national political reporter. jonathan, about the hill, very few genuine surprises left and it turns out the guy from arizona who has the truth serum of retirement and is no friend of the president had a move up his sleeve today. you hit it on the head. i m not sure anybody knew what jeff flake was going to do. obviously chairman grassley seemed unsure how to move. you can see him conferring with dianne feinstein. certainly the white house was not going to get a heads up. president trump has tweeted things about jeff flake, calling him a flake. one thing, flake thinks the party has moved a lot on him. when he was in the house he was considered an ultra conservative. in the senate he is considered more moderate. the one thing that s on-cyst ent throughoent consistent with where he is from, arizona, he has the western independence. he is not about geography or
the judge said, members of congress, you can t act because your vote has been nullified because you haven t been given the chance to make the decision the constitution requires. in this rare case i will allow you to proceed with the lawsuits. in the seconds we have left, remind our viewers of some of the work that earned you pulitzer prize. some of these investigations have been spread out. yes. we have been looking at aspects of president trump s charity, which resulted in this lawsuit filed by the new york attorney general against him, and one thing we ve been looking at in the last couple of years is trying to understand how his businesses are doing and what these lawsuits are trying to get at, who is using the president s businesses to influence the president s administration and how is power making him money and how are other people using his businesses to influence his power. of the washington post , always a pleasure. thank you so much for coming on our broadcast. we appr