Cheney fires back at Republicans after criticism over anti-Trump stance l GMA

congresswoman liz chaney is firing back at her fellow republicans after facing removal from her leadership post for rebuking former president trump's false claims about the election she's going down with a warning for the gop our congressional correspondent rachel scott has the latest good morning rachel george good morning congresswoman liz cheney is going to be pushed out of gop leadership she is not going to go out quietly she penned this op-ed in the washington post warning that the republican party has now reached a turning point and that it must decide whether it's going to stand by former president donald trump and his false claims about the 2020 election or choose truth and the constitution she warns that his rhetoric is dangerous that history is watching and of course this is not the first time that she has spoken out against trump she voted to impeach him and that vote landed her on thin ice with her party but what is different now is that few republicans are coming out in her defense in fact the top two republicans in the house kevin mccarthy steve scalise they both have made it clear that they want her out of party leadership so it now has come down to this one by one we are seeing republicans starting to turn on cheney who actually is aligned with trump's policies she's voted with his record and his agenda more than 90 percent of the time instead they're rallying behind congresswoman elise stefanik this is an interesting choice here because she actually voted to overturn the results of the 2020 election on january 6 but she has the complete and total backing of former president donald trump who has made clear that he wants cheney out george and rachel this you called this i mean liz cheney called this a turning point it's also a real turnabout for the house republican leader kevin mccarthy yeah george it is and cheney does point this out in that op-ed she noted that immediately after the january 6 riots mccarthy said that trump bears some responsibility for what happened and then weeks later he sort of changed his tune saying that trump did not provoke the mob that stormed the capital but we know that mccarthy and trump have been in constant contact about the future of cheney george and he supported liz cheney at the time but not now okay rachel thanks very much well hey there gma fans robin roberts here thanks for checking out our youtube channel lots of great stuff here so go on click the subscribe button right over right over here to get more of awesome videos and content from gma every day anytime we thank you for watching and we'll see you in the morning on gma

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Length: 2min 23sec (143 seconds)

Published: Thu May 06 2021