what we can see from this chapter is trump was not doing that nearly as much as previous presidents. the person who was was vice president mike pence. he was kind of receiving these briefings more like a president than even president trump was, it seems. right on. there s a couple of people, other than president trump in the administration, who get some attention in this new material. one of them is vice president pence, who we didn t have much of a window on from the reporting during the administration regarding how he took intelligence. there was an assumption that he was getting the president s daily preebrief and taking the information seriously. frankly, the vice president doesn t have as much to do as the president. and perhaps he d have to step into the president s shoes, perhaps more likely with this president than any other, given the two impeachments. pence should have been doing this, and the material shows he was. he was taking briefings quite regularly and engaging heavi