evidence emerging today in the guardian that in the crucial time between doj s subpoena and may of last year and the meeting between investigators and trump s legal team the following month, trump or his aides might have hidden classified documents from donald trump s own defense attorney from that stunning new reporting. quote, donald trump s lawyer told associates he was waved off from searching the former president s office where the fbi later found the most sensitive materials anywhere on the property. that lawyer, evan corcoran, recounted that several trump aides told him to search the storage room because that was where all the materials that had been brought from the white house at the end of trump s presidency ended up being deposited. corcoran found 38 classified documents in the storage room. he then asked whether he should search anywhere else but was steered away, he told associates. according to an inventory unsealed by a federal judge last year, the fbi found 27
presidential inauguration. at this crucial mile marker it s important to stare into the mirror of who we really are as a country. two years after lies and conspiracies about trump s big loss led to, quote, medieval combat on the steps of the u.s. capitol between law enforcement and trump supporters. those very same lies that inspired that attack two years ago are now deeply embedded in the politics of the gop. they are the single animating principle behind everything that happens in one of the country s two major political parties. it is in large part due to the fact that the man who, quote, summoned the mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame in the attack as january 6th select committee member liz cheney put it that would be twice impeached president trump himself as well as his top lieutenants remain the dominant force in the gop. and they insist on continuing to gaslight americans on what actually happened on january 6th to this day, to this hour on this day. just yeste
the committee is also expected to take a deeper drive dive into the lies that led to supporters violently storming the capitol. we are by the president of the united states! he personally asked for us to come to d.c. that day. and i thought, for everything he is done for us, the only thing that he is asking me is it is hard to know right now just how much east trumpy detail we heard on thursday moved the needle among the 20 million americans who tuned in, according to nielsen s rating data. whether it was learning that former attorney general bill barr thought that trump s elections were quote, bs, or whether ivanka trump agreed. or that trump reportedly told his staff that vice president, quote, deserve to be assassinated. or even the never before seen footage of just how violent trump s riders were. the full impact of the hearings has gets to play itself out. still. congresswoman liz cheney had a stark warning for recalcitrant republican politicians who continue
Considered writing nonfiction? you write scenes well, and i d say, dude, these aren t scenes, those are my life. life imitating art imitating life. and i am married to an amazing person as you know and she has great story vision, and she imagined this particular story and said you ought to give it a shot. and so i did and found it addictive, and it s what i want to do when i grow up. i want to ask you about the intersectionality. i think one of the most memorable things you wrote about and george stephanopoulos and the interview you did in your last book during the transition it s sick i remember this, but during the transition when you went up to brief trump it felt like our thing, our family so you end up writing about a mob investigation, prosecution that also feels related. i m going to press you an that. we have to sneak in a quick
Is consistent with the kinds of cases that are often brought in racketeering cases. i want to give you the last word. i m still just wrapped around what you said about his admiration of john gotti and i m mad at myself for being surprised it. i don t know why i m horrified that he admires john gotti. i m surprised you re surprised. i guess my question would be, i think he likes that. when he sees that someone saw him as john gotti, you can imagine him incriminating himself. damn right i m john gotti. yeah, i think he does not want to be seen as john gotti the criminal. i think he wants to be seen as john gotti the tough thug and he certainly in a courtroom he would not want to be gard to gotti. but he has people who can flip on him. it is like a mob investigation. allen weisselberg, i was in an office the trump tower with him once and they were supposed to