just to go back to the fauci point that you just showed, that tweet from liz cheney, don't forget, liz cheney, obviously, her family served in government for a long, long time. dr. fauci has served five presidents. three republicans, two democrats. you don't build trust like that with people in different parties if you are not what liz chi knee und cheney underscored there, which is he is not a partisan actor here. her father faced health challenges when he was vice president of the united states. somebody that, you know, they built personal relationships with him. there are others across the government who feel the same way about dr. fauci, that he has been responsive to them from either a political or in the course of their job, but also in a private way. also, don't forget, liz cheney has gone back and forth with rand paul, and paul has been one of the most outspoken about raising doubts about dr. fauci. i think those are all important things to keep in mind. >> kasie, i don't remember -- >> the guy who spread coronavirus on capitol hill? >> i don't remember. was rand paul the guy w

elizabeth: you know, liz cheney, republican liz cheney has basically said just recently, quote, thatbarack obama, president barack obama, joe biden, susan rice and quote, a whole bunch of people have been acting as though they are very nervous that the public will learn, that the public will learn the truth about what happened with trump russia probe. in the end notably about the fib's investigation of michael flynn. what do you think they're nervous flynn, they wanted to te flynn out because they knew flynn would be the only one in the administration that would kill crossfire hurricane, the investigation of the trump campaign, because flynn would know what was going on because he served in the national security sphere. of course they're going to want to take him out. what has occurred here should bother every american regardless of your political affiliation. you have a political party and an outgoing administration, obama and biden, who are actively unmasking the flynn's name in this investigation and spying on the trump campaign. you know that biden was in these meetings. when he

the number three republican in the house, liz cheney, told reporters trump should stop tweeting aboutorough and pointed out we're in the middle of a pandemic. the criticism didn't just come from conservatives on capitol hill. a searing editorial by "the wall street journal," in "the new york post" as well. joining me now editor at large for the bull work and an msnbc contributor, charlie sike. liz cheney, "the wall street journal" editorial page which carries a lot of water for trump's war on justice, the "new york post" which carries a lot of water for trump, full stop, coming out against this brand of crazy struck me because it answers this question, how off the rails is he? he's so off the rails, "the wall street journal" editorial page liz cheney and the wall street post are attacking him. >> yes, but this is low hanging fruit. the conservative media has become a permission structure for letting donald trump indulge his worst impulses without any consequences. i feel like we're in a laboratory experiment of how far can we go, how low are they willing to go. you low can they go. yo

she died after abnormal heart rhythm and hit her head scar burro was in washington at the time liz cheney. >> we're in the middle of a pandemic and he's the chief commander of his nation and causing great pain to the woman of the family who died. >> reporter: for spacex, president trump plans to fly back to florida on friday for the next scheduled launch lester >> peter alexander at the white house, thanks. >> we're tracking the threat from tropical depression bertha bringing heavy rain and potentially life threatening floods to the carolinas and virginia it's the second named storm to the season that technically begins june 1st. >>> it seems history will have to wait america's return to space postponed minutes before the spacex rocket was set to lift off by bad weather. tom costello was at the kennedy space center. >> a weather update. >> reporter: a huge letdown after a day filled with anticipation and excitement the first manned mission from american soil in nine years scrubbed as an afternoon florida storm rolled through the kennedy space center. >> continue to violate a couple differ

a member of donald trump's own party, liz cheney tweeting this last night. dr. one of finest public servants we have ever had. he's not a partisan. his only interest is saving lives. all americans should be thanking him every day. a reminder to those who want to talk the scientists on the frontlines of this battle, isn't politics. more than 1.3 million americans infected and the nearly 84,000 moms, dads, grandparents and yes, children lost in america. that's where we start today with some of our favorite reporters and friends. dr. ckavita patel. also joining us politics editor for the daily beast sam stein and phil rucker. i don't know where to start with that fox news montage, fox not only has played with fire but been singed with reckless commentary on their air. kayleig mcenany with trish regularian, coverage like that got trish regan sidelined. have touted unproven drugs for which there are fda warnings for a couple of them. last night going after tony fauci, while it was predictable was still an abhorrent and pretty brazenly political effort to see. >> yeah

