene, by her, you let everybody else get off scot-free for what happened at the capitol and what's happened in this country over the last five years. culminating with what happened at the capitol. she's a symptom of what is wrong with the republican party. a party that is turning on its own. turning on liz cheney? liz? you know how conservative liz cheney is? you know how dedicated to the republican party liz cheney is? come on, y'all. her daddy's dick cheney. come on. really? liz cheney who tried to do the right thing and vote to hold a former president accountable. a crowd of trump supporters showing up to condemn her. oh, boy. at a matt gaetz rally today. >> if you want to prove that you have the power, defeat liz cheney in this upcoming election and wyoming will bring washington to its knees. >> so it's really tough -- it's -- it's so transparent, matt gaetz is so transparent, he wants public

a maskless marjorie taylor-greene and her staff berated me. marjorie taylor-greene, you probably know her name well by now is a freshman congressman who peddles racist conspiracy theories. her fellow republicans saw the threat that she posed to their part, quote, during previously unreported meetings last summer house republican leader discussed, but then largely set aside fears that qanon supporting conspiracy theorist marjorie taylor-greene would end up a flaming train wreck for their party. >> meanwhile, the second impeachment trial of donald trump gets under way, and there's talk of a bipartisan effort to consider censure as an alternative facing the former president. according to one senator in the know could prevent the former president from holding future office. >> we are getting a new look from the january 6th insurrection on capitol hill. body cam footage obtained by "the new york times," one man is seen wielding a hockey stick and another wielding a crutch. i should warn you. these images are disturbing. >> there's a weird production

green. she was elected by her constituents. that's a problem going forward. howie: marjoriender a white hot spotlight overher posts and later the crackdown on free speech targeting conservatives. art ♪ ♪ got my soul ♪ ♪ got my mouth ♪ ♪ i got life ♪ keeping your oysters business growing has you swamped. you need to hire. i need indeed indeed you do. the moment you sponsor a job on indeed you get a shortlist of quality candidates from a resume data base claim your seventy-five-dollar credit when you post your first job at indeed.com/promo howie: georgia congresswoman marjorie taylor green, a past supporter of qanon is in the midst of a media fire storm over facebook posts. in one post she liked a comment that said as a way to remove nancy pelosi, a bullet to the head would be quicker, also liked comments on executing fbi agents because they're part of the deep state. green said in a statement, over the years i've had teams of people manage my pages, many posts have been liked and shares, some did not represent my views. liberal commentators not surprisingly are filled with ou

marjorie taylor greene takes it to be a grient q in the sky. a lengthy thread of language sprinkled with conspiracy theories, george soros, marjorie taylor greene. yes, a nazi himself trying to continue what was not finished. february 201. that was verified by cnn as well. it is still up on twitter right now if you want to take a look. and just so that you can see what she is engaging calling soros a nazi. this portrays him as a vampire going up in flames. this is outrageous. this stuff ain't normal. this is not normal. this is some racist b.s. that is what it is. you are bigots. listen, i shouldn't have to explain it. george soros is jewish, the root of endless anti-semitic tropps about him. he is not a nazi. but he is the subject of countless ugly conspiracy theories embraced by marjorie taylor greene and her cronies. there is more, sadly. boy. this same source shared screen shots of two now removed facebook posts of marjorie taylor greene's page which cnn hasn't independently confirmed. one, a fake promo for the funeral of the late senator jo

marjorie taylor greene has always been marjorie taylor greene. it's everyone around her now that's the problem. >> that's correct, john. but remember, too, steve king was elected multiple times, but not until the leadership of the party stood up and kevin mccarthy, to his credit, stood up and condemned him skpad, no more. you're off the committees. you know what, after leadership took their foot down on his neck, so to speak, they said, it's done. he was defeated in his primary. the same thing has to happen to marjorie taylor greene. the leadership needs to speak clearly, that she is not welcome in the party, he is not welcome in the conference, and that she and her ilk, these conspiracy theorists and all of these whacky things that she supports, there is no room for them. make it crystal cloear. and they will defeat her in the next primary. her opponent in the primary last time said he had a dumpster full of opposition research on this woman that was just devastating. now we're learning more and more about it. so, i think he said, no shirt, no s

