Michael Cohen is going to jail as more federal investigations into Donald Trump open up. Will the people who voted Trump into the White House finally see him for who he is? Or will they defend the president until the final, bitter end? Joel Stein, a journalist, author, and comedy writer, who recently spent a week in the most pro-Trump town in America, joins Nick to explain what’s really going on inside the minds of the MAGA true believers.

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