[ cheers and applause ]. congresswoman cheney made a point of calling out election denying republicans across the country and hinted this is not the last we will hear from liz cheney. today, as we meet here, there are republican candidates for governor who deny the outcome of the 2020 election and who may refuse to certify future elections if they oppose the results. we have candidates for secretary of state who may refuse to report the actual results of the popular vote in future elections. no american should support election deniers for any position of genuine responsibility where their refusal to follow the rule of law will corrupt our future. i have said since january 6th that i will do whatever it takes to ensure donald trump is never again anywhere near the oval office. and i mean it. [ cheers and applause ]. tonight we are also keeping a close eye on the special election for alaska s at-large house district where former ak ank governor and 2008 vice presidential
they won t do the rank until the end of the month or beginning of september. you have to get every ballot, every mail ballot, everything in before you can do those rank choice calculations. but if you watched this race closely, palin and begich in the home stretch acting like they know they re in a fight for the second place spot the winner has a real spot going to congress and the loser is just out. adding to the confusion, of course, is the fact that we re talking about a general election happening here and a primary election all at the same time, sarah palin s name is on the ballot twice. we ll get to that and more later. thank you, steve. we will be patient. joining us now from anchorage is washington correspondent for alaska public media, liz. liz, it is confusing and wild in alaska, as it often is especially when it concerns sarah palin. thank you in advance for helping us understand exactly what s going on. so, it s a little complicated in
cheney was primaried and lost in a republican primary. well, murkowski is easily going to survive. she ll be one of the top four that advance to the general. so she certainly doesn t have anything to worry about in tonight s primary. let me ask you just one last question about the democrat who may make it in this congressional ranked choice system. mrs. peltola. she would be one of the first members of the tribal nation in alaska to make it to congress if she succeeds. is that right? she would be the first indigenous alaskan to be in congress. i just spoke to her a couple minutes ago. and, yeah, she s pretty excited. and also saying it s going to be a long time until we know. all right, liz rhus kin, washington correspondent for alaska public media. thank you for your time tonight. we ll be patient. i m now thrilled to bring in
fate. i would ask you as one of the few people that s been going through this with her from inside the same party, what has it been like being on the committee with liz cheney? has there been comradery or gal low s humor? what has that relationship been like for the two of you? yeah, look, it s been pretty amazing. i mean, this committee just outside of just liz and i, this is like probably never happened in history. and it likely will never happen again. you have a committee that is focussed on getting the truth, getting the answers, getting done what needs to be done. we thank kevin mccarthy for pulling his members. it s made it a lot easier for us to get to the truth. liz, look, i feel the same way, is if i went back 20 months and made the decision about am i going to impeach donald trump, i would have done it in a heart beat. liz feels the same way. it s like, what is it for a man to gain the world but lose his soul? and i think as we ve gotten into this committee, you know, liz