and brand new this hour, former republican congressman liz cheney naming names. stunning new revolutions about former speaker kevin mccarthy, nancy pelosi and what fellow republicans would tell her secretly behind closed doors. >>> welcome to "the lead," i'm jake tapper. we start today with breaking news the fifth group of hostages released by hamas in exchange for some prisoners, some palestinian prisoners is now back in israel and headed to be reunited with their families. newly released video shows the terrorist group handing the hostages over to the red gross earlier today. ten israelis were freed today. mainly older women, but the israeli hostages are an 84-year-old, a 78-year-old, a 77-year-old, a 75-year-old, a 63-year-old, a 60-year-old, a 59-year-old. says that he says hamas forced him to watch videos of the october 7th attacks, murders and such. she told cnn affiliate bfmtv that he was beaten after he was kidnapped and taken to gaza. and every time a child cried hamas threatened the child with a weapon, he was forced to spend some of his days as a capti

think donald trump is the single most dangerous threat we face. >> that's former congresswoman liz cheneysting donald trump's second bid for office. new book that cnn has exclusively obtained, that new book comes out december 5th. cheney condemns the actions of her former colleagues, wri writing -- phil, she is naming names. >> you know, i don't think we should be too surprised, cheney pulled no punches here calling out republicans can coward's in the wake of 2020 election in their support of donald trump. now, one particular target of her ire former speaker kevin mccarthy who she said that trump's claims were bogus. trump, quote, knows it's over, he needs to go through all the stages of grief. but later that night, mccarthy went on fox news and pushed trump's lies anyway. >> president trump won this election, so everyone who's listening don't be quiet, don't be silent about this, we can't allow this to happen before our very eyes. >> the private versus public is very interesting. cheney also calls out jim jordan, now speaker mike johnson, others republicans who continued to fall in line

so, this is what liz cheney -- this is the significance of liz cheney, and maya is absolutely right. it's worth remembering, even though, you know, a lot of this is not new, that this is a cheney. this is liz cheney. this is somebody who was a deeply conservative republican who was in the leadership of the house of representatives. she is within that world. and so many of the voices that are coming out now are the people who are, you know, in the white house, who were part of trump's team, his former secretary of defense, his attorney general, his national security adviser. all of these people saying to the american people, look, remember what happened. this is what we saw. this is the danger that donald trump poses. maya is absolutely right. there is a real significance about the challenge that they are opposing to members of their own party. are you going to continue to look the other way? are you going to continue to enable this? because it's not just same old, same old. it's not just rewarding donald trump for what he's done, because donald trump is escalating. trump 2.0 is not th

what is liz cheney revealing in this explosive new book? >> reporter: wolf, this is an extraordinary book because it takes you behind the scenes. she names names, she has the receipts. and as you just said, a big part of it is calling out the republican party for supporting trump for his election lies. here's one quote from the book. "donald trump cannot succeed alone. he depends upon enablers and collaborators. every american should understand what his enablers in congress and in the leadership of the republican party were willing to do to help trump seize power in the months after he lost the 2020 presidential election and what they continue to do to this day." wolf, it's important to note, the book draws from text messages, emails, calls, meetings, as well as personal conversations. these -- this is a picture behind the scenes of what was really going on in the republican party, and we're learning about it for the first time, wolf. >> let me ask you this question, jamie. liz cheney shares two very telling stories about the ousted speaker

are people following liz cheney to take on this cause. is there a drumbeat or not? you need leadership that requires a clear call, and i wish we had a full screen of that quote. liz cheney, who was very conservative who said we need to build a broader coalition to defend the country and the constitution from donald trump and that he's been enabled by cowardice in her political party that is utterly unconnected to anything resembling constitutional values and one of the excerpts saying we're not the party of reagan anymore saying kevin mccarthy and liz cheney. this is about -- we're almost 250 years old and the longest lasting democracies in the world. we've never had a leading party candidate campaign as it would be auto rat and that is what liz cheney is warning is happening within her party as a result of cowardice on the part of the people that don't have the spine to stand up to what they know is wrong. so, yes, this is a time ff choosing. we have seen republicans lose their spine of critical moments like the impeachment and what cheney is doing, i will be that

