guest: unitary executive, it comes from alexander hamilton writing in the pacificus letters, the most famously pro-executive of all the founders. he wants an executive so energetic that jefferson accused him of trying to set up a quasi-monarchy. remember at the constitutional convention he says the president should serve for life, so that he can't be corrupted by the legislature. he didn't win on that score, but he did insist the president should be very vigorous, and in a case called the myers case, chief justice william howard taft, a huge admirer of hamilton, says the president should be able to fire any executive branch official. myers involved a postmaster and the president wanted to fire him and the chief justice agreed saying article 2 of the constitution which makes -- gives the president the executive power invests the executive power in the president to use the language of the constitution, means that the president's control over executive officials should be complete. these questions about hiring and firing, removal they're called, are central to the unitary executive theor

guest: unitary executive, it comes from alexander hamilton writing in the pacificus letters, the mostamously pro-executive of all the founders. he wants an executive so energetic that jefferson accused him of trying to set up a quasi-monarchy. remember at the constitutional convention he says the president should serve for life, so that he can't be corrupted by the legislature. he didn't win on that score, but he did insist the president should be very vigorous, and in a case called the myers case, chief justice william howard taft, a huge admirer of hamilton, says the president should be able to fire any executive branch official. myers involved a postmaster and the president wanted to fire him and the chief justice agreed saying article 2 of the constitution which makes -- gives the president the executive power invests the executive power in the president to use the language of the constitution, means that the president's control over executive officials should be complete. these questions about hiring and firing, removal they're called, are central to the unitary executive theory.

guest: unitary executive, it comes from alexander hamilton writing in the pacificus letters, the mosty pro-executive of all the founders. he wants an executive so energetic that jefferson accused him of trying to set up a quasi-monarchy. remember at the constitutional convention he says the president should serve for life, so that he can't be corrupted by the legislature. he didn't win on that score, but he did insist the president should be very vigorous, and in a case called the myers case, chief justice william howard taft, a huge admirer of hamilton, says the president should be able to fire any executive branch official. myers involved a postmaster and the president wanted to fire him and the chief justice agreed saying article 2 of the constitution which makes -- gives the president the executive power invests the executive power in the president to use the language of the constitution, means that the president's control over executive officials should be complete. these questions about hiring and firing, removal they're called, are central to the unitary executive theory. in th

you can go back to alexander hamilton, george washington, and thomas jefferson. always been tension between cabinets and white houses. white houses want to control personnel and cabinet secretaries want to control personnel. i think donald trump found a happy medium that said, okay. cabinet secretaries, you're in charge of your people, but elon over here is going to be watching over your shoulder and if you don't do it, he's going to do it. i think that is -- that is an adult conversation that it did happen. true, but who cares? so they had an adult conversation. >> and if you don't do it the way he wants it done, he's going to threaten you on social media, and then he's going to throw the buckets of money to try to divide us even further. >> he's wildly popular with the base, and he -- and obviously these cabinet secretaries wanted to -- >> jonathan: as you know -- he's wildly unpopular with some of the right, you know, wildly unpopular because of some of the positions he's taken. >> right. i mean, the idea is you're a small government conservative. you want the

john adams beneath himn middle there is thomas jefferson, $50 beneath him is, alexander hamilton and above him, you can see the docks. madi to the right is james so three of virginia sons are on, but alsohe first four presidents. so this is believed to be the only one tain the first four pnts gnatures on it. they all weren't at t declaration and they all were at now, most remarkable part of this document is there was only read discovered in 1917 nine when a school intern was going through an old vault in the philosophical society. he found a scroll roll rolled up with a red ribbon on it, realized, well, is probably above my pay grade to open this and decided to take to the librarian's office who unfurled it and realized they had a national treasure on his hands. now i often got asked, you know. so so what happens? they raised all this money. what happened to this expedition? i've never heard of andre michaux or this expedition, and i'd usually summarize it by what we wrote on our own. the apes wrote on their website. ultimately, the expedition was called off due toiplomatic difficult

alexander hamilton's son, james, who is the second oldest after poor phillip, who dies in that duel,ho was close with andrew jackson. and when jackson made him the attorney for the southern district of new york, he said, and this is a almost exact statement, but kind of a paraphrase. take the job. make as much money as you can, but you are at my command. and i think that kind of sums it up. >> well, okay, all sounds a. >> little familiar. what can that history do to illuminate the current moment that we're i, when, as we're seeing a number of members of this administration are not just experts, maybe not even experts in the particular fields that they are charged with leading. they're simply big donors to the effort to elect donald trump. >> right. well, if you look at the long history of the civil service, it's kind of always a battle between cronyism and merit. merit meaning, expertise, merit, meaning, knowledge, merit, meaning experience. so you start out with blatant rampant cronyism. and then, as you just said a few moments ago in the late 19th and then in 1978 as well, you get

way, adams and jefferson didn't didn't agree on much except their hatred, mutual hatred of alexander hamilton. but over time, jefferson's commitment to popular democracy and his firm future oriented became fundamental aspects of the american character. every time you hear a pundit on tv or a politician invoking the american people and what they want with the presumption that just because it's the american people and what they want, it must be correct. you hear an echo of thomas jefferson every time you hear a tech entrepreneur talking about making the world a new. you hear an of thomas jefferson putting aside that you want all those people to be farmers, right? silicon valley is to still be farmland. it was up to thomas jefferson. but all of this, coupled with the fame and the sack realization over time of the declaration, have made jefferson an irresistible symbol of america and of democracy. now, not to pick to pick on adams again, but adams was more conservative of was right about more things. if you just look at the french revolution jefferson strong, strenuous ridicule, support of the fr

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. >> where alexander hamilton said this in 1791. >> you have. >> to. >> have tariffs to.ch will try. >> to do things. >> specially for their. >> country. to penetrate your own markets. and the national association of manufacturers supports that. but broad tariffs are not necessary. >> actually they're not. >> necessary to protect the american worker. >> why not. >> what what. >> needs to you look at the manufacturing jobs that are lost. what does need to protect. this is one. >> of the it kind of upsets me. the whole construct of the idea we need tariffs is wrong. it says the american workers are questioning the american worker is not the question. the american worker is the answer for america. but they need employment. they need upskilling. they need to be encouraged. to go. >> into these jobs that are. >> not dumb and dirty. >> after the pandemic. you know. >> when xi jinping closed the closed. shanghai for like six. >> weeks and the supply. chains were disrupted and everybody was. >> making just in, just in time supply. >> chains. >> they realized how long they were an