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Hey, James, our guest is Elizabeth Bue Miller, once with the Washington Post, chiefly with

the New York Times. She's been a foreign correspondent, White House reporter, political reporter, among other assignments,

and for almost 10 years directed the New York Times Washington Bureau,

which under her leadership did some of the most important stories of our era.

She now, she's free at last.

She's back to her reporting.

And this week, she wrote about fear and loathing in Washington that faces the Trump wrecking ball.

Elizabeth, that was a fabulous story.

And with a change of administration, there always are people leaving and people coming in different policies and different programs.

But your story describes something far different and more radical.

Yes.

What I have learned just from being a reporter since January 1st is how sort of the culture of silence and fear in Washington and beyond

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