i don't think noun, verb, marjorie taylor greene or fascist or white nationalist is going to work any better. people can see and differentiate between a glenn youngkin and a donald trump or a glenn youngkin and a marjorie taylor greene. so i think as a campaign strategy, that's just, you know, not going to pass the eye test. i certainly wouldn't associate with a party that i thought to be that kind of group. but, look, there are people who are obviously out there saying things that i wouldn't associate myself with. i think that's the fight nancy mace is trying to get to, and i think that's what leadership is trying to figure out right now is how do you deal with that under the circumstances. >> dean, i'll let you respond to

make slammed greene on twitter and said this -- >> make no mistake, marjorie t taylor green is a liarazy, insane, bad for the party. >> after that, congresswoman greene tweeted that she had spoken with trump about mace, to which mace responded bless her f'ing heart and did not abbreviate. in comments later saying this about green's anti-muslim rhetoric. >> what it says to me is that if you say that something is brash or crazy or extreme, you're going to raise money. that's the only reason that she does that. she is a grifter of the first order. and she does it to raise money. >> joining us now, jackie alameny of "the washington post," writes the early 202 and jonathan martin, national political correspondent at "the new york times." i think of this in terms of small children but i think small children behave better than marjorie taylor greene or lauren boebert in this case. i wonder what you think about kevin mccarthy pulling both of these members of congress into his office, telling them to knock it off like there is some sort of equivalence here. >> this clearly points to kevin mcca

marjorie taylor greene calling fellow republican nancy mace trash. after mace condemned anti muslim bigotry from gop congresswoman lauren boebert. greene promising to back a primary challenge to mace with the support of the former president. mace firing back and i'm quoting her here, all i can say about marjorie taylor greene is bless her f-ing heart. so that's where we are. that is the state of the gop tonight. let's discuss. dean obeidallah is here. liam donovan is a republican strategists. good to see both of you. this is nuts, but i want to hear how you feel. liam, you, you know, have representative green calling nancy mace trash and gop leadership is essentially missing in action with mccarthy refusing to say anything publicly. what is happening with your party? >> look, i think the details of this spat will be forgotten by the time we are pouring eggnog but it's indicative of the tension we're seeing come to head throughout the year and in someways it's been true for the past decade within the republican party. leadership is no longer the last

you've got marjorie taylor greene as a ridiculous figure. but she is a u.s. congress person who is in some ways the vanguard of most republican people will. be someone is complaining about the fact that you can't discriminate against transplants from california new york to move from texas and florida. this is a problem. so her solution is that it would be possible in a national divorce scenario. after democrats voters think it would be wise from going to another good state like florida. brainwashing people who moved from california to new york need a cooling-off period. and there's some part of me thinking, it's marjorie taylor greene, she's a troll. what on earth. this is a u.s. member of congress talking about tearing the union apart. and it feels weird to say in 2021 but i support the union. i like the union. i am pro union. >> they have union clubs. >> yes, really strongly. i strongly support the union. >> you are really out there chris. i have to say. it would be bad enough if it were just one slightly adult conch gross person. but the fact is that marjo

i mean, it seems like he is scared of marjorie taylor greene. >> well, he -- >> sorry, that was for dana what lauren boebert said and, uh, not really what marjorie taylor greene has done in the past. you're right. i mean, it is kind of giving it an equivalency. and in some ways, the reason nancy mace is speaking out is -- and she's doing it in a very provocative way, clearly intentionally -- is because the leadership of her party in the house is not. >> yeah. kirsten, i was talking to james carville last night. he said democrats should just ignore boebert -- piece of this and that omar should, you know, not be talking about punishing congresswoman boebert but just saying what she is doing for people in her district. focusing on what people actually care about, and leaving the fringe to, you know, do the lunatic-fringe stuff. um, because it takes you off message of talking about what you are actually doing in congress for -- for your constituents. congresswoman omar said late tonight that she wants to see appropriate action taken against boebert. do you think carville's right? >> i don't

