AMERICA - Our First Dictator Want-to-Be

"How U.S. officials worked to prevent coups, Waco-like sieges in Trump’s final year" PBS NewsHour 7/20/2021

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SUMMARY:  President Donald Trump's last year in office was book-ended by impeachment trials and, marked by a deadly pandemic, economic collapse, racial unrest, and a violent insurrection.  "I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J. Trump's Catastrophic Final Year" authors Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker join Judy Woodruff with new details about the chaos and alarm that rippled across the government during that time.

THE CAPITAL INSURRECTION - Analyzing the Capitol Police

"A picture of disorganization: Analyzing Capitol Police’s failures on January 6" PBS NewsHour 4/15/2021

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SUMMARY:  Lawmakers Thursday continued to assemble their picture of what went wrong on January 6.  An internal watchdog testified about his ongoing review of U.S. Capitol Police, and shared his initial conclusions about why their defense failed that day after a pro-Trump mob stormed the building.  Congressional correspondent Lisa Desjardins has the report.