Elsa Chang

Hi there.

Carrie, let's start with you.

It feels like we have been seeing like an escalation for the Justice Department and the Trump administration this week, like both when it comes to the tactics that this administration uses and their willingness to push the boundaries of the law.

Right.

Is this all part of some bigger goal, you think?

That's right, on the campaign trail, because as a candidate, he promised, right, to go after his enemies.

He also promised to be tough on immigration.

Domenico, how are people responding to what's been happening in Minnesota specifically?

Well, Minnesota, I mean, it's just one part of the story this week, right?

Like Democrats in Congress say that they are being investigated over a video urging military members to disregard illegal orders.

How do those investigations fit into what we've been talking about?

So maybe they're shooting themselves in the foot.

Well, there was more this week.

The Department of Justice is investigating Jerome Powell, as we said, the chairman of the Federal Reserve.

And then we saw that the FBI searched the home of a Washington Post journalist.

Carrie, can you just explain what's been happening on those fronts?

I mean, it seems like retribution is a major theme now in Trump's second term.

Yeah.

Well, Kerry, how are people inside the Justice Department responding to some of this backlash?

And that suggested direction of the investigation does not seem to have gone over well with some of the career prosecutors in the DOJ, right?