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McCarthy punts on punishing QAnon-aligned Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene

Anderson Cooper 360

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3.73.8K Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

House Republican leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy says Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s past statements “do not represent the values or beliefs of the House Republican Conference,” suggesting she won’t be stripped of her committee assignments. A growing number of the GOP, including Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, are speaking out about wanting their party to expunge voices promoting wild conspiracy theories. Meanwhile, Greene says “I don’t think I have anything to apologize for” and that her social media posts do not reflect who she is as a person. Democratic Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon tells Anderson Cooper she doesn’t think Greene is interested in serving in Congress and instead is interested in being on Twitter and spouting whatever pops into her head. Plus, Republican Rep. Liz Cheney defended her decision to vote to impeach former Pres. Trump saying “I won’t apologize for the vote.” Cheney was among 10 House Republicans who sided with the Democrats to impeach Trump for inciting the insurrection at the Capitol that left five people dead. The House GOP Conference voted to keep Cheney as the third ranking Republican. CNN’s Chief Political Correspondent Dana Bash joins AC360 to discuss Cheney’s future and says this is about somebody who voted her conscience because she thought that a President, regardless of party, incited an insurrection on the building where she works.   Airdate: February 3, 2021   Guests: Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon Dana Bash 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, less than a week away from the trial of a president at the scene of his

0:04.1

alleged crime against democracy.

0:05.7

Members of his party are deciding right now who they are and where their loyalties actually

0:10.2

lie.

0:11.2

They're at it right now, the meeting which has reportedly been tumultuous, still underway.

0:15.3

House Republicans choosing whether they stand with the former president in the extremist

0:19.0

freshman congresswoman he calls a rising star, or with the staunchly conservative party

0:23.4

leader and daughter of a former vice president who voted to impeach him.

0:27.4

The fact that this is happening just hours after leaders of that party paid tribute to

0:32.0

one of the victims of the crime, Capitol Police Officer Brian Siknik only throws the moral

0:36.3

steaks into sharper relief.

0:38.5

Just steps away from the rotunda where his remains lay in honor.

0:42.3

House Republicans are gathered to decide what to do about freshman congresswoman Marjorie

0:47.7

Taylor Greene.

0:49.2

She's the QAnon conspiracy fan who's called school shootings, false flag operations.

0:53.7

The question whether a plane really hit the Pentagon in 9-11 said space lasers started

0:58.2

some of the recent California wildfires like social media posts calling for the execution

1:02.4

of top Democrats and supporting the ex-president's election fraud lies to the Hilt.

1:07.1

Democrats want Republicans to strip her of her committee assignments, including a seat

1:12.3

on the House education and labor committee.

1:14.1

They're threatening to bring the matter to a House vote tomorrow if Republicans don't

1:18.0

and it's not just Democrats who are upset about her.

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