president trump won by a landslide. >> marjorie taylor green, marjorie taylor greene, executing democratic -- before being elected to congress. is marjorie taylor greene the kind of republican that we are supposed to unify with? come on now. let's be truthful about this. because imagine if marjorie taylor greene or folks like her or any of them. kevin mccarthy, average if they were democrats, what republicans would be saying right now. most house republicans are keeping quiet about marjorie taylor greene but minority leader kevin mccarthy exp spokesperson says he plans to have a conversation with her. wow. a conversation. let me just remind you that steve king lost his committee assignment in 2019 over his repeated racist comment but marjorie taylor greene gets a conversation? that's almost -- i mean that's like being very concerned like susan collins, i am very concerned strongly. what's next? are they going to write her as a strongly written note? this is a u.s. congresswoman who got campaign money from qanon believer. romney mcdaniels tells the ap, qanon is quote, "dangerous." it is pre

jake auchincloss, the first member of congress to call for marjorie taylor greene to resign or be expelled. we also have former congressman denver riggleman, a chief strategist for the network contagion strategist network. congressman auchincloss, you were the first to really sound the alarm about marjorie taylor greene. you believe she should be expelled. isn't the argument against that that that's for the voters to decide? they're the ones who put her there. >> if you don't understand that calling for violence against your political opponents is unacceptable in democracy, then you should not be representing one. marjorie taylor greene fails that test, but i should not have been the first person to call for her expulsion. leader mccarthy should have be beat, me to the punch instead of traveling to palm springs to kiss donald trump's ring. >> marjorie taylor greene says that the enemy is within. look, you're a marine, do you fear for your safety. do you think that marjorie taylor greene wants to do you harm? >> i don't fear for my safety. and i think it's important that we turn the tempera

>> it means the republican party is marjorie taylor greene. he republican party embrace donald trump for the last four years. and apparently, donald trump inciting a deadly insurrection, the attack of january 6th on the capitol and the people within it, apparently that didn't change much. and even since january 6th, as some -- some folks said earlier on your show. we've seen representative mccarthy and other members walk back closer towards donald trump. they are a party that is based on lies and conspiracy theories. all, in the name of -- of grabbing power. and really, we don't have a marjorie taylor greene problem, per se. this country has a republican-party problem. >> but, there is, also, a voter-registration problem, olivia, for the republican party. they have lost about -- some -- at least 30,000 people, who were registered republicans, at the start of january 6. and now, aren't. will that be the thing that will trigger change? >> it could, possibly. i mean, right? let's -- let's face it. the average american, i just do not believe subscr

it's the party of marjorie taylor greene. the party is getting more trump-like. trump-like. in terms of marjorie taylor greene, i think we also have to really think about the seriousness of this and we either believe the fbi reports are not about qanon and conspiracy theory groups, and maybe not personalize it so much about marjorie taylor greene but let's go back to what the fbi said. starting in the summer of '19, they said, what is different in this environment is not the white nationalism. we've seen that before. what's different about the misinformation and conspiracy groups that feed that. the fbi director testified to congress warning that the great threat we face are the conspiracy group theories. we have a member of congress who has been elevated from those conspiracy groups to the congress. whether or not the republican caucus takes this seriously will demonstrate to the people whether or not they take the national security implications seriously or not. i agree with adam kinzinger. i think it's hard to remove a member of congress who has been duly elec

eric trump tweeted out this picture, which marjorie taylor greene looks to be a giant "q" in the sky. then there's her lengthy thread of apocalyptic language sprinkled with conspiracy theories, a commenter replies with a series of images featuring george soros and marjorie taylor greene replying calling george soros a nazi, and she writes a nazis himself trying to continue what was not finished. that was verified by the team as well. it's still up on twitter right now if you want to take a look. and just so you can see what she is engaging when she calls soros a nazi, this one portrays him as a vampire going up in flames. these bigots, man, it is really -- it's outrageous. and you try to spin this as normal politics. this stuff -- this stuff ain't normal. this is not normal. this is some racist b.s., that's what it is. you're bigots. listen, i shouldn't have to explain this but i think everybody gets it, in case you don't, george soros is jewish, it's the root of endless anti semitic tropes about him. he is not a nazi, but he is the subject of countless ugly conspiracy theories embrac

you on this one and get your raw reaction to the controversy that is surrounding right now marjorie taylor greene and how the republicans so far have reacted. >> yeah, i would say that marjorie taylor greene is an extension of donald trump, and as they haven't really renounced him or intend to convict him, certainly in the senate side, the house impeached him. there were only ten republicans who went along with that. the senate gop has indicated they are not interested in convicting or holding him accountable for what the events of january 6th. so she's a full extension of donald trump and by extension a full realization of the republican party playing with matches when it comes to engaging with white supremacists, qanon conspiracy theorists like her. she's also an anti-semite. and yeah, i mean, it's what was said before. she either needs to be expelled or censured, quite frankly. >> so, tim, this is kind of jumping off of what we just heard from atima, and it's from a "washington post" op-ed by dana m ai lbank arguing that despite the glimmer of hope that was republicans condemning trump for lik

