that's on steve scalise.f people like steve scalise who get to come on television and lie about the attack, about the election, about trump and their own role. steve scalise is part of a sedition caucus who voted to try to overturn the election and he is as guilty of inciting that insurrection as donald trump is. >> we got to get through this quickly. i want to get to another trump loyalist. colorado congresswoman. the display of guns behind her during the virtual committee hearing debating whether to ban lawmakers whether to ban lawmakers from committee hearings. what does this picture tell you? >> it tells me the republican party are not serious. they exist to own the libs, troll us, fight culture wars. there's no interest in actual security or safety. she was arrested three times in the last decade. once for an altercation with a police. this is not a law and order political party. she helped incite an insurrection that led to the death of police officers. i find it hard to take these people seriously on a

you know steve scalise. you worked with steve scalise.your reaction to learning he went down to palm beach to meet with the former president? >> well, it's very clear to me that steve scalise and kevin mccarthy have kind of put themselves in a bit of a box. they so badly want to get back in the majority, they feel they need the president to do so. but i would argue by embracing trump and trumpism as strongly as they have, they're making it more difficult to win back seats in the suburbs and these marginal and swing districts. and they only need to win four to five seats. but i think the closer they get to trump, the harder it is, i think, for them to reclaim some of those swing districts they need to recapture the majority. i also think, too, part of it is, you go back to the marjorie taylor greene issue, they didn't punish her, because they were afraid that would alienate mbs of the freedom caucus who would not then vote for kevin mccarthy for speaker, like what happened in 2015 when those voters withheld their votes. >> the democrats on

i heard you mention him representative scalise. they will look at taking away his covid emergency powers. a former top d.o.j. official says governor cuomo's actions may have been criminal. if his team knowingly gave inaccurate data on nursing home covid deaths to the feds. let's watch and i'll get your reaction. >> new york by the summer had by far the highest death rate in the country, over 32,000 deaths. twice the deaths of any other state. if new york were its own country it was the top 10. the governor was saying the nursing home deaths were very low. they provided data that showed she had understated the deaths in those nursing homes by 1/3. >> new york families who lost their loved ones in nursing homes and we found out we uncovered that he gave an order we're talking about back at the beginning of the pandemic against cdc guidance. he gave a mandate that said if are you a nursing home patient in a hospital covid positive you you have to be spent back to the nursing home. the most vulnerable population. what happened is they

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steve scalise made the trip to mar-a-lago to kiss the ring. it's also a tragedy for the country. we need two functional parties. right now we only have one functional party and a cult of personality around donald trump. >> let's get to new reporting that investigators are looking into whether trump allies roger stone and alex jones played a role in organizing the violence. let's take a listen to what your colleague stacey plaskett told nbc earlier. >> as for what this new report is showing with regard to roger stone and other allies of the president, i think it's solidifying that the president was in fact not only an instigator but a planner of the attack on january 6th. >> do you agree with that assessment? >> i do. and i think it's certainly appropriate to be looking at the role that the president's close supporters and friends and confidants like roger stone, conspiracy theorists like alex jones and others played in inciting this. if you believe alex jones also financing the rally on january 6th. and, you know, the whole stop the steal camp

here with house reaction steve scalise with texas republican congressman dan control. >> steve scaliseither the right thing to do or the wrong thing to do. now obama/biden couldn't beat the caliphate but trump did because he took off rules of engagement and let the military do their job. we were critical of the whole time, but it was successful. i would assume that the strike last night was the right thing to do. i don't know the background yet. one day we will probably know. >> yeah, sean, good to be with you. i agree in the end, let's see where the facts are on this strike but it was the right thing to do to send a message to biden who backs terrorism all the time around the world. president trump led with these two strikes a doctrine that work to stand up for america and our allies again but the whole time he was doing that, you had joe biden, kamala harris and jen psaki all the ones you mention critical of that whether erratic or illegal authority. they were wrong then, hopefully they are right now, but it is this double standard and you see hypocrisy the first 100 days of joe bide

