they would be refunded. >> president mccarthy: that's actually, yeah. >> president mccarthy: if there are no further questions, my friends are i believe they help the bottom line for a lot of projects. anything that commissioner mar can bring to the table to help, i think it's great. and i thank his office for bringing this forward for his presentation this morning. and with that, then, i think if there's no more comments on this, we'll open it up to commissioners one more time. okay. seeing none. can we vote on this, then? do we need -- >> clerk: we would call for public comment. >> president mccarthy: yeah. >> clerk: and there would need to be a motion. >> president mccarthy: motion to support, yeah. we'll come back and make the motion to support. open it up to public comment, madam secretary. >> clerk: we'll open to public comment. for the record, the public comment call in number is 415-655-0001. the access code is 1460874757. if anyone would like to speak for public comment, please press star 3 to raise your hand. any public comment for this item. >> sorry. i was muted. >> i'm no

mccarthy: sure. reporter: about earmarks, can you tell us about the nature of the conversations and have you taken a temperature check in your conference about where they might be leaning on the issue? mr. mccarthy: you know, steny has talked to me. he talked to me last congress. he talked to me this congress. the one thing i said is, if he wants to propose something, i'll look at it. but the idea, it can't be what was around here before. there's got to be accountability. i don't know what they're looking at. so i haven't taken any position yet. but i'm more than willing to look at something if they were provided to make sure it means any type of threshold. now, when it comes -- in our conference, we have a rule against it. if they propose something, it's not a rule against in the house, it would be a discussion we'd have to have internally. now, they said they were going to do something last year, last congress, they didn't do something. i don't know. i haven't seen anything. reporter: you're open t

they would be refunded. >> president mccarthy: that's actually, yeah. >> president mccarthy: if there are no further questions, my friends are i believe they help the bottom line for a lot of projects. anything that commissioner mar can bring to the table to help, i think it's great. and i thank his office for bringing this forward for his presentation this morning. and with that, then, i think if there's no more comments on this, we'll open it up to commissioners one more time. okay. seeing none. can we vote on this, then? do we need -- >> clerk: we would call for public comment. >> president mccarthy: yeah. >> clerk: and there would need to be a motion. >> president mccarthy: motion to support, yeah. we'll come back and make the motion to support. open it up to public comment, madam secretary. >> clerk: we'll open to public comment. for the record, the public comment call in number is 415-655-0001. the access code is 1460874757. if anyone would like to speak for public comment, please press star 3 to raise your hand. any public comment for this item. >> sorry. i was muted. >> i'm no

that is up to kevin mccarthy. cheney has said she would like the vote to take place which would indicate she believes she has the support of the conference behind her, but we're still waiting to see what the outof that decision will be. >> i mean, this just incredible. the republican party now is looking about voting about liz cheney, not about marjorie taylor greene and her committee assignments. is that just completely off the table as far as republicans are concerned? i know democrats could take her off and seem to want to. the republicans, has mccarthy decide they're not going to remove marjorie taylor greene from committee assignments? >> essentially, that's what it looks like is going to happen. this meeting is all about liz cheney. they talked very little about marjorie taylor greene. >> wow. >> she got up and did speak herself for a few minutes and actually got somewhat of a standing ovation from a good portion of the conference that we're told. you know, there was one congressman, adam kinzinger of illino

an angry phone call that kevin mccarthy had with donald trump where kevin mccarthy was trying to get violence at the capitol. she has issued a written statement explaining that she has been telling her constituents this actually for several days now, that this is why she voted to impeach the president. she reports that kevin mccarthy told her that donald trump said to him while the attackers were in the capitol and he was watching it on tv, well, kevin, i guess these people are more upset about the election than you are. congresswoman herrera-beutler goes on to say in her written statement since i publicly announced my decision to vote for impeachment i have shared these details in countless conversations with constituents and colleagues multiple times through the media and other public forums. she's been doing this back in her district, so it hasn't been coming to national media attention until tonight. i told it to the "daily news" of long view on january 17th. i've shared with local county executive board members as well as other constituents who asked me to explain my vote. i sha

