Expelled. What is the Republican Party doing . Amateur frenzy, investors trying to stick it to the mighty hedge fund. Will they succeed . Lets go outfront. Good evening. Im erin burnett. The enemy is within. The speaker of the house pointing the finger at members of congress when it comes to security at the capitol. The enemy is within the House Of Representatives. What exactly did you mean when you said the enemy is within . What exactly did you mean by that . It means we have members of congress who want to bring guns on the floor and have threatened violence on other members of congress. It comes amid growing democratic calls to censure, even expel qanon aligned congresswoman greene. She indicated her support for executing democratic politicians and supported, among other truly bizarre Conspiracy Theories, you know, that a plane didnt fly into the Pentagon On 9 11. The Parkland School shooting in which 17 people were killed, kids, was engineered by left wing antigun proponents. What im concerned about is the Republican Leadership in the House Of Representatives who is willing to overlook, ignore those statements. What could they be thinking or is thinking too generous a word for what they might be doing . Republican leadership did not answer the question of what they were thinking because the leader was busy. Minority leader Kevin Mccarthy, whose office said he will talk to greene, despite, of course, giving her a plum Education Committee assignment, he was traveling to visit the former president. Now, that in and of itself is pretty striking. A publicly announced meeting between a party leader and a former president just eight days after a new president has been sworn in. I mean, that in and of itself is a very significant statement. Mccarthys goal in doing this is to ensure hes back in trumps good graces and the reason that he needs to go kiss trumps ring in person is because there was a day when mccarthy with a motion spoke what he clearly believes, which happens to be the truth about the capitol insurrection. The president bears responsibility for wednesdays attack on congress by mob rioters. So he said it. But then eight days passed. The political winds and the deep, deep base of the gop were still blowing trumps way, and so mccarthy just up and flipped the switch. Do you believe that president , former President Trump provoked i dont believe he provoked if you listen to what he said at the rally. So the absurdity of such a flip is why a lot of people disgusted for politicians. The truth is mccarthy got what he wanted from trump today, to go down and make his amends. Trump releasing a statement after his meeting with mccarthy. The former president says, quote, President Trumps popularity has never been stronger than it is today and his endorsement means more than perhaps any endorsement at any time. President trump has agreed to work with Leader Mccarthy in helping the Republican Party become the majority in the house. Not the Republican Party. Lets just be clear here. The Republican Party of trump, because its two different parties now. Mccarthy has bought allin to the trump part. Its clear to him trump is more important than truth. And mccarthy is not alone in it his buyin into this whole trump mythology. Just a short time ago the republican congressman from florida matt gaetz got on a plane, traveled 1500 miles to his district to a tamme his republican colleague liz chain cheney. Why . Because cheney did not buy into trumps big lie. She didnt cast doubt on the Election Results and she also voted to impeach the former president for inciting the insurrection. She wrote, quote, the president of the United States summoned this mob, assembled the mob and lit the flame of this attack. Everything that followed was his doing. None of this would have happened without the president. Now, this is true and it is a fact. Now, liz cheney, unlike Kevin Mccarthy, never flipped from that, she never wavered. And the price for that in the trump gop is to crush her. We are in a battle for the soul of the Republican Party, and i intend to win it. You can help me. You can help me break a corrupt system. You can send a representative who actually represents you, and you can send liz cheney home. Back home to washington, d. C. Theyre in the same party. So, for a party that rails against cancel culture, they sure are cancelling a lot of people. They love the word cancel culture. Cancelling liz cheney, thats the latest. She happened to speak the truth. She also, of course, Republican Party with censure in arizona, cancelling the Republican Arizona governor doug ducey because he did not buy into the Election Fraud lie. They also cancelled cindy mccain for not Backing Trump after trump, of course, you know, personally disparaged and demeaned her husband even after he died. It seems that matt gaetz should probably if hes consistent, be outraged at matt gaetz. You are canceled. That is the news of the day today, cancel culture is in its ultimate zenith. We are living in the renaissance of cancel culture. Im not for the cancel culture. Well, except for you are. Manu raju is out live on capitol hill. He tells republicans to cut out the crap, this nasty infighting. You have goetz traveling 1500 miles in a pandemic to tell people in wyoming to vote against a sitting republican member of leadership. If thats cutting out the crap, okay. The democrats, though, are really upping the