From dysfunction at the Department of Defense to a judge in Wisconsin being arrested by the FBI, it's shaped up to be quite the week.

Luckily, here to break it all down, I'm joined by Brooks and K. Part.

That is, New York Times columnist David Brooks and Jonathan K. Part, associate editor for the Washington Post.

It's great to see you both.

So, David, I want to start off with you because in the last,

for almost 100 days in now, to his presidency, just in this last week, we saw a bit of a reversal

or a walkback from President Trump on a couple of stances. One was a sort of softening on the rhetoric

towards China and the trade war. And the other, as Laura reported earlier, the administration abruptly reversing itself

on the potential cancellation of thousands of foreign student visas. I don't mean to connect these two

in any way. They are not connected, but they did happen this week. And I just wonder, as you reflect

on where they are now, what this says to you about how the administration is processing feedback

and who they're listening to.

Right. It suggests, well, as we learned in Trump, one, they don't have a long-term strategy. There's no policy process.

We're going to do this, and then we're going to stick you're a law firm, whether you're a scientific research center, whether you're a business,

who doesn't like what tariffs are doing to your business, is that you can throw sand in the gears

of this administration and they will respond.

They're going to do what they want to do.

But people who oppose what they want to do and want to defend American institutions can do lawsuits.

They can do lobbying. There can be leaking. There can be protests. There are all these things that can happen.

And they've proven this week they will have an effect. Donald Trump listened to like the CEO of Walmart.

He listens to the polls. He listens when there's all these lawsuits.

He listened to something about the international students.

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