and bob costa, i know you ve talked to a lot of people at the white house. he may be whistling past the graf ya graveyard, but man, this really stings donald j. trump. based on my reporting, that letter was drafted by him in coordination with some of his confidants. that was a letter from president trump. you called it a tweet on paper. his associates described it to me as a trump rally on paper, a letter that essentially lays out his entire 2020 campaign, grievance politics, running against the establishment, running against the democratic party. yet as much as he and his republican allies want to cast this entire inquiry as a partisan process, speaker pelosi is keeping her conference together, member after member because of the way she continues to frame this as a solemn duty-filled decision, and that s what s keeping people like congress w congresswoman slotkin and others