Fareed Zakaria
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All these deals have been done.
You undo the whole reputation and a set of relationships and deals I have made
Well, yes, but what you did was plainly unconstitutional.
I mean, literally, it is in the Constitution, in a line, not by implication or inference.
There is a line that says foreign commerce will be regulated by Congress.
Tariffs were regulated by Congress.
And by the way, they knew what tariffs were.
The reason we had the American Revolution was...
Tariffs.
When people talk about the Tea Party, what was that?
That was a tariff, which they called a tax and a tariff interchangeable on tea coming in from Britain.
But by the way, that means the whole American revolution was a misunderstanding.
If only we had realized that we in America were not paying the tariffs, it was the poor Brits who were paying it.
Why did we revolt?
That's right.
But I don't think he'll do it, John, because I think your inspector's general point is an interesting one.
So, you know, he comes in for day one, he fires all the inspectors general.
Now, congressional law allows the president to fire the inspectors general, but there's a procedure in the law, which is you have to give six months notice.
He didn't follow procedure.
There has to be a specific charge of complaints against each inspector general.