nancy mace: this file right here, classified.laughter] hello my fellow republicans -- fellow americans. hello china, good evening. [laughter] my name is nancy mace, like the pepper spray. unless your name is lauren boebert's and then it is pepper spray, a knife, a glock, hand grenade and missile. [laughter] i want to think the washington press corps for inviting me to be here tonight. it is a huge honor period this is awesome. i want to think the democrats for welcoming me here with open arms. i want to thank the republicans for allowing me to travel out of state. you should see the bill i am filing tomorrow. to all the new york times reporters, good evening. to everything -- everyone in the washington post, good luck in your job search. i know, that is mean. connie said i should drop an f-bomb so it is coming. the only reason i am a speaker tonight is because kevin mccarthy cannot get the vote. thank god he is not here tonight or he would be calling the principles office tomorrow morning. did you watch, during the speakers boat

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and nancy mace, she slayed.only one reason that i was chosen to be a republican speaker tonight. it is because kevin mccarthy could not get the votes. thank god he's not here tonight because i will probably be called in the principles office tomorrow morning. did you watch mccarthy during the speaker's vote? i know many of you were in the halls of congress during that vote, i have not seen someone assume that many physicians to appease the crazy republicans since stormy daniels. it only goes downhill from here, people. come on. but let's be honest, we all knew that matt gates would never let the vote get 18. and i know everyone thinks that republicans aren't funny, but if you get a bunch of us together we can be a real riot. >> back with me is john miller, and former democratic representative mondaire jones, but also cnn's john berman. so is the congress just filled with comedians? >> i think a lot of people are unintentionally funny, right. george santos in some way is -- >> a laugh riot. >> but not because he

i have been following nancy mace. this nancy mace, i can get behind.of taking off trump and taking off the rowdy wing of the republican party is important. it really is important to call the stuff out, even as jokes. >> you got nancy mace. the overall field starts to ship up here, we talked that pence wants to run, is intended plan, trump is the only announced candidate. biden clearly wants the, run and he has windfall honda cells are now, so he's in florida. if it is biden versus desantis, and i am going 50 steps ahead. what does that look like? >> desantis leads and the polls right now. the fact he is going after desantis because if you look at the primary polls, what you see is basically donald trump, ron desantis and it's everybody else. mike pence is at 2% of the polling, nikki haley at 1%. if you match desantis up against trump individually, what you see is that desantis is leading, get this, 52% to 42%, so the idea it will definitely be donald trump, it will probably be either joe biden against donald trump or run desantis it biden sites to run.

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we have britt humes with us today, nancy mace who had a very interesting exchange about whether or not the twitter executives have medical expertise and marc thiessen joining me on set. we begin with david spunt live at the justice department where they're watching this no doubt. hi, david. >> hi, martha. employees at doj and the fbi paying close attention to this one. republicans have been waiting for years for such a hearing now they're in a majority. one of the witnesses today criticized it. congressman jamie raskin. watch. >> millions of americans already feared that weaponization is the right name for this special subcommittee. not because weaponization of the government is its target, but because weaponization of the government is its purpose. >> another witness, ron johnson, a frequent critic of the doj and fbi. >> i've written over 50 overso iing letters and the vast majority of the questions i've asked have either received an inadequate response or no response at all. >> one of the primary concerns, a school board letter put out by attorney general garland. the response the na

i've been following nancy mace for a little bit. this nancy mace, i can get behind.s and not being afraid of ticking off trump and ticking off the rowdy, you know, unruly wing of the republican party is important. it really is important to call this stuff out even as jokes. >> as the field starts to shape up here, and we were just talking a moment ago that pence clearly wants to run. biden clearly wants to run and he's got some wind behind his sails right now. if it is a biden versus desantis, and i'm going about 50 steps ahead, what does that look like? >> desantis actually leads biden in the polls right now. the reason why he's going after desantis is if you look at the republican primary polls, what you see is it's basically donald trump. it's ron desantis, and it's everybody else. mike pence is at 2% in polling. nikki haley at 1%. if you match desantis up against trump individually, what you see is desantis is leading -- get this -- 53% to 40%. so the idea that it is definitely going to be donald trump is a fantasy. it's probably going to be either joe biden agai

