Historian Douglas Brinkley on Presidential Power Plays Then and Now

With the word 'unprecedented' often used to describe President
Trump's approach to executive power, we look at his first few
actions in historical context.


On Today's Show:
On Presidents Day, as our centennial series continues,
Douglas Brinkley, professor of history at Rice
University, a CNN Presidential Historian, and a contributing
editor at Vanity Fair, talks about the history of U.S.
presidents and their exercise of executive power and how
President Trump's actions compare.