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slash setup welcome to the atlantic interview I'm Jeffrey Goldberg the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic and for our last Welcome to The Atlantic Interview.

I'm Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic.

And for our last episode of 2017, I'm talking with Maggie Haberman of the New York Times,

a great White House correspondent, one of the greatest of her generation.

We're going to be talking about a whole bunch of things, including and especially Donald Trump's character, his origins, Maggie's Fear of Flying. We're talking about a whole

bunch of things, including Glenn Thrush, her writing partner, who was suspended by the New York

Times recently. Right after we taped this episode, the Times announced that he'd be coming back to work in January, although not on the White House beat. So here we go.

Hello, Maggie. Hi, Jeffrey. And we're meeting on the day that it seems as if Donald Trump is going to get his biggest legislative victory so far on the tax package.

But I want to just do certain housekeeping items.

One is that Maggie and I know each other for a long time.

So this is not like a – this is journalism, but it's sort of like two people talking.

It's people who know each other having a conversation with large microphones.

And we're shouting down the table at each other about New York politics. Correct. First of all,

congratulations on all your success this year. You're America's number one reporter. Thanks. I don't

think that's true, but thank you. You are the go-to person to understand the mind of Donald Trump and his decision-making and how

this administration works, and that's great. And I wanted to talk to you about something that

we've talked about a little bit in the past, which is our particular New York-based understanding

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