WE'RE STILL TRACKING THIS SHOOTING TODAY. WE'LL HAVE MORE ON THAT IMPORTANT STORY LATER IN THE NEWSCAST. WE BEGIN RIGHT NOW, THOUGH, WITH A SPECIAL GUEST TONIGHT. LIZ CHENEY, THE FORMER CONGRESSWOMAN AND VICE CHAIR OF THE JANUARY 6th COMMITTEE SPEAKING OUT IN A NEW BOOK. SHE IS BACK IN THE NEWS AS ONE OF OUR FORMER COLLEAGUES IN CONGRESS IS PUSHING TODAY FOR WHAT HE CALLS PROBING THE JANUARY 6th PROBE WHILE ANOTHER OUSTED SPEAKER McCARTHY SAYS HE'S LEAVING CONGRESS. THERE'S ALSO TODAY NEW INDICTMENTS RELATED TO TRUMP'S FRAUDULENT ELECTORS SPOT IN A NEW STATE, NEVADA. WE'RE GOING TO GET TO ALL OF THAT TONIGHT WITH MS. CHENEY, DRAWING ON HER EXPERIENCE AND THE MISSION SHE TOOK AS ONE OF ONLY TEN HOUSE REPUBLICANS TO ULTIMATELY CAST AN IMPEACHMENT VOTE OVER THAT INSURRECTION. CHENEY KEY TO THE BIPARTISAN JAN 6th COMMITTEE, DEEMED BY INDEPENDENT EXPERT AS ONE OF THE MOST EFFECTIVE CONGRESSIONAL PROBES IN OUR MODERN AIR RAM I'M SURE YOU REMEMBER SOME IF NOT ALL OF THESE EVIDENTIARY HEARINGS. CHENEY RELYING ON HER EXPERIENCE, HOW TO GET AND THEN TELL, CONVEY, AND A FULL AT CANNING OF WHAT WAS DONALD TRUMP'S MULTIPART CONSPIRACY. WE KNOW THE COMMITTEE'S WORK ACTUALLY REACHED TEN OF MILLIONS OF AMERICANS, PRESENTING THE EVIDENCE AND TESTIMONY AT THOSE HEARINGS, AND WE HAVE INDICATIONS THAT THEY IMPACTED SOME PROSECUTORS' PURSUIT OF JUSTICE. THEY LED TO TWO PRECEDENT MAKING CONVICTIONS WHO TRIED AND BASICALLY FAILED LEGALLY TO DEFY THE LAWFUL SUBPOENAS. NEWS THAT IMPACTED MANY CASES, FROM FOX NEWS, TO FORTIFYING THE CASE FOR DONALD TRUMP'S COUP INDICTMENT. THE FORMER PRESIDENT LEGALLY PRESUMED INNOCENT, BUT FACES A LOT OF EVIDENCE IN THAT MARCH TRIAL, AND CHENEY IN THE BOOK HERE TRACKS THE ROAD TO THOSE RESULTS IN OATH AND HONOR. THERE'S A FRONT ROW SEAT, WHICH SHE USES TO TELL THE STORY, HARROWING AND DEPRESSING, BUT LEFT FOR AMERICANS TO TELL WHAT WE ALL DO AS MEMBER OF THIS SOCIETY, DOCUMENTING THE CONSPIRACY AND INCLUDING INFORMATION ON THE NOW INDICTED FRAUDULENT ELECTOR'S PLOT. >> TODAY AN ALTERNATE STATE OF ELECTORS IN THE CONTESTED STATES IS GOING TO VOTE, AND WE'RE GOING TO SEND THOSE RESULTS UP TO CONGRESS. >> SOMETHING THAT RUDY AND THE TEAM HAVE WORKED ON, THE TRUMP SLATE OF ELECTORS ARE SHOWING UP TODAY IN THE STATE CAPITOLS. >> THERE HAS BEEN AN ALTERNATE SLATE OF ELECTORS VOTED UPON THAT CONGRESS WILL DECIDE IN JANUARY. >> YES, I WAS PART OF THE PROCESS TO MAKE SURE THERE WERE ALTERNATE ELECTORS. >> THERE YOU HAVE SOME OF IT. STEALING AN ELECTION THROUGH FRAUD IS A CRIME. IT'S A CRIME APART FROM WHAT BECAME THE SECOND VIOLENT INSURRECTION AND QUESTIONS ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT DONALD TRUMP MET THE BAR FOR LEGALLY INCITING THAT PLOT. IN THE BOOK WE RECOUNT HOW CHENEY LISTENED TO TRUMP BACKER TO LISTEN TO THE PLAN TO USE FRAUDULENT ELECTORS TO LIE AND CLAIM THERE WERE DUELING SLATES OF ELECTORS HEADED INTO THE ELECTION. >>> REMAINING SILENT AND IGNORING THE LIE EMBOLDENS THE LIAR. I WILL NOT PARTICIPATE IN THAT. I WILL NOT SIT BACK AND WATCH IN SILENCE WHILE OTHERS LEAD OUR PARTY DOWN A PATH THAT ABANDONS THE RULE OF LAW AND JOINS THE FORMER PRESIDENT'S CRUSADE TO UNDERMINE OUR DEMOCRACY. >> LIZ CHENEY SPEAK OUT ON THE HOUSE FLOOR, AND SHE IS OUR SPECIAL GUEST LIVE RIGHT NOW. FORMER CONGRESSWOMAN AND VICE CHAIR OF THE JANUARY 6th COMMITTEE. WELCOME. MUCH TO GET TO. >> THANK YOU. GREAT TO BE HERE. >> APPRECIATE YOU BEING HERE. >> THANK YOU, AND THANK YOU FOR THE COVERAGE THAT YOU ALL HAVE