at>> molly, how do you save a problem like marjorie taylor? green -- you can actually help normalize them and you lose energy that could be spent articulating a real vision for americans. but, it's not as if democrats are doing the vision thing anyways. green has his big following you -- can't just ignore her either, can you? >> well we would need, theoretically, grown-ups in the room, right? members of the republican party would say that this is not okay. the closest you've got to that is live cheney and adam kinzinger. that's why they stand out. you may not agree with them, but they're saying that it's not okay. which trump did was not okay. -- >> people you are using the trump playbook and fundraising of this racist instinct of -- racism and sexism and anti, anti, anti everything. i think it's a very tough situation. what we need, theoretically, is grown up in the room. i just don't see that in the republican party. >> not at all. meanwhile, they get more and more outrageous, almost numbing us to this stuff. -- let alone lead with it. part of me

is very mainstream. >> yes, we find in survey after survey that the kinds of beliefs that marjorie taylor greene we would be proud christian nationalists, that the republican party ought to be the party of christian nationalism. marjorie taylor greene may seem fringe in the fact that she's outspoken and tenant about this. this is a common ideology, americans believe america was found on biblical principles, christianity made us prosperous as a nation. we ought to return to it and institutionalize christianity as our identity, and make policy in light of it, and privilege christianity in the public square above other religions and question we don't have to get equal time and recognize other religions as much as christianity. >> obviously a natural segue into why the second half of the title is the threat to democracy. how do you, then, confront it? because it sounds like as encompassing as the white christian nationalist identity is that it's not just confronting religion, it's confronting privilege. it's confronting one's view of one's self. how do you confront something like that? >> right. and

you hear conservatives complaining like a conservative member of congress like marginally marjorie taylor green, you know wearing a mask. you know that says censored, you know, you really the world seems upside down and and it doesn't help free speech much to be advocated by people like marjorie taylor green. um, but you know, but the fact remains that well, so it's been hard for a few years to really to make a convincing argument to many progressives and younger people about the importance of free speech. there's also citizens united which was settled, you know under a first amendment the first amendment rationale. which seems to to empower the rich even more than they already are empowered. um so it's been it's been hard to to get a hearing for free speech among those constituencies. but i think that what's going on now among in this current crisis over education. should you know? should help us. show demonstrate, you know, once again that censorship is a real problem. for progressive values as as always has been you know what's being attacked? the books that are being attacked. the curriculu

i would say republican focus groups are like, i really think marjorie taylor greene and matt gates are their job because they are fighting. i see them on tv. they don't believe or even care whether people in washington actually deliver results for them. so, i think that disconnect between what we are seeing in local politics and washington is really evident. >> yeah, and that distinction between how governors are doing and how senators are doing. if you look at mike dewine in ohio, right, the way he is trying to be a republican politician versus j. d. vance. it is really quite different. i wonder how much, you know, how much the mike dewine model can hang on when the rising tide is clearly the marjorie taylor greene's and matt gates is. >> i'm pretty skeptical of that. larry hogan, the most popular governor in america, his handpicked assessor, a moderate republican gets beaten by an absolutely insane qanon person. and a primary. the republicans just give away the governorship of maryland because that is a bottom-up thing. this is with the team usa team wants, the primary voters want th

. >> a lot of people are running podcasts out of there, marjorie taylor green, matt gaetz.sing this building to run other mini businesses and media entities, right? >> yeah. that's an important aspect of the story, this is part of a communications machine. peek like lauren bovert. they do tv hits out of cpi. you have a chorus of people like mark meadows who have large twitter followings. at times you can see people pushing back against what we're seeing in concert. it's interesting. you feel like all of these voices are coming from different directions and one thing we've noticed in our story, sometimes it will be four people who work for different organizations underneath cpi. it feels like all of the disparate voices but it's really a chorus coming from one place. >> i was saying in the break, curt, i say this to my poor team, one of the things the media did miss is the tea party. the way the koch funded grassroots network ate up the republican party. now it is the majority. now maga is the new version of it that's taken over now. you now have mark meadows who is the ogt

