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
[indistinct conversations] today, the committee is holding a hearing entitled oversight of the Trump Administrations response to the covid19 endemic pandemic. Due to the Public Health emergency, members can participate in todays hearing either in person or remotely via video, and. Theart of this hearing, microphones will be set on mute, for the purpose of eliminating inadvertent background noise. Remotelyarticipating will need to unmute your microphone speak. Participating in person, please wear your mask when not speaking. Dr. Monahan extract expressed in the updated guidelines that the use of face coverings is meant to protect other people in case the wearer is unknowingly infected. When we are not speaking, each of us is playing a vital role in tech and all members and staff in attendance, as well as leaders of the covid19 response will be testifying before the committee. Due to the anticipated length of the hearing, we will take a 15 minute recess at 1 30 to provide witnesses a res
Bring this collection of great talent and Close Friends together today for this conversation, and that Susan Glasser of the new yorker kindly agreed to host today. Susan, thank you, and over to you. Susan thank you so much, steve, and to everyone who is joining us on this incredible allstar panel of experts we have with us today. I cannot think of a group that as a citizen, and not just as an observer, im hoping you can help us provide, if not definitive answers, at least some thoughts on what the path ahead looks like, recognizing we are in a world where we could not have predicted what we would have been talking about this week even two weeks ago. So, no one will hold you to it, but i want to thank the panelists in advance for their expertise and insights today. Let me do a quick introduction of everybody so that our guests today can understand just what an allstar lineup this is. I guess in no particular order, but the order i am saying people seeing people on my view screen, i dont
[indistinct conversations] [indistinct conversations] [indistinct conversations] [indistinct conversations] [indistinct conversations] today, the committee is holding a hearing entitled oversight of the Trump Administrations response to the covid19 endemic pandemic. Due to the Public Health emergency, members can participate in todays hearing either in person or remotely via video, and. Theart of this hearing, microphones will be set on mute, for the purpose of eliminating inadvertent background noise. Remotelyarticipating will need to unmute your microphone speak. Participating in person, please wear your mask when not speaking. Dr. Monahan extract expressed in the updated guidelines that the use of face coverings is meant to protect other people in case the wearer is unknowingly infected. When we are not speaking, each of us is playing a vital role in tech and all members and staff in attendance, as well as leaders of the covid19 response will be testifying before the committee. Due