so i think they should ask liz cheney to be speaker of the house. she's republican and she would be wonderful. she did a great job with the january 6 insurrection. so liz cheney gets my vote and this call represents 1,000 people that agree with me but do not call. thank you very much. host: thanks, beverly. a chance for us to point out courtesy of the archives at archives.gov, the u.s. constitution, legislative -- establishing legislative bodies, article 1 and section 2 of the house of representatives in section 2, the house of representatives shall choose their speaker and other officers, is right there in section 2. and that's what's going to take place today at noon eastern. they'll try again at noon eastern to choose their speaker. we expect a seventh round of voting after three further failed attempts yesterday. our coverage starting at 11:50 eastern here on c-span. and c-span.org and on our mobile app. we'll take you live to the capitol now to hear from democratic leadership. mr. jeffries: organize themselves in a manner that allows the congre

>> yes, i think -- i think of liz cheney right off the top of the -- the question. i think of people who have actually sacrificed their own individual power in the cause of preserving a larger order that, for all of its imperfections, has proved durable and has also, in our own time, proven, incredibly fragile, which we we all sort of notionally thought about. you know, "democracy is fragile" is the kind of thing we would say. but now we know it really is. >> and yet liz cheney is no longer a leader in congress. >> exactly. and that's courage. and the great -- one great test about the durability and the ultimate wisdom of the american people will be what happens to her next. >> i want to ask you about faith. religion and the religion of american presidents is a recurring theme in your work. >> yeah. >> what conclusions have you drawn about the relationship between faith and leadership in america? >> i think that it's usually not explicit. it's ambient. it can be unconscious. it's about why one gets up in the morning to do what one does. and the immensity -- and you

the point of replacing liz cheney was because liz cheney's dad dick cheney started the iraq war everyongressman including mike pence and bob nate and tom delay push that war and lied about it and committed treason, of course, by outing valerie plame. she mentioned in a speech about her grandfather fighting words and are great and father and forgot to mention her dad this is all about making sure the leverage against mccarthy works. what does everybody want? we want air investigations. did joe biden's family get in bed with russia and china? that's treason so there is no capitulation. they have to be followed and that's the point of the election. everybody is blaming donald trump and even though he doesn't read his speeches perfectly, the dobbs ruling caused zero-tolerance abortions to be on the ballot. if the supreme court waited until january, you would've had 20 more members in the house. host: that's dave in illinois. we will take calls on your top priorities for congress. john mcardle will join us as we watch what happens and plays out today. host: the speaker fight is the story o

high tailing to mar-a-lago and throwing liz cheney under the bus. there is no -- there's only cowardice right now in the republican hierarchy. as long as that's the case and it seems to be the case after what we have seen from kevin mccarthy, they're going to keep going to the extreme. after an election in which they just woefully underperformed, a lot of their extremist candidates lost, the calculation they have made is, you know what, we're going to make marjorie taylor greene the face of the party, make laurent boebert the face of the party, make scott perry the face of the party. in fact, we're going to put them on the oversight committee where they're center stage when these hearings are broadcast wall to what on every news network, they're going to make them more influential, more important. that's the lesson they learn from almost losing the midterm elections almost entirely. >> and the problem is they can't win a majority in the country, and they certainly can't win the white house this way. and it's a vicious cycle because then when they lo

and liz cheney. and if your prius runs out of juice in yellowstone they will just let the bears eat you. so wyoming wants to phase out electric cars by 2035. just in time for my 50th birthday. that's in the teleprompter. and i read it anyway. the bill aims to ensure the stability of wyoming's oil and gas industry, saying that electric vehicles would have deleterious impacts on wyoming's communities, and be detrimental to its economy. now, the bill was co-sponsored by a g.o.p. state senator named bryan boner. stop it, you teenagers. >> greg: normally boner's name wouldn't matter but since it's boner -- i would have fired the writer of the story if he didn't include boner's last name. being in wyoming, i wonder if he frequents jackson hole. [laughter] >> greg: kat, this is a great story, don't you think? it's basically a symbolic thumb in your eye to california. it like, oh, you guys are going to gas cars? we're going to ban electric vehicles. how is that? >> obviously, i wouldn't agree with it in term

