mccarthy and republicans had their chance, good for liz cheney. i'm not a fan but hate how she has been treated by mccarthy and others. we will go to wilmington, delaware next. independent line. caller: everybody calling them today wants to get to the bottom of what happened. there are two questions unanswered. the fbi agent and the crowd directing the insurrection. we have a right to know who killed her. everybody is worried about lives in jeopardy, that woman was killed and they won't name who the person was. host: ed is next on the cult -- on the independent line. caller: it is the scam of the democrats, the scourge of our country. this is a joke. the only person killed was a veteran air force woman shot, the fake news keep saying there are four other deaths. none of them died from the riot as they call it. they are not even allowed -- there is a two justice system in our country. it is pathetic. the fbi, and cia are weaponizing against conservatives. these people are sitting in jail in solitary, maybe four years without even a hearing, anythin

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

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

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

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'

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

reporter: why should liz cheney lose her committee assignments? mr. mccarthy: i'm not giving threats about committee assignments. you know how congress works. you get elected by your district and you get your committees from your conference. when jeff van drew left the party and became a republican, he lost his committee assignments from the speaker and got them from the republican conference. when representative amash he got his committee assignments from the speaker. i don't know where in history where someone gets a committee assignment from the speaker and have them from the conference as well. reporter: you haven't criticized members like representative clyde and haven't lost committee assignments. mr. mccarthy: i'm not threatening anyone with committee assignments. it was shocking to me that if a person is republican and get committee assignments from the republican conference. for someone to accept committee assignments from speaker pelosi, that's unprecedented. reporter: do you regret not supporting the bipartisan commission idea and will have

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

from day one, liz cheney has said democracy above politics. and that's what this is about. is not helping her in wisconsin get reelected. trump not more votes than cheney did in her home state. she's doing this for one reason and one reason only. >> we'll follow the political drama. now the burden is on the committee whether it gets additional republican members or not and to prove it's going after the truth. we'll watch that. grateful for you sharing your reporting. >>> up next, president biden on the ground in surfside. meetings with families still waiting. a word on missing loved ones. - oh. - what? rain. cancel and stay? done. go with us and get millions of felixble booking options. expedia. it matters who you travel with. with our unique tub over tub installation in just a day, bath fitter doesn't just fit your bath, it fits your busy schedule. why have over two million people welcomed bath fitter into their homes? it just fits. bath fitter. call now or visit bathfitter.com to book your free consultation. wayfair has everything you need to make your home ready to seize

that committee than my trying to slip onto that committee that same jim jordan, to sit alongside liz cheney to get to the bottom of what really happened that day. congresswoman cheney today was asked about nancy pelosi's decision to say no to jim jordan and one other republican member of congress being put on that committee by the house republicans. when congresswoman cheney was asked for her reaction to that decision today, she did not mince words. >> at every opportunity, the minority leader has attempted to prevent the american people from understanding what happened, to block this investigation. today the speaker objected to two republican members. she accepted three others. she objected to two, one of whom may well be a material witness to events that led to that day, that led to january 6th. the other who disqualified himself by his comments in particular over the last 24 hours, demonstrating that he is not taking this seriously. he is not dealing with the facts of this investigation but rather viewed it as a political platform. this investigation must go forward. the idea that anybod

and liz cheney lets loose about jim jordan, the head of the freedom caucus and trump supporter. ote, 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 helping him publicly push it whether that was not condemning what he was saying or it was actually pushing it and repeating those lies about the election, casting doubt on the fact that bi

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

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

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

liz cheney could tell us and maybe she will. please tell us the truth about january 6th.vide them? that's it for us tonight. our documentary on foxnation.com. we will see you tomorrow. here is shauna. >> sean: welcome to hannity. hope all of you had a wonderful july 4th weekend in one of the millions that actually celebrated independence day, hopefully had a cookout come a lot of fireworks, a few drinks, wine, beer, whatever your drink of choices. unfortunately on the left, the mob, the media use the holiday is yet another excuse, the latest excuse to trash this country and the men and women who dedicated their lives to creating a more perfect union. going to show you the worst of the worst straight ahead.

liz cheney accepted. what do you think could be the fallout for her? right prior to january 6th really came to the conclusion that she was going to do the right thing, damn the consequences. it is admirable. for those of us who remember the bush administration, the fact that me and so many democrats are praising liz cheney whose neo-conservative record on foreign affairs is quite well known as is her father's, is quite an irony and hard to believe given where we were a couple decades ago. but liz cheney is doing the right thing. she's already paid a price, losing her leadership spot. at this point i think she feels like she doesn't politically have anything more to lose that she hasn't already lost. >> do you think anybody else will join her on the committee? any republicans? >> well, i would love to see adam kinzinger who is a good friend of mine. we served on the foreign affairs committee together, and we co-lead a caucus to promote democracy in syria. at the same time, adam kinzinger is also like liz cheney, quite outspoken in terms of calling the b

