GOP Rep. Liz Cheney: I will vote to impeach Pres. Trump

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🗓️ 13 January 2021

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Wyoming Republican Rep. Liz Cheney, the third-ranking House leader, announced she will vote to impeach Pres. Trump saying “there has never been a greater betrayal by a President of the United States of his office and his oath to the Constitution.” Cheney is one of three House Republicans who say they will vote to impeach Trump. Meanwhile, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has indicated he thinks the President committed impeachable offenses and impeaching him will make it easier to get rid of him and Trumpism from the Republican Party, according to a source with knowledge of the matter. Democratic Congressman Sean Patrick Maloney joins AC360 to react to some Republicans announcing they’ll vote to impeach and says right now is “time to stand up and be counted.” Plus, Trump says his speech right before the Capitol Hill riot was “totally appropriate” and he took no responsibility for inciting the deadly insurrection. The New York Times Foreign Affairs Columnist Thomas Friedman tells Anderson Cooper he wishes he could impeach Trump “four, five, six times” to send the message “you shall never do this again.” Airdate: January 12, 2021 Guests: Sen. Sean Patrick Maloney Thomas Friedman 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.
0:01.0	If you've been wondering what it would be like when the plug is finally pulled on Donald
0:04.7	Trump, well that certainly hasn't happened yet, but more Republicans seem willing to at
0:08.7	least consider it.
0:09.8	With House Democrats repairing an ultimatum before tomorrow's impeachment vote, Republicans
0:13.6	have started getting on board some, including possibly the leader of the Senate, Mitch McConnell,
0:18.4	and a leading light of the House, Congresswoman Liz Cheney of Wyoming.
0:22.0	Remember, it was just yesterday that House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy was telling his
0:26.2	members that the president had indeed shoulder some of the blame for the insurrection he
0:30.3	incited.
0:31.3	Well, tonight the Republican leadership is telling members to vote their conscience
0:35.2	on the impeachment, and today the president gave them good reason to, by making a mockery
0:39.6	of Congressman McCarthy's faith in him.
0:42.4	So, if you read my speech and many people have done it, and I've seen it both in the papers
0:55.1	and in the media on television, it's been analyzed, and people thought that what I said was
1:02.1	totally appropriate.
1:03.1	They've analyzed my speech and my words and my final paragraph, my final sentence, and
1:09.2	everybody to the key thought it was totally appropriate.
1:13.8	Because of course, why wouldn't you say that?
1:15.8	Of course, he would not take responsibility, just as he took no responsibility for the
1:19.6	pandemic spinning out of control, saying, quote, it is what it is.
1:23.5	He didn't ask about a thousand people dying a day, by the way, it's more than 4,000
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