President Trump has given multiple lengthy interviews in recent days, and they've sparked as many questions as they have answers.

Our Politics Monday team is here to separate the substance from the noise.

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

Great to see you both.

Good to be here.

So we've been talking about, I know you've been following, there's a common thread in the president's recent interviews.

That's a number of times he references his lawyers, right?

Tam, when he's asked about people who were deported or rescinding federal payments

or whether he's going to run for a third term, he says, I'm listening to my lawyers.

How much of this presidency relies on the interpretation of the lawyers around this president?

Yes. President Trump has long talked about his lawyers.

When he was out of office, when he's in office, he's all about a stable of lawyers.

The interesting thing about him is that he considers the lawyers of the Justice Department also to be his

lawyers, which is not actually the role of the Justice Department in a traditional administration.

He both wants arm's length and doesn't want arm's length depending on what he wants at any given

moment. But you have to remember that members of his administration, people who are around him now,

they aren't necessarily lawyers, but they spent the entire four years out of office thinking

about new and different ways to push the boundaries of executive power, to use the laws

that exist in novel ways to get what they wanted that they weren't able to do in the first administration.

And President Trump as someone who likes to be powerful and wants to try these things.

It is clear that his administration is trying many things that other presidents simply haven't tried, including former President Trump.

Amy, when you look at this issue of due process, upholding the Constitution, are these the kinds

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