mccarthy was -- mccarthy told people he was very angry with the president. he said who do you think you are talking about? mccarthy told the president he just heard gunfire outside the house chamber and that he had been evacuated, and that the president needed -- donald trump, former president, needed to get out there and call his people off. >> jon, let me interrupt you. mitt romney voted yes. a 50/50 vote would fail because the vice president, kamala harris, does not vote. mitt romney, at least one republican and now a second republican as well. i want to go to rachel scott. looks like we're going to get witnesses. >> reporter: it does, george. senator susan collins and lisa murkowski voted yes. all this coming after we heard from democrats last night, senator whitehouse saying the witnesses would clear up the timeline here and they would be open to it. now they're deciding to move forward. you have senator minority leader mitch mcconnell who came out minutes before this trial came into session as we were preparing to head into the final day of arguments h

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kevin mccarthy calling him his boy. you know? it's like you calling these people breaking into my house, oh, i guess they like my show more than yours, don. carry on. >> you know that would be a lie. >> unforgettivaunforgivable. unforgivable. >> i watch it and at some points i just have to turn the volume down. >> how are they ever going to work together? how can there be collegiality after this? >> okay. now you're saying what i've been saying how can you work with people who are not tethered to reality? how do you unite with people like that? i don't understand. i don't care what you are. i don't care if you're a democrat, republican, independent, i don't care. how do you work or unite with someone with a group of people who don't live in reality? i don't think it's possible. that's a sad thing for our country because you have so many people who want to believe anything the president says. but you know what? i'm not willing to let them off the hook that much because they are adults. they're grown people. they make their own cho

minority leader mccarthy: that is exactly true. new poll came out and it literally says the republican party grew with lou collar workers, because it was the forgotten men and women that donald trump listened to the voice no one else would listen to. and we are never going to forget those people. that is what we are focused on. look at what happened this morning at 2:00 a.m.. nancy pelosi put about a $2 trillion bail in. there was a vote on the floor. she put a tunnel in silicon valley that has nothing to do with covid into the bill we wanted to take that gas into the bell. we wanted -- -- that has nothing to do with covid into the bill. we wanted to take that money to put the kids back to school. democrats voted for it. it is a clear fight, who is standing for the american public and who is standing for corporations? it is the republican party today, tomorrow and in the future. that is why america is going to be stronger as we put america first. [applause] representative banks: donald trump taught us many things and make the repub

so it wasn't just that mccarthy just forget about it. he was effectively warned that this would mean that he loses power in the house, and i think that's what a lot of these republican senators are looking at right now. maybe they were upset on january 6th. maybe they were worried on january 6th, but they don't see a path forward for themselves politically if they cross trump. >> and let us remember the one critical sentence that house republican leader kevin mccarthy has uttered of donald trump throughout this entire sorry episode, from election day until now, was on the floor of the house when he blamed president trump for not doing more to stop the attack. >> mm-hmm. >> he did not blame him for inciting the attack unlike mitch mcconnell and others and people whose eyes are open as well and can hear. but he was willing, wolf, to criticize donald trump for not doing more to stop the attack. that's because he personally witnessed donald trump's craven indifference to human life, the fact that he thought this maga mob that was literally k

mccarthy's decision fails on many levels. first, he emphasizes as member of congress, greene must hold herself to higher standards than she did as a regular citizen. even though there's no standard by which a person who said this should be on key committees and embraced by any legitimate political party. >> the so-called plane that crashed into the pentagon, it is odd there's never any evidence shown for a plane in the pentagon. there's an islamic invasion into our government offices now. kennedy getting killed in the plane crash, another one of those clinton murders, right? >> okay. mccarthy then has another excuse, and that is when he says, quote, marjorie recognized, his words, that she has a responsibility to hold herself to a higher standard now that she's an elected official. okay. mccarthy even added her past comments have much greater meaning, marjorie recognized this in our conversation. i hold her to her word as well as her actions going forward. even as mccarthy was putting out the statement, greene's words were fl

