say this is what you did, and we consider it so serious that you may have to face criminal prosecution. one quick point there, gerald ford also told me, when he was given the profile in courage award by caroline kennedy, that that was, for the pardon, he said that was the proudest award that he had ever received. but on another historic note, liz cheney, referring to her great, great grandfather, volunteering for the ohio volunteers, in the civil war, and then marching in that, surviving four years of the civil war, and we know that the statistics, the chances, the odds of that, and then marching in that review, before, you know, president johnson and general grant, you of course, with the picture about it, talk to us about that moment, and the legacy of public service, the
direct and racist attack by president trump and her testimony yesterday illustrated how anybody, regular people doing their job, can become victims of election lies. this one did. more to come. reporter: this is shaye moss last month receiving the profile in courage award . a case of the nerves. my fellow honorees, i m not used to giving speeches and being in the spotlight. what i m used to is quietly doing my job. reporter: that s exactly why she was being honored for quietly doing her job as an election worker in georgia. she had of voter applications, absentee ballot requests and helped process votes.
recently caught the attention of the john f. kennedy library in museum. last month, bowers was one of the five people given its annual profile in courage award, for what they called, his steadfast integrity. and on that note, i wish you all a very good and safe night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late with us. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. us i will see you own party in states that he lost, tells them to throw out the results. you re asking me to do something against my oath, and i will not break my oath. the former president s personal involvement in targeting officials and election workers, in ways that threaten and ruin their lives.
compelling, now, rusty bowers was very powerful. did you notice that trump was so freaked out about rusty bowers and what he was going to testify, to he felt the need to lie about him immediately before the hearing. that s right. which i thought was a real tell that trump knows these hearings are powerful in the presentation of evidence, so i i think that shaye and her mother will go down in history. she got the profile in courage award this year from the kennedy institute. she deserved it. i think they will go down in history as examples of the abuse of power and the painful result of that in people s lives that are merely doing the right thing. yeah. it was really it was powerful stuff. it was powerful stuff. i don t know if we played the right sound bite before. can we play son bite one. the skrimpingts attempted citizen s arrest. sound bite one. she called me screaming at
She has been steadfast in continuing to blame the former president for stoking the Jan. 6 attack, and her Republican colleagues for following his lead.