Rep. Liz Cheney’s removal from House GOP leadership for criticizing former President Trump dominated the Sunday morning political talk shows, with the Wyoming Republican making appearances on multiple networks.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky also appeared on several shows to discuss new guidance lifting coronavirus restrictions for vaccinated people.
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) said on Sunday that “the majority of the Republican Party is not where I am,” days after House GOP lawmakers voted to remove her from her leadership post for challenging former President Trump’s unproven claims of election fraud.
“I know that there are many members who have expressed concern about their own security. And I think that's an important point to think about as well, that we now live in a country where members' votes are affected because they're worried about their security, they're worried about threats on their lives,” Cheney said on ABC's "This Week."
“We have to recognize how quickly things can unravel. We have to recognize what it means for the nation to have a former president who has not conceded and who continues to suggest that our electoral system cannot function, cannot do the will of the people,” Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) said.
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), who was recently ousted as House Republican Conference Chair, said on Sunday that she could not simply ignore former President Trump because he "continues to be a real danger."
"You cannot on the one hand say that Donald Trump is a leader or the leader of the Republican Party — which I believe he is the leader of the Republican Party right now because Kevin McCarthy gave him his leadership card. You can't say he's the leader and then say we have to move on. I would love to move on, Chuck," Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) said.
"These are complex human relationships that involve millions of people. And I have always said, look, I do not think Trump is the devil and I won't say that. I don't think he's Jesus either, you know, I'm a rational human being about this," Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) said.
“We've got to find a way to get the Republican Party back to the party of Lincoln and Reagan, get back to the more traditional big-tent party that can appeal to a majority of people. Otherwise we simply aren't going to have control, we're not going to get the White House back and we won't have control of the House and the Senate,” Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) said.
Rochelle Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), on Sunday said that the agency's recent decision to recommend that vaccinated no longer wear masks had nothing to do with political pressure from lawmakers.
"We now have science that has really just evolved even in the last two weeks that demonstrates that these vaccines are safe, they are effective,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky said. “They are working in a population just as they did in the clinical trials that they are working against our variants that we have here circulating in the United States.”
"We're not counting on vaccine mandates at all. It may very well be that local businesses, local jurisdictions will work toward vaccine mandates. That is going to be locally driven and not federally driven," Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky said.
The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Sunday said unvaccinated children should continue to wear masks and social distance, despite new guidelines from the agency that lifts restrictions for vaccinated adults and adolescents.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) on Sunday called on the Biden administration to “push harder” on Israel and the Palestinian Authority to stop the violence in the Mideast, as clashes between the country's forces and Hamas militants escalates.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said the nation's forces are “trying to degrade Hamas’s terrorist abilities,” after violence in the region escalated over the past week.
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) said Sunday that the cyberattack on the Colonial Pipeline that forced its shutdown exposed the “vulnerabilities” in the U.S. electrical grid that could pose an “existential” threat to the country’s energy system.
