Good evening.

There is breaking news in the battle between Congressman Liz Cheney and just about everyone

else and what's currently called the Republican Party.

In a new op-ed in the Washington Post, Cheney, who may soon be removed from her Republican

leadership position for speaking out against the former president's lies and violent rhetoric,

writes that her party is at a turning point.

Quote, the question before us now is whether we will join Trump's crusade to delegitimize

and undo the legal outcome of the 2020 election with all the consequences that might have.

Later, she writes, while embracing or ignoring Trump's statements might seem attractive

to some for fundraising and political purposes, that approach will do profound long-term

damage to our party and our country.

Training pulls no punches, not against the former president, not against the leader of her

party in the House, Kevin McCarthy, who, according to two sources, who spoke to CNN, has

been in contact with the former president about her removal.

In the op-ed, she mentions this comment that McCarthy made a week after the riot.

The president bears responsibility for Wednesday's attack on Congress by mob rioters.

He should have immediately denounced the mob when he saw what was unfolding.

Cheney cites that line.

And immediately afterwards, he remarks, now McCarthy has changed his story.

And that is absolutely true, he has.

In one week in January, he went from saying the president bears responsibility to, quote,

I don't believe he provoked.

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