"Regime Change" authors on Trump's "information bubble" and use of power

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"Regime Change" authors on Trump's "information bubble" and use of power

President Trump has "a fundamentally different conception of the U.S. presidency" than his predecessors, New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan explain in their new book, "Regime …

President Trump has "a fundamentally different conception of the U.S. presidency" than his predecessors, New York Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan explain in their new book, "Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump." Haberman and Swan sat down with "CBS Mornings" Friday to talk about their book, which dives into the president's second term and is the result of more than 1,000 interviews. "This administration is so unrecognizable [compared] to Trump's first one," Haberman told "CBS Mornings" co-host Gayle King. She said "it became really clear to us," over many months of reporting, "that we were covering not the transfer of power from a Democrat to a Republican or a Democrat to a Democrat. This is a fundamentally different conception of the U.S. presidency." Here are some of the key takeaways from their reporting. Trump is using executive power like never before Swan said the second Trump administration, and the book, are "really about the way he's using executive power." "We haven't seen anything like this in our lifetime in terms of the unilateral expression of executive power," Swan said, noting that it comes at a time when "it's pretty hard to think of a precedent for a U.S. president having the command that Trump has had over his own party in Congress." "There really isn't a precedent. …

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