Jan. 6, Part 2: Liz Cheney’s Battle Against the 'Big Lie'

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🗓️ 6 January 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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This episode contains strong language. In the aftermath of the 2020 election, Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming was the only Republican leader calling on President Donald Trump to move on from his efforts to overturn the results. Then, after the storming of the Capitol on Jan. 6, she gave a full-throated condemnation of what had happened and the rhetoric that facilitated it. A year later, while many of her party have backed down from criticizing the former president, she has remained steadfast — a conviction that’s cost her leadership position. In the second part of our look at the legacy of the Capitol riot, we speak to Ms. Cheney about that day and its aftermath, the work of the Jan. 6 commission and the future of the Republican Party.

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0:00.0	From New York Times, I'm Michael Bobaro. This is Adelaide.
0:07.0	Our country has had enough. We will not take it anymore. And that's what this is all about.
0:16.0	And to use a favorite term that all of you people really came up with, we will stop the steal.
0:25.0	In the early afternoon of January 6th, when the president went on the national mall to rally his supporters,
0:32.0	he called out a small handful of Republicans by name.
0:37.0	And Mike Pence, I hope you're going to stand up for the good of our constitution and for the good of our country.
0:44.0	And if you're not, I'm going to be very disappointed in you. I will tell you right now.
0:49.0	Republicans who for years had stood by him, but now were rejecting his efforts to overturn the election.
0:58.0	And we got to get rid of the weak Congress people, the ones that aren't any good, the Liz Cheney's of the world.
1:04.0	We got to get rid of them. We got to get rid of them.
1:07.0	Among them was Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming, the number three Republican in the House,
1:13.0	the daughter of a Republican vice president, and the only Republican leader telling the president to move on.
1:22.0	We're going to walk down to the Capitol.
1:25.0	And we're going to cheer on our brave senators and Congressmen and women.
1:34.0	And we're probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them.
1:40.0	Because you'll never take back our country with weakness.
1:45.0	You have to show strength and you have to be strong.
1:49.0	Now, Cheney is among the last Republicans still in office who continues to criticize Trump's actions and seek accountability.
2:01.0	Today, in part two of our look at the legacy of January 6th,
2:07.0	a conversation with Congresswoman Cheney.
2:12.0	It's Thursday, January 6th.
2:17.0	You guys hear me?
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