By Emily Goodin, U.s. Political Reporter For Dailymail.com
Published: 23:03 GMT, 11 March 2019 | Updated: 23:10 GMT, 11 March 2019
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Former Vice President Dick Cheney ripped into Vice President Mike Pence over President Donald Trump's foreign policy moves, it was revealed on Monday.
Cheney, at a closed-door Republican retreat, compared Trump's instincts to those of former President Barack Obama's and pressed Pence on several of the administration's controversial decisions, including treatment of NATO allies and the decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria, The Washington Post reported.
'I worry that the bottom line of that kind of an approach is we have an administration that looks a lot more like Barack Obama than Ronald Reagan,' Cheney charged.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney, a defense hawk, fretted about President Donald Trump's isolationist policies in a conversation with Vice President Mike Pence
Vice President Pence defended the administration and it's outlook
The former vice president was concerned about the Trump administration taking too hard of a line toward U.S. allies in the NATO alliance and also inquired why the president decided to withdraw troops from Syria during what Cheney called 'the middle of a phone call.'
He also fretted