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00:00:00.000Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez was not in the main Capitol building during the January 6th riots, but her story is still the one leading the news.
00:00:06.000Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy slams Marjorie Taylor Greene, but will not remove her committee assignments.
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00:01:37.000Alrighty, so the big story of the evening last night and of the morning this morning is this whole blow up over Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez's story with regard to the January 6th riot.
00:01:49.000We're gonna break this down in all of its aspects, because some of what she's saying is true.
00:01:53.000Much of what the media is saying is not true.
00:01:55.000And this really goes to how our fact-checking industry works.
00:01:58.000Our fact-checking industry, here in the information dissemination space, is extraordinarily corrupt.
00:02:16.000They're awful, they're evil, they're acts of criminality.
00:02:18.000Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, this week, she put out a 90-minute Instagram video in which she explained her harrowing experiences, and it would not be difficult to conclude if you did not know the geography of the area that she was in the Capitol building itself.
00:02:31.000Now, let's bring up a quick map, okay?
00:02:33.000Because Capitol Hill actually is a bunch of places, right?
00:02:37.000Capitol Hill is not just the Capitol Building.
00:02:39.000Capitol Hill is a bunch of different places.
00:02:41.000So, for example, the Capitol Hill, like the actual Capitol Building, not all congressional offices are actually located inside the Capitol Building.
00:02:51.000Some of the Congressional offices are located in what's called the Longworth Building.
00:02:55.000Another set of Congressional offices are located in the Cannon Building.
00:02:59.000Alexander Ocasio-Cortez's offices are located in the Cannon Building.
00:03:02.000In this map, you can see the Cannon House Office Building that is located all the way down First Street.
00:03:11.000It's not like right next door, but it's also not super duper far away.
00:03:14.000There are tunnels that connect the U.S.
00:03:16.000Capitol Building to the Cannon House Office Building.
00:03:18.000There's also the Longworth House Office Building, and that houses a bunch of different congressional offices.
00:03:24.000There's also the Rayburn House Office Building.
00:03:26.000All of these are located along Independence Avenue.
00:03:28.000They are not part of the Capitol Building.
00:03:30.000They're part of what's called the Capitol Complex, meaning that it includes everything In the immediate area that is connected via tunnels.
00:04:03.000What she says is that she felt like she was in imminent fear of her life.
00:04:08.000Hey, and listen, you are entitled to your feelings.
00:04:10.000It doesn't mean that your feelings are entirely justified, as we will see when you watch Katie Porter, who is in literally the same office because as he ran to her office, they seemed to have very different attitudes about what was going down that day.
00:04:20.000Here was Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez describing her experiences on the day of January 6th.
00:04:24.000And so I hide behind my door like this.
00:04:30.000Like, I'm here, and the bathroom door starts going like this.
00:04:45.000And, um, this was the moment where I thought everything was over.
00:04:56.000Okay, and then she continued, and it turns out that the person who was banging on her door was actually a Capitol Police officer.
00:05:01.000Now, we know from the day of that Capitol Police officers were, in fact, getting people to leave the Cannon House building and move to safer locations.
00:05:08.000But Ocasio-Cortez, what she said, and she'll continue on in that video, she said that after the Capitol Hill police officer came into the office, she said, quote, things weren't adding up.
00:05:16.000Like, she added, there was no partner there and no one was yelling.
00:05:18.000He wasn't yelling like, this is Capitol Police.
00:05:20.000He was looking at me and all this anger and hostility.
00:05:23.000She said, did he not say he was Capitol Police on purpose?
00:05:25.000Was he trying to actually put us in a vulnerable situation?
00:05:28.000All these crazy thoughts go through your mind.
00:05:30.000Are some offices safer than others because they have white-sounding names or male-sounding names?
00:05:34.000Okay, so this is the way that she tells the story.
00:05:37.000Okay, now, she heads on over to Katie Porter's office, which is right next door.
00:05:42.000So, here is Katie Porter on MSNBC describing the exact same set of circumstances, except from her perspective.
00:08:26.000her office, forcing her to take refuge inside her bathroom after her legislative director, Geraldo Bonilla Chavez, told her to hide, hide, run and hide.
00:08:34.000As members of the mob banged against the door, Ocasio-Cortez believed this was the moment where I thought everything was over.
00:08:38.000OK, so the media immediately spin up AOC story.