[applause]ve should say and liz cheney wherever i a go for it see what happens, and liz cheney.n yellowstone they will just let the bears eat you. so wyoming was a phase out electric cars by 2035, just in time for my 50th birthday.bi that is in the teleprompter. [laughter] and i read it anyway.e the bill aims to ensure the o stability of wyoming's oil andil gas industry, saying electric t vehicles will have impacts on wyoming's communities. and be detrimental to its economy. now, the bill was cosponsored b gop state senator named brian boehner. [laughter] stop it you teenagers. normally boehner's they would not matter. but since it is a boehner i would've fired the writer ofud this story if he did not include boehner's last name. being in wyoming i wonder if he frequents jackson hole. [laughter] boom. cap this is a great story.ymbo don't you think? it's basically symbolic thumb inuring toc they california. gas u.s. are going to ban gas cars were to ban electric vehicles how's that customer x obviouslyh wouldn't agree with it in terms of policy. but is doing something very unders

liz cheney was no less, he refused to defend our nation and our constitution.no congressional committee in history has done more important work than the january 6th committee and the committees ward for that work and in the new republican controlled house of representatives is to be dismantled. knowing that the soviet style impulses of the new republican majority of house of representatives would want to erase the very existence of the january 6th committee from congressional history. january six committee managed to get its full report into print, and all of its evidence handed over to the justice department before the republicans took over the house of representatives. and now the republicans are busy degrading the remaining committees in the house of representatives. speaker kevin mccarthy laughed at the idea of giving pathological liar george santos any serious committee assignments. and so now we know which committees kevin mccarthy thinks are the laughable jokes of the house of representatives. because kevin mccarthy has assigned george santos to be a mem

speaker pelosi named liz cheney added adam kinzinger and disallow did the committee to operate with aommon purpose that we all saw. just to close this point, the results should have been foreseeable. in 2005 house republicans set up the hurricane katrina select committee. back the democrats didn't join because of what they viewed as an an in adequate scope for the committee. but several democrats in the region participated anyway. fast forward to the benghazi select committee. democrats had an internal debate over whether to join because there had been seven or eight previous investigations. as adam schiff wrote in his book, he argued for the boycott while my old boss elijah cummings argued that democrats should participate. ultimately democrats decided to participate. as congressman schiff mentioned in his book, after the internal debate speaker pelosi appointed him to the benghazi committee which he said he wasn't sure whether it was a punishment or reward. however, after he went through the entire process being on inside of that investigation he said in his book pelosi's and compan

i want to ask you one more time, do you think liz cheney should be removed from leadership? answer is the same that the decision for the house conference. i'm done have a vote in that i don't have a vote in the house. >> looking forward to would you support former presidentg trump running against her office in 2024? >> i get asked this a lot. i have said this every time i've asked and i said at him that's a decision for him. i do not give him advice. i would advise him what to do. i will t say i do believe if he runs he will be the nominee. but as to whether he will run whether he should run i'll leave that up to him. we will have to see. >> if he runs would you run against him? >> and no, no i'm>> not planning to run either way. in 2024 i have an election of my own in the state of missouri. i hope the state of missouri will have me for another six years in the senate. we will see, we'll get there in 2024. >> unfortunately that is all the time we have left for our event today. thank you so much for joining us for. >> thanks so much. >> if you are enjoying tv senate for a new

do you think that liz cheney should be removed from leadership? >> guest: my answer is the same. i think that is a decision for the house conference. i don't have a vote on that. i'm not a member of the house. >> host: and looking forward, would you support former president trump running again for office in 2024? >> guest: you know, i get asked this a lot, and i've said this every time i'm asked and i said to him that is a decision for him. i don't ever give him advice, and i wouldn't advise him what to do. i will say that i do believe if he runs that he will be the nominee. but whether he will run i have no idea. whether he should, i leave that up to him. so we will b have to see. >> host: if he l runs, would you run against him? >> guest: know. i'm not planning to run either way. in 2024 i have an election of my own in the state of missouri, and i hope the state of missouri will have me for another six years in the senate. so we will see in 2024. >> host: unfortunately that is all the time we have left for the event today. thank you so much for joining us, senator hawley. >> gu

