he's made him a focus of his eyre, and i expect that will continue, brianna, after we leave the midtermsrefer a full rhetorical embrace? >> i think one, he would prefer a full rhetorical embrace. another is that mcconnell was very, very critical of donald trump's role of the january 6th riots at the capitol. he gave a pretty blistering speech, and i think trump reacted to that aggressively. these were never people, brianna, who had much in common. mcconnell clearly didn't think much of donald trump but did accept that he was the leader of the republican party and tried to get what policy initiatives he believed in through. donald trump i think knew that mitch mcconnell did not think very highly of him and reacted to that. >> you also have interesting reporting in the book about what is, i guess, sort of casual racism and homophobia and instances even where donald trump assumes people of color are there for a certain role and they are not. >> number one, yes. i think one of the drive-throughlines of the book, and this book, i want to make clear, is a look at a life, a look at how we got t