fallout from the third alleged assassination attempt of President Trump, another indictment of a former FBI director, and a consequential Supreme Court ruling made it a busy week in politics.

To discuss that all, we turn now to the analysis of Brooks and K. Part. That is the Atlantics David Brooks and Jonathan K. Hart of MS now. Great to see you both.

Let's start with the White House Correspondents Center because we know a lot more now than we did a week ago when it first happened. We know about the suspect, his alleged plans. We've seen the video examined from multiple angles. We've also seen conspiracy theories abound that it was a staged event to distract from President Trump's lower approval ratings or help him to fuel this argument to build a ballroom.

But David, almost a week after the event,

how are you looking back on it and what it meant

and what it changed, if anything?

I look at it as part of a climate of rising violence,

both against, obviously, against Donald Trump,

but against all of us, against the climate

of verbal violence that seems

omnipresent.

There are certain moments in history when you get these rising climates of violence.

I'm thinking of the period around the Rehundredth Revolution.

I'm thinking of Reconstruction.

I'm thinking the 1970s, the older viewers, if we have any, may remember that the Bider-Meynhoff gang, the Red Guards.

When I was a little kid in Grace Church School in New York, I overheard the weathermen

accidentally blow themselves up in a townhouse.

That was a period.

You get these moments when there's low sense of legitimacy for ruling institutions

and a great sense that we don't have any shared values.

And then people just resort to violence. And we're clearly in one of those periods, and I look at the

2028 election with a great sense of foreboding. And if you look at who thinks violence is justified,

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