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all right, this is the big news tonight. cnn projects that vocal trump critic liz cheney has lost wyoming's gop primary. we'll go straight to cnn's jeff zeleny he's, in wyoming for us. also king at the magic wall. let's go to john first. john, liz cheney losing her primary tonight. what are the numbers? showing >> their showing, don, look at the numbers right here, not quite 2 to 1. but harriet hageman, the trump backed challenger to liz cheney is winning, and winning convincingly. many votes ahead, about 57% of polls reporting. you see 62 to 33, or 62 to 34

if you want to round that up for liz cheney. and you can see on the map here, mostly filling in with harriet hageman's color, the salmon color, which is what we give to trump endorsed candidates. i want to make one key point, don, education is increasingly the big dividing point in american politics. and the two counties where liz cheney is leading, albany county, it is the highest percentage of college graduates in the state of wyoming, right here in this county. the second highest percentage of college graduates for the state of wyoming, right here, teton county, the other county where liz cheney's right running right. now we know in teton county there was our effort to get democrats and independents to register as republicans for this primary. you can do that in advance. you can also do that in today, primary day. many might switch back. but you can see it there, the effort in these two counties. higher education, college educated voters tend to have a lesser view of trump, if you will. so maybe, modest success fearless cheney in those two counties. but most likely, harriet hageman most likely to win in

november. and liz cheney will move on, as she discussed tonight, the next chapter. and >> these are the counties that joe biden. one >> yes, they are. if you go back in time to look at 2020, these are the two counties joe biden won. so they are the least conservative, in a very conservative state, if you want to put it that way. again, they tend to be higher educated. they are the number one and number two in terms of percentage of voters who have college degrees. and number three, don, there was an effort by democrats and independents, organized efforts by people in different groups to say switch your registration, vote for liz cheney. take a principled stand. clearly, if you come back to the 2022 numbers, and look at it, it was not enough. so, it might be a small minor moral victory, within the bigger las olas cheney. but she is losing, and losing quite convincingly. >> jeff zeleny, cheney tonight saying that quote, our work is far from over. tell us more about what we heard. >> look, we did hear about the next chapter ahead. she talk just briefly about her election tonight. and she said she called her opponent, harriet hagman, and she said she did indeed win.

but she use that as a metaphor about the importance of free and fair elections. and use that really not to talk anything about the race or why she lost, but about what the next chapters are. and don, i'm going to turn around behind. you can see congressman cheney is shaking the final hands here. she has been talking to every single supporter that turned out to this ranch outside of jackson. who are here, as she called for republicans, independents, and democrats to join together to support and defend democracy. this speech i thought was interesting was because it was so infused with history. she is a student of history. she is a historian. her mother and father are as well. and she talked about the fragility of this democracy. and talked quite squarely about donald trump. perhaps on the most pointed moments in the speech, she said she reminded people that she won by 73% of the vote. the primary just two years ago. she said she could've done that again, had she gone down the path of election denialism. but that is not a path she would ever be control going down. so, i think when i've been

talking to supporters here in the crowd, they are wondering what her next step is going to be. they are wondering if she will directly challenge donald trump, should he run for president. she did not give any more than a hit to that. but i do know that she will stay involved. one thing that i can also say, she is now going to be turning her work back to the january 6th committee. those hearings are gonna be starting in september. she has a little bit of time to figure the next steps. but i am told she will be setting up, likely a super pac, to support other republican candidates. and we'll be setting up some other vehicles where she can challenge the former president. and again, as you can see, she is taking pictures with staff members. a lot of hugging, families. what this is really the end of the cheney legacy, the art of her father being a congressman. he was here for the speech tonight. and she, of course, will be leaving after three terms in the u.s. house. certainly not how she wanted to leave. but in some respects, on our own terms. looking forward. >> don? >> she's so close there, jeff. if you could just get her to come over to a microphone, we

