and it's common i can just tell that it's common california to tell the audience who john law is and his role and monetary history i think most of your audience knows if they're watching your show but john lowe is a english financier who went over to france and convinced convinced the french monarchy that. they could they could print money to access and he blew a bubble in the south sea bubble and. then he absconded with all the gold and the whole thing collapsed so he was it was the 1st large scale money printer in the history of the world and that may not be true there may have been others because the 1st modern large money printer in history and. it was it was one hell of a ponzi scheme that he ran and i honestly think that when blackie you know came out with this misinterpretation of the great depression and his helicopter money speech . you know he was channeling john law. and you know let's take a little while to play out it's really the same thing said a follow up on the john laws ben bernanke the analogies what john law it's colorful history a guy he wrote into paris and h

it was founded by ambrose hidel, a german immigrant came in the company of john law with his family from -- they sailed from the port of lawrence, france, and came here. in 1752 when he founded this plantation, it was much smaller. it was an 11 track and he grew rice and indigo as the main cash crops. and indigo was the significant cash crop of this land in the 18th century. he and his children continued planting in indigo until the late 18th century, beginning of the 19th century. in 1795, de bora was the first louisiana planter to grow a crop of sugar. we're in a strange climate zone so it couldn't really -- nobody had been able to take it the full way before that. so in 1795 with the help of somebody from haiti, who had come over after the revolution, he granulated a crop and all of the planters kind of followed suit after that. sugar could make more money than indigo. indigo had crop failures and there was competition in the market and so right around the same time that the first sugar crop was being granulated, indigo was not a viable crop any more. so this plantation transitioned a

the lower courts and congress passed the law and john adams signed it, i don't think presidents have the right that has been claimed recently to not enforce laws, he doesn't agree with the policy of congress. that is what the daca program was, the president said we should let more people into the country. congress's immigration laws are too harsh. if you allow the president to not enforce laws selectively, you've given him a veto and second, you probably defeat congressional efforts to compromise about that issue, to do some sort of legislative deal by later coming on and saying i'm not going to enforce the law and don't agree with it anymore. >> host: the point about nonenforcement, president obama was announcing the daca policies, an article on the take care clause, many years ago. but one of the challenges, the president's ability is wrongful but the ability to simply not enforce laws, a proper constitutional check and balance to counteract that, an individual president limits his own ambition, policy on policy grounds, not having constitutional argument against it and living up to

john is a law professor at the university of california berkley. while serving at the justice department after 9/11, he drafted the memo that authorized the enhanced interrogation -- >> you have seen the peads? >> i'm not allowed to say i have or not. >> you were at the justices department, presumably the justice department would have had to deally with the peads if a president wanted to implement one. >> that's a fair statement.the office i worked in would review the legality of the peads because they would straw on presidential powers and congressional powers delegated to them. >> a couple of weeks ago, the professor was at the white house discussing executive power with president trump. >> because you never know what the emergency will be. so, this peads and simila planning documents when we look back historically at them sometimes they seem comic. >> the notion that they are executive powers, based on something that is never been vetted by congress. giving the president almost limitless powers to do what he needs to do in the event of a crisis,

in 1716 scotsman john law help the french government established the bank royale issuing notes backed by the value of france's landholding west of the mississippi. bank royale issued too many notes and the french government went rogue. most extensive. modern experiment with fiduciary money happened right here in america in 1775 come the second continental congress not only created paper money but passed a law against refusing to it sets it to the continental congress issued too many notes and a pattern begins to emerge. all for duscher money is backed by prodigy of net the bankers are lying about that amount the commodities. historically the most common commodity is being gold by the 19th century the major currencies of the world for based on gold that the most major volvos currencies were the british pound. this was a period upon a true stability and not coincidentally great economic growth. some people think we should go back on the gold standard not all of whom live in art compounds in idaho. money should be worth something and gold seems as good as whatever but the high value of g

in 1716, scottsman john law helped the french government establish the bank royale issuing notes by the land holdings west of the mississippi and bank royale issued too many notes, the french government went broke. most extensive pre modern experiment with fiduciary money happened here in america in 1775, the second continental congress not only created paper money, but passed a law against refusing to accept it. continental congress issued too many notes and a pattern begins to emerge. all fiduciary money is backed by a commodity even if the backers are lying about the amount of that commodity. now, historically the most common commodity has been gold. by the 19th century the major currencies of the world were based on gold led by the most of currencies which is the british pound. this is monetary stability and great economic growth. some people think we should go back on the gold standard and not all of them live in armed compounds in idaho. money should be worth something. and gold seems as good as whatever. but the high value of gold's a social convention, it's a habit left over fro

