Mopping his face with a handkerchief, Rudy exclaimed, “This is real! It’s not made up! There’s nobody here who engages in fantasies!” Everyone in the White House, including the president, was both fascinated and appalled by the spectacle. Like most Americans who watched it, I thought the lawyers were humiliating for the president, a sentiment he shared. I heard him shouting from the Oval dining room as Giuliani spoke, “Somebody make this stop! Get him off! Make him stop!”
