Hello from Washington, I'm Chuck Todd and this is the Chuck Todd cast.

Sometime in the future, if you want to remind yourself what life was like during the Trump

administration.

You can think back to today and you'd have a good sense of how Washington operated.

Let's go through the last 24 hours.

We received new reporting that the president is talking about partying and partening himself

and his children.

A federal judge on sealed documents outlining a potential bribery for pardoned skiing.

Meanwhile, almost a month after the election, the attorney general rebuffed the president's

claims of voter fraud while also squeezing in an announcement that a politically motivated

investigation into Russia will continue into the next administration decision Mr. Bar

May in October, but didn't announce until after the election.

And that's not even counting the president's threats to veto defense spending, the log

jam over COVID relief, the impending government funding deadline, I could throw the census

in there for good measure as well.

But maybe the most moving comment came from Georgia, where a Republican election official

pleaded with electoral elected leaders to stop stoking distrust and democracy and detailed

death threats and harassment that vote counting officials have faced.

It all adds up to a field of little fires and more than Trump's rallies, the Twitter

attacks or the constant disinformation, it's at low grade widespread chaos that are Trump's

hallmark as president.

So joining me today, Reid Epstein, politics reporter at the New York Times and Janet Hook,

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