liz, do you want to address the question? ms. cheney: thank you. listen, i think we all, as i mentioned, we all looked at different ways that we could operate. and in fact, there could be circumstances-- you could imagine a mass casualty attack, you can imagine any sort of a national security crisis where it might not be possible for members to assemble here in the chamber, and so i think looking at what presence means is a legal question. i would note, however, this lawsuit does not get to that issue. this lawsuit does not get to the issue whether remote voting is constitutional. this issue in the lawsuit is proxy voting. and the point that we are making is, you know, we all have an interest in joining together in a bipartisan fashion to make sure that the people's house can operate and that the people's voice can be heard. unfortunately in this case, the democrats simply ram through a change which they themselves said in their own report was questionable constitutionally. and they rammed it through on a partisan basis in a way that absolutely tak

with that i yield to our conference chair, liz cheney. thank you, steve. thank you very much. you know, we're in the midst of national public health and economic crisis, and as an ers of congress, we have obligation to ensure that congress can operate. there are different views p per expectives up -- perspectives up here in terms of remote voting. we tried very hard to work in a fashion.n we've all tried to reach across the aisle and work with our counterparts on the democratic to help to come up with ways that congress can operate. o help them come up with ways we can fulfill the constituti constitutional requireme be present -- we requirement we be present. require physical present. i think remote operations are possible. but that's not the path gone down.ave what the democrats have done, instead of working with us, is se this crisis to try to gain partisan benefits. what the democrats have done report, youheir own know, a number of us, including ranking member of the rules the ttee, mr. cole, and leader and whip, a number of us have worked closely with the democrats to try

this group will be led by house foreign affairs ranking member michael mcauley and it will include liz cheney and anthony funny, andyleast a barr, john joyce, adam kissinger, jim banks, michael walsh and chris stewart. it will be a microcosm of our entire conference, taking more than 10 committees of jurisdiction and others. they will be looking at a wide range of china-related issues including influence operations targeting the u.s. including our universities, think tanks, and media outlets. economic threats to our government and allies, efforts to gain a technological advantage and role in the origin and spread of covid-19. the work will lead to a comprehensive report with lettuce of operations due by october. a new committee that was announced by the democrats last month was the coronavirus oversight committee led by one of the most political members of their caucus. i have frequent gone over the existing oversight functions in the house. we all know we have the oversight committee. every single committee has a subcommittee on oversight. three additional new oversight committees were put i

this group will include liz cheney and anthony gonzalez.n lahood and denver curtis, andyhn barr, john joyce, adam kissinger, jim banks, michael walsh, chris stewart. it will be a microcosm of our entire conference, taking more committees -- more than 10 committees jurisdictions. they will be looking at a wide range of china issues including influence targeting of the u.s. including our universities and think tanks, economic threats to our government and allies, efforts to gain technological advantage, and role in the origin of the spread of covid-19. this will conclude with legislative recommendations dubai october. due by- do you -- october. a new oversight committee was announced by the democrats led by one of the most political members of their caucus. every committee has a subcommittee on oversight. three additional new oversight committees were put in the cares act. it's important to have accountability. and in doing so, in these three new committees, you have the inspectors general, the president and another committee who will appoint

this group will be led by ranking mentor -- member michael mccaul rate it will include liz cheney and anthony gonzalez. ernesttefanik and junk -- john curtis, andy barr, jim banks, and chris stewart. microcosm of our entire conference, taking more others.committees and they will be looking at a wide range of china related issues, including influence operations targeting the u.s., including our universities, tanks, and media outlets. economic threats to our government. efforts to gain the technological advantage and the origin of covid-19. aey work will lead to comprehensive report with legislative recommendations due by october. a new committee that was announced by the democrats last month was the coronavirus oversight committee, led by one of their most political members. gone over they existing oversight functions of the house. every committee has a subcommittee on oversight. three additional new oversight committees were put in the cares act. it is important to have accountability. these three new committees you have the inspectors general to select someone, you have the president