one's going to be nancy mace and ken buck and some others. do is put into the rules. there is a code of conduct here. but i don't know the definition exactly what all that's going to mean. i think that should be clear. so if there is a concern, it's not tit for tat. but i think in moving forward every single member of congress has a responsibility to how they carry themselves. let me finish the question. and it's responsible upon us to let them know what that is, and then what is the due process in a bipartisan way that we can deal with it. so, i'm going to put a group of democrats that hakeem will select and a group of republicans. and we'll work to clarify the rules and pass something for not only this congress but future congress as well. >> there's an acrimony right now in congress. we've seen it play out in many of these committee hearings where members are calling each other names, congresswoman omar is a backdrop against this. with the acrimony between republicans and democrats right now, how can the american people be confident that y

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and live in south carolina south dakota republican congresswoman nancy mace standing by with her reactionrst to lucas thomason was was more on the latest detection over canada, lucas. >> is the third time in the week this time over canada. it's the third kilt for f-22. u.s. and canadian fighter jets have been tracking this mysterious object over northern can according to candace prime minister. president biden is here at the white house he is hosting governors from across the nation. we are waiting to see if he addresses this issue. was just yesterday when another object that object was not detected until it had already successfully penetrated u.s. airspace over canada. off the coast of alaska where this mysterious object was destroyed yesterday morning and. the temperature right now and the frozen ice at minus 20 degrees. daylight and rough weather are limiting the search record to norad. unlike the enormous 2000-pound machines the size of school three school buses that had a weeklong odyssey of the nine states last week shot down over the coast of south cry that object yesterday of desc

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neil: be well, nancy mace, south carolina. i want to go to stacy finster runs a company healthier, a startup helping folks in east palestine deal with this, including providing thousands of bottles of water, comprehensive health screening kits. she put into this practice how can i help. she is helping. stacy, very good to have you. what is the reaction you got from residents when they saw all of this stuff? >> neil, thank you for having me. i have to two days ago when i was on the ground, there was blue, sunny skies in east palestine but there was definite worry and concern from the residents. they just don't know where they're supposed to start. i can tell you they were very welcoming and very much appreciative what we were able to bring to east palestine. neil: so you know, the bottled water, everything else you had a chance to see for yourself, stacy, how they're feeling. a lot of authorities are reassuring them, water is fine, air is fine. are they, did you get a sense they're buying that or still nervous about it, even ne

nancy mace has called for santos to resign.new york have called on him to resign. i guess the question i have is ultimately are democrats better off with santos there? as this freak that dishonors his party. day in, day out. >> that's a description. i think that he really -- he does draw some of the news cycle every day and it sort of gives them something to bat around that's not other issues they might be concerned about. i do think people are going to get tired of this, though, and at a certain point are they going to just look at kevin mccarthy and say okay, but seriously. like all of these voices, your whole new york delegation is saying at the baseline can't we just agree to this? the flip side is now you're hearing this talking point about biden and whether biden is a liar, and there's like a strange defense of george santos that -- in the sort of right-wing mediasphere that hinges on the idea that everyone lies and definitely biden lies. and again, that's just a very cynical argument to make to the public, that this liar

. >> there are republicans, nancy mace among them, republican congressman nancy mace who this "morningerns about too many republicans coming into the primary and, therefore, beginning donald trump the same path he had basically in 2016 of so many folks splitting the vote, he takes 30%, 40%, he is the nominee. >> that is definitely a possibility. we have not seen any specific republican rise to the top of the pack yet. we have seen a lot of talk about governor ron desantis of florida, he has not thrown his hat into the ring officially yet, even though he is making a lot of moves that show he may be one of the next republicans to join into the presidential race. right now it doesn't appear that he has cleared the field, it doesn't appear that donald trump has cleared the field and so we could see six, seven, eight, nine or ten republicans get into this race. we've seen governors and senators and the number of different people from across the spectrum of the republican party say they're interested and so we could be in a position where you have so many republicans splitting the vote and d

