charles stewart is a political science professor at mit. he's also the coauthor of fighting for the speakership. it's so nice to have you in our studio. nice to be here. thank you. so what was the role for the speakership that our founders actually had? well, you know, they created the office and then didn't say much about it in e was't much authorn the speaker. so it's really been a role that's evolved over the 250 years or so of of american constitutional history. has that evolution surprised you as a person who studies literally all the speakers through history? it hasn't surprised me in the sense that as the founders told us in the federalist and other places that politicians go for power. what's kind of surprising, maybe, is that it took so long, long for the national government and the leaders there really to to put together the mechanisms of strong caucuses of used thing the assignments to committees as chits to be given out proposal powers agenda setting powers. there's a lot of elements to exercising power in a legislature and it t

so i've been catching up with its chief executive, charles stewart.orjoining us. so next month you are selling a whole host of pictures previously owned by the major new york collector, emily fisher landau. and it includes lots of works by 20th century greats like pablo picasso and mark rothko. with a collection as significant as this, how important is the timing, especially when we think about how fragile the global economy is right now? well, the emily fisher landau collection is one of the great art collections of the 20th century. and one thing we've seen in the art market is particular interest and focus on great single owner collections. so we know there's going to be a lot of global interest in focus in this collection because both the work itself, but also the patina as a function of mrs fisher landau's extraordinary eye and visionary collecting journey over many decades. so we're very excited to bring it to the market this fall in our largest sale of the year. as you say, it is one of the great collections of the 20th century. and with that i

charles finally got his first job and the dress code was insane casual. even for bennigan's, that's a lot of flair. also in may, a bunch of or cause attacked yachts. martha stewartt issue. and russia banned america's late-night host, including me. but for some reason they did not ban my friend, jimmy fallon. i'm guessing because of jimmy's popular segment slow jam the borscht. in june, wildfires in canada sent giant plumes of smoke down the east coast turning new york's air into satan's butthole as opposed to new york's normal air, actual butthole. june 8, i really, really missed having a show because that was the day donald trump was hit with a 37 count indictment for hoarding national secrets. we saw some unbelievable photos of where he stored them, next to a mar-a-lago guest toilet. look at that. he left the launch codes in the splash zone. can you imagine using the bathroom? "we're out of toilet paper! wait a second. never mind. i will just make a two ply out of syrian troop movements." thank you. on june 23rd, there was an attempted coup in russia by wagner group founder and pope francis' evil twin, yevgeny prigozhin. it briefly looked like the coup might s