if you look at the statement, liz cheney did not mince words. she said, quote, the president summoned this mob, assembled this mob and lit the flame of this attack. there has never been a greater betrayal by a president of the united states of his office or his oath to the constitution. you know, to gloria's point, this may be sending a message to donald trump to try to pressure him to resign. i don't think that donald trump will pay attention to that message, but this certainly is a tipping point for the republican party. when you have liz cheney, part of the house republican leadership, when you have mitch mcconnell indicating that he might be willing to convict, which was from the "new york times" reporting by jonathan martin, a message is being sent loud and clear to republican members. you have a hall pass. donald trump is the pass. you can vote to impeach him. >> everybody stand by, because these are really historic moments, very dangerous moments here in the united states as well. i want to bring in the washington, d.c. mayor, muriel bows

you know where corporate america and wall street stand on liz cheney now. well, president biden continues to rule by executive order, signing more of them in his first eight days in office than any president in history. one of biden's executive orders stops the keystone pipeline, an order that may kill as many as 70,000 jobs. finish and it's worth reminding ourselves what president biden had to say about executive actions before he was elected president. >> i have the strange notion, we are a democracy. some of my republican friends and system of my democratic friends even occasionally say, well, if you can't get the votes by executive order you're going to do something. things you can't do by executive order unless you're a dictator. we're a democracy. we needen consensus. lou -- we need consensus. lou: and another of president biden's executive orders would kill energy sector jobs, but according to the biden administration those workers could just jump right into green jobs. >> coal plants have been closing over the last 20 years. so what president biden

liz cheney said it and al green said it. infected with white supremacists carrying a rebel flag, erect ago gallo structure with a noose, wearing shirts and hateful messages such as camp auschwitz, work brings freedom, and maga civil war january 6, 2021. maga civil war. they had the hats on at the army of maga, which i refer to as make america grieve again. we grieved at ft. sumpter, we grieved on december 7th, 1941, and we grieved on 9/11. and, yes, we grieved on december -- excuse me, january 6th of this year. he goes on to say what the president told this mob that liz cheney said was recruited by the president of the united states. and i quote, this is the president talking to this mob, all of us here today do not want to see our election victory stolen by a bold and radical left democrat, like the secretary of state in georgia and the governor of georgia, which is what they are doing, and stolen by the fake news media, inciting, riling up, creating anger with the fake news and lies that the president of the united states

and i think that liz cheney

you're seeing liz cheney, congresswoman from wyoming. she has not said how she's going to vote tomorrow. if you look at her twitter feed, she posted something the morning of january 6th. and there's one line, which i think reflects how she is feeling and a lot of other people are feeling in the republican party. she wrote, we have sworn an oath under god to defend the constitution. we uphold that oath at all times, not only when it is politically convenient. i will tell you, wolf, the thing that i've heard over and over, i know dana has heard this. that the republicans spoorns th experienced this personally. they were there. they felt their lives were in danger, and we've just seen a growing number of them privately say that trump should be impeached. i think what we'll see tomorrow is more and more. >> i think you're absolutely right. evan, today -- this was another breathtaking moment. they laid out the scope of all the crimes stemming from last week's deadly siege on the u.s. capitol. just the fact that they're pursuing, for example,

i think liz cheney is expressing principle, not partisan views. apparently i have not seen the statement, but senator mcconnell apparently has said something similar. his wife of course resigned from the cabinet. any fair-minded person who is simply not just voting out of partisan motivation has got to say that the facts and principle demand that this president be held accountable. >> now i've talked to two republican congressmen who agree with that, congressman meijer, congressman kinzinger. they've said the same thing when i have spoken to them. as a majority leader, have you spoken to any republicans who have indicated they feel the same way? >> well, i spoke to liz cheney the night on the 6th -- it probably was the morning of the 7th at that point in time. i've spoken to a couple of other. i'm not going to pinpoint them at this point in time, but i am -- i believe there will be hopefully a significant number of republicans who will speak out for principle, speak out for the constitution, the protection of democracy and strongly against a presi

