HEARING THAT FROM A FEDERAL
JUDGE.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR REPORTING ON
THIS STORY.
>>> LETS TURN TO LIZ CHENEY AND
WHETHER THE CAUCUS WILL PUSH HER
OUT OF LEADERSHIP.
AXIOS POSTED AUDIO OF HOUSE
MINORITY LEADER KEVIN McCARTHY
ON A HOT MIC YESTERDAY
CRITICIZING CHENEY AHEAD OF AN
INTERVIEW ON FOX NEWS.
HERE IS WHAT McCARTHY SAID OFF
AIR VERSUS WHAT HE SAID LIVE ON
AIR.
>> I THINK SHES GOT A REAL
PROBLEMS.
IVE HAD IT WITH -- IVE HAD IT
WITH HER.
IVE LOST CONFIDENCE.
WELL, SOMEONE JUST HAS TO BRING
A MOTION BUT I ASSUME THAT WILL
PROBABLY TAKE TIME.
>> THERES NO CONCERN ABOUT HOW
SHE VOTED ON IMPEACHMENT.
THAT DECISION HAS BEEN MADE.
I HAVE HEARD FRO MEMBERS
CONCERNED ABOUT HER ABILITY TO
CARRY OUT THE JOB AS CONFERENCE
CHAIR, TO CARRY OUT THE MESSAGE.
I HAVENT HEARD MEMBERS
CONCERNED ABOUT HER VOTE ON
IMPEACHMENT.
ITS MORE ABOUT THE JOB ABILITY
TO DO AND WHATS OUR BEST STEP
FORWARD THAT WE COULD ALL WORK
TOGETHER INSTEAD OF ATTACKING
ONE ANOTHER.
>> SINGING A DIFFERENT TUNE ON
THE AIR.
SPOKESPERSON FOR CONGRESSWOMAN
CHENEY SAID, QUOTE, THIS IS
ABOUT WHETHER THE REPUBLICAN
PARTY IS GOING TO PERPETUATE
LIES ABOUT THE 2020 ELECTION AND
ATTEMPT TO WHITEWASH WHAT
HAPPENED ON JANUARY 6th.
LIZ WILL NOT DO THAT.
THAT IS THE ISSUE.
JOE, SO NO CHANGE FROM
CONGRESSWOMAN CHENEY ON HER
POSITION ABOUT ALL OF THIS.
SHES INCREASINGLY ON AN ISLAND
HERE IT LOOKS LIKE IF YOU TALK
TO PEOPLE BEHIND THE SCENES.
SHE IS GOING TO BE PUSHED OUT OF
THAT JOB AS LEADERSHIP CHAIR IN
THE REPUBLICAN PARTY BECAUSE SHE
MADE THE STATEMENT AGAIN THAT
THE ELECTION OF 2020 WAS NOT
STOLEN.
>> WELL, YOU KNOW, MIKA ITS THE
OBI WAN KANOBI, STRIKE HER DOWN
AND SHELL BE STRONGER.
"THE WALL STREET JOURNAL"
YESTERDAY IN A SCATHING
EDITORIAL THAT WERE GOING TO BE
READING IN A LITTLE BIT SAYING
GOP LEADERS SHOULD NOT HAVE TO
LIE ABOUT 2020 TO KEEP THEIR
JOBS.
>> LETS READ IT NOW.
THEY WRITE IN PART THIS,
REPUBLICANS WILL LOOK FOOLISH OR
WORSE TO SWING VOTERS IF THEY
REFIGHT 2020 IN 2022.
THEY CAN TRUTHFULLY SAY THAT
DEMOCRATS USED LAWSUITS TO
EXPLOIT THE PANDEMIC, TO CHANGE
THE ELECTION RULES IN SOME
STATES.
THEY CAN ALSO SAY DEMOCRATIC
JUDGES ON THE PENNSYLVANIA
SUPREME COURT LET DEMOCRATS GET
AWAY WITH IT.
DEMOCRATS DID A BETTER JOB OF
EXPLOITING THE PANDEMIC ELECTION
RULES THAN THE GOP.
