answers. she s just deeply up to her elbows in mischief. inflation is surging. stocks are plunging. experts say a recession is coming. can biden shift the blame to the gop? republicans in congress are doing everything they can to stop my plans to bring down the costs on ordinary families. the american people are bracing for a pricey summer and they know who to blame. inside politics the biggest stories sourced by the best reporters now. good morning. welcome to inside politics sunday. i m abby phillip. donald trump s plot to hold on to power after the election came dangerously close to work jg that s an inescapable conclusion from the hearings investigating january 6 and trump was told over and over that the election fraud claims just weren t true. there was never an indication of interest in what the actual facts were. the theory that vice president pence could basically declare trump the winner wasn t true either. what the president wanted the vice pre
the mob. make no mistake about the fact that the vice president s life was in danger. after all of this trump is unremorseful and undeterred from spreading lies and attacking his former vice president. mike pence had a chance to be great. he had a chance to be, frankly, historic. mike did not have the courage to act. as to what happened on january 6, it was a simple protest. it got out of hand. and joining me now with the reporting is jonathan martin, audi cornish, melanie. trump is no stranger to persisting with lies but on this issue he is emboldened. yeah.
lie. yeah. i think you will find concerns about the election of 2020. brian kemp won if you think of it differently we went through a primary season where more than 100 candidates campaigned on election denialism or the idea or fraud or inspector general regularities. of course. it is part of the kind of platform down ballots. you don t have to say trump is right. totally get that. you cannot say trump is wrong. you cannot challenge trump. melanie, you reported that trump wanted a lot of pushback and didn t really get it and partly because i think a lot of republican leadership saw the dangers of trying to litigate the facts of this issue but what happened to the plan to push back? i think there s no good argument for the stuff we have
recession happening but it could happen. they insisted for months inflation was transitory. of course it didn t go away. you see the white house try the best months before the midterm elections to find the footing on inflation messaging but voters are struggling every day with food and gas prices so some sort of pushback from the president can only go so far. people s realities are a different thing. melanie rkt three white house aides went up to the hill to talk to democrats about the message. how did that go over? not well to put it mildly. listen. democrats have been panicking privately saying back in december pressing the white house to get a handle on inflation. they have been pressing nancy pelosi to put bills on the