would gladly [laughs] we would gladly take our live here on cnn. >> we've asked, and we tried. we sure. would i had certainly given her that opportunity to talk to you, don. but as you can see now, she is actually, i'll turn to the side, she is posing for a group photo with team cheney members. and many of them have shirts that say fearless. that is one word you heard over and over again, the word fearless. we are just at nightfall here on the beautiful wyoming prairie. i want to mosquito and bugs in the air. but these are the group of people who are going to carry us to the next chapter, should she have on, whatever that is, don. >> all right, where your bug spray, don't get bit. and we will take her if she does come over. thank you eric, thank you john, thank you jeff. >> i'll let you know. >> i'm going to bring in senior political correspondent david gergen, who is an adviser to president nixon, reagan, clinton. also, bill kristol is. here the director of defending democracy together. he's also editor at large of the board. so happy to have both of you want, gentlemen. thank you so much. bill, i want you to listen to

some of what liz cheney said tonight, and then we will talk. >>, two years ago i won this primary would 73% of the vote. i could easily have done the same again. the path was clear. but it would have required that i go along with president trump's lie about the 2020 election. it would have required that i enable his ongoing efforts to unravel our democratic system, and attack the foundations of our republic. that was a path i could not and would not take. [applause] >> bill, she knows why she lost. but this is now her mission. >> yeah, it is. and let me say if jeff can get list to come on, i will yield my time. you can vote me and -- liz -- she has a lot to say, i think. she almost understated the case. it was not just that she would not go along with trump, she decided she had to play a key role.

she accepted the appointments to the committee, she accepted playing a key role on the committee, the key role on the committee. i mean, bringing the truth to light about january 6th, and above all, exposing trump's lies and exposing this man who was unfit for the presidency, as she thinks. i tried to put the party on the spot. and to come to grips with the fact that he is out of the presidency, that's been in remission for the year and a half. it's remission going forward. so it was a choice that she made. she knew a risk for reelection. and she took the choice, she made the choice, and i think she made it without any second-guessing of herself are really any regrets. i think when she says she thinks what bush has been doing on the committee than winning the house seat. and when she advised that going for this is a setback, the struggle continues. i think she very much believes that. >> another moment from cheney. let's listen. >> donald trump knows that voicing these conspiracies will provoke violence and threats of violence. this happened on january 6th,

and it is now happening again. it is entirely foreseeable that the violence will escalate further. yet he and others continue, purposely, to feed the danger. today, our federal law enforcement is being threatened. a federal judge is being threatened. fresh threats of violence are rising everywhere. and despite knowing all of this, donald trump recently released the names of the fbi agents involved in the search. that was purposefully militias. no patriotic american should excuse the threat or be intimidated by them. our great nation must not be ruled by a mob provoked over social media. >> so, david, the question is, and it's a stark warning, right, she's actually right about that, what should happen. but is the gop death to her message? >> not the way to say it, don. but i think tonight should be a

celebration by principal conservatives like bill crystal, that at long last, we have someone who is, you know, can speak to the country, command a national microphone, and also take the case to the country for moderate, mainstream conservative, to take the future away from donald trump and the minions around him. so, i think in that, since she has paid a price. as have many others who have voted to impeach trump. i think now, if i'm not mistaken, bill can correct me, i think there were ten republicans who voted to impeach trump along the way, and eight now, i think we're up to eight, will not be back in the next congress. several of them are tired of having to put up with this. others just got beat in the primaries, like liz cheney. that is a remarkable number. but i think it is for a traffic cause. >> yeah and you write about the numbers. but listen, the former president, obviously gloating about her defeat tonight. bill, you said tonight cheney's

recent voting has more been for what she believes, and less about what wyoming voters want, like gun control, for example. listen to whet tonight's winner, harriet hageman, had to say about that. >> wyoming has spoken on the eyes of everyone who is concerned that the game is becoming more and more rigged against them. and what wyoming has shown today as that while it may not be easy, we can dislodge entrenched politicians, who believe they have risen above the people they are supposed to represent and serve. >> so, hageman making a point that they're getting rid of quote, unquote, a league that don't represent wyoming voters. her message resonated? >> yes, apparently. i think it certainly is donald trump's magic, let's be honest. and she is an instrument for delivering a message of loyalty to donald trump. hageman made a big deal about whatever minor differences she has with liz cheney over policy,

