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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
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
Policy adviser, former high ranking Government Official and author of numerous books and reports on china. I know dish can tell you definitively that mike has really changed the u. S. Militarys thinking back a number of years ago he was sent to china to collect Chinese Military writeings and was the First American official who reveal what the chinese were telling themselves behind the scenes was quite different than what they were saying in public but how they wanted to be friend with the world, and it really had a tremendous impact on understanding the militarys view of the peoples republic of china. His book is a landmark book, most recent book is the hundred year marathon chinas secret strategy to replace america as global super power. This book is really a fascinating look and is probably one of the only places in public where youll find information about chinese defectors, people from within the Chinese Communist party system who reveal what is going on there. Before mike speak is