Alex Isenstadt
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Aug 23, 2026
Marc CaputoGUEST
And so but aside from if you saw like The Daily Beast printed the letter or, or two of the three letters I think that are out there that Harp had written to him at a certain point, which just sort of really express her adoration and devotion for President Trump.
Marc CaputoGUEST
Uh, my colleague, you know, our erstwhile colleague when we worked at Politico, Alex Isenstadt, in his book Revenge: The Story of s- Trump Getting Back to Power, he was the first one to report about, uh, those letters way back when.
Marc CaputoGUEST
He just didn't actually print the copies because they were given to him in an au- in a sort of an advisory capacity.
Tara PalmeriHOST
Uh-huh.
Manu RajuHOST
Is AIPAC support more trouble than it's worth? My panel of political insiders is back, and this is spurred by a story in Axios from yesterday talking about how Mike Rogers apparently asked A- AIPAC to essentially sit out of the general election, not spend and advertise the way they did for Haley Stevens.
Manu RajuHOST
And, uh, the story from our friend Alex Isenstadt says, "The extraordinary tension underscores how far AIPAC's political standing has fallen amid voters' anger of the war in Gaza.
Manu RajuHOST
Even Rogers, a staunchly pro-Israel Republican, fears the group's public support could be a liability in the November el- election."
Tamara KeithPANELIST
Well, it was a liability in the Democratic primary.
Betsy KleinCORRESPONDENT
And this rare appearance really underscores how she's been charting her own path as First Lady, skipping some of those traditional public-facing aspects of the job that are usually expected.
Betsy KleinCORRESPONDENT
Behind the scenes, she's been engaging in more substantive policy work.
Betsy KleinCORRESPONDENT
So for example, in recent weeks she skipped the rescheduled White House Correspondence Dinner, a dignified transfer of service members killed in the war with Iran, as well as the funeral of her husband's very close friend Lindsey Graham, instead spending most of her time in Bedminster and away from that active construction zone at the White House.
Betsy KleinCORRESPONDENT
First Lady poking fun at her absence.