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
influx of candidates who are completely idealogically aligned with donald trump and who have completely accepted and regurgitated his falsehoods about the 2020 election. that could mean trouble for the republicans if they do take back congress in terms of what the country will see them pursue investigation-wise, oversight-wise. kevin mccarthy has already signaled that he will be open to launching investigations into what happened in 2020 if republicans take back congress and he will definitely have the support of those members if they are elected. brianna? yeah, and into what just happened with this mar-a-lago search as well, we should expect a spate of investigation fs that s the case. gabby, stuart, thank you to both of you. did someone mention the mar-a-lago search? the washington post is now reporting that former president trump is rushing to assemble a team of veteran lawyers to defend him from potential criminal exposure after
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sense, investigation wise, to have cast such a wide dragnet that you would, unavoidably, be one of the people whose records would have been accessed, as well? i mean, it seems far more selective and targeted, which doesn t speak well about a wide scope or dragnet to get to the crux of the issue. does it seem that way to you? well, laura, you re the former-career prosecutor. and you would know, better than me. but clearly, in hindsight, there was no predicate for this. you know, usually, you think subpoenas have to be predicated on some notion of what we would, i guess, as a layperson, characterize as probable cause. clearly, there was none. clearly, it was a dry well that kept coming up. and not that fact notwithstanding, attorney general barr pushed to go ahead on this. i mean, who laura, who does this? russia does this. north korea does this. authoritarian regimes do this. but this doesn t happen in a healthy democracy. and it ought to serve as a very loud-warning sign to all a
be. still uphill, but if the senate and the house changes the dynamic for the next two years. agenda-wise and investigation-wise. the president at 36 or 37%, that is a recipe for a catastrophe for the republican party. those numbers don t lie. hurricane florence lurking off the east coast, but we heard little from crisis communication. the commander in chief.