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Liz Cheney

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Liz Cheney is an American attorney and politician who served as the U.S. Representative for Wyoming's at-large congressional district from 2017 to 2023. A member of the Republican Party, she is the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney. During her time in Congress, Cheney was known for her strong stance on national security and her opposition to former President Donald Trump, particularly following the events of January 6, 2021, which led to her being removed from her leadership position within the House Republican Conference.

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Oct 18, 2021

The day before this all occurred, on January 5th, Mr. Bannon publicly professed knowledge that, 'All hell is going to break loose tomorrow.'

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Oct 18, 2021

On January 6th, a mob breached the security perimeter of our Capitol, assaulted and injured more than 140 police officers...

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Oct 12, 2021

The committee is completely in solidarity. Every single person on the committee recognizes how important it is for us to make sure that we enforce subpoenas.

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Oct 12, 2021

We`ll see if they show up. If they show up we`ll be prepared. Every single person on the committee recognizes how important it is for us to make sure that we ensure -- we enforce our subpoenas and then we do so expeditiously.

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Oct 11, 2021

Millions of Americans have been sold a fraud that the election was stolen. Republicans have a duty to tell the American people that this is not true. Perpetuating the big lie is an attack on the core of our constitutional republic.

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Oct 11, 2021

Millions of Americans have been sold a fraud that the election was stolen. Republicans have a duty to tell the American people that this is not true, perpetuating the big lie is an attack on the core of our constitutional republic.

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Sep 28, 2021

We're in a gigantic, constant, an unprecedented constitutional crisis. We have a party, who is loyalty is to a cult figure, Donald Trump and not to the Constitution.

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Sep 28, 2021

General Milley, you found yourself in your constitutionally prescribed role standing in the breach. And for any member of this committee, for any American, to question your loyalty to our nation, to question your understanding of our…

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Sep 28, 2021

The only question for us with respect to the deployment of forces in Afghanistan or anywhere else is, what does U.S. security require?

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Sep 28, 2021

For any member of this committee, for any American to question your loyalty to our Nation, to question your understanding of our Constitution, is despicable.

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Sep 28, 2021

In the aftermath of that attack, many of the members of our constitutional system failed to do their duty.

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Sep 27, 2021

When you look at the spread of these mistruths and the spread of the disinformation, you know, silence enables it. Silence enables the liar. And silence helps it to spread. So the first thing you have to do is say no, I`m not going to…

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Sep 26, 2021

What he's done is embrace Donald Trump, and if I were doing what he's doing, I would be deeply ashamed of myself. I don't know how you explain that to your children.

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Sep 26, 2021

What he`s done is embrace Donald Trump. And if I were doing what he`s doing, I would be deeply ashamed of myself I don`t know how you explain that to your children.

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Sep 26, 2021

I watched while the attack was under way, understood very clearly what he did on January 6, what he failed to do on January 6. Instead of stopping the attack while it was under way, he was busy calling up senators trying to get them to…

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Sep 24, 2021

On Friday, September 24, 2021, I was attending a funeral in Wyoming and was absent for votes. Had I been present, I would have voted: yea on rollcall No. 294 and nay on rollcall No. 295. Personal Explanation

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Sep 21, 2021

The task of this committee will require persistence. We must issue and enforce subpoenas promptly. We must get to objective truth. We must overcome the many efforts we are already seeing to cover up and obscure the facts.

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Sep 1, 2021

I think every member ought to condemn that. And I`d like to see Leader McCarthy very clearly condemn it and explain how dangerous that is.

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Aug 25, 2021

The committee should try to obtain records from the White House about every communication, every movement of any principal in the White House on the day of January 6th.

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Aug 23, 2021

We should account for the president every minute of that day.

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Aug 22, 2021

An indefensible step by the Trump administration. They forced the Afghan national government, we did, to release 5,000 prisoners. So that led directly to the catastrophe that we`re seeing today.

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Aug 16, 2021

None of that has happened. None of it has happened.

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Aug 16, 2021

They walked down this path of legitimizing the Taliban of perpetuating this fantasy telling the American people that the Taliban were a partner for peace.

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Aug 16, 2021

I think absolutely President Biden bears responsibility for making this decision. But there’s no question that President Trump his administration Secretary Pompeo, they also have very significant responsibility for this.

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