[coughs]

...

Harry, Harry Rosenfeld, my, uh, my late, uh, editor, um, had, had, uh, lived in Germany as a child and, and left after Kristallnacht, uh, with his family and came to the United States and he had a great career here and, and a life here.

Um, he said, "This is not necessarily [laughs] a good thing."

Yes, Soviet mindset.

And, and, you know, I, I've been, you know, just thinking about this that the fact that they, they elected these folks is...

I realize it's not a parallel to MAGA necessarily, but I, you know, i- i- to Ben Rhodes's point, you know, trying to find the American psyche, trying to find the German psyche, trying to find what appeals to people.

What is it that drives people to, uh, throw away, disregard their self-interest, disregard decency and say-

I don't recall-

But didn't the House speaker also say, didn't the House speaker also say, uh, "We will not let them win"?

I, I don't think it's gonna work

...

the small things are fine.

Just do lots of small things.

And I really think people write off the small stuff.

It's a weird

thing.

Platt being booted out of the main race.

Essentially, it's in the same orbit of abuse.

Not a wife in this case, but former girlfriends.

I don't know what to do with that.

Yes, your party should stay as clean as they can.

So the

Talk more about that.

We can't even get straight on the numbers.

The number that I saw, and I was a little alarmed because I saw a number from the Defense Department that was quoted by either the Washington Post or the New York Times of 200 and change.

It was 500.

So far.

And, you know, you talk about a minor concussion.

I mentioned this to my colleagues the other day when we were talking about an editorial on this.

losers.

K- talk more about that

We can't even get straight on the numbers.

I, you know, it's fu- It...

The, the number that I saw, and I, I was a little alarmed because I saw a number from the, from the de- Defense Department that was quoted by, you know, either the Washington Post or The New York Times of 200 and change.

500, yeah

...

so far.

And you know, you talk about a minor, minor concussion.

And he does not seem to recognize that.

I was delighted that Colbert never mentioned his name once.

I mean, he was a staple.

There was plenty of stuff to talk about about Donald Trump every night, and he didn't.

I was waiting for it, and he didn't.

He actually picked pretty trivial news, and I think it was- It was

I

complained about this in the 90s, that we were turning more journalists into public relations people because the pay.