Recognize the wonderful work you have done as an author and activist and as a political operative yourself. I do believe it will get the book that you have written and provided us with insight that is oftentimes not part of the political politics but welcome. Guest thank you so much. I am so happy to see you. I know all of us arent quarantined so its nice to see peoples faces and to see they are safe and healthy because it is scary times. Happy to be here. Host i wanted to get started and all the work youre doing is so relevant and i thank you have the bona fide and work part of the hilary quinn to campaign and you have your own progressive show and those of us both got to know each other because we both provide analysis on an msnbc and yet if the campaigns and the Mainstream Media we forget the narratives that are propelling this action we are seen in the streets and hopefully will translate to the voting booth. Lets talk about what that means. I know in your book you touch on identit
The study of the presidency and he is one of the nations leading constitutional scholars especially with regard to president ial powers and the author of an equally excellent previous book imperial from the beginning, the constitution of the original executive. Jack goldsmith is the professor of law at harvard and someone who as youre probably aware has seen the executive branch from the inside during a high profile extremely tense tenure in the bush Administrations Office of Legal Counsel during a key early period in the war on terror. Jack is one of our most thoughtful commentators on the moderate presidency impinges like the atlantic on the law flare law, and books like the terror presidency, and power in constraint. His latest book also highly recommended is also the subject for one of the last in person Public Events we had at cato back in early march for the lockdown. So jack, thanks for coming back so soon, if only virtually. Saikrishna im also a great admirer of your previous b
And the exercise of executive powers and now youve are presenting him as the defender of the Constitutional Order regarding president ial power. What changed your view, how did you move from where you were before to what you have presented in your new book . Guest thanks for inviting me to come on with you. Im looking forward to the conversation. Ive been an admirer of your work. This should be fun. I start to weary of President Trump. The thing that worried me as he was a populist and fairly antidemocratic in a lot of ways like the senate and Electoral College, the presence of the states constitution so i was worried when he came in as a populist who wants to achieve an agenda he received a mandate for what hthat he would go beyond te constitutional restraints of power and i was worried at the beginning. The beginning he would do that to think the travel ban and building a wall without congressional approval. I urged them to try to use the president ial powers for National Security an
Thank you for taking this opportunity to discuss your new book. To have a little that of time and with those overreaches with those powers and now you are presenting him as the Constitutional Order regarding president ial powers. What changed your view . How did you move from where you were before to what you have presented in your new book . It with your work on executive privilege this would be fun. I wasnt a supporter of his of the 2016 election and it worried me he was populist and it seemed designed to stop populist it was really anti democratic with the electoral college. So coming in as a populist to achieve an agenda to receive that mandate for to restrain to go beyond the constitutional restrictions on his power. And i urge them to use the president ial powers for National Security and Foreign Affairs to understand Domestic Affairs but his role but i found his critics because they think trump is so outrageous a large attack after attack on his legitimacy. His critics for examp
Project. She is the executive director there. And former congresswoman barbara comstock, who is now a Senior Advisor at bagel donelson at baker donelson. Big . G tech too what is your answer to that . I think the obvious answer to that is absolutely. ,he members of the subcommittee both the democrats and a number of republicans, really focused in on the power of the separations and the way we communicate and the way we engage. That was a dominant theme of this hearing, and also got into the guts of how these businesses work, how they abuse their dominance, how they engage in predatory behavior, and other affecting everyday families. It was really quite a remarkable hearing. And we saw this just a couple of Mark Zuckerberg, they really had no idea how the corporations work. So this was a pretty remarkable and the Ongoing Investigation into monopoly power in general but especially as relates to this. Congresswoman comstock . Barbara the gallup has an 18 Approval Rating. Story. American s