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rational security, chatter, law fair no bull, and the aftermath.

We're not in a good situation right now.

Everybody knows that between the president and the congress,

there's a lack of comedy and cooperation and an escalation of conflict between the branches.

A taking of absolute stands and refusal to back away from them and to compromise.

An executive privilege very much falls within this entire framework of political polarization

and the branches simply not working well together in the current era.

And the Trump administration is no exception, although I will argue it is not unique.

We can go back, for example, to the former George W. Bush administration,

find many cases where the presidential administration took the tack of escalating the conflict

rather than engaging in negotiations over access to information.

And we're willing to let the matter go before the courts and drag it out over long periods of time.

I'm Jacob Schultz and this is the LawFair podcast.

August 6, 2019. Margaret Taylor sat down with Mark Rezel,

the dean of the Char School of Policy and Government at George Mason University,

and the author of Executive Privilege, Presidential Power, Secrecy, and Accountability.

His book chronicles the history of the constitutional doctrine of executive privilege

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