marjorie taylor greene is a racist conspiracy theorist. all for people to see on social media.er conspiracies. qanon followers believe world governments are being controlled by a shadowy cabal of ped files who will eventually be brought to justice by president trump. and trump tweeted his support for greene after her win. and yesterday a reporter asked him about it and he didn't like that too much. >> you congratulated marjorie taylor greene anyway tweet. called her a future republican star. she's been a proponent of the qanon conspiracy theory, as she said it would be something worth listening to. do you agree with her on that. >> well she did very well in the election. she won by a lot. she was very popular. she comes from a great state. she had a tremendous victory so absolutely, i did congratulate her, please. go ahead. go ahead, please. >> reporter: -- that conspiracy theory. do you agree with her on that? >> she wrote dozens of articles about qanon and even served as a correspondent for a conspiracy news website. in 10i6 wro in. not only does she deny elements of history

just one word on laura loomer and marjory taylor green.hat the racism and the xenophobia and the bigotry are not bugs in the software of trumpism, they are features. and i don't give -- i don't think president trump can be ignorant of everything. ignorant of all of these remarks by all of these people, who support him. he's embracing them for a reason, i think. and that reason is, he wants to be seen not rejecting their message, but rather, accepting it. >> and some saying that he's even enabling it, to some extent. gene, i'm curious to get your thoughts on this in terms of how the dnc has featured a significant number of republican speakers so far. you know, you had colin powell, john kasich, even a videonat narrated by cindy mccain. but if elected president, these are not the people that joe biden will have to be working with in congress to get anything done. he would have to be negotiating as i mentioned earlier with proifg progressives like alexandria ocasio-cortez, maybe even bernie sanders. is it a misstep, politically, to give them

marjorie taylor greene is a star, a real winner. >> there is an islamic invasion into our governmentices right now. you can have a whole bunch of wives or sheep or goats or whatever you want. you stay over there. but in america, see, we made it a great, great country. we don't want it messed up. >> cnn's manu raju joining us live from capitol hill. are there republicans raising the hands saying we got a problem here? >> reporter: only a couple. one of them adam kissinger of illinois said that there's no place in the halls of congress for such conspiracy theories and such rhetoric and not the message from the house republican leadership. most are silent after her victory on tuesday including steve scalise. liz cheney is a member of the republican leadership in the house. house republican leader kevin mccarthy through a spokesperson said yesterday he welcomes her and other republicans winning if they do win in november and do expect her to win because of the fact of that district heavily republican district and nancy pelosi the house speaker told me yesterday that it appears that the r

anti-american, and we're going to kick that [ bleep ] out of congress. >> reporter: businesswoman marjorie taylor greenevorite to win a seat representing a deeply conservative district in northwest georgia. greene has repeatedly praised the qanon theory. >> q is a patriot. we know that for sure. we do not know who q is. people believe that q is someone very close to president trump. >> reporter: the movement sprung to life in early 2017, based on a belief that there is a high level government official, q, who sprinkles crews th s clues message boards. in 2019, the fbi raised concerns over the potential for violence linked to such fringe theories. greene also won despite a history of racist and incendiary remarks, against muslims. >> we have an islamic invasion into our government offices. they want to put their hand on the koran and be sworn in, no. you have to be sworn in on the bible. >> reporter: about democrats. >> they're trying to keep the black people in a modern day forum of slavery. it is a slavery system to keep their votes. >> reporter: about blacks and confederate statues. >> if i were balac

marjorie taylor greene has a track record of incendiary and racist rhetoric, like islamicen vags wa invasionhat george soros turned over jews to the nazis. this remark on nancy pelosi said, she's a hypocrite, anti-american, and we're going to knock that b out of congress." and as he raced to jot down her words my next guest was kicked out of the room. greg bluestein, political reporter for "the atlantic journal constitution." thanks for being with us. greg, before we get to what happened to you, tell us a little bit more about what she believes in. >> yeah. i mean, this is a candidate running to her party, hard right, on a range of issues and sees herself as a true conservative representing a deeply republican northwest georgia district, an open seat. who believes that a lot of republicans including even conservative, some conservative republicans are spineless, not willing to stand up to liberal left, to the lying media in her words and also to their own party. >> and what is the general election looking like for her? >> she's the heavy favorite to win. this is a seat that the incumbent rep

