Dan Pfeiffer

And so he wants to be there to keep an eye on him.

So I think...

Hats off to Jerome Powell.

Yes, he was.

Well, from your from your lips to Kevin Warsh's ears.

OK, one last thing on the Department of Justice.

As we discussed, Trump is trying to use the correspondence dinner attack to justify building his ballroom, which is his true passion project.

The Department of Justice filed a brief on Monday asking a judge to dismiss the lawsuit that's holding up construction.

Alex, I think you noted that the language in the filing was a bit unusual, so to speak.

What do you know?

For people who haven't, you would be... This is your second legal document reading of this podcast.

Watch out.

Watch out for strict scrutiny.

I guess the best thing I can say about Donald Trump is that his desire for the ballroom is his most authentic self.

It still remains wild to me that after someone brought a gun to potentially try to assassinate Donald Trump, his first instinct, like a more magnanimous person would call for national unity, call for the toning down of political rhetoric, would look inward.

At perhaps the things they had said, the way they'd celebrated the deaths of their political enemies, the riot they sparked at the Capitol, the calls for the hanging of the vice president, it would have done those things.

Or a cynical person would use it to advance their political agenda in some way, shape or form.

And instead, Trump used that moment to push for the ballroom because that is the thing he truly wants more than anything else.

It's the thing he cares about.

It's the thing he's obsessed with.