The president is responding to the shooting of two National Guard members by an Afghan National on the streets of Washington with an even tougher crackdown on immigration.

For analysis of that and the rest of the week, we turn now to Capehart and Wainer.

That's Jonathan Capehart of MS Now and Peter Wainer, a contributing writer at the Atlantic and a senior fellow at the Trinity Forum.

David Brooks is away this evening.

This is still the big domestic story as the weekends.

Pete, I wonder what you make of the way the president responded.

He immediately sent in 500 more troops.

He immediately blamed the Biden administration for admitting the alleged shooter, and then

cut off, essentially cut off a lot of immigration.

Yeah, I'd say he reacted predictably and awfully.

He predicted as he is.

This was sort of the Trump DNA kicking in.

I should say first that I just find a kind of ghoulishness that happens when people

die, tragedies in life, and the way that the people who die and the victims are turned

into political pawns has always left me kind of disquieted. That's particularly the case

here and now. But look, Trump is taking advantage. This is going back to the fever

swamp from which he came. His first announcement for president in 2015 when he came

down the golden escalator was what? It was an attack on Mexicans where he said there

were drug dealers and criminals and rapists. Then during the campaign he said that he was going to ban Muslims from coming into the country,

and that united his base.

So I think he's returning to form, but I think it's broader now.

And in this case, with the Afghans that he's attacking,

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