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Power, revenge, vanity, corruption. Those are not the usual or normal words anyone thinks of

to describe the United States president. But it is those prevailing themes that leap off every

single page in a brand new book about Donald Trump's second term as president.

Regime change inside the imperial presidency of Donald Trump.

It is written by two New York Times reporters who have contributed enormously to what we as the public know about Donald Trump and his inner circle.

Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan are those journalists.

On every page, the book reveals something that in normal times would be scandalous and big news,

kind of stories we'd talk about for the whole two hours on this show.

And there are dozens of them in here. Dozens of carefully reported accounts of

Donald Trump pushing or ignoring norms and boundaries as those in his orbit do nothing over and over

again to resist his worst impulses. Take, for example, the monumental decision to launch a war

with Iran earlier this year.

On that, Haberman and Swan report this.

They write about how in February Donald Trump met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

inside the Situation Room, which was weird in and of itself, as they report.

Quote, the Situation Room had rarely been visited by a

foreign leader in person for such a sensitive meeting. Inside the sit room, Netanyahu presented

his case for attacking Iran on which Trump was then sold. And when Trump's team met afterwards to

discuss the plan's feasibility, here's how that went. Quote, when Trump joined the meeting, Ratcliffe briefed him on the U.S. intelligence

assessment of Netanyahu's presentation.

The CIA director used one word to describe the Israeli prime minister's regime change scenario.

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