reporter: you congratulated marjorie taylor greene this week. you called her a teacher republican star. she has been a proponent of conspiracy theories and they would be worth listening to. pres. trump: she is done very well in the election and won from a lot. she was very popular. she comes from a great state. she had a tremendous victory so absolutely i do congratulate her. reporter: what about q and on -- qanon? you agree with her on that? reporter: what about your brother? pres. trump: i have a wonderful brother we have a great relationship and he is in the hospital and hopefully he will be ok. he is having a hard time. reporter: i also wanted to ask you about [indiscernible] he wouldsaying that join a video summit with iran and other world powers. would you accept that invitation? pres. trump: i have not been told of it yet. i heard there was something but i have not been told of it yet. reporter: two questions on vaccines. once the vaccine is ready, who should get it first? pres. trump: i will rely on the doctors to tell me that. i would s

one other notable moment today, trump was asked about his recent decision to congratulate marjorie taylor green, the republican congressional candidate in georgia, with a history of promoting fake and aggressively loopy qanonconspiracy theory and making racist remarks. and antismesemitic remarks. >> you congratulated marjorie taylor green in a tweet calling her a future republican star. she has been a pro opponent of the qanon conspiracy theory. do you agree with her on that? >> she did very well in the election. she won by a lot. she was very popular. she comes from a great state. she had a tremendous victory. absolutely i did congratulate her. go ahead. >> you agree with her on that, that was the question. >> go ahead, please. >> here for our leadoff discussion on a busy friday night at the end of a business week, susan page, annie carney, white house reporter with the "new york times" and ron clain. political veteran of the white house and congress. advising the biden campaign. he oversaw the response to the ebola outbreak during the obama administration. notably as well he's the cohost of a

amna: on tuesday, marjorie taylor greene won the republican runoff in georgia's 14th congressional district>> i'm a conservative republican. amna: it's an overwhelmingly favored to win in november. >> we have an islamic invasion. amna: after politicoovered green's previous islamophobic, anti-semitic and racist remarks about black people, g.o.p. leaders distance themselves, condemning her words as appalling and bigoted. but republican leaders remain largely silent about green's support fo a far right support for a conspiracyheory known as qanon. >> q is a patriot. he is someone tt is very much loves this country and he's on the same page as us and is very pro trump. amna: qanon first emerged in the months after president trump took office, spreading to social media. adherents allege, among other things the target of so-called deep state actors, high ranking officials plotting against him. the conspiracy took off and the presatent's supporters led on to the mysterious q. signs and t-shirts appeared at trump's campaign rallies. last year, the f.b.i. labeled the movement a potenti domestic terr

they have created this entire fantasy. >> right, it will be interesting if marjorie taylor green gets to congress and believes in q, is she going to then make fighting child abuse her number one priority as a result? those are the questions we have to ask people who earnestly believe in this. what are they doing to solve real problems? >> have they raised money for kids coming out of the foster care system? have they raised money for kids in need or groups that raise money for kids on the street? i don't think they have. i'm not sure some of these people really believe it, it's just they like -- it's subversive and it's a theory -- like a string theory that allows you to make sense of things which you have no control over. >> i have to tell you, when i went out to find the people who believed it, i sort of expected to find more people who didn't, and i was surprised by how many genuinely really did. and to your question about q's staying power, i think this is how trumpism survives even trump. so if biden ends up winning in november, q's not going anywhere and this is how the pro-trum

and we're going to kick that [ bleep ] out of congress. >> reporter: businesswoman marjory taylor greenfavorite to win a seat representing a deeply conservative district in northwest georgia. green has repeatedly praised the qanon theory. >> "q" is a patriot, we know that for sure, but we do not know who "q" is. people believe that "q" is someone very close to president trump. >> reporter: the movement sprung to life in early 2017, based on a belief that there is a high-level government official, "q," who sprinkles clues on internet message boards about a series of massive deep state conspiracies at work in the country. in 2019, the fbi raised concerns over the potential for violence linked to such fringe theories. she also won despite a history of racist and incendiary remarks against muslims. >> we have an islamic invasion into our government offices. they want to put their hand on the quaukoran be sworn in? no, you have to be sworn in on the bible. >> reporter: about the democrats. >> they're trying to keep the black people in a modern-day form of slavery. it's a slavery system to ke