he is set to meet next week with congresswoman marjorie taylor greene, who is known for making incendiary comments. >>> now cnn tonight has obtained screen shots from marjorie taylor greene's social media accounts. marjorie greene sees a q in the sky for an eric trump golf course tweet. marjorie taylor greene replies to a commenter on one of her twitter threads and calls george soros a nazi. that one is still up on twitter right now. and just so you can see what she is engaging with when she calls soros a nazi, here's a larger version of that graphic portraying him as a vampire going up in flames. both of those tweets are verified by cnn's k-file. two screen shots of two now removed facebook posts of greene's facebook page which cnn has not independently confirmed. one, a fake promo for the funeral of the late senator john mccain, a war hero who served his country in the senate for more than 30 years. and then there's this bigoted anti-muslim meme that shows graphic images of the 9/11 terror attack side by side with the image of congresswoman rashida tlaib being sworn into congress, and i

there's another example of that, as you mentioned, that is the back and forth between marjorie taylor greene and senator mitt romney of utah. romney tweeted out talking about the lies marjorie taylor greene has told and her claims that the election was stolen. she essentially shot back that romney cares nothing about what she called the people's number one concern, and then, there was this, please grow a pair or get a spine, she tweeted. so, that is the state of play. no remorse, no apologies, no backing down from marjorie taylo taylor green, who of course has attracted calls from democrats for her ouster from congress because she has supported the assassination or execution of democratic members of congress. of course important to say also that this is not a democratic issue. it's very much a question of the ugly public fight that continues between members of the republican party up here on capitol hill in the aftermath of the january 6th riot. pamela, back to you. >> and mccar thu's office says he'll be meeting with her next week. joe johns, thank you so much. >>> meantime another marjorie

and you see kevin mccarthy, he at one point actually said that marjorie taylor greene had denounced qanonhas not denounced qanon and she got that plum committee assignment, as well. and there is this broad range of conspiracy theories, whether it's 9/11 trutherism, marjorie taylor greene seems to be adherent to all of those andtai in the republican party and it is not just crazy, it is dangerous. we saw that on january 6th. some of those people had on "q" t-shirts, they were qanon adherents and believers. and you have donald trump as someone who also has embraced qanon and embraced marjorie taylor greene as the kind of future of the republican party. >> it's a cancer. it's a cancer. and we have to protect our children from it. i know you guys have young children. it's so disgusting, what we're about to see in this video that we'll show you in a moment. david, nia, malika, thank you both very much. in a few minutes, i will be speaking with the parkland survivor with david hogg, about that moment where marjorie taylor greene who is now a congresswoman chased after him and harassed him. ther

message to kevin mccarthy is to speak out and prove you are not going to stand for someone like marjorie taylor greene. and with that, we need people in the fight with you. you can text rejin to 954954. it's a petition calling for marjorie taylor greene's resignation. i have to ask you, i hate to send you back in that moment in 2019. you are followed down the street. she is just some lady who is following you with a camera, who is making it clear she's got guns. and in is what she's able. and can you take us to where -- what did you think when she started following you? >> to be completely honest with you, this is something that happens very often. it's just this time, they were dumb enough to post it on youtube and got elected to congress, that it became news worthy. there are so many instances like that. i refuse to talk to them. and i hope it would have avoided someone like her getting in a position of power. but i can tell you, more than anything, what i was thinking about is the safety of our staff, and our friends around me. she's saying that i'm a coward. but she's the one attacking at the time

this isn't just about marjorie taylor greene. this is about the republican party. e republican leadership and marjorie taylor greene has come to represent what i have come to believe are three fundamental truths about where the republican party is today. number one, she epitomizes radicalization in clear broad daylight. that is the conspiracy theories, the violent extremist groups she is associated with. she is the epitome of all that but proudly and in open daylight. second, she epitomizes the discarding of democracy for the big lie. the big lie of course being the election, being thrown or fraudulent. that she and other republicans have ascribed to. and also the big lie about exactly what is happening in this country. whatever issue you look at. there is a lie being told about what is actually happening in this country. and third, she represents what the republican party has become, a one-man cult. this is not a party of principles anymore. this is a party of one person. if you look at what the arizona republican party did, they censured jeff lake, cindy mccain an

