cheney has every right to be on the committee. like the gentleman before, they sent an investigator right away and mccarthy wanted to stop it. why don't people try to investigate mccarthy? he tried to be speaker of the house he backed out of it. somebody needs to be accountable for this. donald trump had every right to complain about the situation, but he complained about it too darn much. if he just took it like a man and realized, ok, it's over with , start over in 2024. but he carried it to foreign people believed him and they got so doggone angry they marched on the white house. in 1841, william henry harrison became president only for a month. vice --he had the national bank and vice president john tyler came in and he didn't want it. an angry mob marks on the white house. today investigate that?--did they investigate that? i don't know, but this happened before. there is no excuse for this, and cheney has every right to be chosen by pelosi to be on this committee. political partisanship is what it is all about regardless of

cheney: absolutely not. this committee has been focused and i am focused on ensuring we get to the facts. there were 35 republicans who supported an independent, bipartisan commission, which would have been the preferable way to go. minority leader mccarthy opposed that aggressively add lobbied against it in the senate. we must have the investigation. this is our only option left and people must be willing to put their oath to the constitution of partisan politics and party. i am committed to doing that and ensuring this investigation gets to the truth of what happened. >> thank you. thank you, thank you. >> -- based on substance, facts, principal, and allegiance to the constitution. >> thank you. >> saturday on the communicators -- >> the white house office of science and technology policy under obama and under trump and now biden have all been strong in the same areas. they believe in the future of artificial intelligence and self-driving and great technologies which are going to make our lives better. whe

i worked with the cheneys. liz cheney is going to do this right.january 6th. and my question, before we get to the legal side of it, is what is the substance of what kevin mccarthy and jim jordan are going to testify to? it's sort of an open secret on fox news. it was chris wallace what pulled it out of liz cheney that kevin mccarthy should be subpoenaed and bret baier pulled it out of jim jordan that he had a conversation that day. what is the scuttle about what those guys know about what was on donald trump's mind that day? >> kevin mccarthy or other people have said publicly, there's been ample reporting that mccarthy had indicated to trump that he needed to somehow pull back the protesters or try to pull back the protesters. i think that they would all -- i think it's been widely reported in phil rucker and carol leonnig's book and a host of other books about this administration that trump was very angry that day. the questions that people are going to want to know is did trump say no to the national guard. and by the way, mark meadows was prob

what do you think liz cheney and adam kinzinger will do differently than democrats?, whether some republicans like it or not, acknowledge it or not, accept it or not, adam and liz cheney are republicans. in fact, liz cheney is a very conservative republican, far more republican than elise stefanik and i think the role they're there to play is to be principled, to show moral leadership, to put country over party, to put truth over fiction. that is their role, and i think it's one that they are willing to accept, and accept readily, knowing that they may be consequences. but let's also not forget how well adam kinzinger and liz cheney have done in fund-raising since this all started happening. and it's such, you know, i look at what kevin mccarthy's doing, trying to label them pelosi republicans. there is no such thing as a pelosi republican. and adam and liz cheney are no different today in their positions and their principles and their convictions than they were a year ago. when they were kevin mccarthy republicans. and if, you know, he thinks that by calling them pe

i thank god we have liz cheney on the committee. i hope the committee can go ahead and do their work. i feel good we have released the woman, the republican, from wyoming, i wish she could get one or two more republicans if she can. i hope the committee can get the truth and i hope the americans can accept the truth. and accept joe biden as their president. and try to work this thing out with voting laws. i think some of the things are crazy and taken the rights that i would say, yes, my people, my fellow americans, had over 40, 50 years ago. we had to get right to vote and now they want to take them away. host: we'll let you go there. reminder, call on the line that best reflects your point of view. democrats, 202-478-8000. republicans, 202-748-80 to 01. linda in marks, mississippi. democrats line. caller: good morning. can you hear me? host: yes, we can. you're on the air. caller: all right. thank you. nancy pelosi did the right thing. jim jordan, every committee he's ever been on, he is a disrupter. he does not want the truth. no

