Hi, this is Corey.

Before we begin, a quick note.

This episode of The Oath in the Office is sponsored by Princeton University Press, a leading publisher of books on democracy, constitutional law, and political thought.

You can find a link in our show notes to learn more. Welcome to another episode of The Oath and the Office starring Professor Corey Brechtner.

I'm John Fuglesang. I hope everyone out there is enjoying their war. We're certainly not talking as much about Epstein.

We're not talking at all about 92,000 jobs last month. And it's a pleasure to be with you at a time when, well, it's not really a war, is it? It's an excursion now. Trump said it's an excursion, which is more like a Costco run. In a couple of days, we went from total victory to oops, gas prices. This is why I am so glad Professor

Brett Schneider is doing this podcast because I need someone smarter than me, more moral than me,

and a better break dancer than me to make sense of the world. Professor Corey Brecht Snyder is

the author of the oath in the office, a guide to the Constitution for future presidents, as well as

the presidents and the people. He is a man who enriches the lives of students in the Pollyside Department at Brown University.

Professor Brett Schneider, welcome back.

Thank you, John.

It's a pleasure to speak with you.

As always, I'm really looking forward to the discussion today.

There's so much to discuss.

And we'll talk about the war, of course.

We'll talk about that anthropic story. We'll talk

about the status of homeland security. But I also want to talk about a unifying theme, and that's the

idea of the imperial presidency. And I'm going to draw in particular from a discussion that I had

with Daniel Ellsberg from my book, where he really warned about so much of what's

happening, the unification of the danger of the president's foreign policy power as

commander-in-chief and the usurpation of what's supposed to be Congress's war power.

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