Mark Halperin

I enjoyed it so much and delighted that Andrew will be here with us.

We're going to talk about AI.

how he uses it in his life, and how he sees it for the country.

We're going to talk about this concept much discussed, the Epstein class.

Who are they and what should be done about them?

And then I'm going to talk to him about the future of America.

He's thought a lot about what Donald Trump has done to the country from his point of view.

We're going to talk about who would be his ideal to come next.

Before we talk to Andrew, though,

I've been doing a lot of reporting lately on what I think is one of the most undercovered stories, both now in the context of the Epstein files, but also as we think about people running for president in 2028, a topic we talk about here quite a bit, of course.

I'm going to take you inside my reporting, both that I've done this week, but also that I've been doing for a very long time around the Epstein files, and then going all the way back to the start of my career covering

national politics is the shifting standards, sometimes a double standard, sometimes even a triple standard that seems to apply in different ways to different people in public life when it comes to scandal, controversy, disclosure.

We've seen people commit offenses in the context of running for office or being in office that just aren't treated differently.

Two people can jaywalk and one gets a death penalty and the other just keeps walking.

I'm going to explain as best I can how this has worked in the past, how it's working now,

and how it may work in 2028.

My reported monologue is next up.

Small businesses are the backbone of the American economy, but getting funding from traditional banks

can be an uphill battle.

Of the 36 million small businesses in the U.S., over 70% report needing additional capital each and every year.