Evidence. Announcer this is new day, with Alisyn Camerota and john berman. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and all around the world. This is new day. A battle for the soul of the Republican Party is playing out on capitol hill this morning. Last night, Senate Minority leader Mitch Mcconnell condemned congresswoman Marjorie Taylor greenes lies and Conspiracy Theories as, quote, a cancer on the Republican Party, though he never actually used her name. Mcconnell said he had enough of what he calls looney lies. So, what will leader Kevin Mccarthy do now . Meanwhile, on monday we saw this a cordial bipartisan meeting at the white house. Dont adjust your sets. This really happened. President biden and a group of ten republican senators compared their plans for economic relief. Huge gaps remain between mr. Bidens 1. 9 trillion package and the republicans 600 billion counteroffer. We have new details about what happens next in those negotiations even as democrats prepare to introduce the framework for passing their version without republicans. Now, john, you can take it. That was the flash frame in Who Framed Roger Rabbit there. An important day in the Impeachment Trial of the former president. Were hearing for the first time from the president s new, maybe more affordable, Impeachment Lawyers. Cnn and others reporting one reason for the split with the old team was the price tag. The new attorney has unveiled new details about the defense even as republicans issue a warning about the one case they say the president s team should not make. First, lets get a kick update on the relief talks. Jeremy diamond is at the white house. Jeremy, there was this genuinely friendly meeting between the president and republican senators. And that in and of itself is something. I dont want to diminish that at all. But where do the talks go next on a relief bill . Reporter yeah, thats right, john. President biden having his first meeting with lawmakers at the white house. And choosing to have that first meeting with these ten republican senators. Trying to show that he is serious about reaching out to republicans and attempting to get a bipartisan deal. But at the same time, no clear signs that they are any closer to an agreement. Both the white house and those republican senators saying that it was a good faith discussion. And that there were areas of agreement and they agreed to talk more. Here is senator Susan Collins talking about that. It was a very Good Exchange of views. I wouldnt say that we came together on a package tonight, no one expected that in a twohour meeting. But what we did agree to do is to follow up and talk further. Reporter and theres going to need to be a lot of followup if, indeed, theyre going to reach some kind of a bipartisan deal. Just look at how far apart these two sides are. You look at the white houses plan, 1. 9 trillion compared to just a third of that cost, 618 billion for the republican plan. You see a difference on the size of the stimulus checks theyre both proposing and also state and local aid, a key democratic priority. 350 billion in the white houses proposal compared to zilch, zero dollars in the republican proposal here. Now, even as these two sides had that discussion in the oval office and you ask see the optics of bipartisanship very clear that they are no closer to actually reaching a bipartisan deal. The white house reiterating that President Biden made clear he intends to act boldly and urgently and if necessary through that reconciliation process. House democrats, Senate Democrats both moving forward to set up that process. The white house making clear that republicans can join on board, but again all signs pointing to the fact that democrats could pass this 1. 9 trillion package simply along party lines. Alisyn . Please keep us posted if you get any developments from the white house, jeremy. So today is the deadline for President Trumps defense team to submit their response to that article of impeachment that charges the former president with inciting the deadly insurrection at the u. S. Capitol. Sources tell cnn that mr. Trumps defense will challenge the very constitutionality of the trial. Joining us now with her reporting, cnn political analyst maggie haberman, a washington correspondent for the new york times. Maggie, great to see you. Good to see you. What else could they say other than charging the constitutionality of trying a former president , what else what other trick do they have up their sleeve . Number two, this one has the benefit of the fact that they know that 45 senators agree with this. 45 senators already said they dont think that its constitutional. Thats absolutely, true. Alisyn that is a different vote than the vote thats going to be taken on whether to convict or not convict on the articles of impeachment, but it is true that the former president s team is feeling very good about the fact that there was this vote on the procedural matter that rand paul brought up 45 republicans argued the unconstitutionality of holding this trial while the president is now no longer president. They are going to faulk about that in terms of their argument. Theyre also going to talk about whether and this became clear in something david schoen his new lead lawyer said to the Atlanta Constitution theyre going to make clear they dont believe his language rose to the level of incitement of violence. Now, remember the main charge in the house articles is incitement of insurrection, not everyone around the former president thinks that its actually worth debating the substance of the article. Some think that actually just elevates it and its not a good idea to go there. Schoen clearly is going to go there. I think part of it is because the former president feels like he wants to be defended. He continued to argue his baseless claims of Election Fraud and that he hasnt done anything wrong. If he got his way, that would be included. Im an avid reader of reporting by maggie haberman. You said the former president it takes getting used to. The former president is still obsessed with the election lie he told. Obsessed how and how might that manifest itself in the Impeachment Trial and what kind of pressure does that put on schoen and castor . W he continues to talk about it, john. He tells advisers that you know it was stolen from me, right . He was saying this literally until the final hours in office. He has continued saying that to people since. He treats every moment and you know this, he treats every public forum moment as if its a fresh opportunity to sell. That is in his mind what he would like to see. Schoen made clear and castor, bruce castor the lawyer lawyer made clear thats not appropriate. Thats not something theyre going to argue here. That is something if they did argue that it would really risk alienating a lot of republican senators who dont want to hear that argued again, who do believe privately even if they dont say it publicly that what the president was doing fomented climate where that riot occurred. So i dont think youre going to see the falsehoods about the election told again. I do think you could see some reference to procedural changes or irregularities here or there. I dont think youll see a broadbased argument. His lawyers argument is that