Tamara Keith

But he also traffics in anti-Semitism and conspiracy theories and did so in that interview with Tucker Carlson.

But is this a problem for the White House, for the president, that the head of the National Counterterrorism Center is saying there wasn't an imminent threat?

All right.

We are going to take a quick break and we will have more in a moment.

And we're back.

And Domenico, I want to talk about the persuasion campaign.

We talked earlier about how foreign allies are looking skeptically at this war.

There's also the matter of trying to get the American public to support it, too.

This runs counter to what the president and the administration said they would focus on ahead of the midterms, the cost of living.

You know, now we have a war in the Middle East driving up gas prices, which makes everything more expensive, which makes people angry.

It's not exactly a way to ingratiate people when Republicans have a narrow hold on control of Congress.

Though I have to say today he said he has never been more powerful, that he is so much more powerful in his second term.

This was while signing an executive order to mandate that television networks not air other football games that might compete with the Army-Navy game.

And the White House is very focused on the idea that MAGA is not breaking with Trump, that yes, there are loud people on the internet, but that MAGA voters are still with Trump.

And the White House has said MAGA is Trump.

Trump is MAGA.

There is no separation.

It is what he says it is.

I want to talk about the president's leadership style and perhaps what we're seeing this week are the limits to that.

He has, for the last year plus, used force or threats of force to allies and adversaries alike.