Hi it's Nyla. You've heard Jonathan Swan's reporting on the Trump administration on

Axios today. Now we're about to present the first episode of a brand new Axios

podcast that goes further in depth. It's called How It Happened and our first season

features Jonathan Swan's exclusive reporting on the last few months of the

Trump administration. I hope you like it. Take a moment and subscribe to how it happened on Apple

podcasts or your favorite app so you don't miss the next episode and I'll see you

back here tomorrow morning with the news now here's Jonathan.

So I've covered Donald Trump since 2015.

You know, I started covering him during his campaign

and followed him through to the White House

and have covered him for the last four years and I fully intended on

transitioning over to cover Joe Biden's presidency which I'm going to be doing at

some point but this period of transition was so insane and so consequential that it just sucked me back in. I'll never take back our country with weakness.

And breaking news tonight, the deadly siege on Congress

as an angry pro-Trump mob storm

I'm Jonathan Swan.

For this series, I talked to a range of senior Westwing officials,

senior administration officials, senior campaign officials, and close personal advisors to the president.

I talked to them on the basis of deep background, many I could use the information but not say

where it came from. The scenes that you'll hear about in this series

are fly on the wall.

They're described with dates, names,

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