Power Usurped News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

The constitution wasn't written for a president like this. it was written for a moral man or woman. it was written for someone who had a sense of shame. it was written for parties and organizations and branches that didn't want to see their power usurped. everything in political science and history tells us congress is battling with the president to make sure that he doesn't usurp their authority and yet we have this congress that is perfectly happy to lay down and do whatever it is he wants. we are in a constitutional crisis because no one is doing their one job. and we don't know what the an...

When there were people walking those halls of congress that did put away party alliances. they did fight more their institution the way james madison really anticipated. those voices are remarkably few in congress, and i was astonished in the hearing when i testified that this was not a point where all members could agree upon. you know, they can certainly disagree on policy, but to watch their power usurped by another branch you would think would concentrate the minds of all members. martha: yeah. i mean, it's shocking really when you put it that way, and perhaps you should run for congress, ...

Days? >> well, quite critical. morsi is still saying that he's the victim of a coup, and that's a very loaded word because in the united states, it would be a prohibition against providing aid to a military that was involved in a coup and the united states provides like a $1.3 billion to the egyptian military. the u.s. is avoiding the word coup like crazy. you have a democratic leader who has been, in effect, had his power usurped by the military there. the united states is going to proceed to use the old line very carefully. >> all right. and bob, another hot topic we want to get to, the nsa ...