the cheney statement, liz cheney is not a democrat. is a long-time loyal republican from a brand name republican family, but she accepted this job because it will fulfill the responsibility in a nonpartisan manner. our commitment to the rule of law and the preservation to the peaceful transfer of power must always be above partisan politics. she's saying i want to know what happened. let's turn over every rock. every rock would include leader mccarthy, would you tell us about your phone call with trump when the capitol was under siege and we needed help and we thought the reaction was too slow. correct? >> 100%. and not just the phone call that day. but let's take a look at what happened between election day and january 6th. in the weeks, in the months, the big lie was being put out there. kevin mccarthy was likely, according to our reporting, speaking to donald trump, to chief of staff mark meadows every day. what did he know in the weeks and months leading up to the insurrection? >> and cheney was stripped from her leadership positio

but kinzinger and cheney have dismissed those threats. jake? >> manu, thank you so much. >>> members of this committee met this afternoon to finalize specifics. they if i remembered up lines of questioning and plans to introduce new video from the four police officers who are set to testify. cnn's josh campbell sat down with all four of those officers in a story you will see first now on "the lead." >> i felt like they were trying to kill me. >> reporter: that's the message the house select committee will hear tomorrow when four police officers testify, including metropolitan police officer michael fanone. >> i experienced the most brutal savage hand-to-hand combat of my entire life, let alone my policing career, which spans almost two decades. >> reporter: new images like this previously released body-worn camera video are also expected to be released. showing the perspective of officers that deadly day. fanone's camera released to cnn earlier this year shows him being swept into the crowd before passing out and being carried back into i.d. fa

reporter: congresswoman cheney is going to serve. walk us through what that conversation was like once she said yes to you, what you asked of her? ms. pelosi: the conversation resembled congresswoman cheney's public statement. and by the way, i saw this morning, this is not about some of the things you had there, it's about what is in the bill as to what our purpose is. our purpose is not any phone call that mccarthy made or something like that, it's about protecting our country from the negative forces that provoked that attack on the capitol. reporter: follow up on a separate question. earlier this week, congresswoman i will han omar -- ms. pelosi: let's stay with this. we have some of the best leaders in the congress on this subject and i'm sure they would be happy to answer any questions. what do you have today? reporter: would you like to see former trump testify before the committee and is there a chance that the committee will subpoena him? ms. pelosi: i have made the appointments and the committee will make those decisions an

one notable dedecision was not present, congresswoman liz cheney.l be the sole republican on the committee. here is part of what speaker pelosi said in her weekly news conference. >> the next step for us has been to seek and to find the truth we want to do so in the most patriotic and nonpartisan way so the american people have confidence in the report. >> we have a couple big questions. would there be any republicans? we now know the answer. >> that is right, it's a diverse state of employees that includes beb any thomas. here is the chairman of the homeland security committee. that is stefanie murray. she is a leader of the moderate blue dog colist. she is afraid of keeping them out of power. that is her words. now speaker pelosi made clear over and over again with the other appointees that their only job is to find the truth. i asked if they want former president trump to show up and testify and if they might subpoena him. >> you would like to see former president trump testify and if there is a chance the committee will subpoena him. >> i made t

he now joins fellow republican congresswoman liz cheney.e only two gop members of panel so for. let's go to lauren fox on capitol hill. this meeting comes amid growing pressure on republican leadership from rank and file republicans in the house to punish kinzinger and cheney just for saying yes. >> reporter: well that is exactly right. i mean, look, this push is coming from conservative and members of the house freedom caucus but it spread further than that according to the latest reporting. and what is important and notable about this is the fact that these are the two republicans who accepted an appointment from house speaker nancy pelosi. and all of this came after mccarthy had to pull back his five members, he had selected for this committee because he argued argued pelosi was pulling punches saying that two members were not appropriate choices for the committee and is he he'd fine, i'm not going to put anyone at all. >> that meant whether they would fill the spaces and nancy pelosi said she would add kinzinger along with liz cheney to

