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GOP leaders silent on Greene comparing mask mandate to Holocaust

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 25 May 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene compared House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s decision to continue the mask mandate to the Holocaust. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik haven’t responded to multiple requests by CNN to respond to Greene’s comments. Democratic Rep. Steve Cohen joins AC360 to react to Greene’s comments and said he thinks she’s “playing to her base.” He also said a lot of Republicans today have “no experience in government.” Plus, Arizona and Georgia audits are moving forward as Republicans continue to push election fraud lies. In Georgia’s Fulton County, a judge green-lit the unsealing of 147,000 mail-in ballots cast there in the 2020 election. Fulton County Board of Commissioners Chairman Robb Pitts tells Anderson Cooper the election was “open, fair and transparent.” Airdate: May 24, 2021   Guests: Rep. Steve Cohen Robb Pitts To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Good evening with Thundering Silence from leading Republicans, the anti-Semitism of one of

0:05.3

its members, a one-time QAnon promoter, we begin tonight with Bob Dylan, who turned 80 today.

0:10.3

In 1963, he released Talking John Birch Paranoid Blues. The John Birch Society was the

0:16.6

QAnon of its era. Republicans back then had a problem with its extremism and the bigotry

0:22.0

associated with it, what they did not have was a taste for alienating its members, many

0:26.8

of whom voted Republican. It might sound familiar. So throughout the 1960s, even though

0:32.0

leading Republicans managed to distance themselves from the worst, what Ronald Reagan once called

0:36.3

the lunatic fringe, they never fully vaccinated themselves against the underlying illness.

0:42.1

So flash forward to now. Enter Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, seen here equating

0:46.9

mask regulations for House members with the Holocaust.

0:52.5

We can look back in a time in history where people were told to wear a gold star and

0:57.8

they were definitely treated like second-class citizens, so much so that they were put in

1:03.0

trains and taken to gas chambers in Nazi Germany. And this is exactly the type of abuse that

1:09.2

Nancy Pelosi is talking about.

1:13.2

That is Congresswoman last week, Marjorie Taylor Greene, trivializing genocide and briefly,

1:17.8

where she is amplifying her remarks in case you missed the anti-Semitism.

1:23.2

I said nothing wrong and I think any any rational Jewish person didn't like what happened

1:28.8

in Nazi Germany and any rational Jewish person doesn't like what's happening with overbearing

1:34.5

mass mandates.

1:37.5

Her remarks are, as my mom used to say, deeply stupid. But much as she'd like it to be,

1:43.8

this is not about her, it's about this.

1:48.2

Minority leader Kevin McCarthy, House GOP-Whip Steve Scalice, and conference chair Elise

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