on the u.s. capitol. instead, for 187 minutes, between leaving the ellipse and telling the mob to go home, the 45th president of the united states first argued with secret service agents who refused to take him to the capitol. then after returning to the white house, sat in a small, private dining room off the oval office, transfixed by the violence he saw playing out on fox news. which showed the capitol under siege. trump learned just 11 minutes after returning that the protest had turned violent, but he did not make any calls to intervene. failing to reach out to the secretary of defense, the attorney general, or the department of homeland security. instead, he demanded a list of senators phone numbers, calling and encouraging them to delay or object to the certification of the electoral college count. while the president s official call log from the white house that afternoon is empty, trump placed at least two other calls that day. not to the military or the police but
the democrats want him impeached and many want him removed from office. what i find interesting are republicans and independents. among republicans there are clearly shifting articles of defense for him. obviously you see that playing out on fox news as well. now you re hearing republicans say, yeah, he did something wrong, but how big of a deal is it, really? we ve been having investigation after investigation. for the independent voters, you know, some obviously lean one way or another, and that s going to cloud their judgment but there is a line in the middle. i think the president may be winning right now, which is this idea that, you know, it s all a game in washington and that we re not going to take any of these allegations as seriously because it s simply just a game and a power game. i m not exactly sure how this applies to my life. now, of course, new hampshire is a swing state. democrats are probably have my gut is that they ll probably do just fine. hillary clinton, o
i like cory s performance and kamala harris performance. they were very strong. i have to say this about pete buttigieg. i like him. i think there are really good people behind him, but i also believe that there are a lot of folks scratching their head and saying, why him? why now? i talked a lot when beto was running. what does that mean, why him, why now? there s a certain amount of privilege associated with his ascendance. stacey abrams weren t being discussed. now you have cory booker, kamala harris, african-americans who have run state wide and won statewide. stacey abrams didn t want to run. you have these african-american candidates on stage that are not doing well, not performing well, but they ve done extraordinarily well in the positions they ve held. and you have someone like pete buttigieg who doesn t have the record and amy klobuchar sort of called that out, who also did