Months, the former president of the United States has been indicted, arrested, and a range. And lets face it, weve become oddly familiar with how this all goes. Theres the release of the indictment itself, helicopters following black suvs, and of course, the court sketches, all followed by a barrage of deranged posts on truth social. Theres a bit of a rinse and repeat feeling that starting to set in. But this one did feel different, because it is different. It felt bigger, because it is bigger. The indictment filed by Special Counsel jack smith this week detailed the ways in which an american president engaged in a criminal conspiracy from the oval office to subvert the will of the people. Of course, like any criminal defendant, trump is innocent until proven guilty. There will be a trial, and his legal team will mount a defense. But no matter how it ends, this is the one that historians will be talking about 100 years from now. Trump is now facing four criminal counts in this case, in
american people from having that will in the election. trying to overturn the results, trying to interfere, obstruct with the lawful process in the transfer of power. i think it s hard to read it and not think how close it came to all working. and that, i think, is the scariest thing of all of this. the other question i ve never asked you about is during the transition, i was a spokesperson on the transition, you with the incoming chief of staff. i remember being worried the night before january 6th that that will delay tactics being used on the floor. but not about the level of violence or the level of security threats. and what were you worried about at the time? same thing i was worried about, efforts to just lay and postpone. the vice president pence wasn t going to show up, i wonder what that element, was that going to be turned out to be true? and i will say there were times on january 6th where i was fearful that donald trump would not leave the office, and joe biden would
insights. not only is she personally and professionally with her father, she was in close proximity to him throughout january 6th. she was there for the rally on on that day. she was in and out of the oval office on january 6th. she went sbo the back room where chef holding court as the insurrection was playing out. committee members have said over and over again, they want know what she knows about what happened on january 6th. listen to what liz cheney had to say. we have first hand testimony that his daughter went in twice to ask him to please stop this violence. reporter: there s one other key aspect sha happened on january 6th. the committee is already received, they believe she was in the oval office when the former president was on the phone with vice president mike pence that morning. perhaps it was donald trump s last ditch effort to apply this
that would also be a violation of the presidential records act. so either way, there is no good explanation. it is impossible to believe that there is a seven hour and 37 minute gap during a national crisis. call logs are always logged when they come into the white house. even if the president does not answer them. it is an automatic routine thing. and there is no wait a period of time, that no one called donald trump. as you pointed out, we know there were calls. because we have evidence of that. we have the testimony of the call to senator lee which was intended for senator tuberville. which was turned over to senator tuberville. so there were calls. there is a clear eraser of that material. either because it was not created, or it was purged. both illegal. talking about the calls that we know trump had, he spoke with a deputy press secretary down scavino four times on