President Trump is taking extraordinary steps to exert power and influence over what he thinks of as the country's elite institutions.

As we approach the 100-day mark of his second term, we are seeing that defiance has a price, a price best summed up by one of his fellow Republicans.

We are all afraid because retaliation is real.

Next.

This is Washington Week with the Atlantic.

Good evening and welcome to Washington Week.

There's too much going on, of course, and it's our job tonight to try to make sense of some of it and to try to

analyze the broad themes of this administration so far. One issue of paramount concern,

conflict between the judicial branch and the executive branch. President Trump quite obviously

believes that the executive branch is first among equals, but most judges don't. We'll discuss this tonight and more with

Peter Baker, the Chief White House correspondent at the New York Times. Laura Barone Lopez is the

White House correspondent for PBS News Hour. Eugene Daniels is a senior Washington correspondent,

and next month will become a co-host of MSNBC's The Weekend.

And Mark Leavovich is my colleague and a staff writer at The Atlantic who will not be co-hosting

the weekend.

Welcome, everyone.

Thank you for being here.

One week it's going to be David Rubenstein in the chair in the David Rubenstein studio and

your guys, your minds are going to be be blown I just realized that at the open

yeah yeah he has a great show um let's start um by talking about Lisa Murkowski um senator from Alaska

just for a moment uh and listen to a little bit more of what she said earlier this week we are all afraid

okay i'm uh earlier this week. We are all afraid. Okay.

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