Michael Barbaro

From The New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro.

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Over the past few days, President Trump has endured major setbacks at the ballot box, where Republicans lost races across the country, at the Supreme Court, which appears poised to strike down his tariffs, and in Congress, whose refusal to end the government shutdown will result in thousands of canceled airline flights beginning on Friday.

Today, I try to make sense of all of that with three of my colleagues, national political correspondent Lisa Lair, White House correspondent Tyler Pager, and congressional editor Julie Davis.

It's Friday, November 7th.

So shall we get started?

Okay.

Lisa Lair.

Hi.

Welcome back to The Roundtable.

Julie Davis, good to see you.

Tyler Pager, always a pleasure.

Thanks for having me.

I want to start this conversation with you all with a very simple question for the three of you.

Has this been the worst week for President Trump in the second term?

You've been nodding, Lisa.

So it feels like the three tentpoles of this not great week for the president is obviously, number one, Tuesday's election.

Perhaps number two, the Supreme Court's profound skepticism of the president's tariff regime.

And third, what I would describe as the metastasizing impacts of the government shutdown, now officially the longest in American history.

Let's dive deeper into the first one, which is Tuesday night's election.