00:03:12.480Today's settlement includes default daily time limits on social media and a block on overnight use that can only be lifted by a parent enhanced parent parental supervision tools.
00:03:24.180Robust age assurance measures to detect users under the age of 18 and children under 13 that are on the platform and the appointment of an independent auditor to oversee compliance.
00:03:34.940That is a portion from Rob Bonta's statement.
00:03:37.280wednesday 26 august year of our lord 2026 we're going to get uh in back of this uh meta settlement
00:03:47.920uh i think the reason the legal fees are 10 billion uh and the settlement looks like it's
00:03:54.280only i don't know 12 to 15 billion is that the they thought the lawyers this is going to be much
00:03:59.320more egregious at least the way we were looking at this is that meta was kind of on the ropes so
00:04:05.840we're going to break this down joe allen's going to be with us in the uh in the second hour uh we're
00:04:10.760going to break this down uh at first glance i'm not feeling it uh i think this is a cave
00:04:17.200by the at least some of the state ags um i don't know if the parents are this settles with the
00:04:23.740parents or not but um they had zuckerberg i think they had zuckerberg on the ropes this way zuckerberg
00:04:29.760was going to have a uh it was going to have a legal field 10 billion dollars anyway we'll get
00:04:33.620into that um do i have mike davis up yes mike davis joins us the vice rory uh mike i know um
00:04:40.740you and rachel bovard you guys started with uh with uh going against these giants i realized
00:04:47.580this just came out any any first cut thought i've got you on here for a totally different reason
00:04:52.660but this just broke any uh first thoughts i don't understand why the state ags are doing a settlement
00:04:58.120here i mean this was one of the suits uh that had been worked on for years that was going to be a
00:05:03.180essentially an existential threat, as Jim Cramer said, an existential threat to Facebook and to
00:05:08.780Mark Zuckerberg. This seems like a very light settlement, sir. Yeah, like you said, Rachel
00:05:15.780Bofar and I started the Internet Accountability Project many years ago as the first group on the
00:05:22.060right to take on the trillion-dollar big tech monopolist Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple
00:05:27.220on antitrust, Section 230, data privacy, safety.
00:05:35.280What Meta has been doing to kids is unacceptable.
00:05:39.340They intentionally get these young kids hooked on Facebook, hooked on Instagram, and then
00:05:47.960intentionally feed them harmful content through the algorithms that is so destructive to kids.
00:05:57.220I don't know why you'd want to settle these things.
00:06:00.720I need to look at the settlements by the state AGs,
00:08:50.440Well, the same left-wing radical Obama judge in Boston who just got her injunction lifted 6-3 by the Supreme Court just issued another – she said that the Trump Justice Department, the Trump administration, has violated her order.
00:09:07.340And she thinks that they should be held in contempt. And so the Democrats are not going to go away on this, because the Democrats, as we talked about yesterday, Steve, their entire playbook, their entire business plan is to mass import illegal aliens, particularly Islamists and other third worlders who hate America.