and after graduating law school, he clerked for john on the dc circuit and for justice thomas. he's previously served as general counsel on the senate judiciary committee as a deputy assistant attorney general in the office of legal counsel, where he worked on issues involving foreign affairs, national security and separation of powers. he's been a visiting scholar in several different law schools and the author of many books including one they are going to discuss today which is "defender in chief." david rivkin is on the international environmental team and serves as a cocreator in the practice. he has extensive experience in constitutional administration. he got his undergraduate and masters degree fromaster's degrn and his law degree from columbia. like john, david has held several significant positions in the government including deputy director of the office of policy development at the justice department, legal adviser in the office of the vice president, association at the department of energy, associate white house counsel, and as the associate executive director and g

you want to honor john, let's honor him by revitalizing the law that he was willing to die for. [ applause by the way, naming it the john lewis voting rights act, that is a fine tribute, but john wouldn't want us to stop there, just try to get back where we already were, once we pass the john lewis voting rights act, we should keep marching, to make it even better. [ applause ] by making sure every american is automatically registered to vote, including former inmates who have earned their second chance. [ applause ] by adding polling places and expanding early voting and making election day a national holiday so if you are somebody who is working in a factory or if you're a single mom who has got to go to her job and doesn't get time off you can still cast your ballot. by guaranteeing that every american citizen has equal representation in our government, including the american citizens who live in washington, d.c. and in puerto rico. [ applause ] they're americans. by ending some of the partisan gerrymandering so that all voters from the power to choose their politicians, not the other w

john was in law school there.t her, that is, and said he had a kind of epiphany. >> he said, "you know, i'm not even sure i'll be happy being an attorney. i think i wanna be a nurse anesthetist" and i think my jaw fell to the ground, because i thought he was, you know, a second-year law student. >> reporter: in fact, he wasn't. he had been kicked out. though he didn't tell her that. >> all the days of my life. >> reporter: so, in her blissful ignorance, she married him in her family's church in 1990. >> mr. and mrs. john meehan. >> reporter: and she helped put him through nursing school. they had two daughters before things stopped adding up. >> and i found out that he was having an affair. >> reporter: tonia wondered, what else did she not know about her soon to be ex-husband. like, why did he refuse to invite his family to their wedding? why not let her even meet them? she decided to call his mother. >> i said, "dolores, this is tonia. i'm married to your son, john." and the phone was quiet for a minute. and she

law. the life of john lewis was in so many ways the exception.icated the faith in our founding, redeemed that faith. that most american of ideas, the idea that any of us, ordinary people, without rank or wealth or title or fame can somehow point out the imperfections of this nation and come together and challenge the status quo and decide that it is in our power to remake this country that we love until it more closely aligns with our highest ideals. what a radical idea and what a revolutionary notion, this idea that any of us ordinary people, a young kid from troy, can stand up to the powers and principalities and say no, this isn't right, this isn't true, this isn't just. we can do better. on the battlefield of justice americans like john and americans like reverend lowery and ct vivian and two other patriots we lost this year and liberated all of us in the many americans came to take for granted and america was built by people like them and america was built -- [applause] by john lewis is. he, as much as anyone, and her history brought this co

now i'd like to invite up our sheriff, sheriff mark essick and sheriff john robertson for a law enforcement update. >> good morning. i'm here today with my colleague from napa county. and we're here to just give you a quick update on evacuations. your sheriffs departments in this area are working with chp and with cal fire. we continue to work closely with our partners in these evacuation zones to keep you safe and keep you out of those evacuated areas so that our firefighters can get in there and do work. we are working on a repopulation plan and a re-entry pran. our overall hope is to get you back home quickly and safely. your safety is pair amount to us. we ask for your patience as we go through this repopulation stage and re-entry stage. it is still a rapidly changing and progressing environment with the fire. so we don't keep. and that would be detrimental to the entire process. so please bear with us in your patience as we start to repopulate areas. as the damage assessment continues, it's important for everyone to raise that this is a time when someone people realize they no longer h