i mean, congressman, just to get through some of this, republican congressman marjorie taylor greene has -- when nancy mace came out, the republican from charleston, south carolina, and skon demmed the anti-muslim comments boebert made, greene jumps to boebert's defense. she tweets nancy mace is the trash in the gop conference. mace, you can back up off lauren boebert or just go hang with your real gal pals, the jihad squad. mace responds to that a few moments ago. here she is. >> make no mistake. mar marjorie taylor greene is a liar. she is crazy, she's insane. she's bad for the party. >> i want to be clear. she did say that on fox news, congressman, and i they that's, you know, important. she didn't have -- she didn't mince her words over there. um, but -- but what do you make of this? i mean right now, it's a lonely fight. it's a lonely situation. she is the one saying it's wrong. not kevin mccarthy. >> no and that's a real problem. like i said, our leadership is not stepping up to define what we stand for from a big picture point of view. they are hiding behind trump. i call it t

marjorie taylor greene and all of these people believe that as well.they want to see mccarthy, if he wins the speakership and they win the majority, they wasn't to see him take action on this. to also an example of how not fringe this is is scott perry, congressman from pennsylvania, recently became the head of the freedom caucus. scott perry is now -- could potentially be wais for the january 6th insurrection because of the fact he was pushing doj officials to overturn election results, trying to recruit them and was a part of a lot of the meeting that's led to january 6th. >> and you're talking about republicans, very few speaking out, moderates. here's one from swing district, don bacon. here's what he said to me last week -- >> we should not be shooting ourselves in the foot with infighting. we're trying to show we want to be the governing party next november going into january '23 and that requires winning people's confidence. right now all of the polling is great for us but this undermines that effort of taking back the speaker's gavel. >> is he

from jewish space lasers as a threat, like you saw with marjorie taylor greene, to actively combatting vaccines, any kind of public health measures. what we have seen pushing back against public health measures, including masks. like you are talking about with marjorie taylor greene. something fox news has been advocating for. that's not how it started, but ended up becoming part of the fox news narrative, because they were reflecting back with the rest of the right-wing was getting into. >> andrew, i would love to get your thoughts on trump being eviscerated for his vaccine support. a pro trump radio host recently said that he needs an intervention from a friend. >> this is an example, where a lot of with the right-wing media ultimately is, trump is a focal point for. what made trump so powerful and influential, was the fact he was channeling and harnessing a bunch of different components of the fever swamps and the right-wing media. they were than amplifying, echoing back the things he was saying. there was a feedback loop. but we shouldn't make any mistake. the power behind trump wa

i will yield back to miss marjorie taylor greene. ms. greene: i would just like to ask all of you members of the press to plase read this report and share it with america. you have such a wonderful gift of freedom of press and americans need to know. whatever your political biases, i ask you to please overlook it. that is what journalists are supposed to do. and share this information because i think it is our duty in this time to share the truth. just as i have put in about the jail, me and congressman goh mert put in about the jail, share it and help people what -- to understand what is happening and let's take a responsibility to not allow this to happen anymore in our country. we have got to do a better job. and i really want all of us to be part of it. as members of congress, we are calling on our colleagues to step up and we have to bring this to an end. we need a good justice system, not one that persecutes people. and, as members of the press, i ask you to tell the truth and reported. it is your responsibility to do so. and now we

i have a zero tolerance policy for people like marjorie taylor greene who thinks 9/11 is a hoax and hasto be calling mace pro abortion. mace was raped when she was in college. this is a remarkable depth to go to. i just -- is there a bottom to this? >> no, there is not. i think republicans, republican donors, elected officials have to look at themselves and say can they still call themselves the party of family values and christian values. they have no bottom. they're on in a contest of limbo rock. how low can they go? you have paul gosar tweeting out violent animes against joe biden and killing alexandria ocasio-cortez. marjorie taylor greene going after the 13 republicans who voted for a bipartisan infrastructure bill, going after mace. and you've got ted cruz trying to fight with anybody who will listen and who's got a pulse in hopes of getting some attention. it is pathetic. it is unseemly. it has no place in congress. jim, you've got kids. if your kids were behaving this way at school, the principal would call them, would call you and they'd probably be suspended or expelled. if th