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

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

she has already put liz cheney on the committee. they could proceed on that basis. they could also install other members along with housework and's who did not vote against certifying the electoral college vote. that will be one of the bigger controversies going forward, is kevin mccarthy, if he does decide to appoint members, if he appoints members who represent the majority position among the house republican conference, which was to vote against certifying at least some of the electoral college results, does nancy pelosi regard as illegitimate that they are on that committee and on that basis , try to block some of those appointments? that is something that i think we have to take a look at. we don't really know what leader mccarthy is going to do yet, but i think, you know, putting liz cheney on the committee was a shot across the bow, and we will have to see what his approach will be to the committee makeup. host: to the larger issues of the actions of january 6 -- this is janet from florida off twitter, saying -- similar thoughts from randy in michigan, textin

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

there's still a giant question mark about the future of liz cheney. >> sure. to face challenges by people who are supported by donald trump. she's going to face -- i was talking to somebody earlier today about whether she could pull outff a murkowski, a senat who can get elected in a write-in campaign, but in a state that donald trump won so convincingly. does that money outweigh the former president and the hostility from the republican base? my gut says no. >> the 2001 thing she has going for her is that the primary field is so packed right now that she might be able to overcome this. the question is if and when donald trump endorses someone, do other people get out and what impact does that have. >> the donald trump role is a fascinating question. the >>> up next, florida's covid cases are on the rise again. don't expect florida's governor to turn to washington for advice. he's raising campaign funds now by attacking dr. anthony fauci. ♪ ♪ ♪ aloha! isn't this a cozy little room? sorry your vacation request took so long to get approved, so you missed out on

this figure also announced that republican liz cheney is on the committee. this is 25 minutes. about inclusion. we will have his reaction after we hear from speaker pelosi. ms. pelosi: good morning. it's a good morning, because decision decisions as they are and difficult as they are and sad in some cases, they are liberating and enable us to go forward. as we gather here on the floor of the house right now, we are passing the invest in america act, an opportunity for us to not only build the infrastructure of america, but to build the middle class of america. it does so by putting equity front and center with the necessary focus on communities of color, rural communities and regions with persistent poverty. we are pleased that the president has come together in a bipartisan way with the united states senate -- senators for a bipartisan infrastructure plan. when we finish with this legislation, we look forward to continuing that conversation with them so that we can pass an infrastructure bill as well as a reconciliation bill. that was yesterday -- that's today. yesterday, we s

meant whether they would fill the spaces and nancy pelosi said she would add kinzinger along with liz cheneyect panel. and i think that one of the underlying features here is that you have members arguing that, yes, they should be punished. kinzinger and cheney, they are not following with the republican party. they are not following mccarthy's guidance here. but there are others who are arguing that is more trouble than it is worth because house speaker nancy pelosi could just put them back on their other committees and that obviously would just be a major waste of time and a distraction for republicans who want to spend their time just calling out the select panel as bias, as too democratic and not going to be representative of the entire party. and i think that that is really the push and pull here. mccarthy wanting to make sure he has the ability to make those conservatives happy because he may want to be speaker if they take back the house in 2022. poppy. >> it always politics that is at play. thank you very much. >>> joining me now is congressman charlie dent and former democratic mass

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

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

it's liz cheney.t serve republicans, how does that serve kevin mccarthy that now the voice of republicans on this committee is liz cheney who he ousted from leadership? >> if i was kevin mccarthy i would not sleep well that liz cheney is the republican representing the republican party up in that committee. she made clear that she is willing to burn it all down, she is going to go after president trump and where the facts lead. the thing i'm watching today, though, is whether republicans are going to make a renewed effort to punish her because i got a lot of messages yesterday after the comments she made outside the capitol supporting nancy pelosi's decision and a lot of republicans are very upset with her. they know the bipartisan credibility of the panel now solely rests with liz cheney. that's what i'll be watching today. i reported yesterday that liz cheney is pushing pelosi to hire a republican adviser or staffer for this committee. i think that really shows where her head is at in terms of tryin

separately, he'll have to decide what to do about liz cheney. does he punish her?taylor-greene and does she create that contrast and hope she goes away? make no mistake. cheney wants this fight. she wants this discussion about january 6th and what republican leadership believed 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 dur

that is from liz cheney, if the the gentleman wans to quote. mr. hoyer: is that a quote about ms. greene? mr. scalise: it is a quote about ms. greene. there were member that committee who voted on january 6 to reject electors. maybe not this year'sian 6. but as the gentleman knows, every republican president this century has had democrats on this house floor object to electors being seated. including multiple members of the january 6 committee on the majority side. they weren't removed. in fact they were appointed by the speaker. yet two of our members who raised very serious questions about facts that should be answered, wherever those answers lead, were removed, because maybe the majority doesn't want all the facts to come out. maybe they only want a certain narrative to come out. that's not an investigation. that's a kangaroo court if that's the approach that's going to be taken. the action taken yesterday by the speaker, the unprecedented action, undermines the credible of that commission and it's a shame for the institution because the members we appointed were going there to

