>>host: we have been talking with james copeland from the manhattan institute the 14 areas he reviewsin his new book called the unelected. go to the comments section of the facebook page you can find a link to get his book. there so much here to talk about but i want to get back to what we mentioned earlier you brought up the cdc and with cove in 18 we pay close attention to their scientist and experts much more than i would suspect we ever paid attention before covid-19. that talk about the power that even in national review wrote a piece that the cdc power grab and one question that is relevant to what you talk about in your book if the executive branch can unilaterally suspend residential evictions to limit the spread of coronavirus is there anything it can't do? with this administrative state what can't it do? >> there are still some guardrails around that congress can do but it is an extremely broad power under the auspices of the commerce clause the courts have permitted congress to do mostly what it wants there are some cases that were exceptions like violence against women tha

time the manhattan institutes james copeland argues america is governed by unelected agency officials. democratic senator chris murphy of connecticut looks at the history of violence and firearms in the u.s. and the role they play in society today. .. >> host: mr. hastings is also the ceo of netflix. mr. hastings, what is netflix, and what do you do? ing. >> guest: netflix is a world leading entertainment service. we produce and distribute amazing television series and movies. we've been around about 20 years and have about 200 million families around the world who are our members. >> host: is there a connection to the 1998 company where you had 900 movie titles, 30 employees? >> guest: there's a little connection to that. we started 22 years ago doing dvds in the united states, competing with blockbuster. that was a whole decade really that we were competing with video stores just in the u.s., and that's 2007 when we started streaming, roughly the same time that youtube did. >> host: erin meyer, how did you get involved in this book project? >> guest: i study cultural differences in

. >> pretty amazing from the manhattan institute james copeland talks about the four areas he talks aboutin his book elected - - unelected that was a challenge to the federal drug laws convicted under federal law not state law growing marijuana in his backyard i wasn't selling it i was growing it but you had to buy seeds in arguably it could affect the drug trade itself. the president had the same basic logic where the farmer was using his own crops for his own use on his own farm and the federal government said no you have to follow the agricultural regulatory scheme but the supreme court let that go. it's a pretty broad rule. i do think there are two conceptual issues. one of course is the contractual issue itself and while congress will make no law with the freedom of contract and should be by the courts there is a pretty big infringement on property rights. so we will have litigation and premised on that but there is the nondelegation doctrine. >> john locke himself. >> he was among the original exponents of this in terms of writing it down. he didn't invent the concept that had been

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and the manhattan institute's james copeland argues that america is governed by non-elected agency officials. that all starts tonight at 7:30 eastern. find more schedule information on your program guide. >> sunday at 7 p.m. eastern, a live discussion with pulitzer prize-winning author bob woodward on his new book, "rage," which looks at president trump's national and foreign policy decisions. watch booktv on c-span2. >> hi, everyone.

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