The New York Times’ Maggie Haberman has been reporting extensively on the January 6 siege of the U.S. Capitol Building and President Donald Trump’s response to it. Haberman discussed her reporting during a January 12 appearance on CNN’s “New Day,” telling hosts Alisyn Camerota and John Berman that Trump was initially “pleased” with what we he saw on television.
The Times reporter told Camerota and Berman that Trump “was engaging with aides while this was all going on. They were interrupting, telling him that he had to do something. And they were interrupting, telling him the Capitol was being overrun by his supporters. He was well aware of it, he was watching it. He was pleased because it was people fighting on his behalf. He was pleased because he liked the scene, he was pleased because it was delaying the certification of the electoral college vote….. He just didn’t want to do anything.”