Welcome to the Dispatch podcast.

I'm Steve Hayes.

We're joined this week by Mark Liebovich, author of Thank You

for Your Servitude, Donald Trump's Washington

and the Price of Submission.

Great conversation with Mark about the book,

about his reporting.

We get into a question that we tackle quite a bit

on this podcast.

Why did the Republicans who have supported

and enabled Donald Trump do what they have done?

And we get some very interesting answers from Mark

through the course of this book.

Mark is a staff writer with The Atlantic.

He had a 2013 book called This Town, Two Parties

and a Funeral, plus plenty of ballet parking in America's

Gilded Capital, which was a critical look at Washington, DC

and how it operates.

Number one, New York Times Best Seller.

This book is a best seller as well.

And at the end of the conversation,

Mark and I get into football a little bit.

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