herrera is likely to say namely she will testify to the conversation that she heard between kevin mccarthy and donald trump if kevin mccarthy then takes the stand and denies it that will be an extremely difficult situation for the senate to be placed in so i think that kevin mccarthy will be in a difficult position he almost has to take the stand now and in fact defend the defense team almost has to call him to rebut what congresswoman herrera will say there should then be other witnesses and in fact one witness will probably lead to another one of the big questions in my mind is whether or not any of the insurrectionists who said that they were inspired by donald trump and were awaiting his instructions because such as jessica walk ins or edward mcconnell both of whom have been charged with conspiracy and the question is how broad does that conspiracy go who is included in that conspiracy will any of the republican senators who have been supportive of rejecting the certification of votes and who seem to have had contact with donald trump on that day will any of them be called to testify b

your move, kevin mccarthy. your move. mccarthy is the leading republican in the house.sswoman marjorie taylor greene is a cancer on the party so what is mccarthy going to do about it? we're waiting to hear more this morning. meanwhile, do not adjust your sets. this is a political unicorn. something that exists only in fairy tales or at least did. this is a substantive bipartisan meeting in the white house. president biden with a group of republican senators comparing their plans for economic relief. huge gaps remain between what the president wants, a $1.9 trillion plan and what republicans are offering, a $600 billion counteroffer. we have new details about what happens next, even as democrats start to introduce the framework for passing the president's version with only democratic votes. >> and the second impeachment trial of former president trum

here is kevin mccarthy. around and goes to florida to kiss trump's ring. what is that? it is a party that's lost its way. when mitch mcconnell tells us vote your conscience, you know what that means, vote your political future. that's what it means. so we know what that's going to result in. >> why does that political future mean siding with president trump? you talk to, think about constituents all the time. what is it about the american people that makes the american people not see the difference between right and wrong here. >> it is not all of the american people, it is trump's base. it is trump's base that they're afraid of. and they're also afraid of trump because trump continues to hold sway. here's a guy that's such a narcissist, do we think he is going to fade into the sunset? i don't think so. they're very fearful of trump and his base. thankfully not all of the american people. i say the majority of american people right now seeing the evidence presented and riots and murderers' intent, i think th

what does mccarthy do next? >>> today house lawmakers will take a vote on whether to remove congresswoman marjorie taylor greene from the education committees after she harassed school shooting survivors. joining us now, dana bash. also jeff zeleny. great to see both of you guys. dana, congressman adam kinzinger was just on with john. he said he did not hear her apologize last night. kevin mccarthy wants us to trust him that she apologized. but when she's had a chance in public on radio shows, on social media, to apologize, to step away, recant anything that she said, she has loudly and proudly refused to do that. and, again, congressman kinzinger said he didn't hear her apologize last night. >> right. and he explained very clearly the reason why, which is never mind the fact that she might actually believe the things that she said, but more importantly now that she's a member of congress, that's how she's raising money and it helps boost her and bolster her power which is incredibly enhanced now after the meeti

you've got mccarthy and people know the mccarthy thing -- >> mark meadows has gone on fox yesterday saying the president wanted -- it was trying to get the national guard. president was very concerned. president spoke in realtime calling for peace even though realtime, i mean, it was two hours that went by without the president saying anything. >> sure, and i'm sure he'd like to selmal magic beans and a goon goose and fantastical statements how to recreate and recast in narrative when there is no evidence. they didn't present it. the people who were supposed to present the evidence, i know the burden is on the house impeachment managers to bring the case and they did that. but the people who raised a factual dispute in their briefing and in their actual statements have not provided any substantive corroboration of what they've said, specifically a flurry of activity to try to stop and confront these insurrectionists. where is the evidence of that? where is the information that trump did anything to stop it and that same question keeps lingering that raskin asked. why did he leave you out t

