For a breakdown of the week's political headlines, we turn now to the analysis of Brooks

and Marcus, that's New York Times columnist David Brooks, and Ruth Marcus, associate

editor for the Washington Post.

Jonathan K. Partt is away tonight with a welcome to you both.

And so looking at the week that was, Donald Trump and 18 of his associates were indicted

in Georgia this week in a charging document that accused him of being the head of a criminal

enterprise to overturn the 2020 election.

And David, it strikes me that Donald Trump has legal problems in Georgia.

He also has political problems in Georgia because as the Wall Street Journal pointed out

this past week in a well-reported article that really sort of captures the ways in which

Trump fatigue is pervasive in Georgia, especially among some suburban independence and disenchanted

Republicans.

And then you've got the popular governor there, Brian Kemp, who has called out Donald

Trump's election lies and has tried to push the party beyond obsessing over the last

election.

Does Georgia provide a roadmap for Republicans to move beyond Donald Trump?

Of course, those Republicans who choose to do that, who want to do that?

Well, you know, the Georgia Republicans saw Trump as a face-to-face.

It wasn't just a lies that happened to somebody else.

It was lies directed directly at them.

So they have seen the brute reality and they are unable to escape the obligation to respond

to that.

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