And my interview with senator warren on the fast start from the Biden Administration and her push to keep it going when all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Just over an hour ago, the House Of Representatives voted to strip republican congresswoman Marjory Taylor greene of her committee assignments. This is a rare occurrence. It might be unprecedented. We cant tell. It looks like we cant find an actual precedent for this. In all the recent instances when all this has happened, when members were removed from committees by their own parties, it happened because the party removed them instead of the entire house. The threat of removal from the whole house did not stop congresswoman greene from the racist and violent Conspiracy Theories that got her into this situation in the first place. Yesterday, she was throwing around Conspiracy Theories like democratic members marry their own brothers. Today greene came forward to do what i would characterize as the minimal amount of performance necessary to give fellow republicans the excuse to vote on her behalf. She put forth a rambling diatribe of lies and false equivalencies and half truths that included the incredible bit of rhetoric from the well of the house. I quote her, i also want to tell you that 9 11 absolutely happened. Thank you for that, congresswoman. Glad we could confirm that. She lied about the things she said and supported and when she said them. She didnt address or apologize for the most problematic stuff. Her violent rhetoric including saying on video that Speaker Nancy Pelosi could be executed for treason. All but 11 republicans voted to support greene, which is more defections than anyone expected. Still, pretty good example of the one thing that unifies the other 199 members of the House Republican party. All they have is being against the libs. You get past that, there are divisions inside the party as seen by 61 people in a Secret Ballot trying to unseat a member of leadership for the audacity of voting to impeach a president who summoned an Insurrectionist Mob to attack where they all were. In i caucus, where the majority voted to overturn a democratic election. There are divisions in the party with the marjorie Taylor Greene antidemocracy wing. The one thing that could unify them is opposition to liberalism. And the Democratic Party. That is what its all about for them. The problem is, thats all built on a foundation of sand. What does the republican stand for besides making sure the libs dont control things . On the other hand, a few months ago, in the wake of the election, it was the Democratic Party that looked like a fractured coalition. Do you remember that . They were expecting big pickups in the house and they lost a bunch of seats. There were immediate recriminations, internal debates about the source of the losses with front line members in Swing Districts blaming progressive members for defund the police. Rhetoric in the wake of the george floyd protests. There was frustration at some Senate Candidates who raised a on it ton of money did not perform better. Three months later, democrats have a house majority, managed to win the senate with those improbable runoff wins in georgia. They have everyone from the most progressive to most conservative united by the big first item of the biden presidency, a covid Relief Package with a price tag more than twice obamas recovery act and has buyin from everyone, mansion to sanders. Its really quite a turn about from where things looked like they were headed a few months ago. Today, House Democrats spoke out in unity to condemn a woman whose past views are so delusional and so dangerous. I do not hear an apology or denouncement for the claim, the insinuation that political opponents should be violently dealt with. I didnt hear anybody apologize or retract the antisemitic and islamaphobic remarks posted over and over again. In todays Republican Party, marjorie Taylor Greenes world views are violent, antiblack, racism, islamophobic, antisemitic. They are condoned. Every single day that goes by without outright condemnation from every republican colleague without consequences for her extremist views is an outright endorsement of White Supremacy. This is not about one member. This is about who we are as a body and what we are as a democracy. This is about whether it is acceptable to cheer on and encourage an insurrection against our basic democratic process. This is about whether it is okay to demand members swear in on a bible of religion they do not practice. This is about whether it is okay to hold an Assault Rifle next to members heads in a campaign ad and incite Death Threats against them. I cannot sit by and allow White Supremacy and hatred to have decisionmaking power over our students futures. To my republican colleagues, let history remember what you did in this moment. A prerequisite for appointment to these committees and for all that we do must be that you love and represent all people, meaning all people. I stand here to tell you, i will stand up to bullies. Bullies who threaten students and threaten and celebrate the violence towards our speaker and our colleagues. Today and, yes, as a conscience of the congress, it is important that we take this step to affirm that Conspiracy Theories and outrageous lies have no place in the congress. No place in the peoples house. No place, no place. No parent should ever have to invite a member of congress to visit their childs grave or touch the bulletridden clothing that their child wore to prove that their death actually happened. Mr. Speaker, the speaker of this house always tell members to vote our district. Today, i vote as an act of conscience in defense of my district. I vote for the babies who left for school eight years ago and never returned home and the teachers who died trying to protect them. House majority leader hoyer closed with a passionate speech about decency. The conduct we are judging today continued to occur even after representative greene became a candidate and even after she was elected. Mr. Speaker, i urge my colleagues to look at this image. They are not the squad. Theyre ilhan. They are alexandria. They are rashida. They are people. They are our colleagues. The squads worst nightmare. Yes, some people are having nightmares. And fear. And some people, who wanted to give other people nightmares, committed sedition. And broke into the House Of Representatives and tried to stop us electing a president of the united states. That woman there holding the gun is the woman 199 House Republicans voted to support in the unified Democratic Party along with 11 republicans stripped her of her power. Im joined by one of the democrats you heard on the floor, Congresswoman Hayes of connecticut who is on the House Education Labor Committee and represented the New Town Community where the Sandy Hook Elementary SchoolMass Shooting took place. Congresswoman, it seemed extremely emotionally fraught and intense today. What was it like in there . It was