Publically of deciding what it wants to be. Who its leaders are and what it wants to stand for. The house moved to remove Marjorie Taylor green from both of the committees she served in. The education and Budget Committee. Despite near unanimous opposition from her party. Vote was 230199, it came amid mounting outrage among the crazy Conspiracy Theories she has spoken. 11 represent are cans moved over the aisle to remove her. Which sends her in to a legislative exile. Green apologized for none of out. They expressed regret for her comments and said she quote stumbled in to qanon after doubting media reports. The problem is i was allowed to believe thing thes that were not true. You see, School Shootings were true. And 9 11 happened. You i never said the things that im being accused of today during my campaign. I never have said any of the things since being elected to congress. Shall we stay divided like this . Will we allow the media that is just as guilty as qanon of presenting truth and lies to divide us. Here is the briefest reminder of greens greatest hits. Americans are like blind sheep, just going through life. Not paying attention. Theres an islamic invasion in to our Government Offices right now. How do you get avid gun owners and people that support the Second Amendment to give up their guns . Maybe you accomplish that by performing a mass shooting in to a crowd. The socalled plane that crashed in to the pentagon. Odd, never any evidence shown for a plane in the pentagon. Q is a patriot, we know it for sure. Many in the government are actively worshipping satan or they call moloch, q is saying that they participate in pedophilia and spirit cooking. Theres a Once In A Lifetime opportunity to take this had global cable of Satan Worshipping pedophiles out. Sorry to interrupt your meal of cooking, satan green today blamed her problems on the media when as you saw, those were her words not the product of any media kabal or cable, as she prefers it. During the debate before the vote. Republicans argued that punishing green would set a bad precedent. While democrats kept their focus on the substance of her a remarks. The conduct that we are talking about today continued after she was a candidate and after she was elected. Mr. Speaker, i urgent my colleagues to look at this image. We are dealing with conduct that brings shame on this house. It is exactly the kind of conduct that helps fuel domestic terrorism. Who is next, who will the cancel culture go after next. Now they are coming after ms. Green. I fear if we open this particular pandoras box, we will not like what happens next. The house Impeachment Managers who will present their case against donald trump on tuesday next week have sent him a letter asking him to testify at the senate trial and he rejected that, adding there will be no written statement and they expect the trial to end next friday or sunday and they will file more legal briefs monday. And today, one Senate Republican leader expressed around eagerness to get it over with. I think its in his best interest to not testify and i think most senators would like to expedite this. And smartmatic, the Voting Technology company that became the target of voting fraud claims, has filed a 2. 7 Billion Defaation fox news, some of the hosts and two of trump lawyers. Here they are. They have all been named if the suit and at various times, all of Them Trafficked in claims about the election and the companies that were just made up. This is a serious lawsuit. The company says it has identified at least 100 false statements and implications made on fox news programs. Smartmatic, which is a company that was founded in 2005, in venezuela, for the specific purpose of fixing elections. Thats their expertise. How to fix elections. They did it a number of times in venezuela. They did it in argentina, and they messed up an election to a in chicago. We know one of the smartmatic people has went to texas and turned that county blue after having been an executive with smartmatic and all of a sudden, this one election, Terrant County is blue. Joe biden took his campaign to take back the country from the trump agenda. This one symbolized a lot. Biden laid out the priorities and the approach to dealing with a longtime adversary. America is back. America is back. Diplomacy is back at the center of our Foreign Policy and leading with diplomacy, means Standing Shoulder to shoulder with our allies and key partners again. I made it clear to president putin, and in a manner different from my predecessor. That the days that the United States rolls over in the face of russias aggressive actions and interfering with our elections, cyber attacks, poisoning its citizens, are over. The president said he will stop trumps plan to withdraw our troops from germany, a move that lets face it, all serious Military Commanders instantly viewed as a mistake but were powerless to stop. Biden is also ending arm sales and other support to saudi arabia, in its war with yemen, as biden pushes for passes of his Coronavirus Relief bill, theres news on the vaccine front and its big. Johnson johnson has officially applied for that Emergency Use Authorization from the fda, for its vaccine. Which is administered, lets remember, in a single shot. If the application is approved, it would be