Terry Gross

Writer Maggie O'Farrell has survived some terrifying episodes. She's had a machete pressed to her throat during a robbery, once contracted amoebic dysentery while traveling and nearly bled out while giving birth to her first child.

Journalist Garrett Graff considers Robert Mueller's tenure as FBI director as a way of understanding his approach to the investigation into the Trump campaign and Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Atlantic journalist Franklin Foer says before Manafort became Trump's campaign manager, he rewrote the rules of lobbying and then became entangled in the world of dictators, oligarchs and dirty money.