Few people in Washington today have more power and influence than Stephen Miller.

He's the architect of the Trump administration's hardline immigration policy, and he's the president's enforcer,

making sure that the MAGA elite and the cabinet stay true to Trump's vision.

Tonight, a close look at the beliefs and the record of Stephen Miller. Next.

Good evening and welcome to Washington Week. We're going to do something a little bit

different tonight. We're going to try to understand some of the most important and disruptive

Trump policies through the prism of one aid, Stephen Miller.

He's no ordinary aid, as you all know. He's been with Trump since the beginning of his

improbable run as the 21st century's most important political leader, and no one seems to

understand the president and his impulses better than Miller. He's also a revolutionary.

His ideas come from far outside what we used to

think of as the Republican mainstream, and he's a vociferous uncompromising advocate for policies

that only a few years ago would have been deemed unworkable and extreme. Joining me tonight are four

reporters who have covered Miller for years and know him well. Leanne Caldwell is the Chief Washington correspondent at Puck.

McKay Coppins is a staff writer at the Atlantic.

Zolan Cano Young is a White House correspondent at the New York Times.

And Ashley Parker is a staff writer, also at the Atlantic.

Thank you all for joining me.

All of you have covered Miller for years you've

written a lot about Miller. Ashley, you very recently land very recently. But I want to just start

at the beginning. McKay, why don't I go to you because you wrote the sort of definitive

early profile of Stephen Miller in 2018.

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