ild now marjorie taylor greene's namebe on the ballot as well.to lre closely at the rise and spread of the q-anon conspiracy on the campaine trail, i'm jby travis view, co-host of the "qanon anonymous" podcast. travis, welcome to the newshour, you have been folling the q-anon conspiracy theory and followers for a very long tim let's start with the basics for those who haven't been. just explain to us where and how this q-anon conspiry begins. >> the q-anon conspiracy theory originated on october of 2017. soit has its origin in a pia gait. the basic premise is that a group of high level militar intelligence officials close to president trump, are sendg out secret coded messages on these image ards about this great grand battle of good versus evil in which trp and what they call the q team are working to destroy a global cabal of satan worshiping pedophiles which the q-anon community believes is controlling everything and that includes politician, entertainment and the med >> and what is the end game. if you are someone that compleef belies in this

marjorie taylor greene one her prprimary and then n a runoff.was a v very conservativeve district. she is almost certainn to win in the general election. essentially,y, she is somebody o bully believeves in q, b believt is a real entity. she is actively evangelized for it. she has repeatedly told people if they don't sububscribe to ths or they are uncertain about it, not to feel bad, to reach out to her privately and she will help walk them through the importance of q. she is repeatedly called q a patriot. when trurump says the thing h he said, nonot just ththat he did t condemn it, but when he reinforced the fact t that peope inin qanon love their country, their patriotsts, that is essential tenet of what qanon believers sort of tell themselves and also what these doubt bring others into the movement, that there actually the true patriots out there really t trying to save the coununtry and the world from ths sort of interdimemensionall psyc fight. i i would just poioint out that marjororie taylor greene is not the only qanon believer that is on

an adherent named marjorie taylor green won a republican runoff in georgia congressional district. thing. here's what the president had to say about her victory. >> she did very well in the election. she won by a lot. she was very popular. she comes from a great state and she had a tremendous victory, so absolutely, i did congratulate her. please, go ahead. >> qanano, embrace that conspiracy theory, do you agree with her on that? that was the question. >> jeh johnson, the president refused to ever answer that question. he's refused to answer that question millions of times. he's never said he believes in it, but he always seems to do a wink and a nod by not saying anything in either direction. how dangerous is this -- is this qanon? is this a virus inside the republican party? >> i'm afraid it could be, chuck. chuck, qanon and movements like it are gaining currency because of the way in which americans receive their news and receive their information on social media, not enough organizations have standards, have journalistic standards and people, therefore, are drawn to sources of

marjorie taylor greene is also an outspoken supporter of the so-called q-anon conspiracy theory thathe president is fighting a so-called deep state in what she calls a "global cabal of rshippingesy abo house speaker nancy pelosi. >> she's an anti-american, and we're going to kick that [ bleep ] out of congress. >> reporter: today, the president tweeted that greene was a "future republican star" and "a real winner." >> let's get to jon karl with us live in washington tonight. jon, the president knows he needs william voters this fall and today, he tweeted a message, saying the suburban housewife will be voting for me. >> reporter: david, he's attempting to appeal to suburban voters, a key swing group, by playing on racial fears. here's the actual tweet. he tweeted, "the suburban housewife will be voting for me. they want safety and are thrilled that i ended the long-running program where low income housing would invade their neighborhood." but david, it's not clear how many modern american women will respond to this racially charged appeal to, quote, suburban housewives. >> jon karl t

i'm interested what you think about marjorie taylor greene being elected to congress and what was your reaction when she called you the b word? speaker pelosi: you know how little attention i pay when the president of the united states calls me horrible things? it is a judgment to be made about them as to who they welcome into their ranks. again, we all have diversity of opinion and that is the beauty of the mix in congress. beneathbehavior that is the dignity of the congress, that is a judgment about them. anyway, upward and onward. i probably will not see you next week and lest you are going to be in -- unless you're going to be in california or wherever. in any event, thank you. i think the freedom of the press is such an important freedom in our constitution, first amendment because you are the guardians of the gate of our democracy, which i think has some real risk at this time should thank your -- if at this time. thank you all for what you do. stay safe. ♪ >> c-span has unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the supreme court, and public policy events. you can watch a

republicans seem to be comfortable with a qanon supporter, but i'm curious what you think about marjorie taylor greene, and what was your reaction when she called to the b-word? speaker pelosi: you know i don't pay attention when the president calls me horrible things. it is a judgment to be made about them as to who they welcomed into their ranks. we all have diversity of opinion, and that is the beauty of the mix in congress. behavior that is the needs dignity of the congress--beneath the dignity of the congress, that is a judgment about them. probably won't see you next week, unless you are going to be in california or whatever. in any event, thank you for what you do. i think freedom of the press is such an important freedom in our constitution, the first amendment, because you are the guardians of the gate of our democracy, which i think has some real risk at this time. so thank you all for what you do. stay safe. reporter: could a package under $2 trillion passed the house, madam speaker? c-span live coverage continues at 1:00 eastern today went white house press secretary kayleigh mcenany will

