Georgia congresswoman
Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Rising Republican star and the friend everyone ignores
in the group text.
Greene is known for her history of deranged beliefs,
ranging from racist conspiracy theories
about Jewish space lasers
to supporting calls to execute Democratic politicians.
Now, Democrats can't stop her from serving in Congress,
and they definitely can't stop her from saying crazy shit.
But today they decided to give her just a little less input
on running the country.
NEWSWOMAN: Tonight House Democrats taking
an unprecedented step,
voting to strip freshman congresswoman
Marjorie Taylor Green, a member of the opposing party,
of her committee assignments.
NEWSMAN: She's gonna be removed from the House Education
and Labor Committee, as well as the House Budget Committee.
She's gonna be a member of the House of Representatives
for the next two years, but she's gonna be a member
without being able to serve on any of these committees.
Yes, people, Marjorie Taylor Greene
has been kicked off her committees.
But if you think about it,
this is a pretty sweet deal for Greene.
Basically, her punishment for acting insane
was to do less work for the same amount of money.
And honestly, I think kicking her off these committees
could actually backfire.
The last thing you want to do with a crazy person
is give them time to be crazy.
That's why they should put her on all the committees.
Then you'll never hear from her again.
Excuse me, when are we gonna talk
about those Jewish space lasers?
Well, now, first we need to discuss the budget
for the asphalt acquisitions.
Sharon, do you have the report?
I don't know. Do I have time to report, bitch?
Oh, come on, I didn't say that. That was Yoshiro.
So Democrats have made their position
on Marjorie Taylor Greene clear.
But Republicans are a different story.
While some prominent senators have spoken out against her,
House Republicans held a meeting last night
where they decided to stick with her.
Or, at the very least, look the other way.
House Republicans hosted a marathon meeting overnight...
There's a lot of questions that have to be answered,
and we've got to be able to do that in a family meeting
to help bring people back together.
NEWSWOMAN: Marjorie Taylor Greene,
who escaped any punishment yesterday
over her very extreme views,
including endorsing political violence
and anti-Semitic falsehoods.
Sources say Greene was given a standing ovation
from half of the members in the room
after she expressed remorse for some of her past comments.
I think it would be helpful if you could hear
exactly what she told all of us.
Denouncing Q-On-- I don't know if I say it right.
I don't even know what it is. Um, any from the shootings,
she said she knew nothing about lasers
or all the different things that have been brought up about her.
Damn! Kevin McCarthy, he's a GOP OG!
I didn't hear shit, didn't see shit,
and I definitely don't know shit!
Shit!
It's truly amazing that this guy acts like he doesn't even know
what QAnon is, even after they tried to kill him.
I mean, most people would have at least googled them
at that point.
Like, eventually, Carole Baskin must have been like,
"Okay, I'll bite. Who is this Tiger King guy?
'Cause, I mean, I should figure this out, right?"
And it's not like these guys don't have the time
to research conspiracy theories.
'Cause when it comes to Hunter Biden,
they remember every word
like it's the lyrics to their favorite song.
? The Burisma e-mails decrypted from the Delaware laptop ?
? Have been verified by Tony Bobulinski. ?
But then ask them about the biggest right-wing cult
in the country, and they're like,
"Uh, coo-non?
"Kwa-hoo-na-na?
Man, who can keep track of this stuff?"
But, to be fair to Kevin McCarthy,
he's far from the only Republican
who'd rather look like a dumbass
than take a position on Marjorie Taylor Greene
and her crazy beliefs.
Although, some Republicans
are a little smoother at it than others.
Newly elected senator, archconservative from Alabama
Tommy Tuberville tells CNN
he doesn't know anything about the congresswoman
because the bad weather kept him from reading the news.
TUBERVILLE: Travel in this weather,
it's been a little rough looking at...
looking at any news or whatever.
(chuckles) Really?
He hasn't been looking at the news
because the weather's been rough?
I know it's Alabama, but is this dude
getting his news by stagecoach?
"It's been so stormy, the pony express
hasn't made it out here with the latest tweets."
Clearly, Marjorie Taylor Greene
has become a distraction and a liability
for the Republican party, which is maybe why she decided
to step up on the floor of the House today
and disavow many of her past insane beliefs.
When I started finding misinformation, lies,
things that were not true in these QAnon posts,
I stopped believing it.
School shootings are absolutely real.
And every child that is lost,
those families mourn it.
I also want to tell you 9/11 absolutely happened.
So, that I definitely want to tell you.
I do not believe that it's fake.
Ooh!
Looks like someone started listening
to the reasonable voices in her head.
Although, this woman is so crazy
that her saying that 9/11 happened
makes me go, "Wait, did it?"
But, hey, I'm glad that she's come around
to the standard Republican belief
that school shootings are real
and that nothing should be done to stop them.
But you may not want to give Greene too much credit
for disavowing these conspiracies
since it turns out she doesn't take responsibility
for believing them in the first place.
What I did is I started
looking up things on the Internet.
And stumbled across something--
and this is at the end of 2017--
called QAnon.
I was allowed to believe things that weren't true,
and I would ask questions-questions about them
and talk about them.
And that is absolutely what I regret,
because if it weren't for the Facebook posts
and comments that I liked in 2018,
I wouldn't be standing here today,
and you couldn't point a finger and accuse me of anything wrong.
Wow. I've never seen someone
try to delete their browser history in real life.
But, yes, you see, it's all Facebook's fault
for allowing her to believe in those things.
So don't blame her.
Blame Mark Zuckerberg,
with his social media lies and his space lasers.
Now, look, man, Marjorie Taylor Greene
isn't the first person to believe things
that she read on the Internet.
But her defense isn't really reassuring,
because, basically, what she's saying is,
"Yes, up until now,
"I believed that school shootings were fake,
"9/11 didn't happen
"and that Jewish space lasers blew up California.
"But that's only because I am incapable
"of separating fantasy from reality.
"So, let's do the right thing
and let me go back to making laws."