disparaging and defaming me online, they were attacking my family and some people including marjorie taylor greene said that she felt sorry for my unborn child, that is a ridiculous place for our national discourse to be in, and again, i have advocated for all sorts of solutions to disinformation but i think one of the things that we really need to get back to is a common humanity. i am a person on the other side of my twitter avatar. i have a family, i have a life. i went into public service with a real desire to help the country and so i think we all need to think about that, next time we are having these anonymized arguments on social media, there are people on the other side of the screen, and the more that we can get back to that humanity in the politics and political discourse, i think the better our democracy will be. >> humanity, that is the word. thank you for coming on the program. good to see you. >> thanks for having me. sonic let's continue this conversation with our panel, national correspondent with the washington post and lauren, a business reporter with the new york times. the big

marjorie taylor greene had this to say last weekend. >> we need to be the party of nationalism.i say it proudly. we should be christian nationalists. >> this public embrace of religious fervor isn't the greatest look. something my colleague and friend rachel maddox pointed out. marge wasn't pleased and took to twitter saying rachel was smearing me with lies about my fate and connecting me to something i know nothing about which of course only proves rachel's point. these republicans don't seem to know anything about this historically racist ideology that they're trying to usher into mainstream politics, or then again maybe they do and this is their way to appeal to a racist base. either way, it's bad because let's be clear, by christian nationalism, they mean white christian nationalism, it merges european and christian identities that distorts christian faith and our democratic ideals. christian nationalisms believes it was a white christian nation and any threat must be stamped out, even if that means violence. we saw christian nationalism flourish in the form of the klan. it

not on people like marjorie taylor greene. you automatically get rid of the assault weapons and you need a gun on a regular basis if you are attacked. you should have a gun here or there, but it is aggravating. like this recent law. the biggest thing republicans have is the fact that a good gun will stop a bad gun. that did not happen when those 18 kids got killed. so, make a law. stop acting like store brats. host: richard out of myrtle beach, republican. caller: good morning. how are you today? host: doing good. caller: i have been in law enforcement over 20 years and been carrying guns. the problem here we have is the mental health laws. we need to get stronger background checks and check these people because it is not the guns killing people, it is the people. you could lay a gun on a table and it will not kill anybody. you just said the numbers of guns that are out there is quite a lot. but we need to look into all these children doing this and they all seem to have some type of mental disorder. it is a sad thing in this

marjorie taylor greene is like, hey, i'm a proud white nationalist, but you look at the data about hers 12% his panic, 9% african american, 1% asian and 3% who say they are of two races or more. i mean, there are people in these districts who do not like the fact that they are getting swept along in this white nationalist movement, not just from a numbers perspective but even from a political agitation perspective. can those people be activated. there's got to be people in parts of can says and texas and ohio saying, look, if we had help with some money we'd overthrow these maniacs because we're not happy with the policies they are throwing down our throats. >> marjorie taylor greene identifies herself as a christian nationalist which is obviously a mostly white movement adjacent to white nationalist, but there are also certainly hispanics who are sympathetic to that movement, you know, and we see to some extent groups besides white men trending towards the republican party because of social issues. i guess the question is when there's a widespread recognition that this party has becom

no god would be on board with marjorie taylor greene.ven jesus christ is like "jesus christ, you're awful." [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] and by the way, i'm speaking from experience on all of this as someone who had three abortions in high school. and if that sounds too extreme, let's pretend i had two. [ laughter ] because here's the thing. this planet is a much safer place without me polluting it with my children. [ laughter ] i'm responsible enough to know that we don't need any more pothead molly-loving alcoholics running around topless. i get that. [ laughter ] right, guillermo? >> guillermo: right, chelsea. i agree with you, yes. [ applause ] >> chelsea: these republicans are taking one hell of a victory lap. in texas the state attorney general closed his office early on friday and declared an official holiday to celebrate roe being overturned. the holiday will fall right between their other big holidays, whites only wednesday and st. handgun's day. [ laughter ] so far the roe v. wade day doesn't have a name, but just spitb

