elected officials, and other government officials, as well as tons of contemporaneous records from the 2020 presidential campaign, and what followed in the early, early aftermath of that election and the contesting by the republican side. and among other things, the book recounts for the first time that in the days after the january 6th attack on the u.s. capitol by trump supporter, the top republicans in the house and senate, congressman kevin mccarthy, by then the top republican in the house, and senator mitch mcconnell, the top republican in the senate, according to this new reporting from alexander burns and jonathan martin, mcconnell and mccarthy both had quite a few private conversations with other republicans and their own advisers, in which they harshly, harshly criticized president trump for having incited the attack on the capitol and each of these republicans leaders
house is going to give me anything without a fight and i m ready to fight that fight. in this new book there s inside story of putin s war and america, and they talk about the 2013 miss universe pageant in moskow, the trek to russia. let me start with you, david. the miss universe pageant is something that many point to as an origin story, and yet your book recounts how donald trump nervously seemed to question whether putin would even show up. is that in some way exculpatory to trump? no, it shows that trump had a obsessive desire to meet with putin. he d been tweeting about him nothing to the miss universe contest, and once he got there