Maggie Haberman

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255 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 19 Jul

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And so all of this helped fuse the conditions for what happened.

Plus, this is a president in his second term.

who is operating so much on pure gut.

And he had a good feeling about this.

He told advisors he believed that the Iranian regime was a paper tiger, that this would go quickly.

That obviously did not come to pass.

But it is not because Trump did not have warnings from his own team.

He listened to both and he knew where he wanted to go.

A, I don't know why he sat down with us other than the fact that it was something his advisors told him not to do.

We had been asking for an interview for many, many weeks because he's the subject of our book.

We needed to give him the opportunity to talk.

There are certain things that we needed to take directly to him.

So that was one piece.

We were getting nowhere going through the front door of the White House press office.

So we eventually messaged him directly on his cell phone.

And it took multiple times of doing that before he instructed his staff to set up an interview.

Yeah, entirely true.

It's the most known and used cell phone number of a high power person that I've ever known of.

No, I mean, I really like and you can go really down the list.

It's not just the White House press corps.

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