. >>> that's georgia congresswoman marjorie taylor greene calling for her party to embrace an ideologytionalism. she says the government should take steps to keep it that way. this as a new cnn digital report takes a look, an in-depth look at the rise of, quote, impostor christianity and what it means for u.s. democracy. joining us now is cnn enterprise reporter john blake. great to see you. you hear marjorie taylor greene saying we should embrace an ideology of christian nationalism, what about people who aren't christian who happen to live here? >> what i was saying -- thank you for having me -- is that this country -- and this is according to the people that i've talked to -- we can be a multiracial democracy, a multireligious democracy, a multiethnic democracy and be a christian nation at the same time. there is a contradiction between the two. someone used the term trojan horse in the earlier segment, i think talking about china, i would compare this impostor christianity to a trojan horse. on the surface when you hear that rhetoric it doesn't seem that much different than maybe s

. >>> some news just in to us here, a georgia judge upholding marjorie taylor greene's ability to runn after her eligibility had been challenged by a group of georgia voters. she was an obstructionist. you cannot be a member of congress if you participate in insurrection or rebellion. obviously this all revolves around january 6th. let me bring in nbc news correspondent ken dilanian, bring us up to speed. >> hallie, there have been a series of these charges against some members of congress, including paul arguing, if you've engaged in rebellion or insurrection none of these claims have been successful and it wasn't successful in her case. this was the third ruling on this issue. a fulton county judge in atlanta has ruled that the plaintiffs did not make the case that marjorie taylor greene engaged in insurrection, even though in the course of the court hearing a text message emerged in which she appeared to have called for donald trump to declare martial law as the january 6th insurrection was unfolding. nonetheless, the judges rule that wasn't enough to declare her ineligible to run

arthur >> i don't think it's close, but i don't think we can debate that because you look like marjorie taylor greenec, take your pick. >> why, arthur, the affiliates who lead a party or who are more centrist are not speaking out against those on the far right orth or the far left because they're worried, frankly,ing canceling themselves the stuff on both sides is so crazy, we can't have it, you're never going to get to the promised land, i don't think. >> that's exactly right. that happens with leadership somebody will stand up to somebody who represents us we are 85% of the population that are not following lies. these are lies, that capital sigs has failed, that's a lie. that america is not a gift to the world, that's a lie. that your nabors are not your friend because they don't vote like you that's a big colossal lie. here's the mistake the moral courage is not standing up to the people with whom you disagree. it's standing up to the people with whom you agree on behalf of those with whom you disagree when leaders start doing that punch in the knows, the populist on your side, the cultural left

political cultural lead to trunk is still true on steroids, you know, if you're a ted cruz or marjorie taylor green, you know, you get more benefits from trolling and being mean and, and coming up with a funny tweet, you know, then you do from saying, okay, what's the solution that we can, we can get to how can we alleviate people's problems and, and you know, that is, i think the obvious endpoint of a culture that we created. so you go through the thing of talking to friends about why they weren't able to see what you saw. and you believe that donald trump was deeply dangerous to the united states in its democracy. i'm just interested, as you look at this, you know, and you talk to these friends, what was going on in their mind, how have you organized and what, why are they not where you are either hateful reasons and i kind of lay out in the book a little bit of a field guide all their different rationalization. some of them are, are defensible. i think of wrong. you know, there are people that decide that they know that it's better to be on the inside billing side, right? dodging things, the rig

he was kind of akin to say an aoc or a margaret marjorie taylor green strictly in the sense that he wasn't ever in the seat of power. he was always kind of on the margins but drew a lot of media attention because he was would make statements and do it in a way that draw drew a lot of attention, but that wasn't necessarily the way politicians normally spoke and that i ended up carrying him to the presidency much like donald trump and and his style of how rare it was and there was one incident in particular where i believe i had express the view that harvard fascist sentiments and he made a very crude reference to my being gay on twitter and it caused a whole ruckus and so we've always had an adversarial relationship. my husband is part of an opposition party to bolsonaro and they've had their clashes with with my husband as with him and his sons all of whom are elected officials, but what really escalated it was in 2019 on mother's day. i was contacted by a woman named manuel. adavola, who was the vice presidential nominee that ran against bolsonaro in 2018 she lost and she had told me that