>> including liz cheney, a member of the leadership republican leadership in the house.hink it's distressing to a lot of people to hear the president continue to trumpet this charge which has been debunked. it's a false charge. it's one that the widower of the woman who died has asked twitter to take down the tweets because he says it's so painful to his family and takes away something that shouldn't be taken away which is the memory of his wife. >> bret: we will see what this executive order does. clearly the battle on social media stress being waged ahead of the election. will follow. next up, they fight over fisa and what comes next there. ein... ein... and now, there's boost mobility... ...with key nutrients to help support... joints, muscles, and bones. try boost mobility, with added collagen. ibut you're not alone. apart for a bit, we're automatically refunding our customers a portion of their personal auto premiums. learn more at libertymutual.com/covid-19. [ piano playing ] ♪ >> the intelligence bill, the fisa bill, no one's really that happy. we have to have a b

elizabeth: republican liz cheney on former fbi director james comey. under the bush administration. house judiciary ranking member back with us, jim jordan. great to have you back. your take on what you just heard? >> no, liz is right. look, i said this a couple days ago but, you look at those three weeks in january of 2017 and jim comey's involved in every single key date. you have schumer first of all say you mess with the intel community they have six ways from sunday getting back to you. jim comey is part of the intel committee. very next day he tells peter strzok, january 2017, tell the two agents, field agents who said michael flynn shouldn't pursue him anymore. peter strzok, says, no, no, comey wants us to go after him. january 5th, obama meets with clapper, comey and talks with jim comey about michael flynn. january 6, that same group goes up to the trump tower and -- [inaudible]. visit with president trump and talk to him about the dossier. jim comey. talks to the president-elect, president trump about the dossier, that comey already knows is

elizabeth: you know, republicans liz cheney and mitt romney say the president should stop tweeting about the death of the political aide, blaming msnbc's joe scarborough over that. what is your reaction to that? >> sorry. elizabeth: all right. i want to move on to this twitter is privately owned and publicly held company. did you, when the president was basically tweeting about california's push to do mail-in balloting for everybody, we had former, basically, let me back up. we basically had twitter using as a fact check for the president's tweets here and now columns at cnn, wanton post, a story in the hill, those are not considered red check fact sources to fact check you know the president on this or other individual on this. what was your reaction when you heard that is what twitter cited as their fact check? >> fact check something used as a political weapon. in fact i can remember when i was here in my first time here in the trump white house as cea chair there was one time when the price of drugs for the first time since world war ii declined for an entire year because of presiden

. >> that was liz cheney on james comey. even a bad actor under the bush administration.nking member jim jordan. congressman, great to have you back here. your take on what you just heard. >> liz is right. love, i said this a couple days ago. you look at the three weeks in january 2017 and jim comey is involved in every key day. some saying he mess with intel community. jim comey as part of the intel committee. the next day he instructs peter struck to tell the two agents, the field agent that said michael flynn should not pursue him anymore, no, comey wants us to go after him. january 5 meets with clapper and comey and talks about michael flynn january 6. that same group goes up the trump tower. visiting with president trump and talking about the dossier. jim comey. talking about the dossier that comey already knows is a false document. paid for by the clinton campaign erssia disinformation. twelve day later he sends to agents into the white house. does not follow the rules. trapping and setting up michael flynn. liz is exactly right when she says this guy needs to be he

liz cheney weighed in. doctor fauci only interested in saving lives she tweeted adding clichÉ to injury. no, doctor fauci only interested in saving lives from coronaviru coronavirus, of course that's important, but it can't be the only concern. what about saving lives lost by the shutdown. how long do they think we can keep going like this. they think the government can be a substitute for real life, but where do they think the money will come from as they shutdown the economy. of course for them the 37% work from home elite, the economy isn't really shut down anyway but for the majority of americans who can't earn a living from their laptop this is a disaster and wear real people try to earn a living they are punished. the gym owner in california, the game store owner in texas. you see it. they've got creepy surveillance drones and bullying cops, they arrest people trying to get fresh air. it is the true face of today's establishment. the leftist technocratic elite with increasingly authoritarian instincts

liz cheney has defended him. i think it's worth talking about this. obviously, she's a high-profile republican in congress. she said dr. fauci is one of the finest public servants we've had. his only interest is saving lives. we need his expertise and judgment to defeat this virus. all americans should be thanking him every day. i think that's notable this morning. >> this is consistent with the sort of blame game as the administration tries to figure out how can it justify 82,000 people dead under president trump's watch. it was china and then it was the governors and then it was the democratic governors, then it was the obama administration, now they are turning inward and both eyes are on dr. fauci. what i thought was incredible from dr. fauci yesterday and important to listen to him. he took what you were talking about, that everything is stark black and white with the fox people and the trump administration, he actually took that on. he said you people prened this as economics or isolation. that it's one or the other. he said it's actually both.

