story from the new york times about the u.s. investigation into michael cohen, immigration, north korea and then, of course, bernie sanders. let s bring in tim carnie, opinion editor at the washington examiner. he was here to talk about his book, which i loved. but i want to ask you about this. new york times reporting the president called matthew whitaker and said, can you help me get this guy up in the southern district of investigate to be the one investigating then nothing happened. so, to me, this is like another one of these stories where the president raises the question. he was told it couldn t happen. and everybody moved on. our system works. donald trump doesn t come from politics so he often tries to do stuff that isn t quite the way things work, whether it s custom or legal. we ve seen so much in the trump administration that the american system is set up so robustly that it often acts as a check on power even when the president