Cheney to deliver pointed address marking “the beginning of the battle” to confront Trump

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🗓️ 17 August 2022

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Aides of Republican Rep. Liz Cheney say she intends to make the case that she is at “the beginning of the battle” against former President Trump when she speaks to her supporters tonight. The aides also say she’s planning to call on both parties to join her fight to protect democracy and the rule of law in America. Cheney is facing Trump-backed attorney Harriet Hageman and three other candidates in the GOP primary for Wyoming’s lone House seat. CNN Chief National Correspondent John King gives AC360 the latest on Cheney’s uphill battle to keep her seat. Plus, the FBI interviewed former White House Counsel Pat Cipollone and his former deputy Patrick Philbin earlier this year as part of the investigation into the documents found at the former President’s Mar-a-Lago resort. Nick Akerman is a former assistant special Watergate prosecutor and a former assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. He tells Anderson Cooper whether he thinks executive privilege would apply during the interviews with Cipollone and Philbin. 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	Good evening, a listen an hour from now polls will close in Wyoming where Liz Cheney, the
0:05.2	Republican Vice Chair of the House January 6 Committee and vocal critic of the former
0:08.8	president, will be that much closer to knowing her political future.
0:12.2	Now she is expected to have one win or lose tonight, and today we got some hints about
0:17.7	what she thinks that future might be.
0:20.3	We begin though with more headaches for the man congresswoman Cheney says should never
0:23.6	be allowed to hold power again.
0:25.8	And today a federal judge in Colorado ruled that one of his 2020 election lawyers, Jenna
0:30.0	Ellis, that person must appear before the Georgia criminal grand jury looking into the attempt
0:35.1	to overturn results there.
0:37.0	There's new developments as well on the Mar-a-Lago search with CNN learning that the FBI
0:42.2	has already spoken with former White House counsel Pat Sepoloni and his former deputy
0:46.0	Patrick Filben.
0:47.8	Coming up on Thursday the federal magistrate judge, who approved that search, will hear
0:52.0	arguments for and against unsealing the search warrant affidavit.
0:56.2	Cine Jessica Schneider joins us now.
0:58.6	So what do you know about the FBI's interviews with Pat Sepoloni and Patrick Filben?
1:03.1	Yeah, well, interesting.
1:04.4	We know that the most senior former Trump officials to be interviewed and what we know is really
1:08.6	this ongoing criminal investigation into the possible mishandling of classified documents
1:13.1	and this revelation that they have in fact talked to the FBI, it's significant because
1:18.1	you know, they were Trump's designated representatives to the National Archives when Trump left office.
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