In 'Oath and Honor,' Liz Cheney analyzes Trump's effect on the Republican party

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🗓️ 5 December 2023

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When former Wyoming representative Liz Cheney criticized Donald Trump's presidency, she says she didn't know the Republican party would turn on her. But after losing her leadership role in the party and her bid for reelection, Cheney had to reassess. Her new book, Oath and Honor, opens up about the House investigation into the January 6 attack, and her colleagues' ambivalence on impeaching Trump. In today's episode, Cheney tells NPR's Leila Fadel why she thinks it's important to talk about Trump's effort to overturn the 2020 election, and how it can still pose a threat to democracy in 2024.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's NPR's Book of the Day. I'm Andrew Limbaugh. The word cowardice gets thrown around a lot in today's interview.
0:09.2	It's between N. Empira's Lela Faddle and Liz Cheney, the former Wyoming representative, and one of the few Republicans who consistently spoke out against former President Donald Trump and faced some serious consequences for doing so.
0:22.7	She's got a new book out titled Oath and Honor, a Memor and a Warning, and yes, it's a tell
0:27.5	all about her time in Congress, and she names names too. But I think what's most enlightening
0:33.5	about this interview is when she talks about what it took for people who purportedly
0:38.3	lived and died by the U.S. Constitution to turn their backs on it. And by her estimation,
0:43.9	it didn't take much at all. Here's the interview after the break. In the U.S., national security
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0:59.3	NPR reporters on the ground bring you stories of real people helping you understand why distant events matter here at home.
1:06.9	Listen to sources and methods on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:12.0	Liz Cheney is out with a tell-all book, an accounting from inside her party on the days before and after the mob attack on the Capitol on January 6th.
1:22.9	We need to help the doors of the counter.
1:28.7	Oath and Honor, a memoir and a warning, is a scathing rebuke of Cheney's former colleagues
1:35.3	who she writes knowingly collaborated and enabled former President Trump's lies about the 2020
1:40.3	election results.
1:41.8	She writes of former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who defended Trump's
1:45.3	lack of a response to the attack on him and his colleagues on January 6th. What he ended the call
1:50.3	was saying, telling me he'll put something out to make sure to stop this. And that's what he did.
1:55.0	He put a video out later. A video of Trump, if you recall, that came hours into the attack. In it,
1:59.9	he called the attackers good people.
2:02.1	Cheney also writes about then-GOP caucus vice chair Mike Johnson, currently the Speaker of the House,
2:08.3	backing the lie that the election was stolen after U.S. courts and state Republican election
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