From the potential impact of trade tariffs to the confirmation votes for President Trump's cabinet,

let's take a look at the political stakes now with Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter, who's in New Orleans tonight, and Tamara Keith of NPR.

Welcome to you both. Great to see you. And Tam, let's start with you because we saw over the weekend confusion at USAID as Elon Musk essentially

took over the agency, threatened to shut it down, confusion and concerns about the number of

firings at the FBI and DOJ. Markets today unsteady after confusion about whether or not tariffs were

going into place. Is all of this what Trump supporters voted for? Is this what they wanted to see?

I think it depends on which Trump supporters you're talking about. Because some people voted for

Donald Trump because they were concerned about the price of eggs and the price of everything else

and mad at President Biden for allowing that to happen. There are other people who voted for President Trump because they were, you know, frustrated

with President Biden refusing to step aside and then having Vice President Harris come in in this way

that just made it seem kind of rigged.

There were people who were upset about what was happening in Gaza.

And then there are people who really wanted about what was happening in Gaza. And then there

were people who really wanted to just blow up the boxes, wanted to shake things up. Felt like government

wasn't working for them. And they are looking at this and saying, look at that. They are shaking

things up. This is a hostile takeover of the United States government. And that's what some share of Trump's voters signed up for.

What I will say is that when a president takes office, they are never more popular and never

more powerful than they are in the first couple of weeks.

And then as they continue to do more things, people who voted for them get upset about it.

And so their popularity almost inevitably declines.

Amy, as we have spoken about a number of times over the last couple of years, the economy

was a driving issue in the last election, why people backed President Trump.

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