final days. and i m not going to sit here and say that necessarily his testimony would have moved republican senators, but maybe it would have moved one or two, and that has important meaning because the impeachment proceedings could have barred president trump from pursuing future office. it would have disqualified him and we wouldn t be in this continuing nightmare worried about donald trump s second term, which is a possibility because joe biden only won by 44,000 votes in three states. the electoral college board, of course. i want to ask both of you about another part in the book. you know the part. trump says, if these people say you have the power, wouldn t you want to? he s saying this to pence. and he s referring to supporters outside the white house, right, who are making noise in support of donald trump. pence said, i wouldn t want any one person to have that authority. trump, but wouldn t it be almost cool to have that power? pence said, no, i ve done everything i could,
former president trump calling for general mark milley to be tried for treason after bomb shell revelations in a new book by bob woodward and robert costa. he feared president trump would go rogue and launch nuclear missiles after the january 6th capitol attack and called his chinese counterpart to assure them the u.s. would not strike or start any war. here is the former president s reaction. if it is actually true, which is hard to believe, that he would have called china, and done these things and was willing to advise them of an attack or in advance of an attack, that s treason. for him to say that i was going to attack china, is the most
where, i think he was trying to separate himself from trumpism. the reason i say i think, he never could manage to mention donald trump s name. he couldn t say it out loud. now, i know, amanda carpenter, you take issue with some of this. i know because you wrote about it. i m going to do a dramatic reading from your own piece. christie s bogus blunt talk, you talk about christie spoke last week. he listed all the things republicans need to do to move forward the party forward in a positive direction. you say that s the question. where s the quote? if there, got it. if there is any positive to take from christie s regan liner speech, if you squint the right way while the sun glints off feces. trump is making the calculation at least for now, at least in the abstract there is political advantage in appearing to distance the republican party from trump and trumpism. hope you didn t have breakfast. that did catch me.
the other thing is, too, pence actually is cognizant there are limits on power. trump was not. he wasn t interested in what those were. he wasn t interested in how the constitution divides it up. pence is. then he talks to dan quayle. there s no work around. let s stop finding work arounds which is the correct action. he doesn t want to be a friend. it s an out. mike pence could have said, mike, why don t you say, okay? stand up to peer pressure. mike pence didn t need to consult dan quayle t. was obvious to anyone that mike pence did not have the power to overturn an election. but this nonsense went on because people like kevin mccarthy and all the rest said, let s let this play out. what is the harm in doing so? the harm is even mike pence entertained the possibility. look, we can fast forward past the book here, and i think this is relevant to what you re bringing up right now. chris christie gave a speech at the regan library the other day
i will tell you, oh, did not see that coming. you know, maybe let s give him a chance. he was so close to trump. he is a calculated political player. i watched the speech. he had this long list of things republicans need to do, namely, confrontsing this conspiratorial thinking that has infected the party. but he couldn t name trump. meanwhile, that same weekend donald trump is pushing the rigged election conspiracy claims. christie, if he wants to sit in the abc news studio and tell that to a panel, fine. go take that message to newsmax, try it out at fox. i don t believe it. then when he s confronted about those claims that he made talking about the need for passionate engagement, he throws up his hands, i don t have to answer to you. you have to answer to republican voters like me who don t believe you. so, two things. i think he should acknowledge his part in this, and that is