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he had holdouts like nancy mace who we just mentioned and ken buck. there was at one point matt gaetz saying he wasn't sure this was a good idea to do this. what changed? >> this is a campaign promise for kevin mccarthy. it was something he was committed to following through on. through the course of the week, we saw him meeting with all of those aforementioned lawmakers in the speaker's suite, trying to figure out what it would get them to say yes or present. it turns out, there needed to be a commitment lawmakers say to providing more due process in the future for lawmakers in the process of getting removed from their committees. what that's going to look like is anybody's guess. it's not sure if this was a handshake agreement or each individual lawmaker believes they agreed to the same thing with mccarthy about what due process would actually mean, but the idea here is there's a process to censure someone, there's a process to kick someone out of the house entirely but the process to boot somebody from their committees has basically one party decid

nancy mason tweeted out yesterday -- nancy mace tweeted out yesterday i am yes.with speaker mccarthy before the vote. i will lead with bipartisan effort to ensure commitment to remove of -- isn't colorized. this is real commitment to ruling in 2023. and then we had another tweet that said i oppose it. she apologized. she made a big mistake. let's bring it back to politics. mike in miami beach says he lost complete loss of faith in the ethics. of the party. we have gary in new hampshire. go ahead. caller: good morning how are you this morning? host: good morning. caller: i think this is petty revenge because they kicked off to republicans from their committees when the democrats were in control of the house. the one thing, the republicans are saying it is ok from goes r and marjorie caleb green -- marjorie taylor greene and it is ok for them to do violence against -- to be a trump supporter knowing that donald trump is the one that caused the insurrection to try to overturn a democracy that belongs to the people of this country. this is petty revenge on the part o

o yo >> what do you say to congressmen like nancy mace, who is a republican from south carolina? she'she is aggressively pushingt legalization, apparently with the support of americans for prosperity. conserv do i have that rightativ, which is a conservative organizationh and i believe the koch brothers might have given the money oror have started even what's happening here? well, when iitt comes to representative nancy mace, i'll just say a few words. money money talks. the koch brothers are investedrl in the marijuana game. they're pushing for all drug legalization, not just marijuana. that's in the words of the koch brothers themselves. now, as well as altria has given a lot of money to representative mays' and altria is the new name for philip morris and marlboro. they have pue t to a billionmarn dollars into the marijuana industry. so we'll follow the money ther e ,because guess what? south carolina has no marijuana legalization. south carolina doesn't want marijuana legalization. and yet the representative in their first congressionagalizatd district has spent a lot of time

the aforementioned nancy mace.'re never going to pass what the republicans in the house want to pass, which is a border security own by itself plan. if it looks at dreamers, looks at comprehensive immigration reform, we have a chance to do that. but republicans in the house, i hope they prove me wrong, right now seem more interested in scoring political points than actually fixing the problem. >> well done. >> this is an issue where the big package ought to be easier to get done than these little pieces of the package. >> right. >> sorry. briefly, one moment in the trump presidency, he was meeting with the principals around the table. he was like, let's do the big package and he bought into it. people like diane feinstein and others couldn't believe he was embracing it. then they quickly backtracked, of course. >> he said, yeah, do whatever you guys do. >> yeah, yeah. >> but they could actually pass a big deal. really tough border security. take care of dreamers. >> yeah. >> again, as you're saying, julia, you've g

. >> the republicans are now under congresswoman nancy mace, today introducing a new rule that no member of any committee can be rejected again without due process. >> that's as of today. >> the big difference with this committee is she's on other committees. the foreign relations committee is ruled by the world as speaking effectively for congress. why do you think they were reacting so strongly? because of the influence that it gives you. it mattered to them. so, this is why the other committee assignments are not affected. this is what america stands for. is america anti-semitic? do we hate the jews or hoping that israel is destroyed and comparing us and israel to terrorist groups. when you are sitting in the foreign relations committee and you have that group, there are people who hate the jews, they do. we need to take a stand and what happened today, she was checked. >> absolutely disagree. >> this is also important for other democrats who have been harmed. >> do we hate the muslims? >> you had your space and i love him, too. i have known him for a long, long time. >> jesus, you ar

here now with reaction, south carolina congresswoman nancy mace. so if you're the american people, are you confident in this endless endeavor this administration is undertake. if you're xi jinping, are you aware of this alliance that he didn't lay out? >> that was quite the world salad if you ask me. kind of an embarrassment. being in ukraine on president's day rather than going to ohio where americans are really suffering on one of the largest environmental disasters in my lifetime. it's an embarrassment. this president's abject failure on foreign policy started with the failed evacuation in afghanistan and ended two weeks ago when he allowed a chinese spy balloon to traverse across our country over nuclear sites, military sites before it was shot down and they knew about it long before then. i just got back from the munich security conference. i got to see this first hand while overseas. there's great concern about ukraine but it has to be stronger than? >> help me with the mindset, congress woman. he spent about ten times more time or five times

