From fresh tensions between the U.S. and Ukraine to town hall backlash to major cuts to the federal workforce.

We turn now to the analysis of Brooks and Capehart. That's New York Times columnist David Brooks and Jonathan Capehart, Associate Editor for the Washington Post.

It's great to have you here, as always. So let's start with Ukraine. No one expected Donald Trump to handle global

affairs like his predecessors, but he has fully adopted Russia's false propaganda on Ukraine,

calling Zelensky a dictator, falsely stating that it was Ukraine that started the war,

rhetorically turning against a democracy that was invaded in favor of the invader. What are the implications,

Steve? Yeah, it's pretty revolutionary. I mean, I think first you can say goodbye to NATO.

NATO is really built around Article 5, the promise we make to each other that we will defend each

other. And I don't think Trump is going to defend anybody else. But I think the bigger story

is a shift in values, that American foreign policy and Western

foreign policy has been built around democracy promotion, human dignity, human rights.

And so we banded together to sort of promote those causes.

Donald Trump doesn't see that world that way.

He sees the world as a place where ruthless mafiosos get to do what they can.

There's a famous line from the Peloponnesian

wars that strong do what they can, the weak suffer what they must. And so I think in Donald Trump's

world, there are three ruthless mafioso countries. Russia will have hegemony over its region.

We will have hegemony over our region, and China will have a hegemony over their region.

And so anything that gets in the way of ruthless

mafioso is being eliminated. And some of that is international alliances. But some of this is just

the idea that you shouldn't interfere in other people's elections. And some of it is the idea that you

shouldn't be able to invade neighboring countries. And so all those rules are being rewritten by a somebody

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