Iraq with my cameraman with the Military Police south of baghdad. Here is my point. You go after aoc for her fear, saying it was illegitimate mate, she was in the adjacent building, you dont know what the hell youre talking about. She heard people saying where is she, where is she . She didnt know who those people were. Why am i using my experience . Because when we were on that patrol and this captain was explaining they are often weaponized and people started firing at us, they detonated the bodies, it blew over the humvee in front of us, all this gunfire was all over the place. Don, i swear, i thought i was going to die . A dead man i was haunted for weeks after that. I heard screaming, shots of pain, gunfire. I couldnt move because of the position we were in after the explosion. I thought somebody was going to stick their weapon in the turret and it was over. My cameraman and i were looking at each other and we thought it was over, okay . We were wrong. The voices i heard were our troops communicating,kying the insurgents, calling in tank fire and controlling the whole situation but they couldnt talk to me because they were bus. I how would you know it . Its the same with this. First up, im glad youre here. Glad that didnt happen. Changed my life. Im glad im here. Im glad you said that. I have been watching, you know, media and listening to conservative media because i want to hear the other side. I was like, i dont understand why this is a story. How is she supposed to know who is on the other side of the door . How was she supposed to know how many people were on the other side of the door . It has nothing to do with anything aoc or whatever. I kept trying to figure out how the people who were actually involved in that siege and all the chaos could be criticizing someone else who was involved in it because they were because she was explaining how what she thought was going on, in her particular situation. It was just flatout partisanship. And a distraction to Marjorie Taylor greene. Theyre going after one of the democrats because the democrats are going after one of theirs. Mr. Noise pollution at state tv and the others they want to frame the democrats for january 6th. Theyve been leaking it out all these different ways that theres an untold story, that this was a setup. Let them do it. Its their toxicity. You heard katie porter say aoc was freaked out. Let me tell you, i lived a situation like that. And it doesnt have to be real, the threat, for you to believe its imminent. Its what you believe. Let me tell you something, let them do it because they look like idiots in the process and people are on to it in the process. I encourage them. Continue to do it. I think the veil has been lifted. Peoples eyes are open. And they know whats going on. They know its all bs and partisanship. Theyre talking about how they are how the limited and the framing limited amount and the framing of the insurrection on capitol hill, anyone can see, Everybody Knows what happened except for the fringe, right, who keep trying to, as you say, blame it on democrats. I wish they talked about the groups who attacked our capitol and why as much as theyre talking about aocs feelings about it. The new party is the gopq. It shows that they actually embrace diversity, because they just created the i say qop. Pick your brand. I enjoyed the show. Thank you so much. This is cnn tonight. Im don lemon, the qut ruchlt mplican partys message is come on in. The water is fine. Come on in, yall. This is great. Marjorie Taylor Greene, by the way, who wore a mask labeled free speech even as she defended her lies, stripped of her Committee Assignments. The vote 230199. Only 11 republicans crossing party lines to stand up for the truth and against her toxic, dangerous lies. 199 republicans supporting Marjorie Taylor greene even after she refused to take responsibility for her own words. Youve got to stick with me here because i hope i can make it through this. Because i mean its just so ridiculous, hypocritical and insulting. Lice on top of lies on top of lies. They think youre stupid. They think you are stupid. Her own words. Lies, Conspiracy Theories, expressing approval of violence against democrats. I just want you to take a look at this moment. One like nothing weve seen before, okay . Look at the center of your screen there. This is the majority leader steny hoyer, walking a giant version of one of greenes post across the floor to make sure republicans, trump qtrumplicans see it, to make sure they couldnt pretend they didnt know, a post showing Marjorie Taylor greene with a gun juxtaposed with ilhan omar, alexandria ocasiocortez and talib. Even in the face of all of that, 199 republicans still voted for her. She tried to rewrite history. Stick with me. She tried to avoid taking responsibility for what she said, what we heard her say. I was allowed to believe things that werent true and i would ask questions and talk about them. I would absolutely regret. If it werent for the facebook posts and comments that i liked in 2018, i wouldnt be standing here today and you couldnt point a finger and accuse me of anything wrong. Lying