the difference between goes are in marjorie taylor greene is that greene insulted, spewed anti-semitic comments against district when he seven, miami. i received a lot of calls telling me they were pretty offended because marjorie taylor greene specifically said that the jewish committee had started the california wildfire and that they were responsible for this disaster in this state. i could not have accepted that. but goes are put up a cartoon, which i haven't seen. so what is madame speaker doing playing politics? the american people are not playing politics. they're trying to see how they pay their bills and pay for higher prices in food, and gas. so i think we should stop playing games in washington. and you know something, olivia? just to conclude this conversation, you know, i come from the private sector and i worked in the private sector for 35 years. if i did not produce ratings, i did not have a contract. i think most or many people here in congress should have that experience, going to the private sector, working for a couple years, having to make a salary and deliver some

republicans, especially between republican congresswoman nancy mace and republican congresswoman marjorie taylor greene. marjorie taylor greene, of course, was stripped of her committee assignments for comments that she has made. >> what it says to me is if you say something that's [ bleep ] crazy, you say something extreme you're going to raise money. and that is the only reason that she does that. i mean she's a grifter of the first order, and she does it to raise money. she takes advantage of vulnerable americans and vulnerable conservatives and makes promises she cannot keep. >> republican congresswoman mace also said this about marjorie taylor greene. she's a grifter. she lies to grift, and it's not okay. she is pulling the wool over so many eyes, so many vulnerable people. lying to them like she's fighting for them. congressman hakeem jeffries said this. >> what more does kelvin mccarthy need to see? i mean, what more does this guy really need to see? he's got marjorie taylor greene completely out of control, gosar out of control, laurn bobert out of control. they're having a complete and total m

told his viewers and audience, be armed and dangerous after the rittenhouse verdict, and marjorie taylor greene who believes in jewish space lasers that are causing wildfires and today, she compared cancer to coronavirus, realizing that basically she doesn't understand cancer, how cancer works because it's not contagious and 60,000 people wo die of cancer every year, how come we haven't shut down the government or the schools or this country over

there's a part of me, she's marjorie taylor greene, she's a troll.ther part of me, what on earth? a u.s. member of congress talking about tearing the union apart, and it feels weird to say in 2021, but i support the union. i like the union. i am pro-union. >> you could have union clubs. >> yeah, that's one of my beliefs, strongly pro-union. >> yeah, that's really -- you're really out there, chris, i got to say, out on a limb there. it would be bad enough if it were just one slightly addled congressperson. but the fact is that marjorie taylor greene is very much in touch with the grassroots of where the right-wing infotainment complex is. so, you know, we also saw earlier this year alan west, big figure in the texas gop, head of the texas gop, talking about secession. you heard the late rush limbaugh talking about the possibility of secession or civil war in this country. so it is out there. she didn't just originate this, this kind of talk. and you know, part of what -- of course it's just, you know -- add to it the long, endless list of grotesque th

and nancy mace, marjorie taylor greene slamming nancy mace for her rhetoric. aling directly with marjorie taylor greene and nancy mace. he set up two meetings with the two congress women. however, both emerged with very separate feelings about how -- whether it resolved this issue. marjorie taylor greene saying she spoke with former president donald trump, and they plan to endorse a primary opponent to nancy mace. she's a swing district. she has a swing district in south carolina, and nancy mace also not feeling like it was resolved. but really what is going on here is kevin mccarthy has to deal with these very conservative members who are very loud, taking all the oxygen out of the room as you said, christine, because the real goal here is that he wants to unite his party out of the 2022 midterms and redirect the members to focus on the message against president joe biden's agenda, which is really what he wants to do here. but if these new members continue to publicly feud, it's unclear what that could mean for them winning the majority next year. christine, l

it be the days of jim jordan and marjorie taylor green and doctor gose are in myself doing everything to get the answers to these questions. congresswoman green and mr. gomer's work have been critical. judge gomer's legal analysis as a jurist is woven throughout this product and incredibly helpful. working to get the answers to these questions because this should not be happening in the united states of america. >> i think my friend from florida. nearly a year has passed since they've been held in the detention facilities in washington, d.c. in relation to the events are generally six, it is appalled. the physical conditions described on my friends in these inmates can only be described as inhumane. docket access to their attorneys to evidence, families and proper nutrition. these inmates are suffering for long periods of isolation from the outside world many continue to scrape hearing stories of being held in confinement for 1y being allowed outside for a mere two days a week. they're being denied the right to attend religious service and not even allow communion. many have described

