It's the Brian Larry Show on WNYC.

And just to clarify a little bit on that Brian Kilnit statement and apology,

just so that we don't overstate or understate.

He did say on Fox and Friends when he apologized that in discussing the murder of the woman

in Charlotte, North Carolina, that's where it was, not Baltimore, and how to stop these

kinds of attacks by homeless, mentally ill, assailants, including institutionalizing or jailing such people, so they cannot attack again.

Quoting now, now, during that discussion, I wrongly said they should get lethal injections.

I apologize for that extremely callous remark.

I'm obviously aware that not all mentally ill

homeless people act as the perpetrator did in North Carolina, and so many homeless people

deserve our empathy and compassion. So there, it, you know, he kind of left open the idea that

he really meant to suggest after an attack,

but that's where the controversy was. Okay.

Back with us now, Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore.

Her new book is called We the People, a history of the U.S. Constitution.

Part of it is a history of the original document and the many successful and unsuccessful

attempts to amend it.

Part of the book is an argument to make the Constitution easier to amend.

I will definitely ask if that's a good idea, per her values in today's polarized country. But interestingly, one of Professor Lepore's

roles is director of Harvard's Amendment Project, which says it aims to compile, classify,

and analyze every significant attempt to revise the Constitution since 1787.

Jilipur was last here for her 2023 book, These

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