here's congresswoman nancy mace. >> presidents' day he goes to ukraine and hasn't even mentioned ohiost palestine and hasn't talked about visiting them. those people are suffering. they need to hear from their present and they are not. they need support, our border wall come up course, over 5 million people have crossed illegally into the country. according to all the drugs and fentanyl coming across my had a friend by three or four weeks ago from an accidental fentanyl overdose. this is serious stuff happening on the border and every town is a border town. >> ashley: google maps, 290 miles from the white house to east palestine, ohio. before he goes to ukraine, he could made a real quick pit stop. you know what, i showed face and i'm doing what i should do as president of the united states would be super, super easy for a time where direct time four hours 50 minutes on air force one would be nothing to make that deed deed to her. then he goes to ukraine and offers half million dollars in support for ukraine and ukraine war. but yet fema still has not decided if they were going to giv

. >> the first lawmaker nancy mace said that she ultimately supported this, because kevin mccarthy agreedorward and bipartisan process to eject the members from the committees and she ultimately voted for it, but she did it reluctantly. kate. >> thank you, manu. and joining me with more on this is scott gottheimer who is chairman of the problem solvers caucus, and you have had what is called the complicated relationship with the congresswoman over her comments on israel, and you have been outspoken about her comments, and what do you make of her vote taking her off of foreign affairs? >> and first of all, i don't think it is appropriate to kick any member off of a committee for a different view. obviously, congresswoman omar and i have had different views and i have spoken out when we have had different view, and it is not appropriate to throw somebody off of the committee because of that, and that said, yesterday, congresswoman omar sponsored a resolution standing strongly by israel as a key ally of the united states of america as a democratic ally recognizing the legitimacy even if she

nancy mace had said she got assurances going forward there will be a different process of removing members off committees for bad behavior. and kevin mccarthy did indicate that that would be his plan also going forward, he plans to have talks with the democratic leader hakeem jeffries about this issue as the republicans appear eager to put this behind them amid concerns within the ranks. manu raju, cnn, capitol hill. >>> a conservative leaning appeals court striking down a federal law that prohibits people with domestic violence restraining orders from having guns. the fifth circuit court of appeals ruling the law targeted those believed to pose a domestic violence threat is unconstitutional saying through that lens we conclude the ban of possession of firearms is an outlier that our ancestors would never have accepted. >>> russia is stepping up its attacks in eastern ukraine. missile strikes targeting civilians. and scott mclean, how significant is the new aid package? >> it is worth $2.2 billion. a heck of a lot in there, but not precisely what the ukrainians have been asking for which i

nancy mace of south carolina just announced she will support the resolution so the gop should have unanimousupport on their side right now. looking at the scoreboard. the board is still open this is a party-line vote. ilhan omar spoke on her own behalf just before the vote. she said quote, the debate today who gets to be an american. neil? neil: chad pergram on capitol hill, chad, that he very of. meantime governor ron desantis taking on the woke crowd, woke curriculum. he seems to be making some traction there. i will explain after this.unti ♪. i'm bill lockwood, current caretaker and owner. when covid hit, we had some challenges like a lot of businesses did. i heard about the payroll tax refund, it allowed us to keep the amount of people that we needed and the people that have been here taking care of us. see if your business may qualify. go to getrefunds.com. young lady who was, you know, mid 30s, couple of kids, recently went through a divorce. she had a lot of questions when she came in. i watched my mother go through being a single mom. at the end of the day, my mom raised three childr

nancy mace had said she got assurances going forward there will be a different process of removing members committees for bad behavior. and kevin mccarthy did indicate that that would be his plan also going forward, he plans to have talks with the democratic leader hakeem jeffries about this issue as the republicans appear eager to put this behind them amid concerns within the ranks. manu raju, cnn, capitol hill. >>> new york democratic representative alexandria ocasio-cortez delivered a fiery speech on the house floor after the vote. she also spoke with cnn's john berman and said she thought republicans were motivated by the trivial desire to get even with democrats. >> i think this was about revenge, this was about petty politics. but also i think that it is also important to state that this was not just about republicans trying to feed a base that they have already primed for years under donald trump with racism, misogyny, islamophobia, but also it represents a stripping of an important perspective on the house foreign affairs committee that ilhan omar as a refugee, as an immigrant, as