the president tweeted out this, congratulations to future republican star marjorie taylor green. marjorie is strong and never gives up. a real winner. this puts him at odds with some leaders on the republican side of the hill. >> he's at odds on so many things right now with people in his own party, particularly those on the hill when it comes to trying to pass some sort of stimulus package. the president is obviously, you know -- would like to see republicans take back the house. that's probably not going to happen despite it -- you know, this candidate wins in georgia, the senate is now at risk and there is this -- yeah, balancing act right now between everyone on the hill about how close to align themselves to the president that no one seems to have figured themselves out at. coming out and openly endorsing a qanon conspiracy theory supporter, the president has himself tweeted qanon conspiracy theories, so it's completely out of line. but certainly one more divide between him and almost all of his own party in the senate. >> and at your own risk, we urge our viewers who have ne

the tweet comes a day after marjorie taylor green, an avid qanon supporter won the election in the stateorgia. green has previously praised qanon. she's widely expected to win the 14th congressional district in november. a trump member questioning kinzinger, calling it russian propaganda. >>> let's switch gears once again and get a check on the weather with nbc meteorologist bill karins. bill, let's talk about the covid numbers before we talk about the weather. of course, another day. more alarming numbers. >> yeah. we're kind of in this weird position now, yasmin, i don't know if anyone knows whether we're going to go up or down. we've been kind of stationary in the last two weeks after the big surge, end of june, all of july. let me show you where we are. you see the seven-day average and the yellow line. you see where we've been over the last week or two. we had the little uptick where we went up in fatalities and now we've been lingering near this 1,000 number average deaths we've been dealing with. yesterday was 1,386. in the middle of the week, we get the higher reports. that's why

. >>> we knew kand marjorie taylor green was a qanon supporter but now we learn about the conspiracy theories she's supported in the past. andrew, what have you found? >> so we found that before green was a congressional candidate she was a correspondent for a website called american truth seekers and this is a now defunct conservative blog and just to give you an idea of some of the stuff this blog posted, they posted that the 2018 shooting at stoneman douglas shooting was a massive false flag. that's a quote. in a couple posts that green wrote she wrote that the conspiracy about pizzagate was real and in another post said that the charlottesville white national protest was an inside job to further the agenda of the elites. and you know, sort of to like deconstruct this a little bit, pizzagate is a conspiracy theory that democrats were running a pedophile ring out of a pizza restaurant and this charlottesville thing, she was basically claiming that it was being done so that they could put the agenda of the elites and further it and this is really, really nutty stuff. and -- >> we sh

today, he avoided a question whether he agrees with marjorie taylor green. >> she comes from a great state. she had a tremendous victory. i did congratulate her. >> do you agree with her on q anon? >> and the president is spending the weekend at his golf club in new jersey. he stopped in manhattan because his younger brother has been hospitali hospitalized. the white house confirm ed thats why the president was going there. they have not confirmed details about his brother. and the president was asked by reporters that he was having a, quote, hard time. kaitlan collins, cnn, the white house. >>> let's talk about these kw developments. he's a visiting professor of the london school of economics. good to have you on. let's begin with the controversy over mail-in balloting. is mail-in balloting on the line here? >> well, he seems to be taking it so by defunding the post office. some sorting machines removed. this aligns with a broader voter suppression and strategies that democrats have championed for a long time that violates the voting rights act of the 1960s. trim down the voters tha

