Washington Week with The Atlantic full episode, 02/20/26
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Washington Week
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🗓️ 21 February 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | President Trump walks into his State of the Union facing damning headlines and sagging poll numbers as voters watch the turbulence at home and abroad. |
| 0:09.7 | Tonight, with midterms looming, can the president use next week's primetime address to reset the story of his second term? |
| 0:17.8 | Next. |
| 0:21.3 | This is Washington Week with the Atlantic. |
| 0:25.2 | Good evening and welcome to Washington Week. I'm Vivian Salama in tonight for Jeffrey |
| 0:29.4 | Goldberg. President Trump is days away from delivering his State of the Union address, |
| 0:34.6 | and his speech comes at a moment of deep division, challenges |
| 0:38.8 | to core elements of his agenda, friction with allies abroad, and questions about the balance of power |
| 0:45.3 | here in Washington. Joining me tonight to discuss this and more, Peter Baker is Chief White |
| 0:51.1 | House correspondent for the New York Times. Eugene Daniels is a senior Washington |
| 0:55.7 | correspondent and a co-anchor of the weekend at MS Now. Lisa Desjardin is the congressional correspondent |
| 1:02.5 | for PBS News Hour, and Susan Glasser is staff writer at The New Yorker. Thank you all so much |
| 1:08.7 | for joining me. So the Supreme Court dealt a major blow |
| 1:12.6 | to President Trump's economic agenda today, striking down the broad global tariffs that he |
| 1:17.9 | imposed through this authority that's known as the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. |
| 1:24.0 | The Supreme Court held that the president lacked authority to levy sweeping tariffs |
| 1:28.9 | without explicit congressional approval. Peter, the president came out to the podium today |
| 1:34.9 | and tried to respond to the Supreme Court's decision. How did that play out? |
| 1:41.5 | He took it graciously, of course. He attacked the Supreme Court justices and said that they were unpatriotic, that they should |
| 1:48.7 | be ashamed to themselves, their parents should be ashamed, their families should be ashamed |
| 1:52.1 | to them, that they had been influenced by foreign interests. |
| 1:56.6 | It's a kind of reaction we shouldn't be surprised by, but not the kind of reaction we normally |
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