at the last minute nancy mace was a holdout and buck.ue process when it comes to this. i auto do worry about the long term ramifications of payback. but, as you say, the democrats started it. they had to know there was going to be some follow-up and they have gotten some follow-up. but when the majority shifts we will see more of this drama. i imagine a little bit more professionalism in response, steve. >> steve: i think you are probably right. stay stay tuned see what happens. meantime 6:19 in the east. 5:19 here in kansas city. which ashley strohmier reveals as he her home it town too. >> ashley: the chiefs. not my hometown. it will be my hometown this weekend and next. the chief financial officer of murdaugh's former law firm taking the stand without the jury present and the judge crsz whether her testimony is admissible. she says she confronted murdaugh about missing funds totaling over $790,000 on the same day his wife and son were found shot and killed. >> i told him i had reason to believe e. had received the funds himself and th

republicans who vote against the resolution, because our colleague raja manu just reported that nancy mace vote against this. >> and so, the question is, is this the new norm? what do you think? >> well, kate, it is certainly feeling like that, kate, and you covered capitol hill, and that is not the situation. yes, disagreements, but throwing someone off of the committee was not the norm. but what is interesting or as interestingly is that speaker mccarthy got the votes to do that, and it was an open question a couple of days ago, and so if he was not able to do that, we will talk about how he is a weak speaker, so he is able to carry through with the symbolic move. does it change the workings of congress? not necessarily, but it is one more example of how things have eroded on capitol hill, and it is seeming to be the new norm. >> yeah, yeah, absolutely. so also, as evan perez is reporting out the new aggressive strategy from hunter biden's legal team, it might be a good legal strategy, but is it a good political strategy when it is coming to his father, and president biden and soon to be

airspace, republican congresswoman nancy mace on the house armed service committee and she joins us nowsswoman. how much information are you getting, we are not getting a lot i'm concerned about the lack of transparency here. i will tell you sitting on armed services committee we were getting 0 information i will be asking for briefing this week once business convenes this week it's very disturbing to me three or four or five incidents over the last ten days and i have a lot of questions and answers right now why are we only detecting these and seeing these items and why haven't they have been shot down before they have been over u.s. airspace why are we taking so long to take down these objects. is deeply concerning to see was going on right now. >> you on this committee i imagine you and the members of the committee talk to each other even across the aisle politically speaking are you sensing this sort of frustration from your democrat colleagues as well? about the lack of transparency and information coming to the spirit enter particular committee that should be informed about it? >>

i have tremors in my left hand, and i have -- rachel: that was congresswoman nancy mace.n a hearing this week. she also said this: >> what makes you think you are -- you or anyone else at twitter has the medical exif per tease to censor actual, accurate ckc data? you censored harvard-educated. >>s, stanford-educated doctors, doctors educated in the best places in the world, and you silenced those voices. rachel: in december twitter files confirmed stanford professor dr. jay bhattacharya was blacklisted for his covid-19 information tweets, and he joins us now. dr. bhattacharya, just an honor to have you on the show this morning. so you are stanford medical school educated. how did it make you feel to be fact checked and censored by a bunch of pajama boys at twitter? [laughter] >> i mean, it was shocking, actually, rachel. because the american people deserve to understand that there was a very wide range of opinions about how best to manage the pandemic. there was not a consensus. you heard dr. fauci saying i am the science, that was ridiculous. rachel: yeah. >> a very larg

here is fellow republican nancy mace, attempting to make fun of george santos, while also making fun of federal republican, and making fun of donald trump and the many, many republican members so who followed him. so listen to this. >> come on georgia, given republicans a bad name and that is lauren boebert strawberry. [laughter] just kidding lauren, don't shoot! [laughter] i mean really, who lies about being, or played college volleyball? who does that? if you're going to lie, at least make it about something big, like you actually won the 2020 presidential election. [laughter] >> so funny that it ended with an attack on the capitol. i wonder if mike pence laughed when he got his subpoena from the special counsel yesterday. if you need one more example of the alternate reality the republicans are living in, you would be hard-pressed to find one better than the republican response to president biden's state of the union address. that response was delivered by arkansas governor sarah huckabee sanders, although you might remember her from her previous job of lying for donald trump as h

