Hey everyone, Harry here. Before we dive into today's episode, I have some exciting news to share

about an upcoming event in our Talking San Diego series. On Tuesday, April 22nd, we will be welcoming

the co-creator and leader of the Lincoln Project, Rick Wilson. A former Republican consultant, Rick early saw the dangers of Donald Trump,

and for the last nine years, has worked indefatigably to bring home those dangers to the American

people, including with a withering and hilarious series of political commercials that cut Trump

down to tiny size.

No one analyzes the problem of Trump's popularity in a more clear-eyed, sophisticated way,

and no one thinks harder and more cleverly about effective political opposition.

Expect a conversation of total candor, insight, morden humor, and real hope that our

current dark days can and will pass if we play it smart.

For tickets and more information on this and all Talking San Diego events, including our just added conversation

with Cory Booker next month, visit TalkingSandiego.net.

Welcome to Talking Fed's, a roundtable that brings together prominent former federal officials and special guests

for a dynamic discussion of the most important political and legal topics of the day.

I'm Harry Littman. The week had the feel of a top spinning ever more wildly off its axis.

Donald Trump's erratic, ill-conceived terrorist scheme sent the market into a tailspin,

while his continued reversals and re-reversals raised the specter now alarmingly real,

of a Trump-triggered recession, all brought on by his

crazy lonesome. Elsewhere, Trump's week was a showcase of his unrelenting drives to amass

and abused power, often unconstitutionally, always vindictively. His administration continued to insist that nothing could or should be done

to retrieve a man they mistakenly ripped from his family

and delivered to a torture hell pit in El Salvador, presumably for life.

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