reporter: she has a quorum now that she has appointed cheney. it would be in your interest to get people on this thing next. mr. mccarthy: it is a political game of what she is playing and when i have news on this, i will provide the news. did i upset you last time? reporter: no. mr. mccarthy: i thought from the article, i must have upset you. you are younger than me. i hope you feel better. reporter: you want to answer that question? do you believe that liz cheney accepting the committee assignment that she left the republican conference? mr. mccarthy: i am shocked that she would accept something from speaker pelosi. i didn't hear from her. maybe she is closer to her than i. [indiscernible question] mr. mccarthy: when somebody comes here and how they get their committees. take, for example, when liz cheney came to congress and came to see me and the other members on steering about committee assignments. no democrat came to see me about committee assignment and jeff van drew came to me after he left. it would be shocking to me for anybody from a

cheney said, this is going to be a fact-finding select committee. witnesses will say what they're going to say. by the way, one of the people that was rejected by the speaker may well be, and maybe both, witnesses before the select committee. i don't know that. nobody's told me that. but that may be the case. so we're going to proceed. i know there's disagreement. that's not surprising. but you looked the opportunity that you asked for in the eye and rejected it. so here we are. >> that is not what -- mr. scalise: that is not what we asked for. the majority leader said, there were a number of things that need to be cleaned up that were just not accurate if you look at the members kicked off from the minority side yesterday, still no explanation given by the way that includes a ranking member of a committee and an officer in the united states navy who was removed yesterday by speaker pelosi with no reason given, in an unprecedented way, maybe speaker pelosi, maybe this majority don't want to see all the facts come out. they were surely raising those

congresswoman cheney spoke exclusively with us., any republicans still questioning the 2020 election results are not fit for this committee. she said it's important we have members committed to upholding the rule of law and committed to their oaths to the constitution and i would certainly hope that the minority leader will be guided by that as he makes his choices. cheney is a conservative republican, but she was given a seat on that select committee by nancy pelosi. her decision to say yes, cheney says, was an embrace of the mission, not of the democrats. these, again, her words. when you have a situation that's as dangerous as this was and a situation where president trump continues to use the same language, continues to make the same claims that he knows sparked violence, i think we have a duty to not make a political calculation. the panel is back with us. the last part is important to everybody listening, no matter who you supported for president. donald trump keeps saying these things. we'd be having a different conversation

that son of a -- word that rhymes with witch, cheney said. she was referring to one of trump's staunchest allies in the house of representatives, congressman jim jordan of ohio. cheney described being together with congressman jordan during the siege at the capitol on january 6th. remember this conversation took place the day after january 6th. she told general milley, quote, while these maniacs are going through the place, i'm standing in the aisle and he said we need to get the ladies away from the aisle. let me help you. i smacked his hand away and told him get away from me. you f'ing did this. you bleepity bleep did this. that book came out yesterday. the title is "i alone can fix it. donald trump's catastrophic final year." it is the number one selling book in the united states right now. and while that incident was never reported before carol leonnig and phil rucker put it in their new best-selling book, it is now reported. it is now on the record. excerpts including that one from the book have been circulating in recent days. because o

they are really comparing liz cheney and hillary clinton. >> liberal liz cheney. i did some reporting on this. republicans in the house. kicking her off house armed services or expeling her from the conference entirely. her political future is probably doomed anyway, they feel they don't necessarily to take another whack at her. at the same time you see efforts to chip away at her credibility because she is so instrumental to pelosi's strategy with making this a bipartisan, credible investigation. >> lots of questions about her political future. no matter what, she is not backing down from this fight with kevin mccarthy at all. >> uh-uh. >>> we'll have more coming up. next for us, president biden insists he can get bipartisan things done. this week, though, may be his last chance to prove it. like many people with moderate to severe ulcerative colitis or crohn's disease, i was there. be right back. but my symptoms were keeping me from where i needed to be. so i talked to my doctor and learned humira is the #1 prescribed biologic for people with uc or crohn's disea

