Sam Raus on new Case Study for reining in Presidential Authorities

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Joining us now is Sam Rouse, a nationally published political
analyst who writes about various issues including tech and economics,
foreign relations, and just you cover it all, don't you. Sam.
Welcome in, Thanks for being here.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Thank you so much for having me this morning.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
Yeah, I do want to talk about Joe Biden on
his way out the door here, it just seemed that,
you know, there's a new session of Congress that's beginning. Now,
we know that the House was won, the Senate is
the Republicans, and we've got Donald Trump back in the
White House. But on the way out the door, every
president has the right to pardon people, and I think
Joe Biden's, you know, were certainly questionable, especially when it
came to people in his own family. That wait a minute,

(00:35):
nobody's really looking at that except to Hunter, and that's
you know, what are you doing this for? It throws
up a red flag of well, I guess they're guilty.
I mean, if you dig deep enough, honey, they may
find something. So I'm going to just a blanket pardon
of my family. And then you look at what he
did with the you know, US deal, the acquisition of them.

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You look and see what he did with border patrol,
and what happened with the wall, the materials he sold
them off there and we're going to end or not end,
but you can't build any more, you know, oil drilling
in the Gulf of America. So I thought it was
a little bit on steroids. Everything he was doing on
the way out the door. It's like, hey, dude, you're

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not the guy anymore. So how much of this was damaging?

Speaker 2 (01:21):
I think what we're seeing is a lot of people
come to the realization of how much reform we need
to do in terms of the powers that the president seemed,
particularly the powers of the president during this kind of
interim period that was between the election and the inauguration.
And I think there's a lot of questions to be
had about whether or not the power of the part

(01:43):
in is certainly begun to become abused and really just
overwhelming and politicized. But also, yeah, a number of the
actions done on the economic front, what it seemed to
be was a president, even without much support among his
cabinet meta or members of his party in Congress, making
these big, sweeping decisions that impact very large sectors of

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the economy and a lot of people in a lot
of jobs.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
Do you think that the I guess political base Democratic Party, uh,
the AOC fringe socialists of the Democratic Party has intensified
over recent history more so than ever in this country.
And that screams for some you know some I guess guardrails,

(02:30):
if you will, on the president's ability to just go
crazy on the way out the door. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
I think there's a lot of questions just about how
heated politics has become and how much we see them
trying to weigh into every single you know, sect of
the economy, every single issue in life. About how we
can take these these powers and bring them back to
the Congress and make them have to go through you know,
a debate and there's an amendment process, they have to

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vote publicly, and that would really restrict the level role
of size of government in dictating all these different ways.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
We saw a reason for the you know changes to
be made, and red flags certainly went up, and you know,
people scratching their heads on some of these moves that
Joe Biden did. But is there an appetite with current
administration and Congress to move in this direction.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
I'm not sure in per certain, but I think there's
certainly a pretty large swath of people in the middle
on both parties that are concerned about what may happened
if Trump's tariff powers become too enlarged, concerns with the
continued role of the Department of Justice across every administration
seems to become more and more about the person, the

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president's personal interests and less and less about, you know,
the independence of the lawyers that run it. And so
I think there's there'll become some discussions with regards to
economic and judicial powers and how those can be wielded
away from the Oval office and more towards the other
branches of government.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
Yeah, very good, Sam Rose, I really appreciate your input
this morning. Thanks for being with me.