Today on the Playbook podcast, a huge case opens at the Supreme Court focused on Donald Trump's power to reshape the federal government.

We'll tell you why it matters.

President Zelensky is in London as Trump says that Russia has agreed to a peace plan.

And Jasmine Crockett, is she running for

Senator or is she not? We'll find out today. Hello, I'm Jack Blanchard. And I'm Megan Musserly.

It's Monday, December 8th. Megan, it's great to have you on a Monday. How are you doing?

I'm doing fantastic. So great to be back, Jack. It is terrific to have you on an auspicious day because Donald Trump will have one eye on the Supreme Court this morning, Megan. Yes. This is a big deal. There's lots of Supreme Court cases that are going to matter over the next few months, right? We know we've got the one on tariffs coming up. We heard the birthright citizenship one is going to get heard next year. But we've been waiting for this one because this comes really to the heart of Donald Trump's reshaping of the federal government, which was such a big story at the start of Trump 2.0. In fact, I was reading up on it last night, Megan, it was really taking me back to the days of Elon Musk and big balls and all those guys. It feels like an eternity ago. I can't believe it was January. I know, right,

exactly. So Donald Trump fired loads of people in important jobs and so did Elon Musk and so on when

they came in and started reshaping the government. This case is centered on one specific person, Rebecca

Slaughter, who was a Democratic member of the Federal Trade Commission, who Trump fired in March.

Traditionally, the president does not have the power to reshape things like the FTC in this way.

There's a sort of idea, right, Megan, that certain aspects of the federal government should be

slightly less politically controlled than that for the benefit of America and the American

economy. And Trump says,

no, you must be joking. I'm the elected person. I got a big mandate in November. I get to decide

who sits on this. Just try and stop me. And the Supreme Court will hear arguments either way today to

decide whether they should. He'll be watching closely, right? He really cares about this stuff.

He really does. And I mean,

again, going back to those early days of the second Trump presidency, this is really what the effort

to remake Washington is all about, right? The president and his advisors have long expressed concern

that he is the elected leader of the United States and he should be able

to control the entire executive branch. They have this doctrine known as the unitary executive theory

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