BUT THERES NO EVIDENCE ANY OF
THIS WAS DECISIVE AS MR. TRUMP
LOST THE POPULAR VOTE IN A ROUT
AROUND THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE BY
A SIMILAR MARGIN TO WHAT HE WON
IN 2016.
MR. TRUMP LOST EVEN AS
REPUBLICANS GAINED 12 SEATS IN
THE HOUSE.
THE ELECTION WAS CLOSE, BUT NOT
AS CLOSE AS OTHERS IN AMERICAN
HISTORY.
REPUBLICANS SHOULD FIND A WAY TO
SPEAK THIS TRUTH TO VOTERS IN
2022.
AND QUICKLY TURN TO RUNNING ON
AN AGENDA FOR THE FUTURE THAT
WILL CHECK MR. BIDEN AND HIS
CRADLE-TO-GRAVE ENTITLEMENT
STATE, PURGING LIZ CHENEY FOR
HONESTY WOULD DIMINISH THE
PARTY.
JOE, BACK TO OUR LEAD STORY, AND
HOW SERIOUS IT IS WHAT THIS
JUDGE HAS SAID ABOUT THE TRUMP
PRESIDENCY.
ABOUT THE MUELLER REPORT THE
PRESIDENT WITH THE HELP OF THE
ATTORNEY GENERAL USED THE
MUELLER REPORT TO DRUM UP HATE,
TO FOMENT ANGER AND ALL LED UP
TO JANUARY 6th AND BY THE WAY,
TOOK THE REPUBLICAN PARTY
HOSTAGE AND THEY ARE CHOOSING TO
STAY THERE.
>> I DONT UNDERSTAND IT.
LET ME BRING IN MICHAEL STEELE.
MICHAEL STEELE IS WITH US.
MICHAEL, MY GOD, SO --
>> MIKA.
>> WE GOT A GUY WHO HAS --
>> WHAT?
>> I A AGREE WITH YOU.
>> WE HAVE A GUY IN OUR FIRST
STORY, HE DID, HE TRIED TO
OBSTRUCT JUSTICE.
A MAJOR WOULD BE IN JAIL RIGHT
NOW, A MEMBER OF CONGRESS,
EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT, RIGHT?
BUT OKAY.
THATS THE PAST.
HE GOT -- HE BEAT THE REP.
HE HAD PEOPLE -- SOME AT "THE
WALL STREET JOURNAL" WRITING
OP-EDS, RUNNING COVER FOR HIM.
SO, OKAY.
BUT THATS BEHIND.
OKAY.
BUT THEY DID THAT.
AT THE TIME THEY WERE GRITTING
THEIR TEETH SAYING, OH, WE DONT
WANT TO BE A PART OF THIS, BUT
HES THE PRESIDENT.
WE GOT TO DEFEND HIM.
BUT HERE WE FIND OURSELVES, "THE
WALL STREET JOURNAL" EDITORIAL
PAGE SAYS, WITH JUST A VERITABLE
CORNUCOPIA TO FEAST ON FROM THE
DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENCY THATS THE
MOST LIBERAL SINCE LBJ.
I DONT KNOW.
LBJ MAY EVEN BE CALVIN COOLIDGE
COMPARED TO THIS PRESIDENT AND
WHAT HE HAS ALREADY PROPOSED.
MY GOD, I WOULD PASS OUT.
I WOULD BE LIKE JAMES BROWN ON
THE HOUSE FLOOR.
LIKE, CONDEMNING ONE HUGE
GOVERNMENT OVER --
>> BUT THEY CANT.
>> AFTER ANOTHER, AFTER -- I
WOULD BE FALLING DOWN AND MAYBE
YOU COULD PUT THE CAPE ON ME AND
I WOULD GET UP AND THROW IT OFF
AND SAY, THEN HE WANTS -- BUT
THEY CANT DO THAT.
>> NO.
>> YOU KNOW WHY THEY CANT DO
THAT, BECAUSE THEYRE TALKING --
I WOULD LIKE TO SWEAR NOW BUT I
KNOW ITS EARLY, THEYRE TALKING
ABOUT DR. SEUSS.
THEYRE TALKING ABOUT --
>> THEYRE DUMB DUMBS.