you can see liz cheney there as well. andrea, what is striking as we look at this scene, i am reminded of what happened during the impeachment hearing the most recent, the impeachment trial when the videos were played. for those in the room january 6th, for example the officers today, it was incredibly traumatic for them. we heard over and over again how they were reliving the pain of that moment, and it brought them back to a pretty scary and dark place, and so you have to think about how that is going to affect the officers who are at this hearing now as we are minutes away from its start, i would expect as soon as they walk in, they'll get settled and go. frank, before that begins, your thoughts here. >> one of these officers today will expose the lie that this was largely a peaceful day at the capitol, like another tourist day and that there were only small handful of people engaged in violence. that is the power behind these statements today and then just moving forward, i am so focused like a laser on something that

donna edwards, talk to me about liz cheney's appointment, right. is a bipartisan appointment on the part of nancy pelosi in appointing liz cheney to this january 6th select committee. what do you think it does to the optics of this committee and the findings of this committee to have liz cheney a part of it? >> well, i think for one nobody can question liz cheney's conservative bona fides. i think her service on the committee will be one of a patriot, and she will end up siding with democrats on a lot of the requests for information and for testimony because, as she has stated, she thinks it is important for the nation to get to the bottom of what happened. you know, my mother used to say it all comes out in the wash, and the wash is going to be the testimony, the evidence that will be gathered to really get to the bottom of the before, during and after of january 6th. liz cheney is going to be an important component of that because republicans will not be able to say creditably that this is a completely partisan exercise. frankly, if you look at t

yamiche: jonathan swan, you have interviewed liz cheney. talk to us about where you see things going. a deep sigh. jonathan s.: i don't want to use the word dusional, because i think it is too freighted and pejorative, but this idea that she is going to create a new republican party, it is absurd. it is absurd for anyone who spends any time talking to republican elected officials. it is not worth the party is. the party is extremely united. she gets a lot of press attention, but you talk to republican congress members, they are united. they want to move on. they want this to be in the rearview mirror. she is so unrepresentative of the republican party that you may as well put a d next to her name at that point. even though she has a completely conservative voting record, that does not matter. the party is not where she is. i think the project she is embarking on of trying to almost restore the republican party to the post-cheney party, i just think it is aantasy. i think it is a complete fantasy. yamiche: all this is going on while the supr

i mean liz cheney is a known -- if you know anything about liz cheney, you know she and her father areypical, standard conservatives in this country. i have peeked over on fox news. they were taking a lot of the hearing today. what do you think kevin mccarthy so desperately didn't want his supporters and fox viewers to see or hear, and what do you think he'll do? >> kevin mccarthy does not want americans to know the truth about that day because the truth really is aimed at him because he has enabled the big lie with donald trump. but, nicolle, you and i both grew up in bay area republican families. this is not the republican party that my parents told me about. you know, this is not the party of ronald reagan. my dad was a police officer. he's horrified by anybody who would choose to honor donald trump, to dishonor the police. and that's what they're seeing, whether it's voting against security assistance to fortify the capitol, whether it's voting against the gold medals for the officers, whether it's saying that the officer who killed ashli babbi. t t was an executioners, whether it'

cheney of her other committee assignments in response.to this. >> i'm not making any threats about committee assignments, but as you know how congress works, you get elected by your district and you get your committees from your conference. i don't know in history where someone would go get their committee assignments from the speaker and expect them to have them from the conference as well. let me be very clear. i'm not threatening anybody with committee assignments. what i'm saying is it was shocking to me that if a person is a republican, they get their committee assignments from the republican conference. for somebody to accept committee assignments from speaker pelosi, that's unprecedented. >> sounds like a threat to me. joining me is democratic congressman from california, ted lieu. thank you for joining us. sound like a threat to you? >> thank you for your question. it is a bizarre threat because what we're seeing is unprecedented bipartisanship. speaker pelosi went out and appointed a republican member on to this select committee.