00:09:32.040this red and green alliance the communist marxist teaming up with the islamist to destroy america0.92
00:09:40.420they want to give them as much welfare as possible turn a blind eye to their welfare fraud0.99
00:09:48.480to their other fraud their medicaid fraud their crime and make it very easy for these islamist0.96
00:09:55.560and other third worlders to vote in our elections that democrats oppose the save america act0.99
00:10:01.580which has the support of 80 percent of americans including a super majority of democrats0.91
00:10:06.660minorities black americans who democrats pretend aren't smart enough to get a voter id like
00:10:11.980everyone else but we all know the real reason democrats have a new constituency and it's not0.98
00:10:17.480americans their new constituency is non-citizens particularly uh islamist third worlders marxist
00:10:26.060communist people who hate america and have no intention of coming here to assimilate it's not0.94
00:10:31.840like our ancestors our mic ancestors steve the irish people the italian people other uh other
00:10:38.960immigrants who come here and there's a melting pot and they assimilate these islamist these other0.96
00:10:44.440third world worlders are making it very clear they they have no intention of assimilating they1.00
00:10:49.520have no intention of becoming one of us they have every intention of conquering us like the islamist1.00
00:10:55.960have done for what since for the last 700 years so uh it's it's amazing that democrats are so0.85
00:11:05.580craven for power so craven for money that they're willing to destroy our country maybe that's maybe
00:11:12.120that's the added benefit for these today's democrats today's marx is because they hate0.97
00:11:15.700america so they're going to team up with the islamist and other third worlders to destroy us0.84
00:11:20.760it's a natural evolution do you see practically anyway this this restrictions coming from the0.99
00:11:28.160post office on mail-in ballots the mail-in ballots i think in wisconsin i think it is in a couple of
00:11:34.180weeks is like second week third week of september do you see any because they're just going to
00:11:39.020continue to go back to court it'll go to appellate court supreme court but the democrats understand
00:11:43.920that this is existential to them do you see any way out of this for us for people want to have
00:11:49.380I think that it's time for the Trump Justice Department, the Trump DHS, the Postal Service to ignore this Judge Tawani or whatever her name is, this goofball left wing radical Obama judge in Boston.
00:12:04.440She just got slapped down by the Supreme Court on her injunction.
00:12:08.880And then she's saying that the Trump administration is going to be in contempt after the Supreme Court just ruled.
00:12:17.520She's the one who is not following the law. Just ignore her. Move forward with your plan. And if there are real plaintiffs who have real injury, they have standing to sue.
00:12:30.820These governors, these 23 Democrat governors that the D.C. Democrat mayor do not have standing to sue as the Supreme Court just ruled in their emergency docket because they're not injured parties.
00:12:42.280They don't have injury. In fact, they don't have Article 3 standing, which is required to go into federal court under our U.S. Constitution.
00:12:49.120This is a lawless order by this lawless Obama judge.1.00
00:12:53.640She's trying to run out the clock because she's a Democrat operative who wants to make it very easy for illegals to illegally vote in the midterm elections.1.00
00:16:12.840And voters, Neil, let me ask you quickly about inflation for a moment.
00:16:16.280Data out this morning is showing it is still an issue.
00:16:18.940Higher than the Federal Reserve would like it to be.
00:16:21.400If you look at where interest rates are, despite what Scott Fesson is trying to do,
00:16:25.100the market is saying, uh-uh, things don't look great.
00:16:27.780Yeah, we really seem to be settled in around 3% inflation, well above the 2% the Fed targets.
00:16:32.580And keep in mind, that's 3% inflation over and above the inflation of the last five years.
00:16:36.360So, you know, when people say they're unhappy with the cost of living, with affordability, that's what they're talking about, the cumulative inflation over the last five years.
00:16:43.940And there's just not the credibility right now that it's coming down to two like the Fed wants.
00:16:48.140Kevin Warsh is speaking on Friday in Jackson Hole.
00:16:51.100We'll see what he has to say about the direction of policy going forward, whether they're going to do something more aggressive to try and bring inflation back to their target.
00:16:57.840Now, once again, I agree with everything you said.
00:16:59.760But what we just saw in the CPE data, the core data, is up 3.7 percent.
00:17:07.260I would round that up a lot closer to four than to three.
00:17:09.860This is twice what the Fed's target is.
00:27:31.200I just want to hold you briefly to the break because I want to talk about this civil war, about economic policy between the neoliberals, the McCain and really the Reagan kind of Thatcher school.
00:27:42.960Larry Kudlow, Steve Moore, Arthur Laffer and people that are more populist, nationalistic, because it's all going to be part of a piece.
00:27:51.240Jeff Stein is with us, and we've got David Barton.
00:27:56.560He's going to join us about his efforts in Texas and throughout the nation.
00:28:01.140Short commercial break. Back in the war room in a moment.
