Leadership position because of her recent vote to impeach donald trump. The Secret Ballot vote 14561. The full house will vote tomorrow under the control of the democrats, remember, On Whether To Kick Greene off her committees budget and education. Greenes past comments include but arent limited to her view that School Shootings were staged, clintons murdered john f. Kennedy jr. , theres no evidence that plane hit the Pentagon On 9 11. Goes on into violence against democrats and rabid antisemitism. Marjorie Taylor Greene is totally out of control. Why would Kevin Mccarthy continue to associate himself and republican conference with someone who leader Mitch Mcconnell has characterized as a cancer. P last time i checked, cancers need to be cut out and not allowed to metastasize. Republican Leader Mccarthy issued a statement after his meeting with greene this evening condemning her past statements, and went on to accuse the democrats of course of fuelling the controversy by scheduling the vote tomorrow. Quote, i offered Majority Leader a path to lower the temperature, instead of coming together, the democrats are choosing to raise the temperature, taking unprecedented step to further their partisan power grab of the Committee Seats of the other party. After his meeting he defended congresswoman greene. It would be helpful if you could hear what she told all of us. Denouncing qanon i dont know if i said it right, i dont know what it is. But said she knew nothing about the lasers and things brought up about her. He has said qanon before, knows what it is. Through it all, qanon congresswoman from georgia has remained defiant. Using this opportunity to fundraise. We owe them no apologies, we will never back down. In interview with the washington examiner, said this about democrats. How stupid they are, they dont even realize theyre helping me. Im pretty amazed how dumb they are. While this was unfolding in the house. Democrats and republicans over in the senate have settled on a power sharing agreement. This means democrats officially get to take over the committees and can now push forward with the president s agenda. Senate is also six days away from the start of that second Impeachment Trial for the now former president. Axios has new reporting on the effort to make the case to convict the former president. Quote, during a call wednesday morning with the House Democratic caucus, lead impeachment manager jamie raskin told his colleagues one Capitol Police officer has lost three fingers, another likely to lose an eye. He said Extremist Elements in russia and germany view the storming of our capitol as great victory for 21st century fascism. One of trumps lawyers, bruce castor, hired days ago, offered preview of his defense in philadelphia. The president deplores the violence at the capitol. And those people should be punished. Just because somebody gave a speech and people got excited, that doesnt mean that the speech makers fault. Its the people who got excited and did what they know is wrong. President biden also weighed in on trumps impeachment today with some of his most detailed comments yet in recorded interview with people magazine. He was impeached by the house, and it has to move forward. Otherwise would come off as farcical. What its all about. Its probably not likely can get 17 republicans to change their view and convict on impeachment. But i think its important that there be certain basic standards that people at least are able to see what happened and make their own judgments. By the way, if biden is going to get that nearly 2 trillion Coronavirus Relief package he wants, it looks like it will be just democrats and no crossover republican votes. Politico is reporting he seems open On Compromising who is eligible for next round of stimulus checks but firm on keeping them at amount of 1,400 apiece. Tonight the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in our country has topped 26 million. Look at the death toll. Over 451,000 of our fellow citizens. Cdc is projecting another 83,000 deaths by the end of this month, perhaps. Yet one development is offering some hope tonight. A new Oxford University study found the astrazeneca vaccine keeps people from getting sick and may stop them from passing on the virus. Well get to that. Leadoff guests, two new faces. Reed epstein with the New York Times and anna palmer, founder and ceo of punch bowl news. A new d. C. Based news service created with politico veteran, and eugene robinson, Pulitzer Prize winning columnist for the Washington Post. Good evening to you all. Anna, what just happened . Your organization reported that members of the Republican Caucus gave the qanon congresswoman a Standing Ovation at close of her remarks. You saw mccarthy come out and pretend to mispronounce and not know what qanon is. The flags on the capitol lawn outside his office during the insurrection notwithstanding. In your view, what just happened . Were seeing the fight for the soul of the Republican Party play out in real time in the house. Basically you had Kevin Mccarthy, leader of the House Republicans, try to thread the needle and have it both ways. Not only did he not denounce greene and her Conspiracy Theories and racism and other things shes said, but also supported representative cheney, facing almost sure voting out of leadership if he hadnt rallied the base behind her. He was able to look at political field, he wants to be next speaker of the house, this is all about that. Hes trying to play on both sides. But it is not going to be finished. Donald trump has a hold on the republican conference and were seeing that play out in real time. Reed, is this the gop now to the point anna raises and im not being cute, i wish i was how do you run in the educated suburbs if youre the gop. Name three cities, atlanta, st. Louis, denver. On the notion of celebrities drinking the blood of toddlers and jewish space lasers, how do you do that . You know the problem that Kevin Mccarthy and republicans have at large is that marjorie Taylor Greene represents a not insignificant portion of their electorate at this point, their base voters. Its clear they cant win in in most states and National Elections without that group of voters. And we just saw in november they cant win a National Election with those voters presenting a large segment of their base. What were going to see next 20 months or so is republicans trying to figure out how to keep both ends of this coalition