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joining me now is the co-author of that book, susan hennessey. part of the cnn family. it was almost as if adam schiff was reading from your book last night. because what he was doing was making the case in prime time that donald trump is breaking the presidency. and that's what you write. why is that important? >> we were trying to make the case in the book this idea that donald trump has taken the powers of the american presid t presidency and altered them. not by abusing or tries to ascend the edges of executive power, but by abusing the core powers. by using them not for the public interest, not for the public good. but for his own political purposes. in the last segment or two ago, we were talking about all the times the obama administration held aid. for strategic national interest. this is yet another example. there are many dozens and dozens of them of donald trump using the powers of his office not to work on behalf of the nation but to benefit himself politically. unlike prior presidents, he doesn't appear to have the conception of the

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the best people on terrorism at brookings and counterterrorism include bruce rydell, dan byman, susan hennessey and a few of the scholars, those are people you might look for their writings in the future. and tom in the far row. >> hi, tom. >> i'm tom and here at brookings. >> are you having fun? >> yes. >> excellent, great, excellent. >> and my question built off an earlier comment you have made. last year the joint staff published a joint, shattering the -- central tenets of which, below threshold of armed conflict and an idea a departure from the past is this idea of joint and intergovernmental cooperation. and so my question really is, what do you believe that either the army or our interagency, intergovernmental partners need to do to actually achieve the policy goals that have been set forth to achieve our ends? >> great. thank you. so, what i would say, first of all, you know, obviously, that's a policy question, but what i would say, these are the kind of things that any military meme that's going through brookings should take advantage of to build relationships, because at the end of t

susan hennessey is a former attorney for the national security officer and author of "the uninformed ." susan, what do you mean by this? >> the writers of the constitution understood they were creating an enormously powerful executive. this is something they discussed extensively, the fact that they were giving power to a president that he could abuse. so the founders thought, okay, we understand a president might abuse these particular powers we're vesting in him, but don't worry, because there will be a coequal branch of government that will impeach him and remove him from office. structurally this threat of impeachment that hangs over the head of every american president is a reminder that he or she cannot abuse the power of their office, they cannot use the power of office against the public good and for their own political gain. so they should plan to call witnesses with essentially new information and recognize that this is not a sham proceeding but merely providing political cover for the president. impeachment is not a genuine remedy in our constitutional system, instead impea