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all be locked in our houses clapping out of our windows because congress couldn't convince marjorie taylor greene that needles weren't actually a space alien conspiracy. "then where did they come from?" ( laughter ) the one thing that's clear is that from environmental regulations to abortion, to guns, to school prayer, to voter rights, this is one of the most radical supreme courts in american history. and, by the way, people agree on that from across the political spectrum. you know, rachel madow is like, "this is so radical. and sean hannity is like, "this is so radical! wooo!" ( laughter ) and they're also imposing their power on a country that, for the most part, for the most part, isn't on board with any of it. which is why many liberals are now calling for some major reforms, like adding more seats to the court or imposing term limits or setting up a trap for brett kavanaugh. ( cheers and applause ). you never know. it might work. but let's move on. let's move on from the people handing down the judgments to the people receiving them. this week, we saw two major sex trafficking cases come

representatives that everyone knows bear no resemblance in their underlying philosophy to marjorie taylor green, but are acting like her because they know they will be primaried if they don't. all of the short-term incentives are pushing more toward radicalism and the exhausted majority better wake up quickly and assert itself or we're going to hand american politics to the extremes. >> he makes the contention that trump might be legally drowning, may not be able to make a comeback. but is liz cheney going to win back her seat? what do you say to your republican counterparts in these districts that have such extreme views? are you able to have a conversation with them? >> sadly, for too many people may not even hold the ideology they're gotten in front of cameras espousing but far too many people live in fear of primaries. we've seen principled true conservatives like tom rice, for example, in south carolina, who is as conservative as the day is long and ultimately did not make it through his primary. but right in our district the clear contrast is there. my opponent has doubted that a rape vic

>> thank you. [ laughter ] this is coming from my mouth, i wouldn't [ bleep ] trump with marjorie taylor greene's bleep ]. [ rim shot ] it had to be said, it had to be said. donald trump is such a lying, two-faced mother [ bleep ] -- sorry. i mean, daughter [ bleep ]. [ rim shot ] [ moans and laughter ] the end! ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> rupaul: oh my gosh. now you know, listen. good job, honey. i got to tell you, when they go low, michelle goes lower. [ cheers ] >> thank you. >> rupaul: go and keep guillermo company over there. [ cheers and applause ] >> guillermo: good job, yes. >> rupaul: now, it's very hot out there as you probably know. and not just because michelle and i are in the same room. [ cheers and applause ] all across the country thermometers are hitting triple digits. they say the temperature is almost as high as jimmy kimmel right now. [ laughter ] that's pretty high, yeah. you know, the heat makes people do crazy things. especially this lady from the sunshine state. in this new edition of "this week in florida." >> a central florida woman is accused of running around outside

we have seen members have to hire security on the campaign trail and marjorie taylor greene. spent money for security. it is not just the leaders that face threats but the rank and file lawmakers that face it online and now you cannot be too careful. the threats, sadly, turn into action all too often. >> thank you both very much. appreciate it. >>> right now in texas jury selection in the defamation trial of alex jones for claiming that sandy hook was a hoax. the jury will decide how much he owes the families for telling the lie. >>> a new twist into the potential interference in the election in georgia. what a judge ruled today and why it matters coming up. matters cp looking good starts in the dryer with bounce pet. new astepro allergy. now available without a prescription. astepro is the first and only 24-hour steroid free spray. while other allergy sprays take hours astepro starts working in 30 minutes. so you can... astepro and go. finding the perfect project manager isn't easy. but, at upwork, we found him. he's in adelaide between his daily lunch delivery and an 8:15 c

marjorie taylor greene for once again being insensitive to victims and victims' families when when sheing as being a false flag. and winners, well i'm going to say my state and the governor of my state gavin newsom is going to make insulin affordable to those who need it. >> mike: all right, ben, bring us home. >> boris johnson is my loser for the week. really a disappointment in terms of his tenure as prime minister, though it is rather ridiculous as mccullough told us to see the british people go through a moralistic fit now and then. my winner for the week is exreal flo rida and the folks at "fox & friends" this morning put on an incredible performance and included image of steve doocy dancing along to. it was just a good enjoyable way to end what has been a tough week mike it's friday and time for "notable quotables." >> nothing way of life. you have to defend it fight for it and earn it. >> i'm here to tell you be angry. i'm furious. >> trying to figure out the best way to shield children bullets body is not a thought process i wish on anybody. >> the court has made clear it will

