Washington post reporter mary jordan about her biography of first lady Melania Trump. The book is called the art of her deal. She was interviewed by usa today Washington Bureau chief susan page. Its great to talk to you. How are you . It seems to me Melania Trump is the most mysterious first lady weve ever had in modern times, the one we know the least about. Do you think that is true . I do. Thats why set up to do this because i thought that was just this strange void of facts, information. During the 2016 campaign i remember turning to the editor in the newsroom. I worked at the Washington Post and saying if donald trump wins, his wife is an immigrant, especially at the time he was having a rally that day really about the wall and keeping immigrants out. I started making calls and i just come it was shocking how little was known about basic biographical information. Donald trump has been in the public eye for ever it seems like. Why do we know so little about melania . Theres a bunch
Staff writer at the new yorker and hes out with a new book called true crimes and misdemeanors the investigation of donald trump in which he argues that the medias reporting during the mo a probe may have actually helped the president lets find out why as Jeffrey Toobin joins me from new york i must say jeffrey this is your 8th book ive read all previous 7 i just started this one you have an uncanny ability to take legal problems and put it in laymans language i must salute you well and i salute you larry what a pleasure to be back on the air with you know you know i i really view the beginning of my Television Career as with you during o. J. At your studio and that all of our what i used to describe it is like a salon for o. J. People because you get everyone every every Single Person involved with the j. Passed through that studio and i did some of my best reporting in the green room there but your friendship and your support for my career was was indispensable at a time when i had n
Thinking about over the weekend . Next week, which is going to be just gigantic we have everything from ibm, we will bookcase ibm on monday and American Express on friday, both will be challenging and i think they could determine things. Carl, i have to tell you, 8 30 santelli comes on and gives you that housing start number, then diana talks about how there are not a lot of houses. I sit here and i think the fed has done a magnificent job, what can they do . They can take rates down to the point where, yes, maybe jpmorgan doesnt make as much money, bank of america certainly doesnt, but people are buying houses and thats whats been working in the stock market this week is the housing trade the lows, the home depot the deere small tractors, that stuff has been flying off the shelves and thats exciting. It was not, of course, the cloud, saas stocks and cybersecurity. Theres always a bull market somewhere. Right weve been taking note of all the upside reannouncements today. Today its daim
All programs are also available as podcasts. Hey mary its great to talk to you. You juices and its great to talk to. It seems to me milani had trump is the most mysterious part first lady we have ever had in modern time. Filming of the least about is that true . So i certainly do thats why set out to do this i thought there was just this strange void of facts and information during the 2016 campaign i remember turning to the editor in the newsroom i washed at the Washington Post and said if donald trump wins, his wife is an immigrant. Especially at that time he was having a rally that day talking about the wall and keeping immigrants out. I started making calls is shocking how little was known about that information. Why do we know so little about melodia . She only arrived in america and that 26 i had to travel to her native country, sylvania, which is a small country carved out of the former yugoslavia yugoslavias when she was there was a socialist country. It did not have great arch
Works. All programs are also available as podcasts. It is great to talk with you. It seems to me that Melania Trump is the most mysterious, if thats true . Guest i certainly do. Thats why i set out to do this because i thought there was a strange fact of information. I remember turning to the editor of the news room saying it his wife is in emigrants especially at the time so i started making calls and it was shocking how little was known about the basic biographical information. Why did we know so little about Melania Trump . Melania trump . Guest theres a bunch of different reasons. Right around the time that whole area also she wants it that way. People said i got the call dont talk to anybody. People make a lot of assumptions about heard that you discovered not to be true. Talk about those. Guest because we didnt see her on the campaign trail is kind of dismissed her as if she isnt a player. She does have an influence on her husband. After a rally complicated in the car. She would