House GOP Leader Meets With Qanon-Aligned Rep Greene

Erin Burnett OutFront

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🗓️ 3 February 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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The House GOP leader met with Qanon-Aligned Rep. Greene as 2019 comment has been unearthed. Green was recorded saying, "flood the Capitol building." Rep. Cheney's future is likely to be a topic at tomorrow's GOP meeting. One of former President Donald Trump's allies, Rep. Jim Jordan, does not think that McCarthy will strip Qanon-Aligned Rep. Greene of committees. McCarthy met with Greene as the GOP decides whether it's the party of "loony lies and conspiracy theories." Trump's impeachment lawyer told the New York Times that "Trump's comments [are] protected speech." The lawyer also says that "we can't control the reaction of the audience." Michigan's governor wants Pro-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell to be disbarred over debunked election. Democrats take the first step to fast-tracking covid relief without the GOP, after a republican call yesterday's meeting with Biden "excellent." Manchin says that the White House "made a mistake" in having Vice President Harris do interviews in West Virginia on covid bill and fraud claims. The White House communications director says "it was not a mistake." A mutation was found in a key strain could make these vaccines less effective. 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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0:31.1	Out front next, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is meeting with Q&ON supporter Marjorie Taylor Green tonight.
0:37.2	So will he take action against her for embracing dangerous, extreme, fringe theories
0:42.7	and in a new video from 2019 for telling supporters to, quote, flood the Capitol?
0:47.9	Plus Trump's new impeachment lawyer speaking out tonight, saying Trump's heated rhetoric and
0:51.7	call to action before the riot is protected by the First Amendment.
0:55.2	One of the nation's top constitutional scholars and impeachment experts, Lawrence Tribe, responds.
1:00.0	And President Biden tells his party to go big on COVID relief.
1:03.3	And Democrats are about to do it alone.
1:05.2	And leaving Republicans behind?
1:07.2	Let's go out front.
1:10.0	And good evening. I'm Erin Burnett.
1:11.8	Out front tonight, the breaking news.
1:13.5	House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy about to meet with Congresswoman and Q&N supporter Marjorie Taylor Green,
1:19.1	a meeting that is expected to decide not only Green's fate, but also could determine the future of the Republican Party in the United States.
1:26.7	Because tonight, the Republican Party is totally at odds
1:29.4	over whether it will embrace Q&N conspiracy theories
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