the third brand name Vaccine Authorizationed for Emergency Use in our country. Its a lot and lets bring in the lead off guests on the thursday night. Two veterans of journalism, one of Foreign Policy. Jonathan lamire, White House Reporter with the Associated Press and ben rhodes, former Deputy National security adviser for president obama. Extremism is the brand of gop. Do you agree and will what happened today make this Congress Woman a rallying cry or a marter or a disgrace or a mixture of all three . The difference of a Secret Ballot Vote for liz cheney verse this public vote today, where 11 republicans joined democrats to say that this woman does not deserve to sit in committee, in the house of representatives, tells you all you need to know. She sent out a triumphamt tweet tonight around 9 30, saying she wanted to thank all of the Real Republicans that stood with her today and in trumpian fashion, she said that each of you will be represent remembered. So, she is going to be watching her Fundraising Totals in the days to come. Im sure, she will achieve maga martyr status, more than she was in 48 hours ago. When she had raised nearly 2 million. She was not as senator is bill cassidy of louisiana, a republican forthrightly said, expressing regret is different from disavowing and condemning and she did not do that as you noted in the open. She is trying to have are it both ways like Kevin Mccarthy. And the truth is, brian, that the republican members and representatives and senators are not particularly choosing radicalism. People like andy bigs and paul gosar, congressman, they believe this stuff. They are on planet rudy. I love listening to Rudy Giuliani talk. I want to be where he is. It seems that its a happy place. But its not here. The problem is, most of the members are realizing that their voters have been radicalized, with trump off the stage and all twitter. They are going home and their brotherinlaw and the High School Roommate tell them all this stuff. When these members of the Republican Party try to say that stuff is not true. I experienced it myself. So, unless the voters are peeling radicalized, this is where their representatives will follow. Jonathan lamire, i will talk to about the last president that you were doing. It is february 4th. The gop is as strong today as november 4th. It seems like its waivered a little, brian. This is still Donald TrumpsRepublican Party. Yes, there were some republicans that were today, voting for stripping this the Congress Woman of her Committee Status far more revolted against Liz Cheney Last Night and in the wake of her vote to impeach president trump. The point that was made, yes, donald trump was silent on twitter. Polls suggest that his popularity has slipped a little. He is still popular among republicans. We know the trial that is set next week, that outcome is preordained, five republicans voted to have it, the proceedings move forward. The rest including Minority LeaderMcconnell Have said know, it should not be happening in the first place. And we have seen a silence from the former president , you know, he is going to pass on the opportunity to appear before the trial. And he is also, we know he is off twitter but he stayed quiet. He has stayed low. The people around him, know the outcome is done. They dont want to do anything to mess around. They know this is still his party. Ben rhodes, we are going to have to ping pong back and forth between your bailey wick and our two journalism guests. I will say this, the spine of the superb book you wrote about your experience in the Obama White House stares at me on the shelf across from where i do my work. And you were nice enough to come on, during the depths of the trump years when i would routinely ask you, what must our allies and adversaies make of us now. So, its a new day this february 4th. The headline of our president s speech at the State Department, america is back. What els did you take away from that appearance today . Well, brian, clearly eed to reassure the rest of the world that you are going to ditch the kind of radical approaches, taken under donald trump and once again, they will stand for a set of values that we share with the allies and he spoke about specific policies that will move us in the direction, and consequences for russia and what its been doing, including the poisoning and imprisoning of alexei navalny, and the war in yemen with saudi arabia that has been a disaster. And just hitting the notes of what the world would want to hearer from an american president. The challenge, brian, to link the conversations is the world was very pleased to hear that. Certainly the allies were pleased, they were looking over joe bidens shoulder at the craziness that continues to infect the Major Political parties. He needs to revitalize democracy Around The World. Its under assault. From russia and china and all manner of adversaries Around The World. And our own democracy is badly in need of repair here at home. For joe bidens credibility to carry through on the world stage, not only does he have to demonstrate that he isfollowing those words with actions in his Foreign Policy, he has to demonstrate that he is making progress in fixing the democracy at home. Ronald reagan used to call us the city on a hill. This congresswoman is way