turning on liz cheney? liz? you know how conservative liz cheney is? you know how dedicated to the republican party liz cheney is? come on, y'all. her daddy's dick cheney. come on, really? liz cheney, who dared to do the right thing, and vote to hold the former president accountable. a crowd of trump supporters, showing up to condemn her. oh, boy. at a matt gaetz rally, today. >> if you want to prove that you have the power, defeat liz cheney in this upcoming election. and wyoming will bring washington to its knees. >> so, it's really tough because -- it's -- it's so transparent, matt gaetz is so transparent. he wants publicity, so bad. it just -- he wreaks of it, right? just like, do you give him that? because that's what he wants. that's -- that's what he wants. so, do you really elevate that? but anyway, that's a whole other show. this is a party that tries to kick liz cheney to the curb, while embracing marjorie taylor green. she is no outlier. there is madison cawthorne, as well. emblazoned with the word useless on his website, before taking them

are they going to way as opposed to liz cheney or mitt romney? >> you know, katy, it got difficult to track data after the social networks were taken away. you look at greene right now, she's a conduit what some people still believe in stop the steal out here in central virginia. i'm still seeing trump/pence signs, the trump signs are scraped over in black. there's foul things about the former vice president there. i think you'll see a surge in anger. i think you'll see president trump coming out and speaking soon. there's a lot of money out there, and i think marjorie taylor greene is attracting that money and anger. i really did think we had some time to purge this out of the system or gop completely. right now, i think you're seeing a really quiet rage, almost a double down in the conspiracy theories. things like marjorie taylor greene, she seems to be attracted all you of the conspiracy theories. she likes them all. and i've never seen anything like it. >> charles, when you went to the district -- your piece, by the way, in the "new yorker" i

because liz cheney and adam kissinger are for it? >> i really don't think so. last week when we had the vote wednesday night, we had about two-thirds or so of the house republican conference of voting to sustain objections with regards to arizona and pennsylvania because of concerns. you have almost the entire republican party still supportive of the president of the united states. donald trump isn't going anywhere. so certainf my colleagues, and s they showed it with their voice last wednesday, i wouldn't expect them to be changing their tune in tomorrow being that massive stampede. i was asked going into the november 3rd 2020 election about what house democrats, what would it mean if they keep control of the house of representatives and what i said was there's only ono thing that they know they would want to accomplish in 2021, only one thing i can guarantee for you is they want to make donald trump the first president to be impeached twice. no republican should be playing along with this, especially right now where the fact is it's going to divide our countr

liz cheney? it's a sincere question? >> of course to be able to maintain power, tucker. i don't think there's any love lost between kevin mccarthy and liz cheney but if you're a member of the establishment and the leadership, the most dangerous concept in the world to you is that anyone in the leadership could be removed by virtue of a vote of the membership. kevin mccarthy needs to hold a vote on liz cheney and if he doesn't, the republican conference is a total joke. more than half of the republican conference has said that this person does not speak for us. now, you and i both know the republicans basically have no power in washington d.c. right now. the only power we have is to communicate and if the person we've designated to communicate for us is the conference chair doesn't have the support of the majority of the conference, it is a total fiction you've created regarding the entire structure of leadership. >> tucker: of course. interesting. now that we're all defending democracy -- a vote

