Cheney Purged From GOP Leashership After Rejecting Trump Lie

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🗓️ 13 May 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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First, Chris discusses the vote on Rep Cheney's with Rep. Adam Kinzinger. Then, Chris goes one-on-one with CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky. Chris wraps up the show with Rep. Adam Schiff on Biden's plans to strengthen U.S. cybersecurity defenses amid Colonial Pipeline gas shortages. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, thank you, Anderson.
0:01.1	I am Chris Cuomo and welcome to Primetime.
0:03.9	This may well be our moment of truth in terms of our political future, near-term future,
0:10.3	but be very clear.
0:12.3	Put all the high-minded thoughts away.
0:15.5	This may be the moment of truth, but it is not about the truth.
0:18.9	And it never has been.
0:20.7	The Republicans who ran the election in the states that Trump lied about, they all said
0:25.5	he was lying.
0:27.0	They certified, they audited, they looked.
0:29.7	Why would they want to fix the election so that their own party would lose?
0:33.6	You knew it was always absurd.
0:37.3	They certified, they ran it, Congress certified, and all the cruises and all the ruddies and
0:42.7	all the King's men couldn't put Humpty back together again.
0:47.4	They were all BS artists and they brought no proof of anything but their own perfety,
0:54.1	and you know it.
0:56.1	And so do the men and women in the party that just collapsed under the weight of its own
1:01.4	lies.
1:02.9	So this has never been about the truth because everybody knows the truth.
1:08.1	And here is the one thing that I know that I hope you agree with.
1:16.1	Our political situation is not about Trump, the party of Trump, or even the Democrats.
1:27.4	The key to this situation is you, and this is no cliche, this is no man be pambi cum baya.
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