former president trump s rally in ohio saturday? the qanon rally. do you suppose she s the only republican who watched that, that litany of danger that preceded in an ohio summer night. i mean, it was unbelievable just to watch the clips of it. and katty, i don t know whether you got the opportunity or you were overseas, obviously, but the rally that occurred, that i m talking about was frightening to put it frankly. frightening to watch a group of people, clearly devoted acolytes to something that very few understand, following a man who knows exactly what he s doing, but stands at the precipice of preventing an either further threat to our democracy, and thus far from what i ve read, heard, seen, not a single important member of the republican party in either the house or the senate has said
you know, gene, that was one of the really alarming things that when we went back and did more reporting, we knew at the time, of course, that trump had called nato obsolete. he had railed against it. but again and again, very senior officials told us while we were working on this book, that was not fully understood how very close donald trump came to pulling the united states out of nato at the beginning of his term. this was, i think, a direct challenge to, you know, the infrastructure that u.s. allies had in place in europe. and, you know, imagine putin moving into ukraine had trump succeeded in more fully sundering the nato alliance. one of the moments that really struck me at end of the trump presidency in 2020 is he insists on pulling thousands of troops out of germany. these are, you know, a key part of nato strategy in europe. he insists on pulling 10,000
if you go back to january 20th, 2017, you really begin to see the through lines. there s a lot of after the fact rationalizations, people like bill barr who say, well, you know, he really went too far after the election. but anybody who i think closely observed trump from the beginning, it s hard to see january 6th as anything other than the violent culmination of what he was doing for four years. so, peter, first of all, congrats to you and susan on the book. donald trump was shall we say an unconventional foreign policy president, and there is so much about his meetings with putin in helsinki, his efforts to walk out of nato. this headline, which took my breath away, when i read it over the weekend, that he nearly gave away the west bank. tell us how that could have happened. yeah, no, that s right. one thing about doing this book is we built on the work of all of our incredible colleagues,
monarch, and the country turns its eyes to him. it was an extraordinary day, wasn t it, the pomp and pageantry, and also moments of emotion for a family that is just a family in some ways, grieving the loss of their grandmother and matriarch. it was. that was an extraordinary scene at st. george s yesterday, and this morning. back to normal here in the city of london with king charles iii now. the monarch of this united kingdom. back home in the united states, attorneys for the justice department and former president donald trump are set to appear this afternoon at a hearing before the court appointed special master in the mar-a-lago documents case. the hearing will take place at a federal courthouse in brooklyn before judge raymond dearie where he currently serves as is district judge for the district of new york. this establishes filing and practices and timetables for the review of documents in the case, but just prior to today s hearing trump s attorney stated in a filing last
troops out of germany because he s personally mad at angela merkel, the chancellor of germany, because she won t break the quarantine and come to washington in the middle of the covid pandemic for an in-person summit, and trump, the very next day after lafayette square, a couple of days after his conversation with merkel that makes him furious, he sends an order to the pentagon, and says pull them out of germany. it s one of the first things the biden administration had to undue. trump was trying to undue the headquarters of u.s. forces in europe, it s an extraordinary moment. it shows you the personalization of power that trump had and that he thought institutions could simply be even national security could be subject to his anger at the german chancellor, is a remarkable moment, i think. peter, you and susan paint a