"A Deep Rot Inside the GOP Leadership." With fmr RNC Chair Michael Steele
The Bill Press Pod
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🗓️ 11 January 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Michael Steele was the Republican Lt. Governor of Maryland and the Chairman of The Republican National Committee from 2009 to 2011. He is an MSNBC commentator and an advisor to the never-Trump Lincoln Project. He's not even sure "saving" the Republican Party is a good idea.
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| 1:04.4 | Hello, friends and neighbors. |
| 1:08.1 | Welcome back to the Bill Press pod and let me again wish you lots of good times in 2022. |
| 1:15.4 | Well, for those of us who love politics, even for us Democrats, it's depressing to see the Republican Party collapse and become instead a Looney Tunes religious cult centered around worship of Donald Trump. |
| 1:30.0 | You know it's crazy when only one Republican member of Congress, Liz Cheney, agreed to show |
| 1:36.3 | up for a prayer service in honor of Capitol Hill police officers who put their lives on the |
| 1:42.5 | line defending the Capitol last January 6th. |
| 1:46.1 | And good for her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, for coming along with her. |
| 1:51.5 | But Liz Cheney's not alone. |
| 1:53.2 | Fortunately, there are a handful, if only a handful, of top Republicans who reject the big lie, |
| 2:00.1 | who accept Joe Biden as a duly elected president, |
| 2:03.4 | and who are willing to stand up to Donald Trump and try to get the party back on track. |
| 2:08.7 | People like Governor Christine Todd Whitman, Bill Crystal, and Charlie Sykes, |
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