. >> reporter: business woman marjorie taylor green is now the heavy favorite to win a seat representing the deeply conservative district in northwest georgia. green has repeatedly praised the q anon theory. >> q is a patriot. we know that for sure, but we do not know who q is. people believe that q is someone very close to president trump. >> reporter: the movement sprung to life in early 2017 based on a belief that there is a high-level government officials q who sprinkles clues on internet message boards about a series of massive deep state conspiracies at work in the country. in 2019, the fbi raised concerns over the potential for violence linked to such fringe theories. green also won despite a history of racist incendiary remarks against muslims. >> we have an islamic invasion into our government offices. they want to put their hand on the qur'an and be sworn in. no, you have to be sworn in on the bible. >> reporter: about democrats. >> they're trying to keep the black people in a modern-day form of slavery. it's a slavery system to keep their vote. >> reporter: about blacks and co

marjorie taylor green and laura luna, a self-described -- are these fringe beliefs becoming the mainstreamblican party under this president? >> well, i think ayman, what you're seeing is this is what happens when republicans don't believe in these things choose to sit by, stay silent and try to hide from these issues. this is one of the main reasons the senate is in jeopardy, why groups like the lincoln project are going after susan collins and lindsey graham and races in arizona are trending democrat. people are tired of watching their leaders sit by and do nothing. people want leadership. they want boldness. they want truth. they want facts. they want common sense and they're not getting that from the republican party. they're going to pay the price at the polls because they have completely turned away from everything they profess to stand for. when barack obama was president you couldn't hear enough about truth, transparency, oversight from republicans in congress. all that is gone by these whack job conspiracy theorists who have infected the republican party. donald trump has transform

jillian: marjorie taylor green won the runoff.leaders distanced themselves from green over her past comments about blacks, muslims and jews. talk about a ring of fire. plus -- >> she put over 1500 people in jail for marijuana violations and laughed about it. todd: kamala harris called out for flip-flopping on the law. where does she stand on top issues? an attorney that litigated a case with her in california says she's all over the map. she's with us, next. todd: we are back with our big story, joe biden making history by tapping kamala harris as his running mate. so how did she get from california to a record setting candidacy. harmy dillon here to help us chart the course. you and harris are part of the bay area legal community. how is she viewed by that community? >> she started out as a shale i challenger to her boss for district attorney in san san. i was someone who newly moved to the city during that time. i met her do yo during the camp. she was just starting out at that point. she had a mee meteoric ride. she set her sig

. >> in georgia far right gop candidate marjorie taylor green has won her primary, she has ties withonline conspiracy theory group that the fbi labeled a potential domestic terrorism threat. >> the business woman has come under fire for making racist, anti-sem edic and anti-muslim comments. >> also listed on the southern poverty law center hate watch, endorsed with a man with ties to local comiet supremacist, a believer in the q-anon conspiracy that centers on a person that claims q posted inside knowledge of the president quietly leading a revolution, and that everyone be will be put in jail. >> trevor: that's right, a q-anon conspiracy ther rest is about to become a member of congress. and if you are wondering what is q-anon, well, it is a movement that believes that hollywood and the democratic party are actually a secret worldwide child sex trafficking ring whose members har veses the blood of children for its life-extending prove see. and that the only person protecting the world from this evil is donald trump. so let me get this straight. on the one hand, the democratic party i

. >> you congratulated marjorie taylor green, you called her a future republican star. green has been a proponent of the qanon conspiracy theory, she said it would be something that is worth listening to. >> she did well in the election. she won by a lot. very popular. comes from a great state and had a tremendous victory. and absolutely i did congratulate her had. >> do you agree with her on that? that was the question -- >> go ahead? >> see, he doesn't want to address qanon, because they support him. they believe he is secretly fighting a, this global conspiracy, illuminati group of, you know, hollywood celebrities and democratic leaders who are drinking the blood of children and worshipping satan, that he is secretly fighting them. and they used to say that he was secretly fighting them with robert mueller. that was disproven, so they ignore the robert mueller thing, now it's trump secretly leading the fight. you heard the president's ignore the follow-up, he does not want to criticize them, he wants their support. he has no reason to. he doesn't care that it's slande

that's the kind of thing that marjorie taylor green said is worth paying attention to. it's not the first time that the president has openly embraced a baseless conspiracy theory. he's done so with a number of other ones. green has become a polarizing figure on capitol hill. back in the summer when some of her racist comments resurfaced releadership condemned the that kind of rhetoric but they went ahead and congratulated her on her primary victory in a deep red district. she will end up representing it on capitol hill in november. some republicans have been quiting disavowing themselves from the qanon conspiracy theory. she will end up being a polarizing figure. >> thank you. >>> the cdc says people who have recovered from coronavirus do not need to quarantine or get tested again for up to three months. >> now more than 1300 americans died from the virus just yesterday. we're following the very latest. i know the death toll here, people that have died in the u.s., topped more than 1,000. i have to use the word again behind that as well. >> reporter: yeah. it's a number.

