attack on the capitol. but more than three hours went by before donald trump said much of anything. next week s hearing, the eighth one of the series, building upon evidence showing how trump tried to use the power of his government to overturn joe biden s victory. we re going to walk down to the capitol. he called on his supporters to come to washington on january 6th. so why did you decide to march to the capitol? basically, the president got everybody riled up, told everybody to head on down. so we basically just followed what he said. tuesday s hearing, vice chair liz cheney revealing that trump tried to call a potential witness. something the committee relaid to the department of justice. let me say one more time, we will take any effort to influence witness testimony very seriously. but today, chairman bennie thompson telling cnn that the committee does not plan to depose this potential witness. it doesn t know why trump made the call. you have intervi
lot of sort of sileabout ata boys. off the record, you did a good job, i agree with you, but i can t go public because i don t want to anger donald trump. i don t want to get in trouble with my voters. it s the same basic two-step. cowardice and i just just cowardice overwhelmingly, but also adulation toward donald trump in public, really contempt in private. and hoping that this thing just goes away, but as long as no one does anything, it s going to keep going. some of these folks as you note on the back of the book, there s a quote from marco rubio, who i would not say is one of the worst offenders in trump world, but he used to be a really harsh critic of donald trump and has become mute. you mark my words, there will be prominent people in american politics who will spend years explaining to people how they fell into this. this is talking about republicans supporting trump. how do you account for individuals like cassidy hutchinson or alyssa farrah or olivia troye, young women