but first, the pushback on congress mam liz cheney's scathing revelations in her book. what some republicans are saying and not saying. also ahead this hour, gayle king and king charles will be here just hours ahead of their new cnn show. charles barkley is who king charles is. stay with us. >>> former republican is congresswoman liz cheney's new memoir has not even been released, but some republicans she writes about in the book are pushing back. oath and honor has gone to number one on amazon since the reporting yesterday. it was obtained exclusively ahead of the release. cheney maintains that donald trump is a major threat to democracy. she calls many in his party collaborators. she names name, one of them kevin mccarthy who she said only went to mar-a-lago after the january 6th attack throwing mr. trump's career a lifeline because donald trump was depressed. he wasn't even eating. we have more details. so jamie, mccarthy and trump have responded to your reporting about what's in cheney's book. i want to note that neither mr. trump nor mr. mccarthy has exactly the be

this is something that liz cheney said about hum. johnson appeared especially susceptible the to flattery from trump and a aspired to be anywhere in trump's orbit. when i confronted him with the flaws in his legal arguments, johnson would often concede or say something to the effect of, we just need to do this one last thing for trump. i think, to me, reading this again, the most striking thing is the legal argument. because one of the things about mike johnson, he's a very good lawyer. that's how he came up, as a very good lawyer. so the the arguments he was making after the election in 2020 and the work that he did, even on the brief, was the legal arguments. the fact that cliz cheney also lawyer, was going at him saying, no, no. according to her, he said, well, maybe it's not so much about that. >> but nothing has changed. he's already endorse d the formr president for president again. so this is someone who has remained faithful to thement former president. the other thing that strikes me about the excerpts is how consistent adam

cnn's new and exclusive details from liz cheney's new book, entitled and it's due out cnn got a hold f a copy. >> cheney's chronicles various episodes, how republicans spent every which way to try to appease the former president, donald trump. here to talk about it, former congressman and january six committee member, adam kinzinger. and the reporter who broke this cnn exclusive, special correspondent jamie gangel. i'm so glad that you are here i want to take the book out of your hands, i want to read it cover to cover. i will hold it right here for a second. she helped did not held back in this book at all. tell me about it. >> absolutely liz cheney is painting a scathing portrait of her republican colleagues, of the party. for what she calls, she calls them an enabler's, collaborators. she says, they appeased him. she talks about their cowardice, i just want to read you a couple quotes from the book. she says quote, donald trump cannot succeed alone and they are enabling him. i think what's important is, she has the receipts. she names names. the book is based on text messages, emai

mccarthy told liz cheney, two days after the presidential election in 2020. last night on trump's lawyers filed a massive discovery request in the case of united states of america versus donald j trump, in which donald trump is accused of crimes leading up to and on january 6th in his attempt to overturn that election. in their filing, the criminal defense lawyers say that prosecutors, quote, cannot blame president trump for public discord and distrust of the 2020 election results. trump's defense lawyers insist that it was perfectly reasonable for donald trump to believe that there was election fraud, no matter how many times he was told by his own attorney general and white house lawyers that there was no election fraud. and now comes kevin mccarthy saying he knows it's over. two days after the presidential election. the trump criminal defense lawyers request for discovery demands, they are demanding documents from all over the federal government, one of the many claims for discovery that the trump lawyers make is, quote, president trump is entitled to all

and liz cheney is out with a scathing takedown of her own party. wait until you hear the unbelievable things she says kevin mccarthy told her about donald trump! >> tonight, we've got a cnn exclusive. the former congresswoman, liz cheney, and just how far she says some in her own party will go to protect the former president, donald trump. the bombshell revelations coming from her forthcoming book. it's called out an honor. and she writes, and i'm quoting here, donald trump cannot succeed alone. he depends upon enablers and collaborators. every american should understand what his enablers in congress, and members of the republican party, where willing to do to help trump seized power in the months after he lost the 2020 presidential election. and what they continue to do to this day. i want to bring in former congressman fred upton, and -- leanne caldwell, she covered liz cheney's time in congress as well. glad to have you both here. first of all, cheney is pulling no punches on this. she is talking about her former colleague, talks about him being

