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Fareed's Take: The modern presidents wield authority far beyond anything the founders envisioned - CNN
Fareed gives his take on the modern US presidency: Walter Isaacson, author of “The Greatest Sentence Ever Written”, joins to discuss the Declaration of Independence and ask what is the American dream. - Aired on 11/30/2025.