Can We Agree: Has Trump Changed Presidency Forever?
This is the audio version of "Can We Agree?" Episode #4. 'Can We Agree" is the program that asks whether two brilliant minds from opposite corners of an argument can find any common ground on the questions that matter most to Americans today. Did Donald Trump change the presidency, or simply reveal it? Debating presidential power and the US Constitution in this episode of "Can We Agree?": John Yoo of UC Berkeley Law, one of the country's leading scholars of executive power, and William Galston of the Brookings Institution, a Wall Street Journal columnist. In other words, the only liberal at the Journal and the only conservative at Berkeley. Galston argues Trump has transformed the office and that the next president, Democrat or Republican, will inherit those powers in full. Yoo says Trump is using powers that were always there, just more boldly than his predecessors did. What can they agree on? What about Trump's claim that there are "no limits" to his power? Or whether Trump obeys the courts, and who is supposed to stop a president who goes too far? Would George Washington recognize the job he created?