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Next week another heat wave set to bake the country pushing temperatures 15 degrees above normal. get ready, david. yet another heat wave. all right, kaylee, thank you. we re going turn next tonight to the newly released audio from an interview with former president donald trump. the former president describing the crowd in the nation s capitol on january 6th, saying it was a loving crowd. and tonight speaker nancy pelosi explaining why she rejected two republicans on that select committee set to investigate what led to the january 6th attack. rachel scott on the hill again tonight. reporter: tonight, as the house battles over a commission to investigate the riot at the capitol, we are hearing new audio of former president donald trump describing the mob as a loving crowd. and it was a loving crowd, too, by the way. there was a lot of love. i ve heard that from everybody. many, many people have told me that was a loving crowd. reporter: the audio from a march interview with ....
Megadroug megadrought. next week another heat wave set to bake the country pushing temperatures 15 degrees above normal. yet another heat wave. all right, kaylee, thank you. we turn next to the newly released audio from an interview with former president donald trump. the former president describing the crowd in the nation s capital on january 6th saying it was a loving crowd and tonight speaker nancy pelosi explaining why she rejected two republicans on that select committee set to investigate what led to the january 6th attack. rachel scott on the hill again tonight. reporter: tonight, as the house battles over a commission to investigate the riot at the capitol, we are hearing new audio of former president donald trump describing the mob as a loving crowd. and it was a loving crowd, too, by the way. there was a lot of love. i ve heard that from everybody. many, many people have told me that was a loving crowd. reporter: the audio from a march interview with washington p ....
Pulitzer prize-winning investigative reporter. as we mentioned, the pair have written yet another book, a new one on the trump presidency, i alone can fix it, donald j trump s catastrophic final year. it comes out tomorrow wherever fine books are sold. good evening to you both and congratulations for this smattering of advance reviews that we read this afternoon. and tonight, carol, tell us about the last thing we raised here. trump s regret over not calling out the military following the murder of george floyd, during the blm protests and a subset of that question, who was gonna tell him if he wanted the second marines or the 82nd or the 101st to take positions in the city of seattle? wow, brian. that is a two part question. it s important. let me deal with the first part first. you know, because you ve covered this administration and ....
That president trump spent those hours in front of a television set watching what was unfolding at the capitol. and essentially paralyzed from doing his duty as the commander-in-chief. instead, you have vice president pence, who is in a hideaway effectively. he was under threat physically at the capitol. his family was in danger. people were chanting, hang mike pence, all around him and it was vice president pence who is calling the pentagon and who was saying get these troops here now and get this building under secure. get this building cleared out of these rioters and importantly he refused to be evacuated from the capital because the vice president thought it was essential for the american people that he remain in the capital to do his job and certify the election whenever the senate and the house could reconvene. it s a chilling bit of reporting it speaks to how little trump did in that moment. he effectively melted away. carol, let me ask you ....
Can fix it. those words, now the title of the revealing tell all book documenting the final year of the administration of donald trump, two months after biden was sworn into office. pulitzer prize-winning reporters philip rucker and carol leonnig sat down for an hours long interview with the 45th president at his understated mar-a-lago club in florida. among several alarming admissions in their new book,, i alone can fix it, they write this, and we quote, trump regrets his response to protests last summer in minneapolis, portland, seattle, and other cities. quote, i think if i had to do it over again, i would have brought in the military immediately, he said. remaining with us is our friend philip rucker, joining our conversation is another friend of ours, it s washington post colleague carol leonnig, ....