democratic congressman of los angeles jimmy gomez has introduced a resolution to expel marjorie taylor greene from the house of representatives. here is what congressman gomez told chris hayes tonight. >> marjorie taylor greene, a conspiracy theorist believes in all sorts of crazy things, but the worst thing is, she's incited crowds in the past to storm the capitol, to go after nancy pelosi. they were even chanting "hang mike pence." and now she's still a member of congress. i believe she is a clear and present danger to the members of the house of representatives. just simply for the fact she also is able to bring a gun to the house office buildings and she's walked around the metal detectors going to the floor. there's a strong sense that something worse than january 6th could happen if she continues in office. >> today, nancy pelosi said there is no difference between marjorie taylor greene and kevin mccarthy and the rest of the republican leadership in congress. >> what i'm concerned about is the republican leadership in the house of representatives who is willing to overlook, ignore thos

let's stick with marjorie taylor greene in this moment. i want to remind our viewers about what trump said about marjorie taylor greene before she was elected. >> somebody that gets a little more publicity than i do, marjorie taylor green, right here from northwest georgia. oh, boy, i don't want to mess with her. nah, she's great. every one of them has my full and complete endorsement. go out and vote for them and let them all come into congress. >> he got what he wished for and now congresswoman greene talks to trump. she says she has his support today. i don't think you can call this the fringe of the republican party anymore, i mamanda. >> no, but i think it's important to take a trip to realville where people who support trump could not live anymore. donald trump not only lost the white house, he is responsible for losing the senate and the house of representatives. trumpism is a political loser, okay? marjorie taylor greene and her qanon-style politics are responsible for republicans losing the senate because kelly loeffler and david t

, against black lives matter, who has an issue -- she was ranting about black lives matter as marjorie greene was walking down that hallway. she has a fixation, negative fixation on it and cori bush was a black lives matter activist before she was in congress. i don't understand how ms. greene is still a congresswoman, do you? >> i thought congresswoman bush said was right on. look, this is the reality, joy. marjorie taylor greene and lauren bogart and a number of others in the house caucus, mel brooks, were on the side of the domestic terrorists. there have been a lot of other republicans, we can talk about this, who have been basically coup neutral. when it comes to marjorie taylor greene she was on the side of the domestic terrorists that stormed the capitol. this is not something that we have a precedent for in modern america, right? so i think that it is absolutely appropriate for congresswoman bush to be concerned about that and why is she still in congress? well, it's because the republican leadership doesn't have the courage to stand up to her because they think their base is on her s

marjorie taylor greene? the qanon supporter who was named to the house education and labor committee today. who supported the big lie. >> we aren't going to let this election be stolen by joe biden and the democrats. president trump won by a landslide. >> marjorie taylor greene, who our k file investigation finds repeatedly indicated support for executing prominent democratic politicians before being elected to congress. is marjorie taylor greene the kind of republican that we're supposed to unify with? come on now. let's be truthful about this. because imagine if marjorie taylor greene or the folks like her, any of them, kevin mccarthy, imagine if they were democrats. what republicans would be saying right now. most house republicans are keeping quiet about marjorie taylor greene. but the minority leader kevin mccarthy's spokesman says he plans to have a conversation with her. wow. have a conversation. a conversation. let me just remind you that steve king lost miz committee assignments in 2019 over his rep

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you know, marjorie taylor greene who has been in the news this whole weekend is a conspiracy theorist. here are some of the comments she's made in the past in a video she posted in 2018. >> so-called plane that crashed into the pentagon, it's odd there's never any evidence shown for a plane in the pentagon. ms-13 was basically like they were kind of the henchmen of the obama administration. they did a lot of the dirty work. seth rich, seth rich was murdered by two ms-13 gang members. kennedy getting killed in the plane crash because isn't it interesting that he had announced he was going to run for senate just before he died in a mysterious plane crash. that's another one of those clinton murders, right? >> that's just the tip of the iceberg. and the response from a vast majority of republicans has been crickets. she actually tweeted yesterday that she spoke to president trump on the phone and he offered support. house minority leader kevin mccarthy is supposed to meet with greene this week. are we going to see any kind of reprimand who are has mccarthy already signaled that this is n

the trump, marjorie taylor greene and qanon faction have won. blicans level. maybe mitt romney hand that's it. >> a couple days later after marjorie taylor greene, i talked with donald trump so when you connect the dots here, where does the gop stand relative to donald trump, is it side by side, perhaps? >> it's still the trump party. he's not going to get convicted clearly. the republican senators made that clear. he'll dangle out this idea he'll run again in 2024 which means he remains the de facto leader of the party and look at the local party. look at the state parties, alex. not just congress. sometimes we get distracted what's happening in this town and capitol hill. look at the gop in south carolina krens you'ring members and look at what it is happening to liz cheney and look at those who are saying is the attack on the capitol is a false flag and the hawaii gop which tweeted praise of the qanon and the texas gop which has a qanon mantra in its slogans and online motifs. this is a top from top to bottom which has been taken over by consp

