Welcome to Inside the Hive. I am your host Nick Bilton. So we are returning to

Trump World this week with the one, the only Gabriel Sherman, who is a special

correspondent for Vanity Fair, a very, very special one. He covers the White

House politics, Rudy Giuliani, Donald, boring Trump.

He's not boring, he's just annoying.

And all things media related and I'm very, very excited to welcome him back to the show.

Gabe are you there? I am here. Where are you right now? Are you reporting live from

Donald Trump's underwear drawer? Where are you?

That's an image. I'm going to try to banish from my mind. I am in live from Vanity Fair's offices on the 41st floor of One World Trade Center in sunny New York.

Well, we flipped the weather.

So, okay, I'm going to jump right in.

I think it's, what are we on, like like day 9,642 of the government shut down and it

doesn't seem to be coming anywhere even close to a resolution.

We have a ton of questions about a big story you broke this week

but I just want to jump into the to the shutdown. What are you hearing? What's going to happen is how is this going to end because it doesn't seem like Pelosi's going to back down and it doesn't seem like Trump is?

You know that's the question everyone is asking including people inside the West Wing. You know the reality is is that

when Trump declared on TV weeks ago during his televised press event with Pelosi and Chuck Schumer that he'd be

proud to own the shutdown. That was like the classic off-the-cuff Trump remark there was no strategic sort of

plan behind that and now they're in the situation where they're in the

shutdown they went Trump went into it with no blueprint for how to get out of it, and he's

digging in, both sides are digging in. Obviously the political landscape is more favorable

to the Democrats. You know, polls show more people to the Democrats.

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