You have to show strength, and you have to be strong.ĪMY GOODMAN: To talk more about what happened January 6th, what led up to it, and particularly those last weeks of the Trump administration, we're joined by Michael Wolff, author of the new book Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump White House, which completes his best-selling trilogy on the presidency of Donald Trump, following Fire and Fury and Siege. And we're probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them, because you'll never take back our country with weakness. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: We're going to walk down to the Capitol! And we're going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women.

This comes as a series of new books offering new details about what happened January 6th, when then-President Trump spoke to thousands of his supporters at a so-called Save America rally outside the White House and urged them to march on the Capitol building. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi can veto any of his picks. After the meeting, McCarthy returned to Washington, D.C., from the Bedminster Trump hotel to attend a dinner at the White House with President Biden and visiting German Chancellor Angela Merkel.ĬNN reports McCarthy will likely appoint supporters and defenders of Trump to the January 6 committee. McCarthy's meeting with Trump came after the select committee investigating the Capitol riot said it would hold its first hearing about the attack on July 27th. For months Republicans have downplayed the insurrection, which was timed to disrupt the counting of electoral votes. Copy may not be in its final form.ĪMY GOODMAN: Former President Donald Trump met with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy Thursday as McCarthy has yet to appoint Republicans to the congressional committee investigating the deadly January 6th riot by Trump supporters. “Landslide”: Michael Wolff on Trump’s Final Days in Office & Why He Still Rules the Republican Party TranscriptThis is a rush transcript. 'We have two realities here: the reality of Donald Trump in charge, and the other reality which is that everybody knows that there's something wrong with Donald Trump.' 'There's no question Donald Trump runs the Republican Party,' Wolff says. Capitol and why he still holds the reins in the party. As a special congressional committee investigating the January 6 insurrection prepares to hold its first hearings later this month, we speak with author Michael Wolff, whose new book, 'Landslide,' provides fresh details about former President Donald Trump's efforts to undermine the 2020 election, how he spurred his supporters to attack the U.S.

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