the secretary of state, the speaker of the house from arizona. rusty bowers. there are people. maybe it s the threat of subpoena, maybe it s the wearing down of this, that are coming forward. so, you know, maybe these hearings, i mean, if nothing else, have given a forum for people to wrestle with their lawyers at least and maybe do something. this is incredible timing with your book coming out, the hearings this week. we ll have you back throughout the week for the new book entitled thank you for your servitude: donald trump s washington and the price of submission. thank you, mark, very much. see you soon. coming up, steve bannon now says he is willing to testify before the january 6th committee. we ll explain why he might be ready to talk after fighting subpoenas from lawmakers. plus, the latest on the efforts to get brittney griner freed from a russian jail, as the wnba gives a big tribute to
atlantic adapted from the new book. it s been said before but can never be emphasized enough, without the complicity of the republican party, donald trump would just be a glorified geriatric fox-watching golfer. i ve interviewed scores of these collaborators, trying to understand why they did what they did and how they could live with it. these were the kevin mccarthys and the lindsey grahams and all the other busy, parasitic suck-ups who made the trump era for them. who humored and indulged him all the way down to the last exhausted strains of american democracy. and here s more of what you write about kevin mccarthy and lindsey graham specifically. quote, i ve known these men for years, but they are a classically washington type, fun to be around, starstruck, and desperate to keep their jobs or get better ones, to maximize their place in the all-important mix.
and assessments are now we have enough information on donald trump. i mean, what i do think is an undertold story and this is, again, what the book is about, are these republicans who have kept allowing it to happen. again, these police officers protect them every day. it s just, i can t imagine what it must feel like to be able to deny that these, you know, police officers, who were badly injured, you know, hundreds of them, killed in some cases on january 6th to protect them and their colleagues, you know, dear friends are protecting them as they walk from point a to point b. you know, they have to deny it happens on one hand. on the other hand, thanks a lot for walking me to my car, driving me to the airport, whatever. mm-hmm. i don t know how they can sort of live with themselves. you know, i talked to enough of them to know that it s kind of a miserable conscience experience. it is also a failure of conscience. here s what you wrote for the
concerns from the pressure she was receiing inside trump world, with the phone call being made, another example of why they rushed her testimony. she definitely did a great job. and i don t know who would be stupid enough to lie under oath for trump. but there is a cult-like feeling to all of this, so we ll see what happens this week. this is a huge week ahead. also, former white house strategist steve bannon says he is willing to testify before the january 6th committee. this is interesting. this is according to a letter his lawyer sent to the committee over the weekend. bannon s willingness to cooperate comes a week before jury selection is supposed to start in his contempt of congress trial. he was indicted back in november for not complying with a congressional subpoena sent by the select committee. also over the weekend, former president trump released a letter saying he would waive executive privilege over bannon s testimony. a federal judge has previously
was not asked questions about corroborating cassidy hutchison s testimony. then you heard that that was actually not true. he did corroborate parts of cassidy s testimony. it was just not the full reason why he was brought in. and he also provided the committee with tons of new information. at the end of the day, this was to be expected. i mean, this person is not was not just mentioned by cassidy hutchinson but also a handful of the former president s top officials in senior positions, like rich donahue, who was at the top of the department of justice, and jeffrey rosen, who also named pat cipollone as someone who was essentially the last firewall of rationality and reason in the white house, who prevented the president from trying to implement some of these schemes. i m not sure how much we ll see of him exactly on tuesday, but i expect on thursday the hearing that is supposed to be focused on the 187 minutes of trump s