through her mask. Come on. I was allowed to believe things that werent true. Im sorry, who . I mean, i have to give it to her. Thats a good one. Next time im going to say, i was allowed to believe things that werent true. I dont lie to people so but thats a good one. But it is outrageous, Marjorie Taylor greene, to try to play the victim when youre confronted with your own words. I was allowed to believe things that werent true. Now that is a new one. But it is also passive and its irresponsible, and it is pathetic. Not only is she refusing to accept responsibility, she is resorting to that old favorite excuse, trying to blame the media and blame cancel culture. You see, Big Media Companies can take teeny, tiny pieces of words that i said, that you have said, any of us, and can portray us into someone that were not. And that is wrong. Cancel culture is a real thing. It is very real. Did you ever notice that when we play what somebody said and we do it in their own words, coming out of their own mouths that its always the medias fault that they said it . Its like were in there going like this, like, okay, Marjorie Taylor greene, make sure you say we didnt say it. Were playing your words back for you. Dont blame us. Dont fall for it. The now congresswoman was a qanon troll who posted countless hours of her deranged rants. She said she never mentioned qanon during her campaign. Never mentioned it since she was elected. I never once said during my entire campaign qanon. I never once said any of the things that i am being accused of today during my campaign. I never said any of these things since i have been elected for congress. These were words of the past, and these things do not represent me. Okay. So, she claims that these words these were words of the past, okay . Words of the past. Were in february now. Okay. So two months ago, not even. December, cnns ryan nobles asked her about qanon and she said this. I think its unfair to criticize regular American People that just are looking things up on the internet. Okay. Just a month before election day, she was defending qanon after Congress Passed a resolution condemning them. I want to tell you about a resolution that was passed by the House Of Representatives today, and it gives me great concern. And this resolution, House Resolution 1154 is condemning qanon and rejecting the Conspiracy Theories it promotes. Okay. That was october. And then in july, she defended qanon, saying theres never been any dangerous rhetoric out of people like that. In the video you say, quote, q is a patriot. Do you believe that . Is that what you believe . Ive only ever seen patriotic sentiment coming out of that source and other sources. Twitter has Just Announced recently, last week, that it will be removing anyone that associates themselves with qanon, yet theres never been any dangerous rhetoric coming out of people like that. 199 republicans voted for Marjorie Taylor greene tonight, just look what they voted for, okay . They voted for a racist, antisemitic, Islamaphobe Who expressed support for executing prominent democratic politicians. She liked a comment that said, quote, a bullet to the head would be quicker to remove nancy pelosi. In a statement she didnt deny she liked posts and replied to comments, but claimed many people have run her facebook page. So, again, the whole words thing, so lets hear what she said in her own words. She desecrated the member of people who died at the Pentagon On 9 11 when she said this. The socalled plane that crashed into the pentagon, its odd theres never any evidence shown for a plane in the pentagon. Okay. Days before election day, she endorsed Political Violence to defend freedom, which she says is earned with the price of blood. If this generation doesnt stand up and defend freedom, its gone. And once its gone, freedom doesnt come back by itself. The only way you get your freedoms back, its earned with the price of blood. And she said this about muslims living in the united states. If you want islam and sharia law, you stay over there in the middle east. You stay there, go to mecca and do all your thing and, you know what . You can have a whole bunch of wives, goats, sheep, whatever you want. You stay over there. But in america, see, we made it this great, great country. We dont want it messed up. She said this when she harassed david hogg, Parkland Shooting Survivor before she was elected to congress. How do you get so much Media Coverage . Who pays for this . Who sponsors this . And lets not forget her insane claim that space lasers controlled by the rothchild family are a frequent target of antisemites. Starting the california wildfires. The Republican Party, once the party of lincoln, has sold its souchlt ns again and again theyve faced The Moment Of Truth and again and again they took the cowards way out like 199 of them did tonight, refusing to stand up for the truth and call out the lies. And it didnt start with Marjorie Taylor greene. This is what happens when you knuckle under to a president , to anyone really, who defends White Supremacists and neo nazis in charlottesville. You also had people that were