maybe those people are more interested in the result of the election than you are kevin mccarthy got very angry about that repeated the conversation to several people when he came off the fore and that seemed to be a new development and then we also heard donald trump's lawyer say during the hearing on friday that donald trump was very concerned about the safety of my parents sources close to my parents in the american reporting on friday night said the boy at essentially a lie to the senate that was not the case donald trump did not get in touch was not concerned about his safety so overnight i was speaking to people this morning overnight there was a debate going on among the house impeachment managers and the democrats on whether or not to call witnesses the person i was speaking to said that even until the last minute it was up in the year and i said when will we find when jimmy raskin stands up jimmy raskin stood up just about an hour ago and said yes he wanted to call witnesses specifically he wanted a deposition which is a witness statement from the congresswoman from washingt

thank you, president mccarthy. i was looking at that -- [audio breaking up] >> i know there was a request made to move our inspectors up in the vaccination schedule. tarus, do you want to jump in on that? >> hello, everybody, tarus, deputy director for the department of building inspection. we have been talking to the department of human resources. however, as everyone is aware there is actually a shortage in vaccines. and at this time, we haven't gotten any additional information. the focus is still on those who are elderly, and those in congregate settings. so at this point in time we haven't been given additional information. also, the mayor even did a citywide online presentation to all city employees, that really the tier structure is actually not determined locally. it is determined at the state level. but we will continue to follow up if more information is available. >> commissioner alexander tuk, does that answer your question? i basically wanted to close it out. >> yes. thank you. so, um...maybe i do -- m

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and this is not up to kevin mccarthy.his is up to the entire conference as to whether they're going to keep her or not. i'm a little disappointed that they're going after her because we're supposed to be independent thinkers. and if you really want to try to yunltd the party you have to be able to live within that and respect people's decisions. >> yeah. you certainly do. ryan, you reported that the republican leader in the house, kevin mccarthy, issued that statement condemning greene's comments. but by not taking action to remove her at least from one of those committees if not both of those committees, has he actually put his colleagues, his republican colleagues in an even more difficult political position because now the democrats may force a vote. >> well, they're going to force a vote, wolf. and the answer to your question is absolutely. the democrats have already pushed through these -- the move to remove greene from her committees through the rules committee. it's scheduled to be on the house floor tomorrow. and

but to the point of mccarthy's leadership, kevin mccarthy, he likes to be a pleaser, right.nd no matter what the scenario and he has pleased almost no one in this scenario, not the donors, not the hard-core sort of freedom caucus activists, the qanon wing of the party. he didn't please them. he didn't really please the establishment wing of the party. it is not clear he pleased base voters here. i mean, in fact, he allows for marjorie taylor greene to give these remarks, get a standing ovation in the room from a pretty sizable chunk of the conference at the same moment she is giving an interview basically calling him weak, saying that he's, you know, all talk and no action. so he didn't please her either. i mean he comes across here, i think, as a pretty weak leader. i don't mean that his position, don, is in danger, that somehow they will take a vote and vote kevin mccarthy out, but i think he emerges here pleasing almost no faction of his party at the moment. >> well, you have to -- if you're going to the leader, david, i think you will agree, you have to take positions so

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and this is mccarthy's fault.alked to somebody who is a big donor today who works with other donors who said that he may have cost himself the speakership, should the republicans get control of the congress at some point. and he's going to lose a lot of money. the party is not united. the party is divided. and this, of course, is one of the legacies of donald trump because even though he's not in washington, he's certainly going to continue to enjoy stirring the pot here. >> gloria, david, we love to see you. i love having you. come back early or late and often. >> good to see you. >> on the late show. thank you very much. >> thanks don. >> thanks, don. >>> republicans won't kick marjorie taylor greene off the education committee but democrats still could. the congresswoman who is leading the charge to remove her and also represents newtown, connecticut, responds next. lled. securely drop off your documents, have them picked up, or upload them, and work with a tax pro online from home. safe and easy ways to file t

