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The Beat with Ari Melber

Liz Cheney on Jan. 6 coup plots and Trump campaign

The Beat with Ari Melber

Ari Melber, MS NOW

Politics, News, Versant Media, Ms Now, Daily News, Versant, Government

4.64.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

MSNBC’s Ari Melber hosts “The Beat” on Wednesday, December 6, and is joined by former Congresswoman and Vice Chair of the January 6 Committee Liz Cheney to discuss Donald Trump's presidential campaign and more. Michael Steele and David Kelley also join. To listen to this show and other MS podcasts without ads, sign up for MS NOW Premium on Apple Podcasts. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:14.4

I want to tell people up front we are still tracking this shooting today at UNLV police say the suspect there is dead there are three victims the extent of their injuries unknown we will have more on that important story later in the newscast we begin right now though with a special guest tonight. Liz Cheney, the former Congresswoman Vice Chair of the January 6th

0:17.3

Committee, speaking out in a new book. She is back in the news as one of

0:21.4

her former colleagues in Congress is pushing today for what he calls probing the Jan 6 probe while another ousted Speaker McCarthy says he's leaving Congress.

0:30.0

There's also today new indictments related to Trump's fraudulent electors plot in a new state, Nevada.

0:36.5

So we're going to get to all that tonight with Ms Cheney, drawing on her experience.

0:40.4

And the position she took is the only member of then Republican leadership and one of only 10 House Republicans to ultimately cast an impeachment vote over that insurrection.

0:50.0

Cheney, of course, key to the bipartisan Jan 6 committee which was deemed by independent

0:53.8

experts as one of the most effective congressional probes in our modern

0:57.9

era I'm sure you remember some if not all of these evidentiary hearings

1:01.8

Cheney drawing on her government experience to navigate

1:04.8

the clashes over evidence, testimony, how to get and then tell and convey a full accounting

1:11.2

of what was Donald Trump's multi-part conspiracy.

1:16.3

And I'll tell you this as well tonight in an era where so many people ask whether facts still

1:19.8

even matter, we know the committee's work actually reached tens of millions of

1:24.8

Americans presenting the evidence the testimony at those hearings and we

1:28.8

have indications that they impacted some prosecutors pursuit of justice here.

1:33.6

They led also to two precedent-making convictions of Trump AIDS

1:37.0

who tried and basically failed legally to defy

1:41.1

those investigative and lawful congressional subpoenas.

1:45.1

All of this provided new evidence that impacted many cases from holding Fox News accountable

1:49.2

for documented defamation and lies to fortifying the factual case for Donald Trump's coup indictment.

1:55.2

The former president legally presumed innocent but faces a lot of evidence in that March trial.

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