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00:29:29.180Talk to me, give me a minute or two about this upcoming civil war you see.
00:29:33.100I just wanted to add the debt piece because this is central about having to cut federal spending
00:29:37.740and really have the stones to be able to do it.
00:29:39.960You had a piece yesterday. Steve Moore, a guy that I like personally a lot but totally disagree with his economic philosophy, said that if you don't embrace Reagan and Thatcher, you're not going to be a force or a candidate in the Republican Party going forward.
00:29:55.880You see a civil war brewing between the populist nationalist economics and the neoliberal neocon that we've had for decade after decade after decade, sir?
00:30:06.000I mean, I think the core thing is that all these guys that used to run the party who were hired by Romney and McCain and those guys, they have kind of been they didn't quite go away.
00:30:19.960You know, some of them, you know, adopted a Trump, some of them became never Trump Republicans, but they're still kind of around.
00:30:27.620And they've been waiting for their chance for 10 years for Trump to exit and for them to have a return over the party that they once felt in control of.
00:30:37.860And Vance has made very clear in the last few weeks on his book tour and some campaign stops that he is not going to be on board, at least rhetorically, with going back to the way things were pre-Trump.
00:30:49.440Vance is going out and saying, you know, I don't like or he criticized Milton Friedman and Margaret Thatcher and the Wall Street Journal editorial board and has been saying things about the dollar and trade and industrial policy that are even further away from the old Reaganite wing than Trump was.
00:31:04.940And so those that crowd, that never Trump crowd, but coupled with some Trumpers who were kind of gritting their teeth and bearing tariffs and sort of like Trump economic stuff that was distinct from Reagan, are, I think, really gearing up, according to my reporting, to sort of have a showdown in 2028 to try to get their party back as they see it.
00:31:24.880jeff where can we go to get your reporting now and social media all your coordinates uh you broke
00:31:32.100the big story yesterday about this shot from stanley drunken mail being written in ai of course
00:31:37.100the wall street journal wouldn't take your call but later said hey no big deal so i guess they'll
00:31:41.700be flooded with ai op-eds uh now i hope they identify them so people know if it's really a
00:31:46.480human writing it even a historic hedge fund manager like stan or uh just another machine
00:31:53.040your coordinates sir where people go j stein underscore notice on twitter uh and yeah find me
00:31:59.680there that's me thank you sir great report appreciate you we'll spend a lot more time
00:32:06.000we're gonna spend a lot more time on this economic civil war okay um christian nationalism
00:32:12.040they're in full meltdown hair on fire on msnbc cnn a new congressman huff a congressman from
00:32:18.580California Huffman's got a book on the rise of Christian nationalism.
00:32:35.160Democratic Congressman Jared Huffman is making in his new book, No Profits, the Fight to Save Democracy from Christian Nationalism.
00:32:42.860Congressman Huffman writes, quote, it's theocratic, authoritarian ringleaders once dismissed as fringe now wield mainstream power, and they're using it to dismantle secular democracy from within.
00:32:55.400Merriam-Webster defines Christian nationalism as a political ideology that seeks to incorporate Christian beliefs into government decisions and policies.
00:33:06.800I saw a profusion of religious extremism that I hoped would be a wake up call for the country.0.99
00:33:12.380I hope they would see this movement for the threat that it is.0.97
00:33:15.860And instead, I watched the country go back to sleep.
00:33:18.300And I watched many of my own colleagues miss the religious extremism that was so central to the insurrection.
00:33:25.360So this book is my attempt to sound the alarm and have a bit of a call to action.
00:33:30.680After serving in Trump's first administration, votes spent the Biden years hatching plans for the unrestrained vengeance tour that would become Trump's second presidency.
00:33:39.700Much of his post-constitutional philosophy was laid out in Project 2025, the authoritarian policy roadmap he helped write for the Heritage Foundation.
00:33:48.480To correct the problem of America being too secular, vote-bound Christian nationalist priorities would be plugged right in to a second Trump term.