also tonight, liz cheney's new book and the revelations in about the former president, which he calls his republican enablers and collaborators, and how she says they just could not quit him. and later, why republican hopeful nikki haley is that much more hopeful tonight. the surprising early big name and big money endorsement she just got. and, how it might change her campaign. good evening, thank you for joining us. we begin tonight with the hostages. hamas freed 12 more today, under the terms of a truce, which has now run five days. it expires tomorrow, after we expect a -- hostage comes out. this is new video taken from inside of gaza, of the handover from the afp news agency. you see crowds cheering, some shouting allah akbar - god is great, as the latest freed hostages are paraded past them, on the way to the red cross vehicles. it's a sharp difference from last night's version, which took place in a dark and empty street. two thai nationals are in this latest group, the other ten are his release. in all, -- that it took so far. but still, only a single american, four year old a

so, liz cheney is painting a scathing portrait of her republican colleagues, of the party.at she calls, she calls them enablers, collaborators. she says they appeased him. and she talks about their cowardice. i just want to read you a couple of quotes from the book. she says, quote, donald trump cannot succeed alone. and, they are enabling him. i think what's important is, she has the receipts. she names names. the book is based on text messages, emails, personal conversations, meetings. and, it's really filled with revelations about what was going on behind the scenes. so, she talks about her relationship, her unlikely alliance with nancy pelosi. but here is an extraordinary scene, from the book. it is january 6th, it's the gop cloakroom, and republican congressman marc greene of tennessee, is signing his name to object to the vote. they all know, as she writes in the, book that it's a farce. and she overhears him say, the following. quote, as he moved down the line, signing his name to the pieces of paper, greene said sheepishly, to no one in particular, the things we do

liz cheney making news with these revelations about trump's coup in her forthcoming book. the book as not out yet, but quotes, and we have details. what she's saying, including why donald trump at one point reportedly stopped eat. that's just what she says in the book. no commentary. also, jack smith winning another key round in the trump trial, which deals with the same coup. so we have both of those stories coming up, including one of them in this segment. so before we go to break, we'll be getting into one of those. first i want to give you the latest with the middle east. the israeli cabinet is meeting on the very big question of whether or how to extend a pause in the fighting in the ongoing conflict with hamas, and they're racing against a deadline, because that pause s according to the deal that was struck, basically over, terminated if no new deal is reached tonight. officials from the u.s., israel, qatar, egypt, they've all been in talks today. there's a lot of forces that want to make this step possible, especially considering with any deal you say, will it work?

. >> liz cheney's blasting members of her party for enabling trump. >> liz cheney knows all of these players. >> she calls them enablers and collaborators. >> surging nikki haley picks up a major endorsement. >> charles koch-backed group group backing nikki haley. >>> good wednesday morning. right now the final hours of the truce between israel and hamas are ticking away and as we speak negotiators in the white house are waiting to extend it. hamas released another round of hostages yesterday with more to come today. we just heard from secretary of state blinken at nato headquarters as he prepares to head into the war zone and travel once again to israel. >> we'd like to see the pause extended because what it has enabled first and foremost is hostages being released, it's also enabled us to surge humanitarian assistance to the people of gaza who so desperately need it. >> new this morning, the family of the youngest hostage 10-month-old, they've been notifyd that the baby and his 4-year-old brother will not be freed today. hamas did allow an outside journalist to witness yesterday's

cnn reports that liz cheney sent george w. y a private message of support after she voted to impeach trump for the january 6th attack. on some level, that's not surprising. but why are republicans like george w. bush still withholding their public criticism of donald trump? >> well, alex, we've been asking this question for seven or eight years now. when are republicans going to say in public what they've been saying in private? it is striking. i'm gonna look at the other side of that. when you think about the number of people from the trump administration, the people who've worked most closely with him, his former chief of staff, attorney general, his former secretary of defense, his former national security adviser, all of whom are now very publicly and openly saying donald trump is not fit for office, he is dangerous, we cannot allow him back in the oval office. and you wonder whether or not, as this moment of choosing the afp describes, will lead them to come out? i think we know what liz cheney is going to say. but liz che

it's laid out in former republican congresswoman's liz cheney's new book "oath and honor."amie gangel got the book ahead of the release. she joins us now. so what's it like? what do we learn? >> so, anderson, liz cheney paints just a scathing portrait of the republican party, of her former colleague's party leaders for supporting trump in his election lies. she says, quote, donald trump cannot succeed alone. and then she goes onto criticize their loyalty to trump. here's part of the book. she writes "elected officials who believe their own political survival is more important than anything else threaten the survival of our republic no matter what they tell themselves to justify their cowardice." she also calls it that the republican party has become the anti-constitution party. the book draws from text messages, e-mails, calls, meetings, as well as personal conversations that we're learning about for the first time. liz cheney names names, and she has the receipts, anderson. >> there were certainly no lost love for kevin mccarthy on her part. what did she say about that inf

