"And you were the first person really that I knew who actually said, this is gonna happen. I've kept that in my mind throughout the last eight years. And I read you in your Wide World of News newsletter and hear you on your podcasts during the day say that this term that began two weeks ago or two and a half weeks ago, things are happening at a pace, a speed, and with a sort of policy focus, let's say, even if it's not, you know, like detailed focus, in a way that you have never seen before. And that he has everybody dizzied and on their back heels, Democrats, Republicans, people on the Hill, everywhere, that Trump is innovating, or doing something completely drastically different from what anybody would have expected and where he is going. I take you, not only at your word, but I think you have established that your understanding of the Trump movement and the Trump dynamic and all of that is very deep and old."

"They're very popular with probably 70% of the country. And so it, it, it, it would be one thing if this revolution were, um, for the extreme MAGA base only, it's not very popular in Chevy chase, Maryland."

"Um, he's a, he's a very, uh, uh, angry israeli guy and he and he may have said yeah just raise the place you know it's not that he so that um when when you say there's a lot more going on he has his own yeah you know network he has his own kitchen cabinet what's interesting here is we don't really know who the kids are cabinet is yet outside people whom he is conferring with and you know i i'm struck by this also david brooks katherine rampell a couple of other people have written things and david is like one of my two or three oldest friends but he wrote this piece last week about how trump is stupid he's stupid look how he's doing this he's stupid i'm struck by the fact well you say you know the devil's and he's not really he's not all that detail or things are happening you know some of it he doesn't know all of it you know things are going down the hill i'm struck by how much he knows by which i mean he has these executive order press conference you know where he's signing the executive orders and the press is there and i don't know how he takes that information i gather he doesn't read people say you just have to show him pictures that's you know all this stuff that makes him sound like an idiot you know he only show him a chart you show him a photograph or maybe it's just oral maybe he takes things in through his ears but he he has 10 000 factoids in his head that he can pull off the shelf if you ask him about even one if you try to trip him up about one of these policies about usa the about gender or about what's going on here or there and he can he is not unprepared he is he is conversant he is conversant and you know he that is this i don't know what that what that thing of saying boy he's an idiot is part of his superpower"

"People haven't sort of thought of in terms of reminding Trump, using them to remind people of what they tried to do to him. Alvin Bragg, right. Who secured the 34 convictions against Trump is up for reelection in New York in November for as DA. We have a, we have our mayor, we have our mayoral and local elections here in New York in November."

"And the Democrats also have this weird, they make a terrible mistake. I think is what they're going to do. What they think they can default to in odd ways is like Rachel Maddow. Oh, Rachel Maddow is back on TV five nights a week. She'll do it. That'll be great. But that's all part of the entertainment complex. Stuff. So I don't know. We'll see. I don't, they're not going to be defenseless forever. You know, I mean that, that this is there, they're on their heels and dazed and like on the canvas a little bit, but you know, they're not knocked out."

"Um, I've covered, you know, presidential campaigns, governments, Oklahoma City bombing, OJ Simpson trial. I've covered lots of big, you know, complex stories."