or criticize liz cheney for substantive reasons. it was the disloyalty to trump, and even more the not going along with trump, that as i said, taking him on frontally, and challenging him, and challenging the big lie. and hageman is not only refusing to challenge the big lie, she embrace the big lie. so, that's where we are. i mean, wyoming has elected a lot of good people, honestly, over the years. and we've seen this party go to the candidate whose entire reason for running, why did you challenged -- the chair of liz cheney's campaign in 2016, or was in 2018. the entire reason for running was that liz cheney was taking on trump's big lie, and harriet hageman was embracing it. and hageman one. >> but harriet hageman, was she not a very vocal trump critic that turned trump supporter, you know, and now here she is? >> yeah, i think in 2016 when we were doing some last minute, last-ditch efforts to prevent trump, the republican national

convention, i even spoke with, or i don't remember, it was a blur, but there is a whole bunch of people scattered around the country thinking of ways of how to detour trump for the republican nomination. and in a way, it is a very good -- what's the term for this, you know, a symbol of where the party is that she is defeating liz cheney, telling the truth by and doors and trump's lies. >> david, liz cheney worked in government. and was with the gop long before she ran for office. she was by her father side when he was vp. she worked in the state department on multiple republican campaigns. she even hosted shows on fox. but is there a future for her, for her fight in the current republican party? >> oh, yes, first of all, i think there is going to be a huge market for her to write a memoir. if that were to happen. i think she's going to be demand to go around the country and speak. financially, she will be extremely well off in that sense. i had i think, you, know the president is going to give her an opening, giver their piece.

because she does represent this voice that becomes so important. and he's representative a much larger voice. and it's very unlikely she'll be the nominee at this point. extremely unlikely. but she can cause a lot of leakage from the trump ship. her effort, if she runs to the left of trump, and it's an early primary, then you find someone like desantis got florida, running from the right of trump, he could be, that guy could cause serious problems. liz cheney is a formidable political force unto herself, or at least will be for the next short while. we don't know how long it will last. how long she can command that platform. but for the moment, she is going to be very sought after. >> bill, because we're talking about wyoming, there is also alaska. we are really talk about some marquee names, cheney, palin, trump. i mean, you can chase the

evolution of the gop through the last few decades through these people and what they stand for. >> yeah, it's funny, two small states, wyoming and alaska, but two important in their own right, and symbolically important primaries, maybe three, because you've also got murkowski, will be resolved tonight, she'll move out of the final ballot in november. and then this professional special elections, but also the primary against the november election the house seat in alaska as too. two small states -- kind of with symbolic races. we won't know the races for a while. and murkowski is going to move on to the final, to the finals in november. but it is, yeah, it is famous names, and families that are well established in those states. but, i don't, look, just one point with what david was saying, liz cheney was elected as republican nominee. and it's interesting to see what happens. she may well try to run. she may well try to run. but will the republican party

let her run? what if -- the republican chairman says you have to pledge to support the republican nominee, whoever he or she is, to be on the ballot, or to be on the debate states? i don't know, that would probably get majority support at this point in the republican national committee. liz cheney will not do that. she will not support donald trump in 2020. for what it is trying to keep her off the ballot? machine and say, well, this is really illegitimate, this is not consistent with american principles and practices, i have to run as an independent. or even i will swallow hard and supported democrat. i think it's a very fluid moment. david is right, liz cheney has a standing, a status, that is so unusual for a house member, right? apart from the speakers, apart from gingrich, pelosi, people like that, she must be the most prominent, the most central backbench member of the house of representatives in our memory, in our lifetime, don't you think? so, she really does -- what she decides to do, and however it all plays out, i

