Michael Weiss

And I hope Republicans realize that this is a very tall order here that's kind of asked of them.

There is some encouragement, too.

Frankly, I just put out a poll that the Vandenberg Coalition did about Trump voters on Ukraine.

And, you know, every metric and every question asked of those, upwards of 70% are in a traditional Republican orientation.

So pro-Ukraine, they see Russia as the villain.

They want to send tomahawks to Ukraine.

They want to send more weapons and aid.

They don't want to lift sanctions, and they don't want Ukraine to have to give up land.

So that's interesting.

This is supposed to be a populist president, but he isn't really channeling the opinions of the people on this, or certainly not his own constituency.

We wrote about it, the insider.

I mean, Epstein is one of, well, obviously, a deeply dark human being in many respects, but somebody who had amassed a level of wealth

and connections with the elites of the world that, in a way, it's not surprising to see him kind of mobbed up with everybody.

I mean, those emails read like the text equivalent of the Star Wars cantina scene, a wretched hive of scum and villainy.

He knows everybody.

And I think he was briefing –

Was it the Russian ambassador to the United States on how to understand and how to read Trump?

Perhaps it was Lavrov himself.

I forget the details.

Right.