AND THERE WILL BE PLENTY OF POST-SESSION POLITICS.

>> Eric: WE START TONIGHT WITH NATIONAL POLITICS.

PRIMARY RESULTS THIS WEEK SHOWED PRESIDENT TRUMP'S INFLUENCE IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY REMAINS STRONG AS SOME INCUMBENT CANDIDATES LOST TO TRUMP CANDIDATES.

THE DNC REPORT ON WHAT WENT WRONG FOR DEMOCRATS IN THE 2024 ELECTION CAME OUT, AFTER DELAYS BY CHAIR KEN MARTIN.

AND OF COURSE THERE IS STILL A WAR GOING ON IN IRAN.

ANGELA GREILING KEANE IS THE SENIOR EDITOR FOR POLITICS AT CNBC.

ANGELA, THE PRESIDENT'S RECORD IN ANOINTING PRIMARY CANDIDATES IS GOOD AND YET THERE APPEARED TO BE SOME, WHAT WOULD YOU SAY, DEFECTIONS AMONG REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS?

>> IT WAS REALLY A MIXED WEEK THIS WEEK FOR THE PRESIDENT.

HE ABSOLUTELY EMERGED VICTORIOUS IN THE TWO PRIMARY CONTESTS.

WE HAD SENATOR BILL CASSIDY OF LOUISIANA GO DOWN AND HIS REPUBLICAN PRIMARY LAST WEEKEND.

AND THEN CONGRESSMAN THOMAS MASSIE A COUPLE DAYS LATER IN HIS PRIMARY.

BOTH OF THEM LOST TO TRUMP ENDORSE CANDIDATES.

AND CONSIDERED TO BE -- OPPONENTS FOR DIFFERENT REASONS BUT HE REALLY TARGETED THOSE INCUMBENTS AND PROPPED UP AND SUPPORTED AND ENDORSED THEIR CHALLENGERS.

-- FOR THE PRESIDENT.

IN CONGRESS INDEED IT WAS A DIFFERENT STORY.

THERE WAS A VOTE ON A WAR POWERS RESOLUTION WHICH HAS BEEN TAKEN A NUMBER OF TIMES -- ON THE IRAN WAR STARTED.

THIS TIME, MUCH, THE SENATE DID APPROVE -- THAT HAPPENED BECAUSE FOR THAT VOTE.

SO THAT WAS A LOSS FOR THE PRESIDENT.

AND THE HOUSE LEFT TOWN INSTEAD OF TAKING A VOTE ON THAT SAME WAR POWERS RESOLUTION.

>> Cathy: SO ANGELA, GIVE US AN IDEA HERE IN TERMS OF THE HOLD THAT THE PRESIDENT STILL HAS ON THE CAUCUS.

AND THE PARTY IN GENERAL.

>> THE PRESIDENT'S SUPPORT WITHIN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS STRONG.

PARTICULARLY WITHIN THE MAGA BASE.

THERE'S LITTLE CHANGE IN HIS SUPPORT AMONG HIS MOST ARDENT VOTERS.

THE DIFFERENCE IS HIS OVERALL APPROVAL RATINGS.

THOSE ARE DOWN.

THERE WAS A "NEW YORK TIMES" ARTICLE RECENTLY THAT HAD HIM RECENTLY AT A 37% APPROVAL RATING OVERALL AND A UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN STUDY THAT WAS JUST RELEASED THIS WEEK SHOWS 77% DISAPPROVAL FOR HIM AS PRESIDENT IN HANDLING THE ECONOMY.

SO THOSE INDICATORS ARE NOT SO GOOD FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP BUT HIS SUPPORT WITHIN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS PRETTY SOLID.

>> Eric: ON THE DEMOCRATIC SIDE THIS AUTOPSY FROM 2024 WAS RELEASED.

IT LOOKED LIKE KIND OF AMATEUR HOUR TO ME AND CONCLUSION WAS DEMOCRATS NEED TO PAY ATTENTION TO VOTERS IN THE SOUTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA.

WE ALL COULD HAVE OME UP WITH THAT IN ABOUT TEN MINUTES.

>> RIGHT, IN A MULTI-YEAR STUDY TO COME UP WITH THOSE CONCLUSIONS, LIKE I SAID YOU SAID WHEN YOU LOOKED AT THE REPORT, WE DID SPEND SOME TIME WITH IT ONLINE YESTERDAY, IT WAS OF COURSE VIRTUAL BUT IF YOU IMAGINE A PAPER THAT WAS FILLED WITH RED INK, IT WAS LITERALLY ANNOTATED WITH RED WHEN YOU OPENED THE FILE AND PARTY CHAIR KEN MARTIN, A MINNESOTAN OF COURSE, ISSUED AT THE SAME TIME AS THE REPORT HE PUT OUT A SUBSTACK POST SAYING HE WAS RELEASING THE REPORT BECAUSE HE FELT COMPELLED TO DO SO AND THERE HAD BEEN A LOT OF PRESSURE FROM INSIDE AND OUTSIDE OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY TO UNVEIL THE FINDINGS.

BUT HE WAS RELEASING IT NOT BECAUSE HE THOUGHT IT WAS COMPLETE OR A GOOD OR USEFUL REPORT, HE WAS RELEASING IT BECAUSE HE FELT LIKE HE SHOULD.

SO HE NOTED IN THAT POST -- AND AMONG THE THINGS THAT WERE LACK WERE AN EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND A CONCLUSION.

SO THERE WERE SOME PRETTY BIG PARTS THAT YOU WOULD EXPECT TO SEE IN A REPORT OF THAT LENGTH AND MAGNITUDE THAT WERE JUST NOT THERE.

>> Cathy: HOW -- THIN IS THE ICE IF IT IS THIN, HOW THIN IS THE ICE THAT CHAIR MARTIN MIGHT BE SITTING ON AT THIS POINT?

>> THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION.

ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I'VE SEEN REPORTED THIS WEEK, WELL, A DAY SINCE THAT REPORT WAS RELEASED IS THAT CHAIRMAN MARTIN RELEASED THAT REPORT IN PART BY RETAINING THE POST.

AND BY DOING SO HE WAS ABLE TO QUELL THE CRITICS THAT THOUGHT HE WAS HIDING A SCATHING REPORT OR SOMETHING THAT WAS IN ANY WAY WORSE, SO IT WAS AN INCOMPLETE REPORT BUT IT WASN'T A REPORT THAT HE WASN'T RELEASING BECAUSE OF SOME FINDINGS THAT WERE, YOU KNOW, TERRIBLY SURPRISING.

>> Eric: NEW FED CHAIR.

WHAT CHALLENGES DOES HE FACE?

>> NEW FED CHAIR KEVIN WORSH WAS SWORN IN TODAY IN THE WHITE HOUSE EAST ROOM WITH GREAT FANFARE.

FACES A NUMBER OF CHALLENGES, ONE OF THEM IS PRESSURE FROM THE PRESIDENT TO LOWER INTEREST RATES.

DURING THE CEREMONY TODAY PRESIDENT TRUMP SAID THAT HE EXPECTED THE FED TO BE INDEPENDENT, THAT'S IN FACT THE WAY THE FED TRADITIONALLY IS.

BUT THERE'S BEEN CONCERN WITH KEVIN WHOSH BEING PICKED IN IS THAT HE'S GOING TO BE PRESSURED BY TRUMP TO LOWER INTEREST RATES BECAUSE THAT'S SOMETHING TRUMP HAS MADE VERY, VERY CLEAR THAT HE WANTS.

THAT WOULD