my name is marjorie taylor greene.nd i am a member of congress, as much as they hate it, believe me, they hate it. i am very much just like you. i am an american. i am very proud to be a business owner. be successful in business. very proud to be a wife of 26 years. but the thing i am most proud of is i'm a mom. i was one of those who got very excited about this guy named donald j. trump was running for president in 2015. and he came from a construction background and i was like wow, he talks just like most men i know. he says plain language. he says cost words and tells it like it is. and from the first time i was like this is someone i can vote for. this is someone i actually want to vote for. because he talks about the things i love and the things we believe america should be about. and so we all got him elected and i thought oh my goodness, the next day the sun never shines so bright, the birds were prettier, and we are going to put hillary clinton in jail. i thought for sure we had a republican-controlled congress

the effort backed by trump and guided by house members such as georgia's marjorie taylor greene and north carolina's marjory cawthorn is part of the movement to purge the gop of those not deemed loyal to the former president and his false claims that the 2020 election was, in fact, rigged in favor of joe biden. candidates seeking trump's approval meet with him at his t ma a lago resort in palm beach, florida, where hen peppers the with questions to test their maga bona fides. to secure the endorsement of high-profile maga figures like cawthorn, greene or trump himself, the candidates must push the unfounded claim that the 2020 election was stolen and show complete fealty to the former president. >>> joining us now is colby itkowitz, national politics th ts fe reporter for "the washington post." great to have you with us. thank you for joining us this evening. explain this to me. tell me how the plan is supposed to work. how exactly are these maga members of congress going about trying to increase their ranks ahead of the mid terms? >> sure.avisoracs so there's actually only a small number

one of the conversations about when marjorie taylor greene says we're not fringe, we're mainstream, whatt version of we are donald trump's party. and that's really -- that's right now the driving force. some ways, 2022 is going to test every single level of the election how true it is. >> but if republicans take back congress, it's 2023 that will also be a test for them because while this is a problem right now for leader mccarthy, this will become a much bigger problem for him if he has to govern and he has to deal with these people. but another republican was telling me today that one thing he may be able to do is distract them by giving them certain committee assignments or telling them to have oversight over the biden administration. in order to take the focus of their efforts off some of the things -- >> winning is easy. governing is hard. >> this is playing out in georgia with purdue getting into the race p. today he told axios he would not have certified the state's 2020 election result if he had been governor. >>> breaking booster news. new studies just released show a third dose

was criticized for in the first place or they just don't listen to him at all and they go marjorie taylor greeneger to nancy mace this week. >> marjorie taylor greene says she is the mainstream of the base of the republican party. she's not some extremist. and the truth of the matter is i don't know if that's right, no offense. >> listen, part of the reason kevin mccarthy doesn't want to act is because he's afraid of donald trump and he's also afraid of the base. marjorie taylor greene, as well as boebert are pleasing donald trump and getting all sorts of kudos from other members of the base and other members of the party because of what they have said. i think one of the problems in the republican party, and i'm quoting colin powell here, there's a dark vain of intol vance in the party. it used to be smaller. you saw donald trump tap into that in 2016. and it keeps going back to that well and you see these other members being able to monetize this bigotry, and it pays dividends for them in terms of popularity and fundraising as well. >> hillary, republican congressman don bacon represents a swi

marjorie taylor greene and steve bannon have talked about this. they want to create a new generation of trump supporters, and so they're going after kind of essential casting, a lot of white millennial men, college athletes, veterans, they sit apart and kind of talk the talk. they speak in kind of broad populous terms about the working class, the way that donald trump did, but they also really engage in those culture wars. they talk about transgender laws and critical race theory, immigration, a big thing still, the border for trump and maga world. so those are some of the things that trump and his people in congress are looking for in these candidates. >> so if, you know, colby, you look ahead to the year ahead of us and republicans do manage to take back the house next year one way or the other and the maga squad does increase its numbers, do you have any sense of what they want to do with their increased power? we were just talking about one of the things that is assumed, they probably want to shut down the january 6th committee, but do you hav