in addition to cheney and kinzinger. there are a lot of people in the house republican and senate republican leadership circles watching or are aware of the hearing and say i can't believe there's nobody in the room to offer any sort of other point of view besides these people. it was a cut and dry incident. what was experienced by the officers a lot of us experienced. the decision to stay outside the room for mccarthy and for the house republican leadership is going to be one that people will spend a lot of time thinking about, hashing over the next couple of weeks and months. listen, we wrote about this this morning. this investigation is going to drag on for months. not only did house republicans and senate republicans reject the bill to give them full veto power over subpoenas and committee work, they're not even in the room now. probably better service for the american people because what we heard from several if not all members that mccarthy proposed, several of them -- >> jake, i'm going to interrupt you. we have

liz cheney shares nothing in common with your politics. she's a law and order republican, which is why she thinks this needs to be investigated. she sees this as a breach of law and order. >> 100%. liz chene above all else, like us, is the constitution. a pursuit of the truth of what happened on january 6. it's kind of hard to be lectured by kevin mccarthy, especially on

liz cheney the daughter dick cheney who bravely spoke her truth was pushed out of leadership on the republicanside and a lot of jokes were made about her and her father and regime change happen to a cheney and she's a serious member of congress. whether you are with her and not to think the way it was handled was very unfortunate and then today this whole effort about forming a 1-6 commission after the 9/11 commission model has sadly so far as i know resulted in a partisan vote. the 9/11 vote was strongly bipartisan and leaders of the 9/11 commission was strong across the country and their conclusions were strong. the first serious insurrection against our country has been thoroughly investigated on a nonpartisan or bipartisan basis and we find out what really happened and made serious recommendations to events happening again considered by congress that wants to protect the country. that's what we should want. i think toxic partisanship is at the top of my list. i think the breakdown of community institutions is there to. people are in their silos listening to their echo chamber fueled by soc

the one republican for now is liz cheney.n what i'm going to call the conservative, though i'm not sure that's the right word, it is more of a parallel universe alternative. >> the -- some of the very brave people who defended the capitol that day. >> yeah. >> to hear their experiences directly, to put some facts on the table in particular, to counter some of the attempts at whitewash that have been going on. >> on tuesday, pelosi will call a capitol police officer called harry dunne. dunne will pretend to speak for the country's law enforcement community. but dunne has very little in common with your average cop. dunne is an angry left wing political activist. >> is that -- do we just now know right out of the box, four police officers will testify, four officers who protected members of congress, protected members of democracy, protected a sacred institution, the capitol that day, is that just it, that anyone who testifies, the fox news will call them crack jobs and we're done? >> i think that's exactly what's going to happ

liz cheney of wyoming who broke with his party to be one of two republicans who voted for the collect committee to investigate the riot. cheney was asked, if they accepted an appointment to the committee. >> it's clear to all of the people on this committee that our oath to the constitution, our duty, our dedication to the the rule of law and a peaceful transfer of power has to come above any politics. >> do you think leader mccarthy should testify? >> i think the committee will decide the primary investigation. what i know, it will be thorough. it will be professional. it will be series and not partisan. >> by the way, and importantly, this committee will have power to subpoena witnesses. now, today they reacted to cheney's decision to serve on this committee, questioning her loyalty to her party. >> i was shocked she would accept something from speaker pelosi. maybe she is closer to her than us. i don't know. >> we are also following the row action to a major supreme court ruling on voting rights. the court upheld arizona voting restrictions that a lower court said discriminated aga

