Washington – Wyoming Congresswoman and House GOP Conference Chair Liz Cheney (R-WY) joined Wyoming Syndicated radio host Glenn Woods this morning to discuss the attempts by House Democrats to provide legitimacy for their secretive impeachment process by announcing a vote. Click here to listento her full remarks and see an excerpt of the transcript below:

REP. CHENEY: What we’re faced with here right now—I’m about to walk onto the floor to give a speech in opposition to the impeachment resolution that the Democrats are bringing. I know people joke about it, but I think that it’s very important to take seriously and for you to take seriously, what the Democrats are attempting to do and what they’re attempting to do in terms of unseating and undoing the votes of the last election.

GLENN WOODS: Let’s take a look at what the procedure is here because I’m not understanding. It sounds to me like the Democrats in this case are inventing procedures. Are we going through something unprecedented or are they doing this by the book?

REP. CHENEY: No, it’s unprecedented and we know what a serious constitutional process would look like. We saw both parties, when we were dealing with the impeachment of President Nixon, rules in place that would protect the rights of the President, would ensure that his counsel had the rights to cross-examine witnesses, would ensure that the minority had the right to call witnesses. We saw those same kinds of procedures adopted by the House when President Clinton was going through the impeachment process. What the Democrats have done now is absolutely unprecedented and they’ve basically been working with the President in the basement of the Capitol. I think they’ve come under so much pressure for that that now they’ve decided they’re going to hold a vote this morning that they’re portraying as opening up the process and providing the kinds of rights that we’ve been demanding. It doesn’t do that at all, you won’t be surprised to hear, it simply is a vote to legitimize what they’ve been doing in the past.