today, ramesh, we heard liz cheney respond to kevin mccarthy's claim that she and adam kinzinger were pelosi republicans. here's cheney responding. >> we have important work to do, and i think that's pretty childish. >> we should note, kevin mccarthy does vote more with nancy pelosi than liz cheney votes with pelosi in terms of -- but i guess the litmus test of whether you're a pelosi republican or a trump republican is whether or not you support trump and not conservative values, in some ways. >> it may be a childist taunt on mccarthy's part, but it could have a real sting. it could really stick and hurt cheney and other like-minded republicans in their primaries this next year. it's right that she votes with conservative republicans. she agrees with mccarthy on abortion and guns and taxes and all the issues. the question is, is agreement with trump and taking the trump line on the events of january 6th, is that going to become the defining issue? do republicans really want to tie themselves not just to trump but to the worst aspect of the trump administration? >> i think they do. >>

that republican's liz cheney of wyoming.elosi is thrilled to have her. >> i'm saying this in seniority order. congresswoman liz cheney, of the armed services committee has periodically agreed to serve on the committee. we are very honored and proud that she has agreed to serve on the committee. >> tucker: it's is excited because liz cheney sounds a lot like nancy pelosi. the insurrection was far worse than pearl harbor or 9/11. >> if you look at our history andat you look at what we did after pearl harbor and what we did after the kennedy assassination, we have to have this kind of fact-finding commission with subpoena power and it ought to be focused just on january 6. and the events o that lead up to the t attack. >> tucker: at the sad thing is that liz cheney is not cori bush, liz cheney is actually quite smart and if she wanted to find it would happen she could tell us tonight. tell us the basics, and why can't we see the 14,000 hours of surveillance footage that the capitol police still have that we show us what happene

who will give an opening statement, and it is liz cheney to set the tone and the tenor for the inquiry itself, and the push to uncover what we still don't know about then president trump's actions before, during and after the insurrection. all right. joining us now is nbc news capitol hill correspondent leigh ann caldwell, and playbook coauthor eugene daniels and former fbi special agent and msnbc national security analyst clint watt. it is great to have the three of you with us. leigh ann, we have heard the new attack line of pelosi republican, and also about the phone call when he heard that she was going to nix two of his picks, and help us unpack this. >> it is not a traditional committee, and you have two republicans on the committee of course, representative adam ken zinger and liz cheney who are like-minded on the claim that the false claims that the election was stolen or that he did not lose the election, and so this is one that is not commonly seen up here on capitol hill. that group of nine members just broke up from a preparation meeting ahead of tomorrow's first committee

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

when you take liz cheney, liz cheney is the daughter of the department under bush.e republican. kinzinger is the same way. i think they will conduct themselves admirably. i think they will be above it. and i hope that the committee stays above it and that they don't, you know, resort to anything that can play into any politics here. but, look, picture is worth a thousand words. and you listen to this police officer talk about what he went through. i mean, you know, wolf, i guess the only thing i can say is that people when they get frightened or they feel under attack, they see a narrative only they want to believe. and to turn a blind's eye to what happened on that capitol today, the people who were so severely hurt, you know, god bless them. open your eyes, please, folks. this is our country we're talking about. this is not some charade. it's not. it is too important to the heartbeat of america. >> what do you expect to see and hear tomorrow? >> i think we're going to -- i think people feel upset. they feel this is outrageous. but i think people are going to be re

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

liz cheney and adam kinzinger. s>> the gop should play tin thi committee. >> adam and liz?? >> first of all, we should note that congress member liz cheney used the word childish as the term. second of all, the new editor of the national review noted that will be used against cheney and possibly kinzinger in races against them. kevin mcckcarthy was commening with a term to use against them. you have a number of republicans in the house caucus. you have one paul gosar who meets with and flirts with white sue supremacists and nationalists. you have matt gaetz involved in child sex trafficking investigations. you have marjorie greene who had crazy issues with rockefellers were behind lasers and causing wildfires. these three people do not offend kevin mccarthy based on his public statements or lack there of. liz cheney and adam kinzinger do. kevin votes with nancy pelosi far more than liz cheney does. i mean, that's who kevin mccarthy is. >> that is not test. >> not about the conservative principles, but if you are willing to support trump lies. >> along the lines, george p. b

thursday, nancy pelosi announced that republican liz cheney of wyoming would serve on the committee. here is what she had to say. sen. toomey: -- rep. cheney: our dedication to the rule of law and the peaceful transfer of power has come above any concern about partisanship. yamiche: house minority leader kevin mccarthy criticized cheney for accepting the committee assignment from the democrat. -- from a democrat. rep. mccarthy: i was shocked she would accept something from speaker pelosi. maybe she is closer to her than us, i don't know. yamiche: the high term for that is called shade. [laughter] jonathan lemire, what is the politics of all this? how does each party, including the white house, see this? jonathan l.: shade is a good term for it. let's take a step back. republicans in the senate wanted to kill the bipartisan commission modeled after the september 11 commission that was to investigate january 6 capitol riot which mind you, in just a few days from now, will have hit the six month anniversary. it is remarkable and sort of sad, frankly, that that much time has elapsed witho