his words dont rise to the level of the incitement, somebody should tell the mob that because it sounds like the democrats, the Impeachment Managers are going to play the words of the rioters who say that they were taking their cues from President Trump. Well, thats exactly right. Look, again, as i said, thats the main argument, thats the main thrust in the articles of impeachment. Theyre going to argue the former president s team that the merits of that case in particular are not true. Theyre not just going to argue on the procedural grounds. Theyre going to say that legally there is no culpability here. And since thats the thrust of the argument the democrats make their case, the former president has a right to respond. Again, thats the meat of what the case is about. Not everybody around the former president thinks its worth even going there. Some of them would refer just to argue on the procedural issue related to unconstitutionality. Maggie, something remarkable happened in congress yesterday where Mitch Mcconnell whether veiled or not made a direct reference to Marjorie Taylor greene, a Republican Congress member of georgia called her looney and a cancer on the party. Well talk a lot more about that in our next few segments. But where it dove tails with your reporting. Were talking about Mitch Mcconnell here. What Mitch Mcconnell, the senate leader, has chosen to weigh in on and where he has chosen to use his political capital. You have this unbelievable writing piece by piece about the former president s election. One of the things you guys talk about is this period that mcconnell really helped create, the Permission Structure Mcconnell helped create after november 3rd for the president to begin to spread his lies. So Mitch Mcconnell now is talking about Marjorie Taylor greene. And that may be great according to some people. But he let the president go on and on and on spreading the lie which may have contributed to the insurrection on january 6th. What did you find . So, a couple of things, john. Look n our reporting we were reporting this in realtime, too, as were you guys. Mitch mcconnell was concerned about two Senate Runoffs in georgia. Concern among republicans the idea they need donald trump to turn out base voters. On the other hand donald trump is telling voters this election was rigged. Its not a great motivator for voters to keep voting. He was also getting reassurances that were not based on anything from mark meadows the former Chief Of Staff and Jared Kushner the president s soninlaw and senior adviser. At the time the president would eventually bow to reality and recognize what was going on, that obviously didnt happen. You saw mcconnell early in december say that joe biden was the president , made clear he was going to welcome them. It is true you did not see a clear denunciation of a lot of what the president was saying by a lot of republicans until january 6th, until the hours after that insurrection. And i think that is something that the party is going to grapple with going forward. And do we think that Mitch Mcconnells words last night about Marjorie Taylor greene, though he didnt use her name as john points out, will that hold sway with Kevin Mccarthy today if hes going to meet with her . I certainly think that Kevin Mccarthy is concerned about what the congresswoman has been saying. Its not i dont think that he wants to see liz cheney targeted as former President Trump has been doing. I do think he will say these things. Its not clear how much Power Mccarthy is going to exercise especially because she does represent a very active wing of the Republican Party right now. And that wing has grown since donald trump was in office. I do think it becomes easier for mcconnell to do it because its not his conference. Maggie, we talked a lot about what bruce castor and david schoen the new Impeachment Lawyers for the former president will do. Then theres the old team that split with the former president. And there had been reporting that one of the reasons was was because the former president was pushing them to spread the election lie and other reporting from cnn and others that money came into it also. It just seems well, explain what happened there. Sure. A couple of things, john. There are a lot of reasons this didnt work out. There was absolutely no chemistry between the former president and butch bowers which is not something most people prize in their legal representation or that everyone does but certainly something donald trump does in all of his relationships. He did want people talking about Election Fraud, and that was a sticking point. But its also true that, according to reported first by axios which we have confirmed, that the team that butch bowers was leading initially sited a figure of 250,000 but then they came back for an expanded figure of representing a number of paying for a number of lawyers as well as paying for expenses and reimbursements and research and it was closer to 3 million. And the president did not like that. The former president , excuse me. Donald trump tends to see all money he has raised for electoral purposes as his money. He repeatedly call it my money when he was talking about the rnc or his own campaign. The money in his Legal Defense fund is not his money. It was raised by donors but he sees it as his and he didnt want to pay that price and it added to the pile of other reasons this didnt work out. We have just a few seconds. How much is the new team charging him . Dont know yet. I suspect well find out when we see the receipts with the fec at the other end. Good luck getting paid. 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Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor greene is facing new backlash over her insane conspiracies and lies. Senate Minority Leader Mitch Mcconnell condemning greenes action, calling it a, quote, cancer for the Republican Party, end quote. House republicans forcing a action to be stripped of the Committee Assignments. Joining us is fred guttenberg, his daughter jamie was one of the 17 People Killed in parkland florida. Also with us ted deutsche who represents the florida district that includes parkland. Gentlemen, great to see both of you. Fred, what are you calling for . What do you want congressman Kevin Mccarthy to do when he will reportedly meet with Marjorie Taylor greene. First, good morning and thank you. I want Kevin Mccarthy to grow a spine today. He needs to do more than talk. If we learned one thing, what her comments yesterday, shes really not going to change what she has to say about anything. Kevin mccarthy needs to tell her to leave. You know, were the middle 17 day lead up to February 14th. And every one of these days were going to honor one of those who was lost on February 14th. Today is the day where my local community is actually going to honor jamie. It happened. It is real. And while shes making comments that really are making no sense to try and undo some of the damage, she cant. Kevin mccarthy, if he if Kevin Mccarthy wants to actually have any chance of being a leader going forward, he needs to get rid of her today. This is not an option. Congressman, you know, Marjorie Taylor greene weve seen a lot of stuff that has come out that she has done. I dont know whats more dangerous.