steve scalise hasn't talked to anybody since going down to talk to trump, and we'll ask him that. then you have important figures like mitch mcconnell who say the party is doomed to lose if they continue to follow donald trump. >> lot to be worked out. we'll be watching next sunday and this sunday morning as you host "this week." thanks for coming on. >>> speaking of jon and "this week," don't forget to watch the show. one-on-one with white house press secretary jen psaki. as the biden administration pushes forward on that covid relief bill, and as we mentioned, he'll speak with house gop whip steve scalise about the future of the party. all coming up on "this week" later this morning on abc. eva, over to you. >>> time now for a check of the weather and rob marciano back in studio this morning, and it's good to see you inside. >> nice to be here, eva. and nice to be showing less of these pictures of a frozen i want to show you this drone video out of eastern kentucky. this was taken yesterday. obviously a lot of snow this drone video out of eastern kentucky, folks in jackson count

steve scalise the other day on tv.nservative movement to be made on the back of a lie of the election? >> let me go through a couple things you said. >> sure. >> joe biden is my president. he won the election. >> good. >> that doesn't mean that there wasn't voter fraud and voter irregularity in the last election. there's a republican who went to jail for voter fraud in north carolina. >> right. >> it can't just be republicans that commit voter fraud. when voter fraud occurs no matter -- >> no, but you need to have proof, matt. >> will be prosecuted. >> you have to have ploof that it changed an outcome. >> we have it. >> you don't have. >> but you're right. we do have it. >> you can't have it because you have chances to produce it. you had chances to -- >> could you sit down? >> no. because you had your chance at this. matt, you had your chance. >> nobody -- >> matt, why do you ignore that dozens of lawsuits failed on this? >> let me -- >> why ignore it? >> you're right. they did fail. but guess what. you know this. you

scalise from louisiana. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from louisiana is recognized for three minutes. mr. scalise: thank you, madam speaker. i thank the gentleman from oklahoma for yielding. madam speaker, i have been clear for a long time that the comments made by mrs. greene prior to being elected a member of congress are completely inappropriate and, in fact, i have spoken directly to her to express that. and we had a long conversation, frankly, similar to the one that we just heard on the floor a few minutes ago, madam speaker, where we heard mrs. greene herself come and give a full account of things she's done in her past. in fact, at the end she said, jesus died on the cross to forgive me of my sins. she actually held herself to account. as many of us have as well. i wonder if that same new standard that is being talked about today is anticipated to be applied equally by the majority's side of people who have done things egregious and haven't, haven't given account. in fact, done those things

scalise said he was touching base while on political travel.omething we're seeing of other republican leaders. what does this signal to you? >> he's kissing the ring. this is a time when the gop is incredibly divided and people are choosing their sides. aligning yourself with trump right now makes sense within the context of fundraising and trying to keep the gop base on your side. what's extraordinary is when republicans have spoken out and told the truth, they have not only been rebuked by parties, but many have crawled back and made excuses to get back in president trump's good graces. nikki haley gave that interview and then tried to clean it up and tried to get to mar-a-lago and trump wouldn't see her. scalise is not the first, he won't be the last, but it's a sign of how he sees the wind blowing in his conference and among his donors. >> yeah. they're making choices. j john avalon, thank you so much for being with us. >>> not long after a judge allowed a suspect to go on vacation. >>> plus a third of military members refuse to get vaccina

congressman steve scalise and congressman adam schiff. two very different ways of looking at it.e a listen. >> every united states senator who voted to impeach president trump who talked about things like go and fight like hell and other things like that -- >> you're saying he doesn't bear responsibility? >> when president trump has denounced what happened. >> not withstanding the fact that donald trump incited a violent attack on our capitol. these republican leaders are still in his thrall. >> reporter: there isn't the only key hearing that we're looking at this week. we're also expecting to see some important posts for the biden administration begin their confirmation hearings and for merrick garland who is up for being attorney general and january 6th will be important when it comes to garland's confirmation hearings. we expect he will say something on january 6th and the role the department of justice will play in continuing to prosecute the insurrectionists here on that day. listen to what part of garland is expected to say. he says if confirmed, i will supervise the prosec

