know, it is dan kwquayle who is telling him, you don t have any options. well, thanks goodness there was another hoosier vice president for mike pence to consult. you know, this actually really confirms what we learned about mike pence when we were doing the biography of him. he is a person who is profoundly ambitious. he s always wanted to be president himself, and i think that he saw his pathway to the presidency being with donald trump, and to the very last he really wanted to do the president s bidding. he wanted to enable this semi coup i guess you would call it of overturning the election, and when he couldn t find a way to do it he at last capitulated and did the right thing. it was later framed as this idea that mike pence saved democracy. well, in fact, if he did save
mike pence didn t do that. a vierant mob stormed the capitol and chanted hang mike pence because of it. and when he didn t play along mike pence that is we all walked away saying, well, mike pence did his job, saved democracy. today we re learning just how close pence came to going along with the coup. a new book by the washington post bob woodward and robert costa shows pence desperately trying to find someone to tell him he could do what donald trump wanted. pence reportedly called former republican vice president dan quail asking him if he was any merit to trump s plan. quail said, again, this is according to the book. i can t independently confirm it, but according to the book quail said, mike, you have no flexibility on this, none, zero, forget it. put it away. i know. that s what i ve been trying to tell trump, pence said. but he really thinks he can. quail transported him, you don t, just stop him, he said.
looks like in california. let s just start with a baseline here. who d you vote for in 2020? this is self-reported but just underscores 55% biden, 35% trump. this was a state joe biden carried by almost 30 points, so this is heavily an electorate that voted for joe biden last year. and then when you take the next step and ask folks what do you think of joe biden as president right now, do you approve of the job he s doing, 56% in the exit poll say they approve of biden s job performance. so all of this is just a way of underscoring it s a heavily democratic electorate. that s the challenge voters face. we ask folks what do you consider the most important issue in this recall campaign. you can see here a plurality saying the coronavirus is the
prepared to pay. and by the way show some respect. the anger you see on television toward flight attendants and others doing their job is wrong. it s ugly. last week president joe biden announced a set of sweeping coronavirus vaccine standards covering tens of millions of workers across it country. it did not include a vaccine requirement for airline passengers. many airlines like united and tron tear airlines require their employees to get vaccinated, a big question is should a vaccine mandate be extended to passengers? dr. anthony fauci arrangemently said while he s not proposing a mandate he d support one if president bide called for it. and joining me now is dr. anthony fauci, director of the national institute of allergy and infection diseases. chief medical advisor to joe biden. good to have you, dr. fauci. it seems to me there s a natural of all the places we go in america sort of the most controlled where you have to go