. >> well, here's the question for liz cheney. if more than half of our conference expresses their desire to remove her, will she still fight and stay? the right now the base of the republican party is strong, but at the top our leadership, frankly, is in shambles. we've got mcconnell wavering on impeachment, you've got liz cheney spitting into the eyes of tens of millions of americans by with embracing the language and the arguments of the radical left instead of the america first movement, and then i think you have other leaders in our party who are totally shaken by

let's see if he changes his tune on liz cheney. >> if they do remove governor liz cheney from the republican leadership in the house, what would that say to you? >> first of all, i'm not sure it will happen. i'm not sure they will have the votes to do that. it would show that it's just a total move towards trumpism and all the thing that is come with it. i tell you this. i don't know liz cheney. i know her father. i'll say this from what i observe about her. she won't go quietly. what will happen, some point, wolf, there are going to be republicans to emerge saying we've had enough and won't work with the conference. so there will be more of a split but that split when they start standing up against some of their colleagues what's going to happen is that will breed some new life, bring some change that will be positive because all these people are not committed or convinced that all these theories are right, that the election was stolen, a good number of republicans saying this is nonsense and some point begin to stand up even if it costs them votes and you know what? if you're a leader and

liz cheney. republican congressman adam kinzinger, fredupton, john katko have said they will vote with the vast majority of democrats to impeach. the white house official says they expect as many as 20 or more to votes for impeachment in the house. telling cnn tonight that the president's obsession with pardons heating up right now. heating up even hotter than it has been. we've talked about that for a while. now at a boiling point. one source saying he might issue a blanket pardoned to cover he and his children until the time he leaves office. that is all 50 states are under threat of armed insurrection by pro-trump riotors. think about everything i've just told you. voting on the 25th e-mailed, which means the president cannot handle his duties. then they're talking about impeachment. republicans are jumping ship. like a fog in hot water, they're jumping ship right now. every state capital, rioters, protests, that's where we are right now. federal authorities are saying what happened at the cap

liz cheney. republican congressman adam kinginger, fred upton, they have said they will vote with the vast majority of democrats to impeach. the white house says they expect 20 or more republicans to vote for impeachment in the house. mul multiple sources saying president worried about himself and his adult children heefting heating up hotter. one saying he might issue a blanket pardon to cover himself and his children up until the time he leaves office. that is all 50 states under threat. think of all i'm telling you. voting on the 25th amendment. which means the president cannot handle his job. then they talk about impeachment. republicans are jumping ship. like a frog in hot water. they are jumping ship right now, and every state capitol, rioters, protests. that is where we are right now. had federal authorities are saying what happened at the u.s. capitol is worse than we know. the acting u.s. attorney says we will be shocked by the detail. >> some will be shocked with some of the agregregiou

liz cheney john can't go adam kinzinger and other republicans whom i've talked to within the last 24 hours believe this action is required now let me say i see the big gentleman from ohio was on the floor he likes to say that we democrats were elected and the 1st thing we wanted to do was impeach this president and he's shaking his head in agreement because like to present the united states he denies the facts like fake. december 6th 2017 mr green and i'm going to refer to offered a motion because he saw the danger that confronted our country and he filed a resolution have been pietschmann and on december 6th 2017 we had a vote on that and the majority of democrats voted no actually they voted yes to table so that we did not proceed and 2017 the gentleman from texas mr green thought however the next year that there were still a danger to our country some of us shared that view but we were not assured confident that the case could be made or that the transactions that had proceeded would lead to conviction so on january 19th of 2018 we had a motion to table mr green's resolution and t

liz cheney most notably yesterday in the house. mitch mcconnell sending signals about his view of where the impeachment process is and where it ought to go at the moment. but one thing the president can do, he still retains in the last few days, assuming that he gets cooperation from his white house legal team to draw up the right paperwork, is take steps to protect himself. and the reality is that he has never in his life been in more legal jeopardy than he is right now. there is legal jeopardy from ongoing federal investigations and state investigations for which he cannot shield himself with the pardon. but now you've got the added threat of the charges related to this inspiration or incitement of the insurrection. and so -- and the fact his son don junior was there saying, we're coming for you at that rally before president trump himself spoke. so he's got a lot of exposure. he's got legal problems. he's only got a week left in office, so i think people -- there's high expectation that he will take whatever steps he can, whethe

