Jonathan Swan

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362 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 15 Jul

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And this sort of awkward exchange ensues where Hakeem Jeffries asks Vice President Vance, who is there, are you okay with this?

you know, obviously given he's the successor and he sort of says no comment.

So that was the vibe.

It was just the meeting ended up achieving nothing.

Trump seemed to be basically focused on creating a spectacle, embarrassing the Democrats, wielding power, flexing, but nothing came of it.

And of course, then the government shut down.

That's exactly right.

And, you know, one thing we try to do with the book is not just tackle –

the weighty issues like Iran, but actually give people a real intimate sense of what life is like inside the White House.

And, you know, we have a lot of stuff about his private life inside the residence and the way meetings tend to work.

Yeah, I mean, anyone who uses the word meeting might think that a meeting has a beginning and an end and is sort of locked up.

In a calendar, you might say the meeting begins at 10.30, it ends at 10.45.

These are the people that will attend.

Here's the agenda.

In previous presidencies, it's even more rigid than that.

George W. Bush used to schedule himself in 10 or 15-minute increments.

Obama, too.

That is not how it works with Trump.

Meetings have no beginning, middle, or end.

There's almost no delineation.

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