Good morning. It's Friday, January 8th. This is your Politico Playbook audio briefing.

Yamish Alcindor, the White House correspondent for PBS News Hour, wrote a powerful condemnation in this morning's Politico Playbook newsletter.

You might recognize her as the woman President Trump has called threatening and nasty when she probes him with

searing questions during press interviews. We're honored that Yomiche joins Playbook during such a historic

and unprecedented week in D.C. politics. You should read her full piece at Politico.com

slash playbook, but here are a few of the top highlights for your morning. These are Yamisha's words.

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 accurately be described as

an armed insurrection in our capital city, we are still sinking even lower with each hour,

past our nation's basement floor and into the very foundation of our democracy. For years now,

I have covered the Trump administration up close and watched him create a house of mirrors of fervent followers.

I talked to sources who enabled his lies and who saw in Trump a vehicle for all their political dreams to come true.

I am frankly, still shaken, still feeling goosebumps run up my arms each time I see photos of the mob,

fueled by our president freely

having their way with the headquarters of the United States Congress. I keep thinking about my

Haitian ancestors, who, like many immigrants, came to this country fleeing a dictator in the

1970s and seeking political stability. Francois Pierre-Louis, who emigrated from Haiti after his uncles

were murdered by a dictator there, told me something that now seems like a premonition.

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