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On the recordJune 8, 2022
This was a violent assault on the United States Capitol. And it was provoked by a sitting president of United States. If we really want to understand why January 6 is a line that can never be crossed again, then we really do have to sort of put the politics and the partisanship aside, let`s understand what happened. And let`s do everything we can to protect ourselves from it in the future.
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Liz Cheney
Republican · Wyoming
Source
msnbc.com

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Liz Cheney describes the January 6 attack as a provoked assault and stresses the importance of understanding its implications.

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