DONE, THAT YOU'VE DONE SO CLEARLY AND COMPLETELY OF WHAT IS, I THINK, THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE OF OUR TIME. >> APPRECIATE THAT. AND OF COURSE THIS IS ONE OF THOSE THINGS WHERE OUR VIEWERS, NEWS VIEWERS HAVE BEEN WATCHING THOSE HEARINGS, COVERING THEM, AND NOW WE'RE HERE TO DISCUSS IT. I SHOWED THE ELECTOR PLOT, WHICH YOU WRITE ABOUT. WHY WAS IT IMPORTANT TO DOCUMENT THAT, AND HOW DID YOU EXPERIENCE THAT, FIRST AS A REPUBLICAN INSIDER -- TALK ABOUT BEING A WITNESS. YOU DETAILED BEING ON THAT CALL AND SAYING, THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE GOING INTO THE 6th. >> I THINK THE WAY YOU LAID IT OUT IS SO IMPORTANT. THERE HAD BEEN TALK THAT -- AND STEPHEN MILLER APPEARED IN DECEMBER. YOU'VE GOT STEVE BANNON THERE. THERE HAD BEEN SOME TALK THAT THESE FAKE ELECTORS WERE GOING TO MEET IN THE STATES, BUT IT WASN'T UNTIL THIS CALL ON JANUARY 4th -- I WAS ON AN EMAIL LIST. I DON'T KNOW HOW LONG, HOW LARGE IT WAS, BUT IT WAS A LIST THAT WENT OUT TO SO-CALLED SURROGATES FOR THE CAMPAIGN. PROBABLY HAD JUST NOT TAKEN ME OFF OF THE LIST. SO WHEN I GOT THE EMAIL ON THE 3rd ANNOUNCING THIS CALL, I THOUGHT, I'M GOING TO DIAL IN SO I CAN UNDERSTAND EXACTLY WHAT THEY'RE TALK ABOUT. THEY SAID THIS WOULD BE PLANS FOR JANUARY 6th. AND IT WAS ON THAT CALL THAT I UNDERSTOOD FOR THE FIRST TIME THIS DESCRIPTION GIVEN BY BOTH JENNA ELLIS AND JASON MILLER THAT THE FAKE ELECTORS WERE IN FACT GOING TO BE THE BASIS FOR VICE PRESIDENT PENCE TO REFUSE TO COUNT THE LEGITIMATE ELECTORS. AND THAT LINK, AS UX IMAGINE, WAS CHILLING. AND AFTER I LISTENED TO THEM LAY OUT THIS PLAN, UNDERSTOOD WHAT IT MEANT, I WENT IMMEDIATELY INTO THE CAPITOL TO TALK TO THE HOUSE PARLIAMENTARIAN, WHO IS SORT OF THE GURU OF THE RULES OF THE HOUSE TO UNDERSTAND, WHAT DO WE DO? AND THE ANSWER WAS, THERE'S NOT THAT MUCH YOU CAN DO. YOU NEED TO WORK WITH THE SENATE. YOU PROBABLY NEED TO MAKE A MOTION TO ADJOURN. BUT IT WAS A MOMENT THAT WAS REALLY JUST IN SOME WAYS TERRIFYING TO RECOGNIZE, THIS IS THE PLAN, THIS IS THE PLOT, THIS IS WHAT THEY INTEND TO DO. I LEARNED LATER OF COURSE VICE PRESIDENT PENCE AND HIS COUNSEL WERE ALMOST AT THE SAME TIME THE DAY BEFORE SPEAKING TO THE HOUSE PARLIAMENTARIAN AND SENATE PARLIAMENTARIAN ABOUT THE FACT THAT VICE PRESIDENT PENCE WAS NOT GOING TO REFUSE TO COUNT THE ELECTORS BUT WE DIDN'T KNOW THAT AT THE TIME. >> WHAT COMES THROUGH IN THE BOOK AND YOUR REPORT, THE VIOLENCE -- WE'VE DEALT WITH THAT PARTLY AS A COUNTRY -- THESE POTENTIALLY NONVIOLENT CRIMINAL PLOTS COULD HAVE ALSO FUNCTIONED -- SOME OF THEM MAY HAVE GOTTEN FURTHER WITH A FEW DIFFERENT PEOPLE IN CHARGE WITHOUT THE VIOLENCE. YOU WRITE THAT JENNA HAD EXAMPLES OF WHAT PENCE MIGHT SAY. THEN HE COULD REFUSE TO COUNT ANY VOTES FOR THOSE STATES AND HE WOULD HAVE THE APPEARANCE OF SOMETHING CONTESTED WHEN IN FACT IT WAS BEING SLOWLY STOLEN. >> AND THERE IS AS YOU KNOW, ABSOLUTELY NO LEGAL BASIS. WE HAD CERTIFIED LEGITIMATE ELECTORS FROM ALL 50 STATES. THE FACT THAT THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN, AND AS WE'VE NOW SEEN IN THREE STATES THERE HAVE BEEN INDICTMENTS FOR THOSE FAKE ELECTORS THEMSELVES. SO IT WAS A KEY PART OF THE OVERALL PLAN. YOU ACTUALLY HAVE SHOWN ON YOUR SHOW SEVERAL TIMES THE CHART THAT SHOWS THE DIFFERENT ELEMENTS AND THE DIFFERENT TIME FRAME IN TERMS OF -- >> THE CONSPIRACY ARROWS. WE'LL PUT THAT UP. I DIDN'T KNOW YOU WERE GOING TO BRING IT UP. HERE IT IS. WE IN OUR REPORTING TAKE PAINS TO EMPHASIZE THAT