plan to assert the will, usurp the will of the american people and remain in power. it was an explosive prime time event. the house select committee held its eighth public hearing, laying out what former president trump did and did not do while a mob of his supporters storm the capitol on january 6th. good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this friday, july 22nd. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for being here. we have a lot to get to this morning. including president joe biden testing positive for covid. the president is said to be experiencing mild symptoms, we ll talk it a medical expert about this later in the show, and provide an update on the president s condition. but we begin with last night s dramatic january 6th hearing. we learned that as violence raged on capitol hill, former president trump sat cloistered in a private dining room watching as as the chaos unfolded. using never before seen evidence and testimony, the committee laid out the case that trump no
the first is breaking right now on axiosaxios.com. big picture, while trump himself has been obsessed over trying to overturn the election, he s still calling people in the different states, et cetera, et cetera, what he has done, which the extent of this has not been previously reported, he has funded and empowered a few select, trusted former officials who are running outside groups to start to prepare an administration in waiting. one of the key elements of this, which i lay out in this reporting, is the database of personnel. the biggest lesson that trump has told people he learned from his first term is hiring people who weren t loyal to him. there is an extensive vetting process going on at several of the groups. they re building databases for people loyal to trump and his america first ideology. what the story lays out is all