Rep. Liz Cheney reacts to report that Trump refused to leave the White House following his loss in 2020: 'It just affirms the reality of the danger'

• Rep. Cheney reacted to news that Trump refused to leave the White House after losing the election.
• The revelations are part of a book written by Maggie Haberman, a reporter with The New York Times.

Rep. Liz Cheney reacted to a report that former President Donald Trump told aides "I'm just not going to leave" the White House following his election loss in 2020.

Cheney appeared on CNN on Monday to discuss a series of scoops about Trump in "Confidence Man," an upcoming book by Maggie Haberman, a reporter with The New York Times.

CNN host Jake Tapper asked Cheney what her reaction was to Trump's refusal to accept the results.

"It's clear that when you're in the moment that we faced, everyone has to stand up and take responsibility and I think it's not surprising that those are the sentiments that he reportedly expressed," she told Tapper. "I think again it just affirms the reality of the danger."

The Wyoming congresswoman is vice-chair of the Jan 6 committee, which reconvenes on Tuesday. Cheney has been one of the few Republican critics of Trump over his role in the Capitol attack and his election lies.

She told Tapper, "if you have a president who is refusing to leave the White House or who's saying he refuses to leave the White House, then anyone who stands aside and says someone else will handle it, is themselves putting the nation at risk."

On Monday, Trump's lawyers asked a federal judge to continue preventing the FBI from reviewing more than 100 classified documents seized from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, in August.