they should all pulling together and nominate someone like liz cheney, the lady a couple days ago said this. and get behind her because she wouldn't let none of the conspiracy theorists, the election deniers or any of them get away with anything. otherwise you got five hard noes, nothing is ever going to get done. host: to iowa, des moines, iowa. this is jailen, democrat. good morning. caller: can you hear me? host: yes, sir. caller: hey, yeah, i've just been watching this. i think it's really interesting to see this group of republican holdouts use this strategy to withhold their votes. they're getting concessions and they're weakening power through their party leadership. and this is the same strategy that people on the left were asking members of the squad to partake in a couple years ago with nancy pelosi, with the force to vote argument. people were trying to get them to foarls the vote on medicare for all. we're seeing that this strategy seems to be working pretty well for what these republicans are asking for. getting a vote forced on they said the border, looks like they're now

>> it is sort of funny to now listen to liz cheney and have the epiphany that there is at least one thing that cheney and matt gaetz have in common, this feeling that speaker-elect, potentially kevin mccarthy has sold his soul for this job and at the end of the day it is going to render him powerless, speaker in name only, as we are hearing sort of circulate this week as we have watched this play out, and as people might be familiar with, i'm sitting in my know that of the house for, it certainly has been a dramatic week. inc. is faction of hard-minors, they have had different reasons for their mac objections to mccarthy. you have seen this group of six republicans who are never -- members for ever, people like mike rosen dale, lauren boebert, matt gaetz, who seem to be against mccarthy for, potentially, more ideological, personal reasons. also, i think the fact that it is the way that they view government, and their mac roles in congress, and the pedicle to being a member of congress, which is a whole separate conversation, versus the group of heart-minors that you saw huddle and ultimat

how they seem to be concentrated in ohio, liz cheney, as are liz cheney and, definitely our reagan republican. i would as about as tough as president reagan did. it seems that a lot more politicians are very socially conscious of the whole don't country is more socially conscious. and that's an absolutely great point. although i think if reagan were here if he'd say what we need to lift up all of us not because we're different but because we're the same and help the people who are in need for. of race or gender or anything else. he was not a hater. something to be said for his optimistic vision. we can try living up to. anybody else. i think that it's going to take. i think that it's going to in the trajectory of what trump has set up for the republican party until there's another great leader that rises like reagan that knows how to use rhetoric and narrative, a way to speak to the american people without offending anybody and somewhat being able to change a little bit of their mindset to get them back to kind where we were with reagan. yeah, i think that's such a smart comment that it depen

. >> host: liz cheney, okay.other scenario we've heard as far as plant the reality i don't think will happen. >> guest: as we're talking about there is no requirement that the speaker of the house be an elected number ofe the house of representatives. like bob i think it's really unlikely we would see someone else fill that role. it would be a huge break from historical precedent. it's not entirely clear to me that anyone who could get the votes from outside the team would really want to do the job. and so i think it's pretty unlikely.pr but the fact we even talking about this, that we even entertained the idea that the person is going to be the speaker of the house could come from outside the chamber. again, this reflects how remarkable this moment is. it's that unprecedented historically. again raising ofen the times whn a speaker has a trouble getting elected even on the floor is gone to multiple ballots. we haven't seen that in 100 years but there's very little new under the sun in american politics. but agai

so i think they should ask liz cheney to be speaker of the house.lican and she would be wonderful. she did a great job with the january 6 insurrection. so liz cheney gets my vote and this call represents 1,000 people that agree with me but do not call. thank you very much. host: thanks, beverly. a chance for us to point out courtesy of the archives at archives.gov, the u.s. constitution, legislative -- establishing legislative bodies, article 1 and section 2 of the house of representatives in section 2, the house of representatives shall choose their speaker and other officers, is right there in section 2. and that's what's going to

