What's happened today?

What did you witness Trump do today?

Well, this was the theater of authoritarianism and the reality of it, right?

This is the kind of thing that you'd see in South America in the 1950s, or, you know,

it's the Orban playbook, the Polish playbook. This is put troops on the streets, even if they aren't really needed. He did that in L.A. You know, the riots out of control of L.A. In L.A., they kept showing the same one car burning. The police in L.A. are pretty good. They were on top of it. There were protesters, legit, peaceful,

some getting out of control. No sign that the local authorities were unable to deal with that.

But he wanted the troops on the street. He wanted you to feel that. And I'm talking to friends

around here who live in D.C. I live out in Frederick, Maryland, and he wants them to feel it.

He wants people to feel the exercise of his domination on their streets. And on the streets of

somebody else's city, so you don't want to, you know, you don't want to get too out of the lane

that you're supposed to be in in your own city.

And don't think that's not working.

It is working.

I was a foreign correspondent for five years, and I was in London one night waiting for the evening news, Peter Jennings News, although he was gone by then, which comes out at 1230

in the morning in London. So I'm there with my producer from Poland, Tomikroski, great guy.

And they were in the throes of that government in Poland, the Law and Justice Party, which

did something very similar from what we're enduring now. And they and they were just stripped the judiciary of authority

that kind of thing and i said to tomick i said what's it like for to live there just what's it like for

people who are in agreement with the government and he said something that has come back to me a lot

these days he said your life gets smaller You try not to look around. You try not to stand up.

Your life gets smaller. That's what Trump wants. What we saw today was a performance of authority,

backed up now by presidential powers that nobody's going to stop them from using, not Congress,

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