{"id":505677,"date":"2021-05-13T20:50:10","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T00:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=505677"},"modified":"2021-05-13T20:50:12","modified_gmt":"2021-05-14T00:50:12","slug":"bret-baier-liz-cheney-go-at-it-over-russian-bounty-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bret-baier-liz-cheney-go-at-it-over-russian-bounty-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Bret Baier, Liz Cheney Go At It Over Russian Bounty Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbret-baier-liz-cheney-go-at-it-over-russian-bounty-story%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=505677&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/baier-cheney-e1620952042872.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Republican Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney defended her amplification of an anonymously sourced story claiming that Russia paid Taliban soldiers to kill Americans in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think actually if you look at the details of the story, Bret, you will see that the intelligence community has made a recommendation about that intelligence. They talked about having low confidence. I think if you go back and look what I said every single thing I have said, I said if those stories are true, we need to know why the president and vice president were not briefed on them,\u201d Cheney said during a Thursday appearance on Special Report with Bret Baier. Baier asked Cheney whether she regretted \u201ctaking part in spreading the story.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou pointed to President Trump,\u201d Baier responded. \u201cMy point is, you were GOP conference chair. And I\u2019m just articulating what some of your colleagues have said. They thought that that was a moment where they thought that your focus on the former president was more important to you than articulating the GOP agenda and what they wished to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said, if these reports are true, then the White House must explain why they did not brief the President or Vice President,\u201d Cheney responded. \u201cSo, you know, I remain concerned about the intelligence. I think you will see if you go back and look at the facts about what the intelligence community has said, they have not said those reports are not true. They have said that they\u2019ve got low confidence. And I think it\u2019s an important thing to be concerned about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cheney tweeted on June 28 that if the Russia bounty story was true, \u201c<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">the White House must explain: 1. Why weren\u2019t the president or vice president briefed? Was the info in the PDB [Presidential Daily Brief]<\/span>? <span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">2. Who did know and when? 3. What has been done in response to protect our forces &#038; hold Putin accountable?<\/span>\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"10.554517133956\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">If reporting about Russian bounties on US forces is true, the White House must explain:<br \/>1. Why weren\u2019t the president or vice president briefed? Was the info in the PDB?<br \/>2. Who did know and when?<br \/>3. What has been done in response to protect our forces &#038; hold Putin accountable?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Liz Cheney (@Liz_Cheney) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Liz_Cheney\/status\/1277200077724037122?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 28, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The New York Times first <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/06\/30\/new-york-times-russia-taliban-trump-bounty\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a> in June 2020 that a Russian military unit was paying Taliban troops to attack American soldiers in Afghanistan. It later adjusted the language in some of the key parts of the story, and then-President Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/06\/28\/trump-dismisses-nyt-report-russia-offered-bounties-taliban-forces-us-soldiers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">denied<\/a> that he was briefed on the intelligence. The Biden administration <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/15\/russia-bounty-taliban-low-confidence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> in April that it had only \u201clow-to-moderate\u201d confidence in the intelligence. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/15\/schiff-swalwell-russian-bounty-trump-taliban\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Schiff And Swalwell Went All In On Dubious Russia Bounty Story)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cheney was <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/12\/liz-cheney-ousted-house-republican-leadership-role\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">removed<\/a> from her position as Republican House Conference Chairwoman by voice vote on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney defended her amplification of an anonymously sourced story claiming that Russia paid Taliban soldiers to kill Americans in Afghanistan.\u201cI think actually if you look at &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2278122,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/baier-cheney-e1620952042872.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Bret Baier, Liz Cheney Go At It Over Russian Bounty Story","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-505677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/baier-cheney-e1620952042872.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Bret Baier, Liz Cheney Go At It Over Russian Bounty Story","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2278122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}