Watching this relationship between Trump and the Republican Party unfold over the last few years has triggered a question for me

The devil is — more than a devil — in the details.

This is where you can begin to draw that line, that red -- that very bright red line in the sand and say, no, we are not giving power back to this fascist tendency, to the Marjorie Taylor Greenes within.

No, the leadership is not prepared to do that.

They don’t care. They don’t care.

Don`t sit back and start complaining about, oh, my god, look what happened to women, when you had an opportunity to stand with them.

They have aligned themselves in such a way that they cannot get away from not only his political problems that he presents for the party, but also his legal troubles.

Yes, there are a lot of questions and Trump will not be forthcoming with any answers, nor will the people, his minions around him, as you just showed in the clip coming in.

Are you prepared to take responsibility for what happened here? Do you -- are you prepared to be a part of the congressional hearings to look into what happened to those documents?

Yes, I`m kind of in the multiple sources camp because of the narrowness of the folks who are around Trump, and having spent some time with the man in the past, having a sense of how he operationalizes things.

In my estimation, it falls squarely on the hands and the heads of the Marjorie Taylor Greenes, the Jim Jordans, the Josh Hawleys, Mitch McConnells, the Kevin McCarthys, the people who are leaders in the party.

It falls squarely on the hands and the heads of the Marjorie Taylor Greenes, the Jim Jordans, the Josh Hawleys, Mitch McConnells, the Kevin McCarthys, the people who are leaders in the party.

It is a very -- it`s very close quarters. So, people talk in those circles and people here and they overhear.

He doesn’t want to talk under oath, which is a tell.

They placate instead of being the leaders and saying, no, this is not what we do here. We are a party about the rule of law, you know. So, right now, it`s just all a lie. It`s hypocrisy.

The absence of leadership, Alicia, is damning. Liz Cheney, you know, hearken to that point at the beginning of the January 6 Committee where the stain of all of this will linger beyond Trump.

They did and look, it was a great effort. It is a big deal, this is -- as this close to the election, the Republicans now are going to have to find another layer of messaging.

We’ve crossed the Rubicon.

I don`t think there`s a more serious threat to the future of our democracy than what we`re seeing right now with the rise of white Christian nationalism in the Republican Party.

I mean, I understand the trick. I got the relationship, the political relationship that Reagan embraced in order to get the support of white Christian evangelicals in the South.

We have gone beyond the pulpit now.

Oh, all day, all night, in the next week, next year. There’s no limit to how long they can ignore anything that has to do with Donald Trump.

No. They don’t. And largely because the numbers work against Republicans in the main.

Rudy played a particular role for Donald Trump. He was, if nothing else, the great disruptor. He was the guy who was sent into sort of create and foment the chaos, to raise the questions, to stir the anxieties of the established order and…

Everyone is walking around -- I mean, I’ve talking to people who go, I just can’t believe this.