Susan Glasser

Now on Israel and Gaza, wait until people find out that actually there is not long-term peace in the Middle East, because I hate to break it.

You know, I don't want to be the bearer of bad news, but actually Donald Trump has not achieved long-term peace in the Middle East.

Hey, I'm all in favor of the Tim Miller twinkle in the eye program.

Okay, let's just leave it at this.

I would feel more confident in that theory of the case when, and I don't exclude that that will happen, the U.S.

Congress actually becomes a legislative separate branch of government again and, you know, stands up for itself.

So, you know... Totally fair.

Telling...

You know, the one act of defiance is to pass essentially a meaningless law that orders the Justice Department to release documents that they could have done so at any moment without this law, and then never seeing a word when the executive branch of the United States has usurped the most basic power that you have in the Constitution, which is, you know, the appropriation and spending of funds.

Donald Trump has literally flouted the laws of the country, setting up

large swaths of the executive branch.

He's closed down departments without authorization from Congress to do so.

He's refused to spend funds that Congress has appropriated for specific purposes.

When faced with this action, Congress has not even sued Trump, has not acted in its own interest.

So that's all I'm saying.

Yeah, you pretty, you summed it up.

I mean, you know, a lot of people didn't like this gentleman.

And the one other thing- The gentleman being Khashoggi was what he said.

Yeah, exactly.

And in fact, defending MBS, his attack on-