Welcome once again to another edition of The Oath and the Office.

I am John Fuglesang.

I hope you all had a wonderful and enriching Memorial Day, especially all of my fellow countrymen who are scum and federal judges

who are monsters, because there's really nothing like calling other American scum on a day meant to honor

those who died fighting fascists. But that's the unifying message we have. Makes you want to stand up

for the anthem and say, that's my president. And here, take my credit card number.

Let me make sense of this with the man who has a PhD in politics from Princeton,

a law degree from Stanford, and he uses them to fight crime and enrich the minds of students

at Brown University.

You have read Professor Brett Schneider in New York Times and Time Magazine.

You should own his book, The Oath in the Office,

a guide to the Constitution for future presidents. People of Earth, please welcome back. You wanted

the best. You got the best. Professor Corey Brechtnyder. Hello, sir. Hi, John. Thanks so much.

And what a moment when we have this supposed leader. And they refer usually to the president as a leader,

and this is anything but. And yet, you know, we're going to find the hope, and we're going to find

the hope in of all places, the Civil War. One of the things that we'll do today, in addition to

talking about the news of the moment, the attack on Harvard, the attack on law firms, and updating

people about all of that,

is to hear from Michael Wormberg, who literally is, he's going to make me say one of the foremost

experts on Lincoln.

There's a good argument, at least in my mind, that he is the foremost expert.

He's literally the person that wrote the book that the movie lincoln spielberg's lincoln is based on

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