republican congresswoman liz cheney lost her house seat in a huge defeat. the three-term congresswoman and the gop s most forceful critic down more than 37% this morning to trump endorsed candidate herriot hagueman. cheney had been sidelined by her party is hinting at a presidential run. are you thinking about running for president? that s a decision that i m going to make in the coming months, savannah, i m not going to make any announcements here this morning but it s something i m thinking about and will make a decision in the coming months. cnn chief national affairs correspondent jeff zeleny is in jackson, wyoming. a large margin, wider than some expected losing to harriet hagueman, what are voters telling you there this morning? it s one more data point former president donald trump is in control of this republican party and republican voters respond to his endorsements. in a state like this, there is no doubt that liz cheney trying to turn the page, she has fou
we haven t seen anything like it over the ten years that xi jinping has been ruling, jonathan. look, under his rule china s become far morey press sieve. they ve marshalled technology in ways that makes china the ultimate surveillance state. so for this to happen is really unprecedented. you have to go back to at this en tee enna min square. you have the trigger of the failing covid policy but it s against the backdrop of large scale unemployment. you ve got drought. you ve got economic slowdown. you ve got trigger with the covid but it s tapping into a larger political, economic, social discontent. on our air as you ve noted, president xi got a five-year term. his grip on power has never been tighter. a lot of the trends going in the wrong direction there for the
how many steps between now and repeating apollo 11? this is one of the last big ones. this is a big deal because this is the first time in about half a century that we have seen a nasa built rocket bound for the moon roll out to the launch pad before a launch. this is the really the first human grade rocket that nasa has built since the retirement of the space shuttle fleet. this is more than a decade in the making for nasa and jim, what really stood out to me about last night, it s not as exciting as a rocket launch. you can see it right there. that s the rocket rolling out to the launch pad because it has to go so slowly and as i was watching this, i was thinking i l i m not sure what is more ill press sieve, the more impressive vehicle the rocket or crawler that gets it there. this is the same crawler to transport the saturn five rockets in the 1960s and 70s. it s carrying a skyscraper four miles and can only travel a mile
away from the guilt and the shame that we got into, in the 60s, over our past. until we can do that, we re going to be vulnerable to people like her. laura: dee well i actually like what she s bringing to the table. the real conversation is laura: he said her views are more press sieve to after from you the can americans than the race it s i am in the past. he went on to say a minority can do anything today, everything, every business, every entrepreneur endeavor that minorities can do everything and that is great progress i think some minorities can do what they want to do. but the playing field has not been leveled. income we have real conversations about praise in this country and where we start and where we go we ll never get to the right place. i don t think that the republican party is the boogie man. i don t think democrats are libtards. we need to have real conversations in this country about race. until we do we re going to
find little episodes that they can show to create a counter narrative that is false. here is a fact that people didn t talk about during the 2016 campaign. there was a kkk chance man who had a podcast talking all about his support for hillary clinton. if you haven t seen that it s because the media doesn t give that kind of information attention. there s racists on all sides. laura: shelby steal is just one of my favorite writers and thinkers, he was on my podcast. he made another point when i asked him about the power, the rise of, frankly impressive young people like alexandria ocasio-cortez liberalism as we practice it today in america and as people like her practice it, is infinitely more press sieve to minorities than racism. they re fighting a ghost in resisting her. i m fighting a real threat, a real enemy. the biggest challenge in american life today is to get