of theirs together without alienating the sort of voters in the middle who tend to win in Swing Districts and statewide races. Eugene, in your latest you argue persuasively that the gop is one more big defeat away from burning it down and having to rebuild. Though tonight, through our prism, looked more like they were maybe considering changing the tires while the car is hurtling down the highway, and kind of ad libbing their way to what the gop wants to be. Thats certainly what they seem to want to try to do, because they think theyre within reach of taking back one or both chambers of congress in 2022. So they dont want to make a definitive break with trumpism or even qanon. Lets be clear on what were talking about here, right . Theres a tendency to look at and say on the one hand didnt punish greene, on the other hand kept cheney in leadership position. Even bigger stretch, republicans trying to draw equivalence between greene and ilhan omar on the democratic side for antisemitic statements for which she humbly apologized. There is no equivalency. There is unrepentant white supremacist, antisemitic, Conspiracy Theorymongering person who should be nowhere near the level of government. Should be the fringe of the fringe and party cant bring itself to draw a line between the fringe of the fringe and everything else. Just shows where the republican is right now. I think it will take a huge, really walloping at the polls maybe in 22 or 24 or both to make the party actually start to rebuild. Anna, i want to play a bit of congressman andy biggs, republican of arizona tonight with mr. Hannity over on fox news. Democrats want to purge Taylor Greene from committees, then same standard must be applied to them. If youre going to take marjorie Taylor Greene off her committee, look at all the Conspiracy Theorists, hard left rhetoric thats come out. Thats why i cosponsored that amendment, substituted ilhan omar for marjorie Taylor Greene. If youre going to take out one of ours, were going to take out one of yours. He just said the quiet part out loud. Pay no mind to jewish space lasers or anything shes said. This is about body count, party, if we lose one of ours, you lose one of yours. Yeah, i think that is the sentiment a lot of republicans feel like theyre trying to make. Democrats are doing overreach. I think it doesnt play, frankly. What democrats are trying to do, i think they are trying to, to eugenes point, make the entire Republican Party answer for qanon and the Conspiracy Theories. They feel very confident going into 2022, going to be tough Midterm Election for them, typically in the house, party of majority if president is of the same party they lose seats. But they want to tie Republicans To Greene and make this the issue because they know they will win on it. Reid, something for you too. An ad going after a member of congress who is a republican, incumbent in nebraska, and this i think is a shade of whats to come. Qanon, a Conspiracy Theory born online, took over the Republican Party. Sent followers to congress and with donald trump incited a mob that attacked the capitol and murdered a cop. Republicans like don bacon are willing to protect trump and let them win. He should have stood with us but he was a coward, he stood with trump and the lies. Reid, republican congressman don bacon, former general in the u. S. Air force, theyre clearly softening the ground for race two years from now, any way this backfires . What theyre trying to do is turn every republican into marjorie Taylor Greene, thats what the vote tomorrow is about, its tying House Republicans to greene on the vote. Theyll run ads saying they voted to protect her and keep her on committees. And it is about building this narrative over the course of the next two years. This isnt a ad you would see from democrats heading into election cycle. In october the ads were about health care and more on policy that moved their voters. This is much more of an ad to try to define House Republicans super early in the cycle and try to cleave them apart from what is a significant part of their base. So eugene, congresswoman cheney, who is by the way the atlarge member of congress in wyoming, the population small enough they have but one seat in the house for the entire state. Two senators like every other state. Liz cheney survives to live another day. Over 60 members of her caucus voted in this Secret Ballot to bounce her from leadership, but she prevailed. Is there any way, gene, this was a test vote tonight . The way Senate Republicans view it . Do you think there is any room, any leeway, any votes to convict that are out there among the big red wall of Senate Republicans . Only if the trial ends with a Secret Ballot in the senate. This was a Secret Ballot in the house, and liz cheney got 140something votes for, and 61 i guess against her. And so, if the senate trial were to end in a Secret Ballot, i think you might get 17, might get more than 17 republican senators who would vote to convict donald trump. But they wont do it publicly. Because again, the partys idea of how to go forward, its not now to break with trump and trumpism. And even qanon, but to sort of play these and try to neaten up the edges. That clip of Kevin Mccarthy saying you should have heard what marjorie Taylor Greene told us in our meeting. Okay. Lets hear it. Thats not what shes saying on twitter feed or publicly. Shes defiant. And shes saying the democrats are helping me by putting pressure on me. So shes going to be a player. Shes going to help the democrats make the case that the Republican Party is marjorie Taylor Greenes party because this woman is not going to shut up. To our viewers, thats why eugene has a pulitzer. To anna, youre on with The Last Word here. Question america is asking, where did the name punch bowl come for a News Organization . Its the Secret Service nickname for the u. S. Capitol, we focus on power, people, politics and bring you inside the Capitol Building in nonbiased, nonpartisan just the facts day. We have morning, afternoon and evening newsletter. Punchbowl. News. Hope you can sign up. That was example of me knowing the answer to question but rather have one of the founders explain to our audience. Along with best wishes for success over there. Continue to read you and epstein at the New York Times and robinson at the Washington Post. Thank you to the three of you. Greatly appreciate it. 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