Saagar Enjeti

Well, it seems like it's going to ramp up.

When you have then two service members missing on the ground as of right now, when you have that situation unfolding as well, it just all of this creates, at least in the minds of wartime leaders, more of a permission structure for escalation.

And that's this waking up this morning to this particular slate of news is very bleak.

Yeah, I was going to say...

Go ahead.

Pam Bondi has been traded ahead of the deadline.

I had another trade deadline to the private sector.

And it's a swap that everyone's really pleased with.

But no, in all seriousness, obviously, the big news yesterday, I have to say it surprised me was that

Pam Bondi, Attorney General Pam Bondi, who had just been with Donald Trump at the Supreme Court the day earlier and who has known Trump for many, many years, is out.

So Todd Blanch, who was Deputy AG, you may remember Todd Blanch is the person who conducted that Ghislaine Maxwell interview, is now stepping in as Attorney General.

Remains to be seen whether Trump keeps him there.

I will note one interesting angle of this that's a little softer, but it is, I find it interesting.

You had Kristi Noem and Pam Bondi, both of whom were put in those roles, at least in part, because Donald Trump thought they were strong communicators, that they were strong on television and that they would take this sort of generational political opportunity, as people on the right saw it.

With Noem, it was immigration crackdown.

With Bondi, it was retribution.

And communicate it, convey it in a way to the public that would mitigate any fallout and the like.

They had both been replaced by men.

At least so far.

And not, you know, your typical like I guess Mark Wayne Mullen counts as somebody who Trump thinks is good on media and is more telegenic.