HOWEVER SILLY A LAWSUIT, IT'S NOT A CRIME. PEOPLE CAN FILE ALL TYPES OF LAWSUITS. THESE HAVE BEEN INDICTED. YOU SEE THE ELECTOR'S PLOT HAVE BEEN INDICTED AT THE STATE AND FEDERAL LEVEL BECAUSE THEY CROSSED OVER. WITH THIS IN MIND SINCE YOU BRING IT UP, WHAT IS IMPORTANT FOR PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND AS WE GET READY FOR BOTH TRUMP'S FEDERAL TRIAL AND AN ELECTION WHERE THESE ARE LIVE ISSUES? >> THERE ARE SEVERAL THINGS THAT ARE FUNDAMENTALLY IMPORTANT ABOUT THIS CHART. THE FIRST ONE IS, AS YOU SAY, A CANDIDATE HAS THE RIGHT TO GO TO COURT IF THEY BELIEVE THAT THERE'S BEEN FRAUD IN AN ELECTION. THEY HAVE A RIGHT TO CHALLENGE IT. BUT WHAT DONALD TRUMP DID WAS IGNORE THE RULINGS OF THE COURTS. HE LOST 61 OUT OF 62 OF THESE LAWSUITS, AND THAT IS REALLY IMPORTANT FOR PEOPLE TO RECOGNIZE WHAT HE WILL DO IF HE'S ELECTED AGAIN. AS A PRESIDENT, HE WILL NOT ABIDE BY THE RULINGS OF THE COURTS. BUT WHAT WE UNDERSTOOD, ONE OF THE BIGGEST EYE-OPENING THINGS FOR ME ABOUT THE SELECT COMMITTEE WAS THE MULTIPART PLAN AND UNDERSTANDING THAT, YOU KNOW, THERE WAS THIS PLAN TO PRESSURE THE STATE LEGISLATORS TO, PRESSURE THE VICE PRESIDENT, TO USE THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT CORRUPTLY TO PUT THIS PLAN IN PLACE, TO PRESSURE THE VICE PRESIDENT. AND ALL OF THOSE THINGS WERE PART OF THIS EFFORT TO OVERTURN THE ELECTION AND TO SEIZE POWER. AND OF COURSE THE VIOLENCE ITSELF, REFUSING TO STOP THE VIOLENCE, REFUSING TO TELL THE MOB TO GO HOME, SENDING THE MOB TO THE CAPITOL WHEN HE KNEW THEY WERE ARMED, AS WE DEMONSTRATED IN THE HEARINGS, ALL OF THAT IS PART OF THIS, YOU KNOW, ILLEGAL, UNCONSTITUTIONAL PLAN THAT DONALD TRUMP OVERSAW TO DO SOMETHING NO AMERICAN PRESIDENT HAS EVER DONE, TO SEIZE POWER. >> AND YOU TALK ABOUT WHAT NO OTHER PRESIDENT HAS DONE. HE IS NOW AT TIMES TELEGRAPHING OR NORMALIZING VOWS OF REVENGE. WE SAW THAT BOTH -- AGAIN, AGAINST YOU, FORMER VICE PRESIDENT PENCE AND OTHERS, TAKING OFFICIALS WHO BY THE WAY, HAPPEN TO BE LONG-TERM REPUBLICANS -- BUT PUT THAT ASIDE, TRAFFICKING IN INTIMIDATION, MENACING, POTENTIAL VIOLENCE, APPEALS TO VIOLENCE, TALKING AT A DICTATOR SHIP, TALK ABOUT GOING AFTER THE PRESS. THESE ARE THINGS WE KNOW. YOUR FAMILY HAS A BACKGROUND IN FOREIGN POLICY. WE KNOW WHAT THAT PLAYBOOK LOOKS LIKE. I'M GOING TO SHOW BRIEFLY WHAT KIND OF DICTATOR HE MIGHT BE. >> WE LOVE THIS GUY. HE SAYS, YOU'RE NOT GOING TO BE A DICTATOR ARE YOU? I SAYS NO, NO, NO. WE'RE CLOSING THE BOARDER AND WE'RE DRILLING, DRILLING, DRILLING. OTHER THAN THAT I'M NOT A DICTATOR. >> FIRST OF ALL, SEAN HANNITY WHO WAS CONDUCTING THAT INTERVIEW, SEAN KNEW AT THE TIME -- WE HAVE THE TEXT MESSAGES BETWEEN SEAN AND CAY LEAGUE McENANY. THEY WERE TRYING TO LAND THE PLANE. THEY GNAW THE COUNTRY WAS IN DANGER AND DONALD TRUMP WAS THE SOURCE OF THAT DANGER. SEAN HANNITY KNEW THAT. HE HAS SEVERAL TIMES TRIED TO BAIL DONALD TRUMP OUT WHEN HE SAID SOMETHING OR SUGGESTED SOMETHING THAT IS ILLEGAL AND COMPLETELY BEYOND THE BOUNDS. HE DID IT AGAIN LAST NIGHT, AND DONALD TRUMP WON'T DENY HE HAS PLANS LIKE THE ONES WE HAVE BEEN DISCUSSING. HE SAYS IT ON A WEEKLY IF NOT A DAILY BASIS, AND I THINK WHAT WE AS AMERICANS AND VOTERS AND CITIZENS NEED TO COMMIT TO DO IS NOT TO BECOME NUMB TO THAT. WHAT HE SAYS IS SO OUTRAGEOUS THAT IT CAN BE VERY EASY FOR HIS ALLIES TO SAY TO THE REST OF US, OH, COME ON, YOU KNOW THAT'S NOT TRUE. WHAT THE LESSON OF DONALD TRUMP OF THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS HAS TAUGHT US IS WE HAVE TO TAKE HIM SERIOUSLY AND WE HAVE TO TAKE HIM LITERALLY. HE HAS SHOWN US WHAT HE'S WILLING TO DO. >> THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT DID NOT SEEM EAGER TO TAKE HIM LITERALLY OR LOOK AT HIM AS A POTENTIAL SUSPECT, AS THE CRIMINAL DEFINITION, INITIALLY. DO YOU THINK HE WOULD HAVE BEEN ULTIMATELY CHARGED WITHOUT THE JANUARY 6th COMMITTEE'S WORK? >> I THINK THAT OUR WORK WAS CRITICAL. I THINK THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT WAS OBVIOUSLY VERY FOCUSSED IN A VERY IMPORTANT WAY ON THOSE WHO HAD INVADED THE CAPITOL THAT DAY, BUT I THINK THE WORK THAT WE DID -- I THINK THE OPINION BY JUDGE CARTER, WHICH WAS A RESULT OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE'S EFFORTS TO GET ACCESS TO JOHN EASTMAN'S EMAILS AND JUDGE CARTER'S RULING THAT IT WAS MORE LIKELY THAN NOT THAT DONALD TRUMP AND JOHN EASTMAN HAD VIOLATED AT LEAST TWO FEDERAL STATUTES, I THINK THAT ALL OF THOSE THINGS CLEARLY CONTRIBUTED. AND I HOPE VERY MUCH LED THE WAY, AND I THINK YOU CAN SEE IT IN THE INDICTMENT IN THE WAY THAT THE PLAN THAT WE HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT HAS LAID OUT IN WAYS THAT ARE SIMILAR TO THE THINGS THAT WE FOUND. IT'S NOT A SURPRISE. THOSE ARE THE FACTS. THAT'S THE EVIDENCE. BUT IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT FOR THE FUTURE OF THE COUNTRY THAT DONALD TRUMP BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE, THAT EVERYONE WHO WAS INVOLVED AND ENGAGED IN THIS BE ACCOUNTABLE. >> HAVE YOU SPOKE TON JACK SMITH OR HIS TEAM? >> I HAVE NOT. >> WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE CASE THEY'RE BUILDING, GIVEN YOU ARE WHAT WE'LL CALL A SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT, WHAT DO YOU THINK IS FACTUALLY IMPORTANT TO CONVEY? YOU BROUGHT UP THE CHARGES AND ARROWS. THE REPORT YOU HELP AUTHOR TALKS ABOUT A SEVEN-PART PROCESS. YET YOU AND I -- I THINK WE ALL KNOW, YOU CAN'T THROW EVERYTHING AT A JURY AND SAY, LOOK AT ALL THIS MESS. WHAT DO YOU THINK MUST BE CONVEYED CLEARLY AND FACTUALLY? >> I THINK FROM WHAT I'VE SEEN, FROM WHAT I'VE READ, TO THE WORK TO DATE, THEY'RE DOING AN EFFECTIVE JOB. I THINK THE FOCUS ON DONALD TRUMP'S INTENT IS VERY IMPORTANT. ONE OF THE THINGS WE DID IN THE SELECT COMMITTEE REPORT WAS MAKE SURE WE PUT TOGETHER A CHART THAT SHOWED WITH SPECIFICITY THE CLAIMS THAT HE WAS MAKING, THE TIMES HE WAS TOLD THOSE CLAIMS WERE FALSE, AND AFTERWARDS WHEN HE WENT OUT AND MADE THEM ANY WAYS. SO THERE'S NO QUESTION HE WAS SAYING THINGS HE KNEW TO BE FALSE IN FURTHERANCE OF HIS EFFORTS TO OVERTURN THE ELECTION. >> LOOKING A LITTLE BIT -- WE HAVE YOUR EXCHANGE WITH MEADOWS AIDE HUTCHINSON AND SORT OF WHERE ALL THAT GOES. I WANT TO PLAY A LITTLE BIT OF THAT. >> IS IT YOUR UNDERSTANDING THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP ASKED MARK MEADOWS TO SPEAK WITH ROGER STONE AND GENERAL FLYNN ON JANUARY 5th? >> THAT'S CORRECT, THAT IS MY UNDERSTANDING. >> MS. HUTCHINSON, IS IT YOUR UNDERSTANDING THAT MR. MEADOWS CALLED MR. STONE ON JANUARY 5th? >> I'M UNDER THE IMPRESSION HE DID COMPLETE A CALL TO MR. STONE AND MR. -- ON JANUARY THE 5th. >> WE'VE REPORT ON THAT AND OTHER FOOJ THING THAT HAVE COME TO LIGHT ABOUT MR. STONE. HE DEFINITELY SEEMS TO BE AROUND AND AWARE THINGS COULD GO TO ANOTHER LEVEL. HE HAD CONTACTS DEMONSTRATED WITH THE MILITIAS. HE PUBLICLY DENIED WHAT MS. HUTCHINSON SAID UNDER OATH. HE DENIED THAT IN PUBLIC UNDER OATH. DO YOU BELIEVE HER VERSION