bush, moved her office -- you know, relocated because she says she was being harassed by marjorie taylor greeneaylor greene even had video where she's kind of in a shouting match with congresswoman bush. describe for me the tenor, you know, in the hallways. we're not just talking about in committees and in the chamber, but what is it like walking around, you know, these congressional office buildings and capitol hill as a whole knowing that there's this kind of animus taking place. >> in a building that i thought i would be most safe in, and the entire country it just couldn't feel that way. i don't walk anywhere, even inside the building alone because you don't know what you're going to run into and what the interaction is going to be like. congresswoman bush should not have had to change her office because of the vile acts of other members of congress but this is where we're at right now and we have to hold people accountable. until we hold people accountable they will continue to do what they're doing because there are no consequences. and so that's why we need to -- congresswoman bush has a

greene. axios is reporting that kevin mccarthy plans to talk privately with marjorie taylor greene about her homicidal thoughts. tonight congressman alexander ocasio-cortez said this in an interview with chris hayes here on msnbc. >> when i hear that representative mccarthy is going to pull a member aside who has made white supremacist sympathizing comments, the thing that i think is, what is he going to tell them? keep it up? because there are no consequences in the republican caucus for violence. there's no consequences for racism, no consequences for misogyny, no consequences for insurrection and no consequences means that they condone it. it means that that silence is acceptance and they want it because they know that it is a core animating political energy for them. and this is extremely dangerous an extremely dangerous threshold that we have crossed because we are now away from acting out of fealty to their president that they had in the oval office. and now we are talking about fealty to white supremacist organizations as a political tool. >> leading off our discussion tonight, claire

there's something terribly wrong that, you know, that marjorie taylor greene for some reason is not -xcoriated and ex-communicated while liz cheney is under tremendous pressure from some of her colleagues who are showboating going into her district and trying to suggest somehow she's disloimp the fight is going to be engaged. people like bill kristol and i and others are going to stand up for the folks who have a lot of integrity and did the right thing and they should not be called on the carpet, and the leadership of the republican party should be standing up and defending liz cheney and the others for doing what they did. >> but so far they vice president, you know, and so far they are allowing marjorie taylor greene to continue to, you know, be a functioning member of congress on -- on this committee. we -- we went to one of her town halls, and this is what -- what one of her constituents had to say about marjorie taylor greene. >> my 23 years in georgia and years prior to that, she's the most serious candidate and would i follow her more than any other congressman or senator i've

greene? >> well, alex, they're really weighing three different options to make sure that congresswoman marjorie taylor greene is the last republican to use verbal attacks as well as potentially physical attacks in insurrecting any kind of violence in the future. the first one would be to expel her completely but that would be difficult to do since it requires two-thirds of the votes and republicans are not likely going to support a move like that. another one is removing her and stripping her from her committee assignments that would just allow her to vote on the floor, not really have influence on policy. and of course, the last one and most realistic option is censuring her. that would basically with equivalent to a slap on the wrist. it really could not -- she would not face any consequences besides the house just saying outright that they denounce any of her actions, including yesterday we heard from congresswoman cori bush from missouri who said that earlier this month, congresswoman greene berated her in the hallways, her and her staff, and that she felt very much threatened as she descri

greene. what's she saying? >> reporter: lindsey it all started yesterday, as you mentioned, when congresswoman cori bush accused congresswoman marjorie taylor greene for attacking her. she said she berated her after bush actually approached her, asked her to wear a mask. it's been a demand that many democrats have been asking from their republican counterparts, and it was greene as well as her staff who ended up yelling at bush, and bush felt threatened, and she said that her staff should not be facing this every single day that they walk past taylor greene's office, so that prompted her to ask speaker nancy pelosi if she could move. it's not something that typically happens, especially early on in a freshman's term, to move offices. and pelosi actually granted that request, given that many democrats have been fearing for their safety. but i want you to take a listen to bush in her own words explaining what happened and what she hopes comes out of this. >> i moved my office because i am here to do a job for the people of st. louis. they deserve that. and what i cannot do is continue to look over my shoulder wondering if a white supre

