tonight on the reidout you know, if donald trump is elected again, we really don t have to worry because the institutions of our government will prevent the worst that he will attempt to do. nothing can be further from the truth because those republicans, you know, house with republicans like mike johnson, a senate with people like josh hawley and mike lee, they won t stand up to him. liz cheney banging that alarm bell with all her might, as her former friends and colleagues abandon democracy for the cult of trump. plus, gaza teeters on the brink of a fullblown humanitarian catastrophe as calls for a permanent cease-fire grow louder by the day. and texas goes full handmaid s tale, creating their own dystopian reality where women are forced to beg for the right to safeguard their own health. but we begin tonight with a threat of america s putin. today, vladimir putin announced his candidacy in the presidential election next march that he is all but certain to win.
that s going to do it for us tonight. it is time for the last word with lawrence for donald. good evening, lawrence. good evening, rachel. you did make it look like it was the easiest thing in the world to sit down with you for an hour. i think a lot of people would want to do it, but i m sure liz cheney is very glad she got the chance to do that. that point she just made about not the lesser of two evils is such an important point to double underline from everything she s written in her book, everything we ve learned from the january 6th committee. i know plenty of times over the years, i ve heard people refer to their vote choice as the lesser of two evils. that is not where we are anymore. now. lawrence, one of the things i didn t expect before reading the book, and i probably should have one i started to see republican reaction to it, a lot of the republican issue with liz cheney is she is not shy about saying what people are doing wrong. she doesn t try to make peo
lot easier for you too. why did you take that decision? i don t think it would ve made it easier because at the end of the day at the end of the day, the question really is, you know, what s more important here. and to me, there was no world in which you would say maintaining this house seat matters more than standing up for truth. and it became clear that in order to stay in leadership, i was gonna have to tell donald trump s lies. and i was willing to do. that it wasn t a choice for me, and frankly, i don t think it was a choice for any american now given the stakes and given how significant this trend is. the book is called oath and honor: a memoir and a warning . liz cheney, what a remarkable what the world [laughter] and i know, despite everything, it s not the easiest thing in the world to sit down with me for an hour. but i really appreciate it. thank you, i appreciate it. let s keep the conversation going. that s going to do it for us tonight. it is
had it been, i am that being brought to my attention. had it been, lam highly that being brought to my attention. had it been, i am highly confident that i would have said that we should put in place such a provision because the impact on the overall virus would have been relatively low because, although the numbers are far too big, they are as part of the population relatively low. and in the same way that we realise that our initial regulations, in terms of how they impacted funerals, for example, were much firmer in their interpretation on the ground than we had intended so we therefore changed them, that is the sort of thing that i certainly would have been open to considering and i am pretty sure i would have been in favour of it had it been brought to my attention, but i haven t seen any paperwork on this question. i haven t seen any paperwork on this cuestion. , ., , , , question. open to considering it is helful, question. open to considering it is helpful. thank qu