Hello there I'm Chuck Todd. This is the Chuck Todd cast. So this past week has been a stream of

partisan bickering, as if that's different from any other week.

Decksealing negotiations or lack thereof in Capitol Hill,

the debate over Supreme Court ethics

with Clarence Tom.

And the state houses censoring dissenting voices

in places like Montana and Tennessee. The question is where in the

world are the moderates they exist but does anybody want them involved?

And for the few we can point to like Romney Romney and cinema, are they here to stay?

I'm joined now by author and journalist Robert Draper.

He recently wrote a profile and actually appears

to have gotten an actual time with Kirsten Cinema,

the elusive one, and he did this for the New York Times.

Mr. Draper, it's good to see you.

Good to see you, Chuck.

You have a pretty good track record of getting iconicastic people to talk.

And I always think it's because you sort of,

you would have been one, had you been as iconicastic, right?

Who knows?

I mean, I've been accused of that before.

Yeah.

I know you've been described that way, and I'm like, I don don't know if he is I've spent too much time with you to see it's more that

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