It's the Brian Laira Show on WNYC. Good morning again, everyone. We'll talk about some of this

weekend's dramatic developments in national politics, the No Kingsday Marches, the Trump military parade,

the assassination of a prominent state senator in Minnesota, and notably, in case you missed it,

President Trump posting that he would scale back workplace immigration rates at hotels,

restaurants, and farms. New Yorker magazine staff writer Susan Glasser is with us for this as

she writes a weekly letter from Washington column in the magazine and co-host their political

scene podcast. She is also the co-author of the book's Kremlin Rising about Putin's Russia,

the man who ran Washington, about James Baker, the former Secretary of State

and Treasury Secretary, and the Divider, about Donald Trump's first term. The latest edition

of the podcast posted Saturday is called Trump Makes a Big Show of Military Force. Susan, always good

of you to come on. Welcome back to WNYC. Thank you so much, Brian.

Great to be with you. I'll go right to the headline of the podcast. Trump makes a big show of

military force. It's kind of a double meaning headline, isn't it? Absolutely. Absolutely. He is

nothing, if not a performative strongman. And I think the question after last week is, is he starting to cross lines that turn him, you know, from performative to something closer to the real thing?

The podcast asks, you kick this around with your co-hosts. What are the consequences of calling in the

troops for protest enforcement in L.A.? So do you think there have been any other than the

firestorm of reaction that it produced? Well, I mean, look, first of all, legally speaking,

it's very much up in the air. It is an extraordinary moment to have the president of the

United States overrule a state's governor and essentially to take control of California's

National Guard, especially because Trump and his lawyers argue that this is not a one-off incident,

but a template that he's prepared to use around the country at will.

In fact, Pete Heggseth, his defense secretary, testified on Capitol Hill, and that was the term

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