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i mean, think about it, former nato's sec gen and nancy mace. >> what else could you need? >> you don't need anything else. that does it for us this morning. josÉ diaz-balart picks up the coverage right now. >> good morning, 10:00 a.m. eastern, 7:00 a.m. pacific, i'm josÉ diaz-balart at nbc headquarters in new york. coming up this hour, as the number of people killed in the devastating earthquakes in turkey and syria rise, we're seeing miracles overnight as rescuers pull several survivors out of the rubble. we're live at the epicenter in turkey. >>> next hour, all senators will get a briefing on china while members of congress are holding hearings demanding answers about the u.s. response to that spy balloon that floated across the u.s. we'll talk to congressman gregory meeks who attended a house briefing on the matter earlier this morning. >>> president biden is back on the road today heading to a key battleground state to sell his agenda, and he's doubling down on accusations that some republicans want to cut medicare and social security. and migrant crossing borders are

let's first get your reaction, let's please take a listen to congresswoman nancy mace, slamming twitteraying -- shutting down debates. listen to this. >> i, along with many americans, was a long-hauler, and i have effects from the vaccine. it wasn't the first shot, but it was the second shot that i now developed asthma that has never gone away since i had the second shot. i have tremors in my left hand, and i have to caigal heart -- occasional heart pain. i find if it extremely alarming twitter's unfetteredded censorship spread into medical fields. you're not a doctor, right? what makes you think you have the medical expertise to censor actual, accurate cdc data? elizabeth: michael, what's your reaction? >> well, i thought it was a fascinating day. there was a lot that was going on yesterday, but i definitely think we saw both twitter and facebook completely inappropriately censoring legitimate debate, legitimate questions, legitimate opinions including ones expressed by very eminent people in their field including a harvard medical professor, a stanford medical professor. not that it s

at one point nancy mace asked one of them, what is your medical degree, where did you get it from, asking questions about why you would remove other doctors assessments of covid from twitter. this one had to do with what kind of legal advice they sought when they decided to pull down the hunter biden story. this is an exchange with james comer, the chairman of the committee, former chief legal officer at twitter, she was fired by elon musk, watch this. >> when "the new york post" initially broke the story about the laptop, did you call to ask if it was authentic? >> no, i did not. >> you are telling this committee you did not ask any biden representative at the laptop was real over hunter biden's attorney's phone numbers to confirm its authenticity? >> we did not speak to anybody related to that. >> martha: yeah, because they had already spoken to people that told them if you ever see anything like this, you have to pull it down immediately, did absolutely zero according to her due diligence of their own. >> it was a lot of wrongdoing, obviously, at twitter. the thing that is very concern

among, the nancy mace of south carolina, can bunk have another member that said he had promised it. but what mccarthy ended up doing was kind of offering up this almost ranch these members of that who were concerned that there is a due process issue. that ilhan omar was not given the opportunity to state your case, as to whether not he deserve to be in the foreign affairs committee. and so what mccarthy's offering hakeem jeffries, is down the road, they could set up what he described as a bipartisan panel that would come up with a code of conduct to what it takes to sit on each one of these house committees. and then that panel will decide whether or not certain member lived up that code of conduct. whether not jeffrey sense of participating in that, whether not that ever comes to fruition. is really immaterial to this debate. but i do think, had a broader conversation here is, that kevin mccarthy made this promise. as he was running for speaker of the house. the hard-line republicans in his caucus thought this was important. he once again sided with them, as opposed to siding with

there is congresswoman nancy mace who is now in office.he is someone who has spoken very much against trump on january 6th and some other things and is trying to carve out a space for someone who is not sort of a hard-core trumpist. and i think nikki haley is kind of looking at that atmosphere and thinking maybe the support has softened a little bit. and you can hear a key argument is generational change. it's not that trump was bad or the former administration did bad things, it's just kind of time, which is her way of politely saying that was great, but let's move. >> stuart, you wrote a piece in the new york times recently with the title nikki haley threw it all away. i want to read a quote. you said, no political figure better illustrates the tragic collapse of the modern republican party than nikki haley. can you talk about what you meant? obviously, the pushback is she is a woman of color, a former diplomat, she could be exactly what the modern gop needs. >> i would love to take that moment the chairman was referring to with her and