00:33:56.940We see it. We see it. You can see it at the Defense Department, in the policies that the Defense Secretary has laid out.0.53
00:34:03.360You see it in the administration. You see it in the things that the president himself is saying.
00:34:08.440This is, you can see it in the education department.
00:34:11.580I'm using air quotes because they've gutted it.
00:34:31.260I profile many of them, not just as political figures, but as Christian nationalist power players, because they are pressing this agenda forward far more aggressively than I think most people realize.
00:34:42.000It's the early 1990s. Our country has been getting less religious and more diverse, and that is threatening to folks who feel like their country is being taken away from them.
00:34:54.040It's a perception of lost status, and it breeds an extremism and a level of desperation that is really part of the militancy that drives this movement.0.94
00:35:04.340How do you – when you're walking around in Congress, I think you said the Christian nationalist pastors are lurking like lobbyists on the Hill.
00:35:13.540How – who's opening the doors and letting them in as they're lurking around and knocking on doors?0.53
00:35:19.180I think they've got a pass to come right on in.
00:35:22.140And I try to take readers behind the scenes to see what I see every day, because in this chapter you're referring to, I call it the shadow theocracy.
00:35:30.120You really get a sense for just how entrenched this movement is in the customs and the routines and the institutions of our supposedly secular government.
00:35:43.840David Barton from Wall Builders joins us.
00:35:47.020Davis, David, you're one of the most prominent historians in the country, and certainly on the
00:35:51.420right. I would say you're one of the intellectual architects of trying to get Christianity back into
00:35:56.440the public space. Of course, now people are saying that Christian nationalism is this
00:36:02.540most divisive, dangerous political force in the country. Your observations on this, sir?
00:36:09.500You know, it's an interesting battle because they have created a new vocabulary with new terms,
00:36:14.120and they've defined those terms. And so even things like Christian nationalists,
00:36:18.320that's a term less than a decade old, and now it dominates their thinking as though they were
00:36:23.200upholding the Constitution. This is what George Washington intended from his inaugural address.
00:36:27.920So it's really interesting to see them redefine terms, which they always do.
00:36:32.020It's also interesting to see how little they know of the Constitution and how much of a direct
00:36:38.580attack this is on there. And even just his opening line about saving the democracy. Oh my goodness,
00:36:45.100please read Article 4, Section 4, which requires that the United States maintain a Republican form
00:36:50.660of government. The Founding Fathers hated democracy. There were seven different forms
00:36:54.580of government available when they chose what they chose. And they routinely, John Adams,
00:37:00.080Benjamin Rush, others said that the form of government they hated most was democracy because
00:37:04.320they called it a mobocracy. It gives them the feelings. They wanted rule by law. That's why
00:37:08.900they have a written constitution. A Republican form of government is antithetical to democracy.
00:37:15.380And so I even react more to that than I do to things like Christian nationalism, which is a
00:37:20.380term that is so vague. It's like throwing jello on the wall. You can make it any shape you want,
00:37:25.540but they just simply don't understand the first amendment, the free exercise of religion,
00:37:29.940than anything else. And that's where the danger is, is in such an anti-constitutional position
00:37:36.240that they couch in new terms with fear all over it.
00:37:42.900David, one of the great powers of your writing and your research and pulling things, we're going
00:37:46.760to get into your efforts to get the Ten Commandments in schools, but it seems like you were the first,
00:37:51.820or at least the first, that kind of broke through and made it accessible to people to go back to the
00:37:55.940original documents, go back to the original life stories of the revolutionary generation and then
00:38:01.380the founders of the nation after that, and really talk about the deep Christian roots of these
00:38:06.940individuals? Because over time, it had kind of been, oh, they were really secular or they were
00:38:10.940deists. Talk to us about that, about your research and what it shows about the revolutionary
00:38:16.400generation and the founders of this nation. Yeah, great question, Steve. We're very blessed
00:38:22.660in that we have two world-class museums in 4th Dallas area.
