#1361 Constitution in Crisis

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Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 22 October 2019

⏱️ 59 minutes

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We speak with President Jefferson about the role of government in the oversight of elected officials. He tells us that because of the times they lived in, the founding fathers had great concerns about foreign involvement and influence on our government, and accordingly provided a mechanism to protect against it: impeachment.

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0:00.0	Good Day Thomas Jefferson, our podcast listeners, and thank you for listening.
0:06.0	I don't know what to think, but I think we're in one of the most critical moments of American
0:11.6	history at this moment, and I don't know what the
0:14.2	answer is because everybody loses you know the commentators that I have most
0:18.2	admire are those that are saying everybody loses we're not addressing health care We're not addressing
0:23.0	health care, we're not addressing infrastructure, we're not
0:25.7	addressing energy policy, we're not addressing immigration, we're not even
0:29.5	mining our peas and cues in the world's arena, we're talking about this president and it's consuming
0:36.2	everything. It's sucking all the oxygen out of American life and no matter what happens.
0:41.2	If he survives, if he's removed everybody loses okay and by the way
0:45.7	listeners this week show is about this we have a discussion with president
0:51.0	Jefferson which really we try to offer some perspective.
0:54.2	We tried to be sober and objective and neutral.
0:57.2	You know it's always a little dicey to play that game with Jefferson because he's dead
1:01.6	but he's here and he kind of knows what's going on, but he's very
1:06.3	hesitant or sometimes hesitant to comment on it and...
1:11.0	But we don't gain anything by having Jefferson opinionate that way you want
1:15.4	historical perspective right right and he does that but it's not like I I don't
1:21.0	think he reads the Washington Post or the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal,
1:25.6	but somehow he knows things.
1:26.9	He knows a little.
1:27.9	Yeah, yeah.
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