no word if they'll punish liz cheney for accepting that appointment. and the supreme court taking a dull axe to what remains to the voting rights act. that decision will sting. >>> breaking news overnight, as u.s. troops leave afghanistan's bagram air base after nearly 20 years of war, the question is, where does this put the president's timeline of a complete withdraw by september 11th? >>> plus -- president biden meets with the families of those who died or are still missing in the surfside condo colap. as rescue efforts continue, the question is are we any closer to finding out why the building came down. >>> after recent progress comes another rise in covid cases over the last week fueled by the heil contagious delta variant. the question is what's being done to head off an even greater surge. it's "way too early" for this. >>> good morning. welcome to "way too early" the show that is declaring its independence from cleaning in. i'm jonathan in for kasie hunt this friday, july 2nd. >>> rescue crews are once again back at the site of the partial con

cheney wants this fight.ved and what their relationship is going to be with trump, and so it's not a balanced fight, really, between mccarthy and cheney who want very different things out of this whole episode. >> and we shouldn't forget that kevin mccarthy is a critical witness because people want to know what did he say in a very angry phone call in the midst of that insurrection with the president of the united states where he apparently had very strong words for the president not sending in the national guard and not responding them and not helping them when he was under siege before he turned several days later and went to mar-a-lago and made peace with former president trump. >> that's right. mccarthy -- another reason he's in a difficult spot. i was interested to note that speaker pelosi got asked about this during her press conference which preceded mccarthy's and she made it clear she's less interested in mccarthy's role and what was going on with him and the conversations with trump than other facto

we're proud that liz cheney has made the public -- excuse me liz cheney has made the public statementsat she has made and that she has agreed to join the committee. another time she will say her why and her purpose. but she has spoken very clearly about the committee and that gives us great confidence that we'll be able to work in a nonpartisan way for the people. and as we go into the 4th of july, with great pride in the fact that we'll be closer to the truth because of the willingness of such a distinguished group to take this responsibility. thank you all very much. >> there you have house speaker nancy pelosi and the committee members that she has chosen to help lead this house select committee to investigate what happened. what led to the insurrection on january 6th. and liz cheney named as a republican. it was irning when she was asked to describe the conversations with congresswoman cheney and she said they're similar to her public statements and you have some reporting on adam kinzinger. >> he was not asked to join this committee. only other republican who voted yes along with

i have pride -- applaud liz cheney.t does not mean i agree with her on most things, but i applaud her for wanting that. i also want a robust, resilient democratic party. the democratic party seems to be in better shape than the republican party but each has its wings, no one is missing this, in tragedy for both parties in my view is the center is disappearing -- the center in our politics -- those are the folks that make the deals, and if we just have a very vocal, far-left wing, and a very vocal far right wing, i don't see much chance for prompt -- compromise. i don't think compromise is a dirty word. i don't see much chance for country over party. i don't think that is a bad idea, especially around the hard problems that is the point. in my book. terrorists will not check party registration when they blow us up. that is not what they are after. they are after taking down what was a resilient and beautiful idea of a democratic republic that is the basis of the united states of america. host: we are talking with jane ha

liz cheney and adam kinzinger stuck to their guns on that. and mccarthy folded. >> if you're not going to call them anti-trump, what would you call them? >> i would call them pro-democracy, anti-insurrectionists, republicans who are committed to the country and the constitution. >> scott, what do you think? >> i mean, i'm not sure kinzinger and cheney would wear that title of being anti-trump as anything other than a badge of honor. they are anti-trump. they made no bones about it. they don't think trump is good for the future of the republican party. i suspect they don't think he should be nominated again. so as a practical day to day matter, they are anti-trump. and i don't know that they would oppose that. i mean the reality is that the practical reality is that trump is the defining issue in the party right now. you are as amanda pointed out fairly defined about whether you support trump or you don't support trump. i do think, though, as we move into the future, these labels -- depending on what trump does, are going to be less important

and i think liz cheney will be able to stop showboating and i don't republicans have to worry about that. what they need to worry about is that most of the republicans in congress don't want to know the truth. i want to hear from the police officers who were attacked, i want to know what happened to them and what happened to the law and order republicans who were watching this on television? host: interestingly, congresswoman cheney is going to play the role of the ranking member, which in washington means that she is the top lawmaker from the other side. democrats control the house in the chair is bennie thompson. she's not officially the ranking member of the committee, but democrats are going to let her give an opening statement after the chair gives his opening statement. what do you you -- what do you think about that? caller: i'm not afraid of what she has to say. i do not agree with her and i never agreed with her father, but she's a patriot who believes in the constitution and i like the way she handles her self onto the press and i believe she is a woman of integrity and i want

