Liz Cheney takes her message to Fox News, saying the former president is telling “lies about the election” and that his rhetoric is “dangerous.”
Liz Cheney on Fox News: “There are too many people in the leadership of the Republican Party today who’ve been willing not only to sit by silently but to help enable that, to help embolden those claims. And that’s dangerous for the country.”
Liz Cheney says on Fox News: “We all have an obligation. And I would say Fox News — especially, especially Fox News — has a particular obligation to make sure people know the election wasn’t stolen.”
Liz Cheney uses the phrase “the big lie” on Fox News to slam Trump’s 2020 claims. Things get a bit testy when Bret Baier interrupts to point out that his show has not spread the lie or disputed Biden’s legitimacy. She persists in making her point.
Liz Cheney says she is NOT running for president.
“The danger the former president poses is too great for us to simply hope for the best,” Cheney says. “When you talk about the extent to which the big lie has taken hold, part of that is because people have just sort of said well we’re gonna ignore it and we’re gonna move on.”
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Rep. Liz Cheney takes to the House floor, saying she notices her colleagues talking about "cancel culture."
"I have some thoughts on that," she says.
LIZ CHENEY: "We face a threat America has never seen before: A former president who provoked a violent attack on this Capitol in an effort to steal the election. He has resumed his aggressive effort to convince Americans the election was stolen...risks inciting further violence."
Liz Cheney on the House floor: "I will not sit back and watch in silence while others lead our party down a path that abandons the rule of law and joins the former president's crusade to undermine our democracy."
Scoop here >> @ossoff plans to offer an amendment in committee to the "For The People Act" saying states can't ban volunteers from giving voters food or water when waiting in line to vote (with some caveats).
“Biden ran center-right in the primary and has governed to the left of Obama.”
A 100-days look w/ @aseitzwald at how the president is exceeding expectations with a movement that opposed his candidacy and has long viewed him skeptically.
"I don't think they would have been better if Bernie Sanders was the president," Larry Cohen (!), who chairs the Sanders-aligned group Our Revolution, says of Biden's staffing decisions. nbcnews.com/politics/joe-b…
Go big on crisis relief. Ignore the deficit hawks. Don’t hold out for bipartisan votes that aren’t coming. Brag about your achievements... and other Obama-era lessons Biden has applied, per more than two dozens Dems who worked in one or both WHs/Congress.
.@brianefallon on '09 lessons: "Don't trim the price tag of your proposals based on bad advice from Larry Summers types. Don't get bogged down about pay-fors based on bad-faith concerns from phony deficit hawks. Don't forget about judges... as Rahm did." nbcnews.com/politics/joe-b…
Senate is holding a procedural vote on Vanita Gupta for associate AG this morning.
If she advances, a final vote is today.
Dems are now benefiting from McConnell using the nuclear option in 2019 to cut debate time from 30 hours to 2 hrs for sub-Cabinet noms and district judges.
51-49, Vanita Gupta advances to a final vote.
Lisa Murkowski was the lone Republican "yes" on the Vanita Gupta procedural vote, which avoided the need for the VP to break the tie.
"He has put his ideas out, and he's put a way to pay for it out. And he is anxious to look at other people's ideas," a White House adviser said. "The one thing that he will not agree to is inaction. These are investments the country has needed for years." nbcnews.com/politics/congr…