get people there as you make the plan. the question from house republicans asked and answered. but wait a second. i m so confused. yeah. you know, i m just a dumb country lawyer, michael steele, but they asked the question. they sure did. after steve scalise had known the answer. he was there. so he said that s a great question, why won t they answer whether nancy pelosi called the national this is so terrible and they won t answer. he was in the room. he was in the room where it happened. the room where it happened. i mean, come on. so low. willie, just bad faith. outrageous that steve scalise is going, are we going to get out of this alive or not, and scalise is in there. and then scalise holds a press conference and this committee is we can t be on this committee because, you know, they won t even ask the question did nancy ever call the national guard. scalise was there when she was saying, hey, pretend like this was the pentagon. pretend like
inside discussion. we planned this out. on page 3, this is what we re going to do. and by the way, chris christie said that donald trump had told him if may or june that he s going to basically lose the election. he started talking about it being rigged. the political environment at the time, at that point in 2020, going into that summer, the election had started losing steam for trump because of the way the administration handled covid and the way the country was responding to that. he knew, they knew. so their back up has always been how do you reassert a different narrative. well, it s clearly cheating. it s clearly fraud, these other problems, and he s going to come out and say it, regardless of what the results are. so at this stage, we ve now got
something every once in a while. it shows a little bit of grace. that answer, no grace. when you re graceless, that is what it sounds like, and the reality of it is ron johnson knows he s in the battle of his political life. he s up against an individual who has been elected statewide so he s not a stranger to voters. he s got a record as well. and this race in wisconsin is competitive. six points down, but competitive, and i think what ron johnson showed last night was his vulnerabilities. in that moment, he could not just leave it at, yeah, he s a good family man, great parents, and that s something that s good for the state. just stopped, and if you say something graceful, then just stop. just stop. it s okay. that s the only way you re going to reach those voters who want to be reached. something we talk a lot about on axios is normal america, the
everyone else. this was a plot against american democracy and hearing by hearing, the january 6th committee has shown that donald trump was the architect. it goes further. not only did this start last summer, we know convincingly. what was he after on the 6th of january, we saw it in film, heard it in testimony. it leads you to assume that what donald trump wanted on the 6th of january was violence. that s why the national guard didn t come. that s why schumer and pelosi were forced to get on the telephone and plead with the governors of virginia and maryland for god sake to send their national guard from other jurisdictions, and what was trump after? he was not only after trying to win the election. i think he wanted violence so he would have the pretext to declare martial law. you know, the number of times we have all heard him at these large rallies saying i ve got
that s alexandra s pelosi, nancy pelosi s daughter who happened to be following her mother with a film crew. that s how you got that extraordinary footage. what you saw is incredible poise from leadership, from nancy pelosi, from chuck schumer, from others while the walls were closing in around them, people were breaking in, and also as we said earlier, republicans standing there at the side of nancy pelosi, watching what was going on and stepping out later, and more recently and saying, we didn t know how bad it was. or we don t know why nancy pelosi didn t do more to call in the national guard. steve scalise s case, he was standing in arm s length of her while she was doing that. just as an american to watch that, i think this is why those hearings have broken through so much, it makes your blood boil that it got to that point, that it got to the point where the leadership of the country, democrats and republicans, the vice president of the united states has their lives under