liz caldwell. she congressed congress too. cheney is pulling no punches on this. she is talking about her former colleagues, talks about them being shameless, hypocrites who follow him when they knew he posed a grave danger, but he still really the head of the republican party even at this moment in time. will this make any difference? >> i don't think it will. i look at the states, the filing deadlines, the change in the rules. michigan is going to be a winner take all and rubio got a third of the votes. kasich got a third of the delegates back in 2016, and he got a third, and it's changed. he's got a big lead over everybody when you even put them together. so he is by far the front-runner land be very hard to catch. >> i wonder, leanne on that point, trump did some pretty significant pr campaigning against one liz chain. >> in even going so far as to call her a rino, trying to discredit her, saying you shouldn't listen to her because she not even really a republican. you covered her time in congress in particular. did that lay the groundwork as to why it might n

hate. >>> tonight, orange jesus, that's what one republican congressman called trump, according to liz cheney and her new book obtained exclusively by cnn. cheney says that on january 6th before the attack on the capitol, gop members were in the cloak room and encouraged to sign their names on electoral vote objection sheets. so cheney writes that most members knew, and i'm quoting her now, it was a farce. among them, republican congressman mark green of tennessee as he moved down the line signing his name to the pieces of paper, green said sheepishly to no one in particular, uh, the things we do for the orange jesus. "outfront" now, democratic strategist, former trump white house communications director, and ryan goodman, our "outfront" legal analyst. the thing here is, look, liz cheney does not hold back. we know what she thinks but she comes here with quotes and receipts and all kinds of conversations. she calls out people by name. we laugh at the orange jesus. yet maybe the whole point is, if someone's going to call someone an orange jesus and still go ahead and do their bidding, maybe th

we have to talk about liz cheney's book, coming out next week. she is warning about what to trump's second term would look like. she and the book with a very ominous quote where she says, every one of us, republican, democrat, independent, must work and vote together to ensure the donald trump and those who have appeased, enabled, and collaborated with him, are defeated. this is the cause of our time. i mean, just reading that gives me the chills. it's going to resonate with a lot of people, that anyone who isn't already aware of who donald trump in the risks that he poses, anybody knew? >> now, i think that liz cheney's book has a lot of interesting revelations about her time in the cause, that she has basically taken on, the work that she is championing. she believes donald trump is a threat to our democracy. it's not a big stretch to say that, given what donald trump has been saying that he's going to do if he's reelected. he's going to weaponize the department of justice to go after his political enemies, pretty much eviscerating the central

liz cheney is going to make hay out of the fact he said it.son to go is ridiculous. if it were true, if true, your notion is, you're kevin mccarthy, you've been on the house floor in the hours after january 6th and stood up and said, the president is responsible for insurrection against the american government, an attempted coup. he really said it. and a few days later, he's on his way to mar-a-lago and his justification for it is the president is not eating. at face value, it's the most -- you know, pinochet, he is feeling a little ill. the man is losing weight dramatically. i think we'll go talk to pol pot. it's an absurd thing on face value to say. and it just shows how transparent it was. mccarthy went for the reason he went. he thought, trump is powerful again and i have to pay to him. and that was the trajectory of the republican party post-january 6th. >>> our next guest has advice for leaders embroiled in social or political controversies. stop commenting on the news. >> you mean, educate people instead of running an editorial page? >>

we'll hear from liz cheney on the rachel maddow show at 9 on msnbc. you will not want to miss that . >>> former first lady, rosalynn carter, made her way home through the small georgia town she lived for most of her 96 years. those closest to her, including 99-year-old former president gymny carter came together for a private funeral at the maranatha baptist church. this was her son at the funeral today. >> dad got used to mom disagreeing with him because she was really good at it. and she became a partner in a true sense of the word where they had equal footing. >> rosalynn carter is set to be buried in view of the front porch of the home that she and her husband of 77 years have shared since 1961. >>> coming up in our next hour, i'll talk to congressman jared moskowitz about the rise in anti-semitism that senate majority leader chuck schumer just called a five-alarm fire in a major address, and i'll get his response to calls from his own party about putting conditions on aid to israel. we've got a lot coming up on "chris jansing reports" right here