OF EVENTS? WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT MR. STONE, WHO HAS EVADED ANY REAL LEGAL CONSEQUENCE FOR THIS? >> WE FOCUSED IN THE REPORT -- INCLUDED A SECTION ON THE CREDIBILITY OF WITNESSES AND THOUGHT THAT WAS CRUCIALLY IMPORTANT, BECAUSE WITNESSES LIKE CASSIDY HUTCHINSON, SARAH MATTHEWS, MATT POTTINGER, PAT CIPOLLONE -- ONE OF THE REASONS CASSIDY WAS SO IMPORTANT WAS BECAUSE BEFORE SHE TESTIFIED CIPOLLONE WOULD NOT TESTIFY, AND AFTER HE DID ENGAGE AND HIS TESTIMONY CORROBORATED HERS. IT WAS VERY, VERY IMPORTANT. SO I HAVE COMPLETE CONFIDENCE AND GRATITUDE AND RESPECT FOR HER COURAGE FOR WHAT SHE DID AS WELL AS FOR OTHER WITNESSES WHO AT GREAT PERSONAL RISK TOLD THE AMERICAN PEOPLE THE TRUTH, TOLD THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WHAT THEY KNEW. WITH RESPECT TO PEOPLE LIKE ROGER STONE, MIKE FLYNN, YOU KNOW, THERE'S FIRST OF ALL, VIDEO AND PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE OF BOTH OF THEM WITH MEMBERS OF THE MILL AS. AS WELL AS THE FACT THEY TOOK THE FIFTH WHEN THEY APPEARED IN FRONT OF THE COMMITTEE. ONE OF THE THINGS WE KNOW IS JACK SMITH HAS TOOLS THE COMMITTEE DID NOT HAVE IN ORDER TO GET TO THE TRUTH. BUT ONE OF THE MOST CHILLING MOMENTS FOR ME, OF MANY DURING THIS PROCESS, WAS WHEN I ASKED GENERAL FLYNN IF HE BELIEVED IN THE PEACEFUL OF POWER IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND HE TOOK THE FIFTH. >> JUST TO SPELL THAT OUT, THE IMPLICATION IS HE'S TAKING THE FIFTH AMENDMENT BECAUSE THE ANSWER THAT MIGHT SUPPORT VIOLENTLY OVERTHROWING THE GOVERNMENT WOULD BE TO HIM A TYPE OF CONFESSION. >> RIGHT, THAT IT COULD INCRIMINATE HIM. >> I THINK THAT'S QUITE STRIKING. I WANT TO LOOK A LITTLE BIT AT THE PROCESS. WE HAVE SOMETHING PREPARED, JUST A LITTLE ARCHIVAL MATERIAL. THE JANUARY 6th COMMITTEE ENDED WITH THE LAST CONGRESS. SINCE THEN THERE'S BEEN TRIALS WITH TRUMP AIDES WHO TRIED TO DEFY IT. I WANT TO TURN TO THAT AND THEN WE'LL BRING MS. CHENEY BACK IN. I'M TALKING ABOUT HOW THE COMMITTEE, MS. CHENEY AND HER COLLEAGUES VOTED TO HOLD MR. BANNON AND NAVARRO IN CONTEMPT. THEY DEMANDED MR. NAVARRO'S TESTIMONY AFTER HE DETAILED -- ON THIS PROGRAM. >> WE HAVE 100 SENATORS ON CAPITOL HILL READY TO IMPLEMENT THE SWEEP. REMEDY WAS FOR VICE PRESIDENT PENCE AS THE QUARTERBACK IN THE GREEN BAY SWEEP TO REMAND THOSE VOTES BACK TO THE SIX BATTLEGROUND STATES. >> DO YOU REALIZE YOU ARE DESCRIBING A COUP. >> NO. >> NAVARRO'S DISCUSSION OF WHAT WE CALLED THAT SWEEP PLOT DID DRAW INTEREST. HE CLAIMED HE VIEWED HIS TESTIMONY AS PRIVILEGED EVEN THOUGH HE WAS MAKING PUBLIC STATEMENTS. AFTER DEFYING THE JANUARY 6th COMMITTEE SUBPOENA, THE COMMITTEE HELD HIM IN CONTEMPT. MIGHT WANT TO SHOW MS. CHENEY WHAT YOU SEED BRIEFLY AS VICE CHAIR AT THE CONTEMPT HEARING FOR MR. NAVARRO. >> MR. NAVARRO IS ALSO A KEY WITNESS. HE'S WRITTEN A BOOK BOASTING ABOUT HIS ROLE IN PLANNING AND COORDINATING THE ACTIVITY OF JANUARY 6th. AND YET HE DOES NOT HAVE THE COURAGE TO TESTIFY HERE. WE HAVE MANY QUESTIONS FOR MR. NAVARRO, INCLUDING ABOUT HIS COMMUNICATIONS WITH ROGER STONE AND STEVE BANNON REGARDING THE PLANNING FOR JANUARY 6th. >> NAVARRO DID NOT ANSWER THOSE QUESTIONS TO CONGRESS. BOTH OF THOSE DEFENDANTS HAVE SINCE BEEN CONVICTED AND SENTENCED TO JAIL. THEY ARE CURRENTLY OUT FREE WHILE THEY APPEAL THOSE CONVICTIONS. MR. MEADOWS WAS NOT INDICTED BY DOJ AFTER BEING HELD IN CONTEMPT. IN THE BOOK CHENEY WRITES, SHE FOUND THAT DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND. THE