00:08:42.000AOC's original statement may be an maybe a in out of out of proportion, emotional response to the events that were actually happening immediately surrounding her.
00:08:54.000The media immediately began spinning this up.
00:08:56.000The media immediately began spinning this into, Alexander Ocasio-Cortez was in her office, the rioters were right outside her office, they're trying to bang down the doors.
00:09:16.000Of all the people who had relevant stories to tell on January 6th, she is like somewhere near the bottom of the list.
00:09:22.000Because again, she was not in the Capitol building itself.
00:09:24.000There were legislators who were in the Capitol building itself.
00:09:27.000If you were looking for personal harrowing experiences, presumably you would start with them.
00:09:30.000Just to be completely objective and fair, you would start with the people who are in the most immediate physical danger, and then you would move on down the list, right?
00:09:36.000But that's not the way that the media treated this.
00:09:38.000And the media treated this this way because Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez is willing to say completely unhinged things Not about her own personal experiences per se, but she's willing to say unhinged things about other people.
00:10:05.000What is important to the media is the stuff that is not fact checkable, meaning her implication, which is that all Republicans are incipient murderers who wanted her personally killed and or are like rapists who want their victims to just forgive and forget.
00:10:29.000There's some Capitol tunnels, but those were protected by cops.
00:10:32.000Building wasn't breached at any point, but I was in fear because I know that I'm really famous and I know a lot of people send me death threats and it freaks me out.
00:10:38.000And so when that happened, I went and I hid in Katie Porter's office and listen, I was scared.
00:10:42.000Do you think that would have made the same headlines?
00:10:43.000Of course it wouldn't have made the same headlines.
00:10:45.000The reason it became a headline is because she said she was a sexual assault survivor and therefore the people who were not on her political side of the aisle that she dislikes are just like the person who sexually assaulted her.
00:11:56.000Went further and said, you know, and that means that she was exaggerating what she was saying.
00:12:01.000She was exaggerating her experiences again.
00:12:04.000She could have legitimately felt what she was feeling.
00:12:06.000Doesn't mean the feeling was totally justified, but she could certainly have felt that.
00:12:10.000I'm not doubting the veracity of her feelings at the time.
00:12:12.000And her account is accurate so far as I can tell.
00:12:16.000She just, it's somewhat misleading in that if you are reacting as though there are Capitol rioters directly at your door and the closest they are is three-tenths of a mile away and you are protected by several layers of police, It's not quite the same thing, right?
00:12:27.000And you can see why people would draw that conclusion.
00:12:29.000Like the entire media drew the conclusion that she was actually in the middle of sort of the most dangerous area here from her description.
00:12:40.000On Twitter, the hashtag Alexander Ocasio-Smollett starts to trend, as in Jussie Smollett, right?
00:12:45.000Jussie Smollett, the actor who described how he was lynched with the noose in the streets of Chicago by a couple of MAGA hat guys, and it turns out to be complete nonsense.
00:12:54.000Now, that's an exaggeration in and of itself, right?
00:13:09.000I keep saying that over and over because I want to be very clear about what is true and what is false, unlike the fact checkers we're going to get to in just one second.
00:13:16.000Here is where things go wrong for Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez.
00:13:20.000We're gonna get to where things actually go wrong in terms of where she moves not just beyond the pale with regard to her accusations against fellow members of Congress and throwing out implications like police officers trying to get her killed or that people are going office by office looking for non-white, non-male names in order to attack and all.
00:13:38.000We'll get to where she actually started to get into a very dicey territory last night via how she approached this social media problem in just one second.
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00:14:51.000Okay, so here is where Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez starts to really lose it.
00:14:56.000Okay, so she sends out an email from Team AOC to her entire email list.
00:15:02.000And her email asks her constituents to contact anybody in the fact-checking world or in the social media world and try to get them to censor and remove tweets that suggest that she was not in the Capitol building.
00:15:17.000As we speak, right-wing operatives with millions of followers on social media are spreading flat out lies and misleading information about Alexandria.
00:15:23.000But with your help, we can force Twitter and Facebook to take action and enforce their own rules.
00:15:29.000What's so frustrating about these attacks is that once the truth comes out, so few people get to hear it.
00:15:32.000Hundreds of thousands, or potentially millions of people have already seen or shared the misleading tweets or fake news articles.
00:15:37.000Okay, so first of all, the irony of Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, a person who has said on national television that actual facts matter less than moral truth.
