“And instead of it being a show and a give and take, he really seems rattled and he really seems to be lashing out.”

"But what is a little bit different about what we're seeing this week is the president seems to have like real animosity behind some of these attacks,” Olorunnipa added, attributing the escalation to "how tough this month has been for him, how he's up against the ropes politically."

“The president has always sort of taken these attacks against the press as part of what he thinks is a shtick,” Toluse Olorunnipa of The Atlantic told Washington Week moderator Jeffrey Goldberg.

On Nov. 14, Trump said "Quiet, piggy," in response to a question from Bloomberg’s White House correspondent Catherine Lucey aboard Air Force One. A few days later, the president told Mary Bruce of ABC News that she was a “terrible person and terrible reporter.”

“It's a choice by the administration, but it is beginning to catch up with the administration and Republicans,” added Zeleny.

Late Friday night, the Supreme Court granted the Trump administration’s emergency appeal to temporarily halt a court order requiring them to fully fund SNAP benefits in November despite the shutdown.

... but they have found money for military payments and ICE officers and others — that's a choice," CNN chief national affairs correspondent Jeff Zeleny told Washington Week moderator Jeffrey Goldberg.

“The idea that the administration has chosen to not find money to fund the food assistance program for some 42 million Americans, 1 in 8 Americans, ...

"This is actually in Project 2025. This is one of the proposals — to resume bomb testing. It's very controversial with nuclear experts. All of the people who control nuclear weapons believe it's proliferating," Mitchell added.