one other race that is being watched, in georgia, the headlines there, marjorie taylor greene, q and on supporter, wins non wins the-- qa georgia primary, one of three linked to the conspiracy movement, representing a potential headache from gop toders who have been trying change the view of extremism around president trump, who believe in a deep state plot against trump. green leading that very conservative district in georgia , winning the race. it's a very conservative district. once again, the primary likely means shall be coming to congress. lonnie is next in saulsberry, north carolina. democrat, good morning. caller: good morning, good morning. there was a gentleman in there saying all this stuff about carmella harris, all the stuff she did during her reign as attorney general. had they forgotten all the stuff the trump administration has done? kids in cages? just all kinds of horrible stuff. i think carmella harris's exit on. they are scared of her. they are trying to scare people. it won't work. she's too well known, too well-liked. her policies are great. mike pence, the per

this one is named marjorie taylor green. we won a gop primary this week, for a congressional seat in georgia. the president is speak about her and has been praising her. been to concussion on that primary victory. and on her popularity in that state. but he refused pointedly to disavow the conspiracy theories that green has openly embraced and when he was pressed on it in the briefing yesterday by a report he moved on to call on someone else declining that question. i want to you listen to that exchange. >> she did very well in the election. she won by a lot. very popular. comes from a great state. and she had tremendous victory so absolutely i did congratulate her. >>> now green has said that the qanon conspiracy theories are something worth paying attention to but i want to walk you through southeast things that are involved in this qanon conspiracy theory. baseless allegations that high-profile people have participated in child sex rings. that a deep state has tried to be sabotage trump's presidency. there's conspiracies

the candidates including marjorie taylor green, a qanon supporter.riticized for comments. she's up against dr. john cowan, a neurosurgeon for a house seat. election officials hope today's vote will go more smoothly. voters waited to cast their ballots in long lines during a pandemic in the pouring rain. >>> there are thunderstorms in today's forecast, so let's check in with blayne alexander in atlanta. how is the voting coming along so far? >> reporter: well, joshua right here behind me people are voting. it's been a slow but steady stream here at this location. if you saw any of those long lines, our coverage from two months ago, this was the same place. if you can believe it or not. in fact up along this street, you saw a live stretch back that way around the corner twice before people werible to come here to vote. we spoke with people who had to wail some three, four, even five -- i ran into someone that i met back then. when i met her two months ago, she was soaking wet, had been waiting for 3 1/2 hour, very different story today. but because of

congratulations to marjorie taylor greene on big a win in georgia against a very smart poem.ves up. a real winner. has the person we've learned is a 9/11 truther. perhaps not surprising. it seems like the president is okay with this because this qanon conspiracy seemed to be in love with trump. >> yeah. that's trump. it doesn't matter how dangerous you are or what rhetoric you put out. this soon to be congresswoman, ms 13 and the clints killed 400 dnc staffers, seth rich, a common conspiracy on the right in order to cover up the real people that enter feared in the election to pre tend that it wasn't russia who did it. she's fond of jfk junior conspiracies. she is deep, deep in the conspiracy world and a lot of racially racist, frankly, racist conspiracies she's putting forward. the president won't stand up to this. these are the president's people. he would rather have q members than justin amash or jeff flake. look what he says. he's far nastier to republicans who disagree with him. what's the party is you understand trump. >> look. i know, one of the reasons you work there

today he avoided a question whether he agrees with marjorie taylor green. >> she comes from a great state and had a tremendous victory. i did congratulate her. >> reporter: and jim, the president just arrived in new jersey at his golf club where he is spending the weekend. before going there, he made a stop in manhattan because his younger brother is in the hospital. the president hasn't said why, he did say he was ill and he was going to check on him. seems like he was still learning more information about it. that is all we know, he is in a hospital in new york and no further details so far. >>> thank you very much for that. now the new warning from the u.s. postal service about delays in delivering mail-in ballots. abby, what does it tell us about how fast voters ballots can be delivered compared to the expectations that everybody has? >> everybody should know requesting their ballot, receiving and returning could take a lot more time than they are probably expecting. the u.s. postal service is warning dozens of states according to the "washington post" that these ballots could take lo

marjory taylor green won the primary for a seat in georgia.upport for the leader of qanon, known simply as q. she was called a future republican star by the president. some republicans are speaking out against it. congresswoman liz cheney called it dangerous lunacy. ben collins reports on the far corners of the internet and joins us now. ben, welcome. >> hachlt thanks for having me. >> what is it about conspiracy theories like q anonare people latching on? i don't think it's that simple. >> it's not that simple. the thing is i'm sure you know somebody at this point, whether it's a friend from high school or somebody closer, a family member or someone like that, they've gone down this rabbit hole. it's not because they've lost it or anything. they've been trained by bad actors to go down this path. qanon followers started innovating fitness groups, religious groups, things like that in facebook in the last few months. they said, maybe you lost your job recently. you lost a family member to covid. maybe something really bad happened to you. inst

