the stuff, back anyone into it. it s the specificity of all this, it s the repeated attempts to get it, it s the liaison s for the lawyers that makes it because, you can imagine the defense being like, awe, clerical error. basically a coup. which he has been trying to argue. but delay the groundwork in this way, including this at the station, apparently, the two of his lawyer signed, telling the fbi that it would not be in criminal jeopardy at all, the former president of the united states, if when he was first contacted by the national archives, he said come on down, search the place take anything you want, just let me know what it is, and hopefully i ll get it back for my library someday, and i look forward to looking working with you for my presidential library. that s what a normal president made a mistake would do, and that s not donald trump. it s also the case, that quote there brings in the wilson list of it.
looks like, here are the ten republicans who voted to impeach donald trump, following that january six. we are just looking at how things fare in 2022. look at this, there for them who right away you said you know, what s not even gonna, try not get run. they retired, didn t seek reelection. you have tom, reisman he got clobbered in the primary. peter meijer in michigan, came kind of close, butler lost in washington. butler dale survived it california s primary, trump didn t make a endorsement there. going one to get through is dan newhouse. both parties on the ballot, trump did endorsed a candidate cheney is trying to pull something off of a different kind of level tonight. steve kornacki, as always, it s good to have you at the board, thank you so much. coming up, the pro democracy republican is quickly becoming
vital secret service texts around the january 6th attack, that individual is himself at best not up to the task and at worst, compromising and untrustworthy. back in july, 2019 joseph cuffari was confirmed under donald trump to be the top watchdog at dhs, the inspector general. it is exactly the kind of overseer the ex-president donald trump wanted, from signing his letters with ph. d. and those degrees from an uncredited school, investigation about the government accountability office, to accusations that his office delayed and suppressed reports about sexual misconduct and domestic violence at dhs. then there is the stuff that we ve been reporting on recently. cuffari knew about those missing secret service text messages as early as may, 2021 and not only failed to notify congress but took no steps i m sorry he took steps to stop their retrieval. it is of the utmost importance
than the guy the ex president chose to be his final chief of staff, mark meadows. but of course, she notably did defy trump in one crucial way. i m january, 2021, just a week after the capitol attack, cheney was one of ten republicans voted to impeach him. that, along with their push back against the big lie in the stolen election, cause cheney pretty much everything she had politically, at least that she built up during her two terms. may of 2021, house republicans voted to kick her out of her leadership role. soon, after she joined the january six committee, further enraging trump in the republican caucus. now, intersection reelection bid, she has been primaried by the mega right by an opponent endorsed by donald trump. she talked about what was at stake earlier today on cbs. well look, i think today, no matter what the outcome, is it is certainly the beginning of a battle that will continue and go on, and as a country we are facing very challenging and difficult times.
she needs to make inroads among republicans who were republicans before 2022, the polling has not indicated that, and other republicans in her shoes and other races have not indicated in ability to do that. she need to pull off something tonight that we haven t seen another republican really do this year. we should also know that hageman, her opponent, in the same way that liz cheney has this trajectory of essentially kind of a doctrine air republican, hageman had endorsed louis cheney, right? she had said some, like many republicans, negative things about donald trump. she s on her own trajectory in the air the maga party, where the plants tend to grow towards the, light she understands that the light is. an opportunity, you could say, she saw the opportunity. this is what the opportunity looks like, here are the ten republicans who voted to impeach donald trump, following that january six. we are just looking at how things fare in 2022. look at this, there for them who right