. >> house republican leader kevin mccarthy has promised to have a word with marjorie taylor greene about the racist, antisemitic, homicidal thoughts she has publicly expressed. but more important mri for kevin mccarthy, he had to go to florida today to talk to the man who is facing trial for incitement of insurrection at the u.s. capitol. >> the president bears responsibility for wednesday's attack on congress by mob rioters. he should have immediately denounced the mob when he saw what was unfolding. these facts require immediate action by president trump. accept his share of responsibility, quell the bruling unrest and ensure president-elect biden is able to successfully begin his term. >> the cowardly kevin did not say a word of that to donald trump today. kevin mccarthy released a statement saying, today president trump committed to helping elect republicans in the house and senate in 2022. that commitment is of course worth absolutely nothing because it's from donald trump. kevin mccarthy still hasn't released a statement saying that marjorie taylor greene has promised not to encour

marjorie taylor-greene is a member of congress. josh hawley and ted cruz are united states senators. donald trump was the president. at some point how and when does the republican party or something that used to be the republican party that you were once a member of cleave itself in which jews in space sent a laser to florida to make way for high-speed rail? >> let's play it out. kevin mccarthy who is every bit as responsin as hawley are for the incitements to violence for the telling of the big lie. where is the minority leader of the house? he is in mar-a-lago with his leader donald trump pledging his loyalty? they put a woman, marjorie taylor-greene who is utterly insane. they put her on the education committee. she denies the parkland and the newtown shootings. a member of congress denies the

you've got marjorie taylor greene and her comments as well. >> it has been a chaotic week on which i pitol hill to say the least. first we have marjorie take i lore greene, the conservative congresswoman from georgia, she has been known to like posts calling for the excuse of her fellow members of congress, she actually also called school shootings a false flag operation. democrats want to see action against her. there are now three efforts under way first to either censure her, to strip of her committee assignment or even go as far as to expel her from congress. on the other hand, you have matt goetz, he traveled to campaign against the number three leader liz cheney. in her own home state. now, where is kevin mccarthy in all of this? he was down in mar-a-lago meeting with president trump to talk to him about midterms despite members in his own party warning him against doing that. and he has said that he supports liz cheney, he says he has concerns following her impeachment vote, she supported impeaching donald trump. and when it comes to marjorie taylor greegreene, they will me nex

i find it kind of incredible that your party's talking about sanctioning liz cheney, but marjorie greene seems to be, you know, being -- no punishment for her for saying these heinous things. how do you think the republican party should be handling congresswoman greene right now? >> think ultimately every member is going to be responsible for their own actions and their own words. we can't be party of conspiracy theories. we can't be a period of winking and nodding at some of the worst impulses we've seen in the darkest corners of the internet. that's not how you're going to have a party that's trusted to govern, not how to win over moderate and independent voters and say trust us to make decisions about the future this cou country. that, again, is just a dark path for the republican party to go down. and it's one that i'm committed not to going down. and if that means that i'm off on an island with a few lonely colleagues, so be it. i think it's important to stand up f stand by our oath to the constitution and to say there are better ways for us to govern that don't divolve into threats

literally the next morning marjorie taylor greene takes to twitter and says she just had a great phone call with president trump who encouraged her on. so in less than 24 hours, president trump is undermining the efforts with marjorie taylor greene. it really is undermining what he's trying to accomplish even in his political afterlife. >> what would that conversation have been between mccarthy and greene even if her phone call didn't happen with trump? >> i think it's going to be along the lines of, if you don't stop with some of this crazy talk and sort of, you know, rein it in, then you're going to face some consequences. when steve king said offensive things, he was stripped of his committee assignment. so to me that's probably the first step that mccarthy would turn to as far as recourse with greene. >> and then kevin mccarthy said his party needs to step up against people like marjorie taylor greene. and yet he's not going to run for another term. but isn't this the time for veterans like him to stay in and fight for righting the ship? >> that's a great plan, and part of the chal

how representative is marjorie taylor greene's district now of the broader republican party?ready to say that it represents the broader republican party. but it's a pretty scary fringe that i think is seeping into the rest of the party. and there's great concern for the kind of poison that, you know, can leach out into the party from there if it's not stopped. and there's no clear evidence so far that folks are really willing to come in and stop it. you know, you have her being appointed to the education committee. you have folks sort of watching as she ties to impeach joe biden. a lot of these are, certainly, flatly absurd and kind of crazy things. that they're being just sort of watched, instead of spoken out against. so, you know, i think there's a grave danger that -- yeah, go ahead. >> i'm sorry, the pauses sometimes get me with these delays and setups. denver, quickly, before we have to go, is this a play for the primaries? or is this a play for general elections going forward? does this get more republicans elected? >> i think they'll do fine in the 2022 elections. i t

