Michelle Cottle

And it's really appalling, but they paint this with so much compassion.

And just the different families all have these different challenges that they're working with.

And I'm only about halfway through.

So already, I think, highly recommend it.

That has to be a piece of this, David.

You have to have swords.

And the occasional dragon.

I have questions.

We'll talk about these offline about the Targaryens in this, but we're going to say goodbye for the week.

Thank you so much, as always, for helping me solve the world's troubles.

I'm Michelle Cottle.

I cover national politics for New York Times Opinion.

And today we are switching things up a little bit.

I am joined by my fantastic colleagues, David French and Nick Kristof.

Welcome to the Roundtable, Nick.

You are our first player from the Pacific Northwest.

The wilds of Oregon, where I hope the weather is better than it has been here.

But we got a lot of ground to cover today, guys.

I want to talk about the Epstein files from the perspective of Nick's decades-long reporting on sex trafficking.

But first, we want to dig into Trump's foreign policy moves, which is also perfect for Nick, given his years of reporting from around the globe.