violence in the months to come and another january 6th every four years. cheney is a very odd figurehead for the movement to prosecute the ex presidents attempted coup in the court of public opinion. she provides an interesting case study for the question, what does a politician do when they want to be part of a political party that doesn t want them? i ve covered cheney s political career for almost a decade now. to be honest, i spent much of it viewing her as kind of an object of scorn. i mean, she is a hard right republican and one of the most extreme foreign policy hawks in the party. before entering politics, the first time she came on my radar screen, he s probably best known for her policy to keep america safe. that levied some pretty disgusting attacks against obama era department of justice officials who had, in private practice before they join the government, defended guantánamo bay detainees. haiti formally launched her political career by trying to carpet back
survivors and saw some of the bodies of the first dead children that they had at the hospital. his testimony, there are parts of it that i m not sure that every word he said about what he saw with those wounds got across. there is one word that he used that i m going to get you in this hour. it is a horrifying graphic ex description. there s been that discussion about should be photographs of this so that people can really understand it. well chris, there was language there in that hearing today that is beyond anything that you would actually expect to see in such photographs. i m not sure that it had any impact at all on the republican members of that committee. i watched a clip, a long clip of the individual you re talking about. it was incredibly powerful and i agree that that is as important for people to hear as any debate about these images. my father worked in gun safety activism and one of the things that you find in those circles is a lot of the most militant peopl
pence. but it outrages me. yeah. because he refuses to assist them, and instead to [inaudible] kill him, which is where the hanging is. and then who can never forget the confederate flags in auschwitz t-shirts? there was an element of racism there. they object, to all americans, participating in democracy. attorney general keith ellison and jill wine-banks, thank you both, appreciate it. thank you for joining us for this special edition of all in, lawrence o donnell s loss last word starts. now i know you ve been concentrating on the hearing tomorrow. i think concentrating on the house hearing this morning about uvalde, about the mass shooting in baltimore. i heard there something that changed my understanding of how bad this is. goes actually description by a doctor who treated some of the