today we'll hear opening statements, including one from congresswoman liz cheney. the last-minute decision to have cheney speak is to support the argument this party is in fact bipartisan. four officers say they were physically assaulted by the mob on january 6th. >> reporter: 6 1/2 months after a crowd stormed the capitol, they're holding the first hearing. >> an important opportunity to remind everybody about the necessity of accountability for what happened, for making sure tat it never happens again. >> the first witnesses are four police officers who were at the capitol on july 6th. they were supposed to maintain order and congress certified the results of the 2020 u.s. election. the committee includes 7 democrats and two republicans. house minority leader kevin mccarthy withdrew all five of the nominees after two were rejected. jim jordan and jim banks. >> it makes the whole committee a sham so the outcome is predetermined. you won't get to the bottom of it. >> pelosi responded by appointing two gop lawmakers, liz cheney and adam kinsinger. >> it's not someth

well, liz cheney had a power move.a decision that she would rather stand on the side of democracy and that she understands the consequences of that decision. you know, it is true that kevin mccarthy and the gop conference could strip her of committee assignments. why they would do that, you know, to her is, you know, beyond belief, but they could. she is isolated, i suspect. i don't even know if she shows up at her conference meetings. i don't know that she would be necessarily welcome there. but she has made a decision, and i think it is an amazing one that she doesn't care about that. she doesn't care about what they think of her because she's prepared to stand on the side of democracy. i just, you know, applaud her. i think like eric swalwell said, i don't really agree with liz cheney on anything else, but, you know, if we are talking about lifting up and holding up our democracy, better that she stands there. >> jake, i want to get back to you real quick. we have seen the moves from pelosi. we have seen the moves f

general milley and liz cheney are friends. they're close.a phone call and general milley says to liz cheney, how are you doing? and liz cheney lets loose about jim jordan, the head of the freedom caucus and trump supporter. and she says, quote, that f'ing guy jim jordan, that son of a bitch, cheney said, while these maniacs are going through the place, i'm standing in the aisle. and he said, we need to get the ladies away from the aisle. let me help you. i smacked his hand away and told him, get away from me. you f'ing did this. i don't think liz cheney needed or wanted jim jordan's help at that moment. >> no, but the point that you did this is an interesting and important point to be making right now, especially because so many people running this show for the republicans in congress, you know, were very much in touch and in tune with the former president. >> and the thing is, a lot of those allies of the president, who are still in congress, the former president, they did not believe what he was saying act the election, yet they were helpi

and that's what liz cheney is banking on. she's hoping that if you can have multiple, six, seven pro trump candidates running against her, they're all going to divide the vote, and that means if she gets 30% of the vote, that could be enough for her to win. so what trump's goal here is to endorse one candidate and then to encourage everyone else to get out of the race, so it is a one on one race against cheney. for trump to do all that, it is going to be interesting to see how this race devolves because it is go to be interesting test case of trump's power, his ability to assert dominance over the republican party post presidency. >> and as i mentioned, you're reporting a couple of potential challengers making their way to bedminster to kiss the ring. give us a sense, what is the real litmus test there for the former president and he's looking at potential challengers? >> well, it's all about loyalty. loyalty to trump, loyalty, loyalty, loyalty. and just to give you some sense of what that means, one of the people that is mee

