Washington correspondent jonathan karl. in his book, tired of winning, karl lays out in disturbing detail elements about trump s presidency with interesting new insights into the last few months in office. and how that period tells us so much about what we should expect from trump if he returns to the white house. in the book, we learn how disconnected from reality trump is, and how he is constantly looking for affirmation, allegiance, and vegance. one particular character plays a key role in enabling trump s worst instincts. john mcintee, who karl describes as trump s essential man, in that role, mcintee forged a presidential directive about the withdrawal from afghanistan, with zero oversight. mcintee, who has no legal expertise, also found justification for vice president pence to reject the 2022 election results via a half-hour google search, and delivered it to trump even though he knew it
one thing i have to point out, the we in the book, i don t want people to think that s necessarily the capitol police officers. we meaning american citizens. i write this book as an american citizen. that s where my viewpoint is coming from. i care for this country, i care about the way it functions. i want it to work well for all of us. that s the we i talk about. as far as the new speaker, i don t really have an opinion about it. one of the reasons i did write the book is to give a factual representation, account of what happened that day. i want the voters to be educated, the voters are the people who hold the representatives accountable, not me. my job is to protect those members that the american people send. so while i can have an opinion, i want their opinion to be an educated one and to be reflected at the ballot box because those american people are the people that hold the elected officials accountable. i will note that he did not deny his own election. he validated that
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So i m holding it together, like dad voice, hi, baby. my eyes open. she s going on telling me about her day. you know, on the inside, i m like, i have to go, this is killing me. i said, tell your mother i m okay. i got off the phone. i let out a scream or a yell, just tried to get my eyes together. it was even in the middle of an insurrection, you re not too busy to be a dad. absolutely. some of the experiences you describe in the book, i mean, these insurrectionists ripping up a picture of john lewis. your testimony about having the n-word hurled at you, something that first of all, you re not a little dude. so they took a lot of chances messing with you. but they were bold enough to feel like they could call you the n-word, rip up pictures of john lewis. talk about how, like, how did you control yourself? we know that i have covered a lot of issues with police and the question is how do you control your emotions in that moment? so, one, i work with an incredible group of men and
Went down. in her new book, prequel, an american fight against fascism, rachel maddow details the story of what really happened and how the u.s. actually faced its own home-grown threat to overthrow democracy and install a tler-like dictatorship. shewrites, the great american fight against fascism that we have inherited as a cornerstone in our country s moral foundation is a fight that didn t happen only overseas in the 1940s. americans fought on both sides of that divide here at home, too, and their stories will curl your hair. i asked rachel about that decades-long fight. democracy is the end, the thing we re trying to preserve, but it s also the means by which we obtain political outcomes in this country. if you re standing up for democracy, that means you have to want to do everything by democratic means. you have to triple down on it. one of the good news stories about what happened in the 40s is that these guys in congress,