was a branding exercise, but now you have a former president who wants power and knows how to use it. >> do you have sort of a drop dead time by which he would have to make that announcement and make it utterly official? when do you think that would be? >> he could drag it out for a long time. in fact, some of my republican sources who are close to ambitious governors, to a form er vice president, to senators who want to run, they feel like they're being suffocated politically. he's out there taking all the oxygen inside the republican party. they don't have any way to get around that. trump does not feel any pressure to announce. this is not just about red versus blue anymore in this country. our book shows this is about a bigger question. what's the fate of american democracy? >> yep, that is the question for sure. robert costa, thank you for posing it for us. i think it's a conversation we're going to have to continue having with you and others. co-author of the book "peril" ask thank you much for the great conversation. >> thank you. also today, there's growing concern that those global shipping delays and supply