00:15:48.000This is a person who has spent the entirety of the last several weeks claiming without evidence that fellow congresspeople, so far as I'm aware, she's provided no evidence of this, that fellow congresspeople were in on the riots, that Ted Cruz wanted her murdered, attempted to have her murdered, that Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz are like her own sexual assaulters.
00:16:07.000And here she is being like, oh, I can't believe people are putting out misleading information.
00:16:43.000One, we have yet to find the evidence of who actually planted the bombs.
00:16:47.000She can make an assumption it was Trump supporters, but that actually is not publicly available information.
00:16:51.000So that in and of itself is misleading information.
00:16:54.000Okay, when she says that we were part of the Capitol Complex and therefore they were trying to attack the Capitol Complex in general, Nancy Mace was on the same floor.
00:17:02.000She says the rioters did not breach the building.
00:17:04.000Okay, reporters at the time said the rioters did not breach that building.
00:17:08.000Again, this is not to say that she couldn't have been justified or at least she couldn't have felt legitimately and authentically in danger.
00:17:15.000Again, people react to crisis in different ways.
00:17:18.000But what she is now saying, which is that, oh yeah, you know, people are saying I wasn't in the Capitol building.
00:17:58.000It's funny how Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez's, you know, her emergency mode kicks in when she's trending for the wrong reasons on Twitter.
00:18:05.000As somebody who trends on Twitter frequently, like once every three weeks, once every month, I can tell you that the best thing you can do with a Twitter trend is basically ignore it.
00:18:13.000That's pretty much the best thing you can do with a Twitter trend, but she is, instead, she says she wants all of her followers to basically spam Facebook and Twitter and get a bunch of stuff taken down, which is not a great look for a sitting congressperson.
00:18:24.000She says, don't tweet any hashtags yourself because we don't want them to spread further.
00:18:27.000Identify any posts that are threatening or harassing and use the built-in report features to flag them for the moderators.
00:18:33.000Facebook and Twitter both have built-in tools for reporting posts and tweets that break the rules.
00:18:38.000The sad thing is that a lot of damage has already been done.
00:18:40.000People have already been misled and radicalized.
00:18:41.000They believe the lies to a point where their hatred could someday boil over into violence.
00:18:44.000Ah, so now she's going to say that if you point out that she was not in the Capitol building itself, that you are one of the kinds of people who distributes information that ends with the January 6th riot.
00:18:54.000I mean, that's pretty manipulative stuff right there.
00:18:59.000She says, we can keep calling out Photoshop tweets, fake news articles, misleading posts when we see them.
00:19:03.000Okay, now here is where the fact checkers get involved.
00:19:05.000Okay, so it used to be that fact checkers checked facts, right?
00:19:10.000That was the thing that they used to check, was the facts, not implications.
00:19:20.000What they used to fact-check was, you know, facts.
00:19:24.000And there are many things that could be fact-checked here.
00:19:26.000So, for example, you could fact-check whether she was actually in the Capitol building at the time.
00:19:30.000Or you could fact-check Whether she lied that she was in the Capitol building at the time.
00:19:33.000The answer on the first issue is not in the Capitol building at the time.
00:19:36.000And two, I don't see evidence that she lied about being in the Capitol building at the time.
00:19:39.000Both of those things can simultaneously be true.
00:19:41.000But that is not what the fact-checkers do.
00:19:43.000Because the fact-checkers are just Democratic operatives.
00:19:45.000They are just completely full of crap.
00:19:47.000So here is how the fact-checkers do their business.
00:19:49.000This is how they have decided that they are going to pervert the system.
00:19:51.000And understand, it matters what the fact-checkers do.
00:19:53.000Because when we are talking about how you receive information, You will see that sites like Facebook and like Twitter, they use left-wing fact-checkers in order to knock down right-wing sites, knock down conservative sites.
00:20:07.000And those left-wing fact-checkers are taken as though they are objective metrics for the news.
00:20:12.000Facebook was using, during the month after the election, they were using what they called their trusted news metric.
00:20:20.000And the way that they measured that is they went to basically a bunch of left-wing fact-checkers, and then they would downgrade any news source that got fact-checked a lot.
00:20:27.000So naturally, CNN never got fact-checked, but Daily Wire got fact-checked a lot.
00:20:30.000Because it turns out that the people at places like Snopes and PolitiFact hate the Daily Wire but love CNN.
00:21:55.000That does not mean that she lied, right?
