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Good Wednesday morning. I'm Adrienne Hurst and welcome to your Politico Playbook

audio briefing. It was a late night for Kevin McCarthy who called an emergency meeting before his

entire caucus decides today whether to punish Liz Cheney for voting to impeach Donald Trump.

But that's not even why McCarthy rounded up his

colleagues last night. They were dealing with another GOP mess. How do they solve a problem like Marjorie

Taylor Green? Your playbook co-author scoop this morning that McCarthy's leaning toward yanking the Georgia

rep off of the House Education and Labor Committee unless she steps down herself.

And yes, the problematic freshman was awarded more than one committee posts last week.

She's also on the budget panel, but there's a reason her education seat is raising eyebrows.

That's because, aside from endorsing violence against Democrats, espousing racist views, and doubling in QAnon conspiracy theories, Green has also suggested

prior to her election that the Sandy Hook and Parkland school shootings were a hoax.

Now, none of this was news to Republicans when she was elected in November. But in a separate

meeting last night, McCarthy explained to Green that it's coming to a head now because Democrats

are threatening to force a vote to pull her off her committees. He said that puts the entire GOP conference

in a really bad spot. A person familiar with the Green McCarthy sitdown said he tried to give her

some ways out of this. Option one, she could denounce Q&N and apologize publicly for embracing

dangerous conspiracy theories and endorsing

violence on Democrats. Option two, she could remove herself from the panel to spare her colleagues

from a vote on the matter. Or option three, she could face removal by her own Republican peers.

Embarrassing. Well, the chat must not have gone as well as McCarthy had hoped because afterward he called that emergency late-night meeting with the panel that designates committee assignments.

According to our sources, the whole room agreed that a House vote on pulling Green off of her committees would be politically catastrophic for Republicans who are already mad about being associated with her.

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