out of the realm of democracy in any way. And Foreign Policy and domestic policy are very much tied together. Ab, ben is a diplomat. He finds links in topics and he did it there again. You invoked the name Kevin Mccarthy which could be called the weather in hawaii of politicians. If you dont like what you are seeing or hearing, wait a couple of minutes and it will change. Before i ask you about him, we have a look here at the many faces of Kevin Mccarthy. Let me be very clear. Theres no place for qanon in the Republican Party. I dont support it. Qnon, i dont know if i say it right, i dont know what it is. This house voted to condemn the lies of qanon, the president bears responsibility of the attack by mob rioters. I always think that everyone across the country has some responsibility. So, a. B. The question is indelicate, does he think we are stupid and has he made a Deal With The Devil as leader in the house . Well, i wrote a long piece on mccarthy that came out earlier this week before he dug a worse tunnel for himself last night when he came out from this hours long Conference Meeting and had the nerve, he is very cheeky in his walk backs and his reversals, and his protection of donald trump. Very cute is the way, is sort of the way i characterize his style. To come out last night and pretend it was called qnon, and he does not know how to pronounce it, because he doesnt know anything about it. When next to the president of the United States, he and Mitch Mcconnell and Chuck Schumer and nancy pelosi, the top four leaders in the congress, have the most important intelligence on the planet. And he knows everything about qanon and not only should he have known everything about it six months ago, he should have known everything about it following january 6th, a time when he panicked and begged the president to send support. Saying no, we are wee we are being attacked by people that are trying to over turn the election. He knows better. And on to see him red faced saying that last night and saying he is not certain about it, it must not be a big deal shows how unfit he is. To throw his members under the bus and make them take a vote for something that he should have handled by himself five days ago and was getting loud phone calls from corporate donors about the mess he should be cleaning up is just, all you need to know about how weak he is, and how he wanted the members to take on what he just couldnt face himself. Jonathan lamire, are you surprised to the degree that donald trump has gone silent of course, absent any presence on twitter. He released a comical letter today full of rich material resigning as a member of the Screen Actors Guild and as many pointed out on the web, with kind of a homemade not quite president ial seal at the top. Which looks a little more like a seagull grabbed some stuff in flight. Are you surprised at the degree to which, im sure at the advice of council, he has gone away . He was terrific in home alone 2. So lets give him credit where he and due. So its a blow to the group to lose his membership. We should take a pause there. Its striking to see how silent he has gone and its throughout washington. That since his twitter account was taken away from him a couple of days after the Insurrection T the change in feel. Everything is quieter. Not just for members of congress, but members of his own party that dont have to be asked about what they think of his latest tweet. Though silent, as discussed, his hold over the party persists and very few republicans dare defy him, and certainly we have reported that he is being quiet, despite the odd Press Release because of the looming trial. Because he doesnt want to do anything to inflame the situation further. That could get any republican senator to change his or her mind. He and his team know they will be acquitted they dont want to run the risk of that changing and they dont want to run the risk of him being barred from running or Holding Office again. Its key to what ever his next act will be. The silence will persistity at the end of the trial, and after that, i bet it ends. Ben rhodes look around government, pentagon, hollowed out, stomped on. Cdc, stomped on. And that sadly includes the State Department. So, it was big symbolism that the president and Vice President made it their stop today. I was reminded tonight try this on for size, if perhaps you hadar forgotten as well. Trumps first Foreign Policy speech was delivered in saudi arabia as one does. Yes. Quite an infamous moment where he could stand next to a bunch of dictators and put his hands on a glowing orb and that sent a message to the world the kind of leader he was going to be. A man who found affinity with the dictators like saudi arabia and Vladimir Putin of russia. And i think joe biden going to the state Department Today was doing two things. The first thing is as you said, brian, trying to buck up a workforce that has been decimated, there was an exodus of Foreign Service officers, some were purged and there were had political attacks on them from the president of the United States and the Secretary Of State under donald trump did not get the back of his own personnel when they were attacked so joe biden wanted to go over and send a message and talk to any of us, and tell you that the agencies and includ