UPDATE NOW, MEADOWS DOES AWAIT A RICO TRIAL IN GEORGIA. MS. CHENEY, WE LOOK AT ALL OF THAT, WHAT DO YOU SEE AS THE LESSONS BEING -- VINDICATED AS THOSE ARE INDEPENDENT JURIES WHO AGREED, AND WHAT ABOUT MR. MEADOWS? >> IN TERMS OF THE PROCESSER IT WAS FUNDAMENTALLY IMPORTANT TO THE COMMITTEE THAT WE ENGAGED IN AN AGGRESSIVE LITIGATION STRATEGY, THAT WE ENSURED OUR SUBPOENAS WOULD BE ENFORCED. AND IT WAS -- ONE OF THE THINGS WE LEARNED WAS IT DIDN'T MATTER IN JUDGES HAD BEEN APPOINTED BY DEMOCRATS OR REPUBLICANS. I THINK THIS IS ONE OF THE THINGS WE'RE STILL SEEING TODAY ALMOST WITHOUT EXCEPTION, THAT MEMBERS OF THE JUDICIARY RECOGNIZE THE THREAT WE'RE FACING. AND WHAT WE SAW WITH RESPECT TO THE COMMITTEE WAS THAT THEY MOVED QUICKLY, THAT THEY ACTED IN WAYS THAT RECOGNIZED VERY CLEARLY THE IMPACT AND IMPORT OF THE COMMITTEE'S WORK, THAT WE NEEDED ACCESS TO THIS INFORMATION. SO THE PROCESS ITSELF I THINK WAS VERY IMPORTANT. WITH RESPECT TO MR. MEADOWS, YOU KNOW, WE WERE HEARING FROM THE STAFF ON THE COMMITTEE THAT THEY EXPECTED THAT HE IN FACT WOULD BE INDICTED. WHEN HE WASN'T, IT WAS A SURPRISE, AND IT WAS A SURPRISE IN PARTICULAR BECAUSE THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT DID NOT IN FACT ASSERT THE KIND OF COMPLETE BLANKET IMMUNITY THAT MEADOWS HIMSELF HAD BEEN CLAIMING. THEY SAID IN FACT THAT A FORMER CHIEF OF STAFF IS NOT ENTITLED TO THAT SORT OF COMPLETE IMMUNITY, SO THAT MADE IT EVEN MORE CURIOUS WHY THEY ACTUALLY HAD TO MOVE TO INDICT, AND I THINK AT THE TIME WE ANTICIPATED -- WE THOUGHT THAT IT MIGHT BE BECAUSE HE WAS COOPERATING. I THINK THAT'S STILL POSSIBLE. WE DON'T KNOW FOR SURE. >> POSSIBLE BUT NOT CONFIRMED WHETHER HE'S COOPERATING FULLY WITH JACK SMITH. >> WE DON'T KNOW THAT. >> MM-HMM. YOU LOOK AT WHAT THEY'RE PREPARING IN GEORGIA -- MR. BANNON, WE JUST MENTIONED, AND PENCE IS A STAR WITNESS. FIRST, ANY REACTION TO THIS REPORTING? DOES THAT TRACK WITH WHAT YOU WOULD UNDERSTAND TO BE THE RIGHT WAY TO MAKE A CASE? DO YOU THINK PENCE WOULD BE A STRONG WITNESS IN GEORGIA OR THE JACK SMITH CASE IN. >> I THINK WHAT THAT LIST SHOWS IS WHAT WE SAW IN THE COMMITTEE, WHAT WE DEMONSTRATED IN THE COMMITTEE, WAS THAT THE PEOPLE THAT KNOW THIS STORY, THE PEOPLE THAT IN FACT WERE THE SUBJECT OF PRESSURE FROM DONALD TRUMP, THE PEOPLE THAT TRIED TO STOP HIM, THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE THE EVIDENCE ARE REPUBLICANS. SO PEOPLE WHO SAY FOR EXAMPLE WHAT THE COMMITTEE WAS DOING WAS MAL PARTISAN OVERLOOKS THE FACT THAT -- THAT LIST DOESN'T SURPRISE ME AT ALL. >> WHEN YOU LOOK AT FLORIDA, JIM JORDAN, WHO YOU KNOW WELL AND HAVE CLASHED WITH, IS SAYING HE WANTS TO LEAD AN INVESTIGATION INTO YOUR COMMITTEE'S WORK, AND SPECIFICALLY -- I WANT TO BE PRECISE -- HE'S WITHOUT MUCH EVIDENCE SUGGESTING THERE WOULD BE CONTACT BETWEEN THE COMMITTEE AND THE GEORGIA RICO PROSECUTION'S OFFICE THAT SOMEHOW BEARS SCRUTINY OR IS BAD, THAT THERE'S A PROBLEM THERE. YOUR RESPONSE. >> I THINK THAT WE HAVE SEEN JIM JORDAN DO EVERYTHING HE CAN TO TRY TO COVER UP WHAT HAPPENED ON JANUARY 6th, TO TRY TO DIVERT ATTENTION FROM THE FACTS OF THAT DAY. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I TALK ABOUT IN THE BOOK IS THE EXTENT TO WHICH HE'S BEEN VERY CONFUSED HIMSELF WHEN HE'S HAD THE ANSWER THE QUESTION ABOUT, WHEN DID YOU TALK TO DONALD TRUMP THAT DAY? WHAT WAS YOUR ROLE IN THAT? I THINK PEOPLE SHOULD GO BACK AND TAKE THE TIME. IT'S ONLY A FEW MINUTES BUT WATCH JIM JORDANS AFTER EXCHANGE WITH McGOVERN, THE CHAIR OF THE RULES COMMITTEE, WHEN WE WERE IN THE PROCESS OF HOLDING BANNON IN CONTEMPT. WHEN McGOVERN QUESTIONED HIM AND -- AS WELL ABOUT THE COMMUNICATIONS HE HAD WITH TRUMP, JORDAN HAS NEVER GIVEN A STRAIGHT ANSWER ABOUT THAT, SO I THINK HE'S GOING TO DO EVERYTHING HE CAN TO PROTECT DONALD TRUMP, TO TRY TO COVER UP. HE HAS A LOT TO HIDE, AND I THINK THAT HE OWES THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ANSWERS. >> HMM. ANOTHER FORMER COLLEAGUE OF YOURS, NOW FORMER SPEAKER McCARTHY MAKING THE ANNOUNCEMENT HAD WILL NOT RUN FOR CONGRESS AGAIN. I WANT TO GIVE YOU THE FLOOR FOR RESPONSE TO THAT. YOUR BOOK TALKS ABOUT RISK AND STANDING UP FOR SOMETHING, AND I THINK PEOPLE ARE FAMILIAR WITH THE RISK THAT YOU AND OTHERS HAVE TAKEN. AND BECAUSE OF THE CLIMATE WE'RE IN, SOME OF THAT RISK IS QUITE SERIOUS. IT'S PHYSICAL SECURITY RISK TO YOUR LIFE AND FAMILY. BUT EVEN CAREER RISK, WHICH MANY PEOPLE SPEND DECADES -- IF YOU GO HANG OUT IN WASHINGTON, SOME PEOPLE SPENT THE BETTER PART OF THEIR ADULT LIVES TRYING TO GET THIS JOB AND THEY DON'T WANT TO DO ANYTHING TO RISK IT. WHAT DOES IT TELL YOU EVEN BY THAT NARROW MARGIN, I'M CURIOUS, MS. CHENEY, THAT YOU AND FORMER SPEAKER McCARTHY TOOK DIFFERENT APPROACHES HERE. BOTH OF YOU PAID CONSEQUENCES, WHICH WE COULD EXPLORE. BUT IT DOES NOT SEEM THAT KEVIN McCARTHY'S DOCUMENTED -- I WOULD SAY, I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU WOULD PUT IT -- DOCUMENTED, CRAVEN EFFORTS TO BE ON BOTH SIDES AND ATTEMPT TO COZY BACK UP TO MAGA, DOESN'T SEEM LIKE THAT SAVED HIS JOB. >> I THINK IT'S A FUNDAMENTALLY IMPORTANT LESSON FOR EVERYBODY TO LEARN WATCHING THIS PERIOD OF TIME, WHICH IS THAT LEADERS MATTER, AND DECISIONS THAT INDIVIDUAL LEADERS MAKE MATTERS. THE STORY OF KEVIN McCARTHY IS THROUGHOUT THIS PERIOD, HE HAD MULTIPLE OPPORTUNITIES TO DO THE RIGHT THING, AND EACH TIME HE DID THE WRONG THING. AND IT ISN'T JUST THAT IT HAS NOW COST HIM HIS CAREER IN TERMS OF LOSING THE SPEAKERSHIP ULTIMATELY AT THE HANDS OF TRUMP, BEING ABANDON BY TRUMP. BUT IT COST THE NATION GREATLY THAT THE LEADER OF THE REPUBLICANS IN THE HOUSE DIDN'T LEAD, DIDN'T SAY YOU KNOW WHAT? I'M GOING TO STAND UP AND DO THE RIGHT THING. WE AREN'T GOING TO OBJECT TO ELECTORAL VOTES. HE WAS IN THE RIGHT PLACE IN THE DAYS JUST AFTER JANUARY 6th, BUT BECAUSE THE FINANCIAL CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS DRIED UP, CORPORATIONS SAID THEY WOULDN'T GIVE TO REPUBLICANS AFTER THE INSURRECTION, HE WENT DOWN TO MAR-A-LAGO. HE NEEDED DONALD TRUMP. HE NEEDED DONALD TRUMP'S DONORS, AND THAT MEANT HE HAD TO HELP DONALD TRUMP WIPE AWAY THE STAIN OF WHAT HE'S DONE TO OUR COUNTRY. >> WE SPEND A LOT OF TIME,S AWE MENTION, TRACKING THE COMMITTEE'S WORK AND EVIDENCE. THAT'S WHERE OUR HEAD HAS BEEN ON REPORT ON IT. READING THE BOOK THERE'S A LITTLE MORE PERSONAL THERE. WE LEARN ABOUT YOU AS A PERSON. YOU CHOSE TO SHARE SOME OF THAT. WE HAVE ONE OF THE PHOTOS, THEN-PRESIDENT FORD. I THINK WE HAVE YOU -- JUST THERE. NOT EVERYONE GETS THAT KIND OF QUALITY TIME WITH THE PRESIDENT. HERE YOU ARE WITH PRESIDENT REAGAN. YOUR FATHER BEHIND YOU. MUCH HAS BEEN DISCUSSED ABOUT YOU AND YOUR FATHER, THE FORMER VICE PRESIDENT, BUT WHAT WE NOTICE IN THE BOOK IS IT GOES BACK EVEN FURTHER. MY QUESTION IS PARTLY ABOUT YOUR OWN LIFE PERSONALLYING BUT ALSO ABOUT, HERE YOU ARE AND THE CHOICE YOU HAVE MADE. I WONDER, DO YOU THINK IN ANY WAY THERE WAS A POSITIVE THAT WAS YOU HAD MORE EXPOSURE AND TIME, THAT IN SOME