i think we know what liz cheney is going to say, but liz cheney is going to be a unique voice to pry some of those loose. she's an insider. she's all out of bleeps to give. she has a great deal of knowledge of what's been going on both in your experience in the republican leadership and in the january 6th committee. and she's going to spend i think in the next year holding her fellow republicans' feet to the fire saying do you really want to do this? choose honor or dishonor, this is the moment of choose. do you want to go down in history the way that history will remember say, mitt romney, or do you want to become just another -- another lindsey graham potted plant in congress? so, you know, i do think -- this moment of choice republicans have already made their choice. i think that they -- this is donald trump's party. but what happened today is an indication that there are some folks who have considerable resources who are not just going to rollover. and now of course the question is whether that actually matters, whether or not the big money, the dark money, the billionaire donor

now, it's not without people, you and liz cheney and the committee and also my attorneys that gave me that second chance. i just have a couple more questions for you, then i'm going to ask a few more from the audience because believe what? i think we might be running out of time. what was your experience like as a witness on that day? sometimes people describe to me being a witness, like watching themselves from the outside, like they feel a little bit dissociated by by it. they feel like it's really happening in someone else. but what was what was your experience of the day where i should say you acquitted yourself remarkably well and everybody across the board was totally convinced of your candor and your honesty and you i think you changed millions of people's minds, getting some. thank you. as well. for starters, when i switched legal counsel, i was very clear clear, but i didn't want to just say i'm not at all. i was like, i will go back. i want to be completely forthcoming. the committee was very generous. they gave us my transcripts. we went through line by line. we corrected,

and i think liz cheney is showing what a powerful asset she can be. she's making the case that trump is simply unacceptable. an existential threat to american democracy as we have known it. it may not be a huge number of republican primary voters who will accept that message but the issue for joe biden would be, are there four or five points of general election voters who are dissatisfied with the economy? or disenchanted with his performance or thinking is too old, as in 2022, will vote for democrats anyway because they view the trump alternative is too extreme. and it this book gives you a preview of the kind of fire power that liz cheney can bring, perhaps with some other former first term trump officials like john kelly and mark esper, potentially. so i think this gives you an idea of what a player on the board she might be in 2024 and what will be a crucial effort for biden to win some voter who are not wowed by his record over his four years. >> so many outspoken people who worked for him. at one point supported him. thank you for talking about

there's also some fox tidbits in here, and it's all drawing from liz cheney's new book, which is not . it's unpublished but the excerpts are coming out. cheney revealing how republicans addressed her. there wasn't a later political benefit to her when she impeached trump in the insurrection she opposed. in a closed door meeting, cheney writes in her view from her experience what she saw was a bunch of republican men assailing her in very gendered and sometimes sexist terms. they didn't like her, quote, tone, she writes andhought she was not contrite for breaking with the party. the republican mike kelly saying he felt like an unrequited boyfriend. quote, it's like you're playing in the biggest game of your life and you look up and you see your girlfriend sitting on the opponent's side, kelly said. several astonishedomen in the conference who didn't vote with cheney but still viewed it, as she writes in a similar way started yelling. quote, she's not your gifrnd. "the times" has this blockbuster account from the forthcoming book. and see there mischeney agreeing, recounting what she sa

former representative liz cheney's new book "oath and honor" drops december 5th and cnn got the book clusively ahead of time. cheney calls out her now former colleagues as hypocrites, saying they were, quote, suddenly willing to violate their oath to the constitution out of loyalty to donald trump. but the former president's spokesman said simply the book belongs in the fiction section of the bookstore. joining us now is cnn's jamie gangel. jamie, you got ahold of this, you always get this, you always get the tea, jamie. cheney was not in this book at all afraid to name names and tell the tales. what can you tell us about what sort of stuck out to you? >> so, sara, the book is a devastating takedown of the republican party. it takes readers behind the scenes. she condemns her former colleagues, party leaders, for what she calls, quote, cowardice for their loyalty to donald trump. she also calls them, quote, enablers and collaborators who were willing to help trump overturn the 2020 election results. for the record not only does she name names, shara, she has the receipts. the book dra

