The Supreme Court's tariff ruling and President Trump's response topped off a week that saw key developments on the international stage.

For more, we turn now to the analysis of Brooks and Capehart. That's David Brooks of the Atlantic and Jonathan Kpart of MS now.

Good evening to you both. So David, we'll start with you. Jonathan, feel free to take a soup of water if you need it.

The key takeaways of this Supreme Court tariff ruling as you see them.

Well, it'll make tariff issuing harder.

Certainly we're not making them go away.

Trump has made that perfectly clear.

But just on the substance of it, it's become clear that this tariff policy is a gigantic economic failure.

It was designed to increase manufacturing jobs in the United States.

Manufacturing jobs have continued their decline, maybe at an accelerated rate.

At the same time, according to a Fed study this week, 90% of the costs are passed on to American consumers,

so it's a tax on Americans.

And then it's, so it's led to inflation.

But the big picture here is that the Supreme Court has had a pretty consistent line on federal

power.

They've given Trump a lot of broad latitude to run the executive branch, but they have

not given him broad latitude to run the legislative branch. They've said,

this is a clear legislative thing. It's in the Constitution, taxing and spending, tariffs. It's right

there. And they are trying to draw a line around the presidency. Back in like 1973, 74, a historian

named Arthur Schlesinger wrote a book called The Imperial Presidency about Richard Nixon.

That wasn't even close to where we are today. This is the most imperial presidency in American

history. And the worst part is it's accompanied not only by a president who wants to grab every

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