Political discourse. they watered it down a little bit later, but give us, ashley tell us, is this yet further evidence just the tight grip that former president trump has on his party? i think that is what it is, and again marc short and top adviser, former chief of staff, when he went on the sunday shows, he did say, and again, this was quite forceful, and he said front row seat and keep in mind short and pence were in the capitol that day when people were chanting hang mike pence and they had to can evacuated and this is not legitimate political discourse and when you look at the republicans, there are so few and far between that say that sort of statement is unacceptable by the republican party values because donald trump, although he is not officially announced a run, he is very much the head of the republican party, just about
Days. what s your latest reporting on what went into former vice president s decision on friday to unequivbly say that trump was wrong in asking him to try to overturn the election and how is that being received by trump world and the former president? well, i think you saw a little bit of the reception by the former president just in the statement he put out, but it was a fascinating thing to watch, because former vice president pence is someone who spent four years being this incredibly loyal, basically subservient foot soldier to donald trump, and even after january 6th, even in moments when the pence people would say, you know, we re being very strong, we re being very forceful, sort of the most that pence would say it was a dark day. we did not see eye to eye about the insurrection. and so for him to come out and say trump was wrong was incredibly forceful. but it is for him, for pence. but it is important to note that it was a very limited thing that