Stacey Abrams | Republicans Oust Liz Cheney for Rejecting Trump's Big Lie: A Closer Look
Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast
NBC
4.3 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2021
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Seth takes a closer look at House Republicans voting to remove Wyoming Congresswoman Liz Cheney from her leadership position for not showing sufficient loyalty to former President Trump.
Then, Stacey Abrams talks about publishing a book with her real name for the first time, While Justice Sleeps, her fight against voter suppression and her writing process.
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| 0:00.0 | Pastor Publicans voted today to remove GOP conference chair Liz Cheney from her leadership |
| 0:07.4 | position, but they're already claiming it never happened. |
| 0:15.2 | From 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, please enjoy this podcast edition of Late Night |
| 0:19.6 | with Seth Meyers on today's show, Seth Chancellus, Stacey Abrams, but first a closer look. |
| 0:33.4 | Pastor Publicans voted to remove Wyoming Congressman Liz Cheney from her leadership position today |
| 0:37.8 | for the crime of not showing sufficient loyalty to Donald Trump for more on this, it's time |
| 0:42.9 | for a closer look. |
| 0:47.8 | Liz Cheney is among the very last people in the world I want to side with for one thing. |
| 0:51.5 | I doubt we have much in common. |
| 0:52.8 | I've never been to Wyoming and I have no plans to go there. |
| 0:55.1 | Not because it isn't beautiful, which I'm sure it is, but as a New Yorker, if there |
| 0:59.4 | is in a bodega within a five minute walking distance where I can get batteries, deodorant, |
| 1:04.3 | a single roll of toilet paper, and egg and cheese on a roll and hear people complain about |
| 1:08.6 | de Blasio in multiple languages, I can't live there. |
| 1:11.7 | I can't sleep unless my upstairs neighbor is practicing the fluegele horn and someone |
| 1:16.1 | outside is yelling, Christie says she's going to meet us there. |
| 1:22.8 | Christie. |
| 1:25.4 | More importantly, Cheney helped lay the groundwork for Trumpism and the authoritarian |
| 1:29.0 | Republican Party to exist today. |
| 1:30.9 | She defended illegal torture and lied about a champion, the Iraq ward, and one TV interview |
| 1:35.8 | pointedly refused to denounce the racist lie that President Obama was an United States |
| 1:39.9 | citizen, a lie, of course, that was central to Donald Trump's political rise. |
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