Boyed by the belief, a belief held by him, but also others, that he brought peace to the Middle East,

President Trump is trying yet again to end Russia's war on Ukraine.

But here at home, he's waging war on his domestic critics, engaging in a prosecution campaign without precedent in American history.

Next.

This is Washington Week with the Atlantic.

Good evening and welcome to Washington Week.

So it's been one of those weeks.

You lose track of the news for 10 minutes and Donald Trump has done something outrageous or unbelievable or remarkable or something unbelievably remarkably outrageous.

We'll talk tonight about his intensifying quest for a Nobel Peace Prize

and whether he can bang heads together in Europe the way he just did in the Middle East.

And we'll talk about his administration's accelerating campaign at home

to excoriate, indict, and or marginalize the president's many enemies,

real and imagined. The Justice Department is no longer an autonomous agency but a weapon in Trump's

arsenal, and the Department of Defense, we won't be calling it the Department of War until Congress

actually makes that change, has driven the free press out of the Pentagon.

Joining me tonight to discuss all this and more, Anne Applebaum, a staff writer at the Atlantic.

Stephen Hayes is the editor of the dispatch. Tyler Pager is a White House correspondent at the New York Times,

and Nancy Yusuf remains a Pentagon correspondent at the Atlantic.

Thank you.

Thank you, Nancy, for being here.

I know you're not at the Pentagon, but you're still covering the Defense Department rigorously, and we'll talk about that in a little while.

But, Anne, I want to start with you, President Zelensky back in the White House.

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