Hey, everybody. We got a great one today. You know, for a change. Mark Leibovich, who writes for the

Atlantic Monthly, joins me for the first time since I had him on for the launch of his number one

New York Times bestseller. Thank you for your servitude, which is about how virtually every Republican

office holder fell in line behind Donald Trump after he won in 2016. Even those who had been

viciously critical of him, completely caved. Your Ted Cruz's, your Lindsey Graham's, all of them except Jeff Flake.

He's now gone.

Bob Corker, he left the Senate.

Thank you for your servitude was about how the entire Republican Party just fell in line

behind the sick, sick guy, even though they knew he was a sick, sick monster. And now they all know he's guilty

of the charges brought by the special counsel. If you read the 49-page indictment, it's all there.

Hiding highly classified documents, lying to his lawyers, lying to the government,

showing classified documents to friends while saying,

I shouldn't be showing this to you.

I could have declassified this when I was president,

but I didn't.

And I can't now.

Well,

wait a minute.

He has said he could declassify anything just by thinking it.

Now, if that's the case that he could just classify secret documents just by thinking

about it when he was president, do you really believe he's looking at this document and thinking, hmm, did I think

about declassifying this one or not? Because if I didn't, I better not show it to him,

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