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We joked last time around that our motto was, we'll tell you when to panic.

We joked last time around that our motto was, we'll tell you when to panic.

I feel like we're getting there, you know?

I feel like we're getting there, you know?

Yeah, yeah, let's go with that.

Yeah, yeah, let's go with that.

Happy to be here.

Happy to be here.

I think that's actually really difficult to disaggregate because there are a lot of things that might have been lawful but awful. You know, something that is within the president's legal authority, but not something that you would necessarily want an executive governing in good faith to do. And then the problem is that...

I think that's actually really difficult to disaggregate because there are a lot of things that might have been lawful but awful. You know, something that is within the president's legal authority, but not something that you would necessarily want an executive governing in good faith to do. And then the problem is that...

Some of those things, if they had been done in a sort of reasoned way, according to the procedures that are set out in law, would have been completely fine. But because of the way that the administration has done them, inarguably, in my view, crossed the line.

Some of those things, if they had been done in a sort of reasoned way, according to the procedures that are set out in law, would have been completely fine. But because of the way that the administration has done them, inarguably, in my view, crossed the line.

Absolutely. So let's take the dismantling of USAID. So this is an agency that is created by Congress. If the president felt, you know, I actually don't think that having USAID as a separate agency is a good idea, I want to merge it with the State Department, or let's say I...

Absolutely. So let's take the dismantling of USAID. So this is an agency that is created by Congress. If the president felt, you know, I actually don't think that having USAID as a separate agency is a good idea, I want to merge it with the State Department, or let's say I...

want to get rid of it completely, that could be done by going through Congress and saying, I'd like you to pass a law to reorganize USAID or to get rid of it completely. The problem with the dismantling the way that the administration has done it is on a legal grounds that it's essentially done it by ignoring Congress altogether, essentially kind of

want to get rid of it completely, that could be done by going through Congress and saying, I'd like you to pass a law to reorganize USAID or to get rid of it completely. The problem with the dismantling the way that the administration has done it is on a legal grounds that it's essentially done it by ignoring Congress altogether, essentially kind of

Arguing for the complete irrelevance of a coordinate branch of government and on a policy level that it's also dismantled it in such a chaotic and frankly cruel way. that the immediate ramifications are going to spread well, well beyond whatever is stated policy goal.

Arguing for the complete irrelevance of a coordinate branch of government and on a policy level that it's also dismantled it in such a chaotic and frankly cruel way. that the immediate ramifications are going to spread well, well beyond whatever is stated policy goal.

You know, there was reporting in the Washington Post, for example, about, you know, farmers in the Midwest who had been selling an extraordinary amount of product to USAID to distribute. They're now going to have real economic struggles.

You know, there was reporting in the Washington Post, for example, about, you know, farmers in the Midwest who had been selling an extraordinary amount of product to USAID to distribute. They're now going to have real economic struggles.