her credibility. but even a kind of a liberal poodle like colbert can help put lipstick on this one . last week. so my team, they were we were having long days, as usual, and a member of my team decided to do something really sweet for me. winter is almost over. it s really cold today. and we haven t let your fire place. so i decided when you were in that meeting to light the fireplace, but you forgot to open the so secret service is like, ma am, you could not go back to your office. what is the actual role on a daily basis as you have found it? well, i have the great privilege of serving with joe biden, who was president of the united states with an excellent that s an excellent answer. and the question was, what is the job of the vice president ? joining us now is chris
i think this is an indication of his intent, his consciousness of guilt. if he is not cooperating and there are some who suspect he is, this is the sort of thing that will come up and he d be quizd on in a grand jury at some length to explain this. he ll probably deny it. i think cassidy hutchinson is a good witness and others who cleaned out the fire place may have further evidence on it. governor, what jumps out at you from everything we ve seen now from these transcripts? i guess two things. one if you start with crazy you end with crazy. it is just remarkable given the entire tone and tenure of the trump white house some of the ways spilled out into people who frankly i thought to be good folk. i served with mark meadows. he was a decent guy and yet you get in the wrong environment and things start being condoned that aren t right. you start getting pressures in the wrong places and good
people, what i perceived to be good people, end up doing horrific things. this is a good example of how leadership from the top sets the tone and the bar and a lot of people end up following in very strange directions. burning stuff in the fire place is crazy and nothing i would have imagined out of mark meadows. yeah. i think that is such an interesting point. absolute power corrupts absolutely. let s talk very quickly about donald trump s taxes which are going to be released on friday. alex, the house ways and means committee is releasing them. what is the point? he is no longer in office. what is the point now of releasing his taxes? as you know there are some critics who say, well this shows congress could do this to any individual. is this troubling that they re going to release his taxes? first of all t. does show congress can do it to any individual because congress can do it to any individual. that is not something that is new. thao was already the case. that was already th
obviously gravely. john, how about the cassidy hutchinson testimony that she saw mark meadows burning dozens of documents in his fire place. here is a little bit more color on that. this is the actual testimony. quote, so throughout the day he would put more logs on the fire place to keep it burning throughout the day. i recall roughly a dozen times when he would take the, i don t know the formal name for what it s called that covers the fire place but take that off and then throw a few more pieces of paper in with it when he had put more logs on the fire place. we ve heard about president trump flushing documents down the toilet. now mark meadows is burning them in the fire place. this is incredible. it is incredible. i know that fire place, too, in the chief of staff s office. it works well. i m sure he had no trouble disposing of papers and records he didn t want to ever be seen by anybody.