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it's mouth to stoma. don't use spray paint. be very careful shaving. you can quit. for free help, visit smokefree.gov. >> stephen: (cheers and applause) welcome black. my guest tonight has a new book about how creativity works. i will ask him a series of questions. please welcome jonah lairer are. (cheers and applause) hey, jonah, thanks for coming back. >> thank you for having me. >> stephen: you're one of the contributing editors of "wired" you write for the "new yorker" and the "wall street journal." so you're cranking out material all the time. you're one of those creative types, right? >> i try. >> stephen: you're a creative tape. okay. so you've got a new book here called "imagine. how creativity works." first of all, you stole your it toole from john lennon so... (laughter) who are you to speak on creativity. >> one of the themes of the book that these ideas we assume people invent out of thin air.... >> stephen: they do. the muse comes down speaks through them, it's a lightning bolt and rarefied. >> that's really new connections between old ideas. the human

it's mouth to stoma. don't use spray paint. be very careful shaving. you can quit. for free help, visit smokefree.gov. >> stephen: welcome back, everybody. thank you so much. folks, thank you. ladies and gentlemen, mitt romney has electrified the republican base. thanks to the inspiring worsd of his new campaign slogan, de facto. and m itt is really connecting to average voters like this casual get together last week when he accidentally came across these four random pittsburgh couples having a picnic with their pet flag stripey. but as sometimes happens during mitt's daily minute of respond tan aity there were 59 seconds of awkwardness, jim. >> romney is coming under some fire following comments he made about cookies from a pittsburgh area bakery. the owner of the bakery, a local institution decided to sends the presidential hopeful some cookies when he came to down but when the moment of truth came romney did not seem impressed. >> i'm not sure about these cookies. they don't look like he made them. did you make those cookies. >> no, no they came from the local 7-

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it's mouth to stoma. don't use spray paint. be very careful shaving. you can quit. for free help, visit smokefree.gov. (cheers and applause) >> jon: welcome back. my guest tonight, he served in the bush administration's office of legal counsel, he's currently a professor at harvard law school. his new book is called "power and constraint: the accountable presidency after 9/11." please welcome back to the program jack goldsmith! (cheers and applause) how are you? jack, it's nice to see you again we heard you'd written a book about post-9/11, executive power i thought for sure "power and constraint" would be about the unrestrained executive, the imperial presidency. your premise seems to be that our actual checks and balances have done a pretty decent job of constraining executive power. >> that is correct. everybody focuses on how powerful the post-9/11 presidency is. and it is powerful. we've forgotten or haven't seen all the different ways in which courts, the press, human rights organizations, people inside the executive have pushed back against the presidency and