you and liz cheney are out of there. and the democrats are all waiting for their subpoenas, too.ark secretary-- >> it was a unique moment. >> stephen: did you celebrate in any way. >> it was a unique moment. we go into the ante room the room we come out of and retreat to. we're all standing around and usually we kind of go our own ways, and the group wasn't breaking up. and i think there was kind of this feeling of this is it. for me, it was my last act as a member of congress, right, for about half of the people on this committee. so it was-- it was-- it was unique. we said some really interesting words to each other about the history of this, which we of course meant. and then we went our separate ways, and i had a flat tire and had to air that up and drive home. >> stephen: you literally had a flat tire. >> i literally had a flat tire. >> stephen: that's a metaphor right there. >> exactly. >> stephen: you all referred four charges to the justice department, of the former president, historic, as you said. what are-- ( applause ) sure. would you give me odds on whether the justi

in wyoming, where liz cheney was up for reelection, his influence was evident. >> it's over time. -- it is a witch hunts. liz has made it very apparent. >> there have been audits and all of those other states. they found no election fraud. >> that is not right. >> that is with those republicans said. >> they are covering up stuff with it.they don't want to deal john: in the end,emocratse of tm nepeonrfor hmances i arly 90 years. not losing a single senate seat and losing 10 in the house. that was sti enough to give the republicans a house majority. there were shifting political winds overseas. >> i want to thank everybody here. forrest johnson stepped down amid a swirling scandal. his successor was not long for the job a holds the distinction of being the shortest serving prime minister in british history. in brazil, a former president is set to return to power. jrsonahe. in israel, the return of another familiar face. benjamin netanyahu is back as prime minister. this time, he has the right wing governing coalition ever. 2022, the world said farewell to queen elizabeth the second at

members of the january 6 committee, , particularly goes o put america above party alliances such as liz cheney, adam kinsey into the chairman bennie thompson for running what in my experience was one of the most extraordinary hearings ever held by congress. i first came to washington as a baby lawyer, i sat behind a man named arthur on the iran-contra investigation. however much i love arthur, i have to say those hearings did not work out so well. i've learned some things from that and i took, and i just want to give profound thanks to the levin center for proposing this. they have done all the work year. i get to give you some lunch in a room and welcome you all to georgetown, but they have set up an extraordinary along with jim taussig, a lease, then organize an extraordinary panel. i'm happy to see my friend lisa desjardins, we spent too much time on pbs talking about some impeachments. and so now i'm going to get it over to jim will introduce our star-studded cast so we can learn what happened behind the curtain in the january 6th hearings. thank you very much. [applause] >> well, good aft

the respect and reverence i hold for bennie thompson and liz cheney and the other members of the committee for the work that they did in advancing that final report, it's something that i still probably haven't taken in as much given the aggressive schedule that we have had and the importance of the work that is in front of us. my belief is that leader my belief is that leader jeffries will demonstrate that they will protect democracy. scott. reporter: [indiscernible] but do any of the committee members have plans to promote the reported -- the findings of the report in any sort of public fashion, speeches, or any public appearances? mr. aguilar: the vice chair has been busy doing this job. it is the primary focus of me and my office. we are all -- we spent so much time and some of you, i said to this privately and i probably shouldn't say this publicly, but it feels like camp. the nine of us spent so much time together. i also feel like maybe we needed a little bit of time apart this holiday season. we just spent so much time reading documents, sitting in depositions, trading texts and em

