steve, you know, because you re interviewing kate benningfield from the biden campaign friday as they ended one of the most difficult weeks of the short campaign for them so far, dealing with not just the act cue cases that they lifted passages of his climate plan, and that reversal as it relates to the hyde amendment, that abrupt reversal as it relates to policy. the fact that the president was going to be in iowa on the same day they planned to be there gave them somewhat of a gift. they wanted the discussion to be about this split screen moment. we saw earlier, saying that the president is a genuine threat to our democracy, and extension shl threat. a threat to our core values. those were just some of the remarks spread out. and the biden campaign has always felt they re at their strongest when the stakes of the election are raised. the more democratic primary voters are worried about the threat of another four-year term for president trump, the stronger he s going to do, but there
administration and he wants to sort of get that across. what we also know, and we have to read in this book, is comey s defense of himself and what he did during the election to hurt hillary clinton s chances for re-election, by releasing information about investigations into her e-mail, and i haven t read that yet, but i m very curious about what he s going to say about himself, because he has been criticized extremely by democrats on that. right. there s clearly a self-serving dimension to the book. we know that he says obama turned to him. he recounts obama turning to him and sort of saying, i know you tried your best. he recounts chuck schumer coming up to him with tears in his eyes, saying, you re in an impossible position. for sure, some of this book is going to be read as extremely self-regarding and maybe less credible for it, but from what we ve seen, it s this book equal parts cry from the heart and sort of extension shl sigh of