00:21:56.000There are ways to fact-check that are objective.
00:21:58.000That's not what the fact-checkers are doing.
00:22:01.000Snopes says AOC was targeted with another round of bad faith smears after giving an emotional firsthand account of her experiences during the Capitol riot.
00:22:09.000Okay, so let's get to the actual fact check from Snopes because it is so indicative of how exactly Snopes and these fact checkers operate.
00:22:18.000They say claim, this is Snopes fact check of the whole AOC silliness.
00:22:22.000Claim, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez exaggerated the danger she was in during the January 6th, 2021 Capitol riot and that she quote, wasn't even in the Capitol building when the rioting occurred.
00:22:32.000Okay, well, those are two claims that you are now fact checking and you are lumping them together so that you can pretend that a factual claim is a non-factual claim, right?
00:22:41.000There's two claims that Snopes is now fact-checking.
00:22:44.000One is that she exaggerated the danger.
00:22:58.000First of all, they say it's mostly false.
00:23:01.000Okay, the claim is, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez exaggerated the danger she was in during the January 6th, 2021 Capitol riot, and that she wasn't even in the Capitol building when the rioting occurred.
00:23:21.000So, literally you are fact-checking the question of whether she was in the Capitol building, and then you say it's true she wasn't in the Capitol building, but you rate the claim mostly false.
00:23:32.000So they fact-checked one of the tweets that came from Daily Wire, because of course the idea here is to keep dinging and downgrading conservative sources, even when they are telling the objective truth.
00:23:42.000So here is the Daily Wire tweet that they called misleading.
00:23:45.000By the way, it's misleading because a conservative site put it out.
00:23:59.000to tweet, report AOC was not inside Capitol building during breach on January 6th.
00:24:04.000Now let me read to you again from what Snopes says is true.
00:24:07.000Quote, Ocasio-Cortez wasn't in the main Capitol building.
00:24:11.000Why it's almost as though it's true when you say it, but misleading when I say it, so you're just foolish.
00:24:18.000That's the impression I'm getting from you Snopes.
00:24:23.000Like I'm getting the impression that you fact checkers very often are more interested in fact-checking implications than fact-checking facts because you want to come up with a preordained conclusion, and that is that anyone who criticizes Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez isn't just wrong, they are a liar.
00:24:41.000No, that is not the way any of this works, but this is a dangerous thing that is happening right now in the country, because what you are seeing, I've been talking about this for a while, the shift from Disinformation to misinformation.
00:24:56.000That shift is so dangerous, and what the left has been doing, what the fact-checkers have been doing, what the social media sites have been doing, is they've been fact-checking implications.
00:25:04.000Whenever you see a fact-check that says, needs context, you know this is now a political, it's now a political exercise.
00:25:11.000Because either a claim is true, or it's not.
00:25:13.000When you say that a claimant needs context, that is a claim that I will discuss on the show, right?
00:25:17.000I mean, that's what the show is for, is to give context to various claims.
00:25:47.000But instead, what the fact-checkers do is they wrap all that up in a ball and then call it false, a thing that is objectively true, which is that she was not in the Capitol building at the time.
00:25:56.000Now, why am I making a big deal out of this?
00:25:57.000I'm making a big deal out of it for a couple of reasons.
00:25:59.000One, the manipulation of truth actually matters.
00:26:02.000And when you say that there are fact-checking sites that are out there to fact-check, and when you say that objective truth is really just your opinion, that is Orwellian kind of stuff.
00:26:12.000The redefinition of truth to mean anything I like And the redefinition of falsehoods mean anything that I disagree with is a dangerous thing, especially when you have the mechanistic power, when you have the institutional power to ram down your version of truth, meaning your opinion, on everybody else.
00:26:29.000It also happens to be that the media have people that they love, and the fact-checkers have people that they love, and they will manipulate the stats in order to achieve a given end.
00:26:38.000If Joe Biden lies or Jen Psaki lies, it's not a lie.
00:26:40.000It just requires a little bit of context.
00:26:42.000You're just not getting the full idea.
00:26:44.000And if Republicans say something that is true, but has the wrong implications according to the media, it becomes a missing context or mostly false statement.
00:26:53.000And then that is used to downgrade your ability to access the information.
00:26:57.000It is a mind F. Okay, that is what is going on right now.