think she will be -- she's a central figure, i'll put it that way, in american politics for the next couple of years. >> bill, david, thank you very much. i appreciate. the middle of the primaries tonight, we've also got new revelations from the investigations swirling around the former president and his allies. but, has a legal cloud hanging over him actually tighten his stranglehold on the gop? we will discuss. meet three sisters. the drummer, the dribbler, and the day-dreamer... the dribbler's getting hands-on practice with her chase first banking debit card... the drummer's making savings simple with a tap... ...round of applause. and this dreamer, well, she's still learning how to budget,

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all right, it's election night, but we also have some other news report. we interviewed two key trump white house insiders as part of the investigation into the documents at mar-a-lago. former trump white house counsel pat cipollone, and his deputy patrick philbin, both speaking to investigators earlier this year. and on thursday, federal judge

who approved the mar-a-lago search warrant will hold a hearing on whether to unseal the affidavit. the document that lays out whether the information justifies the use of the search. joining me now is senior legal analyst and -- elie honig. and cnn contributor and former white house counsel john dean, and cnn legal analysis and former u.s. assistant attorney general to the southern district of new york, jennifer rogers. all very accomplished minds, and very awesome. people thank you for joining us tonight, john, what would pat cipollone, and philbin know about this mar-a-lago documents as white house lawyers? what would they know? >> well, they unnaturally worthy contact points for the archives, and making some of the decisions about what should and should not go. they later got removed from that post, as i think the things of january six unraveled and they were all hands on deck there. but they know apparently a lot,

and according to the reporting, they were able to tell the archives that, no, trump did not want to cooperate, he believed these documents were his. and apparently philbin tried to help facilitate getting that information to actually go to the archives. so, they know a little bit, they don't know all the details. i don't think they're involved in packing or shipping. but they certainly have the big picture. but >> what would the fbi be asking him? >> well, they would want to know what was the process to sort out what was classified or not. how did documents get in the shipment that was going to, and why was it going to mar-a-lago? they were supposed to be packing up stuff to go to the archives. and this was going in the wrong direction. so, i'm sure, they have many questions. >> ali, listen. i hate to ask this question, but i will. the former president and his

attorneys are representatives are saying he had a standing order about declassifying everything that he sent to mar-a-lago. will they ask about? that because that just seems ludicrous, that's not even part of the declassifying process, whether. asking >> i think anyone in around the white house, there's really two issues when it comes his de classification defense. first, did the president have legal authority to declassified? the short answer to that is he either has extremely broader on limited authority to declassify. but separate from that, is the factual question of did he, did he exercise that authority? and thus far, not only they're no evidence needed, there is counter evidence. john both, and for example, was on new day this morning and said he never heard of any such thing. so i think he would want to ask everyone who is in and around the white house, did you ever hear of such of a de classification order? so, far we've seen no evidence there was. >> why do you, ask if it's so silly? >> because you have to disprove. you have to anticipate, to disprove. >> it is silly. >> ahead of a professor, a scholar on this last night. he said there is a process with

this. you have to notify different agencies. everyone involved has no. just because you said something is the classified, you don't let other people know that is declassified. that is not automatically make it declassified. >> typically -- >> it's the dumbest argument. it's used because it just doesn't hold water. >> typically you would have that kind of process and evidence. but you do have anticipate and disprove that as a prosecutor. >> meg haberman is saying that trump essentially thought the documents were his. is that a thing? >> no, they're not. his they are ours. they are all of ours. and i will say, the fact that he did say, those are my, it shows at least he knew they were there. and presumably, knew they were taken down to mar-a-lago. that is a piece of the puzzle you have to prove as well. >> jennifer, we know that in june, the doj subpoenaed and obtained surveillance footage from mar-a-lago. the times is reporting they were alarmed by what they saw. , so if they were so alarmed by

