Former congresswoman Liz Cheney, Vice Chairman of the January 6th Committee And Face of the republican dynasty in america who earlier this weekend dorised Vice President Kamala Harris has gone even further. This time saying that she and her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, will do something that, if you are a casual follower of American Politics might mean hell has frozen over. Dick cheney is voting for the democratic nominee for president. Dick cheney is voting for Vice President Kamala Harris. Here she is in conversation with the atlantics Mark Leibovitz making this news in austin, texas. Dick cheney, a beloved figure among democrats for many, many years. Do you if you know who he will be supporting or who hell be voting for, do you care to share with us who he might be voting for . Dick cheney will be voting for Kamala Harris. [ applause ] wow. Words i never expected to hear. Yeah. Yeah. You know, if you think about the moment that were in, and you think about how serious
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0 something, i don t know what you writing on social media. i know what i saw on the tape. and the tape speaks for itself. they never asked this man for his license. never asked for the car registration. snatched him out of the car and began beating him. nobody mentioned nothing about no girlfriend. nobody mentioned nothing about no they started beating an unarmed man. tell em. in the city that they slayed the dreamer, what has happened to the dream? in the city where the dreamer laid down and shed his blood, you have the unmitigated gall to beat your brother, chase him down and beat him some more, call for backup and they take 20 minutes. and you watch him and you were too busy talking among each other, no empathy, no concern. if you read the story of joseph, when his brothers threw him in the pit, nobody came to help him like nobody came to help tyre. waiting on ambulance service that didn t show up until it s too late. what will happen to his dream? well, we ll just tell them s
retaliate. let s not strip each other down because ultimately the party will have to pull together. joining me now, the reverend al sharpton, host of politicians nation on msnbc. that should all sound familiar because she said that on your show. what was the takeaway from that? what do you think the message is via valerie jarrett from the obama camp? it was clear. the message they re saying is let us not have such a purist measure to the candidates that when we come up with whatever the candidate is in the democratic party, that we have blocks of the democratic party that won t go out and support them because they didn t pass some kind of litmus test on things that really are not principle differences. it may be tactics. it may be how want to deal with things a certain way. and i think she brought it right in to where former president
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