I think, an existential threat to the country, this goes beyond policy, it s not the heart of it to my mind, the kind of cultural question of who do we take ourselves to be. with that, we will get smart with the help of our leadoff panel tonight. peter baker is here, chief white house correspondent for the new york times, caroline ng, price winning investigative reporter for the washington post, and barb mcquade, federal prosecutor and former u. s. attorney for michigan. her new book comes out at the end of february, it is called attack from within. how disinformation is sabotaging america. we are seeing it right here with 25% of americans who believe that january 6th started by the fbi, that is mind-blowing, i want to get to that, but first we must talk about this almost 8 million bucks and this damning report. donald trump and his business received from foreign governments. eric trump says that it happened with the family business, never affected his dad s decision-making process as president. are you kidding me with this? you know, what the house
Met with several historians and scholars, who urged him to make a forceful case defending our democracy. they were one of those scholars and earlier today, he talked about what he wants to hear from the president tomorrow. i hope that he addresses the existential crisis that we faced as a country. that donald trump and his maga republican support constitute, i think, an existential threat to the country, this goes beyond policy, it s not the heart of it to my mind, the kind of cultural question of who do we take ourselves to be. with that, we will get smart with the help of our leadoff panel tonight. peter baker is here, chief white house correspondent for the new york times, caroline ng, price winning investigative reporter for the washington post, and barb mcquade, federal prosecutor and former u.s. attorney for michigan. her new book comes out at the end of february, it is called attack from within.
Achieve pence from the senate chamber, where he was presiding over the joint session to ratify biden s victory, where he was doing the thing that donald trump did not want him to do, that the crowd did not want him to do. we know what s happened next, thanks to reporting from washington post reporters caroline ng and philip rucker. quote, elite special agent in charge of the vice president s protective detail, twice asked pence to evacuate the capitol but pence refused, saying, i am not leaving the capitol. the third time, it was more of an order than a request. pence s detail it guided them down to a scare case staircase, a secure area that could not reach, we are an armored limousine awaited. pence is now somewhere beneath the capital with secret agents urging him to get in his limo and flee the scene. the center democratic congressman jamie raskin, who sits on this committee, which has been investigating the insurrection for nearly a year now, describe what happened next. so, when his secret service
Implies that there is a a lot that he could offer in response to legitimate questions that laetitia james hands. and she has driven straight into that opening that he has given her. making the point to the court that trump has really engaged and a self own here, that he has made her case to depose him better than she could ve. i think she s going to get those depositions scheduled. we will see. joyce vance, caroline ng, phil brock, another fascinating night. thanks to all of you. coming up, more warnings from the white house today on russia. we re going to talk about former u.s. ambassador to ukraine, william taylor, about vladimir putin s immediate goal, and why he thinks it s important to support ukraine over the long term. later, why a friend, billy crystal, is telling democrats to please, please, please listen to san francisco. the message of voters we delivered by ousting school board members. the 11th hour just getting underway, on wednesday night.