Endorsed and repeated. 11 republicans chose to cross the aisle to join the democrats. Here they are in Ejecting Greene from those committees which essentially sends her into a kind of legislative exile. In remarks on the house floor this afternoon, greene apologized for none of it. She expressed regret for her comments and said she, quote, stumbled into qanon after doubting media reports. The problem with that is, though, i was allowed to believe things that werent true. You see, School Shootings are absolutely real, 9 11 absolutely happened. I never once said any of the things that i am being accused of today during my campaign, i never said any of these things since i have been elected for congress. These were words of the past. 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 for the record the briefest reminder of some of greenes Greatest Hits that led to todays vote. Any americans are like blind sheep just going through life not paying attention. There is an islamic invasion into our Government Offices right now. How do you get avid gun owners and people that intor the Second Amendment to give up their guns . Maybe you accomplish that by performing a mass shooting into a crowd. The socalled plane that crashed into the pentagon. Its odd theres never he evidence shown for a plane in the pentagon. Q is a patriot. We know that for sure. Many in our government are actively Worshiping Satan or they call q is saying they participate in pedophilia and spirit cooking. There is a Once In A Lifetime opportunity to take this global cable of Satan Worshiping pedophiles out. Sorry to interrupt your meal of cooking satan, greene today blamed her problems on the media when as you saw those were her words, not the product of any media cabal or cabal as she prefers it. During the debate before the vote, republicans argued that punishing greene would set a bad precedent while democrats kept their focus on the substance of her remarks. The conduct we are judging today continued to occur even after representative greene became a candidate and even after she was elected. I urge my colleagues to look at this image. We are dealing with conduct that brings shame on the house, the conduct that fuels domestic terrorism. Who is next . Who will the cancel Culture Attack next . Now theyre coming after ms. Greene . I feel if we open this pandoras box we wont like what happens next. The house Impeachment Managers who will present their case against donald trump on tuesday of next week have sent him a letter asking him to theyve senate trial. Trumps lawyers have rejected that and added there will be no written statement. They also say they expect the trial to end either next friday or sunday and theyll file more legal briefs monday. Today one Senate Republican leader expressed an eagerness to get this trial over with. I think its in his best interest not to testify and i think most senators on both sides would like to expedite this. Meanwhile, smartmatic that became the ticket for misinformation own voter fraud claims has filed a 2. 7 billion Defamation Lawsuit against fox news, some of its hosts and two of trumps lawyers. Here they are, lou dobbs, maria bart roam know, Rudy Giuliani, Cydney Powell all named in the suit and at various times august of them trafficked in claims about the election and the company that were just made up. This is a serious lawsuit. The company says it has identified at least 100 false statements and implications on fox news programs. Smartmatic, a Company 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 elections in chicago. We know that one of the smartmatic people has went to Tarrant County, texas, and turned that county blue after having been an executive with smartmatic and all of a sudden this one elections, Tarrant County is purportedly blue. Joe biden took his campaign to roll back trumps agenda. The state Department Today was his first visit to any Government Agency as president and this one meant to symbolize a lot. Biden laid out his administrations priorities and its 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 once again. I made it clear to President Putin in a manner very different from my predecessor that the days of the United States rolling over in the face of russias aggressive actions interfering with our election, cyberattack, 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 passage of his Coronavirus Relief bill, there is 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 authorized for Emergency Use in our country. Its a lot and with that lets bring in our leadoff guests on this thursday night, two veterans of journalism, one of Foreign Policy, jonathan lemire, a. B. Stoddard, and ben rhodes, former Deputy National security adviser for president obama. Good evening and welcome to you all. A. B. , im going to read you a quote from Steve Schmidt yesterday, extremism is the brand of the gop. We have a dangerous Autocratic Movement in this country. Its home is the gop. Do you agree, and will what happened today make this congresswoman a rallying cry or a martyr or a disgrace or some mixture of all three . So, the difference between a Secret Ballot vote forliz cheney versus 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 triumphant tweet around 9 30 saying she wanted to traffic all of the, quote, Real Republicans who stood with her today and in Trumpian Fashion she said that each of you will be remembered. So shes going to be watching her fundraising totals in the days to come, im sure she will achieve Magazine Ga Martyr Status even more than she was in 48 hours ago when she had raised nearly 2 million. She was not as senator bill cassidy of louisiana a Republican Forthrightly said disavowing is different from condemning. Shes trying to have it both ways just like Kevin Mccarthy and the truth is, brian, that the republican members and representatives and senators are not particularly choosing radicalism. People like andy biggs and paul gosar, congressmen, they believe this stuff. Theyre on planet rudy. I love listening to Rudy Giuliani talk. I want to be where he is. It seems like a happy place but its not here. The problem is most of the members are realizing that their voters have been radicalized and with trump off the stage theyre still going home and brotherinlaw and High School Roommate and the lovely people at church tell them all this stuff and they believe it and the pushback is rejected. So even though we have an escalating disinformation crisis when these members of the Republican Party try to say that isnt true theyre told its a free country and ive heard this myself. We are free to think the way we want and we dont appreciate the media and the democrats saying that Trump Supporters need to be deprogrammed. So once the voters have been this radicalized this is where