It has been eight months since President Trump returned to the White House and the pace of actions coming from his administration continues to accelerate to help sort through a busy few days.

We are joined now by our Politics Monday duo.

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

It's always great to see you both.

And look, if folks are overwhelmed by the news and

recent developments out of Washington, they have good reason to be our team, put together a list

of just what has transpired since this past weekend. You see it all there. Tam, and this,

we should say, is not the entirety of it, but let's talk about the president being unusually

explicit in directing his attorney general to pursue

criminal cases against his political opponents, something that past presidents even avoided hinting at.

How should we understand the way President Trump is wielding power right now?

And I think that we have to remind people that President Trump very early in this term went to the

Justice Department and delivered an explicitly political speech at the Department of Justice,

which is also something that wouldn't normally happen. The president has made no secret of his

desire to get retribution against those who he believes wronged him while he was out of office or even when he was in office last time.

And truly some remarkable social media posts over the weekend directed at his Attorney General saying,

I'm hearing from a lot of people and they're wondering

why you haven't yet indicted Adam Schiff or James Comey or Letitia James. It's just not even remotely

subtle. And it is one of many ways that President Trump is exerting power. Another way he exerts power,

and this, I guess, is part and parcel of that, is through intimidation. What you saw happen with

Jimmy Kimmel and the FCC, that wasn't actually using any real levers of power. It was just

using the threat of the use of levers of power.

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