john fitzgerald kennedy set aflame. [applause] pres. johnson: and let none of us stop to rest until we have written into the law of the land all the suggestions that made up the john fitzgerald kennedy program. and then let us continue to supplement that program with the kind of laws that he would have us write. [applause] [cheers] pres. johnson: tonight, we offer ourselves -- on our record and by our platform -- as a party for all americans, an all-american party for all americans. this prosperous people, this land of reasonable men, has no place for petty partisanship or peevish prejudice. [applause] pres. johnson: the needs of all can never be met by parties of the few. [applause] pres. johnson: the needs of all cannot be met by a business party or a labor party, not by a war party or a peace party, not by a southern party or a northern party. [applause] pres. johnson: our deeds will meet our needs only if we are served by a party which serves all our people. we are members together of such a party, the democratic party of 1964. [cheers and applause] pres. johnson: we have written a proud record of accomplishments for all americans. if any

home in springfield, illinois, where he said this act of violence should inspire reverence for the laws. john brown interpreted it -- he believed it should inspire reverence for insurrection. he became an abolitionist overnight, and he believed in armed resistance to the struggle, and he devoted the next 22 years of his life to ending slavery with violence if necessary. in the 18 fifties, he and his sons led a band of anti slavery gorillas into kansas, a disputed state which was either going to enter the union as a slave or free state, to frighten pro slavery residents and those coming into add to the pro slavery voting bloc. and conducted battles, burned peoples towns. meanwhile, the pro slavery people were burning abolitionist towns and destroying newspapers and court houses. he killed so many people in kansas it's sort of became bloody kansas on his watch and his initiative. osawatomie brown named after one of the battles that his armed men fought. then he retreated back to new york where he was funded by a lot of donors to mount this next insurrection into virginia. so well abraham lincol

he's not going to show up which is normally against the law not a good idea to just not sure law professor john myers says you could technically get arrested even now although that's not likely issue shale to appear and it is against the law. >>and if you don't appear you can get and another summons and you can be hauled in front of the judge and the judge will give you a good lecture. so what should you do. >>meyer says if you don't want to enter a courthouse at the jury commissioner for a postponement courts are allowing you to postpone because of covid but it varies by county in sacramento, some and jurors are allowed to put off service for 90 days, the jury will be this kind of the final piece that will have to be in place to some restoration of normalcy 2. >>what >>and that was marissa perlman reporting there and this is a tough issue. a tough decision for people it is but i will tell you i got my mom of jury duty because she's 91. >>can't hear can see and is in a high-risk group and you just go online and you can you know give them a reason and don't have to have any contact at all so thi

laws. the late john lewis, who led marchers in selma, faced this ominous moment. >> history cannot repeat itselfshoes. correspondent: the voting rights act,hich followed the walk on washington, was supposed to end racial discrimination in voting, but some legal protections have been removed. so now as america faces a reckoning over ranial injustice a high-stakes election, there are increasingly questions about whether barriers toot vg based on race have really been removed. the court called it the most restrictive voting law the north carolina has seen since the era of jim crow, saying the provisions a target african-americans with almost surgical precision. those states have tried to introduce changes, saying they will prevent voter fraud. >>ou have seen the assuring of a lot of different kinds of quirements that make it more difficult for low income people and people of color to vote. thgs like i am getting rid of early votinpo closing the ing stations, and particularly closing these polling stations in minority neighborhoods. correspondent: more thaafhalf a centurr the march on washington, th

delegation of american and israeli officials was on board including president trump's advisor and son in law john. we can't want peace more than they want peace and so when they are ready the whole region is very excited to help lift them up and move them forward but they can't be stuck in the past they have to they have to come to the table they have to figure out how do we do something that benefits everybody and allow everyone to move forward so again peace will be ready for them an opportunity will be ready for them as soon as they're ready to embrace it sounds transitional government has reached a peace deal with rebels from the sudan revolutionary front follows months of talks aimed at bringing an end to decades of conflict but it's not saying killed several other armed groups and agreements and rebellions was a major goal of the government which took power last year all right those images headlines here on al-jazeera to stay with us politician boulders of blood is coming next i'm back in 25 minutes. august donna claimed the front photo of british pop as mr jinnah governor general of the ne

