Liz Cheney vs. Marjorie Taylor Greene

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🗓️ 8 February 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The departure of President Donald Trump and the storming of the Capitol have reignited a long-dormant battle over the future of the Republican Party. Today, we look at two lawmakers in the Republican House conference whose fate may reveal something about that future: Liz Cheney of Wyoming, who voted in favor of Mr. Trump’s second impeachment, and Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, a proponent of conspiracy theories.

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0:00.0	From New York Times, I'm Michael Babaro. This is a Daily.
0:04.0	Today, in recent days, the Republican Party has taken two votes on what to do about two
0:17.8	of its members, Liz Cheney and Marjorie Taylor Greene, who have taken two very different
0:23.8	positions on the party's path forward. My colleague, Alex Burns, on what the outcome of those
0:31.4	votes may tell us about the identity crisis playing out inside the GOP.
0:43.6	It's Monday, February 8.
0:52.9	Now I want to read you a sentence. You ready?
0:56.6	Okay.
0:57.6	Quote, a divided Republican party has erupted into open and bitter warfare.
1:05.9	Do you remember who wrote that sentence?
1:08.8	I have a feeling that it might be me. It's me. It's you and it's me. We wrote it together.
1:15.5	It was...
1:16.1	Was this Mitt Romney in 2016?
1:18.9	This is the day that John McCain and Mitt Romney, the two past Republican nominees, denounced
1:27.3	Donald Trump as he was about to become the Republican nominee.
1:31.4	I remember it well. That was a stunning day. I think that lead has held up reasonably
1:36.3	well.
1:37.3	Right. I revisit that lead now because the concept of a civil war within the Republican
1:44.2	party is not at all new. It starts four years ago when we wrote those sentences when it
1:50.8	becomes clear that Donald Trump will be the nominee.
1:54.8	You have this dynamic of the establishment Republicans horrified by Trump on one side,
2:01.3	the die hard Trump supporters on the other. Those in the middle unwilling or uninterested
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