incredibly emotional for me. I was thinking about my constituents and the people back at home, because as you can imagine, this is deeply personal for the people in connecticut, for the people in new town. Just to hear my republican colleagues come up with a string of what aboutisms and excuses for why, never saying she should be placed on a committee, but deflecting to so many different arguments was incredibly emotional on the floor today. You know, it struck me as i watched this today that part of what was happening i would like to hear your response to this is that the house hasnt grappled with what happened on january 6th in any formal way. The fact that a majority of republicans voted to overturn a democratic election, the fact that a mob of Violent Insurrectionists invaded the place that you work, threatening the lives of people that you work with. There hasnt been any institutional processing of that. It felt like this vote on marjorie Taylor Greene was standing in as a proxy for that. I would say i agree with you. You are absolutely right. I myself am still processing the events of january 6th. This wound is reopened over and over and over again. I heard people talk about the merits of the election or the events of january 6th, the fact that violent words incited the actions of january 6th, all of this really is playing in the back of members minds as we attempt to legislate. And you saw rightfully so the impacts of that play out on the floor. I do not know if the turnout today would have been different had members not had in their recent memory just the final result of inciteful words. Final question for you is the precedent this sets. Its true that this is we dont know if its been done before. As far as we can tell, this is new and unprecedented. Its true that when republicans say, you know, you are setting a precedent here and watch out in the future, what is your response . I think its a more dangerous precedent to let members violent rhetoric and hateful words go unchecked. Thats the dangerous precedent set. I dont think this happened before. But i led a letter, and within a couple hours, i had 130 of my colleagues who signed on to say that she should not be seated on committees. I think the fact that the republican leader placed her on the committee of education and labor was just an insult to many of my colleagues. I can tell you, there were democrats who had issue with this, who struggled, who did not want to disrupt proper procedure or protocol. But for the fact that the republicans refused to act and placed her on the committee of education and labor, every parent, every teacher, every community member, every person who is still reeling from the fact that we have a problem with Mass Shootings in our country, specifically on school grounds, and we need to address those problems, i think was the impetus that led many of my colleagues, both republican and democrat, to say, enough. Congresswoman ja haun that hayes, representative from connecticut. Thank you so much for your time tonight. Thanks so much, chris. For more on the state of the gop, i want to bring in the chief strategist for the bush cheney president ial campaign of 2004. Matthew, i think my over under was probably five. I was surprised that there were 11 votes. What was your reaction . I wasnt that surprised. I thought it would be in the neighborhood of 7 to 10. It ended up at 11. Obviously, the story isnt the 11 that stood for principle, its the 199 that didnt and who welcomed a 21st century political typhoid mary into their midst, spreading being a carrier of disease thats infected the entire Republican Party for a lengthy period of time. Its not just one of the things, chris, we dont focus on enough is whats behind all this. What is the original sin of all of this that has led us here . Its not a denial of the school shootings. Its not a denial that joe biden won. Its not a denial that 9 11 happened. Its a denial of words in our original document that selfevident truth that all men are created equal. Thats whats led us here. We never dealt with that disease in our country. There was a vote today that was a public vote in which you have 199 members of the Republican Party voting to keep marjorie Taylor Greene on her committees. 11 dissents. Yesterday, you had another vote about exile. It was about liz cheney, who is number three in leadership, whether she be kicked off leadership. It was a Secret Ballot. 61 republicans that wanted to kick her off for the sin of voting to impeach the president. What i found striking is, so much of the interpretation of House Republicans and republicans in general is about the political calculations they are making. They dont want to cross with donald trump. This was a Secret Ballot. People need to take seriously the real believes of the members of the Republican Party and caucus as driving some of this. This is not about donald trump. So many people talk about the fear of donald trump. The Republican Leaders and elected officials arent donald trump is a proxy. Dont trump is a proxy for the 80 or 85 of the Republican Party that believe by and large what marjorie Taylor Greene believes. They believe that. The fear is a republican primary voter who is much more aligned with marjorie Taylor Greene than liz cheney, thats the fear. I think thats the problem in america. We have a major party supported by millions of americans, millions of americans, not a majority but millions of americans who have the same set of beliefs. You can get rid of donald trump, cast him out as a pariah, put him in florida. It doesnt solve the fundamental problem in america today. A smarter, more competent version of donald trump will arise and be more dangerous. Thats hard to believe be more dangerous to the country. I guess what the question is, what does solve it . Some kind of gatekeeping, some kind of have the fight out, have it out is the only solution, i think. Im looking at this as an outsider. Thats what it looks like to me. I mean, i think theres many small things we can do. I think ultimately we have to deal with whats really behind this. Which is we never held the people who wanted slavery accountable and responsible. We never told the truth in the aftermath. When reconstruction failed, by and large because lincoln was killed, when reconstruction failed, it led to more than 100 years where we finally got to civil rights and voting act. You can draw a Straight Line as i said before, you can draw a line between the failure of reconstruction and the inability to tell the truth about our country through, All The Way Up Emmit Till And Med Ger Evers and Martin Luther king, all the way up to heather heyer. Thats the truth americans have to face. Thats going to resolve our problems when we face the truth. Theres a segment of the population that does not believe all Men And Women In America are created equal. Thats the fundamental problem. Matthew dowd, speaking my language with the reconstruction riff. 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