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The Rachel Maddow Show

GOP Trumpification nearly complete; Liz Cheney poised to lose primary

The Rachel Maddow Show

Rachel Maddow, MS NOW

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4.435.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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...Plus, Rep. Adam Kinzinger: "I've been kicked out of my tribe, and that's OK."

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0:00.0

Hey, it's Rachel. Alex Wagner has a brand new show here on MSNBC. It's called Alex Wagner Tonight.

0:05.8

Take a listen and then go subscribe to Alex Wagner Tonight, wherever you get your podcasts.

0:10.5

Tonight, the FBI warrant used to search Mar-a-Lago is unsealed. The three potential crimes laid out

0:16.5

in that document will dive into what it means and what could happen

0:21.5

with one of the Wall Street Journal reporters who was first to report on the contents of that warrant.

0:26.4

Then we'll talk with, we're going to go right, we are actually going to go right to the top story

0:38.4

tonight in Wyoming where polls have just closed. As Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney faces

0:43.5

the steepest of crimes and the longest of odds to hold onto her seat. As we wait to find out if

0:48.7

Cheney will survive for Trump endorsed primary challenger, it is worth remembering exactly how we got here.

0:56.4

I really believe this president, you know, he's the most radical man who's ever inhabited the

1:00.2

Oval Office, a president who's operating outside the bounds of the Constitution who thinks he's

1:04.4

above the rule of law. And if the Republicans, if conservatives don't stand up and fight against it,

1:09.9

as I said, we're going to lose fundamental values and freedoms. The most radical man to ever inhabit

1:16.5

the Oval Office. That sounds a lot like the Liz Cheney we have all gotten to know from the January

1:21.3

6th investigations, invading against a lawless president and calling on Republicans and conservatives

1:27.4

to stand up and protect our fundamental values. But that clip was from 2013 and the radical president

1:35.6

she was concerned about was a man named Barack Obama who had committed the unprecedented crime of

1:40.9

giving more Americans health care. That is who Liz Cheney was, a conservative conservative.

1:48.1

The daughter of a notorious Republican vice president who liberals loved to hate, who had his

1:54.5

very own Darth Vader meme. While running for Congress in 2016, Liz Cheney dutifully defended

2:01.3

Donald Trump and his myriad campaign scandals. After the infamous access Hollywood tape came out,

2:06.7

she said that Hillary's actions, they have been far worse. Upon entering Congress in 2017,

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