for example, marjorie taylor greene tweeting christian nationalism is what this nation needs.mpaign to give payments to gab, a social media platform with ties to white nationalists where a gunman posted a video before going inside that pittsburgh synagogue and killing worshippers during 2018. mastriano and others in the news. i want to bring in a guest who has analyzed this subject for years. she has this recent guest essay in "the new york times" and christian nationalists are excited about what comes next. she's been following the movement for years. katheryn stewart is her name. she's the author of "the power of worshippers inside the dangerous rise of christian nationalism." let's define our terms. what is this? >> christian nationalism is basically the idea that america was founded as a so-called christian nation, our laws should be based on the bible and supposedly right thinking believers need to reclaim america's past. it's also -- >> what heals the country will be saved through religion. why do you say that's so dangerous? >> it's dangerous because it's a radi radical

marjorie taylor greene can talk about it and others might choose to, but this has been promoted by nazicades. we have been fighting it in this country before any of us were born. we will continue to fight against this exclusionary and extreist ideology that has no place in our discourse. >> thanks to you, jonathan. our thanks to rachel. i was not aware of it. i've been covering this campaign. it's a little bit under the radar, but not any longer. >> thank you for giving it attention. >> you bet. >>> playing defense. wnba superstar brittney griner preparing to make her case nay russian courtroom tomorrow. this is "andrea mitchell reports." you are watching msnbc. is "andl reports. you are watching msnbc (woman vo) sailing a great river past extraordinary landscapes into the heart of iconic cities is a journey for the curious traveler, one that many have yet to discover. exploring with viking brings you closer to the world, to the history, the culture, the flavors, a serene river voyage on an elegant viking longship. learn more at viking.com godaddy payments offers fast and secure payment

think what you're left with, you know, there's a wave of christian nationalism, and you saw marjorie taylor greeneof being a christian nationalist. and i do believe they've imbued trump with this kind of god-like patina, which is crazy when you think about it. the guy couldn't be more godless than anybody, but they've kind of imbued him, and they're fine with him as long as he's doing -- as long as he was doing the things that they wanted to do like get supreme court justices in place to overturn roe v. wade and do the things that he did. and as a matter of fact, i have -- i'm producing a documentary that's all about the impact of christian nationalism, and it will be out fairly soon, and we're going to be able to show what these people are about, and they don't care that trump is flawed. they don't care that he lies. they don't care that he cheats and steals as long as he can accomplish the things that they want and that is this kind of white christian nationalism that they feel that they're entitled to. and by the way, this is not a christian evangelicals per se, this is just a segment of them,

. >> marjorie taylor greene is sitting in her petri dish, trying to do that, as we speak.en collins, thank you so much. coming up, how the cult like devotion to trump's trip to washington? and pressured republicans into keeping him in power. we're gonna go one-on-one with mark leibovich, when the 11th hour continues. , when the 11t hour continues >> mr. parscale, said, quote, this is about trump pushing country for uncertainty in our country. sitting president asking for a sitting president, asking for civil war. and then, when he said, this week, i feel guilty for helping him win, katrina pierson responded, he did what you felt right at the time, and therefore, it was right. mr. parscale added, yeah, but a woman is dead. and, yeah, if i was trump, and i knew my rhetoric killed someone, when ms. pierson replied, it wasn't the rhetoric. mr. parscale said, katrina, yes, it was. >> the january 6th committee revealed those stunning text messages to the american public, for the first time, between trump ally brad parscale and katrina pierson. for more, let's get straight to mar

and that sort of branding from the trumpiest members of congress, republican congressman marjorie taylor greene and all over the place in headlines now in the way the trumpiest part of the republican party is kind of branding itself these day, christian nationalism on the rise in republican campaign, christian nationalism is reshaping the republican party. the reason this christian nationalism thing is an awkward fit, the reason it is maybe not going to be an easy path for today's republican party, or at least it shouldn't be an easy path for today's republican party to bring this back, is because they're not inventing this phrase for the first time. and we're not looking at history, we know what it meant the last time. christian nationalism is not a new concept. it is not a new american right wing political concept. the reason this ought to be awkward to try to bring it back because the last time as a country we tried that on, with guys gerald l.k. smith leading the way, they were not shy in saying exactly what they meant by it. i will play you a little more gerald l.k. smith, i apologize in a

