the language of recidivism and it seems to have sort of two purposes and i wonder your thoughts on this. one, to see if there were more than just one wing person for her in the republican party, if she can awake any other republicans from their stupor. to understand that this is a clear and present danger for 2024, not just about looking back, and to gird, perhaps, some of her fellow committee members on the other side of the aisle for what could become some pretty tough political fights in the months ahead. well, i think the latter is certainly true. i mean, she knows the political costs of the work they are doing better than anyone. she s locked in this very competitive primary in wyoming, although her office has been bragging about the stacks of money she s been raising in that fight. it s her primary in wyoming is the most important primary race in the country this year, and maybe in any, you know, recent midterm election that i can think of as a single race, right? i mean, she
she has to make this fight for the future of the republican party. there s no other place in which it s that clear. she s got a trump-endorsed opponent. she is a target of the former president day after day after day so she s willing to have that battle and i think the warning part to the committee is a very good point. as to waking up fellow republicans, i don t have i don t have good news for you on that topic. i mean, you know, talking to republican senators over the last couple days, since the former president s comments at that rally, like, there s not a sudden awareness that, oh my god, this is still a problem. i didn t realize he talked this way. i mean, this is baked in with the republican party that s here right now, and i got to tell you, when you look at the candidates who are running for office, a lot of house seats, some senate seats out here, the next batch coming up feels even more strongly in trump s corner about a lot of these issues. i don t see that break coming.
contributor and the former republican, the former republican strategist, steve schmidt is here. garrett, you talked to liz cheney today. tell us about it. well, i interviewed liz cheney and every question i asked her, she kept coming back to the same point that she wanted to make over and over again, which is, he would do it again. i thought it was interesting that s how your interview with congresswoman luria concluded too because i think cheney has been looking a step ahead in this process the whole time and it s not so much when you interview her that she s thinking about the details of what happened in the lead-up to january 6th and on that day so much as the fact that she believes, clearly, that donald trump remains a danger to behave in this way again, whether as a candidate, a nominee, or a future president. she also made it clear that she does not want this to be what republicans stand for. she s having both her role at kind of the tip of the spear here for the committee and
and i think that s why we heard her keep coming back to these same key points about, he s going to keep doing this unless we, in that case, meaning the committee and republicans, decide it s not acceptable to us. garrett, i believe we need to throw to her sound. let me throw to your interview. look, we are very focused at the select committee on a whole range of potential legislative proposals. i think it s very important, though, for the american people to recognize and understand what we know and what the president, the former president himself is saying about his intentions, what his intentions clearly were a year ago on january 6th and what he would do again if he ever got anywhere close to power. and that just simply can t be who we are as americans. it can t be who we are as republicans. there it is. there you hear it. sorry for the confusion on the tape. no, you were being a humble reporter and not showing your interview, but i asked this question yesterday. i mean, li
good. that means you ve stood up for something sometime in your life. we re back with garrett, sam, and steve. you know, sam, do republicans risk sort of protesting a little too much if they re so sure they re going to take over and they re so sure no one did anything wrong, why are they hiring lawyers? why not go sit down and say, yeah, i ll testify, put me on at 9:00 p.m.? well, first off, let me just say the point i was about to make before my internet gave out was so poignant that it probably could have won the show an emmy. you get a do-over, tv in the age of zoom. you can make your point. no, i can t. you set me up so well, garrett set me up so well. it passed. as to this moment, i will say this. there is i would say, yeah, they re kind of protesting too much, but you have to understand, the real sort of overriding calculus here for a lot of the republicans is to just not piss off donald trump, right? there s a palpable fear.