what they saw, what do you think they could've seen? >> well, they could have seen boxes being removed out of the room where they were supposed to be secured. they could have seen people carrying boxes that contain classified information who are not cleared to have that kind of documentary evidence. they could've seen, you know, we were talking about the lawyers who apparently certified that no classified information was present. one way you can determine whether or not the statements are false or true is by looking at surveillance footage to see whether things have moved around such statements are made, or whether they are not. and whether they find classified information in a certain room, you know was there the whole time. so, you know, i think they are very interested in that for a variety of reasons. and a neither one is to gain witnesses, right? who is going in and out of their. those are the people you want to speak to if you are fbi messages on this case. so, they should be contacting

those folks and putting them in a grand jury. >> elie, you know the doj is arguing, they are arguing against releasing this affidavit information. do you think that would directly harm their criminal investigations, do you believe it's going to remain sealed? >> i do think the judge will keep it. seal it will be interesting to see what position donald trump takes. i think trump's position will be i want you to unseal this, judge, because a, i think it is virtually certain that it will remain unseal. that will allow trump to say, hey, i want it out there for you. but doj want to keep it hidden from you as a political point. >> but it also give him and his representatives a clue as to what they are looking for, and what evidence they already have. >> it's no lose, because if they comes out, it's a roadmap. >> how difficult meaning it's going to be for the doj to bounce the transparency, keeping this criminal information held, john? this is going to be tough for them to be able to do. >> well, i don't. the washington post reported at about 6:00 tonight, eastern

time, that trump wants the affidavit released. he is not going to get, it as elie says, because it reveals the investigation, it reveals classified information, it also will give him the witnesses. but, anyway, i think the judge has got a pretty clear slate here. and he is just going to do what is right, and that is to keep it sealed, which is all the law in the circuit, as well as the rightist of the country. so, it's not a tough decision. the other thing is, i don't think trump can get together a motion. apparently he has no lawyer on this case specifically. none have appeared on the docket yet. so, i don't think he can even get a motion in by friday. >> jennifer, do you think it will remain sealed? as well? >> i, do i agree with elie and john. there is no chance of it being released. and it's easy for trump to call for, it because he knows it will not be released. what he would like to do is see it himself, and actually not have it released publicly, because i got to tell you, there is going to be really damning evidence in there about

the probable cause that led them to get that search warrant. so, he really does not want it to be publicly released. he just wants to know personally what's in it. >> i want to say, what does that mean, but we do not know, because it is sealed. are you saying that in order for them to get, to be able to do what they did, that there has to be some damning evidence in the affidavit, jennifer? >> there has to be at least probable cause, right. they convinced a judge, an independent judge, that there is probable cause to believe that three different crimes, three different statutes, were committed. three different crimes were committed. and evidence of those crimes could be found, guess, where in donald trump's home and his office. so, that's pretty damaging. and i think when you actually see the affidavit, that goes through who told them what, but they saw, all the information about the negotiations with his team that demonstrates he knew what he had, whatever they have on the espionage act that led them to charge that he had

national defence information, maybe misused, whatever led them to charge that there is obstruction, destruction of documents that don't belong to him, i think that is damaging evidence to donald trump. you know, again, we are not a trial, we are not talking beyond a reasonable doubt, we do not have charges yet, but i suspect that whatever is in there that came with that judge donald trump does not want the world to see. >> all right, john, thank you elie, thank you jennifer. president biden signing a sweeping -- health care, tax, and climate bill. but with the midterms a few months away, will that be enough for voters? [applause] rencnce with downy.

