the wall a at a moment as watergate was cracking open, and the equivalent is that trump isn t talking to george washington o abraham lincoln. he s talking to this mob. this is his base this is what he gets. who is he talking to? he s telling steve bannon we need to kill the biden presidency in the crib. that was it the phrase, based on our reporting, in that conversation. tell us what you know about the pressure that was put on mike pence and on anyone else in the administration or members of the senate to try and help trump stay in the presidency, even after he lost. enormous pressure.
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our book documents how dan quayle as part of code talking to vice president pence as he navigates the decision, wants to probably run in 2024, wants to stay loyal to president trump, but what s most interesting to us is the new information we discovered on how the legal side of the trump team were trying to convince the vice president and his team to deserty biden s victory at the time in that transition period. offering all these legal arguments to have vice president pence walk from january 6th and that could have been a constitutional crisis. bob, it s willie, good morning. let s talk about how close this country came to overturning this election. you have in vivid detail, you have vice president pence sitting in oval office getting pressure from president trump. you have some around january
president trump s denial of the election results. quote, with trump brashly contesting the results, senator mitch mcconnell said he would give trump room to let off steam and not publicly recognize biden as president. he still needed to have a working relationship with trump. and more important, mcconnell worried trump might react negatively and up end the coming and hotly contested runoff senate elections in georgia. those seats were necessary to keep the republican majority and mcconnell as majority leader. you go on. he also said he did not want biden, a serial telephone user, to call him. he was sure to infuriate trump and set off unwanted calls from him asking if he believed biden had won the presidency. better to keep the line dead. this is just another example of someone trying to contain
as wow talk about the most dangerous transition in american history from trump to biden, there s a lot about president biden in here. some annoyance he displayed watching morning television, but also i want to hear about his friendship with lindsey graham and where that stands. senator graham, he was friendly with boyden in the obama administration ask in the senate from delaware for decades. but that it relationship was all but severed by the hunter biden scandal and senator graham s aggressive approach to the biden family. you could write a whole book about senator graham s ambivalence. he s the one who says to trump a at one point, you have fed up