Well, it has been a busy first week for the Trump administration to delve into what President

Trump has prioritized since reentering the White House.

We turn tonight to the analysis of Brooks and Capehart.

That is New York Times columnist David Brooks and Jonathan Capehart, Associate Editor for the

Washington Post.

It's good to see you both.

Thank you.

So President Trump is acting on his campaign promises at the quickest pace in recent memory.

Jonathan, what do these past few days suggest to you about how the next few years might go?

Well, look, all the things he's doing from the pace to what exactly, specifically he's

doing, he told us.

He told us exactly how these first few days were

going to go so that is not what's what's surprising what is surprising to me is just sort of the

level of meanness in some parts smallness in other parts but also aggressiveness in other ways and I'm

thinking about his moves on immigration,

his moves of snatching the security details from Pompeo,

Bolton, Bolton, and Dr. Fauci.

I mean, this is, it is startling.

But I also, politically, I understand why he's moving so quickly and so broadly.

Because the clock is ticking.

His term is four years on paper.

But the way politics runs in this town and in this country, he's got a, he's got maybe a year

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