>> MR. POTATO HEAD.
THEYRE TALKING ABOUT LIZ
CHENEY.
THEYRE CONTINUING TO LIE ABOUT
THE 2020 ELECTION WHEN EVERYBODY
KNOWS THEYRE LYING ABOUT THE
2020 ELECTION.
I WILL TAKE A DEEP BREATH AND
LET YOU TALK.
BUT JUST THINK OF THIS
SERIOUSLY, IF THERE WERE A
CONSERVATIVE THERE, THIS IS
ALL -- I GUARANTEE YOU, WHEN I
WAS THERE, THIS IS ALL WE WOULD
BE TALKING ABOUT, AND WE WOULD
BE ON THE FLOOR NIGHT AND DAY
TALKING ABOUT RUN AWAY
GOVERNMENT.
THEY INSTEAD ARE TALKING ABOUT A
WOMAN WITH A LIFE TIME 95% ACU
RATING LIKE ME, BY THE WAY, WHO
SIMPLY TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT
THE 2020 ELECTION.
THIS IS MADNESS.
>> YEAH.
NOT ONLY DOES SHE HAVE A 95% ACA
RATING, SHE HAS A 95 OR 97%
RATING VOTING WITH DONALD TRUMP.
SO ITS NOT LIKE SHE WAS THIS
OUTLIER.
BUT MIKA HAS GIVEN US THE IMAGE
HERE.
LIZ CHENEY IS THE RESCUER.
SHES COME AND FOUND THE
HOSTAGES.
SHES SAYING, COME ON.
FOLLOW ME OUT OF THE BUILDING.
COME ON.
IVE GOT A WAY.
AND THEYRE SITTING THERE GOING,
NO, NO, NO, WE WANT TO STAY.
WE LIKE IT HERE.
IN FACT, BAD RESCUER.
BAD PERSON TRYING TO SAVE US
FROM OURSELVES.
THATS WHERE WE ARE.
YOURE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT, JOE.
THE PARTY INSTEAD OF TAKING TIME
TO PUT DOWN ON THE CARPET FOR
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WHAT THE
SPENDING MEANS, WHAT THE
PROGRAMS BEING PROPOSED MEAN,
PUTTING IN THEIR ALTERNATIVES
AND GIVING A VIABLE,
CONSERVATIVE GOVERNING CHOICE TO
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE INSTEAD
FIXATED ON DR. SEUSS AND KICKING
THE ONLY FEMALE IN LEADERSHIP
WHO IS MORE CONSERVATIVE THAN
MOST OF THE MEN WHO ARE KICKING
HER OUT, RIGHT?
KICKING HER OUT OF THE GAME.
>> YEAH.
>> AND SO THIS IS THEIR NEW
REALITY HERE.
I MEAN, "THE WALL STREET
JOURNAL" -- AND I APPRECIATE,
THEY SORT OF GIVE ME, HEY, GUYS,
THIS IS YOUR PLAY BOOK.
AND YET AND STILL THEY REFUSE TO
GO DOWN THAT ROAD THAT WILL FREE
THEM OF TRUMP.
INSTEAD YOU HAVE TED CRUZ GOING
DOWN TO DO HIS VERSION OF KEVIN
McCARTHY, RIGHT?
AND SIT THERE AND HAVE TEA AND
CRUMP ETS WHILE THE PARTY IS
BURNING.
SO HERE WE ARE, LIZ CHENEY WB
THE TIP OF THE SPEAR THAT WILL
BE THEIR UNDOING.
THEY WILL PROBABLY OUST HER AND
THEN THEYLL ELEVATE A WOMAN WHO
AS PELOSI NOTED, ONE WHO IS MORE
COMPLIANT AND AGREEABLE TO TRUMP
AND THEY THINK THEY WILL HAVE
WON THAT BATTLE.
THEY WONT.
>> THIS PICTURE IS JUST
INCREDIBLE OF TED CRUZ AND
TRUMP.
WOW.
YEAH.
KICKING THE WRONG WOMAN WHO
KEVIN McCARTHY, YOU HAD IT WITH
HER, GOOD LUCK BECAUSE SHES
GOING TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT AT