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(CNN) – Republican leaders in Congress received a dire warning on Tuesday from former Vice President Dick Cheney on the Ongoing Crisis in North Korea.
“We’re in deep doo doo,” Cheney Told Lawmakers, According to a GOP leadership aide.
Cheney added the current North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un, is unpredictable and does not share the United States worldview.
One lawmaker present at the session, Rep. Steve Southerland of Florida, said Cheney wore a cowboy hat and “looked really good, really spoke Clearly, lucidly.”
“It was nice to see him doing well,” Southerland said, Cheney Noting the last time I was on Capitol Hill “did not look good – very frail, but In This meeting I looked great.”
Cheney, 72, underwent a successful heart transplant in 2012 after a series of heart attacks over many years.
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About Southerland said Cheney spent 10 minutes in the GOP leadership meeting Tuesday, and did not give any specific Policy recommendations or critiques of how the Obama administration is handling the situation in North Korea.
Cheney Talked about the North Korean leader, Southerland said, and shared some of his history Dealing with Saddam Hussein, Noting “you never know what they’re thinking.”
Southerland, summarizing the former vice president’s remarks, said Cheney advised not to “Eliminate any possibility.”
“Here’s a young guy we do not know very much about – have very little intel on him, so we just need to make sure we do not assume That why he’s doing what he’s doing Because I Could be doing what he’s doing for any Number of Reasons, “Southerland Recalled Cheney saying.
Also Cheney dropped by the House GOP whip weekly meeting at the invitation of Rep. Kevin McCarthy.
Cheney himself is a former House Republican whip.
“Whip McCarthy Vice President Cheney invited to discuss the situation on the Korean Ongoing Peninsula whip with members of our team. We appreciate the vice president for sharing his insight and experience on the matter,” a McCarthy aide Told CNN.
The aide Declined to say Cheney Suggested Whether any specific course of action on the situation in North Korea During this meeting.