Tim Naftali, CNN Presidential Historian and Senior Research Scholar at Columbia University, joins Steve Adubato to examine President Donald Trump’s relationship with the media, the courts, and higher education, and how his leadership compares to past U.S. presidents.

As part of the conversation, Adubato talks to Naftali about President Trump and the fact that more than half of the country voted for him. Nafatali says, “Donald Trump on the campaign trail made it clear to those who were listening, that one of the key reasons he was running again was to seek revenge– revenge against institutions and people who had stood in his way. Now he described this in terms of his supporters too, he said "I represent you. They were standing in my way therefore they were standing in your way." To the extent that people voted for Donald Trump, in order to seek revenge, his promise to politicize the IRS, to dismantle programs where there were nonpartisan civil servants who were not going to do his bidding. Most people I would argue who voted for Donald Trump did not vote for him to be the agent of retribution; they wanted a solid economy, and they were concerned about inflation.”