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susan, since you are the republican here on the panel, what's up with steve scalise, congressman scaliseis country right now. we need the republicans to say without, you know -- biden was elected president. biden is the president, full stop. you know, it's really disheartening to think at this point in time when voters care more about what's going on in texas, covid, a stimulus package, we're still playing this game. so, you're not going to get me as a republican to blow up the panel. >> right. donna, you're from the other side of the aisle. is it surprising to you that here we are, one month into the biden/harris administration and we still have not just republicans, but a republican leader who still won't acknowledge the fact that joe biden won the election fair and square and legitimately? >> is it a surprise? actually, no, it's not a surprise. especially with today's republican party. not only do we have steve scalise this morning on television really not able to come to that acknowledgment, the conclusion that the rest of the world has that joe biden is president and won legitimatel

here to react, congressman steve scalise.ooking into him because he directed these sick patients to go into these nursing homes. he looks count barrel of that gun and says no, no, no. we have to hide this. according to our research, you are looking at obstructing government administration in the second degree, you could be look at conspiracy. conspiracy -- misdemeanors are still official misconduct, but i think things are starting to tighten up for the governor. >> this report from the "new york post" is a bombshell. thousands of people died who shouldn't have died from covid, going back to march when the governor cuomo gave it order that covid patients be sent back into nursing homes, even though the nursing home couldn't take care of them. that went against federal guidance that said not to do that. i'm on a select subcommittee. we have been asking governor co-below to give the data to us and be transparent with the facts. he smugly said we don't have to show it to you. a top aide thinks she is talking to a couple democrat

steve scalise did have her in the primary. i'm on a republican woman's pac. we supported her male opponent, a brain surgeon. we could have had a brain surgeon in this position instead of her. i think her views are unacceptable. i'd vote to kick her out of the conference. no one wants to be represented by her. you don't want members who want to have her face in their ads two years from now saying that they stood by her. so i think these loud mouths who are defending her are going to be a smaller number of people than you think. >> do you agree with that, michael? why hasn't been so hard for mccarthy to just stand up and say and do the right thing? i mean, he has tried to avoid touching this thing with a 100-foot pole over the last week. >> i think that greene is far more emblematic and mirrors the vocal base of the gop than does cheney. that's the reality, and congresswoman comstock mentions that runoff election. it's very instruct testify take a look at what happened. dr. john cowan checked all of the conservative boxes. yes, a neurosurgeon. by the way, marri

steve scalise. congressman, thank you for joining us. i want to pick up on that question of schools, you've been highly critical of how the administration has handled this, but ultimately, the decisions on when to reopen schools are local decisions, what exactly do you want the administration, the president, to be doing? >> jon, good to be with you first of all. the first thing that the president can do is give strong guidance and follow the science, there's so much science out there that says that this is hurting kids, millions of kids in america right now, that are not getting in-classroom learning every day. you can look at cdc guidance, you can look at the america academy of pediatrics. they all lay out safely how to reopen. 40% of children are learning in person. places where the virus is not as serious. but if you look at what the priorities should be, it should be the children. that's not the case. right now you can see, as the unions have stepped up and say that they don't want in-classroom learning, you have seen the white house

steve scalise in republican leadership in the minority in the house and he was also on the sunday show . he is on abc. >> the first thing the president can do is give strong guidance and follow the science. there is so much science that this is hurting kids and millions of kids in america that are not getting in classroom learning every day. you look at cdc guidance, you can look at the american academy of pediatrics and they lay out how you can safely reopen school. 40 percent of children are learning in school so you don't have to reinvent the wheel. those rns hotspots and places where the virus is not a serious but if you lookat what the priority should be , it should be the children and that's not the case because right now you can see as the unions have stepped up and said they don't want in classroom learning using the white house pressured the cdc to reduce guidance which was clear but this money idea that you have to wait until the money comes out, that's not the case. there's over $60 billion still remaining in previous relief packages cynically for reopening schools. the mone

joining me now is congressman steve scalise. you know the consequences of leftist smears, they have been leveling insane accusations against the president for years and now they turn around and bash trump's rhetoric as incendiary and even dangerous? >> when you look at all of the different things that were said by democrats through the summer of love as they called it, mostly peaceful protest where cities were getting burned down, cops were being murdered left and right. violence of any kind needs to be decried, i don't know of anybody on our side that was okay with january 6th, i called it out myself, so many others have too. the difference is during the summer when we were calling out that violence that was happening in all of the cities with antifa and all of the democrat officials encouraging them to do it and saying they would bail people out if they were arrested in part of those mobs, i didn't hear that outrage by the democrats. you can't have this double standard and they are wasting so much time right now on this impeac

