From New York Times, I'm Michael Labaro. This is Daily.

Inside the U.S. Capitol today, House Republicans are expected to remove Congresswoman Liz Cheney

as a high-ranking party leader. Despite her resume as a reliable conservative and her status

as a member of a Republican dynasty. I spoke with my colleague Congressional reporter

Katie Edmondson about what's motivating Cheney's ouster and the new requirements for

being a Republican leader. It's Wednesday, May 12.

Katie, the last time we devoted an episode of the Daily to Congresswoman Elizabeth Cheney,

it was because she had just survived an attempt by her fellow Republicans in a house to oust

her from her position as the third highest ranking Republican in that chamber. And here we

are three months later. And there's a second attempt to oust Liz Cheney by the same people.

And this one looks like it's going to be successful. So that's what we want to talk to you

about. What exactly has changed?

Well, I think to understand the story, you have to rewind and look at that first challenge

back in February. And the impetus of that challenge really was that the Congresswoman had

voted to impeach President Trump. But she had not just voted to impeach him. She had released

a statement prior to that vote explaining in really scathing, unsparing terms exactly

why she thought his actions to foment the insurrection at the Capitol were so grievous.

And we started to see House Democrats immediately seize on that statement to the point that they

would come to the House floor, point over to the Republican side of the aisle and say,

Republicans number three leader, Congresswoman Liz Cheney agrees with us. And that in particular

really rubbed many Republicans the wrong way. Many of them would have been already upset

with her just because she voted to impeach the president. But it wasn't just the vote.

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