nancy mace raised concerns about this. tony gonzalez raised concerns about it. mace got some changes to allow -- to give more due process or allow for a future process to allow some members to appeal the potential of getting kicked off committees. but i put that question directly to the speaker whether or not he was engaging in tit for tat and if that is the message that voters sent to this new republican party that just took power. >> no. that's the clear part is that it's not tit for tat. we are not removing her from other committees. we do not believe when it comes to foreign affairs, especially the responsibility of that position around the world with the comments that you make. she shouldn't serve this. if it was tit for tat, we would have picked people, took them all off committee. we don't believe in that. >> reporter: mccarthy said he and hakeem jeffries had discussions to avoid what is happening, but not only with ilhan omar but denying the two democrats off the intelligence committee. he can do that because of the special nature of that intelligence co

and i predict that someone like nancy mace from charleston is the future of the party. what we're seeing is a civil war. what they're doing today, especially today, is not a democracy process. it's really shameful. it looks more what's happening in peru, okay, than washington, d.c. and for that, we should all be outraged. >> i hear you. the fact that mccarthy doesn't have what some republicans have called a core is another sign that it's just politics, and the question, is are you good at it? then we have something i wanted to shine a light on, this debate over the post people are in. take a look at what has become a big debate in washington. congressman matt gaetz was defending ilhan omar, but they are removing her from the foreign affairs committee with their powers that republicans have. if the standard is offensive comments, outrageous comments, they can debate those. people pointing out the "q" remember marjorie taylor greene is fine, in good standing along with paul gosar who literally posted violent threats to a current member of congress. >> this debate today, i

we know that congressman nancy mace is likely still a no on this. and we're going to be watching to see if congressman matt gaetz is also a no. he could go either way at this point. that's someone we're watching. we don't expect it to up end the process, though. >> congressman curbelo this vote on congresswoman omar, it is another political fight that doesn't address the serious issues this congress is facing. are politicians picking the right battles right now? >> well, lindsey, yeah, republicans do take the risk of seeming petty. and certainly this is a tit for tat, and i agree that it is not exactly the same. speaker mccarthy is not booting any democrats from all of their committees as democrats did last congress. but this is entirely predictable and democrats took this unprecedented step last congress, a lot of people predicted that if republicans took over, we would see similar actions. and that's probably what we're going to see today. but, it certainly is incumbent upon mccarthy, being that the house is the only part of the government republi

one is nancy mace and ken buck and others.e rules -- there's a code of conduct here. i don't know the definition exactly what all that is going to mean. i think that should be clear. if there's a concern, it's not tit for tat. i think in moving forward, every single member of congress has a responsibility to how they carry themselves. let me finish. it is responsible upon us to let them know what that is. what is the due process in a bipartisan way that we can deal with it? i'm going to put a group of democrats that hakeem will select and republicans and we will work to clarify the rules and pass something for not only this congress but future congresses as well. >> there's acrimony in congress. we have seen it play out in many committee hearings where members are calling each other names.na. vote with congresswoman omar is a backdrop against this. with the crimony tweep republicans and democrats rite right now, how can the american people be confident you'll get things done? >> this is nothing like the last congress where you

congresswoman nancy mace today introducing a new rule that no member of any committee canct edbe ejected again without duet. process. >> all right. that's as of today thi's as of today the big difference here with this committee, she's on other committees is that the foreign relations committeeh is viewed by the world s as speaking effectively for congress. alpe effectl right. acting that the people on it have a why do you think they wereof t mawhy do you think they wereof t because of the influence it gives you? it mattere. d to them.e assiattere. d to them.e so this is why the her other committee assignments are not affectedaffected. but this is about what america stands for. is america america anti-semitic do we hate the ? also hoping that israel is destroyed, comparing us and israel to terrorist groups. so when you're sitting on the foreign relations committee and yo u have that attitude, look, there arehere a some people in america who are an anti-semitere who hate the . stand they they do. but we need to take a stand. >>t we need to take a stand. today, is she was checked and helpi