The Price Liz Cheney Will Pay
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🗓️ 25 July 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Liz Cheney rose through Republican leadership based on her conservative bona fides, but thanks to her prominent role in the Jan 6th committee, she’s gained donors and admirers from across the aisle. Her constituents back in Wyoming aren’t so enthusiastic though, throwing her future in Congress into doubt.
Guest: Bob Beck, news director of Wyoming Public Radio.
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| 0:34.9 | It's my pleasure to recognize Ms. Cheney for her opening statement. |
| 0:40.9 | Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. |
| 0:42.9 | If you watch the January 6th Committee hearings over the last few weeks, you probably have |
| 0:47.9 | a favorite Liz Cheney moment. The Republican Congresswoman from Wyoming has a way of delivering |
| 0:54.2 | a sick burn while remaining completely deadpan. |
| 0:58.2 | In our country, we don't swear an oath to an individual or a political party. We take |
| 1:03.5 | our oath to defend the United States Constitution. And that oath must mean something. There's a |
| 1:10.1 | reason why this was her on the very first day of public hearings. |
| 1:13.2 | Tonight, I say this to my Republican colleagues who are defending the indefensible. There |
| 1:19.7 | will come a day when Donald Trump is gone, but your dishonor will remain. |
| 1:26.7 | I think of Liz Cheney as the January 6th Committee's closer. She swoops in to punctuate the |
| 1:33.4 | most important points her colleagues want to hit. |
| 1:36.4 | And Donald Trump cannot escape responsibility by being willfully blind. |
| 1:41.7 | At times, she comes off like a disappointed mom. You get the impression she would send |
| 1:46.6 | Donald Trump to soak in his room for the remainder of time, if possible. |
| 1:50.6 | President Trump is a 76-year-old man. He is not an impressionable child. Just like everyone |
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