When Trump came into power, he was surrounded by ideologues

who have been nursing these theories for quite some time that are really quite extreme.

One of the principal ones is a man named Russell Vote.

He is someone who is a self-described Christian nationalist

who has been around Washington for a long time.

He's seen how government works.

And he has an idea of really kind of radical changes he wants to implement.

And he's someone who knows how to do it.

My belief is that the president has to move

executively as fast and as aggressively as possible

with a radical constitutional perspective

to be able to dismantle that bureaucracy in their power centers.

Before the election, Vote laid out his vision in a chapter he wrote for the Heritage

Foundation's Project 2025, a blueprint for Trump's return.

The great challenge confronting a conservative president is the existential need for aggressive

use of the vast powers of the executive branch.

He told us quite explicitly he wants to search out for pockets of independence from

presidential control and stamp them out.

He's made no secret of the fact that he wants to rest for the presidency, more power

over spending decisions away from Congress. Trump and people around him understand what we have to do to get back to a constitutional republic.

We're going after the infrastructure and the plumbing and the wiring of the whole system.

We are not going to quit. We're not going to surrender. We're not going to take our foot off the gas pedal.

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