greene. he tweeted lies of a feather flock together. marjorielor's greene's non-sen abthe big lie of a stolen election. that came after greene tweeted about a phone call with former president trump claiming the people of in country are absolutely 100% loyal to him. and again quoting her, you can never beat him because we have the people -- we the people have his back. our senior political analyst david gergen served for presidents, three republicans, including ronald reagan. david, always an honor to have you on. if you would, give us a sense of what is going on in the republican party in your view. >> well, i'm afraid, pamela, the republican party that was the grand old party has lost a lot of its grandness. this started way back, actually, in the 1990s when the republican party moved right sharply under the leadership of newt ginrich taking over the house. and ginrich's time as speaker. really the party swung far to the right. and it just continued to do that. and now it's become taken over by radicals on the far, far right. radicals who like

marjorie taylor greene — an ardent supporter of president trump.r state of georgia. we can speak to rina shah — a republican strategist. she's in washington. thanks very much. a very good sunday evening to you there in dc. one side might say this is an infringement of her free rights. another might say this is an important step in tackling disinformation. was twitter right in suspending her account? , ., account? twitter is doing exactly what _ account? twitter is doing exactly what people - account? twitter is doing exactly what people like | account? twitter is doing - exactly what people like ben sass have called for them to do. that is to call these conspiracy theorists to account. i am completely in support of this. i'm a big pro speech first amendment advocate that this isn't about that. this is about something far different. marjorie taylor greene of georgia is making perhaps the most nonsensical argument i've heard in all of my years of working in republican politics and that is arguing for conservativism by demanding, railing, that governm

we can't just shame marjorie taylor green. to ask people to give up in what we invested in 200 plus years. >> there is a distinction between the leadership and our fellow americans who vote and do whatever. we share the country with them. democracy means sharing it and means we've got to figure out how to do it together. and it relates to the role that you play in the senate majority now, which is it just seems to me the stakes right now of democratic government delivering, i mean small d democratic government and the democratic party delivering tangible improvements to people's lives are the stakes of whether we slip towards authoritarianism. you have to show a proof of concept. you and your colleagues have to do that to rescue us from the abyss. >> no, i think that's exactly the point that i'm making, right. you have this crowd of americans -- listen, been watching democracy as their income is flat, the planet is lit on fire as there are more threats posed to the united states than ever before. they're literally sitting arou

senator mitt romney, very much a critic of the president, also going after greene saying lies of a feather flock together, marjorie taylor greene's nonsense and the big lie of a stolen election. so i anticipate those who have been critical of the president will also be critical of her as well. many will remain silent. >> this controversy is coming as some gop lawmakers are embroiled in this civil war, some members trying to pick out party leader liz cheney for her vote for impeachment of president trump, and now former president george w. bush is showing his support for cheney. what's going on with this? how influential is this at all? >> former president george w. bush very much a conservative stall wart, if you would, of the party, a traditionalist. it's not surprising. he is lending his support behind her. he did say through a spokesperson he is calling his former vice president dick cheney, to wish him a happy birthday but also to thank his daughter liz cheney for her service to the country. he is weighing on this trying to sway republicans who have been quiet and those who have been not very strong in their s

liz cheney, she's the number three house republicans, taking rockets from matt gaetz and marjorie taylor greene running roughshod through the halls of congress. really? >> well, i mean, what we can take away from this is the fact that marjorie taylor greene is actually pretty representative of a lot of republican voters. if she wasn't, they wouldn't be treating her with such kid gloves. and so the reason they don't want to go against her is because they don't want to get the backlash from the voters. so what does that say about the state of the republican party, that the republican leaders themselves are acknowledging that there are enough people who are republicans who share the views of this person who is a lunatic, i mean, there's no other way to put it. i mean, she believes in the craziest conspiracies that you can think up, conspiracies that involve you believing that democrats are running, you know, a child trafficking ring, drinking the blood of children, cutting faces off and wearing them as masks. a person like this should not be in leadership. that's enough right there. then add in th

republicans are giving key committee assignments to conspiracy theorists like marjorie taylor greene, who spouts racist and xenophobic lies. that's quite the contrast. >> it's as stark as it gets and it says too much about the state of our politics today. marjorie taylor greene getting a seat on the education committee when she's, you know, enflamed conspiracy theories about school shootings. the question is what's too much? and the actions of the republican leadership is to say, well, you know, we really need to cool down internal dissent, treating liz cheney and adam kinzinger and someone equally divisive and anti-reason as marjorie taylor greene. that's the problem. you got to deal with the problem in the party, and they seem totally unwilling to and still afraid of donald trump from lame duck status at mar-a-lago. >> john harwood, countless republicans have remained silent about greene's dangerous lies. is it time to admit the party is more in line with marjorie taylor greene than mitt romney or rob portman or, as you just mentioned, adam kinzinger? >> well, the republican party r

