From New York Times opinion, I'm Carlos Lozada.

I'm Michelle Cottle.

And this is matter of opinion, where thoughts are always allowed. So I am glad to be back this week, but alas, Ross is the one who is away this time.

We're not just trying to avoid each other, I promise.

Fortunately, we are joined instead by two of our opinion colleagues, Jamel Bowie and David French.

Welcome to both of you.

Thank you for having us.

Thanks so much. I'm just grateful they would return having done this before. Yeah, David's a recent

returnee. This is, this is impressive. Well, I just love hanging out with you guys. So, you know,

anytime, anytime. So I'm especially excited that you're here with me and with Michelle today because I want to know what you think about a term that has been everywhere this week.

Let me give you some sample headlines.

From CNN, as Trump team overhauls government, constitutional crisis looms.

From the Washington Post, in Trump's actions, opponents see more than cuts. They see a constitutional crisis looms from the Washington Post. In Trump's actions, opponents see more than

cuts. They see a constitutional crisis. And our very own New York Times, Trump's actions have

created a constitutional crisis, scholars say. I love that scholars say. It's so thoughtful and careful.

So constitutional crisis is in the air in our politics.

You remember how in the first Trump term every week was infrastructure week? I'm going to

dub this our first official constitutional crisis week. David, Jamel, I know you've been thinking

a lot about this lately. So we're going to get into all of that. Now, are we in a constitutional

crisis? What are the

opposing visions at play? And is this 230 plus year old piece of parchment up to the challenge?

Does that sound like a plan? So good. Yes. Love it. So first, the scope of the problem here.

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