rhetoric with some of these charges. Zm reporter yeah, it is pretty remarkable to see. The tension is palpable on both sides particularly the democrats geared towards the republican in the aftermath of the violence that we saw on capitol hill. Weve seen some democrats suggest that some republican members gave inside information to these insurrectionists who came and stormed the capitol. We dont know who has done that, if there is evidence of that, but we do know there is an investigation looking into that. Weve also seen Metal Detectors being placed at all the entrances to the house chamber, an extraordinary move partly why nancy pelosi today said the enemy is within the House Of Representatives, noting how some members have tried to bring firearms into the house floor. And in a pretty remarkable tweet just earlier today, alexandria ocasiocortez, the new York Democratic progressive, fired back at ted cruz, the texas republican, saying, im happy to work with the republicans on this issue where there is common ground, but you almost had me murdered three weeks ago. So you can sit this one out. She went on to say, happy to work with almost any other gop that arent trying to get me killed. In the meantime, if you want to help, you can resign. Now, cruz responded saying that partisan anger is not healthy for this country, but it all goes back to what happened on january 6. Cruz objected to the state of arizonas electoral results, joined House Republicans during that debate, of course, is when the rioters came in on capitol hill that led to the deadly violence. R ransacked this building that im in right now. Later cruz joined a handful of republicans to vote to overturn the states results. It also happened in pennsylvania. They failed in that effort, but the tension from that day still very apparent here just several weeks later, erin. Obviously when you look at the situation with Kevin Mccarthy today, right, this unprecedented meeting with the former president , thats what he went ahead and did, right, as opposed to dealing with the crisis within his own party and the issue of Marjorie Taylor greene which his own office said is serious and hes going to address. Reporter yeah, no question. They said mccarthy said he would actually have a conversation with Marjorie Taylor greene. There is no indication that has happened just yet. He actually has not addressed it himself. Hes only said it through his spokesperson that he believes greenes comments were deeply disturbing, but i can tell you, erin, that behind the scenes there has not been Much Movement yet to discipline her on the republican side of the aisle. No indication shell be stripped from the committee assignment. Certainly no indication that there is movement in republicans to try to expel her from the house. Her actions that happened before congress will undoubtedly be execute Nightly Newsed if she continues to press ahead on some of these pretty outrageous claims, well see how republicans respond then, erin. Thank you very much, manu. I want to go out front to dan, a longtime republican donor. Youve seen him on this program many times as weve been covering whats been happening in the party here the past few months. Abby philip also with me. So, abby, you know, these charges from democrats that manu just detailed, are incredibly dramatic and incredibly serious. Is nancy pelosi actually saying she thinks a republican member of congress would shoot somebody . Reporter well, you know, part of the problem for republicans is that they do have members who have a documented history of endorsing violence against democratic members, and specifically pelosi. I mean, Marjorie Taylor greene as our own kfile has reported, liked comments on social media that said that it would be easier for her to be shot in the head, things like that. So this is not something thats made up out of whole cloth. And then on top of that, having members refusing to disarm themselves before entering the chamber, refusing to go through Metal Detectors. Theres definitely a culture of distrust on capitol hill. And i think that its very hard for republicans to say this is an overreaction, considering that those members are still in congress, and also considering what happened on january 6th. You know, on the other side, dan, youve got the Republican Party, you know, ive been using the word cannibalism. Matt gaetz travels across the country to tell people in wyoming to vote against the third ranking republican in the house, liz cheney, because she didnt say the election was rigged and she voted to impeach the president for his role in the insurrection. You have that going on. Kevin mccarthy said stop the crap, the infighting, but isnt doing anything about it because he was down meeting with trump today getting his endorsement. Yeah, so theres a lot of Different Things going on. First of all, i think whats going on with congressman greene is absolutely crazy. I think its kind of outside the bounds of what a responsible member should be saying. And i think that the party should look at doing what they did to steve king and strip her Committee Assignments to try to really just send a strong message that this is completely outside the mainstream. Whats happening with liz cheney i think is completely different. Congressman goetz is grandstanding and trying to come up with some kind of purity test. I dont think this is how the republicans get back to