Defending the “Defender in Chief”: John Yoo on Trump’s Fight for Presidential Power

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🗓️ 4 August 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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On the occasion of his new book, Defender in Chief: Donald Trump’s Fight for Presidential Power, Hoover visiting fellow and Berkeley Law School professor John Yoo joins the show to make a spirited case against the criticisms of Donald Trump for his supposed disruption of constitutional rules and norms.

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0:00.0	Donald Trump's critics see the man as a menace to the Constitution.
0:03.6	No, no, says our guest today, it's just the other way.
0:07.4	Donald Trump, a champion of the Constitution.
0:11.6	Uncommon knowledge Now.
0:13.4	I'm Peter. I'm Peter Robinson. I'm Peter Robinson. Welcome to another special plague time edition of
0:27.2	Uncommon Knowledge. John Yu is a professor at the University of California
0:32.0	at Berkeley School of Law
0:34.0	and a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution.
0:36.6	Professor Yu served as Deputy Assistant
0:38.9	U.S. Attorney General in the Office of Legal Counsel
0:42.2	during the administration of President George W Bush.
0:45.6	He is the author of a number of books on the Constitution and the presidency, including
0:51.1	Just Out, Defender in Chief. including just
0:53.0	in chief, Donald Trump's fight for presidential power.
0:58.0	John, I'm at home in Palo Alto, where are you?
1:01.0	I'm at the St. Regis Hotel in Washington, D.C.
1:05.2	overlooking the Black Lives Matters mural
1:09.6	right in front of the White House.
1:12.2	Excellent. Where you should be, I suppose. OK. of the
1:15.0	front of the White House.
1:12.0	Excellent, where you should be, I suppose.
1:15.0	Okay, threshold question.
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