Well, as President Trump plays nice with one Democrat in the Oval Office, he's called six others

traitors and said the social media video that they posted could be punishable by death.

For analysis of the week, we turn now to Capehart and Contonetti.

That is Jonathan Capehart of MS Now and Matthew Contonetti, Wall Street Journal, opinion

columnist and scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.

David Brooks is away this evening. Welcome to you. Thanks for being here. Thanks for having us.

Jonathan, let's jump into that meeting in the Oval Office because President Trump went from calling Zoran Mamdani a communist, threatening to strip his citizenship to complimenting him,

stepping in to defend him in the Oval Office, as Liz reported earlier. What happened?

Threatening also to send the National Guard in if he were to win the election. It was the most extraordinary moment, for me, the most extraordinary moment of the Trump presidency. I was wondering if Merleck Mabane would be the Volodyevonso-Zalensky of the day. And instead, what we saw was an

incredible love fest. And by love fest, I mean, the president of the United States, just heaping

all sorts of compliments and, dare I say, love on Mamdani. And I think there's three things happening here.

Game respects game.

And so I think the president looked at how Mamdani ran his campaign, how many votes he got

in the election, a million votes versus President Trump got 700-something thousand votes when

he ran in a presidential election in New York City.

You could tell that the president respects Mamdani as a result of that.

And the third thing, the president at various moments in that meeting, totally undercut Republican

arguments against Mamdani, including Congresswoman Elise Stefani, who's going to run for governor of New York, who had been calling the mayor elect a jihadist for months.

And when asked, the president said, no, it's extraordinary.

Matt, what surprised you about what stood out to you? And also, is it harder now for Republicans to go after

Monsani in the same way? I think if you had to cut ads tonight, yes, it would be hard. But this

relationship is only just beginning. I think over the course of the Trump era, we've discovered

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