Fareed Zakaria

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.

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.