We continue our conversation with Maggie Haberman, whose recent book with fellow New York Times journalist Jonathan Swan, Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump, digs into the handling of the Epstein files and the president’s decision to wage war on Iran.

Haberman says Trump “basically ignored many of his own advisers and just went ahead” with the war on Iran after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed regime change would be easily accomplished during a briefing in the Situation Room.

“This is a government run by … about a half-dozen people, give or take,” says Haberman. The way Trump has been operating the government during his second term is “a form of regime change in our own country,” says Haberman. “This is a reimagining of the U.S. presidency, an expansion of executive power on a level we have not seen before in modern history, in some ways ever.”