PBS NEWSHOUR: NPR’s Tamara Keith and Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter join Geoff Bennett to discuss the latest political news, including the pace of actions coming from President Trump eight months into his term and the future of his MAGA movement.

GEOFF BENNETT, PBS NEWSHOUR: Amy, we speak so often about the politics of all this. What’s the political calculation here? I mean, is he shoring up his MAGA base or does he risk alienating parts of the broader electorate that voted for him? AMY WALTER, COOK POLITICAL REPORT: Right. Well, he made it very clear when he ran for office both in 2016 and 2024. And he said, I alone can fix this and I am your retribution. And he is following through on all of that. If you liked that, you said, I believe he can fix it all, or I like the idea that he’s our retribution, then he is delivering on his promises. If you didn’t take that seriously or maybe you didn’t believe it was true or you didn’t like it, well, this is where we sit right now. Regardless of how you feel about the president, I think there has been no president in our lifetimes who has been able to wield the executive office in the way he’s been able to, both, as Tam pointed out, with just pure intimidation. He has gotten most institutions to bend to his will. He has gotten Congress. They are completely without any pushback. They give no pushback at all to him. No members of his own party do, and the way in which he has also been able to do all this, even as there are something like 300 cases still in the system. So where this ultimately lands, Geoff, is really the fascinating question, right? There’s the historical piece of, what is the Supreme Court going to do that’s going to set precedent for future presidents? But then there’s the immediate, which is, even as these cases are in court, he’s still going along and pushing the boundaries until potentially those boundaries get set by the Supreme Court.

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