it is a lie, steve scalise, and you should know better. but the supreme court handed the former president a stinging defeat on that big lie today, a stinging defeat on a pennsylvania election case over mail-in ballots, basically saying, let it go. it's over. and then there's justice clarence thomas. putting out a dissent that could have been tailor-made for the former president, 11 pages that referred to fraud ten times. the big lie all over again. they found no fraud. his own court ruled to that. no fraud. what america needs now is truth. the truth that the election was not stolen and the truth about the pandemic that has killed more than 500,000 of us. can we please start to live in reality, people? can we please stop lying? can we please stop doing other people's bidding? the election was not stolen. it was legitimate. the most secure election according to our security folks ever. come over to reality, trumplicans. the water is fine. it's warm. >>> in washington, d.c. today, something finally happened that should have happened a long ti

number two house republican steve scalise met with trump yest yesterday. close to senator mitch mcconnell says that he will never bend the knee. gop is in full-on identity crisis right now. >> it is, and they're choosing sides in this gop civil war. it's stunning to see senators like ron johnson take a whack at mcconnell. look, the fact that the state parties are, you know, scensurig senator who had the courage to condemn an insurrection. but to see senators turn on people what they realize this is a choice between truth and lies, this should not be a tough call. if you're proactively choosing to suck up to the big lie, then you're on the wrong side of history. >> republican lawmakers in georgia trying to push an election bill that would limit absentee voting, ban early voting on sundays, which is a huge voting day for many black americans who attend souls to the polls events. is this a blatant attempt to suppress the black vote? >> yes. look, you know the history of rolling back voting rights and restricting access, particularly in the south. this isn't a

i mean, and nikki haley is seeing that, right, where other, you know, representatives like steve scalisere going to kiss the ring, if you've criticized donald trump he'll freeze you out. you're either with him or against him. there's no reasoning. and against the backdrop of an attack on the capitol this shouldn't be a tough call. rational human being who's a trump supporter would say i support what he did in terms of policy but i condemn what he did in inciting an insurrection. not big enough. you've got to buying into his buying lie right now, which is b.s. >> haley tried to batch things up by blaming the media in the gop divide. the divide is real. number two house republican steve scalise met with trump yesterday with someone close to mitch mcconnell says he will never bend the knee. gop is full on identity crisis right now. >> it is, and they're choosing sides in this gop civil war. it's stunning to see senators like ron johnson take a whack at mcconnell. the fact that the state parties are, you know, censuring senators and congressmen who had the courage to stand up and condemn an

so you are seeing emissaries -- scalise is a different story but with regard to the senate and mitch mcconnell, emissaries trying to calm both sides down, especial ly donald trump at thi point. f. >> if you look at the georgia senate race, that issue was him denying the election and taking it out on voters. >> he blames mitch mcconnell. >> of course. >> here's the challenge for mcconnell and it's similar to the situation with president biden. both of them can control what they -- what comes out of their mouth. how much they engage. and they've got jobs -- big jobs to do in washington. they can't control what trump does or what the media covers. the reality, though, is that it's a lot easier for donald trump to carry on conflicts of this kind when he has the presidential pulpit, when he has his twitter feed, when he is not dealing with some of the legal challenges that he is about to face. so i think what mcconnell, when he looks ahead to 2022, he's got to calculate and is calculating, his team is calculating, is donald trump really going to have the energy to engage across a broad fr

and i absolutely think the scalise going down isn't as bad.ith either one of them going to kiss the ring or bend the knee, i just think that kevin mccarthy is in a position to be the leader of the republican party. i do believe that they have got a bigger challenge ahead of them. not only are they going to have to face in two years -- in less than two years democrats coming at them in the house of representatives during campaigns, but more importantly, they're going to have to worry about republicans and trump supporters and trump himself going after republicans. this is a year after you win a presidential race and it's not within your party, it usually swings the other way. you can look no further than history. this should be a time where republicans should be in the best position to win the house of representatives. but if they continue to have someone like trump play into their campaigns, if they don't find a way to put them away, it's going to be a really rough time for republicans. >> you're certainly right. thank you so much. >>> just ah

