This past week saw the demolition of the entire East Wing of the White House and the redistricting battle intensifying across several key states.

On that and more, we turn now to Brooks and Atkins Store.

That's New York Times columnist David Brooks and Kimberly Atkins Store of the Boston Globe.

Jonathan Capehart is away this evening.

It's great to see you both.

So the remarkable scenes at the White House this week is President Trump greenlit, the total

demolition of the East Wing. You can see it there to make room for a ballroom.

The price for this, the price tag for this, is now grown to some $300 million.

On the screen right there, this is the list that the News Hour has obtained of the private

and corporate sponsors that have contributed to this project.

So David, the last time we talked about this, you said the idea wasn't necessarily a bad

one.

Do you still feel that way now that the East Wing has been reduced to rubble and dust?

Well, I must going to say this.

The photos are shocking.

Because there is something sacred about that building.

And it feels like somebody taking a claw into a wedding cake.

It just feels wrong.

But I have long believed that the White House is just too small.

You know, it's built for John Adams and Abigail Adams,

and people have added wings on since, of course. But it's just the rooms and the West Wing is so sacred you can't touch that.

But the, you know, the Obama's used to have their state dinners out in tents.

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