Mac will john, thank you for taking this opportunity to discuss your new book. I am delighted by the opportunity to have some questions about it. I reddit a few days ago. Had a little bit of time to prepare for this interview. I want to start because he wrote a peace in 2017 that unloaded pretty strong on President Trump for various overreaches for the exercise of executive powers. Now youre presenting him as a defender of the traditional Constitution Order regarding president ial powers. I want to ask you 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 it come on with you. And really looking forward to this conversation. As you know ive been an admirer of your work on executive privilege, this should be a lot of fun. I started out wary of President Trump. I was not a supporter of his and the 2016 election. And the thing that worried me as he was a populist. In the constitution seems desi
Independent you have a lot of leverage in the energy world. Also because we are the recipient purchasers of most countries goods other countries makes stuff and sell it to us they need to sell it to us, we make stuff, it would be nice to sell it to them but mostly we sell it to ourselves. Trump understood those things and realize we can fix the American Economy if he could get us off of middle east energy he could use trade wars to renegotiate the agreements with china, with japan, with south korea mexico and canada. The United States in a far better position, have much more leverage and then start negotiating my advice is that now that you have china in the phase 1 trade agreement, you have a trade agreement with mexico and canada, one with japan and south korea, probably get one with the bricks by the end of the year. We now have a consortium and trading blocs where we can go to china, a lot of us have the same complaints about the chinese treatment and we could go as a block led by
In advance of the Republican National convention we want to show you related other programs from our archives. Coming up, programs about donald trump and his supporters thoughts on how to win reelection in november. First up from this past february on our either Interview Program afterwords k t mcfarland recalls her time working for the president. Trump understood if you rebuild the American Economy to make the strongest economy in the world, all the middle east oil and make America Energy independence, you have a lot of leverage in the energy world and also because we are the recipients of purchasers, other countries make stuff and sell it to us. They need to sell it to us. We make stuff, trump understood and realized if he could fix the American Economy, get us off of middle east energy could use trade wars to renegotiate agreements with china, japan, south korea, one with britain soon, mexico and canada. Put the United States enough far better position of much more leverage and then
Thanks for inviting me to come on with you, and im really looking forward to this conversation. As you know, aye been add an mirier of your work on executive privilege. This should be a lot of fun. I started out wary of President Trump. I wasnt a supporter of his in the 2016 election, expect thing that really worried me was that he was a populist. The constitution seems designed to stop populists. Its fairly democratic in a lot of ways. The so i was worried when trump came in as a populist who wants to achieve an agenda that he feels he received a mandate for, that he would strain against or even go beyond the constitutional constraints of husband power. And i was worried he was doing that in things like the travel ban, threats to build the border wall without congressional approval. And in that early piece i urged him to try to use his president ial powers primarily for National Security and Foreign Affairs and instead to understand Domestic Affairs that his role is really to enforce
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