their representatives will follow. Jonathan lemire, ill ask about the last president you covered, not the current one. It is february 4th. Is allegiance to trump and the Republican Party as strong today as it was november 4th . It seems like its only wavered maybe a little, brian. This is still Donald TrumpsRepublican Party. That is clear. Yes, there were some republicans who today voted to strip this congresswoman 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 a. B. Made is right. Yes, donald trump is silent on twitter but his voters are still out there. Polls suggest his popularity in the Republican Party slipped just a little. Just a little. He is still very popular among republicans. We know the trial in the senate thats going to start next week, that outcome is already preordained. Only five republicans voted to have the wrotings move forward. The rest including Minority Leader mcconnell have said no it shouldnt happen in the first place and saw silence from the former president. He is going to pass on the opportunity to appear before the trial and hes also, we know hes off twitter but stayed quiet. He stayed low. They know people around him the outcome is done. They dont want to do anything to mess around. They know this is still his party. Ben rhodes, well have to pingpong back and forth between your bailiwick and two journalism guests, but ill 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 adversaries make of us now, so its a new day this february 4th, the headline of your president s speech at the State Department, america is back, what else did you take away from that appearance today . Well, brian, clearly you wanted to reassure the rest of the world well ditch the radical approaches taken under donald trump and once again will stand for a set of values we share with our allies. He spoke when civic policies that will move us in that direction, consequences for russia for what its doing including the poisoning and imprisoning of alexei navalny. The suspension of Military Assistance to saudi arabias war in yemen thats been a complete catastrophe. The u. S. Opening the door to refugees but hitting the notes of what the world will want to hear. I think the challenge, brian, to link these conversations is the world was very pleased to hear that, certainly our allies were pleased but they were looking over joe bidens shoulder at the craziness that continues to infect a major american Political Party. So joe bidens challenges on the one hand he needs to revitalize democracy Around The World. Democracy is under assault. Not from russia, from china, from all manner of adversaries Around The World and our own democracy is badly in need of repair here at home. So for joe bidens credibility to carry through on the world stage, not only does he have to demonstrate that hes following those words with actions with his Foreign Policy, he has to demonstrate thats making progress on fixing this democracy at home because, remember, it was a republican president , Ronald Reagan who talked about america being a city on the hill. Just think of the city that the world has been looking at for the last four years and even they see in the comments of this congresswoman who is way out of the mainstream of any democracy in the world today. So i think joe biden hit the right notes today but as he said, following Domestic Policy and domestic politics are now very much tied together. A. B. , ben is a diplomat there forever finding linkage and has correctly done it again. You invoked the name Kevin Mccarthy who i suppose could be called the weather in hawaii of politicians, if you dont like what youre hearing or seeing, 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 very clear, there is no place for qanon in the Republican Party. I do not support it. Qanon, i dont know if i say it right. This house overwhelmingly voted to condemn the dangerous lies of qanon. The president bears responsibility for weaponss attack on congress by mob rioters. I also think everybody across this country has some responsibility. So, a. B. , the question is indelicate. Does he think were 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 worst tum for himself last night when he came out from this hours long Conference Meeting and had the nerve hes very cheeky in his walkbacks and his reversals and his protection of donald trump. Very cute is the way is sort of the way i would characterize his style. To come out last night and try to friend it was called qon and pretend he doesnt know how to pronounce 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, an attack on our government during which he panicked and desperately begged the commander in chief to send reinforcements and told him straight up, no, this is not left wing agitators or antifa, we are being attacked by people who are trying to overthrow the government to change the outcome of the election. So he knows better. But to see him red faced saying that last night, pretending that he isnt really certain about it, so 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 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 lemire, are you surprised at the degree to which donald trump has gone silent, of course, absent any presence on twitter, he released a comical left 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 Erzotz not quite president ial seal that looks like a seagull grabbed some stuff in flight. Are you surprised at the degree to which im sure at the advice of counsel he has gone away . First of all, lets give the former president his due. He was terrific in home alone 2 so losing s if. As he pointed out today. He did. He did correctly. So this is a blow to that organization to lose his membership. So we should trach a pause there. It is striking to see how silent he has gone. Its throughout washington that since his twitter account was taken away from him a couple days after the insurrection just the change and feel. Everything seems a little quieter and not just reporters covering the white house but members of congress and his own party who dont always have to be asked what they think of the latest tweet. Though silent ras discussed his hold over the party persists and very few republicans dare defy him. Certainly we have reported that he is being quiet despite the odd Press Release because of this looming trial. Because he dofrnlt 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 hes going to be acquitted. They dont want to run the risk of that changing or want to run the risk of being barred from running or Holding Office again. Thats key to whatever his next act may be. This silence will persist. At the end of the trial. After that i bet it ends. Ben rhodes, look around government. Pentagon, hollowed out, stomped on. Cdc, stomped on and that sadly includes th