very fine people, on both sides. You had people in that group excuse me. Excuse me. I saw the same pictures as you did. The never said it people, he said it. It is on tape, okay . A president who ran on the racist birther lie that the former president barack obama was not born in this country, a president Who Incited Insurrection at the u. S. Capitol. We fight like hell. And if you dont fight like hell youre not going to have a country anymore. Youll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength. And you have to be strong. So, it all came home to roost on january 6th. And thats the truth. Thats when that crowd attacked the seat of our government, smashing, looting, threatening the lives of lawmakers. Look at that. Now the former president , days away from his second impeachment trial, a trial that will take place at the scene of the crime. A trial that may be the only way to stand up for the truth of what happened on one of the darkest days in the history of our country. And who is responsible for it . Senator ben sasse is Facing Censure by the Nebraska Republican party. He has this message tonight and i want you to listen to this. It happened because the president lied to you. He lied about the Election Results for 60 days. Despite losing 60 Straight Court challenges, many of them handed down by wonderful trumpappointed judges. He lied by saying that the Vice President could just violate his constitutional oath and declare a new winner. That wasnt true. He then riled a mob that attacked the capitol, many chanting hang pence. If that president were a democrat, we both know how you would respond. But because he had republican behind his name youre defending him. Conspiracy theories arent conservative. Perhaps you disagree with his positions. Maybe you do. Maybe hes not a guy that you would vote for, maybe he s but you have to respect his character and standing up for the truth. We need more people willing to do that. And while the former president hides out at marala fwchlt o, refusing to take responsibility for the big lie that sent the mob to the capitol, his onetime favorite tv network is facing a monster 2. 7 billion, billion with a b, Dollar Lawsuit over how they helped spread the big lie. Voting Technology Company smartmatic, baseless Conspiracy Theories, suing fox news. Some of the network star hosts and Rudy Giuliani and sydney powell alleging they waged a misinformation campaign. This about the lies pedaled by the former president and his supporters, and i quote. The earth is round. Two plus two equals four. Joe biden and Kamala Harris won the 2020 election for president and Vice President of the united states. The election was not stolen, rigged or fixed. These are facts. They are demonstrable and irrefutable. As weve said all along on this network, facts first. In the face of all this, President Joe Biden is pushing forward with his agenda, visiting the state Department Today and giving the world a message. America is back. America is back. Diplomacy is back. At the center of our foreign policy. As i said in my inaugural address, we will repair our alliances, engage with the world once again. Not to meet yesterdays challenges, but todays and tomorrows. So, america is turning the page. But the qtrumplican party cannot. They sew sewed the wind and nowy reap the whirlwind. That same party now the home of big lies and Conspiracy Theories. Is that what they meant by a big tent, plenty of room for the qanon congresswoman . Former Qanon Believer speaks out tonight. She shouldnt have a job. Anyone that thinks anything that theres any truth of anything that involves with q, they have no place in government. And it is love, love, love that cant help but make you smile. It is love, love, love. Send the love. Order now at edible. Com Marjorie Taylor greene stripped of her Committee Assignments. Only 11 republicans sided with democrats. Lots to discuss now with cnns senior Political Correspondent abby philip is here, and commentator john kasich, former republican governor of ohio. So good to see both of you. Thank you for joining. Abby, im going to start with you. Tonight only 11 republicans joined democrats to remove Marjorie Taylor greene from her Committee Assignments. Last nights 61 republicans voted to remove liz cheney from leadership. Is the gop now the qop . You know, its so telling. I mean, the disparity between those numbers, it says everything, i think, you need to know about where the Republican Party is. There are going to be a lot of members who say they voted against stripping Marjorie Taylor greene tonight of her Committee Assignments because they didnt like the precedent but the ball was in their court yesterday and there was no groundswell from republicans to force leader mccarthy to take action, to take some kind of action that would have forced their conference to have a vote on the issue. And its because so many of them dont want to be on the record, condemning what Marjorie Taylor greene represents and, more importantly who she represents. I think theres a lot of concern and fear among republican lawmakers that they cant afford to offend the types of voters