but if you're looking at what republicans on capitol hill are saying, you know, liz cheney just a few moments ago was speaking about the president's comments, saying that she doesn't think he should be making a comment like this, but especially during a pandemic as the nation's death toll is closing in on 100,000. it's just a time of crisis, and this is what the president is choosing to focus on, because he doesn't like the coverage always of how he's been handling that crisis. >> as you know, apart from covering the white house in the past, the president doesn't like when people tell him he's wrong and he usually doesn't listen, so there's an approach some people take. the president is dismissive of masks. he doesn't want to be photographed with one. he refused to wear one because people could see him on a factory floor in michigan, even though it was a requirement. some republican governors who desperately want to keep the situation in their states under control are encouraging mask use. listen to mike dewine here. he doesn't criticize the president. had he chooses a different appro

and i want to read you this from liz cheney tonight on twitter. dr.auci is one of the finest public servants we have ever had. he is not a partisan. his only interest is saving lives. we need his expertise and his judgment to defeat this virus. all americans should be thanking him every day. john, what do you make of any or all of it? >> well, brian, as you pointed out in the polling, a lot of americans are -- an overwhelming number are thanking dr. fauci every day and grateful for the fact that he's there. in our society, in our politics, in our public square, for someone to have nearly a 70% approval rating is almost totally inconceivable. and so to hear our friend mr. carlson seeming to argue that the fact that he served in republican and democratic administrations alike, that he is someone who actually -- he's done the same job, he's been someone who has expertise, he has tenure, he has a nonpartisan profile, and for some reason those things add up to we don't want to trust that guy. that tells you how messed up the situation is, brian, that those

no, he's not an elected official, but he is, as liz cheney said in a tweet, our leading expert on the subjects. we need experts like this at times like this. so the fox news will appeal to the disquiet, the unease, the unhappiness of people over being locked down, but it is not really linked to a rational plan for how to solve the virus and therefore solve the economy and has a big effect on president trump who is responsive to people who seem -- who he thinks are on his side, who are praising him, and so we're receiving from the american people most of them are very apprehensive about opening. they're following their own instincts and what they see in terms of the coverage of this pandemic. but president trump is more likely to be responsive to that message on fox than maybe some people -- some of his constituents are. >> john harwood, thank you very much for all of the political analysis for us. >>> so what should our leaders do if new clusters of cases pop up as the country reopens? i'll talk to one of the experts the government relies on about that next. >>> my concern that if som

some republicans like liz cheney and mitt romney have chastised trump and so have some editorial boardsall street journal" and the washington examiner. >> it wasn't just that twitter was wrong -- >> but many trump allies are apparently unbothered. >> maybe those questions should be asked. >> according to limbaugh, trump is just having fun watching the 234r5i7 flames, reminding us of a famous quote from christopher nolan's "the dark knight". >> some men just want to watch the world burn. >> that quote takes on a deeper meaning this weekend. with me now is david fromm, staff writer from the atlantic and author of the book "trump apocalypse." is that right, david? >> that's right. very good. >> is that quote basically the trump presidency, that some men just want to watch the world burn? >> president trump is a reprehensible person and obviously a person without a lot of regard for truth. he doesn't always act logically as the christopher nolan tweet suggests. one of my favorite insights of the trump presidency was the staffer who said donald trump isn't playing three dimensional chess, he

liz cheney, one of the top house republicans, said the president needs to stop.he's the commander in chief of this nation and it's causing great pain to the family of the young woman who died so i would urge him to stop it." "the wall street journal"'s editorial board echoed that criticism and said trump was smearing scarborough, and debasing his office and hurting the country in doing so. now, jake, the president is still here at the kennedy space center. it was going to be a family affair with the first lady here, most of his children if not all of them were also here and he was going to give a speech right here behind me if that launch had gone forward. now we're waiting to see if he's going to make any remarks at all before returning to washington tonight. >> all right, kaitlan collins, thanks so much. >>> minutes ago president trump weighed in on the death of an african-american man who pleaded he could not breathe while pinned to the ground by a minnesota police officer. stay with us. you doing okay? yeah. this moving thing never gets any easier. well, xfin

