to protect. and i well understood the potential political consequences of abiding by my duty. tonight harriet hageman has received the most votes in this primary. she won. i called her to concede the race. this primary election is over. but now the real work begins. [ cheers and applause ] on the other side the woman who beat her, harriet hageman, spoke in trumpian terms about what this win means for her state. wyoming has drawn a line in the sand that if we put you in power you will be accountable to us, you will answer to us and you will do what is in our best interests. and if you don t we will fire you. donald trump also took a victory lapp that he d been waiting to make for more than a year, claiming he helped send cheney to the, quote, depths of political oblivion. but did he? you have to consider that question in the context of what surely is a fateful moment for the former president. despite federal and state investigations seeming to close in on every side, he
coup-plotting and pathologically duplicitous ex-president to subvert american democrat see and the process of given the persistent power of donald j. trump in the republican party and the depoched and decrepit party, will end the way it did with wyoming congresswoman liz cheney losing in a landslide. cheney s unforgivable sin in the ice of maga voters and a bunch of other republican voters, too, along with team trump cultivated and blessed the candidate who defeated her when it came to her conviction that trump is nothing more than an existential threat to our republic and cheney acknowledged as much. years ago i won this primary with 37% of the vote. i could easily have done the same again. the path was clear.7% of the vo. i could easily have done the same again. the path was clear.3% of the vo. i could easily have done the same again. the path was clear. but it would have required they go along with the lie of the 2720 election, that i would unravel our democratic system
testify in georgia tomorrow. also tonight, vote remembers going to the polls in two states with liz cheney s political career on the line in wyoming and lisa murkowski facing a challenge for her senate seat in alaska and get this, sarah palin is trying to become relevant again. get that skit ready, snl. i m tiffany cross in for joy reid. we begin with a familiar place, maybe even a happy place, because donald trump is once again at the center of controversy. this time over classified top secret documents that led to the mar-a-lago raid. now the judge who approved a search warrant will hear arguments thursday over whether to unseal the search warrant affidavit. the doj has asked a judge to keep it sealed while trump wants it released. meanwhile, republicans and pro-jump extremists continue to slam the fbi and justice department over their search and now there s another talking point floating in the ether saying what trump actually did it was no big deal. i think mar-a-lago
basking in a historic win with a landmark spending bill passing just hours ago. president biden is wasting no time applauding the passage. it may become the largest investment in climate change intervention the nation s ever seen. i m almost has every region of the nation has been baked by extreme heat. the summer many states terrorized by extreme weather disasters that caused billions of dollars and hundreds of lives. coast to coast we are bracing for more as fire season in the western states has opened with more record places well federal scientists warn of an above average and above normal hurricane season. still threatening the east coast. yet for all the unprecedented crime and action promised by the inflation reduction act it is still just a step towards a sustainable future. it is moving the country away from fossil fuels and substantially curving the nation s emissions over the next eight years. even with this legislative battle over climate action or is america rea
game-changer announcement on student loan forgiveness a [inaudible] for millions of americans. plus, the big lie turned a big rift. how some are profiting off of disproven election fraud claims. goes beyond the former president. as the 11th hour gets underway on this wednesday night. good evening once again, i m alicia menendez, in four stephanie ruhle. as if the current day controversies of the former president were not enough, we begin with new insight tonight into how donald trump may have avoided accountability in the investigation that consumed must of his presidency. late today, after a lengthy court fight, the justice department released a document related to the russia investigation. the memo was top secret and now we know why. former presidents attorney bill barr wanted to keep it a secret. in march 2019, bill barr told us before the mueller report was released, that the report had all but exonerated the former president. and therefore, there was no reason to charg