WAY THAT MAY HAVE GIVEN YOU AN EXTRA PERSPECTIVE OR CALCIFIED YOUR BACKBONE? YOU WRITE ABOUT YOUR FATHER AND PRESIDENT BUSH AND THAT'S BEEN DISCUSSED, BUT SEEING YOU THERE. LET'S PUT THE FORD ONE BACK UP, BECAUSE WHY NOT? BUT SEEING YOU THERE, IN A GOOD WAY, I WONDER, DO YOU THINK THAT ANY OF THAT TIME FROM SUCH A YOUNG AGE MADE YOU MORE AWARE OF THE HUMANITY OF ALL THESE PEOPLE INVOLVED AND LESS COWED BY IT? DID IT GIVE YOU SOMETHING BEYOND ALL THE THINGS WE'VE HEARD ABOUT TO STAND UP WHERE SO MANY PEOPLE COULDN'T? >> YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT HAVING SPENT TIME WITH REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTS, WITH DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTS, TOO, BUT CERTAINLY MORE WITH REPUBLICANS, HAVING KNOWN PEOPLE LIKE PRESIDENT FORD, WHO WAS A GOOD AND DECENT AND HONORABLE MAN -- AND PRESIDENT WEIGHEN AND PRESIDENT BUSH AS WELL -- BOTH PRESIDENT BUSHES -- YOU KNOW, I KNOW WHAT PRESIDENTS SHOULD BE. AND I KNOW THE KINDS OF PRESIDENTS WE HAVE HAD IN THE PAST, EVERYONE IF WE DISAGREED ON POLICY. SO TO SEE DONALD TRUMP DO WHAT HE WAS WILLING TO DO, I DO THINK THAT I FOUND IT ABSOLUTELY BEYOND DOUBT THAT THIS IS NOT -- THIS CAN'T STAND. WE AS A NATION CAN'T STAND FOR THAT. I DON'T KNOW WHETHER PEOPLE WITH PERHAPS LESS EXPERIENCE, YOU KNOW -- I DON'T THINK THERE'S ANY EXCUSE. >> SURE. AND I DON'T MEAN IT THAT WAY. >> YEAH, BUT -- BUT I ALSO THINK THAT WHEN YOU LOOK AT WHERE WE FOUND OURSELVES AS A NATION -- AND IT WAS ALSO THE FACT THAT MY PARENTS SPENT A HUGE AMOUNT OF TIME WITH MY SISTER AND ME MAKING SURE WE UNDERSTOOD AMERICAN HISTORY, TEACHING US ABOUT AMERICAN HISTORY, TEACHING US ABOUT THE CONSTITUTION. TO ME IT WAS OBVIOUS THAT WE CANNOT SURVIVE AS A NATION WHO'S GOING TO UNRAVEL THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE REPUBLIC. >> UNDERSTOOD. THE FINAL THREE ARE WHAT WE CALL AROUND HERE LIGHTNING ROUND. YOU'RE BUSY, SO I DON'T KNOW IF YOU SEE -- >> I DO. >> THESE ARE TAILORED TOWARD YOU. THE FIRST ONE, COMPLETE THE SENTENCE IN A SENTENCE OR SO, FOR YOU, THE WORST PART OF ALL THIS HAS BEEN -- >> THE WORSE PART OF ALL THIS HAS BEEN THE REALIZATION THAT MY KIDS MIGHT GROW UP IN A COUNTRY WHERE AMERICA DOESN'T KNOW THE PEACEFUL TRANSITION OF POWER AND THAT FEAR. BUT IT ALSO HAS BEEN WHAT HAS GIVEN ME AN ABSOLUTE DETERMINATION TO DO EVERYTHING THAT I CAN DO TO MAKE SURE THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN. >> THE BEST PART OF ALL THIS HAS BEEN -- >> THE BEST PART OF ALL THIS HAS BEEN JUST THE INCREDIBLE OUTREACH AND OUTPOURING OF SUPPORT FOR THE CONSTITUTION THAT I HAVE SEEN, ESPECIALLY FROM YOUNG WOMEN AROUND THE COUNTRY. IT'S BEEN THE LESSON OF THE VERY COURAGEOUS WITNESSES IN OUR HEARINGS. YOU KNOW, PEOPLE LIKE RUSTY BOWERS. VERY, VERY MOVING TO SEE PEOPLE WHO SUPPORTED DONALD TRUMP AND THEN SAID, BUT WAIT A MINUTE, I'M NOT GOING TO VIOLATE MY OATH OF OFFICE. AND WE HAD SO MANY OF THOSE WITNESSES. BUT I WOULD SAY IN PARTICULAR, THE YOUNG WOMEN AROUND THE COUNTRY THAT MAY NOT AGREE -- WE MIGHT NOT AGREE ON A WHOLE RANGE OF ISSUES, BUT BOY, THEY'RE WILLING TO STAND UP AND FIGHT IF OUR CONSTITUTION. >> AND FINALLY, YOU HAVE BEEN ELECTED TO WIELD POWER. YOU'VE USED POWER AND DECIDED WHERE YOU STAND. YOU RISKED YOUR CONGRESSIONAL SEAT. YOU'RE NOW A CITIZEN AMONG OTHER THINGS. THE FINAL SENTENCE IS, REGULAR CITIZENS CAN AND SHOULD DO WHAT RIGHT NOW? >> REGULAR CITIZENS IN THIS COUNTRY CAN NEVER BE BYSTANDERS, AND RIGHT NOW WE'VE G
