Welcome to our Friday dispatch podcast. I'm your host Sarah Isger joined by Steve Hayes

and Politico's Tim Alberta this week. Tim is the chief political correspondent for Politico.

He writes a lot of long forms for the publications magazine and his beat, the Trump presidency,

the Republican party, and really, I mean, just everything that we need to talk about today.

So without further ado, Tim Alberta.

Let's dive right in. Tim, just so thrilled to have you joining us today. You just had this

incredible piece that you wrote for Politico. And look, I love all of your pieces in Politico

and I always find them really informative. The reporting from the ground is, I mean, there's

no parallel to it out there right now. But this piece was more personal. It felt more emotional.

It felt I felt that you were writing this from a different place than a lot of your other

pieces. And you know, I want you to summarize it. But there's a point at which you talked

about how plenty of the people who stormed the US Capitol complex on Wednesday really,

truly believed that Trump had been cheated out of four more years. The vice president

Mike Pence, a Udallateral power to revise the election results that their takeover of the

building could change the course of history. I know this because I know several people

who were there and several more who plan to go. They bear responsibility for their actions,

of course, but the point remains. They were conned into coming to DC in the first place,

not just by Trump with his compulsive lying, but by the legions of Republicans who refused

to counter those lives, believing it couldn't hurt to humor the president and stoke the fires

of his base. That, to me, is the paragraph that summarizes January 6th.

Yeah, Sarah. And you know, you're right with what you said at the outset. I'm just, I'm

angry. And I think a lot of people are angry. And I'm angry for a lot of reasons. But,

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