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The Hartmann Report

WILL LIZ CHENEY BE THE ONE WHO SAVES THE GOP?

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Thom Hartmann

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🗓️ 3 July 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

GOP Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming received a warm welcome while speaking as part of the "A Time for Choosing" speakers series held by the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation. After praising Cassidy Hutchinson, Cheney trotted out what sounded like a 2024 campaign line. "And I want to speak to every young girl watching tonight: the power is yours and so is the responsibility. In our great nation, one individual can make all the difference and each individual must try. Also is the craven obedience of GOP lawmakers a result of Trump blackmail?

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And welcome back, Tom Hartman here with you.

0:51.7

I wanted to share with you a thought.

0:54.4

I think I have to be very careful in how I word this.

0:58.9

And the question, will Liz Cheney be the one who saves the Republican Party?

1:02.9

Now, originally, I wanted to ask the question, will Liz Cheney be the one who saves the country?

1:07.9

But obviously, it needs to go away beyond Liz Cheney and I have no illusions that Liz Cheney is

1:14.6

anything other than your standard issue, pre-Trump Republican.

1:20.7

In other words, you know, not all that worried about climate change or anything else and

1:26.9

and, you know, there for the billionaires and yes, let's have another war and all that kind of

1:30.9

stuff right that the Republicans are all about. But a day before yesterday, Liz Cheney gave a speech

1:38.0

at the Reagan Library that got a standing ovation from a group of Republicans.

1:43.2

And I think this is a moment that you and I and the rest of America are going to look back on

1:53.8

probably next December, after the elections, after the November elections, maybe in 2005,

2:03.1

after the 2004 presidential elections. I'm not sure how rapidly the Republican Party is going

2:10.3

to change. But I think that this speech that Liz Cheney gave yesterday or day before yesterday

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