Trump’s intimidation playbook and a presidential middle finger

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  Dan, you actually are the only reporter who has spoken to the guy who yelled out.

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  Yes.

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  How is he feeling being on the receiving end of a presidential middle finger?

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  Quite proud.

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  From the Newsroom of the Washington Post, this is Post Report's weekly Politics Roundtable.

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  I'm Colby Echoitz.

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  It's Friday, January 16th.

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  There were several examples this week that really showed how Trump and the Trump administration respond to critics and their perceived enemies.

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  And so today we're going to talk about, first, the FBI raid of our colleague's home.

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  And then we're going to talk about the prosecution of Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell.

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  We'll also get into the continued fallout from the Minneapolis ice shooting,

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  how that probe is gone, and why it led to six top prosecutors quitting their jobs.

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  And finally, we'll talk about Trump in Detroit and how he gave the finger to a heckler.

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  I'm thrilled to be back at the table with Dan Merica.

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  He is the co-anchor of our politics newsletter, The Early Brief.

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  And we have Matt Weiser, the post-White House bureau chief.

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  Guys, thanks for being here.

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  Happy to be here.

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  Good to be here.

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  So I want to start with, you know, news that rattled our newsroom on Wednesday.

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