Taking a vote of conscience on the former president. As for greene, she was given a Standing Ovation by some. Were live following all of it on capitol hill. Also where does the covid Relief Bill Stand and President Bidens first major Foreign Policy speech comes later today. Lets go to our colleague lauren fox on the hill. Good morning to you, lauren. The republican Leader Punting and punting on punishing Marjorie Taylor greene. Where do things stand this morning . Well, exactly. Hes essentially telling House Democrats to move ahead with their resolution. They will bring to the floor this afternoon. It will force every single republican member to Make A Stand On Whether or not they think that their colleague should be able to stay on the committees that she serves on. Thats the Education Committee and the budget committee. This is really an unprecedented move that democrats are going toward because they are arguing in traditional times, when there is a controversial member, it is up to that partys leadership to make a decision about that members future. Thats not what is going to happen today. But every member, every republican, again, is going to have to walk the plank and make a decision about where they stand on Marjorie Taylor greene. And that was frustrating to a lot of republicans that i was talking to yesterday. They essentially arguing that mccarthy is having a dereliction of leadership here. A dereliction of duty and forcing them to make a decision about their colleagues. So a lot of frustration. Meanwhile, Marjorie Taylor greene not showing any public remorse, despite the fact that mccarthy said she did speak out in her Conference Meeting and say she does not believe many much the Social Media Posts that she was part of before she was a member of congress. And i want to read what she said to the Washington Examiner yesterday. She said, quote, House Minority leader Kevin Mccarthy and all these leaders, the leadership and everyone is providing proving that they are all talk and not about action. They are all just doing Business As Usual in washington. And so whats the difference between them and the democrats . There isnt a difference. That doesnt sound like an apology. That doesnt sound like any public remorse, and that is part of the problem for republicans who are arguing that while they dont like the precedent that it sets for democrats to vote to take her off of her committees, it does put them in a difficult spot today when they have to make a decision about their own colleagues future. We did hear one republican earlier this morning, Adam D Kinzinger say he will vote to remove her. Lauren fox on the hill, thanks. What is the future of the Republican Party . Joining us, s. E cupp and margaret hoover. When i hears phrase big tent in my experience, that sort of is actually an excuse not to make a decision, right . Because if the big tent holds here the Party Welcomes both liars, right, outright liars, and folks who make a vote of conscience and recognize the truth. Are those things actually compatible . No. The big tent is not meant to welcome like any old person, right . I mean, the Conservative Movement in the Republican Party used to have a set of principles. Tenets. You know, stuff that was in their Party Platform that you had to kind of believe in to get entree into the tent. The stuff that Marjorie Taylor greene spews regularly is not apologetic for up until today is really not what Conservatism Stands for. It is, however, what this current Republican Party stands for. And if you are looking at the current landscape, the word that comes to my mind is cowardice. When it comes to a Secret Ballot on liz cheneys side, republicans suddenly find their courage. They are able to stand up and say we stand for the rational wing of the party. Only in secret. And then over on the Marjorie Taylor greene side, you know, you have leadership who is unwilling to denounce a crazy person. A kook. It should not be hard to say what Marjorie Taylor greene believes in is wrong. Its not true. And it isnt who we are. Theres no courage to do any of that and instead, they are making democrats force their hand. Margaret, ive got to imagine for you, not only a member of the Republican Party, the Republican Party is in your familys bones and history. Its got to be sort of like gut twisting to see this happening. And especially compounded by the fact that 61 republicans in the house, 30 of the house, voted to oust liz cheney from her Leadership Role simply for voting her conscience. Thats right. Poppy, you nailed it. Look, i think actually if anything, history can bring republicans and people who have long identified with the conservative tradition in American Politics, not conservative populism, not the conservativism of today, but go, if you want to go back to the modern american Conservative Movement. William f. Buckley kicked out the conspiracy theorists, the kooks, the antisemites and made a good point of it. The paranoid style in American Politics is not new. Whats now is it coopting a party and the party not having a backbone to stand up to it. You are seeing a real difference between the base of the party that has been coopted by this cult of personality around donald trump, Conspiracy Theories around qanon and conservative populist themes in the house versus in the senate. And its no its not an accident, right, that the founders designed the senate with sixyear terms, with a little bit of space between them and the base to be able to make thoughtful, difficult decisions, and its it should not be lost on anyone that Mitch Mcconnell is the one who came out in defense of liz cheney, right . I respect her leadership, and i look forward to working with her in the future. I think the real rift in the party is what youll see between the stature of the senate and then just this sort of lost populist Conspiracy Theory base in the house. Running in massively gerrymandered districts. S. E. Marjorie Taylor Greene is a proxy for someone else, i think i remember his name, former president donald trump. Is she not . All the talk about her wild Conspiracy Theories, all things the president has shared for years. Is there any movement in the party after his loss . Any Real Movement away from trump or does that