john, i imagine law and order, chaos in the cities, the economy, china, iran, israel, likely themes wethis week. >> yeah, you hit the high points. this is an opportunity for president trump to showcase himself and his agenda. he'll be on each of the four nights, a little bit unusual for a candidate. usually they're on the last evening. and he'll be hitting the topics that you just described. with the intent of really getting his base to turn out. i'm not sure, eric, that you're going to see kind of a broadening of appeal. the president has in his campaign, has made it fairly clear decision to really try to energize his base. and that they see an opportunity to actually expand the number of voters because a number of people in the category of individual that tends to vote for president trump, not only this group but a lot are in this group which is noncollege educated people who have jobs, a lot of those individuals didn't vote in 2016 so he sees an opportunity to expand his voter pool. eric: and then the campaign clearly trying to say he's going to run on his record, pointing to the ec

deployment of more national guard troops following sometimes violent demonstrations is john hendren. hundreds of law enforcement agents at all levels are descending on the small city of can no ship where local police have struggled to quell escalating violence. the ramping up of law enforcement follows a fatal fight between protesters and a teenager who fired an assault weapon on demonstrators killing 2 and wounding one . using video from the scene sheriff's deputies arrested 17 year old kyle rittenhouse emanuel and then we are going to blame it on everybody else it was not clear whether rittenhouse was among the armed militia members who verbal e clashed with protesters after days of looting arson in violent clashes this city has responded with a new curfew we're not going to put up with what we saw monday night we're not going to is that mean we're going to stop it all. guns on numbers that come are not to be able to stop it all but we're going to be assertive in helping to protect the city you know shit. in our neighbors from around the county state and country are here to help too the governor h

joining us now is kevin john hello international law professor at the university of copenhagen he joins us on skype from melbourne australia kevin hello welcome to the news how can this be enforced. well it can't really be enforced. obviously there was only one conviction out of the original 5 defendants and if in the unlikely event that the tribunal or the authorities were to ever get their hands on mr the convicted defendant he would be entitled to a full retrial so basically they would have to start over and prove his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt all over again so there is a long way to go between this verdict and ever seeing mistry osh pay for you know pay for his sins really why would he be entitled to a full retrial given the events today in the hague. it's actually a provision in the statute of the special tribunal for lebanon that when you try a defendant in absentia that if in fact they are later apprehended they're entitled to a full retrial and and that's also consistent with international human rights law so that's not really a unclear legal question at this point the cou

reelected in 2020, enjoy book tv on c-span2. >> next on big tvs "after word words", john you, university of california berkeley law professor and former depth under deputy assistant general and the george w. bush of administration ways in on presidential powers in the constitution, he is interviewed by mark roselle, author and founding dean of george mason university school of policy and government. "after words" is a legally interview program with relevant guest host interviewing top nonfiction authors about their latest work, all "after words" programs are also available as podcasts. >> john, thank you for taking this opportunity to discuss your new book, i'm delighted by the opportunity to ask some questions about it i just rea

impression that john roberts has turned into some kind of liberal he is certainly no ruth bader ginsburg who went to which high school. madison i think they read out of them like the law many great americans write. the but so so john roberts has not turned it to some kind of liberal but it also true that this was a different john roberts this target no he voted to strike down the abortion law louisiana he stright he voted to you know say that title 7 the anti discrimination law cover discrimination against gay people he said that the trumpet ministration you know had violated the rules when it tried to end the protections for dreamers and when it tried to put a citizenship question on the census that's different than the john roberts we saw in the previous 14 years he's been on the court and i think it reflects some real discomfort among mainstream republicans like john roberts with the direction of the trump presidency you know i don't think it's accurate to call roberts a never trump are but he is someone who 'd i think has been eliminated by how have how donald trump has conducted his presence. how far along in your writing this book did the coronavirus develop wha

well unpacking all the international legality of this for us here on al-jazeera kevin john hello he's an international law professor at the university of amsterdam he joins us now on skype from melbourne kevin welcome back what did the tribunals actually conclude today concerning hezbollah and the syrian government involvement in the assassination. well i think one of the kind of the ironies of the case was that syria and has followers so incredibly critical of the special tribunal for lebanon but in the end they were basically received what they wanted from the tribunal which was a statement that yes maybe they had a motive to kill her airy but that there was simply no evidence that either has instructed the conspirators to kill mr hariri or that syria had any direct involvement in the assassination so that is about as close as one could get to an acquittal of hezbollah and syria by the tribunal and when he says justice must be done it must be seen to be done surely he knows in all probability that's not going to happen. i'm pretty sure that he's just trying to put on a positive spin or a brave face for