00:27:01.000And it's really something that we all need to watch out for because it's, again, when this stuff is used to censor, when you have, by the way, active Congress people sitting in the federal government asking for censorship of claims that they don't like that happen to be true, that is not a good look.
00:27:21.000Controversy is not restricted to one side of the aisle.
00:27:24.000Last night, the House Republicans decided not to remove Marjorie Taylor Greene from any of her committee assignments.
00:27:33.000Now, there's been a sort of rich debate inside Republican circles about whether Marjorie Taylor Greene ought to be removed from her assignments on committees.
00:27:40.000Normally, the way that this works inside Congress is that each party decides which members sit on what committee.
00:27:46.000Now, the way that it actually works in actuality is that the majority of the House has to vote in order to seat somebody on a particular committee.
00:27:53.000So the committee assignments are put forth, the House as a whole votes on that question.
00:27:57.000So theoretically, if you have a House Republican majority, they can decide to deny a seat on a particular committee to a particular Democrat.
00:28:03.000But historically, that's not the way this is done.
00:28:04.000Historically, for purposes of comedy, basically you have Democrats decide who they want on a particular committee, and Republicans decide who they want on a particular committee, and then everybody just sort of votes For whatever the parties have already assumed to be true.
00:28:18.000And so, for example, when Ilhan Omar, who is a garbage human being and anti-Semite, when she was being openly anti-Semitic, the Republicans did not respond by saying, OK, well, we can't seat her in a committee.
00:28:31.000We're going to deny her a seat on a committee.
00:28:45.000Do we take away the committee assignments for Marjorie Taylor Greene, or do we allow her to have her committee assignments?
00:28:51.000And there's sort of interesting debate there, which is, can you punish somebody by taking away their committee assignments for stuff they said before they were elected to Congress?
00:28:58.000There's some people that I respect who are like, no, you can't really do that because that's just a bad precedent.
00:29:02.000You really don't want to be doing that.
00:29:04.000Or, you know, we have to give them a chance to actually perform.
00:29:06.000If they do this while they're a congressperson, then we can remove them from their committees.
00:29:09.000And then there are folks who say, listen, just because somebody gets elected to Congress doesn't mean that the party has to honor them with particular committee assignments.
00:29:16.000I tend to fall into the latter category, which I believe that parties should hold their own members accountable with committee assignments for stuff that they do.
00:29:23.000I think that the Democrats should have denied Ilhan Omar a committee assignment.
00:29:26.000And I think that the Republicans should have denied Marjorie Taylor Greene a committee assignment.
00:29:29.000Kevin McCarthy didn't put it up to a vote.
00:29:31.000He decided instead that he was going to avoid that particular controversy.
00:29:34.000But he did put out a statement blasting Marjorie Taylor Greene's old statement.
00:29:38.000So according to the New York Times, Representative McCarthy, the top Republican on Wednesday, condemned Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene's past conspiratorial and violent comments.
00:29:45.000He declined to take any action against her on the eve of a vote forced by Democrats to remove her from congressional committees.
00:29:51.000McCarthy said in a lengthy statement, past comments from and endorsed by Marjorie Taylor Greene on school shootings, police violence and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories do not represent the values or beliefs of the House.
00:30:00.000I condemn those comments unequivocally.
00:30:03.000In the same statement, McCarthy criticized Democrats for moving unilaterally to kick Greene off the Education and Budget Committees, calling the action a partisan power grab.
00:30:10.000Are you saying, OK, well, we're not going to kick her off because we have debate inside the halls here, but you guys don't get to kick her off because that really does break with all past precedent.
00:30:19.000And he pointed out, by the way, you guys didn't kick out your own folks.
00:30:23.000He says, you know, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, still sitting on committees.
00:30:27.000Cynthia McKinney, who was a blatant anti-Semite who believed in conspiracy theories, sat on powerful committees.
00:30:31.000We let you guys put her on the committees you wanted to do.
00:30:33.000The House majority typically does not deny the House minority the ability to assign people to its own committees.
00:30:41.000And this, of course, leads the entire media to say, OK, well, now this is the party of Marjorie Taylor Greene.
00:30:46.000No, when you condemn her comments and when you rip on her comments and when you say that she's a cancer in the Republican Party, as Mitch McConnell did, or when you condemn wholeheartedly her statements as McCarthy did, it is hard to say that this is a person who is the entirety of the Republican Party.
00:30:58.000Does that mean that they did the right thing in allowing her to keep her committee assignments?
