Maggie Haberman

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

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The Rest Is Politics: Leading · 198. How Trump’s Imperial Presidency Really Works · 19 Jul 2026 podcast

There was a related piece too, which is that, yes, he was bewitched by this demonstration by the open AI guys during the campaign.

And so many of the people who were fawning over him were these tech leaders, some of whom he brought into his government.

I mean, you had David Sachs, who has interests as the AIs are.

And so he

It wasn't just, you know, let's get rid of regulations.

It was also let's put these people in charge of this who have serious interests in seeing it go a different way and not be moderated.

Those people are now gone.

And now you are seeing what we understand that, again, this came after the reporting for our book after it closed, but primarily led by Scott Besant, because there are not many people around Trump right now who actually understand A.I.

He has moved back more from internal forces within the government.

I know there is this perception that, you know, we got asked this recently, you know, is this because Steve Bannon is telling him about it?

And it's definitely true that Bannon has a view.

And obviously, Trump is aware of that view and it filters to him.

But that's not that's really not the driver here.

It's it's much more internal forces.

I don't.

What is it?

What is spray on hair?

Oh, it's a big thing in the U.S., actually.

It really is.

Yes, it was CBS, yeah.

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