Leadership position because of her recent vote to impeach donald trump. The Secret Ballot vote 14561. The full house will vote tomorrow under the control of the democrats, remember, On Whether To Kick Greene off her committees budget and education. Greenes past comments include but arent limited to her view that School Shootings were staged, clintons murdered john f. Kennedy jr. , theres no evidence that plane hit the Pentagon On 9 11. Goes on into violence against democrats and rabid antisemitism. Marjorie Taylor Greene is totally out of control. Why would Kevin Mccarthy continue to associate himself and republican conference with someone who leader Mitch Mcconnell has characterized as a cancer. P last time i checked, cancers need to be cut out and not allowed to metastasize. Republican Leader Mccarthy issued a statement after his meeting with greene this evening condemning her past statements, and went on to accuse the democrats of course of fuelling the controversy by scheduling the
Honor, ra a reminder of the insurrection that caused his death on the 6th of january. The United States senators whose lives and staffers lives he died protecting is being asked to show bravery, as well. House Impeachment Managers and the ex president s legal team today presented their briefs in next weeks Impeachment Trial and the insurrection at the heart of that trial is not ancient history. They will be weighing decisions with the seat of American Democracy and their workplace still showing the scars from an attack unlike any weve seen in our lives. The managers case is straightforward. They plan to use video of the president s rally leading up to this and comments by his violent supporters to show he instigated the attack and plan to rebut the notion a president cannot be tried after leaving office. As for the defense, well, their brief begins with a mistake, a pretty sloppy one at the top of page one as you see there, the lawyers misspelled United States. Those are the expresiden
Or sleepier . Dana i would have gotten 10 hours of sleep if i went to bed like i felt like it. If you have any tips or tricks for the new schedule. Bill dana is here in the morning and evening and doing it all right now. Dana i went to bed earlier than most children last night and our Line Producer went to bed. Bill more caffeine. Eight hours. Dana we have a capitol hill watch with jackie heinrich. The Senate Moving Forward on covid relief without republican support . Thats right, dana. President biden reportedly told democrats to move forward with his 1. 9 trillion proposal not long after sitting down with Senate Republicans to try to hash out a bipartisan deal. 618 billion proposal was swiftly rejected. Democrats cleared a procedural hurdle to go forward with Budget Reconciliation to pass bigger bill with a simple majority. Republicans can join us but dont try to go against us. We have the majority and we arent backing down. Our members who were in the meeting felt that the president
Sandra house conservatives also taking aim at Conference Chair liz cheney, calling for her removal from that post after she voted to impeach former President Trump. We have affecting coverage to kick things off on this wednesday afternoon, Kristin Fisher with more of the Biden Administrations next steps but we begin with Jacqui Heinrich live on capitol hill for us this afternoon, hey. Hey there sandra Marjorie Taylor greene did not make things easy on House Minority leader Kevin Mccarthy during our long meeting last night expressing no remorse, im told over past comments she made when elective promoting conspiracy theories. Mccarthy was forced to call in the Stearate Committee and lawmakers with their assignment. Whatever mccarthy decide to become it was not enough for House Democrats who Just Announced they are moving forward with a vote tomorrow on the floor to strip green of her committees. Democrats in the meantime seizing this moment watching half a Million Dollar ad campaign and
History to be afforded this honor. He was of course one of five people who died after the violent attack that looted and desecrated our Capitol Building on january 6th. Were also one week out from the former president s second Impeachment Trial, this time on the charge of inciting that insurrection at the capitol. We now know how house Impeachment Managers plan to make the case to convict the former president and what his own attorneys plan to offer as a defense. This morning those House Managers filed a sweeping, 80page pretrial brief that lays out in rather stark terms the events leading up to that riot that day, noting quote, trumps singular responsibility for that tragedy. After losing the 2020 election, President Trump refused to accept the will of the american people. He spent months asserting without evidence that he won in a landslide and that the election was stolen. President trump announced a save america rally on january 6th, promised it would be wild. Summoned a mob to was