Little bit of time to prepare for this interview, i want to start because you wrote a piece in 2017 the unloaded pretty strong on President Trump for various overreach in the exercise of executive power and now youre presenting him as a defender of the Constitutional Order regarding president ial powers, i want to ask you what changed your vehicle, how did you move from where you were before to what you have presented in your new book . Thank you for inviting me too come along with you and we are looking forward to this conversation and as you know ive been a meyer on your work with executive privilege, that should be a lot of fun, i started out weary and President Trump, was not a supporter in the 2016 election and the thing that worried me is he was a populist and constitution seems designed to stop populace. It is fairly antidemocratic in nature in a lot of ways like the senate and judicial review in the Electoral College, the presence of the states as important parts of the constit
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
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
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