Chuck Todd

They get caught up in the Trump sort of, whatever you want to call it, right?

And the CIA is fronted by somebody who is a Trumper, John Ratcliffe, who wants to tell Trump what he wants to hear, but can't bring himself to tell him bullshit.

The whirlpool, whatever it is, and you just, the vortex.

And they sort of lose their own identity.

Governor Kemp never did.

Senator Perdue did.

but the president refuses to listen to his own, his own folks on that front.

How did Senator Perdue get caught up in this so much?

So, the next look, I expect the markets to panic a bit.

I mean, I,

I kind of think they've been under panicking, a bit hopeful that somehow, you know, the resilience of the markets in the past, just like they were during the pandemic, just like they have been during the Russia-Ukraine war, that it's going to happen again.

Look, it's an MRI.

I look at the Trump era in this one way, in a very positive way, which is it's been an MRI for me.

Meaning I have learned a lot about people, good, bad, and otherwise, institutions, good, bad, or otherwise, about the problems in our, what I would call our small D democratic infrastructure that need fixing, that have been exposed.

But the lack of a clear resolution, it is, you know, here's what we do know.

The president does not want to restart the war.

You pointed out one in Georgia politics there about how should absentee balloting work?

There's no doubt he probably regrets ever starting it and considering the situation he's in.

Is this a loophole?

You know, he he could have, you know, in hindsight.