then you have liz cheney who represents wyoming. the only congressmen out there that gave donald trump the highest margin of all the states in the november election. and then a former veteran, adam, who has been vocal about donald trump and mitch mcconnell and the senate. if mcconnell ever decides to vote for removal in the senate, thatis vote for removal in the senate, that is it. donald trump will be gone at the end of that day whenever that vote is taken because you will get 67 votes if that happens. i think what you see today and tonight is the gas burners being turned up, more footage, more report of the crimes, how harrowing this was and any republican who chooses not to punish donald trump will not only regret it politically but you start to see the fact that donald trump, every time he has not been punished, which is every single time, never punished for asking russia for help on the 2016 election, not punished for the ukraine imbroglio and then he went on to ask the state election representatives across this country to over

what's happening with liz cheney i think is completely different. congressman goetz is grandstanding and trying to come up with some kind of purity test. i don't think this is how the republicans get back to the majority. i don't think this is how we should be wandering around the wilderness the next two years or four years. and i think that liz cheney should be up for -- if there was an additional one of john f. kennedy's profile in courage second book, i think she's earned herself a chapter in that book for speaking her mind. look, she's a clear-cut common sense conservative with a long term in this background. i think she voted her conscience here. i think she thought was trump did was abominable. i did. she stood up for it. to remove her from a leadership position is reactive and not helpful for getting the party to the majority. then with what's going on with mccarthy visiting trump tonight or today, i think that just shows that mccarthy wants to be speaker and he realizes he can't be speaker if trump -- if trump supports -- uses his $200 milli

and that means we have to move forward with people like liz cheney who is a thoughtful lawmaker. she is a responsible and respectable woman and that is who i want representing me and who i want as part of my party. >> as you said, you worked for her. you know her well. i know that you have been in touch with her. you've exchanged text messages recently. is this surprising to her that she finds herself on the receiving end of all of this vitriol? >> i don't know that she's surprised by it. i think she has a much better feel for the president's character and for what's been going on in d.c. than a lot of us here in wyoming have. and i think i also believe that her -- she has such a strong conviction about the oath of office that she took and her requirement to defend the constitution that she is at peace with the decision she made. and i respect that deeply. >> i want to play a little more video from the matt gates rally just because i want people to see that there were hundreds of people there. but you saw something different in the crowd that showed up. when you look at their fac

a lot of them are celebrating going on with liz cheney's announcement, watch. >> congresswoman liz cheney said she will vote to impeach president trump. what does this development mean? it means she won't be alone. there will be other republicans influence by her decision. i wouldn't be surprised now to see a considerable number of republicans join in supporting the peaceful resolution. >> laura: congressman selden, does this mean a stampede of republicans for impeachment because liz cheney and adam kinzinger are for it? >> i don't think so. last week when we have the vote wednesday night, we had about two-thirds or so of the house republican congress voting to sustain objections with regards to arizona and pennsylvania because of concerns. you have almost the entire republican party still supportive of the president of the united states. donald trump isn't going anywhere. so certain realities come i believe enough of my colleagues and as they showed it with their voice last wednesday, i would not expect them to be changing their tune in tomorrow being that massive stampede. i was asked c

liz cheney, for instance, third ranking republican in the hoe ofepresentives, daughter of thformer vice president of the united states, coming out more strongly almost than anybody on precisely that point, but does it change the fact that there is still a very solid corof people in the united states who support donald trump? no, it does not change it at all. i think you are absolutely right, this victimization tie will continue to grow. if it will grow sufficiently to give him more weight in u.s. politics -- i suspect no, i don't think it will. the fact of the matter is in this election, despite the fact that he got almost 75 million people out tvote, is that he lost by 7 million votes. not only that, republicans lost. georgia. of what happened. taking stock republicans have to consider their electoral chances in the future. do having donald trump lead the republican party enhance their chances? many including mitch mcconnell are looking at the evidence and beginning to think, "actually, i'm beginning to think donald trump is turning into a weight around our feet. he is dragging us down