. >> reporter: they have a new champion in marjorie taylor greene who has upset the republican establishmentse, representing georgia's 14th congressional district. >> q is a patriot. >> reporter: this is greene in 2017 talking about the movement's mysterious leader named q. >> he is someone that very much loves this country and he's on the same page as us and he is very pro-trump. >> reporter: the fbi says qanon and their many conspiracy theories are a potential domestic terrorism threat. the north carolina man who shot up this d.c. pizza restaurant looking for nonexistent pedophiles believed in similar theories. leaders on the right have distanced themselves from greene but after her victory this week, president trump shared his congratulations to future republican star marjory taylor-greene. she isn't alone. a small but growing number of republican candidate was won their primaries share some of these beliefs. >> qanon fans believe that or at least they act as though they believe that trump is the savior of the united states, and that they are helping him overturn this deep state plot. >>

tonight, marjorie taylor green winning the runoff in the republican primary to represent a deep red georgia district. she's been accused of making racist comments online. president trump continuing his criticism of mask mass mailing ballots, it's inevitable this issue is going to end up in court. >> these mail-in ballots, millions over the country, it's going to be a rigged election, and this country shouldn't allow it, the courts have to step in. >> shannon: there are already scores of lawsuits regarding changes to voting procedures in this year of the pandemic collection. the president tonight calling senator harris his first draft pick because it completes, he says, the progressive takeover of the democratic ticket. the president himself has donated to the harris campaign in the past. she's not the only democrat, and harris has had her own trouble with progressives. white house correspondent kevin corke joins us with more on the president's reaction to the pick. good evening, kevin. >> evening, shannon. whether you hurt him earlier tonight on fox with sean hannity or earlier today at the

continues to avoid any criticism of the online conspiracy theory group qanon but as we've report, marjorie taylor greenee in the gop with her congressional primary victory in a georgia district that usually goes republican so she may be on her way to congress. her unapologetic admiration of qanon makes her a believer in the theory of other things there is global elites running the world and those same people, many celebrities or democratic politicians are kidnapping and sexually abusing kids, sucking away their blood and using a pizza parlor as a prison and also worshipping satan. that's just the start. none of that stopped the president from congratulating green on her primary win this week and today, he was asked about that support. >> she said the qanon conspiracy theory maybe something worth listening to. >> she won by a lot. she was very popular. she comes from a great state and she had a tremendous victory so absolutely i did congratulate her. please, go ahead. >> do you agree with her on that? >> go ahead. >> see, he doesn't want to actually address qanon because they actually support him. they b

the executive marjorie taylor green is the front runner in runoff election with retiring congressmans seat and has faced criticism for repeating the so-called qanon conspiracy theory. up next, the college football season may be circling the drain because of the coronavirus. we will bring you that but first beyond the borders tonight, iran government shutdown a newspaper after a former member of national coronavirus task force is saying the country's real statistics from the coronavirus epidemic could be 20 times higher than official figures. some experts and lawmakers have doubted the accuracy of iran's announced numbers. a shark breach on the camera of sea island south africa. take a look at this the height estimate of 15 feet above water and a new record for documentary series on the discovery called "error jaws." part of shark week and some of the stories beyond the borders tonight. we will be right back. ♪ what do you think? i don't see it. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ that selling carsarvana, 100% online wouldn't work. but we went to work.

