Liz Cheney survives GOP leadership vote

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🗓️ 4 February 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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As the GOP continues down a divergent path, Rep. Liz Cheney survived a 145-61 vote, reclaiming her leadership title within the party. Cheney faced pushback from some of her republican colleagues after having voted for former President Trump's impeachment. Manu Raju spoke with Chris about the GOP's fallout and the fate of Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene's committee assignments. Senator Tim Kaine later joins Chris to discuss the status of the latest Covid relief package and how the senate plans to share its power between parties. Finally Donie O'Sullivan shares a story about how a South Carolina mom and former QAnon believer fell victim to conspiracy theories through Tik Tok. 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	I am Chris Formal and welcome to Primetime.
0:02.5	There is breaking news.
0:03.9	The House GOP conference just voted on ousting Liz Cheney from leadership for standing up
0:09.5	against the incitement of an insurrection.
0:12.1	Cheney survived the vote.
0:14.4	But I want you to hear the numbers.
0:16.3	She got 145, okay?
0:19.0	But 61 Republicans in the House voted against her for her telling the truth about the accountability
0:28.2	of Donald Trump for what happened on January 6th that we just remembered last night.
0:36.7	Those men and women were hunted too and yet they voted against somebody who decided to
0:43.3	vote her conscience, not her fealty, to Trump.
0:46.9	One vote was present.
0:48.7	Think of that.
0:49.7	Sixty out of that number.
0:52.5	Let's go to Capitol Hill.
0:53.5	We have Manu Raju there now.
0:56.2	In historic vote, there was a lot of talk during there.
0:59.6	The feel of it, Manu, as you were reporting earlier, was like Cheney might lose.
1:04.0	Give us the dynamic.
1:05.0	Yeah.
1:06.0	She went behind the scenes for several weeks and the aftermath of the vote to impeach Donald
1:11.5	Trump, talking to members trying to get them on their side explaining her vote.
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