We've never seen a week like this one. Whipsawing markets, punitive tariffs imposed and then paused at angry China, fears of recession.

President Trump, the man holding the steering wheel, is sending all sorts of conflicting messages.

But he did say one thing clearly.

No other president would have done what I did.

Tonight, we'll try to make sense of Trump's trade war, the global economic uncertainty

gets unleashed, as well as a brewing constitutional crisis over deportations.

Next.

Good evening and welcome to Washington Week.

Like all of you, I'm trying to figure out if there's a method to the seeming madness we've all experienced this past week.

This is the kind of week in which you shouldn't, among other things, look at your 401k too closely.

I did.

But the mistake.

Donald Trump, a famously transactional president, apparently believes quite deeply in something few economists believe

that high tariffs are the key to

strengthening the American economy and American society. Joining me tonight to discuss this belief

and its consequences are Zolandano Young's, a White House correspondent for the New York Times.

Jonathan Carl is the chief Washington correspondent at ABC News. Ashley Parker is my colleague

and a White House correspondent for the Atlantic,

and Tarini Parti is a White House reporter for the Wall Street Journal.

So if you guys are out here, who's at the White House?

I don't even get this.

Welcome all of you.

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