"It's really hard to ask a hard question from a place of... Except when I'm sitting here, you seem to be able to ask me," he says. "To call somebody a liar while having empathy, basically imply that they're a liar, that's damn, damn hard." The book opens with the end of the Civil War and then goes back to January 6th storming of US Capitol. 'The case is overwhelming that it was a big deal'