Liz Cheney says Jim Jordan asked her to join the Freedom Caucus by pitching that the group needed a woman

• Liz Cheney didn't feel the need to join the Freedom Caucus when she first joined Congress.
• In her new book, Cheney wrote that Jim Jordan asked her to join the group by pointing to its lack of women.
• "Tempting as this offer was, I took a pass," she wrote.

Even at the beginning of her first term in the House, Liz Cheney was skeptical of the Freedom Caucus.

Cheney, whose conservative pedigree was well-known as the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, didn't feel compelled to join the far-right group after her 2016 election. And Cheney relayed this sentiment to her then-constituents in deep-red Wyoming, which she detailed in her new book, "Oath and Honor."