Against the variants right now. The more contagious variant first found in south africa is here. It almost certainly means theres other cases out there. This is new day, with Alisyn Camerota and john berman. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and all around the world. This is new day. It is friday, january 29th, its 6 00 here in new york. So why is this man smiling . No, not the guy on the left who lost an election by 7 million votes and presided over the deaths of 400,000 americans from coronavirus. The guy on the right, the republican leader on the right. Why is he smiling . Because hes been working on some bipartisan deal to get vaccines to millions of people . Is he smiling because hes been fighting for Economic Relief for millions of people out of work . Is he smiling because hes taken a new public stand against lies, hate, and bigotry . No, no, and no. Hes smiling because he got a political pat on the head, the tender embrace of the man who told a mob to march on the capitol. A mob that beat police officers, killing one. Two other officers have since taken their own lives. With the pandemic and economic crisis hanging over the nation, Kevin Mccarthy is superduper happy that the former president likes him again. We have new reporting this morning on what this means for the Republican Party and safety issues for Congress Going forward. Meanwhile, a new development in the effectiveness of vaccines against that new coronavirus strain. Preliminary results from the Drugmaker Novavax show that while it is 89 effective against the regular strain weve been dealing with, the vaccine is only 60 effective against that South African variant. The first cases of that strain were found in the u. S. Yesterday, in people with no travel history. And that means theres already community spread. Dr. Anthony fauci says, quote, it doesnt look good. Lets begin with cnns lauren fox. She is live for us on capitol hill. Good morning, lauren. Good morning, alisyn. Today on capitol hill, lawmakers still trying to grapple with how to move on prosecute coronavirus and come up with some kind of bipartisan stimulus package. Meanwhile, republicans with problems of their own, dealing with a fractured party, split between those who want to stick with former President Trump and those who are ready to move on. Reporter just over three weeks after the deadly insurrection at the capitol, House Speaker nancy pelosi saying Security Threats to lawmakers there arent only coming from outside of congress. We will probably need a supplement al for more security for members, when the enemy is within the house of representatives. When pressed by reporters, pelosi giving this response. It means that we have members of congress who want to bring guns on the floor and have threatened violence on other members of congress. Reporter this as Minority LeaderKevin Mccarthy spends time in florida, looking to make amends with former president donald trump, just weeks after making this statement following the capitol attack. The president bears responsibility for wednesdays attack on congress by mob rioters. Trumps Political Action committee saying the meeting at maralago discussed taking back the house in 2022, falsely adding are President Trumps popularity has never been stronger than it is today. Democrats condemning mccarthys visit. It tells me he stands with someone who basically incited insurrection as opposed to standing with our constitution. Mccarthy ignoring warnings of the appearance of crawling back to trump. One source close to the House Minority leader tells cnn, while some Top RepublicansLike Senate Minority Leader Mitch Mcconnell are trying to distance the party from the former president. But now, some of trumps most loyal allies are targeting gop house members who voted to impeach him earlier this month, including congresswoman liz cheney. Florida congressman matt gaetz slamming her at a rally in wyoming, cheneys home state. If you want to prove that you have the power to defeat liz cheney in this upcoming election and wyoming will bring washington to its knees. This despite mccarthy privately asking republican colleagues to stop fighting, bluntly begging them to cut this crap out, two sources on the call tell cnn. We have to save america. Reporter also taking center stage for the gop, georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor greene. House republicans giving the protrump promoter of Conspiracy Theories a seat on the house education and labor committee. A move pelosi disapproves. Assigning her to the Education Committee when she has mocked the killing of little children at sandy hook elementary school, when she has mocked the killing of teenagers in high school at the Marjory Stoneham douglas high school, what could they be thinking . Reporter and meanwhile the drama is building up on capitol hill as lawmakers are trying to put together some kind of bipartisan effort on this stimulus bill. There are still questions about whether or not republicans would come onboard with some democrats losing patience and charging forward with the process that could unlock their ability to pass this, with just a simple majority of democratic votes. Alisyn . Okay, lauren, thank