the majority. I dont think this is how we should be wandering around the wilderness the next two years or four years. And i think that liz cheney should be up for if there was an additional one of john f. Kennedys profile in courage second book, i think shes earned herself a chapter in that book for speaking her mind. Look, shes a clearcut common sense conservative with a long term in this background. I think she voted her conscience here. I think she thought was trump did was abominable. I did. She stood up for it. To remove her from a Leadership Position is reactive and not helpful for getting the party to the majority. Then with whats going on with Mccarthy Visiting Trump tonight or today, i think that just shows that mccarthy wants to be speaker and he realizes he cant be speaker if trump if trump supports uses his 200 Million Bank Account and his megaphone or whats left of it without the twitter account to support antiestablishment people that have wronged him and to take a list of grievances and go after 20 or 30 congressmen and use his monday and i name against incumbents, that is the exact opposite of what Kevin Mccarthy needs if he wants to be speaker. I mean, which is incredible. Its all personal political machinations going on with the exception of liz cheney, clearly, abbey, with the examples dan is going through here. What about this point, abby, with steve king they stripped him of his assignments. They effectively neutered him. Marjorie taylor greene, Kevin Mccarthy put her on committees. Reporter yeah. A day ago. Reporter its quite the opposite. What is really happening here is that Kevin Mccarthy is demonstrating in multiple ways that he believes where the wind is blowing politically for him is aligned not just with trump, but also with the fringe that is now a part of his conference in the republican house, that he is obviously afraid of reprimanding Marjorie Taylor greene in a real way because he understands on some level that some percentage of the Republican Base backs her up, believes some of the things that she believes. Whether its qanon or some of the other Conspiracy Theories. Thats the scary part about whats going on here. And it is something that i think many republicans are not willing to acknowledge. But if you look at the poll numbers and you look at the way in which Republican Voters, about 75 of them, believe this election was stolen, that is a Republican Party that is completely outside of the realm of reality. And its leaders have absolutely no ability to get things back on track. Go ahead, dan. Yeah. If i could interject for a second. I agree with her. I think its even more simple than that. Whats going on by Mccarthy Visiting Trump is clearly a case of trump has unleashed his own inner demons at the kbps of the expense of the Republican Party. Him making the call to the Secretary Of State and him calling Election Fraud in georgia and costing us the senate seats, this is clearly mccarthy is on defense here. Instead of being on offense against the Biden Administration and holding the Biden Administration accountable, trump has basically chosen himself over the party and its causing, you know, both mcconnell with this impending trial in the senate and mccarthy by visiting him and having to deal with greene to both be on defense, at a time we should be focused on the biden nominees as republicans than focused on Holding Biden accountable for illadvised economic policies and the Republican Leadership clearly cant do that. Theyre focused on defense right now. And theyre focused still on it all still comes back to this question in the election itself. Right . I call it the trump gop and the other gop. I dont know how its all going to play out, but thats what youre dealing with, dan. Its a civil war. Yeah, it is. And, abby, let me ask you about this. This whole cancel Culture Thing i think there are people across the political spectrum who are, you know, have issues with cancel culture and what its done to conversation. But its very interesting, republican congressman Adam Kinzinger voted, of course, to impeach trump with liz cheney. He responded to goetz attacks on liz cheney saying this is gop cancel culture. I railed on cancel culture, how terrible it is. Trump used to love this whole cancel culture beat. Remember this . If you disagree with them, they try to humiliate you, smear you, and cancel you. Cancel culture, right . A vote for biden is a vote to give control of government over to the globalists and the communists, socialists and wealthy liberal hypocrites who want to silence, cancel, and punish you. Cancel culture, they call it. The efforts to censor, cancel and blacklist our fellow citizens are wrong and they are dangerous. A congressman said what theyre doing with cancel culture is exactly what theyre doing, abby. You werent doing exactly what we wanted. Get out. Reporter this is clearly not the big tent, some kind of big tent Republican PartyPresident Trump specifically wants. He wants people who support him and back him up. It really has absolutely nothing to do with ideology, but thats the reality that republicans are living in. Hes concerned about being canceled from social media if he spreads falsehoods. But in reality, the Republican Party of today in trumps mind should be lockstep with him. And Everyone Else who disagrees needs to be kicked out or pushed out. And that is what we are seeing with liz cheney an