Washington – Wyoming Congresswoman and House GOP Conference Chair Liz Cheney (R-WY) joined CBS’s “Face the Nation” this morning and explained that Republicans opposition to socialist colleagues has nothing to do with race – it’s because “they are advocating policies that will destroy this nation” and said that “Republicans will continue to fight against that” whether the mainstream media likes it or not. Click here to watch the full interview and see an excerpt below:
MARGARET BRENNAN: But what you’re talking about there are policy differences. That’s not what the President was tweeting about this morning and when he said, “I don’t believe the four congresswomen are capable of loving our country,” I know you disagree with their policies and politics, you just made that clear, but there have been death threats against Congresswoman Ilhan Omar. In April, there was an arrest because someone called her office and said —

REP. LIZ CHENEY: Margaret, listen. Margaret, are you going to let me answer the question. I got the question. 

BRENNAN: I’m asking the question.

REP. CHENEY: There are fundamentally, this is a moment where we have to be very clear and it’s really important for us to focus on – and I know you guys don’t want to, you don’t want to focus on the fact that there are substantive differences, you also don’t want to focus on the fact that—

BRENNAN: But I—

REP. CHENEY: Wait, I let you ask me the question. This is about policy and— 

BRENNAN: But that’s not what the President is talking about.

REP. CHENEY: That is not true, the President every single day talks about policy. Every single day this President talks about the tremendous economic growth that we have seen since he’s been in office, the tremendous job growth, the tremendous decline of unemployment—

BRENNAN: Capable of loving our country has nothing to do with jobs. Do you disagree with that sentence?

REP. CHENEY: You are making my point, you are making my point for me right now. We are focused on—

BRENNAN: Do you agree with the President or disagree with him because I’m not clear.

REP. CHENEY: The President has absolutely said that they should not have chanted send her back. Our concern and our opposition to what these women are saying—and many other members of the Democratic Party in the House of Representatives—has to do with the fact that they’re advocating policies that will destroy this nation and we will fight against it. And I think the news media, you included, ought to cover the substance and I think it is outrageous for you to say that the President doesn’t talk about substance.