>>> WE CANNOT BOTH EMBRACE THE >>> WE CANNOT BOTH EMBRACE THE BIG LIE AND EMBRACE THE CONSTITUTION. AND GOING FORWARD, THE NATION NEEDS IT. THE NATION NEEDS A STRONG REPUBLICAN PARTY. THE NATION NEEDS A PARTY THAT IS BASED UPON FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF CONSERVATISM. I AM COMMITTED AND DEDICATED TO ENSURING THAT THATS HOW THIS PARTY GOES FORWARD. I PLAN TO LEAD THE FIGHT TO DO THAT. >> HI AGAIN, EVERYONE. ITS 5:00 IN THE EAST, FRESH OFF GETTING BOOTED FROM HER POSITION IN HOUSE LEADERSHIP, CONGRESSWOMAN CHENEY IS MAKING ONE THING CLEAR -- SHEER NOT LETTING HER PARTY DEVOLVE WITHOUT A FIGHT. AS HER PARTY PUTS DONALD TRUMP AND HIS BIG LIE ABOVE ALL ALSO, NOW MANIFESTING ITSELF IN THE PASSAGE OF BILLS ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY THAT WILL MAKE IT HARDER TO VOTE. WHILE SHE WONT BE RUSHING TO VOTE, CHECKIE IS JOURNEYING A COURSE. SHES DECIDEDINGLY GEL FOLLOWING THE PATH OF OTHER CRITICS, WHO HAVE BOWED OUT OF LIFE THAN -- QUOTE -- RATHER THAN FOCUSSING ON WHIPPING VOTES TO SAVE HER JOB AS CONFERENCE CHAIR, THE WYOMING REPUBLICAN THIS WEEK HAS BEEN DRAFTING PLANS FOR INCREASED TRAVEL AND MEDIA APPEARANCES MEANT TO DRIVE HOME HER CASE THAT TRUMP IS UNFIT FOR A ROLE IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY OR AS THE NATIONS LEADER SHES ALSO CONSIDERING AN EXPANDED POLITICAL OPERATION THAT WOULD ALLOW HER TO ENDORSE AND FINANCIALLY SUPPORT OTHER REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES WHO SHARE HER VIEW OF THE DANGER THAT TRUMP POSES TO THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AND THE COUNTRY. CHENEYS REMOVAL FROM HER POST AS GOP CONFERENCE CHAIR FOR NOT BEING WILLING TO PERPETUATE THE BIG LIE CEMENTS THE GOPS BREAK WITH THE TRUTH. AND ORDER ARE CONSIDERING THEIR ALTERNATIVES. MORE THAN 100 REPUBLICANS, INCLUDING SOME FORMER ELECTED OFFICIALS ARE PREPARING TO RELEASE A LETTER THREATENING TO FORM A THIRD PARTY IF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY DOES NOT MAKE CERTAIN CHANGES. THE STATEMENT IS EXPECTED TO TAKE AIM AT FORMER PRESIDENT
DONALD J. TRUMPS STRANGLEHOLD DONALD J. TRUMPS STRANGLEHOLD TO THE REPUBLICANS. WITH BATTLE LINES NOW DRAWN, A NEW CHAPTER IN THE STORY OF THE GOP BEGINS JUST BEFORE CHENEY WAS OUSTED, TOM FRIEDMAN WROTE ABOUT THE MAGNITUDE OF THIS MOMENT RIGHT NOW -- TO WRITE ABOUT ANYTHING ELSE ON THE VERGE OF TRUMPS GOP, WOULD BE LIKE WRITING A COLUMN ABOUT THE WEATHER THE DAY AFTER WATERGATE EXPLODED, OR ABOUT FORD THEATERS ARCHITECTURE AFTER LINCOLN WAS SHOT. IF HOUSE REPUBLICANS FOLLOW THROUGH