House strips Rep. Greene from committee assignments

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🗓️ 5 February 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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The House voted to strip Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from her committee assignments after past violent statements and controversial conspiracy theories came to light. Eleven Republicans voted with the Democrats to remove the congresswoman from her committees. Anthony Scaramucci is a Republican and briefly served as the White House Communications Director in the Trump administration but has since been a critic of the former President. He joins AC360 to react to the distinct divide in the Republican party and says this is the after-glow of the Trump presidency and the GOP is allowing Trumpism to invade the party. Plus, former Pres. Trump quickly rejected the House impeachment managers’ request for his testimony at the upcoming Senate impeachment trial. Attorneys for Trump responded saying "the use of our Constitution to bring a purported impeachment proceeding is much too serious to try to play these games.” Harvard constitutional law professor Laurence Tribe tells Anderson Cooper he’s not surprised Trump decline to testify. Airdate: February 4, 2021 Guests: Anthony Scaramucci Laurence Tribe 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, thanks for joining us.
0:02.3	We begin with a House vote tonight to sanction Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene for her
0:06.1	bigoted and delusional views.
0:07.8	Also, the top House Republicans refusal to discipline her along with most members of the
0:12.1	party.
0:13.1	That and her own non-apology apology, which amounted to excuses and rationalizations, blame
0:18.2	shifting and lies, instead of any honest show of contrition as a member of that party that
0:22.8	once claimed to stand for personal responsibility.
0:26.0	The vote was 230 to 199 to strip her of her seats on the budget and education and labor
0:31.1	committees.
0:32.1	11 Republicans joining the Democratic majority, including Illinois Congressman Adam Kinziger,
0:36.6	who was not impressed by what she said at a Republican party conference last night.
0:42.0	Kevin McCarthy would have us believe she gave some serious apology.
0:46.0	What did you hear?
0:47.0	Yeah, so I don't like to go into a ton of detail from conference.
0:51.0	How about some?
0:52.0	I'll tell you this.
0:53.0	Yeah, I'll give you some, which is I didn't hear.
0:55.8	I didn't hear an apology.
0:58.6	So no apology last night, he says, and certainly from what we heard today of her on the floor
1:03.6	none today.
1:05.3	She spoke of the chamber and she didn't apologize.
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