Michael Weiss

It's like a Robert Caro-esque thing, you know.

another five years here, another six years there.

Eventually we'll make it though.

Volume one.

So I haven't slept very much in the last week for reasons I'm sure we'll get into on the show, but I was about to say the birds have been silenced, but that sounds way more menacing than I meant.

I just meant that I closed the door to my daughter's room.

Yeah, I think he's very weak.

He's vulnerable.

He's abstracted from a lot of things that you would expect the president to be well across.

Not really a details-oriented guy to begin with, but even now, more kind of checked out.

The fact that he lost a fight with his own party for the first time, really, over the Epstein stuff, I think is interesting, because that directly impacts him.

I mean, I was going to say, and his credibility, but...

He has no credibility.

It's something he didn't want to see come out there, right?

Because it's embarrassing and compromising.

But he sort of rolled over on it.

And I mean, the question I've been asking is,

you have seen now, you know, Republicans kind of come out very nervously, and in some cases, such as Mitch McConnell, a little bit aggressively, to say, wait a minute, like, what are we doing here with the Russians?

Like, there should not be any kind of dismal peace agreement imposed on Ukraine, no territorial concessions.

So it seems like perhaps for the first time, the Republicans have realized, if we're going to go to the mattresses with Trump over a