I'm Pamela Brown, along with Dana Bash, and you are watching CNN's special coverage of former Vice President Dick Cheney's funeral.

Right now, attendees are arriving at the Washington National Cathedral where services will begin next hour.

Cheney remembered as America's most powerful modern, Vice President, died this month at the age of 84.

He was the chief architect of the War on Terror and helped lead the U.S. into the Iraq War under President George W. Bush.

And much later, Cheney broke with many in his own party when he, along with his daughter, then Congresswoman

Liz Cheney, condemned President Trump's challenges to the 2020 election results, leaving Dick Cheney and Democrats in a place no one ever anticipated, political allies.

Now, neither President Trump nor Vice President Vance was invited to Cheney's funeral

today, but other living vice presidents, former vice presidents, four of them will attend,

along with former President Bush and Biden, of course, Biden, also a former vice president.

Let's go live now to CNN Chief National Affairs correspondent, Jeff Zellini,

at the National Cathedral here in Washington. And Jeff, I see there you're joined by an important

funeral attendee, former vice president Mike Pence.

Good morning. Good morning, Pamela and Dana. We are as we, the nation gathers to mourn and remember Vice President Dick Cheney.

We are here with former Vice President Mike Pence. Thank you very much for joining us, Mr. Vice President.

How do you believe that Vice President Cheney will be remembered in history?

Well, I think Vice President Dick Cheney is going to be remembered as an American patriot,

but an extraordinary public servant.

And when you think of a lifetime that spanned not only service in Congress where he was in leadership,

but being one of the youngest chiefs of staff for a president,

with President Gerald Ford, going on to being the Secretary

of Defense for President George Herbert Walker Bush, and then of course Vice President

of President George W. Bush. I mean, there are very few Americans who have served at such

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