remain, really, a minority insurgency within the party, right, like the ten who voted to impeach . Well, i was on our air, i dont know, a couple of months ago. And donald trump had said Marjorie Taylor greene was the future of the Republican Party, and i said at the time, i have no doubt she is. And, you know, fast forward a month or so, who is the leader of the Republican Party . Who is the face of it . Who are we talking about . Who is making the headlines. I dont know who the leader is if not donald trump and the people who are still flying to maralago to kiss his ring or the people who are still supporting him. And so, you know, maybe shes a de facto face of the party, but republicans in the house, to margarets point, seem very happy to let her be the face. Instead of denouncing her full throatedly. And it wasnt that long ago, jim, im sure you remember this name. It still haunts me today. Todd akin. In 2012, he was running for Claire Mccaskills seat in the senate. He was a republican. Right as mitt romney was running for president. And he started talking about legitimate rape, this really offensive dumb idea that if a woman is actually legitimately raped her body shuts down and unwanted pregnancy. It was really stupid and gross, but it was so offensive to the party. The party did not want this albatross of todd akin around their neck as mitt romney was running for from the. They called on him to resign from the leadership down. It wasnt hard to do. They were ashamed of him. There is no shame in this party anymore of donald trump, of roy moore, of Marjorie Taylor greene. Theres no awareness. Theres a coddling of this really small whittled down fringe minority in the party of racists and kooks and thats who they are catering to now. So margaret, how do you save the party then . I mean, look, its whenever there is a party out of power, there is a fullon, you know, forgive the term civil war, but you have a bunch of competing warlords competing for power. A bunch of Different Power Centers is what i mean by that. You do have youll have the e expresident s fact job. The Marjorie Taylor greenes and the folks in the base and the part of the thing that paul ryan, not fondly called the conservative military complex, or as a joke, right, you have this sort of partisan economy built around the politics of the base. But you also there are other factions as well. There are donors. Theres the business community. There are various factions of moderates. And what youre going to see Behind The Scenes is people really fighting. The first battle in this war is going to be the primaries for 2022. Does Marjorie Taylor greene get a primary . Does Kevin Mccarthy get a primary. Does liz cheney beat her primary . So poppy, nobody knows the answer to that, but i pray that we see some real moral courage in this party because the Republican Party is an institution, right . If we talk about a time where institutions are crumbling in our country, rebuilding some confidence in this institution, it has a long tradition of, frankly, you know, they can be storied and one can be proud of parts of it. No party is perfect. But moral courage in the Republican Party would be a welcomed return. I think courage is the word of the day if not the week, for sure. Its so nice to have you god bless liz cheney for doing it and thank god she survived. She said im not going anywhere. Right after she made the vote. And she said it again yesterday. And she came out on top in that one. Thank you, margaret and s. E. We have a lot ahead. The cdc director says the uk variant of covid19 may be deadlier than previously thought. Thats a big development. 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I mean, the president has indicated he could come down from 1. 9 trillion, particularly on the scope of where the Stimulus Checks go to, how many people, at what income level. Does that potentially bring in any gop support . Well, jim, im told discussions are still ongoing at the staff level, even though republicans havent responded directly to that, those two memos from the white house on that 1. 9 trillion plan. Just yesterday, we heard President Biden say that he believes that he can get some republican lawmakers to vote for this package, but what is clear is that the white house is moving forward with this 1. 9 trillion package. At least in terms of a framework, and they are not going to budge off of that number by hundreds of billions of dollars at this point. President biden making very clear on a call with House Democrats just yesterday that hes not going to begin his administration by breaking his promises to the American People. We cant walk away from the additional 1400 from direct checks we proposed because people need it. Frankly, we promised it. I think we can better target the number. Im okay with that, but were going to start im not going to start my administration by breaking a promise to the American People. I dont think the problem is that were going to go too big to deal with this crisis. The problem is were going to go too small. You can hear there going too big versus too small. Thats what we have heard from white house officials over the last several days. President biden making clear that he believes that this 1. 9 trillion package takes care of all the needs and, yes, they are open to doing some trimming on the Stimulus Checks is what we keep hearing over and over. As far as anything more, any more cuts, its not clear where the room for compromise is and its clear the democrats are moving forward. And particularly, not on state and local aid which republicans didnt have in there but its a priority for biden. Jeremy diamond, thanks very much. The cdc director says more data suggests the Covid Variant from the uk could actually be more deadly, jim. Yeah, this is concerning news. Joining us now, dr. Leana wen, cnn medical analyst and former Baltimore Health commissioner. Dr. Wen, you know, First Question is, how much more deadly and do the vaccines still are they still effective in keeping people from getting really, really sick with this variant . So theres good news and bad news in this regard. The good news is that the vaccines do look like they are very effective still against the b117 variant that came from the uk, which is