I think it really gets back to and you know, and I do like by the way, ego not service. It's about power or the connection to power, the distance to power. Who has the power? Where's the power? How do I get the power? And that's really what it is. Unfortunately, there are just a lot of people that are kind of going, well, I can be a, you know, finance bro, or I can head to DC and I can try and make myself look important. But unfortunately, it is about this. There's something about that power.
From the verdict in Trump’s sexual assault case to the Santos indictment and the Supreme Court saga, scandal is rife in Washington. Today we turn to the OG: Watergate, as examined in the new HBO series, “White House Plumbers.” Writers and creators Peter Huyck and Alex Gregory and director David Mandel discuss how the show compares to their last collab (“Veep”), trace a line between the blind allegiance to Nixon in the 1970s and the “Big Lie” of 2020 and contemplate what a Trump scandals series may look like 50 years from now would be like (think: Timothée Chalamet as Rudy Giuliani).
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