29: Ignoring the Lie Emboldens the Liar
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🗓️ 13 May 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Host Reed Galen is joined by fellow Lincoln Project Co-Founder Rick Wilson, Lincoln Project Senior Advisor Stevens, and Lincoln Project Executive Director Fred Wellman to discuss the ousting of Liz Cheney from House leadership, a group of 100 Republicans threatening to form a third party, and the recent open letter from 124 retired generals and admirals advancing Trump’s “Big Lie”.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Lincoln Project. I'm your host, Reed Galen. Today I'm joined by |
| 0:12.9 | my fellow co-founder, host of LPTV's The Breakdown, Back Live May 25th, and author of Everything |
| 0:19.6 | Trump Touches Dies, Rick Wilson. Rick, thanks for joining me. Hey Reed, glad to be back. |
| 0:25.3 | And also joining me is Lincoln Project Senior Advisor and author of It Was All A Lie, Stuart Stevens. |
| 0:31.5 | Stu, thanks for joining today. Thanks for asking me to the party. And rounding out the panel |
| 0:36.1 | is Executive Director of the Lincoln Project, Fred Wellman. Fred, welcome back. |
| 0:40.7 | Great to be back. So today we're going to talk about an open letter from 124 retired generals |
| 0:47.1 | pushing the big lie, as well as a group that's threatening to leave the Republican Party if changes |
| 0:52.2 | aren't made. But first, it is official. Congressman Liz Cheney has been ousted from her leadership role |
| 0:58.8 | as the House Republican Conference Chair. Yesterday, Republican House members met behind closed |
| 1:04.3 | doors, and voted by way of voice vote, to remove Liz Cheney from her leadership position. |
| 1:09.7 | The night before, Cheney gave an impassioned, defiant speech on the House floor, warning her party |
| 1:15.1 | of the continual damage the big lie inflicts on her nation's democracy. Here's what she had to say. |
| 1:20.0 | Today, we face a threat America has never seen before. A former president who provoked a violent attack |
| 1:28.4 | on this Capitol in an effort to steal the election has resumed his aggressive effort to convince |
| 1:35.2 | Americans that the election was stolen from him. He risks inciting further violence. |
| 1:42.4 | Millions of Americans have been misled by the former president. They have heard only his words, |
| 1:48.4 | but not the truth, as he continues to undermine our democratic process, sowing seeds of doubt |
| 1:56.2 | about whether democracy really works at all. I am a conservative Republican, and the most |
| 2:02.6 | conservative of conservative principles is reverence for the rule of law. The electoral college has voted, |
| 2:11.2 | more than 60 state and federal courts, including multiple judges, the former president appointed, |
| 2:17.3 | have rejected his claims. The Trump Department of Justice investigated the former president's |
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