landslide to a trump-backed election denier. i m brianna keilar with john berman this morning. cheney was defeated last night by more than a two to one margin, the surest sign yet that donald trump still has a stranglehold on the soul of the republican party. for now cheney will continue to serve as vice chair of the january 6th committee and whatever the future holds she vows to do everything in her power to keep the former president from ever returning to office. two years ago i won this primary with 73% of the vote. i could easily have done the same again. the path was clear. but it would have required that i go along with president trump s lie about the 2020 election. that was a path i could not and would not take. it is not clear what cheney plans to do once she leaves congress. the woman who defeated her harriet hageman, had this to say in her victory speech. wyoming has drawn a line in the sand that if we put you in power you will be accountable to us, you will a
the story this morning is in wyoming, and that s where jeff zeleny is joining us now with the latest. jeff? reporter: good morning. we re getting more details of what the next steps for congresswoman liz cheney will be. overnight, her campaign team filed paper work with the federal election committee changing her campaign to a leadership pac that allows her to donate to other candidates, it allows her to travel around the country, sending a message. but the name of the leadership pac, so interesting, the great task. and she used those three words last night here in wyoming. the great and original champion of our party, abraham lincoln, was defeated in elections for the senate and the house before he won the most important election of all. lincoln ultimately prevailed, he saved our union, and he defined our obligation as americans for all of history. speaking at gettysburg, of the great task remaining before us, . reporter: so that is the name of the new leadership group
rules helped murkowski survived, at least for now liz cheney never had a chance and she knew it. two years ago i won this primary with 73% of the vote. i could easily have done the same again. the path was clear. but it would have required that i go along with president trump s lie about the 2020 election. it would have required that i enable his ongoing efforts to unravel our democratic system and attack the foundations of our republic. that was a path i could not and would not take. [ cheers and applause ] against the backdrop of the teton mountains at sunset, cheney, whose father served five terms, gave her concession speech to just 150 people, an invite-only event where i.d.s were checked before entering. i think can you guess why. her father sitting off to the right of the stage watched as his daughter ended the family dynasty. let as resolve that we will stand together, republicans, democrats and independents against those who would destroy our republic. they are
a fiction you called it. yeah. look. it s if he has declassified hundreds, maybe thousands of documents that he took to the residence because he worked very hard on this at night as we all know, over four years, the media should be filing freedom of information act requests for all documents declassified by donald trump pursuant to this standing order. i d love to see what gets produced. and we know from seeing the receipt of items taken from mar-a-lago that there was a box labeled as sci, sensitive compartmented information. can you think of any reason a former president would have to have sensitive compartmented information in his residence? no, look, in a normal administration a president is quite likely to write memoirs, he ll want and deserves access to highly classified information, arrangements are made for former presidents and indeed for former cabinet officers who leave under happy circumstances, that scifs are set up that they can go to and look at this c
for hallie jackson. we ll start with the affidavit news. joining me justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian and former fbi general counsel senior member of the mueller team and an msnbc legal analyst andrew wisen. thanks for being with us. ken, let s start with what judge is doing. the judge has that redacted version from the doj of the affidavit. what are some scenarios of what could play out next? good afternoon, lindsey. well one scenario is that the justice department convinces the judge that so much of this affidavit needs to be redacted, that there s no point in releasing it. if a judge agrees with that, and he raised that possibility in his written ruling that we could end up here with is meaningless gibberish, if he concludes that he may decide there s no point in releasing it. the second possibility, a judge disagrees with some of the proposed redactions from the justice department and in that case he said he would allow them to appeal but it would be u