Washington, DC – Wyoming Congresswoman Liz Cheney (R-WY) joined “NBC Nightly News” last night to respond to recent comments made by former President Trump about January 6th. Watch the full piece here and see a transcript below:
LESTER HOLT: In Washington, growing fallout tonight over remarks by former President Trump, including the suggestion he might pardon people convicted of crimes related to the January 6th attack if he’s reelected. Here’s Garrett Haake.
GARRETT HAAKE: Tonight, the top Republican on the January 6th Committee warning former President Trump’s embrace of his supporters convicted of crimes related to the attack sends a dangerous message.
REP. LIZ CHENEY: Some of those people have been charged with things like seditious conspiracy. He uses the same language that he knows caused the January 6th violence, and I think that it tells us that he clearly would do this all again if he were given the chance.
HAAKE: The Congresswoman responding to these comments made by the former president Friday night.
FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: If I run and if I win, we will treat those people from January 6th fairly. We will treat them fairly. And if it requires pardons, we will give them pardons.
HAAKE: Now, one of Trump’s top Capitol Hill allies pushing back, too.
SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM: I don’t want to reinforce that defiling the Capitol was okay, I don’t want to do anything that would make this more likely in the future.
HAAKE: As he mulls making another run for the White House, the former President also arguing against a bipartisan effort to update the Electoral Count Act, suggesting Sunday night that with the law as written, Vice President Pence could, quote “have overturned the election.” That statement adding pressure to clarify the law soon.
SEN. JOE MANCHIN: Almost certainly we’ll have a bipartisan bill there. Fix what happened, the insurrection, stop that from ever happening again.
HAAKE: A bill the January 6th Committee sees as potentially helpful but not sufficient to counter the former president.
REP. CHENEY: That just simply can’t be who we are as Americans, it can’t be who we are as Republicans.
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