it should be required reading for everyone along with liz cheney's book.incide with each other because they re-enforce the idea that the people who know better are sounding the alarm. i think they need to come forward. many of us have had the courage to come forward, you know. yeah, there's a price to pay to do the right thing, but damn it now is the time to do the right thing. our democracy is on the line. we can't wait for donald trump to come into power again and hope and pray that someone finds the intestinal fortitude to stand up and stop him again. then it's too late. >> and these are far right republicans. these aren't liberals. tell me about this ad, put some video up. what is the purpose of the ad? >> to define speaker johnson and what he will do as donald trump president. i did it with david gray. he did the abortion ad that showed a woman would go to jail. the republicans cried foul and said that would never happen. people need to know who this is and connect the republicans who all voted for him to make it speaker. >> just to be clear, there ar

but liz cheney has just written a sort of red hot new book. it is titled "oath and honor, a memoir and a warning." she's going to be here with me to talk about it in her first prime time interview. again, we have never done anfort view before. i'm going to be speaking with her in public for the first time here ever. it is next monday live here at 9:00 p.m. you have not heard about what it in her book because it's all under a very tight embargo, but you are going to want to see what she has to say. that is a week from tonight. i will see you then. "way too early" with jonathan lemire is up next. >>> before the year is out, there's a lot of other work we must do here in the senate. and members

and there is this part where liz cheney confronts kevin mccarthy on when he went down to mar-a-lago and basically threw donald trump his life line after january 6th. and just this incredible story. cheney go up to him. mar-a-lago? what the hell, kevin? mccarthy says they're really worried. trump is not eating. they asked me to come see him. what? you went to mar-a-lago because trump is not eating? karth. yeah. he's really depressed. first, i hope you enjoyed my command performance. i really put some skills in there. >> they're rationalizing their support for trump. >> he wasn't eating, kevin. the reason why is trump has the two things. the adulation and the small dollar donations of the most active, most vocal gop base voters. >> can i say that if the republican party wants somebody who is not eating because he can't semithe results of an election. like this is the leader of the free world. that is who we want? not us. >> he doesn't look like he wasn't eating. >> no body shaming. what we are learning about a rather serious cyber attack and the suspected iranian hackers claiming they too

. >>> cnn now has a copy of former congresswoman liz cheney's new book. what she reveals about the relationship between trump and house leadership, that is ahead. >>> and the national christmas tree, no match for yesterday's gusty winds here in washington, d.c. wewe'll have a a weather u upda cocoming up. he first time i connected with kim, she told me that her husband had passed. and that he took care of all of the internet connected devices in the home. i told her, “i'm here to take care of you.” connecting with kim... made me reconnect with my mom. it's very important to keep loved ones close. we know that creating memories with loved ones brings so much joy to your life. a family trip to the team usa training facility. i don't know how to thank you. i'm here to thank you. . >>> quick hits across america now. family and friends will say a final farewell to former first lady rosalynn carter today. it comes after a memorial service tuesday where her grandson remembered her as someone who inspired the world but also as a normal grandmother. >> she was lik

. >> laura: on the national stage, think of reason thorn liz cheney after she got trounced in wyoming and refused to rule out a white house run. now where is she? >> i will spend the next year between now and the election certainly helping to elect serious people, helping to elect same people. we could find ourselves in a given situation attempting to question the results of the election, we don't want a situation where the election is thrown into the house of representatives and donald trump has any chance prevailing. >> laura: blah, blah, blah, dangerous, the anti-trumpers can split between joe manchin and could hand over to a republican, they will never do it. no labels, no win. to the gop 2024 prospects. the media's favorite republican, that is the focus of tonight's "angle." >> everybody wants to move away from ukraine, they will want to move away from israel a year from now. america can never be so airgant thinking we do not need friends. now is the time to get partnership. i stooded on the simon bridge and watched those freeing socialism and begging for freedom >> laura: one co