he was asked about the party squabble, here's a portion of it. >> our marjorie taylor greene talks of distractions to winning back the majority next year. >> it is things we do not want to deal with, gas prices and others in any deviation of that causes problems. >> islamophobia comments, why do you have such a hard time condemning something that is clearly wrong. >> let me be very clear, this party is for anyone and everyone who craves freedom and supports religious liberty. lauren, as i called her when she came forward, we talked and she apologized publicly, personally, i contacted lawyer and even talked about maybe steny and i should be in the room. we should lower the temperature of this congress. we should work together and talk to one another. and disagreements if something goes astray, apologize for it. exactly what he did. what is interesting to me, i didn't get to watch speaker pelosi's press conference. did you raise the question someone on their side of the aisle set i work with the ku klux klan referring to republicans? does anyone on your side of the aisle talk about when

marjorie taylor greene is a liar. she's crazy, she's insane.n with trump about mace, responded saying this is about greene's anti muslim rhetoric. >> what it says to me is if you say something that's bat shit crazy, you're going to raise money. that's the only reason she does that. she's a grifter of the first order and she does that to raise money. >> cnn's melanie zen known nah joining us from capitol hill. nobody said congress was neat and polite, not sure you thought you'd be spending your days this way. how is, if at all, minority leader kevin mccarthy handling this public feud? it was a little quiet in the beginning when it was dealing with boebert and her comments about ilhan omar. where do you stand this morning. >> reporter: kevin mccarthy is working behind the scenes. he knows this is a huge distraction for republicans. they would rather keep the focus on the biden agenda. the head of the gop arm said we should not be the headline here. let's stay focused on our goals. as manu raju and i reported yesterday, kevin mccarthy hauled in gr

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today, republican congresswoman marjorie taylor green supported calls for an added. at a for americans for residents moving to states like california and new york. she suggested the country underago national divorce. so now a trump republican can advocate for succession and it's no problem, make america great again by divorcing it? obviously, she says crazy things because she's an attention troll. but this is becoming main stream republican thinking. one of the foundations of our democracy is the collected belief in the institutions of government. in the rule of law itself. like how athletes agree to the rules of the game. but in the house, more republican lawmakers are refusing to abide by the rules. a resolution approved by the house in january finds lawmakers for failing to wear masks on the house floor. congresswoman green and andrew clyde, they don't care about the rules. to date, the two republicans combined have racked up $100,000 in fines for not wearing masks. and a record number of lawmaker are refusing to comply with ethics committee investigations. this y

as a result, marjorie taylor greene attacked nancy mace. last night. >> what it says to me is that if you say something that's bat-shut crazy, you're going to raise money. that is the only reason she does that. she is a grister of the first order. and she does it to raise money. >> again, she's talking about marjorie taylor greene here. >> i'm offended she said bat-shut. >> is that a battle nancy mace can win? >> probably not in this republican party. which is amazing. it's amazing. they have become -- this is as bad as i've ever seen it. and it's gotten worse and worse and worse, and i don't know when it's going to stop. this is frightening. and the marjorie taylor greenes and the boeberts, not only exist but are popular and have these huge followings. it's frightening. >> mehmet oz announced he is going to run for senate in pennsylvania. first of all, your immediately reaction to that? >> my immediate reaction is they don't have a front-runner. he's a tv personality. he knows how to be on tv. people know him. we've seen that before recent

so, if marjorie taylor greene wants to stand up there and say something that's crazy, she can do it.ants to stand up there and lie and say things that are crazy, she can do it. if people in his own caucus want to stand up there and say the election was stolen, he's not going to stand in their way because at the end of the day he wants everyone to think that next year, if the republicans manage to win, whether it's through redistricting and gerrymandering and whatever, he wants to be speaker of the house. he'll make that deal with anybody. >> even though he was the one on the phone screaming -- >> call off the insurrection. >> telling donald trump to call off the insurrection. and now he's reversed himself. >> exactly. >> it's one thing when you reverse everybody else, you want to be speaker. it's -- he contradicts himself. >> and then he went down to mar-a-lago and kissed the ring after january 6th. first thing he does. >> that is a guy that should have blueberry pie on his face. >> there's not enough blueberry pie in the world for him. >> zerlina, who should i be giving some slices

