Want to interfere. Should she will come to washington, see that is not going to be given much opportunity. Because we do have standards and once you stalling the children who live you will a mass shoolting, thats where you draw the line. Lets start there. Amanda carpenter, thank you so much. Thanks, don. This is cnn tonight. Im don lemon. Thank you so much for joining us. The scene at the capitol tonight, beautiful, stately, mournful. Honoring a fallen herery, officer Ryan Sicknick who lost his life defending our democracy on january 6th. Just think about the desecration there a month ago when a mob of insurrectionists tried to take down our government nasm as the second Impeachment Trial for the president is looming. Officer sicknick, he lies in state in the capitol dome. House democrats laying out their case in an 80page brief saying, quote, If Provoking An Insurrectionary rite after losing an election is not an impeachable offense, its hard to imagine what would be. And they laid ou
Mccarthy and the rest of the Republican Leadership knew what they were getting into with Marjorie Taylor greene in the beginning. She had a primary. There was, i think, a Brain Surgeon she was running against but they didnt want to interfere. That was the time to say, you know what . We will leave it up to the voters of georgia, but should she come to washington, she is not going to be given much opportunity because we do have standards, and once you stalk the children who lived through a mass shooting, thats where we can draw the line. Lets start there, you know. Amanda carpenter. Amanda, thank you so much. I appreciate it. Thanks, don. This is cnn tonight. Im don lemon. Thank you so much for joining us. So the scene at the capitol today or tonight i should say, beautiful, stately, mournful, honoring a fallen hero, officer Brian Sicknick who lost his life defending our democracy on january 6th. Just think about the desecration there just a month ago when a mob of insurrectionists trie
Gop is centered on the fate of congresswoman greene but also republican congresswoman liz cheney. Two lawmakers with starkly different values. Cheney is battling to hold on to her leadership post after voting to impeach former President Donald Trump for inciting that deadly attack on the capitol so lets start on the hill with cnn Congressional Correspondent jessica dean. Jessica, a lot of moving parts for you today, so lets start with congresswoman greene. How majority leader steny hoyer had a call with minority leader Kevin Mccarthy specifically about her. It sounds like no Common Ground was found, so where does everything stand . Right. So as a direct result of that call youre talking about, brooke, which happened just a little bit earlier today, democrats decided to move ahead with their plan to act, to remove representative Marjorie Taylor greene from her committee assignment, so you talked about that house rules meeting thats happening right now as we speak. Thats step one. Then t
That question is actually more difficult than you might think. They embraced the ones about the election. Not to mention, of course, the many deranged Conspiracy Theories pushed by President Trump about ted cruzs dead, muslims and much, much more. Marjorie Taylor Greene is not the only Republican Office holder who has been pushing but the only one republicans are contemplating admonishing. Senator thune, i regret to inform you when it comes to embracing Conspiracy Theories and dangerous lies in general, House Republicans have already made their decision. Ryan nobles is on capitol hill. Lets start with congresswoman liz cheney. What are you learning about how this meeting might go . Might she have enough support to hold on to her Leadership Position . Reporter right now that is an open question. It is very difficult to find a republican in the House Of Representatives who is willing to predict the outcome of what is expected to be a very tense meeting behind closed doors. On one hand, y
Indicted, highly classified documents in bathroom and the ballroom down at maralago. And federal judge aileen cannon, the Trump Appointed lawyer who came to this case with only three years on the bench and with very little experience in running criminal trials. Cannon whose rulings in the case so far have repeatedly drawn scrutiny and reversals and rebukes by higher courts. And now judge cannon is under fire once again for what the Washington Post diplomatically calls, quote, an unusual order regarding jury instruction. Quote, even though cannon has not yet ruled when the trial will be held or a host of other issues, shes skipping ahead to the very end, to Jury Instructions, asking prosecutors and Defense Attorneys to consider two different hypothetical situations. Writing in part, quote, in the first scenario the jury would be allowed today review a former president s possession of a record and make a factual finding, whether it is personal or president ial, using the Definition Set f