Liz Cheney: ‘No Way You Can’ Use Hillary’s Setup ‘Without Putting Our Security at Risk’
VAN SUSTEREN: “All right. Well, this is obviously a very important election for a lot of reasons. Liz, you worked at the state department. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, she agrees with the Iranian deal, but she is also being haunted at least tonight about e-mails. What is your thought on these emails in terms of her campaign?”
L. CHENEY: “You know, I think she has got a real problem. I find it baffling that she would have determined. I can't imagine who advised her that you could conduct your business as secretary of state on a personal, private e-mail server I can't imagine, also, you know, on what legal basis she was advised that she could clean the server, that she could get rid of e-mails, delete them while they were under subpoena. And across the board, she has got very significant problems. You have now got these investigations underway. But the bottom-line is we now know there was classified information on the server. We now know that she was, in fact, an agent in exchange of classified information on this e-mail server stored in a bathroom in Denver or in her house as well. And there is simply no way you can do that without putting our security at risk.”
VAN SUSTEREN: “Does this mean, you think, Mr. Vice President since you have been involved in a lot of presidential races, do you expect Vice-President Biden to jump in.”
D. CHENEY: “I do. I think Joe is not going to be able to resist the temptation. He has always wanted to be president. He has run twice before. It's the only opportunity he is going to have.”
VAN SUSTEREN: “Would he be a good president?”
D. CHENEY: “Well, he and I disagree on an awful lot of things. He is a liberal Democrat. I'm a conservative Republican. So probably not much. I would expect well, he has been part and parcel to the Obama policy basically, just as she has. He has as Vice President and she has been very much part of it as Secretary of State. I worry that with Joe Biden or Bernie Sanders, for that matter, we would have a continuation of the same kind of foreign policy that Barack Obama has put in place.”
VAN SUSTEREN: “OK. Here is the fun question. Would Donald Trump -- would he be interested in American exceptionalism as sort of outlined in your book? Where is Donald Trump on this?”
D. CHENEY: “I don't have a clue. I have never met the gentleman.”
VAN SUSTEREN: “You have never met Donald Trump?”
D. CHENEY: “No, I never have.”
VAN SUSTEREN: “Come on, you must be following this race.”
D. CHENEY: “I'm watching it with great interest.”
VAN SUSTEREN: “Why do you watch it with great interest?”
D. CHENEY: “Well, because our book, in fact, is a reflection of our concerns. A belief that it's important that front and center in this campaign and for our party, be concern about national security, the kinds of things we have talked about in this book. We think that ought to be the main priority for the next administration. And so that's why we wrote the book. We are not in the business at this stage in evaluating candidates what he would or wouldn't do with respect to those issues.”