that sentiment has been echoed by republican congresswoman lauren and marjorie taylor greene, and inact, just this month, wilbur described the separation of his church and state as junk. now you might be tempted to dismiss that statement, but this is coming from a sitting member of congress. believes that used to be held by fringed extremists are now held by people who hold positions of power inside the u.s. government. arguably nowhere has been more impacted by this ongoing bond between christian fundamentalists and conservatives and the supreme court. just this term, the court's conservative majority ruled that state programs providing money for public school tuition cannot exclude religious schools. the conservative majority back to high school football coach who was suspended by the public school district for leading christian prayers with players on the field. but and this is the most important point for us to make here. the influence of christian extremism on the supreme court goes well beyond cases with a specific religious bet. it's the reason that the court just overthrown r

like you, tim, i'm much more fascinated by the least if onyx of this world, and i am by the marjorie taylor greene's clearly don't believe in trumpism, but they weren't trumpist until they absolutely need to be to get elected. but these are people who are willing to see the constitution be shredded, democracy being destroyed and making a deal with the devil just to get elected to the house or the senate. we have always had ambitious politicians. but never like this, surely. >> maybe always like this. it just has never been tested to this degree. these rationalizations ended up becoming much more powerful than i even realize. i looked at myself and i look back at my own rationalizations. why did i, as a gay man, work for people that were against gay marriage? i reflect deeply about how i justified that and how i rationalized. and now i think, look, if i can work for somebody who wants to take away the most important part of my life, then how easy it is for somebody who is ambitious to rationalize going along with trump when maybe they're not affected at all. their privilege. their life is not going t

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. >> that's not going to happen for lauren boebert or marjorie taylor greene unless they lose a primaryt lose. a lot of people want to kick members of congress out and throw them out. i always think voters -- people's votes are very important to me and letting voters decide who represents them is vital to our democracy. >> sure. go ahead. >> the challenge is we have 35 election deniers running for governor in states around the country. the way they do it is coddle up to the trump side of things. and elections might be outcomes, democracy is a process. and we've got to make sure that that process is protected, or folks like this are going to win based on denial of the last election. >> that's kind of the consequences of leaders in donald trump who repeatedly say things that are not true. i mean, congressman, you were in congress until 2021, right around the time that all of this was unfolding, and there was an incredible amount, and there still is -- it's gotten worse -- of distrust that was generated by some of these members of congress. the hardest core maga among them with democrats b

unacceptable and wrap these things together, guns, voting rights, abortion, the supreme court, marjorie taylor greene, donald trump, you know, there is nothing that this white house would like to see more than donald trump to go ahead and prematurely, or pre-emptively announce he is going to run for re-election now before the midterms, could be a violation of the normal traditions, because it would set the stage for them to make that rematch in effect two years ago which is a rematch they think they can do well on and in some senate races at least minimize the losses in the house. it is a message that hasn't gotten out yet. we'll see if they are able to translate that in the weeks and months ahead. >> it sends a pledge that can go up and down the ballot. because a lot of people, for the entire time that they have voted, maybe decks, haven't necessarily thought a lot about who they're going to elect for their state legislature, who they are going to elect for secretary of state, probably couldn't name their secretary of state. we're seeing a change in that, there has been a lot of reporting on that, d

then congresswoman elect marjorie taylor greene was also there.n early hearing that a pardon was ultimately requested by congressman mo brooks and other members of congress who attended this meeting. >> i'm joined by cnn congressional correspondent ryan nobles. ryan, what more do we know about this meeting? >> it was a planning meeting, jake, and it came shortly after the former president, donald trump, was advised by members of the white house that there was really no path forward on january 6th. but despite that advice, he put it away and met with this group of members of congress to talk about how they were going to try to delay the certification of the election results on january 6th. and some of these members of congress were willing. they were trying to come up with ways to help that end game by the former president. others weren't so sure. congressman mo brooks, as was pointed out in today's hearing, recommended this wasn't the best course of action for the president on january 6th. he did ultimately object. but what's most stark about this