they would be refunded. >> president mccarthy: that's actually, yeah. >> president mccarthy: if there are no further questions, my friends are i believe they help the bottom line for a lot of projects. anything that commissioner mar can bring to the table to help, i think it's great. and i thank his office for bringing this forward for his presentation this morning. and with that, then, i think if there's no more comments on this, we'll open it up to commissioners one more time. okay. seeing none. can we vote on this, then? do we need -- >> clerk: we would call for public comment. >> president mccarthy: yeah. >> clerk: and there would need to be a motion. >> president mccarthy: motion to support, yeah. we'll come back and make the motion to support. open it up to public comment, madam secretary. >> clerk: we'll open to public comment. for the record, the public comment call in number is 415-655-0001. the access code is 1460874757. if anyone would like to speak for public comment, please press star 3 to raise your hand. any public comment for this item. >> sorry. i was muted. >> i'm no

>> so last night, mccarthy and greene sat down and mccarthy tried to lay out from my understanding that this was coming to a head and that her controversial comments from, you know, years past, months past, were putting republicans in a really bad spot and they were, frankly, sick of it. he tried to lay out options for her, my understanding is, to say, you can go on tv, you can apologize for your remarks, you can denounce qanon, this conspiracy theory that in part led to some of the violence we saw on january 6th. and if you don't, you know, we could see gop colleagues remove you. and my understanding is this didn't perhaps go as well as he wanted. there was some hope with republicans that she would do the graceful thing and remove herself without making them ask. so mccarthy called a late-night meeting last night with his top lieutenants, basically the ones who choose committee assignments. and they talked about this and my understanding is the consensus in the room from my reporting is that everyone agreed, she should probably have to come off education and labor. there was a question

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where mccarthy flat out years didn't ask trump to call the rioters off and trump says you know kevin mccarthy you don't care about the election results as much as they do and frankly just refuses to call them off and is later sending tweets that seems to continue to incite them so i think that's really the issue and then last night we heard from this republican congresswoman who had never been a factor before and she sends out a tweet on social media saying that now is the time for patriots to come forward and tell the truth about what happens so i think that the house impeachment managers probably see that there is perhaps an opening here on the other hand as much as they would have might have thought that you have to the contrary this morning. mcconnell the senate and minority leader now says he can't see voting to convict and he is basing his argument not on the how the president incited the insurrection but on the the very faulty argument that the constitution doesn't allow for the president to be impeached that has been refuted by nearly every constitutional law expert including

the house managers about whether or not they should call witnesses key to be called would be kevin mccarthy the leader of the republicans in the house for the telephone call he had with donald trump asking him to send help when the capitol was overrun and also to call mike pence the vice president all about when he was at risk and when did the president know that and whether or not the president expressed any concern now the debate is the thing that senators have already made up their minds they know the timeline they know what happened they're well aware of all the facts but many of them decided they're standing by donald trump anyway and they are going to acquit so the question that the house managers are juggling with is there any value in calling witnesses at this stage given that the votes are probably accounted for we know that mitch mcconnell has in the last hour he of course is the leader of the republicans in the senate has said it's a close call but he is going to vote to acquit this is a man who said this was a matter of conscience and many thought could be a swing vote so if he

really we should hear from house minority leader mccarthy at the bare minimum. ideally, honestly, if you ask me, i think mike pence, i think donald trump -- >> host: let's go to the floor. senator leahy: majority leader. senator schumer:i asked if the she the quorum call. as i understand it there are discussions underway, i ask unanimous consent to recess until 12:30 p.m.. jamie herrera butler is their objection? hearing on we stand in recess until 12:30. [inaudible conversations] >> host: senate majority leader putting the senate in recess until 12:30 p.m. eastern time. the senators will leave the chamber and many of them exit into this hallway on screen. this is right outside the senate chamber. we will watch to see who comes out those doors next, negotiations are underway. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> host: reporters filling the hallways outside the senate chamber hoping to catch the senators as they are in recess until 12:30 p.m. eastern time. you heard the majority leader say conversations happening, what