those little people include marjorie taylor greene. vestor side. >> that's right. the institutional investors whoever they were, the people behind this paid about $10 a share for a portion of this company. it's now trading, now that these shares are trading public and people know that it's going to merge next year with the trump media company, it's trading today at about $50 so that means that there at the retail investors are paying about five times and this is remarkable is he got another huge institutional investor or investors. we don't know their identity. we may learn them at some point to kick in another billion dollars and the deal that he cut was you will get as many shares of this stock as 40% off the retail price of the stock. so it's really just designed to allow these institutional investors to come in, give trump the billion dollars and then flip those shares immediately, which isn't the way it normally works but they can immediately flip the shares into the public market and collect a 40% premium. so everyone all the big

mccarthy has talked with them, but also talked, for example, with nancy mace when she and marjorie taylor greenetting at it on twitter. people like the congressman, are you also punishing her instead of greene. >> peter meijer stands out because he's willing to say the truth. he's new. i think what he's going to learn is the reason so many elected gop officials don't push back, it's not because of some master plan, not because donald trump told them not to. it's because of their constituents. their constituents believe this. they don't want to get gelled at by their constituents. until that changes, you're not going to see anything change. roger marshall provided an answer that he knows the constituents won't yell at him about who won the last election. >> except for the fact that their constituents are driven by the combination of donald trump who still has this massive influence and the echo chamber of fox news and news max and oa and n. i'll say, chuck, i did an interview with bannon in october of 2020. he said there are going to be knife fights in the counting rooms. they lost those knife fi

they didn't pay a price for having marjorie taylor greene in their midst. ne, ten months and tolerated people like marjorie taylor greene and let her become more powerful and dumped liz cheney from leadership. now they think they're going win the house in 2022 and polls suggest that's quite possible. so, one would hope they don't represent much of a majority and gerrymandering and other things going on. but they're not paying the price you would expect them to pay for being so irresponsible. >> so, baratunde, when we read that 19 democrats as of yet have chosen not to run for re-election in the house for 2020, what do you think they know perhaps that the rest of us are going to find out? >> brian, they know that we are in a very divided spot. they know historically that the non-presidential party does well in those first midterms, and they're geared up to do that. and the republican party has made the fringe the center of it's political identity. they worship at the center of the my pillow dude. they chant let's go brandon. this has dominated the direction t

they didn't pay much of a price for having people like marjorie taylor greene in their mitts. e gone through the last nine, ten months and they've tolerated people like marjorie taylor greene. they let her become more powerful. they dumped liz cheney. leadership, all kinds of things have happened. they're subservient to donald trump. and how do you think they're going to win the house in 2022? apple suggests that's quite possible. so, one would hope that they don't represent much of a majority. gerrymandering is helping them, a lot of things are going on. but there are not paying the piracy would expect them to pay for being so irresponsible. >> so, baratunde, when we read that 19 democrats, as of yet have chosen not to run for reelection in the house for 2020, what do you think they know perhaps that the rest of us are going to find out? find out >> brian, they know that we are in a very divided spot. they know historically that the non presidential party does well in those first midterms and were geared up to do that. and they know that this republican party has made its frin

. -- does not believe he is standing alone against republican trolls like marjorie taylor greene or georgia or paul gosar of his arizona. quote, convinced there are more republicans like him national pragmatic by the time the party has taken then there are like gosar because they have the -- knowledge to engage in tactics they can reasonably debate like adults, they can take the high road they can play the long game. all evidence would point to minus optimism brewing dangerously close to naivete, but i guess for the sake of democracy he is right. tim alberta as a staffer at the atlantic where he wrote that new piece on congressman peter meijer, and he joins me now. i was struck by this profile because i do think there is kind of a throwback situation, and i want to some ways take this out of the realm of ideology because i don't think actually this sort of what people stand for and believe in is really what we are talking about here. it seems to me that there is just an approach to the job. so the conception of what it means to be a member of congress that is being sort of stopped by -- tha

and maybe, one extra slice should go to congress member marjorie taylor greene and will matt gaetz.you? who else should get a slice? >> it's got to go to kevin mccarthy for me because this is a guy who is watching all of this play out but he is singularly focus on power. everyone has told him the republicans are going to win next year and he has tuned out any sense of moral righteousness because all he cares about is becoming speaker of the house. so if marjorie taylor greene wants to stand up there and say something that's crazy, she can do it. if lauren boebert wants to stand up there and lie and say things that are crazy, she can do it. if people in his own caucus want to stand up there and say the election was stolen, he is not going to stand in their way because at the end of the day, he wants everyone to think that next year if the republicans manage to win, whether it's through redistricting and gerrymandering or whatever, he wants to be speaker of the house. he will make that deal with anybody. >> even though he was the one on the phone screaming -- >> call off the insurrect