wade, republican congresswoman marjorie taylor greene tweeted yesterday that it was "the most significantrious news of our lifetime." now, i'm not a legal scholar, but i do know this -- if you made that lady happy, you did something very bad president biden released a statement today about the leaked supreme court opinion and said that if abortion rights are rolled back, voters will have to elect more pro-choice officials in the midterms. okay you gotta stop putting this on the voters, you're the president with control of the house and senate, we did the voting thing. that's like me blaming a bad show on an intern. does it feel good in the moment? yeah [ laughter ] it feels great, but at the end of the day, we all know whose fault it really is - wally's. [ light laughter ] health officials announced yesterday that the coronavirus infections in new york city have reached a medium-risk threat level, which means you have to go from not wearing a mask to wearing it below your nose [ laughter ] according to unconfirmed reports, russian president vladimir putin is said to undergo cancer surgery

that's georgia republican congressman marjorie taylor greene. you're also seeing it all over the place in the way that the trumpist partac of the republic party is kind of branding itself these days. christian nationalism on the rise-insn republican campaigns. christian nationalism is reshaping the republican party. the reason this christian nationalism thing is an awkward fit, the reason it's maybe not an easy path for today's republican party or at least it shouldn't be an easy path for today's republican party to bring this back is because they are not inventing this phrase for the first time, wasn't ear not ignorant to history and we know what it meant the last time, right? christian nationalism is not a new concept. it's not a new american right wing political concept. the reason this ought to be awkward for them to bring this back is because thes last times a country that we tried that on with guys like gerald l.k. smith leading the way. they were really not shy saying exactly what they meant by, it so i'm going to play you a little more g

. >> did marjorie taylor greene contact yellow and?>> no, i heard that she asked white house counsel office for a pardon from mr. philbin, but i did not frequently communicate with mrs. greene. >> are you aware of any conversations or communications about the possibility of giving congressman matt gates a pardon? >> i know he had asked for it, but i'm not sure if he ever received one, or what happened with it. >> how do you know that he asked for a pardon? >> he told me. >> tell us about that. >> you told me he asked meadows for a pardon. >> the involved in or did you witness any conversations about the possibility of a blanket pardon for everyone involved in january 6th? >> i heard that mentioned, yes. >> do you know whether the president had any conversations about potentially pardoning any family members? >> i know he had hinted at a blanket pardon for the january 6th and then for anybody, but i think he had for all of the staff and everyone involved. not with january 6th, but just before he left office, i know he had talked about t

in fact, apart from marjorie taylor greene and a few other republicans in congress, they are all in whatever joe biden wants in ukraine. they support here, for example, lindsey graham with his little friend richard blumenthal. that would be connecticut's most famous vietnam war hero. >> here they are together, texas tell you something about america right now. here's 5% support to defeat putin falling out the pariah war criminals. when we get back, going to trying to get the senate as a whole to pass a resolution, hopefully paving the way for the administration to label russia a state sponsor of terrorism in the category of iran, syria and north korea. >> defeat putin. will that improve your life? is it improving the lives of the ukrainians right now? no, it's not. and yet every person who has been on the wrong side of every foreign policy decision going back 40 years is on the same page. and that, of course, would include john bolton, the former national security adviser who , by the way, just admitted on national television that he has personally engineered coups in foreign countries. wait,

let's hear representative marjorie taylor greene talk about how this meeting got set up. >> i was the only new member at the meeting. i call president trump on saturday and said, we have got to have a meeting. there are many of us that feel like this election has been stolen. >> on the screen you will see the president trump's chief of staff mark meadows tweeted about that meeting right after it happened. he said, quote, several members of congress just finished a meeting in the oval office with president donald trump, preparing to fight back against mounting evidence of voter fraud. stay tuned. on the same day he met with these republican members of congress, president trump called into a conservative political convention any use this opportunity to pressure the department of justice to investigate his bogus claims. >> the problem is we need a party that is going to fight. we have some great congressmen and women who are doing it. we have some great fighters. we won this in a landslide. they know it, we need backing from the justice department and other people have to finally step up