“I’ll tell you this, one of the most shocking sort of takeaways for both Phil and for me is how many ardent supporters, who looked like they were silently standing by his side, no objection, how panicked they were behind the scenes,” she added.

She then detailed how they had learned in their reporting, that “Bill Barr, very unsettled and disturbed by the president’s insistence on sicking troops on Americans who had a right to protest. He was worried about another Waco because of what Trump was pushing.”

“We had Mark Esper, the Secretary of Defense, worried about providing real information to the president about the success of the early trials of the vaccine because he feared the president would start forcing Americans to be taking these vaccines before they were carefully vetted and went through the proper trials,” she continued.

“You know, we had Mark Milley worried about a coup…we had Mark Meadows and [Mike] Pompeo and Milley having last-minute. end of the Trump reign, conversations to check-in to make sure nothing went off the rails in those 14 harrowing days between January 6th and the inauguration,” she added. “Basically inside there were a group of people fearing for themselves, fearing for the country.”