. >> and yet we got from liz cheney's book, audie, the fact that we remember kevin mccarthy threw donald trump that lifeline in january 2021 when it looked like the republican party was finally going to break with him after the insurrection and mccarthy went down to mar-a-lago, posed for that picture and then liz cheney had that famous conversation, now famous, from her book where she's like kevin, what the hell? and he said something along the lines of like he's depressed, he's not eating -- >> he told me he's not eating. >> he's so caring. >> still makes me laugh. >> of all the telenovelas in washington this is probably the least interesting to me. >> i would love to see the spanish version. >> honestly. but i do think like this is what happens when you have a transactional relationship and you aren't prepared to deal in a transactional way. one person in this party is like do what i need when i need it. the other person is like have you had a snack? also, can you help me now? it's just not understanding what is at stake. and i've never seen political roadkill but it does feel like thi

get liz cheney.s of conservative republicanism for years but who have been completely marginalized. they might be able to have a voice. that might be a better guardrail than anything we're really going to see. >> i've got about 30 seconds left but i do want to ask you the post conducted interviews. 16 former trump advisers, among their reasons for opposing a second trump term. 91 criminal charges, attempts to overturn the election, false claims of election fraud, incendiary rhetoric, chaotic management style, affinity for dictators. the weaponization of the justice department. some of those your area of expertise. when you see them all together. >> well, that's why it's alarming that he's the leading candidate. right? it's alarming that no one can break into that. that list, that's a list you would only see, again, from an authoritarian in a different country that's not the u.s. >> tim miller, mary mccord, thank you both so much for spending some time with us. and reminding us of all the things we ha

i do want to mention -- the former vice chair of the january 6th committee, former congressman liz cheney a book that gives new insight about what went down in congress when trump's 18 restormtrumpers stormed the capitol. cheney writes that in the hours before the siege, republicans in the gop cloakroom were signing electoral vote objection sheets even though they knew it was all a sham to appease trump. she says congressman mark green of tennessee said, “the things we do for the orange jesus.” [ laughter ] they have a lot in common. regular jesus healed the sick, orange jesus told them to drink bleach. [ laughter ] it's kind of the same thing. liz cheney also says that two days after the election, she spoke to then-speaker of the house kevin mccarthy, who said trump was aware he had lost the election. unlike he's claiming. mccarthy said, “he knows it's over. he needs to go through all the stages of grief.” and he did. first there was denial, then anger, then depression, then anger, anger, denial, anger, denial, denial, denial, and anger, anger, denial, and finally insurrection. [ cheers

but liz cheney has just written a sort of red hot new book. it is titled oath and

we now know, thanks to liz cheney's new book, which will be published next week, that republicans in the house of representatives refer to donald trump as orange jesus and follow his every command religiously, even when they know he is lying. we'll hear more about that directly from liz cheney next monday night when she does her first primetime interview with rachel maddow on the network that donald trump now says he wants to shut down. the man who republican members of congress called orange jesus wants to shut down msnbc. last night at 11:13 pm, 13 minutes after presumably watching this show, donald trump posted an attack not just on me this time, which he has done many times in the past, but on this entire network. saying the government should come down hard on msnbc. and we know what donald trump means by come down hard. he means completely destroy, he means violently attack, attack the way he wanted trump supporters to come down hard on congress on january 6th. it is hard to think, within the american political context, of words more blasphemous than orange jesus. the republican

but liz cheney has just written a sort of red hot new book. it is titled oath and honor, amid more and a warning. she's going to be here with me to talk about it in her first primetime interview. again, we have never done an interview before. i'm going to be speaking with her in public for the first time here ever. it is next monday live here at nine pm. you have not heard about what is in her book because it's all about a very tight embargo. but you are going to want to see what she has to say. that is a week from tonight. i will see you then, that does it for me for now. and that was time for the last word with lawrence o'donnell. good evening, lawrence. >> reporter: good evening, that means you know what that means to me for next monday night. that means have to get everything done and ready for my show, like a good 55 minutes earlier than i usually do so that i just don't miss a word of this first ever discussion between rachel maddow and this genie. >> reporter: thank you, i can send you a sleep aid or something to try to help adjust your

support, she has to explain how she is just not the second coming of the bushes and liz cheney.ht now it appears from listening to her last night, at least, that she is. otherwise, the media wouldn't be rallying to her. but the fact is she is relentlessly pro-war, which in a matchup with biden, would allow him to peace lane. that's great for biden. could she win over the trump voters i guess for her to travel. fight over a cause that actually makes the media mad. how about that? it's my view after last night, as it has been in every debate, that ron desantis emerges strongest. this is because he has the most experience as a successful chief executive along with a clear populist message that voters are aligned with. >> i'm going to stop the invasion cold. i am going to deport people who came illegally. it's a full spectrum approach to be able to fend china off. yes, military deterrence. yes, economic decoupling, but, also their role in our culture. if we don't -- if we ignore that, we're not going to be able to win the fight. >> laura: he is the only one you can actually sees a p

