stunning, this is the former president of the united states. i mean, i don t even know what to really ask about it. but what was he doing during the attack? i mean, you have reporting in this book about he was unreachable. anderson, our reporting show the president during the attack was sitting in front of the television watching it unfold. at first he was happy. he liked to see hundreds and thousands of maga supporters with maga flags storming the capitol. he enjoyed that. he thought he was proud of it. when shots were fired and it became deadly and violent he became more concerned according to people around him yet didn t act to do anything, he was awol as commander in chief. it took mike pence who s life was under threat, in the basement of the capitol to call the pentagon to organize
i mean, i don t even know what to really ask about it. but what was he doing during the attack? i mean, you have reporting in this book about he was unreachable. anderson, our reporting show the president during the attack was sitting in front of the television watching it unfold. at first he was happy. he liked to see hundreds and thousands of maga supporters with maga flags storming the capitol. he enjoyed that. he thought he was proud of it. when shots were fired and it became deadly and violent he became more concerned according to people around him yet didn t act to do anything, he was awol as commander in chief. it took mike pence who s life was under threat, in the basement of the capitol to call the pentagon to organize military. you also heard that president
nothing. any president and this kind of magnitude of something that is happening. what does he do? he goes to the situation room. he calls the secretary of defense. home at security, justice department. he puts everyone on the job. this has to stop and stops immediately. trump says, not just his personal statements. he just didn t act as president. why not? because as he said, on the side of those rioting in the capital. and those attacking the capitol. not on the side of those defending the capitol. so, maybe as that becomes clear and affects a few to rodgers and a few more republican elected officials. right? but i wouldn t don, unfair as it is, i need about 60 seconds of brilliance. have the texas democrats taught anything to the senate democrats in your view, this week? texas democrats had a wonderful week. but unfortunately, it s tbd. i hope that s democrat
and blue. still important for some people who were wavering. there were some people who changed their mind after january 6th. liz cheney, reluctantly, voted for him twice apparently in elections and wasn t where some of us were in saying you can t tolerate trump. that s not her position now. the electorate moved over because of more clarity of what trump didn t do. and that s one thing that hasn t got quite as much attention because the milley stuff is so unbelievable. trump was president of the united states, capitol was stormed, trump did nothing. nothing. any president this kind of magnitude of something that s happening. what does he do, he goes to the situation room, he calls the secretary of defense, homeland security, justice department, puts everyone on the job, this has to be stopped. he just didn t act as president. why not? because he was as he now
joining a great team. jeff saenz, ron klain, and the president who was just so committed to showing the country that if we pull ourselves together, our bestselves, we can do anything. he was committed not just to that but to expertise, committed to equity for everyone. and so that was a good feeling. i will admit, lawrence, it was a very heavy feeling. thousands of people dying every day. knowing that if we head wrong decisions or didn t act quickly enough thousands more would die. was one of the heaviest feelings i think many of us have ever felt. i will tell you that the day that we got on to the internet or i remember getting on the internet and saw a picture of a woman hugging her grandmother for the first time felt like something that so many of us across the country, not of course just the white house, but scientists, people distributing vaccines, nurses, doctors, front line workers worked so hard for, it was emotional.