we've seen resolutions passed against liz cheney for telling the truth, remember?. >> there are parties that need to pass resolutions for telling lies the same way they did against liz cheney for telling the truth. >> the republicans in new york are handling it differently than washington. >> the republicans in new york city -- in new york and washington have the same problem, they want to know who knew what and when. he ran in 2020 so there were questions of what did they know, what were they aware of? so i am not surprised that you're seeing the nassau gop and some members of the nygop speaking out because people are wondering what they were aware of. nassau gop in particular is a strong county committee. so that's what they're looking at. kevin mccarthy's interest is to stay in power as we have seen in the course of this drama in the last week. so he's not going to say anything, doesn't see it in his interest. but to ana's point it should matter weather you are being honest with voters and it's not like the issue is going to go away. >> saying it's up to the vot

there was one in wyoming in which they were trying to oust liz cheney.s willing to wreck the congress just to keep power. this individual craves power and abuses power. andy biggs is the one who is now craving that very power that he was claiming liz cheney. >> what's the back story on andy biggs? >> he's an arizona congressman, who was on the forefront of election denialism. he exchanged text messages with mark meadows asserting legislatures could throw out results and how they voted in order to send and make donald trump the president. but also andy biggs is the face of defiance. i think over the last ten years, you have watched those defiant voices in the republican party from ted cruz to andy biggs, lauren boebert, donald trump himself, defiance wins among republican voters. until republican voters shoot them down in the primary, last little reason to step away. >> they have shot a lot of them down. lauren boebert almost fell down. let's talk about primary elections. one of the concessions that kevin mccarthy made was by proxy i guess his superpac he

i don't see a lot of people giving liz cheney a chance to win the republican primary. >> thank you all. jonathan is going to come back in a bit. >>> apart from the ever present politics, a candidate biden in 2024 will have to answer the question of his age. biden set the mark for the oldest president this u.s. history at 78. that is older than ronald reagan was when he left office after two terms. remember this? >> i will not make age an issue of this campaign. i am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent's youth and inexperience. >> steve kornacki is msnbc's national correspondent and one of the most famous, most effective quips in american political modern history. but the age comparison with biden is really interesting as well as an economic comparison when you look at him against reagan. >> we have been looking at different modern presidents. what came in the next two years politically. let's zoom in on ronald reagan. this is january of '83. this is the start of the second half of his first term there delivering his state of the union address. reagan's approval rati

this is liz cheney saying this.t brings home to me the weight of the moment . >> we did have a brief discussion about, hey, we should abandon this, it's over, they're already in the building. despite our best efforts, they found their way in, some other means. i told the guys that i was there, i don't know how many people are upstairs, i have no idea. i was like, but i know there's, like, thousands and thousands of people out in front of us that want to get in here. if we leave, they're going to be in here, and we're never going to get them out. i was like, we're staying here. >> it's very unnerving when you're like, what do we do next? what is the end game what is we were trying to figure out, what is the end game of this? it seemed like this was just going to go on forever. it was like, they weren't giving up and we weren't giving up. >> i'm starting to work my way to the front, and i see one of my officer's feet being dragged away from me. i'm like what the fuck is happening? >> sergeant isaac actually comes to m

, you know, this is something that is unfortunate to to me a sign of the republican party of of liz cheney adam kinzinger and quite frankly, republican party of of a lot of are you is not around anymore. and what we have today is exemplified what's going on in the speakership. drama, which is you have right wing trying to hold hostage speaker vote but also being enabled by over 200 republicans are backing one of mccarthy's going to do giving away the store hopes in in many ways. part of that is, you know, is simplified. and some of the things you're a tie-dye is already done. for example, i don't know if you knew that your guy, but the magnetometers are gone from outside outside the house of representatives chamber, the republicans when they first come for the first came in the 40's and elected speaker, had them all taken >> so michael, not often in the history of the republic of people tried to overthrow the government. so the basic question, what have we learned from that experience? >> that's a good question. i think for the 900 people have been charged. so for the 477 in them, who woul