talk about lynn cheney. why is she put in place but -- liz cheney. why is she put in place by the democrats? guest: i think liz cheney has become the primary republican voice who is critical in terms of president trump in terms of how he handled the election, his continued casting of doubt on the election results, accusations of voter fraud, things of that nature. she was among the 10 house republicans who voted to impeach then president trump on the basis of inciting the january 6 riot. and then she ultimately lost her position in the house republican leadership. she was the chairwoman of the house republican conference, the third ranking republican in the house. the perception existed that she was more focused on criticizing trump that she was on promoting the house republican position ahead of the midterm election. so she survived one vote. the second vote removed her from that position. she was replaced by elise stefanik, a republican from new york. so in terms of making the committee appear bipartisan but also finding a person who is broadly in

i know there's no love lost between cheney and jim jordan, especially on january 6th after liz cheney had become critical of president trump. cheney and jordan were allies in the early part of the trump administration. just a good example how far the politics have shifted when it comes to the house republican conference. >> you worry next time something like this happens the guardians may not be at the gate. >>> a michigan republican party leader resigned after saying the 2020 election was not stolen and blaming president trump for his own loss. according to the detroit free press jason roe stepped down from his position, he declined to provide a specific reason for the season. he faced months of push back from grass roots organizations for his outspoken criticisms, his departure comes at a time when michigan republican lawmakers and party officials face growing pressure from pro-trump activists to investigate the results of the 2020 election. an election that trump lost. and then there's this. in an earlier -- in an interview earlier this week, one of the democratic lawmakers from te

to that end, the likes of adam schiff, the congenital liar, adam kinzinger, liz cheney and every other politician hard at work, all the evidence points to this being a biased one-sided investigation with a predetermined outcome. to be very clear, we have always condemned the riots, what happened on january 6th. what happened on that day can never happen again, why? that is the people's house. our institutions and every lawmaker, it doesn't matter what your politics are, they must be protected. attacks on the law enforcement should never be acceptable, ever. not at the capital and not anywhere. member last summer, violent riots rocked almost every major american city. even the white house was besieged. it got so bad there, the secret service was forced to evacuate the president and his family. next door, the historic st. john's church was lit on fire, hundreds of other buildings throughout the country were being targeted by these radical arsonists. a federal courthouse in portland was vandalized and lit on fire on multiple occasions. a police precinct in minneapolis was burned to the gr

that son of a -- word that rhymes with witch, cheney said. was referring to one of trump's staunchest allies in the house of representatives, congressman jim jordan of ohio.t

mccarthy said cheney's actions were shocking.ressional committee investigating an attack on congress. congresswoman cheney has a responsibility to this country, not to the former insurrection in chief and the big lie that continues to damage this nation. covering up that insurrection is a bigger lie. but you know what's scarier? the thought of whom kevin mccarthy might appoint to the committee if he decides to tap any republicans at all. if commonsense republicans like liz cheney are not the type of republicans he wants on this committee, i'm scared to know who are? majorie taylor greene who blamed wildfires on space lasers or maybe matt gaetz who is under federal investigation in a sex trafficking probe. allegations that he denies. america deserves a nonpartisan investigation into the events that took place on january 6th by lawmakers who will not derail the inquiry with nonsense and distractions. because january 6th wasn't a normal tourist visit. it wasn't a peaceful protest. it definitely wasn't blm or antifa. the united state

general milly and congresswoman liz cheney in which cheney who voted for impeachment describes the confrontation she had. it was during the attack, during the insurrection. republican congressman jim jordan kind of i guess -- tell us what happened. >> so jim jordan is a staunch ally of president trump. he's at the head of the freedom caucus. he's known to make a circus out of things. he is certainly the antithesis on the impeachment of liz cheney's support of the impeachment. so milly and cheney are actually close. they're friends. they talk a lot. they have a phone call, and in the book milly says to cheney this is the next day, the 7th, how are you doing? and she recounts this encounter with jim jordan. and she says, quote, that effing guy jim jordan, that son of a -- you can read it on the screen -- cheney said. while these maniacs are going through the place i'm standing in the aisle, and he said we need to get the ladies away from the aisle. let me help you. i smacked his hand away and told him get away from me. you effing did this. i don't think liz cheney felt she needed jim jordan's help