Okay, Jeff, you get invited to the Oval Office.
Yes.
By a guy.
By a guy.
Who has referred to you as a total sleazebag and the editor of a failing magazine.
Yeah.
How did you expect he would receive you?
Like, as you were going over there, what did you think was going to happen?
80% he would be full charm offensive.
20% he would start yelling at me.
This is The Atlantic's editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, talking about Donald Trump, of course.
I figured that people on the staff, on his team,
might be a little dubious about this whole operation.
And they were.
That was facially obvious, as they say.
But no, him, I figured, I kind of guessed this correctly,
I figured he was bringing me over there to try to charm me.
This is Radio Atlantic.
I'm Hannah Rosen.
Not long before Jeff and Atlantic staff writers Michael Shearer and Ashley Parker met in the Oval Office on Thursday,