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
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
Todays discussion is defender in chief Donald Trumps fight for president ial power. Thanks for joining us today. S. Im one of the oldest people on staff talking about a book, without the relationships i have asked aei. Lets jump into the book. You summarize the overall argument of the book that donald trump, quote, has returned to the frames original vision of the presidency, and office of unity, vigor and independence in securing the benefits of an energetic executive, trump may have done the nation his greatest service. Elaborate on that and describe the argument of the book. Guest that is great writing. I should have taken a third of the words out of that. One long sentence. A fair summary of the book. When trump ran for president i was wary of him. He wasnt my first pick for president and one reason i was wary of him is he is a populist in the constitution fears populists. Think about populism, fdr, Andrew Jackson and even abraham lincoln, people think they have popular will behind
Me if my tie was fixed but ok. I dont consider myself a journalist. Nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on the life of being an interviewer even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . Games right . Ays no have most people i interviewed are people i have known for quite some time. In the case of jim mattis, i have never met the man before. I thought i better be careful when he i shook his hand but it was the opposite. I recognized quickly he has a certain reserve, a certain manner that would take someone want to follow him as a leader. I suspect had he never gone into the military would have been successful in business, politics as well. Great potential to be a leader in our country. You are minding your own business after having spent 40 plus years in the marines. You are in your native state of washington and you get a call from Vice President elect pence to come and mee
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