HOLY CRAP Nicole Wallace talking about New Book about Transition.

[PA_jen]

Biden Transition team concern about Military coup.

70 plans of what might happen.



I knew concerns had been talked about. Hell I knew something was going to happen but not Jan 6th that is until I heard the speeches of that day.

[Ocelot II]

1. What's the name of the book and who's the author,

for those of us who aren't by a tv right now.

[Jilly_in_VA]

2. Yes please!

This is the first I've heard of any such.

[Captain Zero]

6. I always suspected there was NO TRANSITION

at all given to Biden's incoming administration. Isn't there a law that requires that be done, and did Trump break that law?

[PA_jen]

3. The Fight of His Life

[Ocelot II]

5. Thanks!

[txwhitedove]

7. Author is Chris Whipple. They talked so excitedly, had to rewind to catch his name.

[ancianita]

9. It's getting great reviews.

[PatSeg]

18. Oh okay

I have that book in my wish list on Amazon. It was supposed to come out today!

Edit to add: I went ahead and bought it. It will definitely be my next book.

[ancianita]

22. Welp, not sure "great reviews" is for this audience.

I gotta say that one review that I read covers a section of the book that puts Kamala Harris in a pretty bad light -- comments by her staffers -- re her ability as a leader, and how Biden is bothered by this. Not good news for 2024.

[PatSeg]

24. I guess I'm not surprised by that

We hear so little about Kamala Harris and when we do, it is often rather lackluster.

[ancianita]

26. I was. And pretty hurt to learn that. But I believe it because

if her leadership were potentially presidential, praise would be coming from her staff, instead of complaint. Staff always want to be proud of their leaders.

I believe it because, even though Harris doesn't have to be perfect, if any of her support network feel that she's disorganized and insecure because of that, and/or reveal that her deflecting and blaming underlings reaches a point where a few have to critique it, that's not a good sign.

[PatSeg]

27. Yes, if her staff is complaining,

that isn't a good sign. It is a shame, as I was really impressed with her as a senator. Perhaps becoming Vice President was too much, too soon. That often happens in politics.

Oh well, I'll reserve judgment until after I've read the book.

[Irish_Dem]

4. Biden knew exactly what he was up against.

He is a very brave man.

[yorkster]

8. Chris Whipple author of The Fight of His Life.

Book is about the transition and early part of Biden first two years, fears about Trump and the military, and period before Russian invasion of Ukraine.

I think she could have interviewed just Whipple. Michael Schmidt book about John Kelly and Trump has already gotten a lot of airtime, too much imho.

[moonscape]

12. Agree. He already had a long segment

about it in the last week on her show, and Whipple’s book sounds to be a new page turner vs re (yawn) more Kelly and exact same ground.

[MOMFUDSKI]

13. I am very surprised to hear that

someone thought the military would actually engage in a coup. Does someone know way more than most of us? Scary stuff.

[Bev54]

19. I suppose Schmidt's book may not be selling as well as he thought and he is her

husband after all. A fact that I think should be disclosed every time he is on her show.

[yorkster]

21. It occurred to me as well that sales might be down.

It has always struck me as strange that there's never any mention of them being married. Like a kind of sneaky nepotism...I do like Nicolle - just find it odd.

[Ocelot II]

10. Just ordered the Kindle version, looks fascinating!

[NBachers]

15. Yup, just put it into my Kindle. I've plugged it in and got it charging right up.

[DeeDeeNY]

11. It's also infuriating how Jared made sure not to help with Covid information

" When asked by the head of the Coronavirus Task Force, Dr. Debra Birx, about informing the transition team of the Trump administration’s findings in the weeks preceding the transfer of power, Kushner replied “Absolutely not,” former Trump White House aide Alyssa Farah Griffin told the congressional panel."

https://washingtonpress.com/2023/01/01/sabotage-how-jared-kushner-interfered-in-the-biden-transition-and-hurt-the-nations-health/

[Mr.Bill]

14. Doing so probably would have

incriminated Jared in a number of ways. He strikes me as seeing the pandemic as nothing but a way for him to make money.

[LiberalFighter]

16. It was a great segment.

[FakeNoose]

17. It was a contingency plan, just in case - but nobody thought the military would go along with it

In fact the US military from the Joint Chiefs on down HATED Chump and they couldn't wait to be rid of him.

Let's realize that Chump is no Mussolini, and he's no Hitler. Chump isn't even a Putin. The only bargaining chip he had left in his arsenal on January 6th, 2021 was the screaming mob that stood outside the Capitol building. January 6th was never going to be a successful coup. Certainly not with military participation of any kind.

I do want to read this book when it comes out because it seems that Chris Whipple put a lot of time into researching it. It sounds like some good background info is in this book.

[RussBLib]

20. It's good to know they anticipated some BS

....can't help but wonder what their actual actions or responses might have been if Trump tried to use the military.

So they weren't just walking around deaf, dumb, and blind.

[Hortensis]

23. "rebuke of the incompetence of reporters who've underestimated this extraordinary president"

Guardian: “Maybe we don’t suck as much as people thought.”

That was the email the White House chief of staff, Ron Klain, sent to Chris Whipple at 1.16 am after the 2022 midterms, as it became clear Democrats were likely to hold the Senate and lose far fewer seats in the House than almost every reporter predicted.

Whipple’s inside look at Joe Biden’s White House is a ringing confirmation of Klain’s judgment.

Though Whipple’s friendships within the Washington press corps prevent him from saying so, this is a book-length rebuke of the incompetence of legions of reporters who have persistently underestimated this extraordinary president.

A NYT reviewer evaluates it as a valuable book on the first half of an unfinished presidency, which includes many fights, that will remain so long after it's joined by histories of the entire term.

[intheflow]

25. I read the post headline and thought, "Nicole Wallace is trans?!"