what i read the first paragraph of this response today, it sounds very much like liz cheney's openingour first hearing last summer. you cannot see what happened at the capitol as anything other than the last desperate step in a prolonged and intentional effort to try to disrupt the joint session and prevent the transfer of power. they tried starting with the courts, legitimate attempts to putting pressure on officials, to then attempting to submit the fake electors, to then putting pressure on the most loyal. they finally turned to the most desperate step which is inciting a mob, a violent insurrection that was the direct response to the president's words on the before. you can't understand this whole pattern that the special counsel has charged without seeing the violence. and seeing his inaction, it does track closely with the story we told that the special counsel will tail light. now it's up to a jury to decide if they see the connection. this is just setting the terms of what is or isn't admissible, but it's so clearly part in parcel of the government's theory that that governmen

there were people hoping i would succeed and liz cheney would succeed but they did not want to be ons of that. i am happy to have done that. i have no regrets in standing up and that is why i continue to do it but it needed to be more than me and liz cheney. unfortunately there are too many people who continued to say that donald trump did nothing wrong. geoff: you said you would vote for joe biden in 2024 if donald trump is the republican nominee. do you still consider yourself to be a republican? adam: i am not willing to give up the title yet because i have not changed. i am generally, with the exception with how something things change with age and you mature, i have the same belief system i have always had. someone has to fight for the gop. this country has two political parties, one is very sick. one healthy party can keep democracy going for a little bit but you ultimately need to get back to two and we need people to stay in and fight for the republican party but i will not hold my nose and vote for people who are anti-constitutional. i consider there to be one issue on the b

and i'd love to give a shout out to liz cheney i have my incredible team of attorneys but liz cheney was the first person. [applause] extremely courageous individual who has the heart of the founding father and her love for our country is something we should all as well as congressman raskin but it wasas liz who really reminded me i am enough i am enough to not only seek truth and power but to hopefully create change. we cannot keep surviving as a nation as we are. [applause] some people want to know about that watergate figure to identify with you made a very special friend. >> mr. butterfield. [laughter] yes. the committee had very generouslyi published pages ofy transcript i had a little bit of a mental breakdown when evening. i was able to really read in real time about how far gone i was and i had wanted to get back to the right side of history. i was thinking about watergate there had to be somebody there had to be somebody else out similar role it did not have this consequential role in the hearings that was not a lawyer. i startedg. googling those who d testified and came acr

cnn has released excerpts from former congresswoman liz cheney's upcoming memoir, oath and honor, in which she claims one gop lawmaker during efforts to contest the 2020 election results, said, the things we do for the orange jesus referring to trump, cheney also recounts an exchange with former house speaker kevin mccarthy after he visited trump at mar a lago in the weeks after the capitol riot. cheney saying she asked mar a lago what the hell kevin mccarthy responding. they're really worried trump's not eating, so they asked me to come see him. cheney saying what? you went to mar a lago because trump's not eating. mccarthy saying, yeah, he's really depressed. going back to that, nikki haley endorsement by afp, the group says it has never engaged in a presidential election before, but wants to, quote, turn the page on the past it to make sure president biden and former president trump do not return to the white house. rhiannon andrew. >> lionel, thank you. a private funeral will be held today for former first lady rosalynn carter. her husband, the 99 year old former president, atten

b >> the committee claimed to be bipartisan because it included liz cheney and adam kinzinger. >> and i'lz l it was good to hae women represented from the republican side. but did we to oh, sexist would twt did we to oh, sexist would kinzinger cried more times during those hearings thans a cardassian at an onion eating contest in the puddles below adam's desk were so large, the hearings should have hadgua a lifeguard on duty. but kinzinger got what he wantedon dot w, of course, a job kissing up to dems over at cnn. cnn grownly whems over at cnn. men cry, especially when the ratings come in. hey adam maybe shoot a bit higher next time i hear media matters needs a janito r. re i needs a janito >> then there's liz cheney, who reportedly still has who political aspirations. >> she just needs to bump her likability numbers jus up a bit. right now, she ranks just above jerry sandusky and just below isis. >> so, liz, let's review some of the great work from greatj. eo oreat work from >> here's new video of matthew perna, a man who had no criminalf record whatsoever walking calmly into the ca