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When asked for his thoughts, Democratic President Joe Biden has said that the congressional Republicans' recent ouster of Wyoming Representative Liz Cheney is "above his pay grade." Biden also said that he's still ready to work with the GOP despite infighting amongst themselves.
In a Wednesday night interview with Biden, MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell asked Biden what he thought about the fact that Cheney is one of the only congressional Republicans willing to publicly say that Republican former President Donald Trump didn't win the 2020 election.
"The Liz Cheney-McCarthy thing is above my paygrade," Biden said. "I mean, I have enough trouble figuring out my own party all the time, let alone the Republicans."
O'Donnell then asked Biden how he could trust the word of Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy of California, someone who told Biden he was interested in reaching a bipartisan consensus on Biden's $2 trillion infrastructure bill. O'Donnell framed his question by mentioning that McCarthy had initially pledged to support Cheney despite GOP attempts to ouster her, only to turn around later and preside over her ouster.
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"If a man looks me in the eye, gives me his word ... I take it unless he breaks it," Biden said. "He may have broken his word to somebody else but [not] to me."
Biden reiterated that all McCarthy agreed to in their recent meeting was "that we should try to get a bipartisan agreement."
"We were nowhere near having made [a deal]," Biden said.
This is a breaking news story and will be updated as more information becomes available.
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