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basic math and. he can't remain speaker unless he does the dirty work of the most extreme elements of this congress. including members like marjorie taylor greene which as you demonstrated -- he is holding on for dear life. but the problem that goes beyond our particular fortune on these committees, is it really brings -- to the committees themselves -- intelligence and foreign affairs. this is an unprecedented action to take the steps. and not just bring this -- these important committees but also establishing different committees like the committee for the weaponization of the government, the combination of these things is that the intelligence communities are going to be very reluctant to share information with congress because they see how little regard the speaker has for his job and responsibilities and -- themselves. >> representative omar, you are
committee because it is a select committee and he has the final approval of the members of both parties. of the select committee on intelligence. later jeffrey says, in the 117th congress, two members were removed from their committee assignments after a bipartisan vote of the house found them unfit to serve on standing committees for directly inciting violence against their colleagues. this action was taken by both democrats and republicans given the seriousness of the conduct involved, particularly in the aftermath of a violent insurrection and attack on the capitol. it does not serve as president or justification for the removal of representatives schiff and swalwell, given that they have never exhibited violent thoughts or behavior. at the same time that republicans have threatened to deny seats on the intelligence committee, to clearly qualify democratic members, serial fraudster george santos has been placed on two standing committees of the house and
a victory. >> it's a beginning, right? >> always. >> we won't solve the whole issue. >> it's -- >> it's going to be exciting, it's going to be exciting to be here. we will have a beautiful audience here. -- it will be filled with people who hopefully will be open to having this conversation, to experiencing the artwork. hopefully they will get a chance to walk around and experience your brilliant work. and i think it's going to be great. and who will you have on your show tonight? >> we're doing a bunch of santos stuff, we're doing the shooting in new mexico. i've got dan goldman, the new congress member who will be joining us as well. >> okay, we will sit and we will enjoy that. but you know what? i will be enjoying it in the space. it'll be wonderful. maybe someone will get me, like, -- or something to enjoy your show. thank you, brandon. >> great on air ask. >> on air ask, somebody bring me these in a hurricane. while not a hurricane because -- the next thing we do later tonight. brandon bmike biden brandan odums chris hayes, thank you so much -- be sure to join me chris, and trymaine lee tonight at 10 pm eastern for our special msnbc town hall, a national day of
and the problem is that they are creating among a group of people who are already falling into the minority and not happy about it, and anxious about it, and you think about just what's happened in the last several years. threats against members of congress are up 330% since 2016. armed demonstrations are up 47% since the 2020 election day. armed paramilitary groups up 96% between 2020 election day and inauguration day. fbi hate crimes, 8,263, just in 2020. that's the highest number since 9/11. white supremacy propaganda and activism up 1100% since 2017. it definitely feels like there is a weaponizing of people's fear of minority status and of losing power and status. and you are very familiar with steve bannon, a self-described leninist, who wants this kind of camp of the saints war, he's
rhetoric like the bible, it legitimizes them. it tells them they are right to feel how they feel, that is it right for them to act on these crazy conspiracy theories and the more republicans in leadership like kevin mccarthy legitimize those dangerous conspiracy theories, the more violence we're going to have, the more threats we're going to have, and let's be very clear, when that happens, and it will continue to, the blood is on the hands of the republicans who we know know better. >> yeah. kevin mccarthy, one might say he sold his soul for that gavel because he is, i mean, let's look at this congress. the republicans who support overturning the election, the 117th congress, there were 139 of them. now there are 136 of them. there are eight in the senate right now, there used to be -- sorry, 13 in the senate right now. and you're absolutely right. paul gosar, whose own family rejects everything about him in terms of his attitudes on race. marjorie taylor greene, andrew
afraid of the very heavily armed republican base, part of it, to say something or do something about it? >> i think that's really kind of the sad thing at this point, joy, is that there isn't. there isn't anyone that has the stature and the ability to successfully lead the republican party out of this extreme wilderness. we have seen the folks like kinzinger and liz cheney. guess what, they're not in congress anymore. every time at least one or two of them try, they get ran out of town, ran out of their own party, ran out of their own leadership in the case of liz cheney. kevin mccarthy was caught on audio agreeing with liz cheney about donald trump's culpability on january 6th and a few weeks later, what was kevin doing? high tailing to mar-a-lago and throwing liz cheney under the bus. there is no -- there's only cowardice right now in the republican hierarchy. as long as that's the case and it seems to be the case after what we have seen from kevin mccarthy, they're going to keep
about it is many of the people pushing this are just getting elevated to higher and higher elected office and getting on important committees in congress where they'll have oversight authority. it's pretty frightening. i would love to have you back. thank you so much for being here. and we will definitely check out your book. >> still ahead, the death toll from russia's latest atax on civilian targets in ukraine continues to climb as ukrainian troops arrive in the u.s. for training on the advanced patriot missile defense system. more on this live from studio b in new orleans.
around with this idea of nooses. you saw nooses sort of cropping up around the country in relshz relation to the former president, the first black president. we know during the passage of obamacare, lots and lots of democratic members of congress got threatening voice mails, rocks through their windows, threats of violence against them. this isn't a new thing. but in your mind, as somebody who has been around republican politics a long time, has it gotten worse? >> oh, absolutely. i think the arc you just described is absolutely accurate. you can look kind of the philosophical underpinnings of today's republican party and see the chapters where it moved from less government to no government to now government is the enemy. and at the same time, you're seeing this cultural narrative within the party when we talk about lgbtq issues and issues of race where the party has taken a position that the government is coming for your privilege, for your way of life. that's why we see don't say gay and we see the ban on critical race theory and all these other culture war issues.
his official named. but he didn't even go by george santos until he turned up in congress. and when he was asked about recently santos santos don't even respond to the name. >> they should ascend batman, or sparred us. or anthony devolve. or he's a serial, habitual weiler, he's the untalented mr. ripley. this is who we is. he so reckless, but i think you and i have talked about this on your show before it's the shamelessness with which i need to admire. if you in me, got caught lying about our educational background, we need -- sun of d.c. immigrants, we look down, be ashamed, our mother would slap us with a -- he goes on fox show, shamelessly, and says, i made a couple mistakes. -- adam kissinger. it's amazing. it's remarkable that this is for the republicans are. >> -- it's an art. form wajahat ali, columnist for
disney, interesting, when he was back in congress he was more of a paul ryan chamber of congress republican guy. this is evolution addictive of the republican party change more broadly? does he see this as a way to get to the top, to get the presidential bed? >> absolutely. the other thing as it was a complete anonymous backbencher in congress. who ran on one thing, which was complete another nauseating -- to donald trump. i got on the nomination. in an upset in florida and it got on the governorship. any propel themselves from the. her yes, rhonda santas is -- and now the strategy can be successful. again, he exists in a very friendly skate in a very friendly in very sort of box dominated echo chamber places like the village. of -- exploiting that to a great. and not anybody can do that. it's not necessarily a winning message and any kind of swing