The latest Political Developments of the day and interviews with top newsmakers are featured. Were not doing enough. Look at these five people. Heres the thing, john. There is a whole Cottage Industry of distraction folks. This is a distraction from x or distraction from mueller. Im not sure that was the case because there are a lot of fires happening now around this administration. The Robert Mueller, Paul Manafort, Special Counsel, Jeff Sessions fire series is one of them. There is also the election en r interference fire, big deal. I had conversations with folks on the other side of folks on capitol hill, both parties. One consistent theme i heard in relation to election interference, Leadership Starts at the top. I asked point blank, who do you talk to in the white house, who do you talk to in the administration . Nobody, we dont know who the point person is, we dont know what their strategy is. This is somebody who is at a high level over there. This seemed to be a way of the whit
instead seek some answers in written form, according to one person. joining us now for this conversation from the washington post, national political reporter and the moderator of washington week, the robert costa. paul butler, former federal prosecutor now georgetown law professor. and joining me at this table, rick stengel, and mimi roker, now distinguished fellow at pace university law school. i know why nicolle complains about our long titles. guys, it s great to see you here. robert costa, i want to start with you because of phil rucker, one of the great trump psychologists, you re a man with the window into the president s psyche. what s going on here? i sense from your reporting and from what we ve been watching that you had at least some kind of a theory, some insight into what it is that s fueling the president to behave in the way that he s behaved, especially