mccarthy loses his stack and says no, it is your people. trump does nothing. >> but here is the issue. so i believe gloria and i believe jamie because i know them and i trust them, but trump's lawyers will say that the senate can't just believe it because people say it on cnn. that's what trump's lawyers will say. and the american people might also say look, we know how things work in court. it doesn't work to just, you know, have things in the media. you need evidence of them. and the reason it is so important is the house managers have kind of taken on this burden of proving willfulness, that trump intended for the occupation to happen. and, you know, what trump was doing or not doing during the siege actually potentially has a big bearing on that willfulness element if he, you know, wanted to happen, you might be delighted, if he didn't want to happen, he'd be appalled. >> so now all these calls that are happening and here is the thing that is a matter pin record. 2:26 p.m., capitol hill police chief makes an urgent request for assistanc

that's kevin mccarthy's party.ance to clean things up last night. . >> he did. >> and he didn't. now it's not mccarthy's republican party. it's qanon's republican party pause what kevin wouldn't do last night. . >> he has lost sight of his own soul at this point. >>> top of the hour now. john heilman is still with us. and joining the congress, eddie tkphraud jr., jake sherman with punch news, msnbc contributor. . >> hey, jake, we just heard our discussion, the last hour or so, about what happened last night. kevin mccarthy had a chance to do the right thing. to help the republican party move forward. and he blinked. what's next? >> what's next, she's emboldened. marjorie taylor greene is now raising money, six figures she has raised on twitter off this incident. she said something interesting which didn't get a lot of attention. she said if nancy pelosi was the minority leader, she would be bending over backward to protect anybody in her caucus. the implication being kevin was not bending over backward. although mc

look, mccarthy is getting squeezed by every direction. mccarthy wants to be speaker in 2022. that would require retaking the house from democrats. i am not in any way excusing what he's saying, but i am saying that he is playing a pretty cold, calculated political game, where he doesn't want to offend -- he is trying to please everybody and he has now ended up in this very middle spot where he is not really pleasing anybody except perhaps marjorie taylor greene, and liz cheney in the sense that she did not get taken out last night. i think that was heartening to cheney and to people around cheney. i think this is going to be a tough line for mccarthy to walk for another 18 months. >> it's interesting to watch how the white house is handling this and president biden, keeping this at a distance. and to an extent, this does provide, or what kind of opportunity duo you think this provides to them to focus on other things or to look like adults, in a way? >> look, i think a big one, john. i think that the complication of impeachment, i think, has been something that has -- i don't

kevin mccarthy was in the back saying i see some good candidates there.hinking what district can i run him for? speaking of that, election day was rough in some ways, really rough, but in other ways, it really gave me great optimism for the future. the greatest story of election night was getting so close to getting that gavel from nancy pelosi. did it shock you that you got that close? >> we got closer than anyone thought we could get. they said we are going to lose 20 seats, no one said we are going to win seats. my dearest friend is a hard-core republican said the best we can do is lose 10. do you know why we one that? president trump worked on all these races. i want you to tell your friends, especially your liberal friends. it's the first time since 1994 no republican incumbent lost. you know who the 15 democrats lost to? conservative women and conservative minorities, each and every one of them. [applause] and what happened is even when president trump was sick with covid, he called me and said we have to keep doing this because we could not do the

i tried to ask mccarthy. some of that exchange you played was my back and forth as i was trying to get him to explain how he appears to be endorsing this woman whose views mitch mcconnell called a cancer to the republican party. i said well how can you just take one private comment and suggest that this long pattern of things that she said, that one private denial is enough to wipe away everything she said in the last couple years? he did not answer that question. i tried to ask him toward the end. that is a question, too. was that enough for the republican leaders? they're saying if she says it now as a member of congress they may act differently. they are giving her a pass now because they said she said it before she was elected. >> a new rule for them. you can say whatever you want before you get elected but once you're elected even though you say the same things during that campaign, supposedly, that's still okay for mccarthy. boy oh, boy. now, what happens tomorrow? what votes happen tomorrow and are the

