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If you followed the daily machinations, crises, doings and wrong-doings of the Trump White House in the New York Times, then you surely read Maggie Haberman’s articles. The Pulitzer Prize winning journalist covered Trump and his associates relentlessly, and in her new book, Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America, she explores the phenomenon of Trump, his relationships that shaped his life and way of thinking. She covers the women and wives to fixers and business associates– transactional relationships that benefited whatever it was that he pursued at that moment. Haberman posits that Trump’s motivations have been ruled by what’s in it for him, for the long term and in the short run. It is clear that the Trump Era is not over.

In conversation with Todd Purdum. Todd Purdum has covered numerous beats for the New York Times, including the White House. He was a senior writer for Politico, and a staff writer at The Atlantic. He’s also an author, and teaches journalism at USC’s Annenberg School for Communications and Journalism.