. >> and this, the number three person in the house republican leadership, liz cheney, she wrote dr. fauci is one of the finest public servants we ever had, that he's not a partisan. he's only interested in saving lives. we need his expertise and his judgment to defeat this virus. all americans should be thanking him every day. zeke, that certainly shows a lot of support, at least in some republican quarters, but at least one network, fox news, has just been relentless going after fauci. one wonders if he will hear this publicly from the president. >> so dr. fauci, i have known him for many, many years. we've worked together at the nih. he's the quintessential public servant. he's served republican and democratic presidents. he was the inspiration behind george bush's pranl. president trump embraced him trying to get rid of hiv spread in this country earlier in the administration before coronavirus. and he i think is just calling the shots. as a matter of fact, let's just look at what dr. fauci was saying. he was saying, look, we have a potential, if we open too early, we're likely t

and even politically, i think you oklahoma see liz cheney, number three republican in the house, nowce criticized the president, first for his attack on marie yovanovitch, the u.s. ambassador to you can, in his tweets, and now in his tweets on joe scarborough and saying this is wrong. ican see that there is a political advantage seen by some republicans, anyway, to distance themselves from donald trump and, for that, i am encouraged. >> woodruff: last thing i want to ask both of you, and that is, david, this is the week we marked 100,000 american lives lost in this pandemic just in a matter of just a few weeks. i don't even know how to ask the question, but what is there to say at a moment like this? >> well, you know, we've had presidents whoave led us through moments of national mourning, and they step out of politics, and they uncloak themselves and just become sufferers among a sea of sufferers, and that's what barack obama did after sandy hook, that's what abraham lincoln did after gettysburg, george bush after 9/11, reagan after challenger. barack obama sang amazing grace. they

congresswoman liz cheney said, i would urge trump to stop it.resident has not stopped, continuing to promote the baseless conspiracy theory today. i am joined by jonathan lemire, white house reporter for associated press. elise jordan, former aide in the george w. bush white house. and noah rothman from commentary magazine. jon lemire, the president making a dramatic threat, now word of some sort of executive order in the works. do you have a sense if there will be a real followup from this administration and what form it could possibly take? >> steve, the president is fond of the dramatic threat but it's unclear what sort of followup there will be. he was in florida today, trying to attend the scrubbed rocket launch. on his flight back, white house press secretary came back and told reporters on the plane that there would be an executive order on social media coming out either later tonight or tomorrow. a short time later it was clarified it will be tomorrow. there are no details what it will be. according to our reporting there's been so much

is this -- right now, it's mitt romney, liz cheney and add up kinzington and that's it. >> no, chuck, this is a real problem. republicans do need to stand up and do need to awake from this slump or anything. he misbehaves and some accept it. but this is not a game. this is about life and death. this is about the future of our country and the world. so when it comes to our natural politics, the standard has to be higher and there can't be no tolerance for these kinds of misleading statements that, you know, just confuse people. and and sow distrust and chaos. many. >> kara, i want to go back to twitter. their decision to put this little fact check thing, how are they not a publisher now? >> they are a publisher. i have always said that, as you know. >> i know you have. but isn't this more proof? >> they all make these decisions every day. facebook does it, twitter does it. they already are doing this, by the way. this is not a fresh, new thing. they exercised that editorial judgment almost continually. it's just not with president trump, and that's what is different here. i really do l

house republican conference chairwoman liz cheney. >> so, instead of going down the path of saying "how we do this together," the democrats have adopted a completely partisan scheme, and they have done it in a way that absolutely infringes on the rights of the minority and infringes on the constitution. >> desjains: while the u.s. looks to reopen, covid-19 cases are spiking around the world, including in previous hot spots. south korea reported its highest number of new cases in weeks. many of the infections were linked to an outeak at an e-commerce warehouse. >> ( translated ): we are very nervous about community infections, and we are keeping a close eye on the situation. we are doing our best to prevent the further spread of infection through fast contact tracing and testing. >> desjardins: india logged a new record number of daily infections as well, as its overall caseload topped 150,000. and, with coronavirus cases surging across latin america, hospitals in brazil, mexico, and chile are struggling to keep up with the huge influx in patients. meanwhile, hospitals in france will no

