Rep. Liz Cheney and “the beginning of the battle to confront Trump”

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🗓️ 17 August 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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As the polls close in the Wyoming Senate primary where Rep. Liz Cheney is facing off against her Trump-backed challenger, the Congresswoman, who is the last of the 'impeachment 10', is to deliver a pointed address marking "The beginning of the battle" to confront Trump, her advisers say. The panel discuss if there’s a place in the GOP for those who view Trump as a threat to democracy, whether Cheney has a future as a 2024 presidential contender, and if anything can anything break the former president’s hold on the Republican party.Plus, Alisyn goes one-on-one with Trump’s former fixer Michael Cohen on the former president's greatest test yet of his ability to survive scandal. With two grand juries impaneled, former lawyers ordered to testify in investigations, and his aides being interviewed under oath by prosecutors - is this the closest Trump has come to real trouble? And, The New York Times reports that before the FBI’s raid, the Agency had subpoenaed surveillance footage outside of a storage room at Mar-a-Lago and saw something that alarmed them.Hosted by Alisyn Camerota. 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'm Allison Kamerata and this is CNN Tonight.
0:04.6	9 o'clock on the East Coast, 7 o'clock in Wyoming, whereas at this moment, the polls
0:10.0	are now closed.
0:11.0	A Republican congresswoman Liz Cheney awaits her fate.
0:14.2	Cheney, of course, has become the face of Republican resistance to Donald Trump and
0:18.3	his efforts to deny Joe Biden's presidential victory.
0:21.7	Donald Trump also awaits his fate, in a way, as investigations into his actions heat up.
0:28.0	We have new developments on the search of his Mar-a-Lago home and those boxes of classified
0:32.9	documents.
0:33.9	But let's start with tonight's primary.
0:35.7	Wyoming is the least populous state, but tonight it's the most popular for election
0:40.8	watchers.
0:41.8	We will have results coming in throughout this hour, so keep it right here and we will
0:45.4	keep you updated.
0:47.6	Congresswoman Cheney is the last of the so-called impeachment 10, those of the 10 House Republicans
0:52.9	who voted to impeach President Trump after the insurrection.
0:56.3	Seven of them have either lost their primaries or chosen not to run for real election.
1:01.4	Two of them won, and then there's Cheney.
1:04.0	You may remember that Congresswoman Cheney was booted from her leadership post in the
1:07.6	Republican conference more than a year ago after trying to warn the country about the threat
1:12.2	she believes Donald Trump poses to democracy.
1:15.5	Since then, she has continued to try to sound the alarm and call out her colleagues.
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