Pelosi to GOP leadership on response to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene: “What could they be thinking?”

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🗓️ 29 January 2021

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi slammed Republican leadership on their failure to rebuke Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene over her past comments. Greene repeatedly indicated support for executing prominent Democratic politicians, including Pelosi, in 2018 and 2019 before being elected to Congress. The House Speaker is also criticizing Greene’s placement on the House Education and Labor Committee after comments surfaced that showed her agreeing with people who said the 2018 Parkland school shooting was a “false flag” operation. Democratic Congresswoman Haley Stevens is a member of that committee and has called for Greene’s removal. She tells Anderson Cooper these types of antics have no place in their committee. Plus, South Carolina has detected the first U.S. cases of the Covid-19 strain first seen in South Africa. Scientists are concerned about this strain because it seems to be more transmissible. Dr. Leana Wen is the former Baltimore Health Commissioner, an emergency room physician and is a CNN Medical Analyst. She joins AC360 to discuss her concerns about the new variant. Airdate: January 28, 2021 Guests: Rep. Haley Stevens Dr. Leana Wen 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.
0:01.0	If you were wondering how long a disgraced ex-president has to wait to be forgiven these
0:04.4	days after inciting a deadly insurrection against the seat of democracy in hopes of
0:08.1	overturning the election he lost, the answer is three weeks in a day.
0:12.5	That's how long it took House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy to make the pilgrimage to
0:15.8	Mar-a-Lago and pay his respects to the former president.
0:18.7	He went on his own initiative to talk strategy about taking back the House in 2022.
0:23.6	He also went to try to make sure he would stay in the president's good graces, it seems.
0:27.6	The ex-president's political action committee put out a statement that reads in part, President
0:31.4	Trump's popularity has never been stronger than it is today and his endorsement means more
0:35.7	than perhaps any endorsement at any time.
0:38.6	Three weeks in a day.
0:39.6	That's how little time it took for the party to rush back into the arms, the man who
0:43.0	egged on the violent mob, but descended on the Capitol, smashed windows, beat police officers,
0:48.1	bludgeon wanted to death, while looking for lawmakers to capture a kill, including the
0:52.3	former vice president.
0:54.0	Five people died in the attack, these two police officers have since died by suicide.
0:58.9	Two weeks in a day.
1:00.3	The House voted to impeach the ex-president a second time and the man who posed smiling
1:04.5	today at Mar-a-Lago said this.
1:10.3	The president bears responsibility for Wednesday's attack on Congress by mob rioters.
1:15.9	He should have immediately denounced the mob when he saw what was unfolding.
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