mark preston, cnn senior political analyst. elliot williams, cnn legal analyst. former federal prosecutor karen finney, cnn political commentator, former senior adviser to hillary clinton's 16 presidential campaign and kristen soltis anderson, cnn political analyst, republican strategist and pollster. welcome to all of you. i couldn't even figure out what day it was just a couple of minutes ago, because all of this is just unfolding so incredibly quickly. mark preston, i want to just like, let's try to big picture this to the extent that we can. i mean, we tried to state exactly how enormous this potential policy shift would be. the question that i think a lot of people across the world are now asking is, is this real? is this one of these situations where donald trump is saying something to set out a negotiating position like he does with tariffs? does it amount to basically a threat that he will not follow through on? or does it amount to something that he is actually going to do? >> i think you're all misinterpreting what he said here. okay. because what he se

. >> and joining us right now is cnn senior political analyst mark preston. it's good to see you. mark, let's let's get to the one big beautiful bill in just a second. let's start with the the swift and massive move by donald trump and elon musk to streamline the federal government, which has meant so far massive cuts and disruption to agencies and programs. usaid is seeing real impact right now, and it's emblematic of what they're going for. i've seen reporting in the new york times of dozens of clinical trials all over the world on medicines, fighting everything from malaria to cholera. they've been suspended mid-trial with unclear what these people who are in the middle of the trial do now. i mean, do you think there is any buyer's remorse with the elon musk approach to streamlining things? >> no. >> in fact, i think that they're looking at it as a huge success because no one's been able to stop them. and in fact. >> if you. >> hear people now talking here in washington, they're telling democrats to let usaid go. just let it go because. it's a loser and it's a loser in the sense

and we're here now with mark preston and alex marquardt in studio. mark, what stood out to you there? >> well, you know, i just think overall, let's take a step back and think about what's happening now. just in the past, what, two weeks now or three weeks it's been we're in the fog of war right now. there is so much happening right now that people are not necessarily able to digest it all and understand what's happening. and one side is really fighting the war in a way with no opposition, and that's donald trump. there is no opposition from the democratic party. i don't even know what they could do, to be perfectly honest with you. but we've seen nothing from them and we've seen nothing from republicans in, in the u.s. congress or the supreme court, for that matter at all. what i do think is going to happen, though, is that, you know, give it a couple of weeks, give it a couple of months. and i think some people are going to look back and say, wow, there was a lot of destruction. there was a lot of needless destruction that didn't need to happen. >>