‘Is This As Weird For You As It Is For Me?’ Maddow And Cheney Laugh Over Anti-Trump Unity After Past Conflict

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow and former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) shared a laugh over their current unity over opposing former President Donald Trump after years of conflict in their views.

Cheney is currently on a media tour to promote her book “Oath and Honor: A Memoir and A Warning” — which got a big soft-launch when CNN dropped bomb after bomb from an advance copy they obtained exclusively from Cheney.

That media tour continued when Cheney was a guest on Monday night’s edition of MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show for an extensive interview.

But the two began with a jokey greeting in which they laughed over their ability to come together despite years of conflict and deep current disagreements — and Cheney secured a “raincheck” to come back and hash those out:

RACHEL MADDOW, MSNBC HOST: So the book is called “Oath and Honor: A Memoir and A Warning”. Its author is former Wyoming Congresswoman Liz Cheney.

Liz Cheney, wow, thanks for being here.

LIZ CHENEY, AUTHOR, “OATH AND HONOR: A MEMOIR AND A WARNING”: Thank you.

MADDOW: It’s nice to meet you.

CHENEY: Really nice to meet you.

MADDOW: Is this as weird for you as it is for me?

CHENEY: It’s pretty weird, yeah.

(LAUGHTER)

CHENEY: It certainly is. Your intro brought back a lot of memories. And but — but I think that it just is a real symbol of how grave this danger is.

But I also — I was thinking as I was watching it, the power of the fact that somebody who is where you are in the political spectrum and somebody who is where I am on the political spectrum are able to say, this is a five-alarm fire and we have put that aside and be able to say, what are we going to do to come together to save the republic?

MADDOW: Yeah, the fights that we, I think, righteously and in good faith and vehemently could have together —

CHENEY: Yeah.

MADDOW: — can wait.

CHENEY: Right.

MADDOW: If — it’s — because part of what we’re defending is our —

(CROSSTALK)

CHENEY: But I would like a rain check to come back and have those fights.

MADDOW: Oh, yeah.

(LAUGHTER)

(CROSSTALK)

MADDOW: We could do like a day on abortion —

CHENEY: Okay.

MADDOW: — a day on mining, a day on fishing.

CHENEY: National security. Right, right.

MADDOW: National — several days on national security.

CHENEY: Right.

Watch above via MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show.