so what would kevin mccarthy do?ing to the president' defense disputing congresswoman herrera beutler's testimony, but he would have to do that under oath and they have to be concerned about submitting a declaration under oath and not being truthful. i imagine those discussions are going on between the trump defense team and kevin mccarthy and who knows where that will end up. >> congressman adam schiff, thank you so much for joining us and for your perspective. >>> one of the people who has been talking the last couple of days is senator ted cruz. let's listen to what he has to say. >> what she knew specifically and in particular she could testify we heard already the house sergeant in arms turn down national guard protection from the capitol on january 6th because of, quote, the optics. i think speaker pelosi can testify as to whether she made a decision based on optics, based on politics, not to have additional protection at the capitol to prevent the terrorist attack that played out. my view remains is we don't n

first, minority leader mccarthy and why he opposed. mr. mccarthy. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. mccarthy: i rise in opposition to house resolution 72. this resolution sets a dangerous new standard that will only deepen divisions within this house. for all their talk about norms and institutions, it's the democrats who've acted to undermine the people's house at every turn. let's check the record. afraid for their political careers, they have moved to shut down debate and silence dissent in committee and on this floor. they went so far as to eliminate the motion to recommit, a minority party's only chance to offer an amendment. which stood for over a century until this year. they have rushed impeachments through without a shred of due process, just like today. reducing this tool from the highest constitutional remedy to just another opportunity to fundraise and go on tv. and now they are declaring the majority has veto power over the minority's members' selections for committee. now, we have reviewed this with the parliame

i do have some feelings about whether or not we ought to do mccarthy's work.o his own work. but i'll wait and see how the resolutions read. >> obviously he's not going to remove her from those two committees. the question is, do you think she should be removed from those two committees, or do you want to go further and think she should be expeled from the house of representatives? >> i think some kind of censure ought to take place. i won't say expulsion. i don't believe that we can do that without having some hearing on the record, official record, that is. i know tlas a record that she has out there. it seems as if the people voted for her being fully aware of her record. and maybe there are some things they have not heard yet and since then has come out in some kind of hearings or committee meet meetings, which we have not done. so i'm very reluctant to react emotionally to these things. let's build the proper record before we have a vote. >> and we're just getting word right now. i think this is poe tngsly significant, that the house minority leader, kevin

tense words between kevin mccarthy and donald trump particularly when it came to kevin mccarthy asking donald trump to call his supporters away from the capitol and then suggesting that they were more concerned about the election result and some republicans in congress to which kevin mccarthy. we responded with a couple of expletives so they became part of the record of reporting after business on friday and so 1st thing on saturday the democrats decided that this was an avenue that had to be explored and essentially to be put on the record and they wanted to do that by calling witnesses it would have slowed and slowed the whole process up it would probably not have changed many views of those who were going to vote anyway but they decided that for the historical record and to put this in front of the american people this had to be done so that is why the house impeachment managers remember what independently from the democrat leadership in the senate decided to call witnesses and that's why they put that forward at the point they were meant to put forward the senate voted but no if th

mccarthy refuted that and told the president that these were trump supporters. that's when, according to mccarthy, the president said well, kevin, i guess these people are more upset about the election than you are. since i publicly announced my decision to vote for impeachment, i've shared these details and countless conversations with constituents and colleagues and multiple times to the media and other public forums. i told it to the daily news january 17, i shared it with local county republicans, executive board members as well as other constituents who asked me to explain my vote. i've shared it with thousands of residents on my telephone town hall february 8. mr. president, i now move that the senate admit the statement into evidence. >> without objection, the statement will be admitted into evidence. if either party would like to make further motions related to witnesses and documents at this time. >> mr. president, the president's counsel has no further motions. >> mr. president, we have no further motions. >> excuse me. the chair would note neither par

