. >> host: and in the inner circl circle, i mean where do you place a bill barr, steven muller?people as thinkers with ideology and philosophy? or just pragmatic day-to-day? >> bar comes out of the federalist society. i'm part of the federal society that argued very fiercely in the george w. bush administration for what they called the unitary executive. which basically meant that the executive is relatively unbalanced. the checks and balances that conventional thinking has around the president. we are not operative. both cheney and rumsfeld were very strong proponents of this point of view. and it actually had a great deal of impact. there are theorists of it, lots of lawyers who are developing theories around it, and so fort forth. and then you have the bulger review of it. which is trump say article two of the constitution i can do anything i want. >> right. they give him the ideology to support. so what i want to go to further places my time with the was running out for two for the things i want to touch on before he opened up the questioning. the first one, you've taken us