trump. and you write vividly, at the repetition of these lies and these claims, the repetition leads to normalizations. i want to read people what you write here. in doing so, he normalized his actions. it was the political equivalent of flashing that women had to put up when i was growing up in the uk. trump revealed himself, and people just got used to it. i m never going to be able to get that image out of my head. i can t. that happened to me so many times when i was a kid. somebody does something so outrageous but it happened so often people don t question it. they don t say, wow, what are they doing here. vice president pence, someone who could have been severely injured or killed january 6th by the mob calling for him to be hung is now saying, oh, there s nothing to look at here. it was all fine. this was an example of what i was talking about, the normalization of violence or the
that exceededen the optimistic expectations in terms of the number of folks who could get out, and the fact is that we are actually overperforming in terms of the evacuation numbers, and therefore we need a higher ceiling in terms of beds, and other facilities, and transit centers. but you can t go from the standing start, and zero the yes in 24 hours. this something that we have prepared and prepositioned with allies over time so that when we pick up the phone and call, and they don t say, what are you asking for? they know that the ask has gone from 5,000 cap to 10,000 cap, and they adjust accordingly, and that is going to be because of of the painstaking preparations over months. and are you just getting americans out in kabul? we are trying to get americans out wherever they may
that exceeded even our optimistic expectations in terms of the number of folks who could get out, so the fact is, we are actually overperforming in terms of the evacuation numbers, and therefore, we need a higher ceiling in terms of the number of beds and other facilities at transit centers, so we re simply adding capacity. but you can t go from a standing start. you can t go from zero to yes in 24 hours. this is something that we have prepared, prepositioned, engaged with allies and partners on over the course of time. so that when we pick up the phone and call, they don t say, what are you talking about? they know what we re talking about. they know that the ask has gone from a 5,000 cap to a 10,000 cap. they adjust accordingly and that reflects the work of painstaking diplomacy over the course of many months. jake. the first question? the first question about afghanistan versus just kabul. oh, i see. yes, we are trying to get americans out
there anything more anti democratic than an insurrection or attack on the capitol on the day congress is certifying the results of a free and fair election? that s really quite striking. it combines two different things. on one hand, not acre cepting t results of elections and second of all, allowing for violence to take place, political violence. are they really atoruthoritariaf they don t say, those are two key check marks. not only was the big lie pushed, but the former president continues to undermine democracy, continues to undermine and talk about push the big lie. the republican party embraced the big lie and they are legislating creating legislation in state houses across the country based on this lie.
his suitcase and his wife separately did the same thing. there is so much going on in this case. the fbi and the doj misrepresented it, contradicted themselves and hid behind secrecy. the idea is now that the case is over you have an obligation to say what is really going on and there is an ongoing field criminal matter. that is crazy. heather: a completely different matter? they don t say. they got the new york times to write a story and the case is closed but they did want to prosecute in secrecy or they are lying about this. heather: he and the rest of his family members were banned from using congressional computers or that kind of thing but debbie