. >>> next on booktv's "after words," john yo john yoo, univef california berkeley law professor and former deputy assistant attorney general in the george w. bush administration weighs in on presidential powers in the constitution. he's interviewed by author and founding dean of george mason university's school of policy and government. "after words" is a weekly interview program with relevant guest hosts interviewing top nonfiction authors about their latest works. all "after words" programs are also available as podcasts. >> host: thank you for taking this opportunity to discuss your new book. i am delighted by the opportunity to ask questions about it. i've had a bit of time to prepare for this interview. i want to start you wrote a piece in 2017 that was pretty

trump tweeted wednesday that he will be sending the national guard to kenosha to restore law and order. i'm john lawrence reporting. teenager has been arrested now for the shooting that killed 2 people and injured another during protests in kenosha. >>tuesday night the suspect identified as 17 year-old kyle rittenhouse there's his picture as he's posted on social media rittenhouse turn himself in to police on wednesday morning after the deadly shooting there in kenosha he's charged with first-degree intentional homicide. meantime the officer who shot jacob blake on sunday is named ruston sheskey he is a seven-year veteran of the kenosha police department the wisconsin attorney general revealed that blake said he was or he had a knife at the time of the incident. police were initially responded to a domestic violence call involving blake. he remains in the hospital in milwaukee, his family says he's paralyzed from the waist down. now the other big story this morning. not survivable that's the warning forecast are giving regarding hurricane laura storm surge the category 4 storm made landfall near

eastern on , law professor john you with his book defender and chief, looks at presidential powers and the u.s. constitution. he is interviewed by mark rose well, author and dean. watch book tv this weekend on c-span2. donald trump, jr. and kimberly guilfoyle, both advisors to president trump's reelection campaign, posted an event to launch the sportsman for triumph group thursday in c opley, pennsylvania. issues ofd about interest to gunowners and hunters, including the opening of more than 4 million acres of publicly managed lands for sports uses.

the initial claim came from a "newsweek" column written by a law professor, john eastman, who is worthy general the same year that harris won that race. the daily beast says it took "newsweek" three days and a staff revolt to finally come around and apologize for publishing that op-ed. "newsweek" initially defended it and said it wasn't about birtherism, but come on, it started this domino effect which caused president trump to be asked about it at a press briefing. he kind of kept it going by not rejecting it, you know, by saying he would look into it at first. this weekend the trump officials have rejected it and admitted that harris is, of course, eligible to run. this is how it started. it started with a column on the "newsweek" website and it's been going ever since. what a racist way to waste four days of our time. harris is calling it out. in a new interview this morning with the grio, this is what she said about this. >> they're going to engage in lies, they're going to engage in deception, engage in an issues impacting the american people. and i expect they will engage in dirt

party of law and order. >> to those that say law and order a code word for racism, our goal is justice. justice for every american. >> and it's interesting, john, because he also had this law and order platform in 2016 saying that cities were distraught back then and they needed controlling. and that's when crime was at an all-time low in this country so people didn't understand that platform at the time. when he was asked about why he was drawing from richard nixon in 2016, here's what he said that was quoted in "the new york times." he said i think that what nixon understood, when the world is falling apart, people want a leader whose priority is protecting america first. the '60s were bad, and it's really bad now. americans feel like it is say yos. again, i can only imagine that he's applying the same rhetoric, this same theme to what he is doing now. >> yeah. you know, in 1968, it did feel as though the country was falling apart. dr. king was assassinated on april 4th. robert kennedy was assassinated in the first week of june. something like 45 americans died every day in vietnam. not wounded, died. and at the end oh of that year, on elect

it is disgusting to think that is called law enforcement today. shannon: john , the police department has felony charges in 42 cases in cook county has approved 42. does that sound like an improvement to you that they are working with police to get a higher number of cases moving? >> they are working now because there is an election in november and the states attorney realizes public sentiment is against her and she isor not looking good for reelection because she hasn't done much to instill public safety or security in the cityy or county. she had a mea culpa article two days ago basically saying now she wants to live on - - work with on enforcement but when she came into office said she would empty the jails. shannon: regardless of party talking about coming together regardless of where you are and then what you agree to so how do you feel this reflects most of america?he and to focus on the most radical are americans with you? >> no question. it is our nature once americans realize the misery put on the most at risk people in those who have always been under