who might identify with some of these more wacky views that she espouses. The unfortunate part about that is that it means that there are millions of republicans who are not qanon supporters, not conspiracy theorists, who dont have advocates, it seems, in the House Of Representatives right now. Interesting. So, john, listen, its Conspiracy Theories. Its antimuslim, antisemitic comments. The racism, the threats against our house members. She harassed a Parkland Shooting Survivor. John, none of it is ancient history. Is the tenth flag wide open for qanon to come on in . Whats happening here . Don, i think its just a blunt reach for power. I think abby said it right. They are appealing what they dont want to do is lose the support of the far right. They dont want to lose that support and theyre hoping that if they dont lose that support, they also wont lose the support of the thinking republicans. So they can try to have it both ways. D don, i hate to tell you this, but come 2022, if you look at history, theres a very good chance that theyll be in the majority. And they dont want to jeopardize that. It is a naked seven for power. Now what they would do with that power, i have no clue, because its all been attacks. Theres been nothing that has been put forward that has been constructed, that gives americans a chance to do better. Theres a member of the congress there right now, republican by the name of freddy upton. Fred and i served together in the house. I dont know what hes thinking. He voted he voted to strip the Committee Assignments away. I believe he voted for impeachment. He is in a district in michigan, and im going to have to call him because he must not even know what the heck is going on, don, because this is so bizarre, so far from anything that weve ever seen. John, let me ask you. You know, weve been talking a lot about this. You say you believe the fever is breaking and that the support that trump is losing support, especially with because of issues like this. But you said something very interesting. Theyre trying to have it both ways. They are. I heard conservatives on television today, megan mccain saying you cant have it both ways. You have to draw the line, take a stand. Yeah. You said theyre trying to have it both ways. Can they have it both ways or is this a losing proposition for them . I hope its a losing proposition because you cant do this. A naked search for power, without any ideas behind what youre doing is bankrupt. Its morally bankrupt. Ive got people that represent me out here, and i dont even know what i would say to them, if i would say anything to them because this its like youve just lost your conscience. Its like this group think. Now theyre kind of like together and, yeah, were not going to let them get us. Thats not what you went to congress for. And they werent expeling this woman. They were just taking her Committee Assignments away for this outrageous behavior. Frankly weve got to stop repeating it all the time because it gives other people out there ideas. The fact is, i understand why we look at it because its really amazing. You have to expose it. Good news is that there have been some members of the senate who have condemned this, republican members of the senate. They need to win this tug of war. Im sorry. Thats okay. A abby, you saw ben sasse we played the sound bite and im sure youve seen it today. It looks like the nebraska gop is about to censure him for criticizing trump, that politics is supposed to be more than about bending the knee to one men. Why arent there more sasses, cheneys and kinzingers, abby . There arent more of them because look whats happening to them. Ben sasse, liz cheney of the world, Cindy Mccains of the world who have been reprimanded. Tom rice of; reprimanded by their own party for simply going against not principle, not policy, but against the former president , donald trump. And so this is, as john has been saying, about power. And its about people wanting to stay in office, wanting to get into office, wanting to stay in office. And theres a recognition among republicans that you cant do that without trump. Not just without truch support, but without showing trump voters that you are loyal to him. But thats exactly what ben sasse is trying to say, is the scary part of this whole thing is that the Republican Party used to be about a set of values that people could organize themselves around. Now it seems to be about organizing ones self around an individual. What is, i think, a big question for republicans Going Forward and to what you were asking john about just a second ago, can the Republican Party do both things at once, appeal to the fringe but also keep Reasonable Republicans . I think thats a really open question, because thus far they have been able to do that. President trump, for four years, appealed to the fringe. He told the proud boys to stand back and stand by. There was charlottesville. And yet he actually brought a lot of republicans who might have even been opposed to him four years ago back into the fold in 2020. It wasnt enough for him to win the election, but the thing to be on the lookout for