liz cheney said it, and al green said it. infected with white supremacists, carrying a rebel flag, erecting a gal lowe structure with a noose, wearing shirts such as camp auschwitz. work brings freedom, and maga civil war january 6, 2021. maga civil war. they had the hats on of the army of maga which i refer to as make america grieve again. we grieved at ft. sumter. we grieved on december 7, 1941 and we grieved on 9/11. and, yes, we grieved on january 6 of this year. he goes on to say, what the president told this mob that liz cheney said was recruited by the president of the united states, and i quote -- this is the president talking to this mob. all of us here today do not want to see our election victory stolen by a bold and radical left democrats. like the secretary of state in georgia and the governor of georgia, which is what they are doing and stolen by the fake news media, inciting, roiling u, creating anger with the fake news and lies that the president of the united states said to these folks. that is what they have

bush, was making a call in support of liz cheney. the congresswoman who voted to impeach president trump. but it's quite a change from the days when bush/cheney, the days they ruled the party. repeatedly questioned about efforts to remove liz cheney from leadership position and run a primary candidate against her but how do her constituents peel ab feel about? lucy kafanov traveled to wyoming to figure it out. >> reporter: wyoming politics are red hot and getting ugly. wyoming is trump country. the former president beat joe biden by more than 40 points, largest margin in any state. when congresswoman liz cheney voted to impeach trump, it caused immediate blowback at home. >> usually just sit here and mind my business. >> reporter: shelly horn has never thought of herself as political but after cheney's vote, she started a petition to get her out of office. >> like it's a 52,000, and it's been seen by 586,000 people. >> reporter: describes her vote as a matter of conscience. horn calls it a betrayal. >> you can't go, i need to vote wi

it will be first and foremost of course for liz cheney and her leadership position. even if she is not removed from the position, just the fact that she is being challenged which requires 20% of the conference to do that shows the blowback that might be coming. and at the same time, we've seen other trump supporters already on the primary trail attacking liz cheney in wyoming. and so it is a bit of a forecast for what we might see in 2022 and trump's power and grip over the party still at that point. >> yeah, i imagine what it will say if liz cheney gets more than marjorie taylor greene for instance. turning to the democrats now on the covid relief bill, joe biden ran on his ability to draw both sides together, he claimed anyway, he promised bipartisanship. but he also doesn't really want to make the mistake that he saw firsthand under the obama administration, they got delayed, ultimately got less done and the republican party is much more radical now than it was then. so for democrats, is that their own bellwether, the first test of whether bipartisanship is just s

liz cheney in this upcoming election, wyoming will bring washington to its knees. >> reporter: the gop turmoil is playing out as a series of sideshows. none louder than georgia congresswoman marjorie taylor greene who deleted her social media posts after cnn reported she harassed victims of the parkland school shooting and endorsed violence against democratic lawmakers. >> you don't have anything to say for yourself? can't defend your stance? >> reporter: the congresswoman who's promoted qanon conspiracy theories was given a seat on the house education and labor committee. illinois congressman adam kinzinger, one of ten republicans to support trump's impeach cment says the party ist a dangerous cross roads. >> she's not a republican. i personally don't think she should have any committees. >> reporter: a fear of fringe republican elements has created an opening for democrats which speaker nancy pelosi seized on today. >> assigning her to the education committee when she has mocked the killing of little children at sandy hook elementary school, when she has mocked the killing of teenage

and it's going to become the party of marjory taylor greene and people like liz cheney. i mean, you just look at somebody like rob portman or pat toomey, people who are retiring because they don't think there's a place for them in this party anymore. i mean, that's not just dangerous for the republican party. it's an existential threat to the country to have one of the two major political parties controlled by people who are out there spreading conspiracy theories. and i'm not talking about marjory taylor greene there, i'm talking about kevin mccarthy and mat gaetz and so many others in congress who voted to object to a free and fair election, who told voters that it was stolen from them, who followed donald trump. and it led to a violent attack on the capitol. and so republicans -- mitch mcconnell should be whipping his senate office and telling them this is our chance, our chance to be done with donald trump and put him in the rear view. but i'm worried that's not the direction they're going to go. >> you've been on the show before to talk about your focus groups of re

