that the trump government in exile part of the effort to lay the groundwork to move back into power and understanding how the levers of power work from day one, if they get that opportunity. they have been openly calling for and trying to lay out an intellectual framework to dismantle the post-watergate idea that the justice department should be independent. that there s a norm the presidents let the attorney general and law enforcement officials decide what investigations to open and close, what charges to bring or not bring, without political interference from the white house. they have been putting out the idea that that is a misconception. that s not the way the justice department works legally. it s just a cabinet agency like any other, subject to the direct control of the president. it s not an independent agency. it s fine if a president does that.
change. this is the story of washington. people go to washington to make change often. it s not just filled with people cynical to begin with. but when you go there, sometimes you have a boss that acts a certain way or you see how the levers of power work and you become cynical. for a lot of the people, they re in that fight right now. they re like am i making more change or is this place changing me more than i m changing it? it s just am i doing this right? is in a how we do it? yeah. it s a he really great book. there are 15 characters. it s just great reporting. gives you a really good inside view into a town that seems difficult to understand. maybe after this it is still difficult to understand. you ll be very entertained while reading it. congratulations on the book, my friend. thanks, man. appreciate it. cnn this morning continues right now. orange hazardous smokey clouds descending upon the city.
change. this is the story of washington. people go to washington to make change often. it s not just filled with people cynical to begin with. but when you go there, sometimes you have a boss that acts a certain way or you see how the levers of power work and you become cynical. for a lot of the people, they re in that fight right now. they re like am i making more change or is this place changing me more than i m changing it? it s just am i doing this right? is in a how we do it? yeah. it s a he really great book. there are 15 characters. it s just great reporting. gives you a really good inside view into a town that seems difficult to understand. maybe after this it is still difficult to understand. you ll be very entertained while reading it. congratulations on the book, my friend. thanks, man. appreciate it. cnn this morning continues right now. orange hazardous smokey
president harris, you come to the job without a lot of experience in washington. i think that s kind of what she s been doing. learning all about policy, learning about how the levers of power work in the city, the president s daily brief and all the things you do, except make news, which you are not supposed to do. in that video that i referred to, yamiche, she appears more than a dozen times. it s very clear what the strategy is. it s partly because of his age. they have to build her up so that people don t vote against him out of concern that his running mate couldn t take over if something were to happen. it s interesting how much she is featured when you think back to 2012 where obama didn t have his name or an image of him in his re-elect launch video.
and there is probably other power work that they are doing. they re trying to clear the roads, because this situation has happened all over the city, where cars have been piling up, flooded, and getting next to those roads, access points to hospitals, and things like that. that s what they re doing tonight. they are saying stay off the roads please, they will get a better sense to more of what is going on. we re getting some reports from collier county, from the county, that they are having incidents of looting. we don t know much about that, we just know that lead county is inundated with a whole lot of problems that kollie county doesn t have. everyone s busy tonight trying to get a handle on what the situation is. flooding continues to be a problem, even here in naples where the storm is on its last legs. the system is operating at full throttle, and that s an nbc thank you so much for the great reporting, please stay safe. ian made landfall this afternoon as a catastrophic cate