Hello and welcome to the Bullwark podcast. I'm your host Tim Miller. Delighted to welcome back. Staff writer at The New Yorker, which is a weekly column on life in Washington. She's also a host of the magazine's Political Scene podcast, co-author most recently of

the divider, Trump in the White House, with her husband Peter Baker.

She was also Moscow bureau chief of the Washington Post.

It's Susan Glasser.

How you doing, Susan?

Hey, Tim.

Great to be with you.

Too much to talk about, I'm afraid.

Much to discuss. Where are you coming at us from? You in D.C. right now? No, I'm with my mom up in Massachusetts, so escaping the

occupied city for a few days. All right. Well, we'll have something to discuss about the occupied

city and, you know, the troops hanging out outside Krispy Kreme and Georgetown Cupcake, keeping the

people safe. But first, we're going to discuss Lisa Cook, which is the big news of last night.

Trump has posted a bleat, I guess, that he's going to remove the Federal Reserve Governor

Lisa Cook, effective immediately. By law, he can only fire her for cause. He is citing accusations

that she has two primary mortgages, I guess, though she's not been charged with any crime.

Cook has a statement out this morning saying that she is refusing to resign, just going to take

him to court. She's the first black woman to be a Fed governor, I think,

is worth noting. I think this is of a pace with, you know, your last article about Trump's

retribution and the, you know, creeping authoritarian aspirations that he has. But I was wondering

your reaction. Yeah, I mean, there's so much to unpacked there.

I mean, first of all, let's just say that Donald Trump, the first convicted felon to serve as

president. His conviction was recently upheld, although the enormous civil fine in a court was

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