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number 2 house republican steve ska scalise met with trump last tuesday.ys after his meeting with trump, take a listen. >> clear this up for me. joe biden won the election. he is the legitimate president of the united states. the election was not stolen, correct? >> look, joe biden is the president. there were a few states that did not follow their state lawes. th laws. that's the dispute you've seen continue on. >> i know joe biden is the president, he lives at the white house. i asked you is he the legitimate president of the united states? do you concede this election was not stolen? very simple question. please just answer. >> once the electors are counted, yes, he's the legitimate president. if you're going to ignore the fact there were states that did not follow their own state legislati legislatively set laws, that's the issue people aren't happy about and don't want to see happen again. >> just a quick fact check for you even though we shouldn't have to do this repeatedly. joe biden did win the election legitimately and there is zero election fraud

we need to -- it's not alexandria ocasio-cortez and bernie sanders fault that steve scalise was shot. and it is not the fault of the republican party, broadly speaking, and the case of the capital riots. donald trump did insight that riot. and did put fuel on the fire because he told them to go after mike pence. and while pentz was hiding, he actually tweeted out that mike pence didn't have the courage to do this. i never called him to see if he is okay donald trump behaved horribly. you can go on to say that this is a characteristic of the movement that supports him or the broader concern of gauze, i don't pick that's fair. >> shannon: have to leave it there. >> we've seen double digit increases in domestic -- including the python for miami, the kid who drove to el paso to round up and to immigrants, all confirm from the record of president trump. >> what about the blm violence, jesse? >> shannon: that's going to take us down a whole nother path. we can talk about that later. the president's team will say that these are people who planned ahead and he mentioned they would peacefully

has been a mentor to me and she offered advice freely and i look at leader mccarthy and with steve scalise. that is a solid group of leadership that i support and they have all been exceptionally helpful to me as i have gotten off the ground and excited to work with them. i am hopeful that we are able to move on with their leadership with respect to representative taylor green, i trust leadership and the steering committee is extremely thoughtful and will be able to navigate this and i will look for their input as we move forward. that has not happened yet but more will happen later today. as i couldn't champion aspirational progrowth, inclusive policies. that's what i believe my party represents and there will always be distractions in our political world but i will maintain my focus on that and there is so many members of congress back you're doing incredible things on both sides of the aisle that truly care about the district and working on smart policy and i hope to continue to push forward in those efforts. now that we have committee assignments, i'm excited to jump into and get invol

steve scalise is calling for an investigation what do you think of this breaking news. >> is a great of our students this is the administrations that campaigned on data and science while we've knownra for months that this virtual learning has been a failure and we know in person learning does not contribute to a covid spreading between students, teachers or staff in the virtual learning has hurt minority students and he the mosted students wide in the achievement gap between rich and poor students because students who come from families with means to go to private schools or higher tutors while those without means are stuck in the failing system at home for months on end while their parents are in a horrible position where they try to holdh down a job and watch their kids at home all day. it is so unfair. >> 2 millionom single moms estimated have to stay home to take care of the kids because are not t in school. now we have the story new york state release to total of covid-19 deaths for nursing homes after a judge ordered the cuomo administration to do that it turns out the numbers

scalise, as well as leadership on the democratic side.f you saw the senate announced their support for this on saturday night, and then we will come together and pass this legislation. and then we are working on the commission, the january 6 commission. what is happening there in that timetable is the following. everyone was saying we need to have a commission, and i was very much a part of writing the commission in 9/11 -- the 9/11 commission. you've heard me go through that before. we have heard almost immediately or sometime last week, from the chairs of that commission, governor kane of new jersey, and our former chairman in the house, lee hamilton. they sent us a letter, the leadership, the president, the vice president, house, and senate, saying this is what we think should be in the legislation. it was not too far from what everybody thought. what are the causes of what happened on 9/11, what is the security, security, security looking at how the security can protect us, and better preparedness can protect us in the future, and how

we saw that happen over the weekend number 2 republican steve scalise refused to say the election was stolen and others are in the similar position. erin, the clear sense is that republicans, despite what happened here, despite what they all experienced, the deadly riot on january 6, still won't say he has any blame for what happened. >> manu, thank you. out front one of the lawmakers you saw at this hearing, democratic congressman tim ryan of ohio, chair of the house appropriations subcommittee that oversees the capitol police. congressman, i appreciate your time. i want to ask you more about manu's reporting in a moment. first, this is a disturbing warning from the acting capitol police chief. trump supporters are planning another attack, to coincide with president biden's address to congress, to blow up the capitol what the capitol police is warning about. what else do you know about this? >> well, this is the first we're hearing about it. you know, we get the threats all the time, erin, as you know. and unfortunately some of us get used to hearing them. but this was especially egr

