‘Pence was disloyal at exactly the right time’: author Jonathan Karl on the Capitol attack

A new book, Betrayal, dissects the final, authoritarian spasm of the Trump presidency, and Karl warns: We came close to losing it all'

How did it come to this? For five wretched hours, the vice-president of the United States found himself hiding in a barren underground garage with no windows or furniture. Somewhere above, a baying mob was calling for him to hang.

The story of the deadly insurrection on 6 January, when Donald Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol in an attempt to subvert democracy, has been told in newspapers, books and TV documentaries. But journalist Jonathan Karl has seen unpublished photographs from that day that tell a new story about Vice-President Mike Pence.