same with liz cheney. mcconnell didn't suggest yet he would be willing to vote for removal from office. but even if it's being entertained that does change the calculus among the white house. at first they were nervous about the 25th amendment push, the fact that trump and pence had not spoken in days. pence telling close aides he had never been more betrayed by the president's behavior. that's why he invited pence to the oval office to repair that relationship to a degree. the vice president yesterday say he wouldn't be in favor of the 25th amendment. but now there's not an effort yet from republicans. that's what they're going to do today from the white house to try to reach out to republicans to have that same sort of effort, hey, don't abandon our guy. some of it is a threat as a final point. what has been so striking here is last couple days is the silence from the president. he would keep republicans in line with his twitter account. there's no twitter account. he's not able to do that. but they are

the left has found a new hero, of course republican conference chair liz cheney. >> people like liz cheney come out as strongly as she did, that is a strong signal. >> that is not some irresponsible new member of the congress of the united states. this is the daughter of the former republican whip and former vice president of the united states of america. she knows of what she speaks. >> what she is doing is incredibly courageous. >> laura: joining me now as congressman matt rosendale, one of the first republicans to demand that liz cheney stepped down from her leadership position. you are a freshman lawmaker and you're taking on one of the most powerful political families of the last three decades? some would say that is courageous. >> i made promises that the people of montana that i was going to represent them and do the work and i was not going to pay any mind to the power and influence that was traveling around us that we all know, this is a swamp. there's a lot of outside influences and a lot of pressure put on all of us and we have to make sure that we are doing what is right. liz c

happy birthday but also to thank his daughter liz cheney for her service to the country. he is weighing on this trying to sway republicans who have been quiet and those who have been not very strong in their statements or strong enough in his opinion to speak out and to support her. but that is just one of the riffs that is that's happening within this party. it's far from certain which way that go but we're going to see, fred, an indication some are sticking with president trump. >> suzanne malveaux on capitol hill, thanks so much. >>> programming note, join anderson cooper for a look at the origins of this qanon conspiracy, how did this fringe theory become a movement that includes members of congress? what role did it play in the capitol insurrection? the cnn special report inside the qanon conspiracy airs tonight, 9:00 eastern. and we'll be right back. the enh the way some wireless companies take back your data? that would be weird. tracfone wireless gives you unlimited carryover data. so if you pay for brats, you get to keep your brats. you also get unlimited talk an

good plan. >>> the previous president focusing his political energy on targeting liz cheney. the third ranking house republican who voted for his impeachment earlier this month. one source telling cnn trump has repeatedly questioned his republican allies about efforts to run a primary candidate against her. those efforts already under way in cheney's home state of wyoming. cnn's lucy kafanov has more. >> reporter: amidst the frigid beauty, wyoming politics are red hot and getting ugly. wyoming is trump country. the former president beat joe biden here by more than 40 points, the largest margin in any state. so when congresswoman liz cheney voted to impeach trump, it caused immediate blowback at h home. shelly horn has never thought of herself as political, but after cheney's vote, she started a petition to get her out of office. >> i'm just amazed. like it's at 52,000, and it's been seen by 586,000 people. >> reporter: cheney describes her vote as a matter of conscience. horn calls it a betrayal. >> you just can't go, i need to vote with my conscience. no. vote for what your