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victory lap the white house today after signing a wide-ranging bill designed to address the climate crisis, allow medicare to be negotiated, lower prescription judge prices, and increase taxes on big corporations. today, too often, confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with the feet. too often, we hand the biggest microphone to the critics and the cynics, who delight in the clearing failure while those committed to making real progress into the hard work of governing. making progress in this country 's biggest complicated and it is clearly not easy. it has never been easy. but with unwavering conviction, commitment, and patience, progress does come. >> president barack obama tweeting today saying this is a

b fd. joining me now is a cnn contributor and author of, joe biden the life the run and what matters now. we know why he said that when the former president, barack obama, signed the affordable joe biden whispered in his ear while the microphone is open, this is a b f d. how are you doing evan? why did you make of today. >> i'm feeling fine. not gonna say it any better than barack obama did. >> listen, the current president biden says the signing is about showing americans democracy still works. which is what he ran on. it is his counter argument to all the chaos and the division of our politics right now. >> yeah, look, i will tell you don, at the core of joe biden's presidential career, right now. it has been this idea, which looks to i think a lot of people almost naive sometimes,

almost antique. the idea that you don't have to be cynical about politics. the idea that this system, which is so paralyzed, so frustrating, so much of the time. it can actually be wrestled into gear. and you can do it supposed to do. it is been three decades we've been talking about making a serious investment in combatting climate change. and it hasn't happened until today. that we've been talking for years. about reducing drug prices, which at times grown four times the rate in the play. should never happen until today. and the way it happened, don, i think is about how we go about politics and how joe biden has believed in this process. which is that even when someone is driving units, and i won't name names other than that say it might be somebody who is a senator from west virginia. that you don't go out and say i will never be able to work with that guy. because just might be that person and that is a fact of life. >> listen, having said that, this goes two months of negotiation within the democratic party.

we'll look at this picture within the bill signing. joe biden, handing a pin, to joe manchin. he wouldn't say the name but there it is. and listen to what manchin had to say about biden today. >> so we always had a friendly relationship. he also said, whatever i can do to help you as well. and that is a little thing that we use with each other. but it doesn't matter if it is one way or the other. anyway, we had a good relationship. >> listen, there are progressives, there is mention, there is sinema, all different factions within the democratic party. but even with those fractures, is the party holding together? is he holding the party together i should ask? >> he's holding it together for brute force, in effect. actually, that's not the right word. it's really through managing the differences. it's about the refusal to say i will not talk to someone i disagree with on one issue or another. joe manchin and joe biden came

very close to the edge of really dooming this domestic agenda. and yet the fact that they came back, meant that there are still possibility, and look there are certainly progressives who say we wanted more out of this bill. they didn't want to see more leases on oil and gas for federal land. but climate research will tell you that for every one ton that was created by those new commitments, essentially these gifts to joe manchin, that we're taking 24 tons of carbon out as a result of these investments in new energy. that was the idea. i just want to mention one of the things, don, this is how joe biden got elected president. i one point there was a campaign where their moments on the stage where he could've pushback harder. where you maybe embarrass somebody had said something wrong. but later somebody said the reason he didn't do that was because he knew that if he became the nominee he would need those people. in order to get anything done. that, is in effect, the theory that he pertains to all the way

to today. >> don't you think that democrats realize that at some point, listen because this is going into the second year. , they need a president just as much as he needs them. they need each other. if he goes down, they go down. 100%. i think that became very clear over these 18 agonizing months. this has been absolutely brutal. the fact that it did undermine, i think, the party's credibility in the eyes of some voters. who said, look, this was the crew that was going to be able to get something done. they control all three. the white house, both houses of congress, and they couldn't do it. here we are today, it shows you just how long we care is in politics. just a few weeks square counted them up. just where they are now they recognize they have to get something done. and you're going to see some of that show up in the enthusiasm among democratic voters. i think there is a long time between now and the midterms, but the data is encouraging for democrats. that democrats who consider themselves progressives are beginning to say, look, okay, this administration or may not agree with him on everything

