Jessica Tarlov

Bang, bang, bang.

Three things?

Three things would be the slowest news day of the Trump administration.

It's like 10 things on a daily basis.

And I'm

I'm feeling like I can't keep up and this responsibility to the people out there who depend on us, right, to be a good filter for this and to have a well-informed perspective.

And I don't want to let people down either with a rush to judgment about some of these things.

They're complicated issues too.

And so I'm stressed.

How are you?

It's definitely alarming.

Yeah, I was going to say, since you gave me those two options, like, are these big stories or am I just depressed?

And I was leaning towards just big stories, but now I'm like, we got to get you to a doctor.

I like it, though.

It's a good dramatic effect at the top of the episode.

But while you were talking, it made me think about...

just even the history of what's gone on during the Trump administration in terms of sharing secrets and all of the interplay between the administration and foreigners from getting them to stay at Trump International in D.C., what we know from the Mar-a-Lago documents case that Jack Smith had, which, you know, most people admit Republican or Democrat was the most ironclad case, right, where he had all...

all of our secrets sitting in ballrooms and in bathrooms.

And there was a story about the Australian billionaire who was there that was talking about our submarine capacities, too, because everything's just a big party, right?

And no matter what's going on in the world, you show up at Mar-a-Lago and there's a girl in a martini glass, right?