The Peril of Trump’s Final Days (with Bob Woodward & Robert Costa)
Skullduggery
Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti
4.0 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2021
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
The final days of Trump's Presidency were filled with struggles, chaos, and an insurrection on the US Capitol. Bob Woodward and Robert Costa's new book, Peril, gives us insight into what happened during this tumultuous time period that almost destroyed democracy from the inside out. The authors join to discuss the final days of Trump's time in office. What happened? And more importantly what could have happened had the efforts of a select few not stepped in to intervene.
GUESTS:
- Bob Woodward (@realBobWoodward), Professor at the University of California – Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies
- Robert Costa (@costareports), National Correspondent, Yahoo News. Former Newsweek/Daily Beast
HOSTS:
- Michael Isikoff (@Isikoff), Chief Investigative Correspondent, Yahoo News
- Daniel Klaidman (@dklaidman), Editor in Chief, Yahoo News
- Victoria Bassetti (@VBass), fellow, Brennan Center for Justice (contributing co-host)
RESOURCES:
- Peril - the new book from Bob Woodward and Robert Costa - Here.
- Bob Woodward's Bio - Here.
- Robert Costa's Bio - Here.
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| 0:00.0 | About 2.30 on the afternoon of January 6, 2021, Army General Keith Kellogg, then Vice |
| 0:08.0 | President Mike Pence's National Security Advisor, went to see President Trump in his private |
| 0:13.7 | dining room. |
| 0:15.4 | Kellogg was alarmed. |
| 0:16.7 | Trump supporters had swarmed Capitol Hill, busting through barriers, smashing windows, wandering |
| 0:22.1 | through the halls chanting hang Mike Pence and threatening the safety of lawmakers who |
| 0:27.1 | would assemble to certify the election of a new president. |
| 0:30.9 | Kellogg found Trump sitting all alone, watching the events unfold on TV. |
| 0:36.2 | This is at a control, Kellogg told Trump. |
| 0:38.7 | He needs to get a tweet out fast to tell the loyalists to stand down and stop the violence. |
| 0:43.9 | And then, according to peril, the new book by journalist Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, |
| 0:49.0 | Trump blinked. |
| 0:50.0 | Yeah, he said. |
| 0:51.8 | And then Trump turned back to the TV set. |
| 0:54.5 | A solitary president watching a Capitol in crisis in the nearly deserted White House. |
| 1:00.4 | Kellogg's appeal is one of the many eerie scenes that are laid out with cinematic detail |
| 1:04.6 | in peril, a book that chronicles the bizarre final months of Trump's tumultuous presidency. |
| 1:10.5 | It's a period that, as the authors make clear, even faithful loyalists and top aides came |
| 1:15.3 | to doubt the commander-in-chief's mental stability. |
| 1:18.8 | Just how much peril was the country actually in with Trump at the helm? |
| 1:22.4 | We'll talk to Woodward and Costa about that and much more on this episode of Skull Duggery. |
| 1:28.1 | Hi, do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United |
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