january six committee is going to make the case that she is at the beginning of the battle. and she is going to drop a blunt message, a warning, a message warning about the danger to america from this misinformation and. why remove what she told cnn earlier this month from the threat from the former president? here it is. if defending the constitution against the threat that he poses means losing a house seat, then that s a sacrifice i m willing to make. i do not intend to lose. but, but some things are more important than any individual office or a political campaign. so, that s wyoming. we are also going to take you to alaska, right now. votes are still being cast their, where the former presidents trying to take down senator lisa murkowski for the for the uncharitable sin of voting to convict him in his second impeachment trial. now, make known stake though, this is no ordinary primary night. what we are learning tonight, and the new revelations today about the janua
to protect. and i well understood the potential political consequences of abiding by my duty. tonight harriet hageman has received the most votes in this primary. she won. i called her to concede the race. this primary election is over. but now the real work begins. [ cheers and applause ] on the other side the woman who beat her, harriet hageman, spoke in trumpian terms about what this win means for her state. wyoming has drawn a line in the sand that if we put you in power you will be accountable to us, you will answer to us and you will do what is in our best interests. and if you don t we will fire you. donald trump also took a victory lapp that he d been waiting to make for more than a year, claiming he helped send cheney to the, quote, depths of political oblivion. but did he? you have to consider that question in the context of what surely is a fateful moment for the former president. despite federal and state investigations seeming to close in on every side, he
cheney has learned quickly to the republican party is trump country. that is the reality that we see. by the way, notice with harriet hageman said tonight in her victory speech and what the rnc, the republican national committee put out under statement, the way they are painting this is that this is what happens when you don t pay attention to what your constituents want you to focus on. they re trying to just paint this as this aberration. who chose to not focus on the things that are most important to her constituents. that she got out of step with their constituents. i think that very statement notion is would poses a problematic path to her in a presidential nominate race. i think that the republican primary electorate, that exist right now, everything that we know about it, would suggest that there is not a ton of market share there for this cheney to actually have a path to the nomination. given her current mission to be
tonight. and you said she congratulated harriet hageman. maybe i missed. it she said she called her. i didn t hear. what she said is i called, or she won. i called her to concede. the primary is over. there was no congratulations. and later, after she went through the litany of gubernatorial candidates or whatever, she also noted quite clearly there, were some republicans in the state of wyoming, shoes are referring to harriet hageman, who have bought into the election lie that donald trump uses in the 2020 election. that s so dangerous as well. and the final thing i will add, it was a call to arms of citizenship. this whole notion that no american citizen can be a bystander to this right. now that every american citizen is needed to bend that arc, towards justice in this moment. i thought, you know, that s part of her appeal that is crossing party lines, right now. you re right about. that andrus flexibly, called the opponent, and congratulate them.
look, you know, don, liz cheney has made it clear since she voted to impeach donald trump. and with her work of the vice chair of the january six committee, that she sees donald trump as a clear and present danger. that she believes democracy is in peril. and she is known for quite some time that she was likely to lose tonight. but that fighting for that democracy was more important than keeping her seat in congress, john. she said no how seat office is that important. she also said she called harriet hageman, and she congratulated her on the win. and she said now the real work begins. you know, dana, i want to bring in dana bash. dana, are you surprised he worked so hard on the speech? no, i m not. there is one bit though, that i m surprised about, which i will tell you in a second. mar-a-lago exactly.