on the front page new york times. as things got stressful after the election, leading up to january 6th, and certainly on that day, it is very likely that there are communications that could well provide a smoking gun, because the ultimate unanswered question here has always been, really, that watergate formulation, what did the president know, and when did he know it. but even more so here, what did he hope to accomplish? and how far was he willing to go to get there? these emails from people around him may hold the include. they may be contemporaneous recollections of events that witnesses can then be questioned about. that s what the january 6th committee needs, particularly for some of these reasons who are trying to be difficult. there may well be email recollections or other communications, documents, that reflect either what they said or who they were meeting with. as you have pointed out, we focused on the people that are giving the committee trouble. there are plenty of othe
events, left or right, is one of those hotly-contested issues. everybody fights to make the number bigger. almost every other time reporters would say, listen, we don t take anybody s estimate, but they then took the obama campaign s inaugural committee s estimates one million people, oh, that s more to cheer about, more to love. yes, but, jim, today stated that it was of from the obama inaugural committee. they didn t say this is our estimation. they credited it, and then people can do what they want to with it. i m telling you, eight years ago they would not it was a great day or for america, but eight years ago they re not giving the bush inaugural committee credit for anything. i can tell you, i was there. jon: they were giving the committee trouble for spending money, and i want to replay this editorial from the new york times back for president bush s second inaugural. they were criticizing him for spending money at a time when our troops were at war in iraq and afghanist