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Okay. A very serious question here, and I'm not being hyperbolic. My question is, is our democracy dead or is it on the brink of dying? Is it, are we already in a constitutional crisis?

Do you guys know that I've been concerned about it?

I think that we are in the midst of a constitutional crisis.

And if it continues along as it is going with defying federal judge's orders, I don't know if there's any turning back.

So good evening, everyone.

Welcome to the Don Lemon Show, Lemon Live at 5. We have so much to discuss today, but we need to

start with the slow death of the American constitutional order. That's where we're going to begin.

Quoting a passage from the New York Times, it says, and I quote, there is no universally

accepted definition of a constitutional

crisis, but legal scholars agree about some of its characteristics. It is generally the product

of presidential defiance of laws and judicial rulings. It is not binary. It is a slope, not a switch.

It can be cumulative, and once one starts, it can get much worse.

It can also be obvious, said Irwin Chimerensky, dean of the law school at the University

of California, Berkeley. Here's what the dean says. We are in the midst of a constitutional

crisis right now. That's what he said on Friday to the New York Times.

There have been so many unconstitutional and illegal actions in the first 18 days of the Trump presidency.

We never have seen anything like this.

So as we bring in the professor, make sure you hit the like, make sure you hit the thumbs up, make sure you subscribe, because it keeps us reporting independently. And we can get people like Erwin or Murinsky on. He is an American legal scholar and a dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law. Thank you, Professor, for joining us. You already said I can call you Irwin, right? Please. Thank you. So you said, and I quote, we are in the midst of a constitutional crisis right now.

Explain that.

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