For more on the drama in Washington from the search for a house speaker to the

president's plea for national security funding, we turn to the analysis of

Brooks and K-PART, that's New York Times columnist David Brooks, and Jonathan

K-PART, associate editor for The Washington Post. It's good to see you both.

Let's start with the chaos and paralysis on Capitol Hill, starting with you,

David, your reaction to Congressman Jim Jordan losing his third vote for

speaker, and then ultimately being booted from House Republicans from the race

entirely. Yeah, loss of a great statement. You know, to me it's two things. First,

it's become clear that the party is like a coalition between two different

parties. There's like the Trump party, which Jeffrey obviously is obviously an

example of, but then there are still some some pre-Trump Republicans in there,

and they're angry. And so they've been pushed around and pushed around, and

frankly a lot of them have been motivated by threats of by death threats, and

they're sick of it. And so they're saying nobody's pulling us around anymore.

So they've stood up for themselves, and so now we have two blocks that are really

irreconcilable, almost with each other, with as much chaos and madness and hatred in

public as it's possible to imagine. And then the underlying cause is that you

have a rise in group Republicans who have no loyalty to the institutions and

its norms. And so normally you lose to Steve Scalise, your speakers race, well

you rally around them because it's for the good of the party, it's for the good

of the institution, but those rules don't apply anymore. And so it's very hard to

run a party, let alone elect a speaker, if you're not going to put the

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