From the New York Times, I'm Michael Balbaro.
This is the Daily.
This week the president falsely claimed that Ukraine started the war against Russia,
ordered independent federal agencies created by Congress to answer directly to him,
and installed himself as as the leader of Washington's premier cultural institution.
To make sense of all of that, I spoke with three of my colleagues.
White House reporter Zolin Kano Youngs,
national security reporter Charlie Savage, and writer at large Elizabeth Buehmiller.
It's Friday, February 21st.
Friends, welcome to the roundtable where we acknowledge week after week that covering this presidency requires multiple minds
in the same room at the same time.
I want to thank you all for being here.
Charlie, thank you.
Zolin, thank you.
Good to see you.
And Elizabeth making your debut here in this format.
Thank you.
And Elizabeth, your resume requires just a little bit of an explanation.
You were, until very recently Charlie and Zolin's boss.
You were the Washington bureau chief overseeing all of our coverage of really the entire federal government