. >> listen to marjorie taylor greene on the steve bannon show said we are the base of the party andunfortunately helped when it comes to messaging. they make the squad, again, women of color into these radical extremists and ilhan omar because she wears a hijab as a violent terrorist sympathizer and they paint the entire democratic party and anyone liberal as a member of the squad, these radicals who believe in defund the police. flip the script, unlike the republicans who use bad-faith republicans, you have radicals and extremists in the republican party, people like lauren boebert who has been arrested more than any other congress person, a person who has talked about law and order and who has ignored court orders and a person whose husband exposed himself to a bowling alley and matt gaetz, mr. family values, being investigated madison cawthorn who beats up trees and when he's not beating up trees he has been credibly accused of a sexual assault and who, by the way, told his viewers and audience, be armed and dangerous after the rittenhouse verdict, and marjorie taylor greene who

marjorie tailer greene that he would be the vocal majority and instead he finds himself in the minority that actually came to congress to legislate. >> we are watching this play out with boebert, marjorie taylor gaetz and gosar. mccarthy is scared to cross them the way he's scared to cross trump and it means, ashgs the next class of freshmen members of congress there will be 20 like them. if the midterms go the way we think they might and particularly with redistricting, where that will be what it means increasingly to be a young, freshman member of the republican house caucus. >> yeah. look, and i think some of this obviously stems from a fundamental problem and you've been flicking at it here is when congress no longer legislates in a meaningful way and certainly when congress ceases to legislate in a bipartisan way, then really all that is left for a minority party is to entertain and is to obstruct and really if you think about the ways in which a party relates to or earns proximity to relevancy and to influence, and there could be a case made that even up until recently at least what the republican party in the obama years was doing. again, not at the fringe e but in the mainstream, its

. >> well, it's also, you know, there have always been marjorie taylor greenes or lauren boebert or paulave now been elevated by their peers, not condemned by house leadership, and liz cheney -- you know, agree with her or disagree with her on her politics -- truth -- you know, she is telling a truth. and essentially, been excommunicated. >> yeah. you know, i -- i would give a lot if i could say with any kind of honesty that liz cheney was the future of the republican party, versus marjorie taylor greene. but i don't know how you can look at the party today and say that. >> you -- you actually -- didn't you -- you wrote a while ago -- and correct me if i am wrong -- that we would be lucky if liz cheney was the -- the -- the leader of the republican party? you wrote -- it was in -- it was a book about the 2000 bush campaign you wrote called "the big enchilada" and you said if republicans are lucky, someday liz cheney will run for president. that was in 2000. >> yeah. i worked closely with liz cheney in debate prep for her dad and she was incredibly impressive. and i wrote that because it

look at marjorie taylor greene. >> hello. >> she is telling you that she is somebody who espoused qanon private, she still perpetuates that the election was stolen. she is still throughout in places like northwest georgia where i spent the better part of the last year investigating this radicalization. and it's people like here who are taking young women and men from the qanon world and connecting them to the trump world and the maga world. and say hey, listen, if you become a foot soldier in our movement, you can try the overturn our democracy, overturn our election. put the supreme court on the side for a second. when you're looking at what is happening with the issue of radicalization, it's young people. they may be destitute. they may have some out of their luck, if you will, or down on their luck, bombarded with this disinformation that the election was stolen. and then they follow demagogues, whether it's marjorie taylor greene, whether it's donald trump who says i alone can fix it. come -- if i shoot somebody on fifth avenue, they're still going to support me. and they believe th

