Let him testify publicly. It's a question with added weight amid revelations in a new book by journalist Jonathan Carl.

The ABC correspondent says Smith had access to handwritten notes from former Vice President Mike Pence, scribbled down on January 6th.

And Smith was prepared to use those notes to prosecute the president.

We should add, if SMBC has not seen those notes or confirm their contents.

With everything the president has imposed on the federal government since he got back into office,

his first term now looks like a model of restrained, as in a whole lot tamer back then.

The president himself sees it too, quote, everyone is on my side now, he says.

They were fighting against me last time.

One of my next guests argues the president is now on his way to creating a new world order

during this second term.

Financial Times, Ed Luce, says he interviewed dozens of lawmakers,

CEOs, military leaders, lawyers, diplomats, and Trump insiders, all of whom described an

administration operating on fear, control, and retribution.

Jack Smith has been talking lately, and he has been revealing interesting

tidbits, and I think the Republicans bring Jack Smith to testify publicly at their peril,

because he's a forceful and articulate narrator of what happened with criminal investigations

into the now-sitting president. And here's the thing, you know,

the Republicans have been saying over and over again that Jack Smith weaponized. He was, he participated

in the weaponization of the Biden Justice Department that essentially this was all a plot by

Democrats to target Donald Trump based on bogus allegations. Jack Smith is living refutation of that.

They produced no evidence to support those allegations, and when Jack Smith comes up and talks, they're still not going to have that evidence, and he's got a lot of evidence to the contrary, actually,

many careful steps that were taken that show actually that this investigation didn't move as quickly as it could have and didn't take some

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