constitution and in our politics, my guest is john yoo, visiting scholar at aei and university of california berkeley's email you will heller professor of law. john served in all 3 branches of federal government, the justice department office of legal counsel, the senate judiciary committee and the supreme court of the clerk for justice clarence thomas was his previous books include crisis, history of executive power george washington to george w. bush. his newest book the subjective

he was john winthrop's brother-in-law and a prominent magistrate. and in this letter, downing writes to winthrop and says we should start a war with the narragansett. they are causing problems. it will be a just war because they are not christian. we will be able to take them captive, and we will be able to sell those captives to the west indies and obtain africans. because he is worried, by 1645, he is already worried that salem is running short of laborers. all the young people do not want to stick around. the moment they get opportunity to go and settle. they settle land. they move away from the town. so where do you get a labor force? you have to pay them. wages are high in this context. so you bring in africans essentially 20 africans for one white man was this ratio he worked out in terms of provisions. a much cheaper system of labor. open, advocating for this. winthrop shuts it down, but any sort of hint of diplomatic issues with indigenous people, you are seeing these letters all of a sudden, people wanted to capitalize, to see an opportunit

arrested and charged for that will have a live update in a moment 1st this report is from john hendren. hundreds of law enforcement agents at all levels are descending on the small city of can no ship where local police have struggled to quell escalating violence. the ramping up of law enforcement follows a fatal fight between protesters and a teenager who fired an assault weapon on demonstrators killing 2 and wounding one . using video from the scene sheriff's deputies arrested 17 year old kyle rittenhouse a man you. know we're going to blame it on everybody else it was not clear whether rittenhouse was among the armed militia members who verbal e clashed with protesters after days of looting arson in violent clashes this city has responded with a new curfew we're not going to put up with what we saw monday night we're not going to is that mean we're going to stop it all. it comes on numbers that come we're not to be able to stop at all but we're going to be assertive in helping to protect the city at the notion that. the governor has called in a broad array of law enforcement from across the state of

emanuel downing was john theory's brother-in-law. he lived in salem and went back to new england. in this letter, downing writes to winthrop and says we should start a war with the narragansett. it will be just war because they're not christian. we'll be able to take them captive, and we'll be able to sell those captives to the west indies and -- he calls them moors but africans. he's already worried that salem is running short of laborers. all the young people don't want to stick around. the moment they get any opportunity, they go and settle land, they move away from the town. so where do you get a labor force? well, you have to pay them. wages are high in this context. so you bring in africans who will work -- he says, essentially, one african can be provided for -- 20 africans for one white man is essentially his ratio he worked out in his mind in terms of provisions. so it's a much cheaper way of labor to bring. winthrop shuts it down. but any sort of hint of diplomatic people with indigenous people, you're seeing these letters, all of a sudden, people waiting to capitalize,

john yoo is a law professor at the university of california berkeley. serving at the justice department aft he drafthe mem terrorsuscts.th you've seen the pa? and thetiouldhadto dealth th pto implement one? >> yes. the justice department and the office i worked in would review the legality of the peads because they would draw on presidential powers and congressional powers delegated to him. >> reporter: just a couple of weeks ago, professor yoo was at the white house discussing executive power with president trump. >> because you never know what the emergency is going to be. so these peads and similar contingency planning documents, when we look back at this historically, sometimes they seem comic. >> reporter: the notion there are example powers, ver n tted by congress, gihe president almost limitless powers to do what he needs to do in the event of a crisis, that's not funny to me. that's scary. >> forgive me, i don't mean it is comic. you are right, ted, there are dangers to that. we have seen in ousi have go far. fathers balanced it by giving the pr

enjoy booktv on k span 2 -- c-span2. >> next on booktv's "after words," john yoo, university of california-berkeley law professor and former deputy assistant attorney general in the george w. bush administration, weighs in on presidential powers and the constitution. he's interviewed by mark rozell, author and founding dean of george mason university's school of policy and government. "after words" is a weekly interview program with relevant guest hosts interviewing top nonfiction authors about their latest work. all "after words" programs are also available as podcasts. >> host: john, thank you for taking this opportunity to discuss your new book. i'm delighted by the opportunity to ask some questions about out. i just read it, it was out two days ago, so i had a little butt of time to prepare for this interview. i want to start because you wrote a piece in 2017 that unloaded pretty strong on president trump for various overreaches in the exercise of executive powers, and now you're presenting him as a defender of the traditional constitutional order regarding presidential powers. i want to ask you wh