. >> reporter: vice chair liz cheney, one of just two republicans on the committee, has spent the last year bucking her party and helping investigate donald trump's sophisticated multi-part plan. the first piece the committee focused on were the lies. >> mail-in ballots is a very dangerous thing for this country because they're cheaters. >> reporter: donald trump had been talking about the possibility of widespread voter fraud for months. >> voting by mail is wrought with fraud. people steal them out of mailboxes. >> reporter: looking back, it's clear he was laying the groundwork for this. >> this is a fraud on the american public. this is an embarrassment to our country. we were getting ready to win this election, frankly, we did win this election. >> reporter: trump may have been crying widespread fraud, but he had no proof. what the former president did have proof of, based on his own team's assessment of votes, was that he lost. a fact made clear by the january 6th committee, which exposed to the world that so many trump aides, despite toeing the trump line in public -- >> are you

aside from of course liz cheney and adam kinzinger. they were selected by nancy pelosi. so i think we did have concerns about the makeup of the committee and the fact that it would be a more partisan base committee. and some of those concerns were born at through this process and i'm sure we will get a chance to dive into that more. i was subpoenaed for my participation. i was not looking to raise my hand and voluntarily jump up and do. i think in conversations with the vice president, there was always this sense of its own responsibility. whether we like it or not, it has an ability to subpoena and he always said to us, we want to make sure that our office products privileges that future administrations will want to use but at the same time, if the committee has subpoenaed you and please participate and be transparent. there is nothing that our office looks to shield from the committee. there are questions whether vice presidency has the privilege to look over documents as well. we deferred to the vice president's team and his legal counsel that there was nothing we loo

i mean, in particular, liz cheney wanted this thing to be focused on donald trump, and she felt thatnds needed to be focused on donald trump because if you focus on six things, you may lose the effect of it. >> that's true, and i mean, especially like -- look, you cannot knock those waiting that they got on television. the presentation was really well done. and i think that, listen, if you tried out some, somebody from the fbi to speak during that, it just wouldn't be as compelling. i think that they did a nice job of doing those tv hearings, you know, i think the issue is with the intel put aside. >> ryan, good to see you. thanks again for your amazing, amazing reporting in the history of journalism that is quite something. the time that you and others like you have spent on the very, very detailed reporting of what happened on january six, and we're deeply grateful for it. ryan riley. we will continue to talk about this. still ahead, the january six committee report is out, and one committee member called the prosecution of donald trump a, quote, open and shut case. but is it? we'l

are running out of time, we are short on time so i want to ask you one more time, do you think liz cheney should be moved from leadership? >> my answer is the same, the decision for the house conference, i don't have a vote on that, i'm not a memberroe ofe house. >> looking forward, would you support former president trump running again for office in 2024? >> i am asked this a lot and have said this every time i'm asked, i said it to him, it's a decision for him, i'll give him advice and i wouldn't advise him what to do. i do believe if he runs, if he will be r the nominee. ... >> if you are enjoying booktv then sign up for our newsletters using the qr code on the screen to receive a schedule of upcoming programs, author discussions, book vessels and more. booktv every sunday on c-span2 or anytime online at booktv.org, television for serious readers. >> the span now is a free mobile app featuring your unfiltered view of what's happening in washington live and on-demand. keep up with today's biggest events with live streams of floor proceedings and hearing some u.s. congress, white house e

thompson who led the select committee to look into the event of january 6 along with republican member liz cheney and i commend her for working with chairman thompson to get the facts to the american people and the report that they provided and the referrals that they may so that -- to the pump -- department of justice and i hope these things get taken up by the doj and everyone who was involved on that day will be held accountable. host: we don't have a speaker and we don't have a set of rules to vote on but republicans have released some proposed rules and there is negotiating going on about potential changes. what are your concerns over the rules offered for the 118th congress? guest: what i have heard and read are alarming and the fact that kevin mccarthy would agree and concede to the maga faction of the republican wing, the 20 members that could throw him out of office as speaker. if he were to be elected, any given day will be -- the cost nothing but chaos -- will cause nothing but chaos and confusion. now only are we not able to start the congress, i am worried on what we won't be able to