>> i asked liz cheney, what are you trying to get out of this commission? she said obviously we want to hear from the police officers, this brave testimony. body camera footage but cheney made the point, they want to put facts on the table and counter the whitewash that's going on in the republican party. they may get to investigate why this happened but right now they're trying to establish what happened and that's important for the historical record. >> it's hard to see how this ends up being the process that is able to do that. i spent a lot of time interviewing republican voters and listened to focus groups of republican voters last week and the week before. you hear the sense that it wasn't all that bad. it was just a protest. this revisionist history has seeped into the party. >> we have some of the quotes from this focus group you were part of. 100% orchestrated by antifa and the left. and another says i think it goes to george soros. i third voter says it wasn't an insurrection. washington, d.c. on january 6th what is a protest. how do you even begin

and he punished liz cheney once.e's going to try to punish her twice now because she refused to mouth the big election lie. i mean he loves parttisanship. he loves partisanship more than his country. at this point. i still consider myself a republican but i'm not a blind partisan shch neither is liz cheney or a whole lot of other people who need a place to go and serve as a stop against this horrible, terrible impulse. >> amanda, matthew, thank you so much. i really appreciate it. >>> charged with running a 15-year scheme to dodge taxes. inside the trump organization's indictment after this. we're carvana, the company who invented car vending machines and buying a car 100% online. now we've created a brand-new way for you to sell your car. whether it's a year old or a few years old. we wanna buy your car. so go to carvana and enter your license plate answer a few questions. and our techno wizardry calculates your car's value and gives you a real offer in seconds. when you're ready, we'll come to you, pay you on the s

pelosi appointed liz cheney as one of the eight slots.osition after voting to impeach trump. kevin mccarthy threatened to pull any committee from any republican who accepted pelosi's offer to serve on the panel. i want to bring in chip roy of texas. thanks for joining us and thanks for being patient. republican leader mccarthy calling it unprecedented that your colleague liz cheney would accept the offer by speaker pelosi. take a listen. >> i don't know in history where someone would go get their committee assignments from the speaker and expect to be in the conference as well. i was shocked she would accept something from speaker pelosi. it seemed to me, as i didn't hear from her, maybe she's closer to her than us. i don't know. >> congressman roy, you've spoken in support of liz cheney in the past. what's your reaction to that? >> first of all, let me just say our prayers are with the folks in florida. it's a terrible tragedy. i have no problem waiting for the president to address that. good to be with you, jake. i don't think there sho

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

so does she want to set up a liz cheney versus jim jordan? i like liz cheney in that fight.stricts and swing states are going to come down on liz cheney's side, not on jim jordan's side. and always if she turns them down, who knows, she could get three looney toons next that everybody has heard of that are really incentivized to be crazy because that's the only way they make money in their campaigns, you know. the qanon lady and crazy boebert or whatever her name is. so i think in some ways they can work with these people, especially considering we've got three to three in terms of republicans who bought the big lie and protected the big lie and those who rejected the big lie. >> that is a really good point. that's why we love you, claire, that is a great point. for those of you who forget who jim jordan is, you might want to turn the volume down just a skosh on your tvs before i play this. >> i don't know why you won't give us what we asked for. >> i hope your colleagues are not under that impression. that is not accurate, sir -- >> it is accurate. we have caught you hiding

with the exception of liz cheney and adam kinzinger, they couldn't even be bothered to show up. by boycotting the investigation, house minority leader kevin mccarthy and his caucus have turned their backs on the very officers who saved their lives. in their attempts to downplay the insurrection earned them this emotional rebuke from officer fanone. >> the indifference shown to my colleagues is disgraceful. nothing, truly nothing has prepared me to address those elected members of our government who continue to deny the events of that day. and in doing so, betray their oath of office. >> kevin mccarthy is so indifferent to the events of january 6th that he didn't even bother to watch the hearing today. the witnesses on the front lines of that attack implored the committee to get to the bottom of what happened. they were emphatic in their view that any political leaders who incited the mob to violence must be held accountable. >> that is what i am looking for is an investigation into those actions and activities which may have resulted in the events of january 6th, and also whethe