to fly to mar-a-lago and curry favor with trump and in that same interview, scalise refused to evenump bore responsibility for the insurrection on january 6th. >> when you met with the former president, did you ask him to take responsibility? did he take responsibility >> well, jonathan, i was in florida doing some fund-raising throughout a number of parts of florida. i ended up at mar-a-lago and the president reached out, and we visited. >> seth: wait, i'm sorry, how do you just end up at mar-a-lago? the same way you end up at a strip club "honey, i didn't know where the guys were going. we were drinking sprite and playing board games, and next thing you know, we ended up at the diamond donkey i didn't want to be there, babe. i wanted to be pounding sprites, playing risk." these election lies are so insane that today, one of the chief disseminators of the big lie, mike lindell, aka the my pillow guy, got sued for defamation by dominion voting systems for $1.3 billion $1.3 billion right now, that dude's running around, shaking the change out of every pillow in his house, which is no

now we know that kevin mccarthy, the house minority leader and steve scalise, the number two ranking republican have both voiced their support for cheney to stay in that post as the number three republican, but she has taken a lot of incoming fire tonight from many of these republicans angry with that vote. so we're not going to know the outcome until the vote cast if there even is a vote. 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 happ

steve scalise is calling for an investigation. what do you think of the breaking news?en administration is prioritizing teachers unions over our students this is the administration that campaigned on data and science. well we've known for months now that virtual learning has been a failure. we know that in-person learning really does not contribute to covid spreading between students, teachers or staff and the virtual learning has really hurt minority students and disadvantaged students most. it widened the achievement gap between rich and poor students because of course, students who come from families with means can simply go to private schools, hire tutors, those without means are stuck in this failing system at home for months on end while their parents are in this horrible position where they try to hold down a job and watch their kids at home all day. so unfair. elizabeth: yeah. two million single moms estimated have to stay at home to take care of their kid because they're not in school. they can't go to work. now we have this story, kristin. new york state final

scalise never formally rebuked trump for his role in the insurrection.or house speaker if the republicans took back the house. meanwhile, former u.n. ambassador nikki haley was snubbed by the former president after she asked for a meeting. politico reports he turned her down after she blasted trump for inciting supporters to storm the capitol. joining us now, former congressman carlos karbala, an msnbc news contributor. good to see you. let's talk about this growing gop divide and trump's influence. where do you see the future of the party? do you think you see more statewide leaders, people in states being the ones to begin to push back? >> yeah, good morning, alicia. the republican party certainly is at a crossroads. do they continue down the path of trumpism or do they learn from trumpism and turn to something that's really more sustainable long term? nikki haley is certainly someone who wanted to take that second path and has criticized the president. and as we're seeing now, the president, even after his time in office, even after he's been weakened

scalise as well as leadership on the democratic side as well. the senate announced their support for this on saturday night and then we will come together and pass this legislation. and then we are working on the commission of the january 6th commission. what happened in the timetable -- everyone was saying we need to have a commission, this and that. a part of writing the commission in the 9/11 commission, you heard me go through that before. and, we heard almost immediately, sometime last week from the chairs of that commission, governor kane of new jersey and former chairman in the house, lee hamilton. they had sent us all a letter, the leadership, the president, the vice president, hamilton scented saying this is what should be in the legislation. -- sent it saying this is what should be in the legislation. what are the causes of what happened in 9/11, what is the truth year -- what is the truth their -- truth there? look at how the security can protect us, better preparedness can protect us in the future and how did that go wrong? it is wha

scalise from louisiana. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from louisiana is recognized for three minutes. mr. scalise: thank you, madam speaker. i thank the gentleman from oklahoma for yielding. madam speaker, i have been clear for a long time that the comments made by mrs. greene prior to being elected a member of congress are completely inappropriate and, in fact, i have spoken directly to her to express that. and we had a long conversation, frankly, similar to the one that we just heard on the floor a few minutes ago, madam speaker, where we heard mrs. greene herself come and give a full account of things she's done in her past. in fact, at the end she said, jesus died on the cross to forgive me of my sins. she actually held herself to account. as many of us have as well. i wonder if that same new standard that is being talked about today is anticipated to be applied equally by the majority's side of people who have done things egregious and haven't, haven't given account. in fact, done those things