>> well, there's kearocity and condemnation surrounding marjorie taylor greene. the office of the former president donald trump is not commenting on the phone call that she talked about having with the former president, but we have certainly seen donald trump comment about marjorie taylor greene in the past and the two adhered themselves to each other politically. they're in very much the same lane. as you saw, democrats in particular are concerned enough that they want to bring action to censure, even expel taylor greene from congress. that is a rare kind of move but it's drawing some support from democrats, even an outside republican group that expressed concern about some of her past statements, calling them appalling. she's become a provocateur of the republican party. a one-woman flashpoint. >> we have nothing to say. >> reporter: from taunting a school member survivor to trash-talking in the halls of congress. >> democrats impeaching trump for nothing is crazy. that's what we're dealing with here in the house of hypocrites >> reporter: 46-year-old marjorie t

front and center in the chaos, marjorie taylor green, a qanon supporter, has spoken against house speaker nancy pelosi and president obama. she's facing threats of expulsion. >> what i'm concerned about is the republican leadership in the house of representatives, who is willing to overlook, ignore those statements assigning her to the education committee when she has mocked the killing of little children at sandy hook elementary school, when she has mocked the killing of teenagers in high school at the marjorie stone douglass high school. what could they be thinking? >> joining me now nbc chief white house correspondent and "weekend today" co-host kristen welker, garrett haake on capitol hill, and julia ainsley who covers homeland security. kristen, president trump is in mar-a-lago, but the political wreckage in his wake, especially for the republicans, is a major problem for the party and for the lawmakers who are still here. >> reporter: it really is, andrea. and they are trying to determine what the party will look like in the wake of former president donald trump. and you have as you

marjory taylor greene. she's so unbelievable. also joining us tonight are georgia representatives marjory taylor greene -- i love marjory. >> so trump says he loves marjory. and trump and green are in lock step when it comes to the lie trump told the war, the lie that inspired his followers to attack the u.s. capitol. >> make no mistake this election was stolen from you, from me and from the country. we won in a landslide. this was a landslide. >> we aren't going to let this election be stolen by joe biden and the democrats. president trump won by a landslide. >> the republican party right now is the party of trump, and trump's big lie about the election being stolen is a core tenant of qanon. and for those republicans who want to still hope that this is just going to go away, it isn't. qanon is not going anywhere. it's coast to coast. and arizona the republican party voted saturday to sensor cindy mccain and two other prominent republican officials because they crossed trump. in oregon the state republican party is fwooiing into

these people have shown no come pungs no regret and then marjorie taylor green the focus of much more sustained attention on the record endorsing violence against speaker nancy pelosi. this is a facebook comment green liked from a january 2019 suggesting quote a bullet to the head would be quicker to remove pelosi. thumbs up. but that's just one of a long list of violent, racist and crazy things she has said including suggesting muslims should not be able to serve in public office, a contradiction of the plain text of the constitution she so claims to love and that black people are held slaves to the drtic party. she is on video harassing david hog, a survivor of the parkland school shooting climbing that the tragedy was a false flag. i didn't really happen. it was a fake or planted? this was a big conspiracy theory on the right for a while and trafficked in several other insane far right conspiracy theories like this one which i had to study about. i hadn't really encountered it but how hillary clinton murders babies and then there's another about a california wild fire being started

i mean, what is the point of marjorie taylor greene?vant to service to the american people. >> susan, you're a former member of congress. do you even recognize the republican party that is now on capitol hill? >> absolutely not. i share michael's disappointment and concern. i think actually the republican party can become the fringe party, the party that we won't recognize in the next three or four years unless some aggressive leadership steps forward. i think it's that serious. it's not just marjorie taylor greene, it's serious and how leader mccarthy deals with this will tell us a lot. when we look at the gop in arizona, a gop legislator who just introduced a piece of legislation saying they should be able to overturn electoral results by the legislature. saying what happened in the capitol was not really happening. when we look at what's happening in the south carolina gop wants to censure -- it's not just marjorie taylor greene. it's a disease flowing through the republican party. now, i'm not going to leave the party yet because i