Donald trump rejects democrats requests for him to testify at his Impeachment Trial. The question is, will the senate issue a subpoena . And Johnson Johnson asks the fda to okay its singleshot Covid Vaccine. With demand high and supply still short, the question is, how long will it take to get this third u. S. Vaccine on the market . Its Way Too Early for this. Good morning and welcome to Way Too Early, the show that has had plenty of practice factchecking false claims. I am kasie hunt on this friday, february 5th. Well start with the news. Well begin with the unprecedented move by House Democrats to strip congresswoman Marjorie Taylor greene from her committees and her pretty unprecedented comments as a congresswoman. It came after house gop leadership failed to take action in response to her inflammatory social media posts and sprea ing violent Conspiracy Theories. 11 republicans joined democrats in backing greenes removal from her committees. 199 republican lawmakers voted no. Speaking on the house floor yesterday, minority leader Kevin Mccarthy warned democrats were setting a dangerous new precedent. Watch. If people are held to what they said prior to even being in this house, if Majority Party gets to decide who sits on what other committees, i hope you keep that standard, because we have a long list you can work within your own. Shortly after those remarks from mccarthy, majority leader steny hoyer pointed out just how recent some of Congresswoman Greenes incendiary rhetoric has been. In a striking moment on the floor, he displayed a social media post from greenes campaign showing her holding an Assault Rifle next to three progressive democrats. Watch. And this is an ar15 in the hands of ms. Greene. This was on facebook, just a few months ago. An ar15 can carry up to a clip of 60 bullets. I urge my colleagues to look at that image and tell me what message you think it sends. Here she is, armed with a deadly Assault Rifle, pointing it toward three democratic members. I think its pretty obvious what it says, certainly to me and likely to all of you, too. Just hours before the vote, Congresswoman Greene took to the house floor, herself, hoping to cast herself in a new image and insisting her days as a Qanon Follower are over. I never once said during my entire campaign qanon. 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, and these things do not represent me. They do not represent my district. And they do not represent my values. The truth is, greene did espouse faith in q during her campaign, and she continued to use q rhetoric as recently as this week. On sunday, she tweeted in part, quote, what would the list of the antitrump pedos and associates look like . It would likely contain all of the people currently frothing with mtg hate. And here she is as a candidate last july. In the individual, you say, quote, q is a patriot. Do you believe that . Is that what you believe . Ive only ever seen patriotic sentiment coming out of that source and other sources. You know, theres a lot of censorship, unfortunately, from big tech on social media, and this is the type of censorship that americans are so tired of, and that is a particular source that gets censored tremendously. I think twitter Just Announced recently last week that it will be removing anyone that associates themselves with qanon. But yet, theres never been any dangerous rhetoric coming out of people like that. Just a reminder, all of these Conspiracy Theories are what led her to then go down to the house floor, the u. S. House of representatives, and say that, yes, in fact, 9 11 did happen. 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I remain profoundly concerned about House RepublicansLeadership Acceptance of extreme conspiracy theorists. Its just so unfortunate. You would think that the Republican Leadership in the congress would have some sense of responsibility to this institution. Are you worried at all about the precedent that it would send no, not at all. Not at all. If any of our members threatened the safety of other members, wed be the first ones to take them off of a committee. That was House Speaker pelosi yesterday, speaking ahead of the vote to remove Congresswoman Greene from her committees. And joining us now is nbc news correspondent leigh ann caldwell. Im sure your computer was just overwhelmed as youre uncovering the voterrama on the senate floor. Hopefully, we have more hill folks with us this morning. They normally get up a lot later. Lets talk about what happened yesterday, because i mean, that speech from Marjorie Taylor greene, im not sure we ever imagined wed see Something Like that on the floor of the house of representatives, where she has to insist that, yes, she knows that 9 11 was real, yes, she knows that all of those kids tragically died in these school shootings. What happens now to her, now that democrats have stripped these Committee Chairs, but there clearly is still significant support for her from republicans . Yeah. Its a real question on what Marjorie Taylor greene, what sort of role shes going to have in congress. She just tweeted about seven hours ago, thank you to the real republicans who had her back. She will remember them. And shes going to hold a Press Conference later this morning. Who knows what shes going to say . Despite that public vote with only 11 republicans voting to strip her of her committee, there is a lot of trepidation among the Republican Party privately that they think that she is just a ticking time bomb. But it shows that republicans are still fearful of the trumpstyle base, to only have 11 of them vote to condemn her and to punish her. But the fact that she has no Committee Assignments is actually it seems like it doesnt mean a lot, but it means a huge amount in congress, because she doesnt have the ability to develop an expertise. Its going to be harder for her to craft and pass any sort of legislation. She wont be able to build coalitions with her republican colleagues and her democratic colleagues. So its going to be very difficult for her to