As the current president lays out a big vaccine rollout, author Micah Lewis. When All In starts right now. Good evening from New York. Im chris hayes. The Republican Party appears to be preparing to undertake an ideological purge. They are signaling they want to essentially excommunicate from leadership their thirdranking member in the house and the only woman in congressional leadership, Congresswoman Liz Cheney of wyoming. She is on the outs because she has failed to carry the Party Line on what is increasingly the most important issue inside that party and that movement, that Donald Trump actually won the 2020 president ial election. Now, what makes this strange on a number of levels is that this is actually not an ideological question. It is a factual one. And the factual answer is, no, Donald Trump did not win the election. He lost the election. And so republicans are talking about punishing Liz Cheney for the equivalent of saying Two Plus two equals four or Neil Armstrong walked
The departments key role in enforcing the violence against women act, hes asking for a landmark 1 Billion for the office of violence against women. Republicans appeared to be horrified by his testimony, by the idea thAt The Justice Department will try to fully fund its work on civil rights and violence against women and domestic terrorism and extremism, which of course the fbi says is predominantly a white supremacist threat. The republicans hearing Merrick Garlands testimony today were really not into it as you might imagine. But, you know, like i said, Under New Management. Elections have consequences. And under Attorney General Merrick Garland, the Justice Department has started up federal investigations into multiple local police departments around the country on their use of force. The Justice Department has indicted a local Georgia Sheriff for brutalizing prisoners in his care. The department has opened a federal civil Rights Investigation in a north Carolina Police shooting case