REPUBLICANS COULD PUT A STOP TO
THIS TOMORROW IF THEY REALLY
WANTED TO.
>> I WOULD LIKE FOR YOU TO
DESCRIBE TO OUR VIEWERS WHAT
THIS WEEKEND WAS LIKE AS A WHITE
HOUSE REPORTER.
BECAUSE I SAW SOME OF THIS AND I
FOLLOW YOU AND JONATHAN SWAN AND
MAGGIE HABERMAN ON TWITTER, I
DIDN’T SEE THIS LEVEL OF ALARM
IN THE COVERAGE OF THE WHITE
HOUSE EVEN AROUND IMPEACHMENT,
EVEN AROUND SOME OF THE HAIRIEST
DAYS OFFER HELSINKI.
DESCRIBE THE LEVEL OF ALARM AT
THE WHITE HOUSE.
>> THE LEVEL OF ALARM AT THE
WHITE HOUSE IS SKY HIGH BECAUSE
OF TWO THINGS.
THE FIRST IS THAT THE PRESIDENT
IS, AS WE’VE LAID OUT HERE,
TRYING TO USE EVERY LEVER OF
POWER THAT HE HAS AS PRESIDENT
TO TRY TO OVERTURN THIS
ELECTION.
HE SEEMINGLY HAS TO LIMITS AND
LED ON BY CONSPIRACY THEER YIFTS
AND PEOPLE THAT WANTED TO SEE
PRESIDENT TRUMP WIN THE ELECTION
OR ARE AFRAID OF THINKING OF
SIDNEY POWELL AND RUDY GIULIANI,
PEOPLE WHO THEY THINK HAVE
NEFARIOUS MEANS AND PLANS FOR
THE AMERICAN DEMOCRACY AS A
WHOLE.
THE SECOND THING THAT WAS
HAPPENING THIS WEEKEND WAS THAT
THE PANDEMIC WAS RAGING AND
THERE WAS THIS RUSSIA HACK THAT
WE WERE LEARNING MORE AND MORE
ABOUT.
SO THERE IS REAL CRISES BREWING
IN AMERICA THAT NEEDED
LEADERSHIP, THAT NEEDED THE
PRESIDENT’S ATTENTION AND THE
PRESIDENT SIMPLY WAS NOT
INTERESTED IN LOOKING AT THE
COVID RELIEF BILL, HE WAS NOT
INTERESTED IN LOOKING AT THE
COVID VACCINE AND ASSURING
AMERICANS THAT IT WAS SAFE AND
NOT INTERESTED IF TRYING TO
FIGURE OUT HOW TO PUSH BACK ON
RUSSIA BECAUSE THEY ARE NOW
TRYING TO INFILTRATE ALL SORTS
OF CRITICAL DEPARTMENTS
INCLUDING THE DEPARTMENT OF
HOMELAND SECURITY AND THE
DEPARTMENT OF STATE AND INSTEAD
WHAT THE PRESIDENT WAS DOING WAS
REALLY TRYING TO DOWNPLAY THE
ROLE THAT RUSSIA IS PLAYING AND
THEN OF COURSE DOING WHAT HE HAS
ALWAYS DONE WHICH IS LEANING ON
HIS INSTINCTS TO TRY TO DRIVE
CHAOS TO FIND A WAY TO WIN BACK
THE ELECTION.
IT IS A VERY SCARY PERIOD WITH A
MONTH TO GO UNTIL JANUARY 20th
AND WITH THE PRESIDENT’S OWN
ALLIES VERY ALARMED BY HIM
CONTINUING TO LEAN INTO THE IDEA
THAT HE COULD SOMEHOW STEAL BACK
THIS ELECTION.
IT IS REMARKABLE -- IT IS
ALREADY IN SOME WAYS
ATTENTION-GETTING BUT THE
PRESIDENT WAS TRYING TO DO THIS,
BUT HE’S DOING THIS WITH A BACK
DROP OF THE DIFFERENT CRISES
THAT REALLY NEED HIS ATTENTION.
>> THOSE THERE IS NOT MUCH I
COULD ADD TO HER PERFECT
DESCRIPTION OF WHAT IS GOING ON.
BUT LET ME THROW INTO OUR
CONVERSATION SOME OF JONATHAN
SWAN’S REPORTING.
QUOTE, THERE WERE RAISED VOICE
LEVELS AND ANIMATED
CONVERSATION.
IT IS BASICALLY SYDNEY VERSUS
EVERYBODY, THE SOURCE SAID.
THAT IS WHY VOICES WERE RAISED.
THERE IS LITERALLY NOT ONE
MOTHER EXPLETIVE IN THE
STAUNCHEST GROUP OF SUPPORTERS
AND ALLIES WHO DOESN’T THINK
THAT SIDNEY POWELL SHOULD BE ON
THE FIRST ROCKET TO MARS.
I GUESS THANKS TO DONALD TRUMP
AND THIS SPACE FORCE THAT IS
ACTUALLY A POLICY OPTION.
BUT HOW DID SIDNEY POWELL END UP
IN THE WHITE HOUSE THREE DAYS IN
A ROW, INCLUDING TODAY.
>> SHE DID THAT BY TELLING THE
PRESIDENT WHAT HE WANTS TO HEAR
AND BY LEANING INTO CONSPIRACY
THEORIES THAT ARE TOO FARFETCHED
EVEN FOR PEOPLE WHO THOUGHT IT
WAS OKAY FOR THE PRESIDENT TO DO
BE DOING ALL SORTS OF OTHER
THINGS INCLUDING TRYING TO GET
INFORMATION ON HUNTER BIDEN AND
JOE BIDEN FROM UKRAINE.
THIS IS SOMEONE WHO IS WAY, WAY,
WAY OUT.
SHE’S NOT ON EARTH, TOO, WHICH
IS I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE
AROUND TRUMP’S ORBIT, SHE’S ON A
MARS 3 OR 4.
WHEN THEY THINK ABOUT THE FACT
THAT THE PRESIDENT, SOMEONE WHO
DIDN’T WANT HER TO BE ON THE
LEGAL TEAM AND THEN YOU MENTION
UGOH CHAVEZ, HE SHOULD REMIND
EVERYBODY THAT HE IS DEAD.
THAT IS WHO SHE THINKS WAS AT