Good afternoon. I'm Olivia Reingold, and this is a special playbook audio briefing featuring our Friday guest author and PBS News Hour White House correspondent, Yamish Alcindor.

Yamish had this to say about President Donald Trump's four years accumulating in Friday's violent insurrection.

We all knew President Donald Trump's term would end badly.

It had to. There were just too many lies, too many conspiracy theories, too many times where

journalists searched their syllabuses for new ways to say unprecedented, and where Americans

across the country sat aghast, learning just how low we could go in our own eyes and in the eyes of the world.

As I said during PBS News Hour's special coverage Wednesday, the false information has consequences.

The conspiracy theories have consequences. In the aftermath of what can only be described as an armed

insurrection in our capital city, we are still sinking even lower

with each passing hour, past our nation's basement floor and into the very foundation of our

democracy. Burned into our collective souls are the brutal images of the 9-11 terrorist attacks,

the Oklahoma City bombing, and now the January 6th siege at the Capitol.

A quick pause, I'm Yamishal Sender, the White House correspondent for PBS News Hour.

For years, I have covered the Trump administration up close

and watched him create a house of mirrors for fervent followers to replicate

at their dinner tables, at their city council meetings, and in their

own city capitals. I talked to sources who enabled his lives and who saw in Trump a vehicle

for all their political dreams to come true. I'm also someone you may recognize as the woman

President Trump has called threatening and nasty. And you should be saying congratulations

instead of asking a really snarky

question. Well, I just think it's a nasty question. Don't be threatening. Don't be threatening.

I've experienced firsthand what it feels like when the ire of the president targets you. And some of

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