even just be a functioning, Effective Member of congress, if she really came to washington to get things done and make policy changes, kasie. Yeah. I mean, in theory, thats the job that she signed up for, but obviously, we havent seen much of it in these first weeks, and now youre right to point out, shes not going to have much of a chance to do it. Leigh ann, can you talk a little bit about just how dramatic you know, you heard nancy pelosi there saying, if somebody threatened a member of the other party, physically threatened them, we would be the first to remove them from their committees on our side of the aisle. There was that verbal altercation between greene and freshman democratic member cori bush, screaming at each other in the cannon tunnel. This is not how it normally feels when youre walking to and from votes in that tunnel. And you and i have both done it hundreds of times, between the Cannon Office building and the house floor. What does it tell you about just how toxic things have gotten . And what did democrats doing this, setting this new precedent how did that contribute to or help fix that . Well, republicans say that it didnt help fix anything, and theyre threatening, you know, House Republican leader Kevin Mccarthy is threatening retribution, once they gain back the majority. But youre absolutely right. Toxic. The amount of distrust between republicans and democrats is greater than ive ever seen it before, and thats saying something, because its been very partisan, especially over the last four to six years. You can see it with nancy pelosi putting Metal Detectors outside the House Chamber for members to walk in. That is signaling that she and other democrats do not trust their republican colleagues. But this is unprecedented. But democrats have really been focusing on the violence part of what Marjorie Taylor greene has said, talking about executing nancy pelosi and barack obama, saying that is the punishment. Republicans, on the other hand, are trying to Equivocate Ilhan omar and some of her perceived antisemitic remarks last year. They say that she didnt democrats didnt do anything about it. But in fact, Speaker Pelosi made ilhan omar apologize for that. So, there was some internal pushback, but its not even the same. Thats why democrats are talking about the violence that Marjorie Taylor greene has espoused before and saying that is the reason she was punished, kasie. Yeah. After four years of a president who seemed to allude to violence being okay, we now have that culture in the very halls of congress, itself, and its, i think, very unsettling and also, as you very rightly point out, turns what was already a very partisan atmosphere into a very, very personal, beyond partisan, you know, cultural opposition to one another. Its not as though theres never been violence in congress before, but youve really got to go back almost to the civil war to find the worst instances. So, a tough, a difficult, new trend. Nbcs leigh ann caldwell, thank you very much for being up early with us. I really appreciate it. All right, time now for the weather. Lets check in with meteorologist bill karins for a look at the forecast. Bill, im secretly hoping our snow is going to melt this weekend. Its supposed to be like 50 degrees in washington. So, fingers crossed your forecast matches my expectations, and hows it look for everybody else out there . You may see some snowflakes this weekend, kasie, maybe sunday morning. So, yeah, lets get into this. Yeah, i know. Its the opposite of what you were just saying. So, lets get into this forecast. And we have a quickmoving storm moving through the east. So if youre heading out early today, umbrellas in the southeast. Even in the northeast, its going to be a little bit of snow, but like warmer temperatures, so it will be almost like a wet sort of snow. And the rain this morning is in atlanta. Its heading through raleigh, eventually towards richmond. The blue shows you where a little bit of the snow is. So in d. C. , the rains just about over with. Philadelphias going to have a little burst here of snow and rain. Same for new york city, about 7 00 a. M. To 8 00 a. M. This morning. And the rest of that will move through new england. So, as far as the forecast goes for today, bitter blast of cold, well advertised. This is going to be with us for a while. Minneapolis to chicago. Notice the southern half of the countrys doing pretty well. A little bit of snow in the rockies today. So, lets get to the weekend forecast. That frigid blast remains in the midwest and great lakes. A little bit of rain in the southeast on saturday. Some snow for our friends in kansas city to st. Louis. Then on sunday, we see some of that light snow in areas of the east. As kasie mentioned, though, pretty warm. Not worried about accumulations around d. C. At 43. As far as the forecast in the south, well see Rain On Saturday and sunday, we have the super bowl going on in tampa. The good news is, it looks like all of the rain ends before that. And as far as the potential saturday night and sunday morning, the possibility of higher elevations, north carolina, virginia, a couple inches in areas of southern new england, a couple inches, too, kasie. Maybe cape cod could get a little more. The storm looks like its mostly an ocean storm with a glancing blow, not like the last one, which we dont need again. We sure dont. All right, bill karins. Thank you so much. Have a good weekend, my friend. And still ahead here, President Biden heads to the State Department and lays out his vision for u. S. Foreign policy. The washington posts David Ignatius joins us for that. Very excited. Dont go anywhere. Well be back in just a moment. lwel be back in just a moment ] when you have diabetes, managing your blood sugar is crucial. Try boost Glucose Control. The patented blend is clinically shown to help manage blood sugar levels. Boost Glucose Control products contain high quality protein and key nutrients to support immune health. Try boost. 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