look mom we did it no hands. i m just telling you this because you are a deer and long term friend of mine. i can t think of anyone better to do this than you. i can t think of anyone better prepared to do it. the first day that i had to show i was a nervous wreck and i was barely breathing in my bpm was probably 145 a minute, but you are a cool customer you say that and i mean a pass out in a minute. but for the audience at home that may not know. who was incredibly a brilliant choice by the bosses here, but also i m just so excited to watch. you chris, i am excited and thrilled and it feels so right that i get to take the reins from you my friend. for so many years i m so honored to share the stage with you and thank you for everything. all right, i m gonna go watch. enough thank you chris. i am thrilled to be here and honored to have this hour every night tuesday through friday s to spend with you. like most of you watching right now, i ve been a longtime v
dishonourable act by a president. both liz cheney and adam kinzinger launched their careers in congress s republican darlings. bright, shining stars with equally bright futures. now they both said on the january six committee investigating donald trump flipping his former staffers, interrogating his staffers and shining a light on his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. they both also voted to impeach the former president in january, 2021 in his role in the january 6th attack. only eight other has republicans joined them all the rest of the party coalesced around trump. for all of those reasons, the republican national committee, formally censored cheney ends kinzinger earlier this year. and tonight, it looks like both of them will be out of congress by the end of this year. we learned in october, 2021 congressman kinzinger would not seek reelection for seat in illinois. here s a video announcing. that it was time for him to move on from congress.
we re gonna see some of the smaller ones around the state. this isn t too small. but here, you re looking at, again, you ve got the absentee vote from sweet water county, and hageman is already running well over 70% of the vote here. they re gonna end up with 5000, 6000, 7000 votes or so totally out of this county, and hageman is already ruling up the score against liz cheney. there s a lot of sweet water counties, just making sure they are political leanings. so, you put those two together right away, and you don t have the makings of the kind of surprised that liz cheney was hoping for. where could she look on this map? i mean, this is geographically big, we are jackson hole s. this is an anomaly in wyoming. this is a blue county. biden won it by 32 points. while geographically big, it only makes up about 5% of the primary vote. cheney will do well there. albany county down here, again, this is where the university of wyoming, this is the only other counting the state that joe biden
i think it s a primary night but in a lot of ways it s a reckoning for the republican party and i think we should probably read a lot into what s happening and wyoming. i don t remember and all my years covering politics a wyoming republican primary being an event that felt big, but this does feel big, because i think we all know the result is that probably liz cheney will lose. but also as she has said and, the sounds like a rationalization but it s not, it s the beginning of something. i don t think she s gonna go anywhere. i think she will get a lot of attention going forward with the january 6th commission, and look, she s made it a pretty firm objective of hers to bring down donald trump. that is her goal. i d be shocked if she even mentioned harriet hageman tonight, except in a cursory i just received a phone call or whatever. it s a big night and it s sort of signifies a step forward. it ll also be sad in some ways. can she take on donald trump from outside the republican pa
he thought it was a very good politician and he is. he goes with the wind and he goes with what s gonna take him to higher power. he knows everybody s name, he knows something about you. i knew there was a lot of politician-ing to that, but at the time at least we didn t have donald trump yet. when he came, and you all of a sudden start seeing people, it s not just about differences of opinion. we need differences of opinion in this country, but it s about swallowing authoritarian views, destroying the constitution and changing how we respect the government. i saw him start working on behalf of trump for that and not lead. liz cheney and i can speak out against donald trump and we will continue doing this. kevin mccarthy is the one that people would listen to and he s the leader and he s too much of a coward to do, that people need to recognize that. there s the power aspect of it but then there s people who legitimately believe that you leaving the party to hold trump accountable is