There are a lot of things that are happening in Washington have been happening over the past couple years where there really aren't a lot of parallels.

I suspect, though, this view of the world, what is old as new again, this view of the world that Donald Trump is bringing in to the White House and sort of smashing this post-war order that has seen the United

States dominate the world economically and militarily and every other way, culturally,

you name it, we've dominated since end of World War II.

But he's trying to bring about this new order.

Take us back.

Is this more like a Teddy Roosevelt imperialist approach?

Is this William McKinley?

Who does this remind you of his worldview when it comes to power politics?

It's older than that, even. It's almost medieval in Renaissance, right?

This is a royal house with a kingdom who bases relations on personal connection,

personal feeling to go to something Susan said a moment ago.

And basically the transfer of assets.

It's a very autocratic, very straightforward.

I mean, let's be honest.

It's kind of, I don't want to say refreshing,

but the president is being very clear here. So one of the things that I think is really important

here is to remember that we are now living, to shift from a historical metaphor to a cultural one, we're

now living in the Sopranos, right? This is a, this is a protection racket. Basically, President

Zelensky is being asked to come to Washington to pay for our protection.

And one of the most revealing moments, I think, of the last couple of weeks was, and some comments the President made,

it was about the Associated press situation in the White House.

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