brian: major garrett, your book mr. trump s wild ride. you say this, this book is not primarily about trump s lies, rancor, lies or flamboyance. why? mr. garrett: because that is a fairly well covered aspect of the trump presidency. brian, i learned during the campaign that one of the biggest challenges come i mention this in the book about donald trump, as a political force, as a reality, american politics, is every day there are 10 to 12 or more really interesting things. but there are also three or four really important things. as i worked every day covering this white house, and as i work for 60 months covering the campaign, the biggest challenge, what is it? focusing on the important and not relentlessly being distracted by the interesting. and donald trump generates tremendous amount of interesting things, intentionally sometimes, unintentionally other times. so the book is about what happened in the first year and a half on the trump presidency, that we are going to
do not know what else they are saying. there is a difference between administrative action and criminal action. but the president is also do you think the person broke the law? i have no idea. do you think he or she might have also broken the law? i have really no idea, nor do you. on the op-edd more in the weeks since it came out or however many days, and i do not understand morality of the action. i do not know why if you were doing. if you are worried the president is too impulsive, how can this op-ed do anything other than drive more paranoid? those of us try to help the white house and the president has surrounded himself with a number of good people doing good work and trying to persuade him to take a longer-term vision, i think those people are doing good work i trying to help the president think farther down the road. why you d write about it, i don t get the morality of that. does noteek congress return for legislative work until wednesday. in the house, th
atlantic. brian: how old are you? zachary: 22. brian: what was your major at williams? zachary: political science. brian: in your book, you talk about various places. talk about stanford. zachary: i was basically taking for college courses. i was always driven and very ambitious. i did not want to spend my summer reading in my room. i thought it would be great, especially because i was going to be on the east coast, to experience a different university setting, and stanford has a very strong political science department. brian: yale. zachary: that was a writer s conference the summer after my freshman year. i attended a number of work ships and it helped me improve. brian: columbia. zachary: that was my junior year, it was a study away experience. i studied psychology and political science. a great time. brian: you grew up where? zachary: washington, d.c. and detroit. i was born in washington, d.c. in 1985, but i moved around a bit. brian: where have you lived since then? zac
uncomfortable conversations at the intersection of black and white america. brian: zachary wood, before we talk about your book, uncensored, tell us where you are at in your life. zachary: i just graduated in early june and i have it on a book tour and i have done a few cities. i am based in new york city but soon i will be moving back to washington, d.c. and will be assistant editor at the atlantic. brian: how old are you? zachary: 22. brian: what was your major at williams? zachary: political science. brian: in your book, you talk about various places. talk about stanford. zachary: i was basically taking for college courses. i was always driven and very ambitious. i did not want to spend my summer reading in my room. i thought it would be great, especially because i was going to be on the east coast, to experience a different university setting, and stanford has a very strong political science department. brian: yale. zachary: that was a writer s conference the summer af
this week on q&a, zachary wood, assistant editor at the atlantic discusses his book, uncensored: my life and uncomfortable conversations at the intersection of black and white america. brian: zachary wood, before we talk about your book, uncensored, tell us where you are at in your life. zachary: a graduated in early june and i have it on a book tour and i have done a few cities. i am based in new york city but soon i will be moving back to washington, d.c. and will be assistant editor at the atlantic. brian: how old are you? zachary: 22. brian: what was your major at williams? zachary: political science. brian: in your book, you talk about various places. talk about stanford. zachary: i was basically taking for college courses. i was always driven and very ambitious. i did not want to spend my summer reading in my room. i thought it would be great, especially because i was going to be on the east coast, to experience a different university setting, and stanford has a