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This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about

politics. It's Friday, January 4th. I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of the New Yorker.

President Trump started the year in turmoil. His demands for funding for a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border sparked a shutdown of the federal government.

His plan to withdraw troops from Syria was met with opposition within his own party,

and his Secretary of Defense, James Mattis, resigned in protest.

The Dow had had its worst December since the Great Depression,

Democrats took over the House of Representatives, and newly elected Republican Senator Mitt Romney

published an excoriating op-ed in the Washington Post, rebuking the president's personal

behavior and criticizing his policy agenda. Here's Romney speaking with CNN's Jake Tapper.

I'm looking to try and represent things I think our country needs at a critical time.

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