it's going to be the days of jim jordan and marjorie taylor greene and dr. g everything to get the answers to these questions. >> well, that's quite a quadrangle right there. but would a speaker trump pave the way for lawmakers like marjorie taylor greene, paul gosar, matt gaetz to end up in leadership positions and the thought of that, how dangerous a prospect is it? >> it's very serious indeed. i mean, i think that for most gop leaders, they want to be perceived as being a mature and responsible governing party but if donald trump were in such a position where he's literally in charge of the house and overseeing the committees and overseeing leadership positions and he starts rewarding his allies, extremists like matt gaetz and marjorie taylor greene and paul gosar and others, you're looking at a situation in which the house republicans would be even more radicalized than they are right now so i think for democrats looking at this and weighing their campaign plans for 2022, i think this is an important element. i think that not only does it light a fire und

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. >> on covid, it's marjorie taylor greene tweeted a thread comparing the virus to cancer. more than 600,000 people in the u.s. die from cancer. the country has never once shutdown. not a single school has closed. every year, people of all ages and races die from cancer. >> this is really simple, is it? >> unless you are really extraordinary simple. it seems congresswoman thinks cancer is a contagious respiratory disease. >> gun violence? thomas massey tweeting out a epiphany of a gun fetish, this family photo of everyone holding a long gun, merry christmas, ps, santa, please bring the ammo, four days after the school shooting in michigan. and and joe, you tweeted, "too many politicians act as if life begins at conception and ends at birth. they claim the mantle of life but promote a culture of violence on medicine and obsession with executions over refusal to support overwhelmingly popular gun safety laws and massive pentagon budgets. they oppose even the most basic safety net guarantees and fight and endless war against decent healthcare for all americans. if supporting a

or marjorie taylor green he never would have been comfortable in that environment. however kevin mccarthy singled out five democrats. he summarized the conduct of ilhan omar, adam shift, eric swalwell, and ka heem jeffries. dole is so much of what is missing today. his life was a can vance, of a backdrop of what is wrong in washington. and we don't have to speculate that dole thought ant the news of the day. he turned in a column. the washington post says it was drafted early 2021, arnold the time of his death. listen to the late senator in his own words -- i watched the january 6th riots from the capitol. there's been a lot of taung about what it would take to he'll our country. we must remember that bipartisan is the minimum we should expect from ourselves. america can never achieve greatness when we prioritize principals over party and humanity over personalal legacy, we establish more as a nation. i will count on tomorrow's leaders to stand up for what is right for america, with full optimism and faith in humanity. powerful, right? we have breaking news that's r

you have marjorie taylor greene and again the vast majority of gun owners want to take it seefr sli with gravity and spoirmt and not seeing that there. >> i apologize to the families listening. basil, i hope you keep it cleaner. i asked a parent of a woman that lost her daughter in the parkland shooting for her reaction. >> we should not be glorifying guns but looking to ways to make change and take action to fix this problem and make our schools safer. >> do you agree? this is glorifying violence? >> it is. i agree. to echo what charlie said is right. this is a fetishizing guns. we absolutely have a gun culture in this country. more guns than people in this country and far exceeds what most other countries on this earth have. i was incredibly surprised that michigan went as far as they did to charge the parents and maybe that's what needs to happen next. we used to have a policy window where when something like a tragedy happens we see congress move to action very quickly. i feel that as we have more extreme positions in this country where you do have this fetishizing of guns in the way

reporter: marjorie taylor greene, paul gosar, and boebert distractions to winning back -- mr. mccarthy: it's things we would not want to deal with. it is things that the american people want to focus on stopping inflation, gas prices, and others. anything that deviates from that causes problems, yes. reporter: representative boebert's comments. why do you have a hard time condemning something that's wrong. mr. mccarthy: let me be very clear. this party is for anyone and everyone who craves freedom and supports religious liberty. lauren boebert, i called her when it came forward, we talked. she apologized publicly. she apologized personally. i contabted steny hoyer -- i contacted steny hoyer, maybe steny and i should be in the room. we should lower the temperature of this congress. we should work together and talk to one another. disagreements something goes astray, you apologize for t exactly what lauren boebert did. what's interesting to me, i didn't get to watch speaker pelosi's press conference, did any of you raise the question when someone on their side of the aisle said