As the major federal felony cases against him get dropped, President-elect Trump is rapidly filling up his cabinet.

For that and for more, we turn to our Politics Monday duo.

That is Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter and Tamara Keith of NPR.

So nice to see you both in your fabulous color coordination or not coordination.

We did not coordinate it at all, but yeah.

It works.

Tam, I want to start with you. This news today, that we knew that this was going to happen,

but that the felony charges against Donald Trump have gone away.

This die was obviously cast on the night of the election, but these were,

there was all of this considerable evidence will now never be heard by any jury. What do you make

of all that? This is a validation of the legal plan that Trump's team had. They were running

out the clock. They had been running out the clock

since before charges were even filed. And in essence, you know, this, although Vice President

Harris and others didn't really talk about this as being part of the campaign, it really was

part of the campaign. He was the nominee in large part

because Republicans consolidated behind him after the search of Mara Lago. That really closed off a path

for some of the competition. So this is integral to this election. And this is, you know, elections have consequences and this is what,

this is the result. You know, what's also really fascinating to think over the course of these four

years, there were so many different inflection points where the outcome of this could have looked

different. There was, of course, the February 2021 impeachment had more Republicans voted

to impeach. That's a decision on January 6th. You obviously have the Justice Department that

there were a lot of delays in getting this, a lot of delays in getting this investigation started.

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