For more on the ongoing challenge to constitutional guardrails and the United States' position on the global stage, we turn to the analysis of Brooks and Capehart.

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

Great to see you both. Jonathan, kick us off here and let's start overseas.

We saw the first major international summit since Mr. Trump returned to office in which the Secretary of Defense reversed U.S. policy on Ukraine before walking it back. We saw Vice President Vance scolding our European allies. And this is the same week the President Trump announced potential reciprocal tearoffs on both our adversaries and our allies.

When you put all of this together, what does this say to you

about America's place in the world right now?

It says to me that America's place is shaky.

I think from the eyes of allies, America can no longer be depended on.

That America, they saw what America was like under Trump the first term.

Trump in the second term is Trump won, but on steroids in the way he is operating around the world.

And so I think for Europeans, especially at the Munich Security Conference, the global order

that we have lived under for more than 70 years, the United States was an architect of it.

And the United States has been a guarantor of it.

And it has led to, generally speaking, peace and prosperity to the world that we live in now.

The Europeans look to the United States for leadership, but also for protection and as an ally.

And that, as we've seen with the speeches from the vice president, from the defense secretary,

that's not the America that they're seeing in Munich.

David, do you agree with that?

If you're a NATO ally, do you still see the U.S. as a reliable partner right now?

Sudo-reliable.

Well, when you have Pete Hexath negotiating and giving away the American and Western position

or the Ukrainian position before we even sit down with Vladimir Putin.

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