Fareed Zakaria

and he filed them all without cause.

I think that for Trump and for the people around him, and I think this is very much part of the Heritage 2025 project, it is important as an act of principle to violate these laws because they believe these laws are incorrectly constraining executive power.

So I think what Trump will do is he will deliberately not go to Congress to get congressional authorization because he wants to make the point

I, as president, am going to retain the right to do this.

And it'll be some made-up jumble of emergency national security.

Lawyers can argue anything, and he'll come up with it.

But if you look at the way in which he handles the recisions, as you said, it's absolutely clear that you can't just stop spending money that Congress gave.

But they want to do it.

But he did.

Right?

Because they want to make the point that we think all these constraints are bullshit.

We in the executive branch can do whatever we want.

What I'm puzzled by is, do the Republicans going along with this not realize that one day there will be a Democratic president?

It's the Andrew Jackson line.

You remember when the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Sioux Indians who were being displaced?

Or Cherokee.

Yeah, and Andrew Jackson is supposed to have said, you know, Justice Marshall has made his ruling, now let him enforce it.

So, I mean, most people don't realize what a sharp break it took place in international relations after 1945.

If you look at the hundred years before 1945, you see, you know, every two years there's a war of conquest, there's aggression, there's annexations.

You know, I mean, France and Germany went to war three times between 1850 and 1945, right?