let's bring in gop congresswoman liz cheney the chair of the house gop conferences and member of housegeorge to you. >> good morning, great to be with you. ainsley: what do you think happened biden it turns out now was in that january 5 meeting. >> well it absolutely looks like a whole bunch of people, president obama, vice president biden, former national security advisor susan rice, all are acting as though they are very very nervous. all are acting as though suddenly they're concerned that the american people are going to learn the truth. when you write an e-mail to yourself, which looks like sort of a reminder, note to self, make sure people don't think that we've been abusing the law, and then you watch president obama for the first time speaking out publicly within the last 48 hours or so, and of course what you just played vice president biden not even being able to keep his story straight within one minute of each other, so i think that there clearly were some very deeply troubling things that the administration, the obama administration was doing and we absolutely have to get

mitt romney has come out and attacked him and i believe liz cheney has as well.ou tell me if i'm wrong, trump's going to double down. i think he's tweeted in the past couple of hours good joe scarborough still. what is the anatomy of trump digging himself a hole and then digging deeper. >> nicolle, we've been watching now for five years donald trump dig hold with conspiracies and create conflict his advisers warn him is politically damaging to him and he will minority back down. backing down is conceding an error in judgment and he's unwilling to do that. i assume he will continue to talk to joe scarborough, continue to revive these awful memories for the victim's family. continue to spread utter falsehood and not listen to the advise he's hearing internally and also the advice his own allies and other republicans are sharing publicly until he can get distracted by another conspiracy that comes along, and we all turn our gaze in that direction. >> a.b., the difference in this one is that he looks not just heartless, that's old, he looks crazy. >> it's amazing. to

but i was really encouraged by liz cheney. she put out a very strong statement in support of dr.e are some republicans that get it. i think in that hearing yesterday you saw a lot of respect and deference for dr. fauci. the only one who took a swipe at him was rand paul. all the rest of them i think realize that he is someone who is way more reliable -- and the public gets this -- way more reliable than the guy who, as my friend nicolle would say, hangs out in the office with no corners. >> dr. bhadelia, claire mccaskill, thank you for starting off our coverage at this hour. thanks for having us in. >>> when we come back, all the president's men. as we mentioned, former trump kpain chairman paul manafort released from prison over coronavirus fears. the judge puts the brakes on the unprecedented move to drop the charges against former national security adviser michael flynn. >>> later, president trump heads to pennsylvania tomorrow. that state embroiled in a battle over how to reopen its economy. now the president is inserting himself into that fight. we'll be right back. like way

>> let me be clear, liz cheney is opposed to proxy voting, she joins me in that a lawsuit against democrats. everyone should be opposed to proxy voting. almost one-third of the democrats did not show up to work yesterday but they still get their paycheck. more than 50 million americans did not have a voice on the floor. democrat signed a piece of paper that said they were physically unable to come to congress but charlie crist was able to come even though he is sound, signed that paper come to go to the launch across the state. so he lied to his own constituents, he lied under oath and say for one moment 231 years, we have met on this. through a yellow fever of 73, through the civil war, through the spanish flu. even when the building was burned down in the war of 1812, 9/11, we should convene, the constitution says we should. it is only the ability of nancy pelosi to try to get more power. her own words yesterday on the floor, she said this is an opportunity come every crisis is. she's taking a crisis as an opportunity to secure more power for herself and allow only 20 people to control th

liz cheney says joe biden looks like bide own, obama, susan rice are getting very nervous.en starr says what did obama do, when did he do it in the michael flynn investigation. i don't think that is going well for him. i think there are some more documents to be revealed. is it possible that could be the item which pushes him out of the race? am i going too far? >> no, i don't think pushes him out of the race because i don't think anything would happen to him with regard to a criminal investigation or charges but he does have a lot to answer for. what did know and when did know it? he was in the oval office. i'm sure this wasn't the only meeting regarding flynn. the president was getting complete updates. he directed the fbi to do this investigation. he tried to scuttle president trump's victory as a candidate. then he tried to scuttle him as a president. after he was elected. then of course democrats tried to remove him. this has been a concerted effort from the beginning to today to try and damage the president, remove this president. it is not going to happen. joe biden