january six committee is going to make the case that she is at the beginning of the battle. and she is going to drop a blunt message, a warning, a message warning about the danger to america from this misinformation and. why remove what she told cnn earlier this month from the threat from the former president? here it is. if defending the constitution against the threat that he poses means losing a house seat, then that s a sacrifice i m willing to make. i do not intend to lose. but, but some things are more important than any individual office or a political campaign. so, that s wyoming. we are also going to take you to alaska, right now. votes are still being cast their, where the former presidents trying to take down senator lisa murkowski for the for the uncharitable sin of voting to convict him in his second impeachment trial. now, make known stake though, this is no ordinary primary night. what we are learning tonight, and the new revelations today about the janua
does she run as a republican? is there a base for a liz cheney republican in primaries today? does she run as an independent? i think these are all decisions that, as david chalian has said, they come down the road. but is the door open? absolutely. i just want to mention one other think. there s a line in her speech where she said that after january 6th, she said like so many americans, i assume that the violence and the chaos of that day. would have prompted a united response. a recognition that this was all lined that might never be crossed. i ve spoken to her over this period of time. i remember at the beginning, after the impeachment of donald trump s when she started to run for office. she really believed that she
tonight. and you said she congratulated harriet hageman. maybe i missed. it she said she called her. i didn t hear. what she said is i called, or she won. i called her to concede. the primary is over. there was no congratulations. and later, after she went through the litany of gubernatorial candidates or whatever, she also noted quite clearly there, were some republicans in the state of wyoming, shoes are referring to harriet hageman, who have bought into the election lie that donald trump uses in the 2020 election. that s so dangerous as well. and the final thing i will add, it was a call to arms of citizenship. this whole notion that no american citizen can be a bystander to this right. now that every american citizen is needed to bend that arc, towards justice in this moment. i thought, you know, that s part of her appeal that is crossing party lines, right now. you re right about. that andrus flexibly, called the opponent, and congratulate them.
look, you know, don, liz cheney has made it clear since she voted to impeach donald trump. and with her work of the vice chair of the january six committee, that she sees donald trump as a clear and present danger. that she believes democracy is in peril. and she is known for quite some time that she was likely to lose tonight. but that fighting for that democracy was more important than keeping her seat in congress, john. she said no how seat office is that important. she also said she called harriet hageman, and she congratulated her on the win. and she said now the real work begins. you know, dana, i want to bring in dana bash. dana, are you surprised he worked so hard on the speech? no, i m not. there is one bit though, that i m surprised about, which i will tell you in a second. mar-a-lago exactly.
gop primary tonight but declaring our work is far from over. those are her words. back then a bash, chris wallace, david chalian, and jamie gangel. jamie, what is her next move. she talked about grant, she talked about lincoln, maybe she s handing out something especially when she said lincoln was defeated in the house and senate before winning the ultimate seat in the land. but maybe a brady too much into that? i don t think you are don. look, she did not announce that she is running for the white house tonight but she is certainly left the door open. and what you just quoted there says that. i think that liz cheney has made a decision that as she said, she is going to do whatever it takes to keep donald trump from ever being president again. so what does that look like?