who's basically saying, I am the law, I'm above the law.

Yeah. Napoleon Bonaparte, of course, declared himself the emperor of France in the wake of a revolution,

intimately linked with ours. Sorry, Katty, I know this is a rough day for you, given 1776 through the,

Katty actually has a, on Yorktown, she wears black the anniversary. But what you, what the point of

the United States of America, as Thomas Bain said, is that in America, the law would be king.

Now, I am not going to naively or sentimentally sit here and say that no American president in history has ever gone beyond the bounds of the Constitution in order to govern.

They have always followed the letter of the law. That is not true, right? Thomas Jefferson

bought Louisiana, from Napoleon, by the way, calling it a fugitive occurrence. It was not strictly

within the bounds of the law. If Alexander Hamilton had tried to do it, Jefferson, his head would have exploded.

But people tend to be against executive power until they have it, which is an important thing to

remember. This is about context, balance, and scope. Did Abraham Lincoln go beyond the bounds of the Constitution to save the Constitution?

Yes.

I just ask you, and I ask the country to think about, is this a crisis on the scale of the Civil War?

Is when President Trump came in to Pat,

now it's emerging as a very important,

critically important moment about the rule of law.

But it begins with President Trump telling us, essentially, that the country is in the, I'm paraphrasing,

but only narrowly, is in the grip of a dark and even evil force, and that he alone is going

to break that grip.

And therefore, enter Napoleon from the Internet,

therefore anyone who saves the country and breaks that grip is intrinsically heroic.

And the danger we have here is that if, in fact, President Trump believes that anything he does is justified, then we are in a place where we genuinely have not been before.

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