what must it like tonight to be kevin mccarthy?a guy who flew down to mar-a-lago putting his self-esteem on a shelf for the afternoon. he has been such a slavish example for president trump, but now his name is attached to this. he badly wants to be speaker of the house if they get the majority in two years. talk about what life must be like for him right about now. >> it's pretty clear that most republican officials, i think, in washington wish donald trump would not be -- continue to be the face and the loudest voice in the gop. but the problem they have is that most republican voters don't -- aren't there. most republican voters continue to be astoundingly loyal to donald trump, more loyal than they are, in many cases, to the party itself. so loyal that a majority of republican voters continue to say that they do not believe joe biden was legitimately elected president, because former president trump has not yet said that he believes joe biden was legitimately elected. so you do see this, as peter was saying, this tug between ca

moments ago democrats said this about house minority leader kevin mccarthy. >> why would kevin mccarthy continue to associate himself and the republican conference with someone who leader mitch mcconnell has characterized as a cancer? the last time i checked, cancers need to be cut out and not allowed to metastasize. and kevin mccarthy has the ability to do the right thing he should. >> but greene will not be the only urgent topic the republicans will need to address when they meet here in a few hours. wyoming congresswoman liz cheney is on the fence of being ousted for voting to impeach former president trump in his second impeachment. she has been shoring up support behind the scenes. that includes from senate republican leader mitch mcconnell. republicans are facing a critical reckoning. will they encourage, quoting one gop senator, the coux of their party or those who vote their conscience like liz cheney or try to get away with doing both? we have cnn congressional correspondent jessica dean and jamie gangel. they were not able to come to an agreement about greene late this morning

mccarthy refuted that and told the president that these were trump supporter's. that is one according to mccarthy the president said well kevin, i guess these people are more upset about the election then you are. since it publicly announce my decision to vote for impeachment i've shared these details in countless conversations with constituents andhm colleagues ad multiple times throughst the mea and other public forums. i told it to the daily news of of -- on june or 17th and shared with local county republicans, executive board members as well as other constituents who asked me to explain my vote and i shared it with thousands of residents on mike televon town hall on february 8. mr. president i now move that the senate admit the statement intote evidence. >> without objection the statement will, be admitted into evidence and does either party wished to make any further motions related to witnesses or documents at this time? >> mr. president the president's counsel has no further motions. >> mr. president we have no further motion. >> been the chair would note

mccarthy is available. the timeliness of this would cause a trial judge to deny the motion for witnesses. this is -- now we have this notion that, well, what we are really charging the president with is dereliction of duty. that has nothing to do with the article of impeachment and it's utterly irrelevant to the issue of the impeachment charge. neil: so congressman, let's say kevin mccarthy comes out and confirms what jamie herrera butler said, the account of that conversation and the president did say that more people are upset about the election than you are. just for you, not as a republican, not as a former impeachment manager in your own right, would that be a game-changer in your eyes that in the middle of this uprising on the hill, if true, again, to your point, kevin mccarthy hasn't commented on this, the president appeared to do little to stop it, in fact, he sounded like he was embracing it? >> i don't think that's the case. it's a real -- it would be a real jump for senators to read that into it.

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or was this a statement that he's mad at mccarthy? it for what it's worth, but i don't think it goes to the core of the case the democrats are trying to make, that somehow in front of thousands of people the president of the united states incited thousands of people to go try to knock down the united states capitol. these are comments that happened later, if they are true. it's hearsay, she didn't hear them directly. i have the greatest respect for her, i served with her for years, she's not a new member of the congress, she's been there for a number of years and i think widely liked on both sides of the aisle, but at the same time, this is coming very late. i don't think it goes to the core of the case. i don't think it will move anybody in any direction, but i don't see the evidence that, again, i think the democrats lack direct evidence that the president incited people in front of thousands and got them to go over there. they don't have a quote that they can use or point to that would lead to a justified conviction in this case. j