Caricaturized notion. when you look at the role of a chief of staff, tell everyone what is actually is supposed to include and at what point does your job description become confined to this small sphere and cannot touch the campaign or the election world? well, you know, the white house chief of staff is many things. he s the president s gatekeeper, his confidant, his so-called javelin catcher. he s the person who executes the president s agenda, and of course, most important of all, he s the person you count on to tell the president hard truths. that s an area where, sadly, mark meadows utterly failed to carry out his duty as white house chief of staff. and let me just say as a kind of overarching point, there used to be stiff competition for the title of worst white house chief of staff in history. eisenhower s sherman adams, who was involved in a pay ola
Others saying no way, this is absolutely abhorrent behavior. it s criminal behavior. neal, of course you re the host of the podcast courtside with neal katyal, and you have a new episode dropping tonight with john legend where you discuss the supreme court and voting rights. tell us about that. yeah, so basically, what i want to do is bring the supreme court and make it alive to ordinary americans. so each week i have a discussion with a nonlawyer like john legend this week or next week it will be katie couric or future ones will be jeff koons the artist, and we go through one supreme court case in detail and try and take it really seriously. because i think unfortunately the court has been caricaturized in a lot of our discourse. we want to methodically go through it, ask what the court is doing, what their moves are, and ask it a right and just decision. that sounds like a great lineup. can t wait to listen. neal katyal, thank you so much for being on the program tonight. and y