Former congresswoman Liz Cheney rejected the claim of House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) that she considered signing on to an amicus brief challenging 2020 election results in battleground states.

Johnson made the claim on Sunday’s Face the Nation — in a segment which aired immediately before an interview with Cheney.

“At one point she even considered signing on to that [amicus brief],” Johnson told CBS anchor Margaret Brennan — referring to a brief filed in support of a Texas lawsuit challenging the results. “I’ll tell you that is a fact.”

Brennan opened her interview with Cheney by asking her about the Speaker’s claim.

“Is it a fact, as he asserted that when you were in House leadership, you considered signing on to that challenge to Donald Trump?” Brennan asked.

“It is not,” Cheney replied. “We were, as Mike said, in constant contact throughout that period. I actually know precisely when he sent me the brief and precisely when less than 30 minutes later, I told him my concerns with the brief. Mike knows that as well. The brief itself was legally and constitutionally infirm. I made that clear.”

The CBS anchor noted that, in Cheney’s recently-released memoir, she claims the brief Johnson circulated was actually written by “Donald Trump’s own lawyers.”

“Correct,” Cheney said. “And the other thing is, Johnson — and I made this clear to him too the very first time we spoke after I reviewed the brief — that he was misrepresenting the brief to the members of conference. I also told him that I thought that signing on to this brief for anyone who was a member of a bar raised significant and serious ethical issues, because you were asserting to a court facts that not only were untrue, but which had already been rejected by other courts, and for which you had no basis, no knowledge. So he knows the truth.”

Watch above, via CBS.

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