The Trump administration's confrontation with the judicial branch raises new fears of a possible constitutional crisis,

and the president moves to shut down the Department of Education.

Meanwhile, across the Potomac, Elon Musk visits the Pentagon.

Next.

Good evening and welcome to Washington Week.

And welcome to just another week in Donald Trump's Washington.

People throw around the term constitutional crisis all the time, and I include myself in the category of people here.

But what does it actually mean?

Would it be a constitutional crisis if the president defies a federal judge's order on the

detention of immigrants? Are we already in such a crisis? I have many questions. Luckily, I also

have very smart people at this table to help us understand these issues. Joining me tonight,

Eugene Daniels is a senior Washington correspondent and co-host of The Weekend on MSNBC.

David Ignatius is a columnist at The Washington Post.

Michael Shearer is my colleague and a staff writer at The Atlantic, and Nancy Yusuf is a national security correspondent at the Wall Street Journal.

Thank you all for joining me another no news week in Washington.

Let me go right to it, David. This is going to feel like a homework assignment, but what's

the definition of a constitutional crisis, and you cannot use chat GPT to answer this question?

So my definition would be constitutional crisis is when the president defies the Supreme Court.

We're heading in that direction.

The president is responding to sharp pushback from the chief justice by pushing back himself.

Right-wing Twitter is talking about a judicial coup. This is,

you know, increasingly, I think, a dangerous moment. The President has gone after the executive

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