you very much for all of that. So the acting chief of u. S. Capitol police calling for permanent fencing around the capitol as Law Enforcement tries to confront the ongoing threats to lawmakers. Cnns whitney wild is live in washington with more. Whitney . This is creating a bit of a back and forth among leaders here in washington, d. C. As you mentioned, the acting chief of the u. S. Capitol Police Department is advocating for permanent fencing. She said these recent events have proven that additional Security Measures like that are necessary. However, just about an hour before she released that statement, the mayor of d. C. Told reporters she did not think that permanent fencing was the answer. She didnt want to see that kind of Security Posture in the district on a permanent basis. This is also being met with bipartisan criticism. Here are two full screens for you. The first is from a democrat from massachusetts. He tweeted, it is a mistake to turn the home of our democracy into a fortress. The capitol needs to be safely opened for constituents, press, and visitors. A republican from new york basically echoed that statement, saying, i am adamantly opposed. There has been no threat briefing given to members of congress to justify this proposal. All of this comes after news you have to district on wednesday. A man was contacted by police after parallel parking basically in the middle of the street, alisyn. When Police Contacted him and said, what are you doing here, he said he was here to see the fencing around his capitol. He said he had questions and concerns about the honesty and the integrity of the election. He was very animated. He was shouting at the national guard. And importantly, when police said, do you have a firearm, he said, yes. He had a 9 Millimeter Handgun in the console of his car, and in addition, he had 20 rounds of ammunition. He told police that he thought his West Virginia license to carry a handgun would transfer to d. C. That is not the case here, alisyn. Hes now facing Weapons Charges for all of this. In addition to the weapon that they found in his car, police also found Stop The Steal paperwork as well as a list of members from both the u. S. Congress as well as the Virginia State legislature. He was in Court Earlier this week. A judge sent him home and said, you cannot come into the district unless you have a court hearing. Its amazing how emboldened and entitled people like that are feeling at the moment. Whats the status of the guy who had his feet up on Nancy Pelosis desk during the insurrection . Reporter well, he was in court. He had another hearing about whether or not they were going to keep him in custody and the resounding answer is absolutely. The chief judge here in d. C. Saying that we are still living with the results of the violence on january 6th. And absolutely just lambasted these rioters. Denied his request to try to get out of custody. She said, and i have the quote if youll give me a moment, well, im sorry, alisyn, ji dont have the quote, but she made one of the loudest and most resounding statements about all of this. She said the charges hes accused of, including trespassing, she said the title of those offenses dont even come close to capturing the real scope of the effect those rioters had on the capitol on january 6th. It was a hard no for him to get out of custody and she, again, really lambasted the hundreds of rioters who are now accused in this case, alisyn. I hear that logic. That the idea that trespassing doesnt seem to kcapture the spurt with which they went marauding through the capitol. Lauren fox is back with us. Also with us, cnn commentator charlie dent. A former republican member of congress from pennsylvania. Charlie, this is what the House Republican leader says of his meeting with the former president. President trumps popularity has never been stronger than it is today. Im reading this with the longing that Kevin Mccarthy clearly wrote it with. His endorsement means more than perhaps any dormant at any time. So charlie, you keep on telling us that theres a battle going on inside the Republican Party. What battle . A House Republican leader just traveled, did a Pilgrimage To Mecca to bow before the former president of the United States and then sent this, you know, statement out, which is the definition of obsequiousness. He makes Lindsey Graham look like a man with an incredible spine. I mean, doesnt this just indicate to you that whatever battle you were hoping existed is over . No, john. I think the battle has just begun. That statement you just read was painful to listen to. Obviously, Kevin Mccarthy went down there On Bended Knee and behaved too much like a supplicant to the former president , who was not that popular, who has been twice impeached, whos been disgraced, who lost resoundingly in the general election. And this is not the future of the party. We all know it. Right now with the leadership, what the republican side needs to do is come out and tell Marjorie Taylor greene what they should have told her this summer, which was to give her the treatment and say no committees, youre not welcome into the conference, were going to work with the Georgia State gop to defeat