liz cheney should not be the chair of the republican conference. congressman matt gaetz joins us now. congressman, good to have you with us. straightforwardly you said she should not be the chair of the conference, and polling shows that the majority of the conference does not want her there as the number three. your most powerful -- what's happening? we haven't been able to get a straight the answer from anybody about whether there'll even be a vote. >> well, here's the question for liz cheney. if more than half of our conference expresses their desire to remove her, will she still fight and stay? the right now the base of the republican party is strong, but at the top our leadership, frankly, is in shambles. we've got mcconnell wavering on impeachment, you've got liz cheney spitting into the eyes of tens of millions of americans by with embracing the language and the arguments of the radical left instead of the america first movement, and then i think you have other leaders in our party who are totally shaken by the corporate pacs withholding the

again, liz cheney is not new to this. dick cheney isn't new to it either. that's starting to form, people are getting their legs under them to oppose the president or decide this maybe is one too far. cheney has been here. i think where that leads her the next couple years has been a subject of fascination the last several years. now that more people are joining and on board, she is not just on an island herself inside the house republican conference, goes a long way to showing liz cheney will be a crucial, central voice for post trump republican party even as you see so many republicans claim her to stay under the trump republican party as it comes to an end. >> right. one of the questions is who will consistently lead the anti-trump or opposition to trump effort and will liz cheney emerge as that person. this is a statement given to manu raju on the phone call the president had with the georgia secretary of state. i think it was deeply troubling and everybody ought to listen to the full hour of it. i think it is deeply troubling and i'm just going to leav

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i hope others will join liz cheney. i hope others will be honest with themselves and with their constituents as liz cheney was saying there has never been a greater betrayal by the president of the united states by his office and his oath to the constitution. don't dismiss that. she's the doubt irv a vice president of the united states who was the whip when i came to congress. as she has taken a stand, i hope others will as well, madam speaker. soon the clerk will call the roll and ask for our votes. make no mistake. this will be no ordinary roll call. this is about our country, our constitution and our democracy. these votes will be inscribed on the roll of history, a record of courage and our commitment to country and constitution, our commitment to the rule of law and renewal that have which we inherited and hope to pass on, unbroken, unshattered, with just seven days left in the president's term. this vote is not about timing, it is about principle and fidelity to our constitution. it concerns the clear hand present

we have just learned republican liz cheney says she will vote to impeach, saying there has never been a greater betrayal by a president of the united states of his office and of his oath to the constitution, saying none of this would have happened without the president. and tonight, new reporting here on senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. are some republicans now moving on impeachment? what our team has learned. jon karl standing by live. >>> also tonight, the other major headline. the warning the day before the deadly riot at the capitol. the fbi had warned of, quote, war at the capitol, just one day before the siege. what they were picking up, the ominous chatter. news of the warning comes after federal officials had claimed there was no indication an attack was coming. what abc news has now learned tonight about that internal warning about extremists coming to washington to launch an assault. and tonight, what now pab the inauguration, amid growing thre threats? and across this country, law enforcement in all 50 state capitals now preparing for demonstrations. >>> the coronavi

cheney since she was a little girl, and when people like liz cheney came out as strongly as she did, that is a strong signal. >> i think the overwhelming feeling for people who were there, right, and you mentioned reporters, our colleagues, was this sense of not just fear but sadness, right, sadness at seeing what happened to this institution that is a symbol for so many people of democracy. here it's different for us in washington. we see the capitol building every day, come to office, as you can see behind us across the street from the u.s. capitol. to people around the country, this building holds so much significance. the shot we're looking at here. there was also -- and we saw this unfolding, andrea, and it was striking on the night this happened, the night of the riots, anger at these rioters, that they will not win, they are not going to derail this process, not going to stop us. and that anger is part of what has fueled the politics that we've seen here. and frankly the politics of what has happened with president trump, with more and more republicans willing to break with hi

