the historian joshua zeitz this week described the white house this way. it s a team of rivals but for morons. general kelly has never tried to manage a team of morons before. in the washington post today, eugene robinson captured the essence of the trump presidency, that general kelly will now be asked to manage. gene wrote, the court of mad king donald is not a presidency. it is an affliction, one that saps the life out of our democratic institutions, and it must be fiercely resisted if the nation as we know it is to survive. joining us now, peter wehner, he worked in the last three republican administrations and was a senior aide to president george w. bush. also with us, eugene robinson, pulitzer prize winning opinion writer for the washington post and an msnbc political analyst. joining us, chris whipple, the author of the gatekeepers, how
all those same things would have happened, and it would still be the worst week in the history of the trump presidency. and the best, most decisive victory for the resistance against the trump presidency, the resistance crushed the trump presidency on the senate floor. the congress now knows that they are not working with a functional presidency. donald trump was irrelevant to what happened on the senate floor. he had no capacity to influence the outcome. he tried to get republican senator lisa murkowski to vote his way, but everyone knows lisa murkowski now is much, much tougher than donald trump. in a wall street journal op-ed piece today, peggy noonan said, trump is, quote, weak and sniveling. she wrote half the president s tweets show utter weakness. they are shrill little cries usually just after dawn. joshua zeitz this week described the white house this way. it s a team of rivals but for