is how many sort of rank and file, average republicans, maybe george wncht. Bush republicans, willing to look the other way to extremism if they get what they think is perhaps important. Abortion rights is important to them, abortion issues, and taxes. There are a lot more republicans, i think, willing to compromise on the fringe to get those other things. You sat there front and center and we all watched Election Night erosion Election Nights, right, that erosion that happened in the suburbs especially among women, collegeeducated women, moms in the suburbs saying i cant deal with this. Well see if they can have it both ways. I think there was an erosion there as we watched returns come in a number of times in the primaries and during the general. Thank you very much. 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Big news on the battle against the covid pandemic. Johnson johnson asking the fda to authorize Emergency Use for their singleshot vaccine. Lets bring in now our correspondent dr. Sanjay gupta. Good evening doctor, sanjay. I like to respect peoples titles. I know were friends. We saw the results that came out of this clinical trial. All these numbers people were looking at trying to figure out how effective this is bottom line is 85 protective against people really getting sick. This is the sort of thing, people out there for the last year, especially people who might be older or have some preexisting condition, 85 protective against getting really sick. No hospitalizations. If i can for a second, if you look at all the trials that have gone out, five big Clinical Trials for these vaccines, 75,000 people have received the vaccine in these trials, nobody died in that vaccinated group. Point is that these vaccines work. Well see. It takes a few weeks to go through the regulatory process. This is a big deal. You have a comparison you want to tell us about . You have some sound for us . Yeah. So which vaccine should i take, Johnson Johnson, moderna or pfizer . Which ones better . I had a chance to talk to r d. How does it stack up against the moderna and pfizer vks evens . Honest answer is that they cant be compared head to head. Vaccine programs with mrna accrued cases in a different time where the incidence was much lower, so less pressure on the vaccine to protect. And there were no none of these problem Atic Variants Tha everyone is talking about right now. What theyre saying here, don, is that at the time the Johnson Johnson vaccine was trialed, it was later. There was more virus circulating. It was trialed in places like south africa, brazil, where we know the variants are there. 85 protective. If you did the moderna and pfizer trial at the exact same time, same places where Johnson Johnson was trialed it may have had similar results. Point is, you cant compare these things head to head. Theyre all pretty similar in terms of how well they work. Ron klain said that the white house is hoping to resurrect the sc era of sending every american face masks. What do you think of that idea . Its a good idea. I have a package of the face masks that were supposed to go out via the Postal Service middle of last year. Robert catalic, secretary for preparedness and response gave me these. They didnt go out via the Postal Service. That idea was scrapped. Many of those did go out via faithbased organizations and things like that. Will people wear the masks . I dont think the supply of masks, at least cloth masks, is the issue. The larger question now is can we get people masks like this . N95 masks. Theres a letter thats gone out from Senator Sanders and others to President Biden saying invoke the defense production act, these are the best masks for people in highrisk situations. Why wouldnt you use them . One of the guys we talked to at harvard says if people wore these n95 masks in highrisk situations for four weeks, just the mask for four weeks, we could essentially end this pandemic in the united states. So thats another discussion about masks. And im sure youll agree, every little bit helps in this situation to get those numbers down and save lives. Thank you, sanjay. Appreciate it. No question. Thank you, goo dr. Gupta. Mr. Lemon, take care. Do you ever wonder who is in qanon and what they say and do Behind Closed Doors . Cnn got behind those doors and into one of their meetings. See for yourself. Thats next. Like you, my hands are everything to me. But i was diagnosed with dupuytrens contracture. And it got to the point where things i took for granted got tougher to do. Thought surgery was my only option. Turns out i was wrong. So when a Hand Specialist told me about nonsurgical treatments, it was a total game changer. Like you, my hands have a lot more to do. Learn more at factsonhand. Com today. In part because of her emprays of a dangerous and debunked qanon Conspiracy Theory. Who are Qanon Believers and what do they say Behind Closed Doors . Inside a gathering of qanon foll followers. Mainstream media is that not everything can be debunked. Media will have to get on the right side of history or theyre going to go down with a shift. You would think wearing a face mask would