steve scalise cares. enough to go on tv on the sunday shows and not say that the former president was responsible for the insurrection at the u.s. capitol and to dance around whether or not joe biden won the election fair and square. i mean, lindsey graham clearly cares. he's afraid to go out his front door without saying something nice about the former president. you know, so, there is power to wield at this point, natasha. and i am very curious to see what kind of a line the former president walks. is he going to walk up on that stage, no teleprompter, and riff for 90 minutes about how he thinks the election was stolen? because that could be something. >> i could totally see that happening. that is very much donald trump's style. and when it comes to cpac, he's done that before. he admitted he went up with no notes and first planted that idea of making america great again at a past speech. and the crowd absolutely loved it. so, cpac is a bit of a temperature check for the gop at the grassroots level. an

i never once said bernie sanders was responsible for the near killing of steve scalise. yet every democrat has jumped on board and said the president is directly responsible for what these crazy people did when they ininvestigated the capitol. so no, if we're going to hold politicians responsible for inflammatory language, it has to be the same standard. we can't have one for president trump and a different standard for bernie sanders or kamala harris or maxine waters. >> neil: but should we have a different standard for the president? he timed that january 6 rally on the very day they were going to confirm the electoral vote knowing full well that tensions would be high and a march on the capitol and i'll give the president the benefit of the doubt that the intention was never to storm in the capitol. maybe storm outside the capitol. but storm nonetheless. the timing was curious. to put it mildly. this was the type of thing that was akin to lighting a powder keg and seeing the results. >> the reason we have to be fair about this, had the rally happened -- it happened at

saying it's safe for teachers to go back to school if they're not vaccinated house minority whip steve scalise tweeted it's clear the biden administration's policy is follow the teachers unions, not follow the science we obviously rely on science. >>and rely on our health experts in a virtual press briefing thursday white house press secretary jen psaki reiterated the vice president and president believe teachers should be prioritized for vaccines but not required the president committed reopening school 5 days a week as quickly as possible and his chief medical adviser doctor anthony fauci says the danger of future school infections doesn't lie with in person learning we're seeing it reflective of what's going on in the community. >>and the white house just announced one 0.6 billion dollars to expand its testing and tracing efforts. but officials say that widespread screening testing in schools can't happen until congress approves more money live in washington. i'm jessi tenure. >>jesse contra costa county meanwhile is expanding covid vaccine. eligibility to more essential workers talking abo

can't feed a family much less put anything away for any emergencies, but louisiana congressman steve scalise doesn't think a minimum wage increase should be tied to covid relief what does that have to do with covid. >>it should be focused on helping families and small businesses were struggling. house democrats are expecting to get much gop support for their aid package schoolies told abc news that states still have unspent funds from previous relief bills, there's over a trillion dollars of money unspent from previous relief bills that were bipartisan the money still sitting in a bank account. now republicans are criticizing democrats for the price tag of the bill and for what they call not working in a bipartisan way. >>in washington are shot hudson back to you. thank you for that shot. >>the pandemic is having a devastating impact on children, some of the biggest casualties of the school shut down our low income students. the group communities in schools estimates that nationwide 3 million at risk kids have not participate in classes. since last march and others have just vanished. >>all

chairwoman cheney she's been a mentor to freely offer advice and i look at leader mccarthy and steve scalise that is a solid group of leadership that i support they've all been exceptionally helpful to me as i got off the ground and really excited about working with e th. i am hopeful were able to move on with their leadership with respect to representatives taylor green, in the steering committee they are extremely thoughtful and will be able to navigate and i'll look for their input as we move forward all of that has not happened much later today but as i got into the role i am someone that will champion aspirational pro-growth policies that's what i believe my party represented there will always be distractions in our political world but i will maintain my focus on that and there's so many members of congress doing incredible things on both sides of the aisle that really truly care about the district and working on small smart policy and i hope it continues to push forward and doing those efforts and now we have committee assignments i'm excited to t jup into and get involved with armed s

saying it's safe for teachers to go back to school if they're not vaccinated house minority whip steve scaliseweeted it's clear the biden administration's policy is follow the teachers unions, not follow the science we obviously rely on science. >>and rely on our health experts in a virtual press briefing thursday white house press secretary jen psaki reiterated the vice president and president believe teachers should be prioritized for vaccines but not required the president committed reopening school 5 days a week as quickly as possible and his chief medical adviser doctor anthony fauci says the danger of future school infections doesn't lie with in person learning we're seeing it reflective of what's going on in the community. >>and the white house just announced one 0.6 billion in funding to help expand its testing and tracing efforts. but officials say that widespread screening testing in schools can't be available until congress approves more funding live in washington. i'm jessi yeah that we know they can always agree so what where to democrats and republicans stand on. >>the money into