publicly at the time or do anything publicly about it at the time? that s a great question. and it s one i as a white house reporter and others grappled with sort of constantly. and different people have different reasons. when you put that very question to him, if you knew he was going to do this or worried he wasn t mentally fit for the job, why didn t you come out and say so? the answer is often that it wouldn t necessarily matter and they felt they could do a better job on the inside running interference. you see that thing that seemed catastrophic. you don t know the four things we just prevented. that is a self serving argument but one we heard regularly. there is more about this about mike pence. it covers how far went to stau lowell to trump. even his baseless election fraud