Liz Cheney: Trump is dangerous threat to democracy
The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell
Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW
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🗓️ 5 December 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Well, Liz Cheney, has already done the impossible with her book. |
| 0:06.7 | She has apparently tricked Donald Trump into finally telling the truth about himself. |
| 0:16.0 | In a social media post about Liz Cheney and her book, |
| 0:19.0 | Donald Trump said, I was angry and I was eating too much. |
| 0:25.0 | Joining us now is Jen Saki who served as White House Press Secretary |
| 0:29.0 | in the Biden administration. |
| 0:30.5 | She is the host of Inside with Jen Saki on MS NBC and Jen was anchoring the 8 p.m. hour tonight. |
| 0:37.0 | Jen, I so here to talk to you about this because this is one of those moments I think for insiders you've been in this kind of |
| 0:46.3 | you've been in government the way Liz Cheney has she's worked in administration |
| 0:50.0 | you have yeah before you know she to Congress, she worked in the administration, |
| 0:55.1 | grew up in it in a sense with her father and to see someone who stays |
| 1:01.3 | anchored all the way through all of that experience so that when it comes down to it |
| 1:06.7 | and it comes down to a choice of her oath of office versus her re-election campaign, she chooses her oath of office. |
| 1:16.2 | That's right, Lawrence. |
| 1:17.2 | And I think as Rachel started that interview, which was so fascinating to watch, acknowledging it's a little weird to see |
| 1:24.1 | see our friend Rachel Maddow interviewing the daughter of Dick Cheney right but |
| 1:28.1 | here we are because she stood up for democracy and wasn't shy about telling the truth. |
| 1:34.5 | There's so many things I haven't read the book yet because the book comes out tomorrow and |
| 1:37.6 | I'm very eager to do that. |
| 1:39.3 | But one of the things that was in the excerpts that stuck out to me and as a reminder of that is the scene of Dick Cheney |
| 1:46.4 | going to the capital, the floor of the capital, a year after January 6th to commemorate that day and being shocked there weren't other Republicans there |
| 1:55.2 | and having an embrace with Nancy Pelosi of all people. |
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