Speaking to reporters, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) spoke about the failure of House Republicans to agree on a new Speaker.
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00:00 Do you think that means changing anybody's minds?
00:04 No.
00:05 No.
00:06 How are things going in there?
00:07 I think everything's at a gridlock.
00:10 It's a waste of time continuing to go in there behind closed doors.
00:14 We are elected by the people.
00:15 We represent the people.
00:16 We need to be on the House floor.
00:18 And we can fight this out on the House floor.
00:20 I think we need to start voting.
00:21 Can anyone get to 217?
00:23 No.
00:24 Have you spoken to Trump at all about Scalise's health concerns?
00:26 No.
00:27 I haven't talked with Mr. President.
00:31 Could you go into those concerns a little bit?
00:32 You said that you couldn't get to Scalise because of his blood cancer diagnosis, right?
00:36 Well, number one, I do support Jim Jordan.
00:38 But I also have concerns about his cancer.
00:41 And I say that with tremendous compassion.
00:44 My father passed away with cancer.
00:47 And I brought it up in our conference meeting there.
00:51 The way I see it is our country is in extraordinary times.
00:56 War is breaking out all over the world.
00:57 That's very serious.
00:59 We stand with Israel and are all watching what's happening over there.
01:05 Our country is continuing to fund a war in Ukraine.
01:08 Our border is wide open.
01:10 And we're on the verge of a recession with inflation that's crippling people.
01:14 And I said it like this.
01:17 Basically, and it's hard to say, but it's real, this is the truth, is when you're in
01:23 a tight game and there's a lot of pressure happening, you don't put an injured player
01:27 or a sick player on the field.
01:28 That's not the right thing to do for that player.
01:31 And it's not the right thing to do for the team.
01:35 And Steve Scalise's district elected him.
01:38 And if we elect a speaker, we elect a speaker, not his staff.
01:42 And that's the reality.
01:43 And I think that's very important.
01:44 It's hard to talk about, but it's an important reality.
01:48 And I say that as a person that is concerned about the president of the United States probably
01:54 having dementia.
01:55 I say that concerned about an 80-year-old Democrat leader in the Senate.
01:59 I say that concerned about the Republican minority leader in the Senate that looks like
02:03 he has many strokes on camera.
02:05 I say that about any office holder.
02:08 They need to be at their best and they need to be at their strongest.
02:11 And I say that in the greatest respect for Steve Scalise.
02:14 I want to see him beat cancer.
02:17 He's the median speaker of the House, traveling all over the country, having one of the hardest
02:22 jobs in the world, the hardest job in Congress.
02:26 It's not the time for this to happen.
02:28 I support Jim Jordan.
02:30 He is a fighter.
02:31 He's a conservative.
02:33 And he also upholds the same policies that President Trump has, America first.
02:39 And that's what Republican voters all over the country support.
02:41 We circled back to what you said a moment ago.
02:43 You said no one can get to 217.
02:44 Where do you go from here then?
02:47 We go to the House floor and we get in front of the American people because they deserve
02:52 to see it.
02:53 And votes will change.
02:55 In that room, when it's a private secret ballot, they'll change on the House floor when people
03:00 have to have their vote in public, in front of the lights and the camera, and they can
03:04 get phone calls from their district.
03:05 Do you think that we're going to go to the floor today for the first round?
03:08 I certainly hope so.
03:10 I think it looks, it's not a good look for the Republican conference, unwilling to go
03:15 to the floor for a vote.
03:17 Did leadership give any indication that that's the plan?
03:19 Not at this time.
03:20 And I believe in the conference meeting because I'm tired of the revolving door of the same
03:24 over and over speeches.
03:25 I'm ready to get it done.
03:28 Would you urge McCarthy to come back?
03:31 If that's what needs to happen, he certainly had over 96 percent of our conference.
03:35 It was just 4 percent of our conference that voted to oust him.
03:40 But right now I'm supporting Jim Jordan and I'm ready to go to the floor and vote.
03:45 So do you think-
03:46 One time we heard kind of an uproar and some yelling.
03:47 It sounded like yelling.
03:48 Were you there for that moment?
03:49 They could have been laughing about something.
03:50 I don't know if there wasn't anybody yelling at each other in any ugly way.
03:51 If Scalise makes the argument, "Hey, I am healthy to do this.
03:52 I've talked to my doctor.
03:53 I'm capable of doing this.
03:54 I'm fit."
03:55 What's your response to that?
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