not just say that liz cheney and i were on different proverbial teams. i would say we were from different proverbial planets. and they are planets that are mostly at war with each other. and she s a politician. i m not a politician. i m just a person. but i am definitely a liberal and she is definitely a hardcore conservative. and i disagree with liz cheney on like really on everything you can think of. on the environment, on abortion rights, profoundly. i think she s not just wrong on abortion, she is capital w wrong on abortion in a terrible way. i disagree with her vehemently on voting rights and on the iraq war and the afghanistan war and our relationship or lack thereof with iran and our approach to terrorism and torture and guns and like mining and intellectual property and the rules of the house of representatives. honestly, i once even got mad at liz cheney about fishing. and it s the one thing you d think we have in common. right? even on fishing i got mad at her a
inside the memoir are a ton of revelation, including this one, to perk up the ears of prosecutors and jack smith s office. cheney reveals mccarthy told her two days after the election he talked to trump and trump acknowledged he had lost the 2020 election. he needs to go through all the stages of grief, he said. cheney writes, she thought to herself those stages seemed to involve tweeting in all caps. we all know what happened after the election. donald trump fights desperately to overturn his election defeat. kevin mccarthy enabled him every step of the way. liz cheney says about the current speaker, cheney recounts how johnson pressured members to throw out election results from four states trump had lost. when i confirmed with him the flaws in his legal argument, he would say something to effect of, we just need to do this one last thing for trump. according to cheney, that effectively became the republican party ice agenda. here s what happened just before the capitol was
this process going forward because they are going to be the ones handling the confirmation hearing happening on capitol hill once president biden has picked who his nominee, his supreme court pick, is going to be. we already know that he has said he will stand by his pledge to put the first black woman on the supreme court. it is, of course, pretty familiar territory for president biden, given he was once the chairman of the senate judiciary committee and now he s meeting with the new chairman of the senate judiciary committee in the oval office now. we should get some camera footage any moment now of what s happening inside that meeting. we ll see what president biden says as they are working on this search to figure out who he is going to pick and as he is trying to make history with the selection. okay, kaitlan collins, thank you very much. all right, now to new information on donald trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. we re getting new details about the behind-the-sc
of the key people to testify this week, two will include u.s. ambassador gordon sondland and mr. trump s former russia adviser, fiona hill. lawmakers want to ask sondland about the text messages he exchanged related to mr. trump s july phone call with the ukrainian president. hill is expected to be interviewed in the coming hours. she should bring to light some of the behind-the-scenes maneuvering between president trump, the administration officials and outsiders acting on his behalf in ukraine. in the meantime, hunter biden, the son of the former vice president joe biden, whose overseas business dealings have drawn attacks from president trump, he says he will step down from his board role at at chinese private he can quit firm. joe biden addressed the controversy during a campaign event in iowa on sunday and slammed president trump for repeatedly targeting his son with claims that are just not true. our jessica dean reports.
right now the idea the u.s. hopes is that it doesn t spill over into outright military tension. ashleigh. let me be clear, i m asking you these questions despite the fact you are not officing in a hotbed of diplomacy at the pentagon. but what kind of diplomacy could the americans actually employ in a circumstance like this? well, i think that s what we re beginning to see unfold very rapidly over the last couple of days. and i think it will continue to unfold as we move along. viewers seeing cabinet level officia officials, chuck hagel, john kerry, very bluntly say don t do it. and behind the scenes what we know is there are talks between u.s. and russian counterparts, hagel again trying to reach his russian counterpart talks with new emerging ukraine officials. a lot of the behind-the-scenes maneuvering, a lot of intelligence gathering. what the u.s. wants is to have as much information in hand as