Rep. Liz Cheney: “Remaining silent and ignoring the lie, emboldens the liar”
Anderson Cooper 360
CNN
3.7 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | And good evening, breaking news on the House floor of the U.S. Capitol, where Congresswoman |
| 0:05.0 | Liz Cheney is expected to speak any moment now. |
| 0:08.3 | Her office sent out a statement saying her speech would start around 8 p.m. |
| 0:11.8 | likely her last speech as House Republican conference chair. |
| 0:15.0 | Now when that happens, we will go live to hear her remarks. |
| 0:18.3 | Tomorrow House Republicans are expected to vote on whether to keep Liz Cheney in her |
| 0:22.4 | position so she's expected to lose that vote. |
| 0:25.1 | It's the culmination of a month's long battle, not just over her place in the party, but |
| 0:29.0 | that of the former president and his false allegations about voter fraud which have continued |
| 0:34.0 | to be embraced by the vast majority of Republicans in the House. |
| 0:37.7 | I want to start with this speech, Ryan Noble, who is on Capitol Hill tonight with the |
| 0:41.1 | latest. |
| 0:42.1 | So what do we expect from Congressman Cheney tonight? |
| 0:45.1 | Well Anderson, we expect her to stand her ground as she has done since the beginning |
| 0:48.7 | of this controversy and state infatically that she believes that Donald Trump is lying |
| 0:54.5 | when he says that there was widespread fraud in the 2020 election. |
| 0:58.7 | And that by extension, Republicans who enable him to spread that lie are actually causing |
| 1:03.9 | long-term damage to the Republican party. |
| 1:07.0 | She's been very vocal about this, going all the way back to the beginning of the year |
| 1:10.6 | during the impeachment trial. |
| 1:12.5 | She of course voted to impeach the former president. |
| 1:15.8 | You'll remember a couple of weeks ago when she chose to be a part of that small group |
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