they see folks like senator joe manchin being a thorn in their side. they want to deliver and be able to tell voters they got this done with or without republicans. >> this is performance art? >> it's the way washington works. >> it's like mime. except worse or less entertaining which is hard. i want marjorie taylor greene. her comments are despicable and false and everything you say bad about them clearly true. why won't kevin mccarthy speak up? >> kevin mccarthy wants that speaker's gavel more than he wants to be known as somebody who is sensible or princeled or ethical, right? this is all he wants. he's counting down the months to nid term elections. he knows that there is a substantial part of the republican base that is in line with the whackiness, the extremism of the marjorie taylor greenes of their conference. they do not want to annoy or risk demobilizing that faction of the party. it's that simple. it's that ugly. it's that unfortunate.