theorists, both of them complete bigots as well, have won republican congressional nominations, marjorie taylor green in georgia in a republican district and laura lumer in florida in a district that leans democratic. president trump has praised both of them, gone out of his way to say positive things about these really unlikable candidates in terms of the things that they say and do. is it possible, congressman, is it possible that the republican party is now the party of deranged bigots and there isn't a place in it any longer for a charlie dent? >> well, look. part of the reason i'm doing this today is because of what happened last week. i wrote an op-ed. i was on john king show and we talked about the qanon conspiracy candidate down in georgia. 9/11 truther for pete's sake and the president called this person a rising star. all this does is empower the whack jobs and the nuts to come out. and i think with strong leadership, we should be able to marginalize folks like that. and it's really a sad state of affairs when the president endorses a 9/11 truther. i grew up in a republican party in pennsyl

today he avoided a question about whether he agrees with marjorie taylor green. >> she comes from a greattate. she had a tremendous victory. i did congratulate her. >> do you agree with her on that? >> reporter: now, jim, the president made those comments at a press briefing before he left the white house because he's going to his new jersey golf club this weekend. he stopped at a hospital in manhattan on his way there because his younger brother robert there is there in the hospital. robert is 72. we don't know what's wrong with him. and you can see the president getting out of his motorcade there. he only said that he is ill and he said he is having a hard time. we really don't know much more than that. >> cnn's kaitlan collins, thank you very much for that. let's get more on this disturbing new warning from the postal service. cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider is working the story for us. jessica, this is incredible. 46 states and the district of columbia are being told already that mail-in ballots may not be delivered in time to be counted in the presidential election. what

marjorie taylor green is in a strong people to become one of the first members of congress to supportnt trump congratulated green on twitter and when asked about support for qanon, he dodged the question. >> green has been a proponent of the qanon conspiracy theory. do you agree with her on that? >> she did very well in the election. she won by a lot, she was very popular, she comes from a great state, she had a tremendous victory. >> qanon -- >> next question. >> do you agree with her on that, that was the question. >> go ahead, please. >> nbc news tech reporter brandy zadrozny has more on this qanon rise of candidates. >> you may have seen posts, memes, the conspiracy theory's main symbol and signal. >> q's plan to save the world. >> what does q stand for. >> in a time of widespread distrust of information, qanon is the mother of all modern conspiracy theories. >> the heart of the qanon belief system, part of the secret kabal. >> donald trump was picked by military leaders to run for president as a way to kind of bring down the deep state. >> which is affiliated with all sorts of mi

well, at the white house last night, marjorie taylor green who supports qanon which the fbi has saidan inspire domestic terrorists to violence, there she is. she was an invited guest at the republican convention at the white house. what's the impact of that, do you think? >> you know, 3 1/2, 4 years ago when he was running for president i was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt that he was ignorant, that he didn't realize that his messaging was having this effect of rallying -- almost a rallying cry for these extreme views and of course in america you can have an extreme view. the problem is that these extreme views have been shown to cause people to act out in violence. and we have a number of examples in recent years where his rhetoric is tied in manifestos of people that have committed attacks and i'm thinking about specifically of el paso. but certainly continuing in this behavior is irresponsible, it's reckless. if you are holding the office of the president, your first and primary duty under the constitution is to protect us. and he is doing the exact opposite with his

john cowan and marjorie taylor green.vowed by party leadership for racist, anti-islam and anti-semitic comments and attracted national attention for her support for conspiracy theories. and today's contests are yet another test run for voting during the pandemic. joining me, nbc news correspondent blayne alexander who is live from atlanta. georgia's primary june 9s was plagued with problems. you know that. heat, pouring rain, hours-long wait time to vote. what kind of changes have we seen to make today's process smoother, and how is it going? >> well, chris, i was here in this exact location about two months ago, really around the same time of day and i can tell you the difference is night and day. so when we were here two months ago, the line to vote was stretched down that way around the corner and then around the corner again. certainly a very different look. when you look here today, we've seen a steady trickle when i speak with the poll workers. they've been in within a matter of minutes so completely different exper

it out of primaries into the ballot in november or onto primary runoffs, and they include marjorie taylor greeneatulatory tweet from president trump himself. my colleague, a reporter for nbc news who dwells in this stuff so that we don't have to, but i have to say you and i have been talking about this for a couple of years and i sort of take some satisfaction in the fact you and ben collins live in this stuff so the rest of us don't have to worry about it, but you let it out. it's not in your swampy world in which you work, it is mainstream. it's not in the dark corners of the internet. there were 14 people who are running for congress, many of whom may win. >> yeah. qanon is no longer a part of the fringe. it is a mainstream political movement. it's terrifying, and, you know, what's been really interesting is that this week we had an investigation where we got some leaked documents from facebook, and facebook had an internal investigation where they were looking into qanon from the platform. and from that leaked investigation, the preliminary results we saw a scale that even frightened me. and