. -- liz cheney up for the speaker of the house. and get all the democrats to transfer the votes from him to liz. i think there may be enough republicans out there in the congress who are old-school republicans who know that liz is born and bred republican who would be willing to vote for liz. she is honest and she could stand up to the democrats as well as standing up to the wild side on the republican party, and she is not beholden to either side at this point since she is not an office. it would set a fantastic precedent for having a speaker who wasn't beholden to either party. and on a personal level, i would like to see a strong woman back in the job. that is what i would like. host: what do you think of the democratic leader hakeem jeffries? caller: i like him. i really think he is great. but like i said, you're never going to get a republican congressman to vote for anybody on the democratic side, so it is hopeless over there. i think the democrats should be stepping up to try to resolve this, to get this finished or get a sp

they successfully ran liz cheney out of office. they've encouraged the retirement of others.en happened. so why don't we ever get to the point where everyone is going to do the right thing? >> yeah, i think you're right. it's not the reason not to do this. it's the reason they need to go forward with the prosecution any way. because if people don't end up behind bars because of this, it's going to justify all the behavior you just mentioned. we have seen individuals show up with ar-15s and nail guns at fbi field offices to try to kill agents. we have seen judges threatened with assassination. we have seen trump and his allies talk about dismantling the courts. i was there before all this happened when he said he wanted to, quote, get rid of the judges. this is a very dangerous group of people who wanted to regularly engage in illegal activity, and they need to experience the consequences of that. and their maga supporters, especially elected ones in the house, need to see the consequences of embracing that type of activity so that it's discouraged, dissuaded and punished in o

two previous leadership elections, stefanik stood up and nominated liz cheney, said she was great infor the second impeachment of donald trump, in saying that party should pull back from him, she embarrassed a great many republicans who wanted to just avoid the questions. stop talking about it and move on. not be embarrassed by their own unwillingness to stand up to trump's election lies, the big lie. she got that job with trump's blessing by saying, "look, we can all move on. i'm not going to embarrass you. i'm not going to hold your feet to the fire. i'm going to keep the fire on democrats." of course, she promised to be a trump person. that has carried her pretty far. >> talk to me about a friend of hers who ended up working on the pete buttigieg presidential campaign. >> i thought it was a real chameleon nature and the ability to look at any avenue for advancement. in the middle of the first impeachment battle in it fall of 2019, as you recall, she was taking on an active role. she was defending the president in public. she was going head-to-head with adam schiff on the hill. she

future of the republican party, there is reports that there is a move from the caucus to remove liz cheneyfrom leadership, do you support those efforts. >> she's in the house and i leave that to my house colleagues, i don't have a vote in that process, i will just say this there's been a lot taken up that you've expended on the republican civil war and i read that from time to time in the press, i tell you voters in my state and all republican voters that i talked to but for sure voters in the state of missouri have 0 interest in republican civil war, there is such thing they do not want to go back, they want to go forward and they want to continue with the policies of former president trump put in place, they want the border secured, they want trade to be fair and bring jobs back from overseas, they want to bring manufacturing back. >> were running out of time, were really short on time i want to ask you one more time do you think that lease cheney should be removed from leadership. >> my answer is a saying that the decision for the house conference i don't have a vote on that i'm not a m

liz cheney and adam kinzinger wound up basically becoming the republican party by choosing to participate on that committee. there could have been more republicans but they didn't want to participate. the two that did, it practically ended their careers in congress. host: west virginia, democrat, good morning. caller: good morning, happy new year. i have a couple questions and a couple points. an earlier caller mentioned, and i agree, it is pretty sad that the house republican control is probably going to result in a much things that we've known since 2018 already. but nonetheless, republicans are upset because they were allowed to use that for social media. i'm not questioning some things about hunter biden, but russian propaganda. my point is this. you should have answered improperly. he was appointed by trump and are already to investigate the steel dossier. he had three cases. and they were disproven, essentially. a lot of the steel dossier presented to trump and the trump campaign and republicans just don't want to hear that. but those trials, that vindication venture and crusade tha

where is liz cheney and adam looking into violence and rioting. no hearings on the