Maggie Haberman & Jonathan Swan: "Regime Change"

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Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan have the hottest political book in the country right now.

Perhaps you're already reading it.

Chances are you've seen them during their rollout thus far.

It is called Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump.

Both are, of course, White House correspondents for The New York Times.

This book is the result of three years of effort, during the course of which they conducted more than 1,000 interviews.

The focus, ultimately, of the book, the first year of Trump 2.0. Maggie, nice to see you.

Jonathan, thank you so much for being here.

Michael, thanks for having us.

Thanks, Michael.