00:31:23.000Apparently she went in front of the House members and she talked about how she was drawn into conspiracy theories and all this kind of stuff.
00:31:28.000And that's nice, but I'm a truth but verify kind of guy, which is, okay, trust but verify kind of guy.
00:31:35.000Now show me that you actually believe this.
00:31:37.000And then we'll talk about this a couple of months down the road.
00:31:41.000So, Marjorie Taylor Greene told the House Republicans that her statements did not represent her.
00:31:48.000Apparently, she received some sort of standing ovation from a small contingent among the House Republicans.
00:31:54.000Steny Hoyer of the Democrats, however, is going to ram this thing down because, again, for Democrats, the goal isn't to Abide by any sort of common rules, even if those rules cut against your interest.
00:32:04.000The goal is to just ram home this idea that the entire Republican Party is the party of Marjorie Taylor Greene.
00:32:10.000Which, by the way, is the reason I think that the Republicans should disassociate from having her on the committees.
00:32:15.000I think that it's been a boon for Republicans.
00:32:16.000I mean, as a political matter, I think it is very good for Republicans that Democrats refuse to oust Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib from their committees.
00:32:27.000Because at least that way we know where you stand.
00:32:30.000I think for that reason, that it was important that Steve King be denied his committee assignments, for example.
00:32:35.000Anyway, Steny Hoyer is ramming this forward.
00:32:36.000He says, I spoke to Leader McCarthy this morning.
00:32:38.000It is clear there is no alternative to holding a floor vote on the resolution to remove Representative Greene from her committee assignments.
00:32:44.000The rules committee will meet this afternoon.
00:32:46.000The House will vote on the resolution tomorrow.
00:32:49.000Hours later, McCarthy answered Hoyer's action by announcing no new repercussions for Greene with a statement that amounts to a slap on the wrist for the first term Republican and spent more time criticizing Democrats than her past comments questioning if the Pentagon was struck by a plane on September 11th or advocating for the assassination of top Democrats, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
00:33:05.000McCarthy said that her past statements do not represent the values or beliefs of the House Republican Conference.
00:33:11.000He said he would hold her to her word that she'd be more careful with her comments going forward, which really does smack of the kind of almost exactly the reaction that Nancy Pelosi had to Ilhan Omar.
00:33:20.000Oh, well, she sort of half walked it back and said she was misinterpreted.
00:33:26.000I don't like that kind of activity on either side of the aisle, and I'm not going to hold Republicans to a different standard than Democrats on this one.
00:33:32.000I will say the Democrats are holding Republicans to a different standard than they hold themselves, for sure.
00:33:37.000They are moving to oust Taylor Greene from the committees that Republicans have assigned her to, while meanwhile elevating Ilhan Omar, a blatant open anti-Semite, to the House Foreign Affairs Committee where she sits.
00:33:47.000We'll get to more of that in a second because two things can be true at once.
00:33:50.000One, the Republican Party should have done something about it.
00:33:52.000Two, the Democrats are the world's biggest hypocrites on this kind of crap.
00:33:56.000I mean, it's truly hypocritical and astonishing.
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00:37:06.000Hey, there have been Democrats who have resigned because they're alleged to have actually done things, but it's not because they were being held to account by their own caucus.
00:37:12.000And in fact, a lot of them have now buyer's remorse.
00:37:14.000Like the only person who comes to mind in the recent past is maybe Al Franken.
00:37:20.000And he's like, I really shouldn't have done that.
00:37:22.000By the way, the reason they capped Al Franken way back when is because they were attempting to establish a Me Too standard they couldn't actually uphold because they wanted to go after Trump.
00:37:28.000In any case, Nancy Pelosi puts out a statement calling Kevin McCarthy QCA.
00:37:40.000It's like when I call Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez D-Twitch, because I think that her actual constituency is on Twitch, not in New York.
00:37:46.000So, according to Nancy Pelosi, Kevin McCarthy is now an advocate of Q, which is weird since he has condemned Q many, many, many times.
00:37:54.000But in any case, she puts out a statement saying, after several conversations and literally running away from reporters, minority leader Kevin McCarthy, QCA.
00:38:02.000Like, I can't believe these are the adults in the room.
00:38:12.000representative Marjorie Taylor Greene.
00:38:14.000As a result, the House will continue with the vote to strip Greene of her seat on the esteemed House Committee on Education and Labor and the House Committee on Budget.