breaking news-- republican liz cheney backs impeachment, as majority leader mitch mcconnell reportedly tells associates the president committed impeachable offenses. deadlyeaor inauguration, including a plan to surround the capitol, white house and supreme court and kill lawmakers, and the threats tonight to all 50 states. new vaccine rules, more doses released as all americans 65 and over or with pre-existing conditions are consideredho tan work will become a mega vaccine site, but in alabama this mega crowd could become a superspreader. and the labor of love, how one man's generosity helps the community ride together. this is the "cbs evening news" with norah o'donnell, reporting from the nation's capital. >> o'donnegoodn and thank you for joining us. we are going to begin tonight with some breaking news and it is a bombshell. tonight, the third highest ranking republican in the u.s. house, liz cheney, is breaking with her party, saying she will vote to impeach president trump tomorrow, because, she says, there has, "never been a greater betrayal by a president of his office and oath

this is "the ingraham angle," as she makes a leadership play, liz cheney's impeachment push is winning plaudits from democrats and the media, republicans should start asking themselves why that is, we are going to have more on that in a moment.he also, the vehemently anti-trump lincoln project has an issue within their own leadership about one accusations of their founders, that journalist is here with the details. aoc and her colleagues suffer from a huge disconnect while cancel culture? raymond arroyo explains it all in seen and unseen. but first, impeaching america. that's the focus of tonight's angle. the grandstanding today at the u.s. house, it was really hard to stomach, and i hope you didn't waste one minute of your precious time watching. it was just another politicall exercise in futility conducted by self-righteous, out of touch blowhards. >> he has been the orchestrator of this attack. >> he is unfit to hold office. >> racist in chief. >> they have stoked the fires and handed the gasoline to donald trump.. >> it was a grotesque of deadly white supremacists. >> impeaching th

senior republican — liz cheney — says she will vote to impeach. president trump has dismissed moves to impeach him for inciting the deadly assault on congress as a witch—hunt. speaking on a visit to the mexican border — he also said there was no danger that his own administration would oust him beforejoe biden took over as president next week. the usjustice department and the fbi have opened criminal investigations into more than this is bbc news — the headlines. the democrats in the house of representatives are inching closer to removing donald trump from office. an impeachment vote is expected later. first — they'll vote on a resolution urging his cabinet to use the twenty—fifth amendment. senior republican — liz cheney — says she will vote to impeach. president trump has dismissed moves to impeach him for inciting the deadly assault on congress as a witch—hunt. speaking on a visit to the mexican border — he also said there was no danger that his own administration would oust him beforejoe biden took over as president next week

but when liz cheney, and liz cheney is not just the conference chair, the number three republican, liz cheney, of course, is the daughter of a former vice president. i mean, there aren't a whole lot of bigger names in the republican party. when liz cheney comes out with a statement that is actually more blistering than a lot of democrats, when mitch mcconnell lets it be known that he would, you know, that he's happy with impeachment, what you're seeing is you're seeing the ground open and you're seeing the traditional republicans like -- like mitch mcconnell and liz cheney on one side and matt gaetz and jim jordan and the cultists on the other. the interesting thing is kevin mccarthy, who you just talked about, finds himself on the other side of that gulf. so, you know, i think the next 24 hours are going to be fascinating because this is, you know, things are changing pretty fast here. >> it turns out that it is possible to get a senate trial going before january 19th. mitch mcconnell had said you can only do that with unanimous consent. chuck schumer has pointed to an obscure rule th

john katko, liz cheney and others. it is possible that many more republicans could join in tonight when the vote on the article of impeachment is actually taken. but the freshman congressman byron donalds of florida saying his colleagues should not have done what they did last night. listen here. >> there have been no hearings, no ability for him to defend himself. we would never allow anybody in the united states to be convicted without a trial without an opportunity to defend themselves. the president has not had it. for five republicans to go along and agree with this is flat out wrong and wrong for the party and wrong for the nation. >> curiously enough the president is getting some support from some world leaders on his suspension from twitter. the german chancellor merkel saying it's problematic for twitter to do that. michael mccormick, the prime minister of australia saying he does not believe in that sort of censorship. >> trace: mexican president weighed in as well. john, thank you. >> sandra: for more let's