help a Reporter Go Unnoticed but not at this gathering of qanon. Take off those damn masks and leave them off. Thats me and my colleague there, two of the very few people Wearing Masks at this indoor event in the middle of a pandemic, and the guy at the back of the room . Hes known as the qanon shaman, and he would go on to storm the capitol in january. Where we go one we go all, promoted by security adviser michael flynn. Where we go one we go all. Played at this meeting as an anthem of this group of trump supporters. We are at war right now and we in this room understand that very, very much. Qanon. Did he disavow anybody . No. Two nights earlier, trump praised qanon followers at a town hall with savannah guthrie. Can you, once and for all, state that that is completely not true . And Disavow Qanon in its entirety . I know nothing about qanon. I just told you. I know very little. What you told me doesnt necessarily make it fact. I have to say that. The message to the people in this room was clear. Trump was on their side. 17 days between now and a m massive trump victory. In the room prominent figures in the Qanon Movement, including jim watkins, who runs where qanon messages are posted and two people who would go ton washington, d. C. January 6th. In that time all it takes is keeping our eyes and ears open to see who is on what side. Qanon shaman charged for her role and went on a Hunger Strike in prison because they didnt have organic food. And this man, Alan Hostetter known for Lockdown Protests in california. We are conditioned from the time we are children to always think violence is a horrible, horrible thing. Until we go back and reflect on our revolutionary war. They picked up guns at some point and said enough. Until we reflect on the civil war. We ended slavery by picking up guns. We dont want that to happen but it has to be something in the back of your mind. Hostetters home was raided by the fbi. Media was not allowed to officially attend the event but any member of the public could attend and i signed up using my name and work email address. Also in attendance was travis view, host of the Qanon Anonymous Podcast who has been tracking this Conspiracy Theory for years. My big takeaways is that the Qanon Movement is so more much the predictions and getting inside information but about the community. People there felt they were part of Something Big and revolutionary and that they were opposing absolute evil. That made me feel like this is something thats not going to go away just because trump lost an election. Where we go one we go all that was Tony Osullivan there in that qanon meeting. He has more details about what could be qanons next moves. He will tell us after the break. Rakuten cash back on the stuff all in my home. I shop on rakuten. Rakuten so, just before the break, cnns Tony Osullivan gave us a look inside qanon followers. He joins me now. It is fascinating. Then you got to q shaman guy on type. You pointed out the sense of community in that meeting. That qanon would last past trump. What do you think their next moves are . Yeah, don, its not going anywhere, right . Its built now. Its so big. It was enabled by the infrastructure that was built in Silicon Valley that rewarded lies and hate. It was obviously fueled by the former president , president trump, but also, you know, a lot of this is really what were seeing is based on the existing history of hate and racism in this country, which qanon has enabled and given license to Many Americans to now freely express openly. And there are all the questions and problems that Silicon Valley has given us and also trump, but a lot of this goes become and i think sort of begins to scratch the surface on some of the more fundamental challenges of racism and antisemitism and hate. How are they going take what Marjorie Taylor greene said today . Well, don, you played earlier in the show, i spoke during the week to a 27yearold mom, a trump voter, who used to be a qanon supporter, and shes called it out now. She realized its b. S. Marjorie Taylor Greene does not sound like a former Qanon Believer, right . What that mom who had left qanon, what she told me was, when you see people in power, when you see Senior Republicans failing to call this sort of thing out, it sends the message to Qanon Believers that theres something to all this, they should stay believing it. They view it as an endorsement of their Conspiracy Theory. Its interesting i was watching a similar piece earlier. I was on the phone, and we both stopped to watch it with drew gri griffin. At the same time the person i was on the phone with was like, these people are crazy. Its not rooted in any type of reality. Thank you. Your work is excellent. Keep it up. Marjorie Taylor Greene removed from her assignments today. Only 11 republicans voting in favor. Stay with us. We have dak prescott joining us. Hows the recovery going . Great . Thanks to my new sleep number 360 smart bed. Any other questions . What if i sleep hot . And i sleep cold . No problem. Its Temperature Balancing so couples can sleep better together. 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