00:38:20.000First of all, there's no such thing as an esteemed House Committee.
00:38:52.000When Nancy Pelosi makes the contention that Republicans are now the party of Marjorie Taylor Greene because they didn't strip her of committee assignments, let me just point out, Ilhan Omar was on the cover of, like, is McCarthy gonna pose on the cover of Rolling Stone with Marjorie Taylor Greene?
00:39:08.000And yet, Nancy Pelosi did exactly, then she took like a vacation, she took like a congressional junket with Ilhan Omar, and they did like cutesy little Instagram videos.
00:39:16.000Meanwhile, Ilhan Omar is trying to run away from the implication that she is anything like Marjorie Taylor Greene.
00:39:22.000She says, you know, I'm not like that.
00:39:24.000They're just scapegoating me because I'm black and because I'm Muslim.
00:39:27.000Nope, it's because you're an anti-Semite.
00:39:29.000That's why, because you are a not good person who's anti-Semitic, radical in every incarnation I can think of.
00:40:08.000Marjorie Taylor Greene has incited violence against her fellow members of Congress, repeatedly singling out prominent women of color.
00:40:13.000She actively encouraged the insurrection on the Capitol that threatened my life and the life of every member of Congress and resulted in multiple deaths.
00:40:19.000She ran a campaign ad holding an assault rifle next to my face.
00:40:22.000She came to the Capitol demanding that me and Representative Tlaib and I swear in on the Christian Bible instead of the Quran.
00:40:28.000Granted, I don't like any of those things.
00:42:06.000Now, the reason it was a secret ballot is because, unfortunately, there are too many Republican congresspeople who are afraid of their own constituents and believe their constituents would be mad if they found out that they voted in favor of Liz Cheney.
00:42:29.000The vote among House Republican members was 145 to 61, not to strip her of the position.
00:42:35.000Meaning the vast majority of Republicans are like, okay, I may disagree with you on impeachment, but that is not a reason why you should lose the number three seat in the House GOP coalition.
00:42:44.000Cheney spoke briefly to reporters after she held on to her title.
00:42:46.000She said, we really did have a terrific vote tonight, a terrific time this evening, laying out what we are going to do going forward, as well as making clear we're not going to be divided.
00:42:54.000We're not going to be in a situation where people can pick off any member of leadership.
00:42:56.000It was a resounding acknowledgement that we need to go forward together and we need to go forward in a way that helps us beat back the really dangerous and negative democratic policies.
00:43:04.000So the this is a rebuttal to the argument that's been made by the media that Liz Cheney was going to that this is the party of Marjorie Taylor Greene and not Liz Cheney.
00:43:12.000There was only one vote that was held last night, and it was on Liz Cheney, not on Marjorie Taylor Greene.
00:43:16.000If there had been a vote held inside the Republican caucus on Marjorie Taylor Greene, I think there's a good shot that Marjorie Taylor Greene would have lost her committee assignments.
00:43:22.000I think McCarthy didn't hold that because he doesn't like dividing the caucus.
00:43:26.000He wants to hold together the caucus in the same way that Pelosi wants to hold together her caucus.
00:43:29.000McCarthy is concerned with some of the Republican base.
00:43:33.000Only about 30% of the, again, only about 30% of the Republicans voted against Liz Cheney retaining that particular seat.
00:43:39.000My guess is that it wouldn't be a significantly higher number saying that Marjorie Taylor Greene should retain her committeeship.
00:43:45.000But in any case, it does kill the democratic narrative, which is that this is not the party of Liz Cheney anymore, it's the party of Marjorie Taylor Greene.
00:43:50.000The answer is, right now, for better or for worse, I think for better sometimes and for worse sometimes also, it is the party of both.
00:44:00.000And that means that the party needs to do a better job of dissociating from the radical belief system of Marjorie Taylor Greene.
00:44:20.000That is where things stand inside the Republican caucus.
00:44:22.000As of now, the Democrats are going to take a vote in the House today to strip Marjorie Taylor Greene of her committee assignments.
00:44:27.000The goal of that is to get Republicans on record voting either for or against stripping Marjorie Taylor Greene of her committee assignments.
00:44:33.000This is why I think it was a bad move by McCarthy not to just strip it preemptively from Marjorie Taylor Greene, because now they're going to be forced on record anyway.
00:44:40.000The talking point is going to be, you voted in favor of the QAnon lady.