hello and welcome to inside politics, i m john king. new information about a january 6th mystery. cnn identifies the man on the receiving end of a nine-second call from the white house switchboard in the middle of the insurrection. plus, john fetterman and the finance question. republican mehmet oz says his senate rival needs to release his medical records. democrat fetterman shows voters his recovery is on track. president biden for closing bethlehem steel. 27 years ago. and i m the one that had a stroke. we begin, though, with florida bracing for hurricane ian. it s already rapidly intensifying. wind speeds have jumped 35 miles per hour in just the last day. it may turn into a category 3 or higher storm in the next 24 hours. people in the tampa area throwing sandbags as the storm churns in the caribbean. lines long to stock up on supplies, and florida governor ron desantis declaring an emergency for the entire state including activating the national guard. carlos suar
I know you have other duties for the network so well let you go. But with eappreciate we appreciate you being with us. Jonathan swan, im sure you have more of the conversations than i do, but aides increasingly want you to one, give them credit for all the quote crazy stuff that doesnt happen. I think i have seen that in axios and other places, and two for the scripted moments which are sort of milestones that they are proud of getting him to hit. Whether its ultimately affirming the commitment to article 5, whether its delivering a decision on afghan policy. And they want to sort of separate out judgment or responsibility from these wild, unhinged performances like last night. Yes. Its doubly strange because you really have a white house at the senior level where if you take the family out of it, if you take jared and ivanka who obviously voted for their father in law and their father, if it was any other election they werent related to him they would have voted for hillary
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2015. there s no difference between the guy who walked out of trump tower in july 2015 or june, whenever it was, and the guy on stage now. the only difference is they re in office so these people have become used to it. they have become almost immune to the scandal. really what you hear is exhaustion often and, you know, they find a lot of them find it hard to muster fresh outrage. i find that they want they want to be singled out for praise. they really do, as anthony scaramucci said, feel like they re saving america from donald trump. i want to you about something i think was tweeted in the last couple of hours that perhaps something that triggered donald trump. we talk about triggers. and gateways here for donald trump. but something that might have triggered him was the new york times reporting about his cold war and the frosty relationship between donald trump and senate majority leader moitch mcconnel. do you have any insight into the relationship and whether the