"I think Mitch McConnell is one of the most insidious cancerous actors in American politics and he has had a corrosive effect on the functioning of the separation of powers and the constitution itself."

On today's program, we are debriefing the 2020 election. As predicted, things are getting complicated, as the country and world sort through the results of the election. But one thing is certain-- we are in for a wild ride, and now more than ever we need to sift through the news cogently and carefully. Where are we going, as a country and a democracy? Kim Wehle and Jonathan Allen are here to help us navigate.   

KIM WEHLE joined the University of Baltimore Law School after several years of teaching as an Associate Professor at the University of Oklahoma College of Law and a Visiting Professor at the George Washington University Law School. She teaches and writes in the areas of administrative law, federal courts and civil procedure. She is particularly interested in separation of powers questions, as well as in the constitutional implications of structural and technological innovations in modern government.  Professor Wehle is also an On-Air and Off-Air Legal Expert, Analyst and Commentator for CBS News. She is a Contributor for BBC World News and BBC World News America on PBS, an Op-Ed Contributor for The Bulwark, and an Opinion Contributor for The Hill. She has regularly appeared as a guest legal analyst on various media outlets regarding Robert Mueller's probe on Russian influence in the 2016 presidential election and other issues regarding the structural Constitution and the Trump Administration, including CNN, MSNBC, NPR’s Morning Edition, PBS NewsHour, and Fox News. Her articles have also appeared in The Baltimore Sun, The Los Angeles Times, and NBC News Think. She is regularly interviewed and cited by prominent print journalists on a range of newsworthy legal issues. Professor Wehle's recent scholarship addresses the constitutional relationship of independent agencies and private contractors to the enumerated branches of government. 

JONATHAN ALLEN  is an award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author who covers national politics for NBC News.  Formerly the Washington bureau chief for Bloomberg News and the White House bureau chief for Politico, Jonathan is a winner of the Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for reporting on Congress and the Sandy Hume Memorial Award for excellence in political journalism. He has been a frequent guest political analyst on national television programs for the past 15 years and teaches a course on presidential politics at Northwestern University.  "Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign" is his second book with Amie Parnes and their first to reach #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. Their first book, "HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton," also debuted on the Times bestseller list.  Jonathan, who grew up in Silver Spring and Bethesda, Md., is a graduate of the University of Maryland and lives on Capitol Hill with his wife and two children. Before graduating from Maryland, he played baseball at St. Mary's College in Southern Maryland.

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