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
unclear what she wants. she has played this game, has infuriated the white house, who regard her as, at this point, mysterious and irrational. and to go to elizabeth s point about the politics of it, again, joe manchin is the only democrat people say could get elected in west virginia. kyrsten sinema is from a state joe biden carried. it s a purple state, not a blue state, but has a lot more political latitude for her to play than joe manchin has, and yet she is still playing hide the ball even more than manchin is. i think there s a lot the question is, what happens? they have the crack the kyrsten sinema code, whatever that turns out to be, for this to come together and puts the country in a tough place. and joe manchin also works around the clock like the form er governor and talks.
and curious, maggie. in light of a few things, one, it raises questions about whether or not donald trump will run for president again, but it also plays into this notion, right, that this conspiracy, this qanon notion that somehow he could reinstated. all the present tense. the president is doing this. he s meeting with his cabinet now. what do you make of it? the most charitable explanation is mark meadows is playing to the audience of one, donald trump. knowing that donald trump is watching this, mark meadows is actually one of the people who has spoken less about the idea of fraud, publicly he seems to me to straddle a line and while that s fine and, you know, i understand that he has his constituencies with president form er president trump, there a bunch of people who believe this conspiracy theory which is false that he could get eninstated. trump himself tried to push his own aides to talk about that idea publicly. a bunch resisted doing it. mark meadows is not a dumb man,
cuts has went backto corrations. they a billion in stock buybacks and cash takeov month alone. that s where the records are being set. and what about the president s tariff becaus they re crucial here. there serious fears that tariff could just eliminate the benefi of the tax cuts all togeth here is the main who crafted trump tax plan, the form er director of the na econom counsel. gary cohen. look, if you end up with a tariff battle, you will end up with price inflation. you could end up with r more consumdebt. those are all historic ingred for an economic slowdo could it wipe out the benefi bill? yes, it could. now, the chairman of the counsel of economi presid has et and kevin, good to see you. now, look, i know the presid point to some good
michael cohen just sit there is all w all these people. it s like he says i don t care. it s a slam. conrad has kickocovered truml estate deals an points out this man. rosen b rosen, form er president of africa israel usa, a real estate holding company. ros rosen, a company donald trump on the trip to moscow in 2013 for the miss universe pageant. joining them, alex sapi rirks, who financially backed a flashy trump project in downtown new york. they trieied recreate it in moscow. a deal that later fell apart. but that didn t stop trump from back bragging and his russian connections in a phone call. just starteded bragging about how many people in moscow, oligarchs in the room. how everyone loves them.