Guest i had no intention of writing a third book. I thought two was plenty. But then january 6 happened, and i thought, you know, how can i walk away from this story . This story has immense implications for the moment, for the future. It was a story that for better or for worse, i thought i knew as well as anyone, and i put my boots back on. Host he also wrote Fire And Fury and each siege. What struck me was the sense of chaos around the election returns and the whole period of challenging the election, generally six. Did that surprise you at all . Guest well, no, i mean, the underlying theme probably of the three books ive written about the Trump Administration is, to say the least, chaos. I think maybe it even goes further than chaos. A through the looking Glass Dysfunction about the trump white house has been kind of an epic story. But having said that, the period after the election on november 3 came even more for the top administration, saying quite something. Even more out of co
[applause] just to tell you a few things about senator tom cotton, he is a six generation arkansas on. Born and raised on his familys cattle farm. He graduated from Harvard And Harvard Law School. The September 11 Terrorist attacks happened during his final year of Law School which led him to join the military. He joined the army as an Infantry Officer at the 100 Air Force. He served in iraq, afghanistan and at the old guard. In 2012, he was elected to the house of reps and one a democratic held seats by 23 points. [laughter] [no audio] [applause] and 2020, he was reelected i8 to what arjun with only a third Party Opponent after the democrat quit the race. He has been a leader on national security issues on the senate. Some of his accomplishments include ending the Obamacare Mandate Tax as part of the 27 jobs 2017 tax cuts. Securing funding for the military and helping pass legislation to increase competition for prescription drugs. He introduced the first federal legislation to defund
Washington, d. C. , to seek salvation because they are not going to be able to get that governor of texas to protect the Voting Rights of the people of texas. We know that. And instead of trying to make it easier for people to vote, the governor and republicans in the legislature have done everything to make it harder, including threatening these legislators over and over again. And they are standing their ground, just as we are standing our ground. Know what the Texas Bill would do and why this is all about a concerted effort not just in texas, as rev. Warnock will tell you, in georgia. That this is going on all over the country, to the point that we now have since the beginning of the year, the two laws to restrict voting that have been enacted in 14 states, with the Texas Senate Passage of sb one yesterday, a total of 32 bills to roll back the right to vote have passed at least one chamber of the legislature. So when people ask us why we have put forward the for the people act, whic
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Certainty, washington democrats no one of two things to be true. Either american democracy is so sacral side that nobody can possibly question or badmouth it. Our democracy is in total crisis. Hanging on by a thread. Only a massive sweeping parts and overhaul by democrats can save it. It can be hard to guess which of those opposite stories democrats will be shouting on any given day. The narrative flipflops are at a dizzying pace. Secretary clinton and a whole cast of senior democrats called this illegitimate. Russia had probably or definitely hacked into our voting systems and changed the tallies. A conspiracy theory, a big lie. Four years later, they kept insisting that democracy was broken and democrats had to overhaul it. Hr one was written and introduced on that pretense. As recently as last summer when the 2020 election was looking close, democrats and Cable News spent multiple weeks in federal hysterics over what they said was a massive secret Election Conspiracy revolving aroun