medication and leave a better president because i'm not part of this deal part one of our panelists, dana milbankt written a new book about all of this. it is called fools on the hill, the hooligans, saboteurs, conspiracy theorists, and dunces, who burned down the house. dana's, of course it's been on our panel all morning. dana, tell us about the book. >> why you wrote it. i think hopefully we we set you up well when some examples of perhaps why this book soul but what do you dig into? what should we be paying attention? >> i was joking with manu raju, who was a couple of those clips yesterday and basically my job was to follow him around capital for a year-and-a-half. >> i want to go where the action is the stuff happened you know, i mean, we've all seen the zany moments, you know, the 15 ballots to get mccarthy in the 22 day shutdown of the house if they kicked out mccarthy ludicrous attempt to impeach biden, and then all of the day-to-day silliness. >> but what i've tried to do is make sort of a compendium of all the crazy, just so you really get everything in here from the fistfights in the

joining me now to discuss is dana milbank syndicated columnist for the washington post. he's also the author of a new book called fools on the hill, the hooligans saboteurs, conspiracy theorists, and dunces,ces, who burned down the house metaphorically. speaking, i think in many of the reichstag, just yet, that's right okay. dana i do want to talk about some of the details of the house which we'll delve into in a moment. but let's talk about vance is a senator. the more civilized, not chamber of congress, but when you see some of the stuff playing on the trail, childless cat ladies baseless allegations of migrants eating cats and dogs. do you see that as a close relative of the dysfunction that you detail so vividly in this book, they're absolutely twins. there's no question about it. i mean, j.d vance talking about a failure to produce for donald trump. well, a failure to produce, i mean, we've now run the numbers this and we're says almost over. it is on track to be the least productive. the do nothing has congress since 18, 60. and of course, i mean, you have to take

let's bring in dana milbank an opinion columnist for the washington post, author of the brand new book, fools on the hill, the hooligans, saboteurs, conspiracy theorists, and dunces, who burned down the house right before republicans narrowly took control of the house following the 2020 midterm elections, dana, you decided to exclusively we cover the house of representatives for your column and this book as a result, first of all, gorgeous barry blood cover beautiful cartoon of matt gaetz, marjorie taylor greene, and the rest. it reads like an annotated transcript of dysfunction from casket, very colorful characters. that you didn't obviously have the lead time to get anthony d'esposito's latest the allegations against him in your book. but as an old washington hand, i've known you now for i don't even know quarter-century, maybe more that. how would you, how would you assess his response to this scandal in terms of what he just did sort of cheap with a phone walking. >> that was typically what they do in these cases, but you know, in the earlier days when we were covering washington,

host: joining us now is dana milbank.is a washington post opinion columnist and author of the book coming out tuesday, ". the hil -- "fools on the hill." good morning. guest: thank you for having me. host: quite a title. i had to make sure i was reading it right. the title gives us a good idea of what it's about but tell us what you focus on and the time period you're looking at. guest: it tells you where i stand, totally with an open mind on how these guys have done. i've been a columnist for the washington post for more than 15 years. i covered congress in the 1990's as an actual beat. i was working for the wall street journal back then. i had not been there on a daily basis. it was october of 2022, i did a piece on just the lineup of really unusual characters, particularly on the republican side, who were running for the house and i said this is going to be interesting. i covered capitol hill for all of 2023 and the early part of this year. i wrote my weekly column about the things that happened there and then i assemb

host: joining us now is dana milbank.e is a washington post opinion columnist and author of the book coming out tuesday, ". the hil -- "fools on the hill." good morning. guest: thank you for having me. host: quite a title. i had to make sure i was reading it right. the title gives us a good idea of what it's about but tell us what you focus on and the time period you're looking at. guest: it tells you where i stand, totally with an open mind on how these guys have done. i've been a columnist for the washington post for more than 15 years. i covered congress in the 1990's as an actual beat. i was working for the wall street journal back then. i had not been there on a daily basis. it was october of 2022, i did a piece on just the lineup of really unusual characters, particularly on the republican side, who were running for the house and i said this is going to be interesting. i covered capitol hill for all of 2023 and the early part of this year. i wrote my weekly column about the things that happened there and then i asse

. >>> let's go to dana milbank, my washington post columnist. ew book, "fools on the hill." dana, because of breaking news, as you well know, we don't have much time as i hoped that we would have. but talk about why you wanted to write this book? and how the title fits. >> well, i'm a beatles fan. but the fool on the hill is actually not so much of a fool. he knows what's going on. these guys, not so much. this congress is on course right now if you look at those numbers to be the least side of a civil war. and i started covering beforehand. that's before we even knew george santos was a household name. and they didn't disappoint. you know, kicking out the speaker midterm. shutting the house down for 22 days to find another one. the botched impeachment of joe biden. and george santos. >> the great thing, dana, about you and your writing is, you know, you've been covering these jokers for a long, long time. you are there every day, and you see them. so i can't wait to one, read your book, but then to have you on the show for a longer period of tim

and dana milbank, "washington post" columnist and author of fools on the hill, the hooligans, sab atours, conspiracy theorists and dunces who burned down the house. both books were published today. i want to congratulate our authors here. i have my handy dandy copy of fools on the hill. i blurbed it so you know it's good. let me come to you at the table first. this is a man, donald trump, who hosted at his home, his personal home, a nazi sympathizer who was among those who stormed the capitol, those are the people he said he wants to pardon. he's called good people. this man's name is timothy hale case anelly. trump appeared on video at this event. that is the kind of people trump is now openly surrounding himself by, and now he's doing hitler talk openly on the campaign trail. >> you're right. and my colleague catherine rampell, what she said is right. he's not shying from these comparisons. he's inviting these comparisons. that was absolutely chilling, the litany that you just went through here. i think it's important to understand and why it should be particularly alarming to the worl

is back with me and joining us now is dana milbank.rand new book fools on the hill. the conspiracy theories and dunces who burn down the house. which we'll talk about a little later in the show. gentlemen. so we just saw that crack on donald trump. but everyone tuning into saturday night live last night was waiting to see if maya rudolph would come back as kamala harris and she did. watch this. >> i am so happy to be campaigning in whatever swing state i'm in which i will just refer to as wisconsin pensavigeorgia. because i am going to protect your vageorgia. going to prote >> we don't have a vwhole lot of time so i'm going to squeeze in one more before we talk. and that is, boing yang going out there as j.d. vance. >> i'm sure you know what the social media has been saying about me. i'm a creep, i'm a weirdo. what am i doing here. i'm telling you what i'm doing here, getting this crowd hyped. >> woo. >> yeah you guys are awesome. >> so dana you covered these folks every day for the washington post. did boing yang get it right. is sena

dana milbank puts it in "the washington post," fox news sane washes trump, setting the tone for the entirease study in how the dominant news organization of the right cleans up trump's messages. when president joe biden had his disastrous debate, liberal commentators ultimately forced him out of the race. but when trump had what was objectively a bad night, fox news led a movement to claim it did not happen. we're back with frank figliuzzi and andrew weissman. frank, i remember being startle -- and you were already regular. andrew weissman was still in the government. we didn't have access to him yet -- when donald trump stood before supporters at the beginning of his presidency and said to him, don't believe what you see. don't believe what you hear. only believe me. and it came after describing the press as enemies of the press. but when you put those two pieces together very early in his presidency, it was clear that he wanted to annihilate truth and facts and replace it with his delusions and his fiction. and what's interesting to me -- and perhaps i shouldn't be surprised by it -- is

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