It was an historic week in Washington that's reshaping the Republican Party to discuss the

fallout of Speaker Kevin McCarthy's ouster.

We turn now to the analysis of Brooks and Marcus, that is New York Times columnist David

Brooks and Ruth Marcus, associate editor for The Washington Post.

Jonathan K-PART is a way, welcome to you both.

Good to see you.

I say the word unprecedented hits so much.

I feel it's losing some of its power, but this week was unprecedented to see the ousting

of the sitting House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

David, let's just start with that and how you're reflecting on what unfolded this week.

Yeah, well, there was a president, which was Collegula, and the client and fall of the

Roman Empire, so it's actually that obviously joking, but in some sense, Donald Trump

introduced a note of narcissistic huckstourism into the American body politic,

and it's been interesting to watch it spread throughout his party.

So I would say Vivek Grommaswamy falls into that camp and certainly Mad Gates and his crew.

This was not about any substantive thing.

This was just pure show business, pure nihilism.

And so you have a group of people for whom this is all nihilistic fun.

But then you see how it spreads, and so in the middle of all the fight over the Speaker,

there was a meeting with the moderate problem solvers caucus, and they were trying to get the

Democrats to save McCarthy.

And in the past, there had been talk that had been reported in Nancy Pelosi, a told John Bainer,

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