Welcome once again to another edition of The Oath and the Office starring Professor Corey Brechtner.

I'm John Fugleseg. It's so good to have you with us. If you don't know, Professor Brechtzschneider is what they call

around the Polyside Department at Brown University, the Mac. And you may have read his work in Politico,

The New York Times, CNN, MSNBC, and Time magazine. I really want to recommend his book,

The Oath in the Office, A Guide to the Constitution for Future Presidents

and his most recent one, the Presidents and the People, five leaders who threaten democracy

and the citizens who fought to defend it.

Corey, it's great to have you with us.

Thank you very much.

Thanks so much, John.

You know, it's a bittersweet moment for me.

I just dropped my daughter off at college and she's

going to enter an amazing world of academia, but it's, you know, an interesting time to have an

empty nest. And so you're filling it. This is it with the lesson. Well, listen. Don't, don't be

lonely. Professor, there's a very reasonable chance that Donald Trump will end the higher ed system before spring break.

So you may get her back before you realize.

We're going to talk about his not only are trying to erase higher education, but today, of course, is attempt to erase history.

We'll look too, though.

I'm queuing it up. There's a lot going on. I have questions. I have thoughts. We have to cover today, friends, Trump's proposed executive order restricting and or banning mail-in ballots,

because they don't like those again this week. Of course, the Confederate Monument lawsuit.

And everybody loves it. Trump versus Newsom.

Gavin Newsom has learned to read the room and is no longer giving pedicures and manicures to fascists.

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