Inside The White House’s Epstein Crisis—The Weekly
Susan Del Percio (crisis communications expert) joins host Ron Steslow to examine what becomes of a populist movement once it captures the institutions it was built to attack.
They begin with the Epstein files and a new book from New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan about the White House’s behind-the-scenes scramble to respond, including a Situation Room damage control meeting, and why the leaked recording of that meeting is more alarming still.
Next, they widen the lens to populism’s paradox, what happens when a movement built to distrust institutions takes them over…
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