ON THEIR PLAN TO REPLAY CHENEY, IT WILL NOT CONSIST ATTITUDED THE END OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY AS WEVE KNOWN IT, BUT THERES A REAL POSSIBILITY WE WILL LOOK BACK AT MAY 12th AS THE BEGINNING OF THE END UNLESS ENOUGH REPUBLICANS CAN BE PERSUADED TO NAVIGATE IS A COURSE CORRECTION. WE START WITH SOME OF OUR FAVORITE REPORTERS AND FRIENDS. A.B. STODDARD IS HERE FROM REAL CLEAR POLITICS. EUGENE DANIELS, WHITE HOUSE REPORTER, AND MILES TAYLOR, FORMER CHIEF OF STAFF AT THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY. HES NOW ADVISER OF THE REP POLITICAL ALLIANCE, AND A LEADER OF THAT GROUP WHO ARE THREATENING TO FORM A THIRD PARTY. MILES, I WELCOME EVERYBODY TO THE EFFORT TO CALL OUT DONALD TRUMPS ENABLERS. I THINK HE STOPPED BEING THE STORY AFTER THE ELECTION. IT REVEALED A REPUBLICAN PARTY
ROT EDGE TO ITS CORE, BUT WHY ROT EDGE TO ITS CORE, BUT WHY STAY A REPUBLICAN? IF THERES NOT A SATISFACTORY ANSWER SOON, THEN THERES NOT A REASON TO STAY A REPUBLICAN. ONE, RIGHT NOW IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY LYING IS A LITMUS TEST TO LEADERSHIP. NOT JUST LIE TO GO YOURSELF, BUT LYING TO THE COUNTRY ABOUT SOMETHING THAT HAPPENED IN OUR ELECTION. NUMBER TWO, I THINK WE LEARNED THAT THE CIVIL WAR AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS NOT ENDING WITH LIZ CHENEY ACE OUSTER. A CIVIL WAR WITHIN THE PARTY IS JUST BEGINNING. NUMBER THREE, THAT CIVIL WAR WITHIN THE PARTY IS GOING TO HAVE ENORMOUS CONSEQUENCES FOR THIS COUNTRY THE LAST PERSON TO FIGHT A CIVIL WAR IN THIS COUNTRY, ULYSSES S. GRANT SAID THE NEXT TIME THERE WOULD BE SUCH A CONTEST FOR AMERICAS EXISTENCE, IT WOULDNT BE NORTH AND SOUTH OVER THE MASON/DIXON LINE, IT WOULD BE BETWEEN PATRIOTISM AND INTELLIGENCE ON ONE SIDE AND IGNORANCE AND SUPERSTITION ON THE OTHER. THE QUESTION FOR EVERY REPUBLICAN IN AMERICA TODAY IS, WHERE DO I STAND? >> WHERE DO YOUR FORMER COLLEAGUES STAND? SOMEWHERE DOES YOUR FORMER BOSS JOHN KELLIE STAND OR JIM MATTIS? WHERE DO YOUR FORMER COLLEAGUES WHO NOSE BETTER THAN ANY HUMAN BEINGS ON THE PLANET KNOW HOW ROSIN TO THE CORE TRUMPISM IN? >> YOUVE NAMED SOME PEOPLE, MANY OF WHOM I HOPE WILL SPEAK UP. I WOULD USE THIS APPIAN TO ENCOURAGE THEM AND URGE THEM FOR THE SAKE OF THE COUNTRY TO STAND UP AND SAY WHAT THEYVE SAID BEFORE IN PRIVATE. WHAT WELL BE ANNOUNCING TOMORROW IS WHAT YOU COULD CALL IN SHORTHAND, AN "IM NOT CRAZY" COALITION. WERE GOING TO ANNOUNCE A GROUP OF REPUBLICANS WHO SAYING WE WANT RATIONAL PRAGMATIC GOVERNANCE, BUT WERE MAKING A THREAT. THAT THREAT IS IF THE GOP