you in the upcoming primary. Hey, enjoy your time in congress. Thats how they should be dealing with her and this problem and dealing with these fringe elements, qanon, proud boys, and these other wild l elements out of there. They have to be put out of the party completely. This is simple. Are we going to stand with matt gaetz or with liz cheney . Lets have a public conversation with that. Im with liz cheney and Adam Kinzinger and the rest of them. I think this is just beginning this fight. I hope its not going to be a short war. Its going to be a longer one, i fear, between now and 2022 and 2024. And lauren, as charlie points out, this problem is not going away. Certainly, the Marjorie Taylor greene problem is not going away. There is something fundamentally wrong with that person who would chase a victim of a School Shooting down the street, heckling him. Thats not going away. And theres new reporting from axios that the Republican Party knew about Marjorie Taylor greene before she was elected and knew it was a problem, because she had all of these hundreds of odious tweets and they the leadership got together, and they were like, uhoh, this is going to explode on us. But they didnt deal with it. They put it aside. And here we are. Shes here. Her opponent has been quoted as saying she has no interest in governing. She just is a bomb thrower. And interestingly, The Hundreds Of Offensive Facebook posts and tweets she put out have been scrubbed. So she knows enough to know that those things are offensive and can get her in trouble and to scrub her accounts of them. But she still feels that way and all we know right now is that Kevin Mccarthy, the Minority Leader, does plan to talk to her. But there is no evidence that there will be any changes to come from that meeting. Remember, she was just put on the Education Committee, after you saw that video of her walking behind a Gun Violence Victim and essentially berating them about what they were doing on capitol hill. I mean, i think that there is a strong sense of concern from republican, Rank And File members, in the conference, about how much time she is taking up for them. Essentially, every second that we are talking about Marjorie Taylor greene, republicans say that they cant be talking about what they might disagree with in bidens policies moving forward. And i think that that juxtaposition and the distraction that she is going to continue to be, not to mention the fact that she still won her election by a huge margin and the faction of the Republican Party that she represents, remember, she got elected by real people, real voters. And i think the question for the Republican Party is, how do you try to start and reckon with the fact that you have to go to your voters and tell them the truth about what is happening, the fact that the election was fair, the fact that joe biden deserves to be the president of the United States. And i think theres a lot of work to do that begins with a conversation, a tough conversation with Marjorie Taylor greene, and has to go far beyond that. Yeah, great points there, lauren. Look, if these republicans do have a problem with Marjorie Taylor greene, they have a strange way of showing, which is to say, by not showing it at all. Basically, theyre not doing anything publicly. And charlie, the point that lauren brings up, the problem with Marjorie Taylor greene isnt the jewish space lasers that she blames for starting forest fires, problem isnt her, the problem is the people who have accepted her. Its the leadership that looks the other way. Its the Republican Party apparatus in georgia who either look the other way or kbrembrac her publicly. Marjorie Taylor Greene has always been Marjorie Taylor greene. Its everyone around her now thats the problem. Thats correct, john. But remember, too, steve king was elected multiple times, but not until the leadership of the party stood up and Kevin Mccarthy, to his credit, stood up and condemned him skpad, no more. Youre off the committees. You know what, after leadership took their foot down on his neck, so to speak, they said, its done. He was defeated in his primary. The same thing has to happen to Marjorie Taylor greene. The leadership needs to speak clearly, that she is not welcome in the party, he is not welcome in the conference, and that she and her ilk, these Conspiracy Theorists and all of these whacky things that she supports, there is no room for them. Make it crystal cloear. And they will defeat her in the next primary. Her opponent in the primary last time said he had a dumpster full of Opposition Research on this woman that was just devastating. Now were learning more and more about it. So, i think he said, no shirt, no shoes, no service. Kick her out. Thats the only way to deal with this. She will lose that primary, but its going to require leadership from the top of the party to squelch her. Well, the leadership has spoken clearly. Kevin mccarthy went to maralago, took a picture with a big grin and said it was the happiest day of his life. Hes never had a prouder endorsement in his life. Right now theyre speaking crystal clear, but appreciate the conversation. 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