it s a great point. we ve all seen the increase in anti-semitism online. it is not just in the dark deep recesses of the web. it is not there exclusively. we re seeing on it facebook, twitter, tiktok, instagram, our kids are being exposed to it. praises for hitler, calls for renewed holocaust. as we see that spike in online anti-semitism, we see a clear upward trend in calls for violence against members of the jewish community. those calls unfortunately result in people acting on them. so we re seeing that spike in anti-semitic activity which is resulting in those bottles being thrown, the fireworks being tossed, the assaults during to jewish people around the country. michael, look. i know you don t want to get political but i have to ask but this. when you see lawmakers making comments like when we saw from marjorie taylor greene about masks and comparing it to the
it is horrifying. peter meyers spoke up yesterday on one of the sunday shows about taylor greene and condemned her. we need to hear from the rest of them. more than 200 of them. yeah. is the gop strategy heading into 2022, let vile comments slide and push off truth telling? is that their strategy? their strategy is to avoid anything that risks the house in 2022. history says they have a good chance of doing that. the wind ought to be at their back. one question they have, will that trump base, the older white blue collar, evangelical voters that donald trump did so well in arousing, will they turn out when he is not on the ballot? they lost in 2018. they lost the house, the two senate races in january. a lot of those voters believe and like the crazy stuff that marjorie taylor greene and people like her say. so republican leaders are not
them than african-americans do. they think that they see the democrats have won the popular votes seven of the last eight times. they see their power slipping away within the culture. their power slipping away politically, economically, so they re going to go to great lengths to try to hold on to that power. that s why a majority of the republicans in january told the enter enterprise institute, the traditional way of life is so endangered that we may need to use force to protect it. that s the mindset those people are in and marjorie taylor greene speaks to that. i wonder if the next question on the polling survey when they say, who faces more discrimination, you or black people, if the next question should be, now would you trade places with a black person? would you be black? i wonder what that answer would be. i owe you one, charlie.
silence from all about a few republicans? now is the time for them to speak up. i mean, this was offensive, ignorant, outrageous, and frankly, unsurprising given the source. this is when we were talking about jewish space lasers. it is long past time that they finally condemn her. i said when she was nominate last august, that the gop at that time, kevin mccarthy should have said she would not be welcome into the house republican conference and she would not be seated on committees, and that they would work to defeat her in the primary in 2022. they should have done it then. they have time now. they can do it now. they can throw her out of conference once and for all. i saw your previous segment with jonathan swan where marjorie taylor greene s image ratings were supposedly higher among gop voters than liz cheney and mitch mcconnell. which is beyond depressing.
top house republicans silent on marjorie taylor greene s comments comparing mask mandates to the holocaust. that coming amidst a surge of anti-semitic attacks across the country. plus researchers in wuhan were so sick in november 2019 they had to be hospitalized raising questions about how the pandemic began. we ll get the latest on the country facing global condemnation after what is being called a state sponsor hijacking of a commercial plane. i want to bring in now senior white house correspondent john harwood and charlie dent. gentlemen, lots to get to. good evening. let s start with charlie. state republicans planning to if i will bustter january 6th commission built. meanwhile marjorie taylor greene comparing mask mandates to the slaughter of 6 million jews. i ve already played her appalling comments and i don t want to do it again. how do you explain the deafening