i won t comment on the grand jury investigation. liz cheney loses her job in a landslide. her next fight? urging midterm voters to reject you know who. i hope you do whatever it takes to donald trump out of the office. are you thinking about it? are you thinking about running for president? it ah, that s a decision i m going to make in the coming months, savannah. i won t make any announcements in morning. it s something i m thinking about and will make a decision in the coming months. liz cheney is on the losing end of this. she s on the losing end because she stands up to donald trump and because she calls out his lies. her loss. you see how big it was, is a giant win for the former president. cheney one of 10 house republicans who voted to impeach donald trump. her defeat means eight of the ten will not be in congress in january. she insists her fight is just beginning. this is just wyoming. zoom out. it underscores her challenge. the pink on the map, those a
the people and by the people. if someone decides to disrupt our republic and violate the law, we have to take it seriously. this is a system of laws and the president is not above the law. the president is bound by the law just like everybody else. we re all taught in third grade that we have three co-equal branchs. we re not a co-equal branch of government, we are a preemptive branch of government. all the power is vested in the constitution of the united states. so the constitutional sovereign power of the people to create the country to write the constitution flowed into congress. what s the core job of the president? to take care that the laws are faithfully executed. that s it. and if the president doesn t do that, get rid of him. i overslept.
united states. nobody is above the law. say it with me now. nobody is above the law. well, let s unpack that statement. now, we have three co-equal branchs of government. one makes the law, unenforces the law and one interprets it. the founding fathers envision the system of checks and balances no one branch could rule like a king. when the law making body with the power to impeach a president is to the point of paralysis, about how to deal with the president who breaks the law that it makes. well, so much for checks and balances. so much for coequal branchs. and so much for the symbolic or real power or weight of the impeachment. now, we don t know what the din whistle-blower complaint is all about. we don t know about the instances the complaint identifies. we don t have the transcript of the president s call with the ukrainian president.
democratic president. do you want to see the intelligence committee chairman, adam schiff, pursue this battle in court? yes, i do. i want to get i want to stand for the integrity of the whistleblower system. and frankly, this is a question that should concern all of us in congress. i mean, what is happening now, and it s a really dire situation for our country, is the separation of powers, the equal branches of government is under assault. the president has a tendency in this case and in others, to just do whatever he wants. and whether you re a republican or democrat, you ve got to stand up for that constitutional principle of co-equal branchs of government. i mean, when you have a president who does an end around, it appears, on this statute, or where he diverts funds that were appropriated for a day care center to a military base and uses them to construct a wall on the southern border, that should be a concern to anyone who wants to preserve our constitutional order. but if
don t think we will see hearings on it. this national mrnl dc l naal declaration. if you want to link the two, if the republicans are spending political capital justifying the president, backing him on this emergency, what does that mean they might do when the russia investigation comes to a close, and the results, if they are revealed listen to ron johnson, talking about the national emergency. look, i regret that he has given any president a lot of the congress s constitutional authority. they it on tariffs and in many cases. we should have three co-equal branchs. right now the presidency is probably the most powerful, and