So leaders had a much Better Direct sense of what the people actually thought. You can see a lot of polling data in this and in flushing out exactly what it was americans thought. I will focus a lot on Public Opinion and then we will talk about policy as a reflection of Public Opinion. At the start of the war in europe, my argument is there were two basic positions held almost unanimously by the American People. They wanted britain and france to win the war, to defeat germany, and they did not want the United States to have to fight in that war to make it happen. Over the course of the two plus years of this debate, nothing that happened really change fundamentally, those two points of view. There will be changes in American Opinion, but those two fundamental views remain the same. Even on the eve of pearl harbor, most Americans Still wanted to avoid direct american involvement as a belligerent in world war ii. The great debate moved the American Public in the direction of risking war,
Presented in your new book . Guest thanks for inviting me to come on with you and im looking forward to this conversation and as you know ive been an admirer of your work on executive privilege and this would be fun. I started out wary of President Trump and i was not a supporter of his in the 2016 election and what worried me was that he was a populist and a constitution seemed designed to stop populists. Its fairly antidemocratic in nature, in a lot of ways, like the senate and the judicial review and the Electoral College and the presence of the states as important part of the constitution so i was worried when trump came in as a populist who wants to achieve and agenda that he feels he received and he would strain against and go beyond the constitutional restraints on his power and i was worried at the beginning he was doing that and things like the travel ban, threats to build a border wall without congressional approval and in that early piece i urged them to try to use as presid
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Process. Even more, mr. Durham, is initiating and conducting his own criminal investigation. And with the attorney general talked about this week is that they know that there are people in those intelligence agencies who were spying on the trump campaign. Imagine federal agencies, f. B. I. , c. I. A. , spying on the campaign of a candidate for president. Republican or democrat, we should equally be alarmed that that happened. I hope it gets rooted out. I hope whoever did that, abused their power, gos to jail. But it happened. Its being investigated in a criminal way. But horowitz himself pointed out where there were abuses of the fisa process. And you know what . Thats coming back up to this Congress Early next year for renewal. Parts of that program will come back up again. Important tools to combat terrorism but tools that now have been identified to have been abused. We need to Work Together to clean that up so that that doesnt happen again. But that happened and it was used against