Republican Liz Cheney's leading role in Jan. 6 hearings threatens her own future

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Liz Cheney is the top Republican on the House panel investigating the violent attack on the Capitol, and her role in the historic hearings that begin Thursday night will impact her own political future, one that may no longer be in Congress.

While some in her party initially lambasted then-President Trump's role in the Jan. 6 siege, they quickly reversed course. Cheney's decision to continue public and sustained criticism of Trump made her an outcast in the party she reveres.

When protestors breached the Capitol on Jan. 6, Cheney was the third highest ranking House Republican.

Maryland Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin, a former constitutional law professor who was preparing his remarks to certify the 2020 election results, saw texts about the threat and walked over to Cheney on the House floor.

"She was actually the first person that I went to when someone texted me a photo of the insurrectionists who had entered the building brandishing a Confederate battle flag, and I crossed the aisle and I said, 'Liz, look, it looks like we're under new management here,'" Raskin told NPR.