Jon Lovett

a better opportunity to put pressure on and have real conversations with someone you've worked with closely.

I was about to say, it depends on sort of ignoring what the actual reality is of the Trump administration and what happens once people are in there and the pressure they're under, because whatever relationship you had before, they become,

no matter what they're saying behind the scenes, beholden to Stephen Miller and Donald Trump, the inability to be publicly critical of them, the inability to defy them and all the consequences after that.

And so you have people that have expressed their regrets about voting for Noem and you have people that have expressed their regrets about voting for Rubio, yet not learning that lesson from their colleagues when they decide they're gonna vote for this guy.

So I think it's, I think you,

Not holding the line against these people is always something people regret.

Exhale through the drive phase.

Through the drive phase.

That's a reference.

Just for the three of us.

Literally no one else.

You're right, though.

He's going to be a disaster.

Yeah, he's going to be a disaster, but he's spotted them.

He's helped them really kind of crush their lats and their delts.

Yes.

It's a shocking, brazen corruption scheme where people are either obliquely or directly suggesting that if you want a government contract, Corey Lewandowski has to get his bequet.

They all deny it, but they have a lot of sources, including sources at the White House, that are validating this story.

I don't remember if it was NBC or in The Times, but I thought one telling point was

people inside the white house or inside the administration considering whether or not to do an investigation or take some kind of action are worried that if they do trump will publicly come out in defense of lewandowski this was this was my concern that i expressed on friday's spot it's crazy you know i was like let's not maybe let's not talk about it until after trump leaves office if we're going to go after lewandowski everyone should just quiet down until he can't pardon him and