but they're delivering on something that nobody has been able to do in a very long time. and there may be, also, some republicans who are tiring of the trump show and maybe getting to say, okay, it turns out this democratic president is not going to be tapped into progressives. he just made deals with joe manchin. that is somebody i like to be able to work with. >> some of the provisions of the biden side today don't actually go into effect until next year. the midterms are just months away have been, voters don't have the patience, biden is playing the longer, but politically with he lose that gain? will he lose the game or win the game? what do you think? >> you will hear him and all the democrats make a very stark contrast over the next few weeks. they are going to say, you have a party against us that is rolling back roe v. wade. that is threatening same-sex marriage. that is rallying around the former president, twice impeached. now once again the center of our federal investigation. or you have a party that is

systematically, sometimes i'm glamorously, working to try to address issues which polls overwhelmingly show are the things that americans care about. the things like drug prices. the things are bringing down inflation it is not quite happen overnight. but you just saw the latest inflation numbers, gas prices are coming down. this is not going to be a case in which you have two parties that look very similar. you are getting an x-ray of these two parties right now. and the contrast from democrats perspectives, should be clear enough for voters to see. >> we will see what happens. thank you evan, i appreciate it. >> my pleasure. >> greenland's, long showers, open taps, all of that may be coming to an end in the southwest. that is because of a moderate drought in the colorado river. cnn's at lake mead next.

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mandatory new water -- coming to southwestern states for the first time, the colorado river will be operating in what's called a due to shortage condition, starting in january. that means multiple states that rely on the colorado river will need to find ways to reduce water consumption. but as cnn's bill weir warns, these drastic cuts may not be enough to tackle the ongoing megadrought. >> whiskey is for drinking, water is for fighting.

that's a supposed mark twain quote, a western slogan since the first settlers. but now the worst drought in 100 years, as water managers in seven states, 30 tribal nations, and mexico, fighting over every precious drop. >> but to date, the states collectively have not identified and adopted specific actions of sufficient magnitude that would stabilize the system >> that was the commissioner in charge of dams and reservoirs, admitting that upper and lower basin states have failed to agree on ways to cut their water use by up to 25%. >> i think, ultimately, the states are going to realize they are playing russian roulette. and they will have to come to their senses. >> for almost 30 years, pat mulroy was in charge of southern nevada as water, and led an aggressive conservation campaign to tear up lawns, reuse wastewater and scold waterwasters. >> watering in the middle of the day, ma'am. you will be fined if you don't

change your watering clock. >> all measures she would like to see happened downstream. >> i think they are kicking the can down the road past the election, if you want me to be very frank about it. i don't think anybody wants to make great public announcements about measures they may have to take prior to the election. >> rather than force new actions, the feds will let the states keep talking. the next round of automatic cuts will lower water delivery by 7% to mexico, 8% to nevada, and 21% to arizona. >> you can hear this crunching. it is just starting to dry up. >> here, alfalfa farmers are being paid to let their fields go fallow. while some are switching to crops like --, a rubber plant that grows in the desert. >> crops switching, looking at lower water use crops like --, are one of the solutions we need to look at in the dry future to allow communities to sustain themselves. >> thanks to some creative water accounting, california

will not face mandatory cuts next year. but their governor is already warning of a future with a lot more people and a lot less water. >> science and the data leads us to now understand that we will lose 10% of our water supply by 2040. if all things are equal, we will lose an additional 10% of our supply by 2040. >> we have the very real possibility, this coming year, if we have another lousy winter, all things being equal, that we will dry this lake down to elevation 1,000. that is 100 feet above dead pool. and you are at the bottom of the martini glass. so, it doesn't take much to tip that over and get to the point where nothing can go downstream. and if you don't take it seriously now, if you think that you are going to avoid this, do a rain dance, go pray, do whatever, that we have a great winter, you are insane. bill weir, cnn, buller city,

nevada. >> thank you, bill. we will be right back.

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congresswoman liz cheney, the toughest republican critic of the former president in congress, losing her primary to trump backed attorney harriet hageman. cheney, the last of the ten house republicans that voted for trump's second impeachment to face voters, now becomes the eight who will not be returning to congress next year. here is what she said in her speech tonight. >> i have said, since january 6th, that i will do whatever it takes to ensure donald trump is never again anywhere near the

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