00:38:26.280We're considered to have the largest private collection
00:39:46.500was going back to original documents and saying,
00:39:48.640hey, what I've been told, what we've been told really since the 60s is not accurate history.
00:39:55.840What was it, since you were kind of raised and trained or educated in a secular way,
00:40:03.700what event, what caused you to go back and actually do all this core research
00:40:08.340to find out that the revolutionary generation and the founders were actually deeply Christian?
00:40:13.740You know, the thing that got me, Steve, I came through college and high school and even elementary.
00:40:20.180I remember my sixth grade, my sixth grade elementary school history teacher told me that George Washington had 26 illegitimate children giving new meaning to the phrase Washington slept here.
00:40:32.860So I came through school not liking the founders much at all.
00:40:36.380But, boy, if that's Washington, I can do without that.
00:40:39.140And so this is what I had been taught.
00:40:40.960And what happened was later in life, as I was an educator, I was a school principal.
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00:44:51.220welcome back david barton from wall builders david you've been on a roll on getting uh on
00:45:01.780winning throughout the country court cases to try to get it doesn't seem like a big let it doesn't0.85
00:45:07.000seem like a big ass but man it's a firestorm fighting you this is putting 10 commandments0.86
00:45:11.440in schools, correct? It is. Yeah. The court has done a wonderful thing in the last, and this goes1.00
00:45:17.840back to 2022. The court reversed itself over the last 50 years and said, you know, we've had this
00:45:24.600thing called the limit test since 1971. And it says that the only way you can have something
00:45:29.860religious in public is if the primary purpose of that religious activity is secular. And that's
00:45:34.660oxymoronic. You don't have any religious activity that's primary secular. And so the Supreme Court
00:45:40.260in 2022 said that was a really bad test. It's not based on anything historical. And they came up
00:45:46.560with what they call the history and tradition test that said if something is inherently historical
00:45:51.240and traditional in America, we're going to assume that it's constitutional. If the founding fathers
00:45:56.520did it and we did it for generations, we're going to assume that's constitutional. And so suddenly
00:46:00.760what that did was that said, hey, you can go back to having nativity scenes in public. You can go
00:46:05.680back to 10 commandments displays. You can go back to nativity scenes or whatever, because those are
00:46:10.980all things we had until that 1971 decision. So what's happened as a result of that, now we run
00:46:17.340a legislative network. We network about a thousand state legislators. We monitor about 152,000 pieces
00:46:24.620of legislation a year, and they will call and say, hey, we need help with this. Here's something we
00:46:28.860want to do. Who are the experts we can connect with? And so they started calling and saying,
00:46:33.340hey, can we put the Ten Commandments back up in schools? That used to be in schools until 1980,
00:46:38.540and it's been there from the beginning. Can we do that? And so we got with the Supreme Court
00:46:44.380attorneys who actually won those Supreme Court cases, and they helped write the legislation
00:46:48.860that now has been introduced in 26 states. Five states have passed laws putting the Ten
00:46:53.460Commandments back up in classrooms. And by the way, because of the historical collection we have,
00:46:58.200We can show you the very first textbook in America had the Ten Commandments, and it's 63 questions on the Ten Commandments for first graders.
00:47:06.460We can take you through the McGuffey readers who had the Ten Commandments, the Noah Webster books that he wrote as a founding father with the Ten Commandments.
00:47:13.120So we can show history and traditions on the side of displaying the Ten Commandments.
00:47:17.400And that's why at this point, all the federal courts that have looked at this issue have upheld the return of the Ten Commandments of schools,
00:47:24.060because the Supreme Court said if it's historical and traditional, we're going to assume it's
00:47:28.460constitutional. So this is a growing movement, and it's driven by the legislators themselves.
00:47:33.880They're the ones that introduced this across the states. So it's a rapidly growing movement,
00:47:38.600which I think is really cool that it's organic from them.
00:47:43.440What states have approved it already? When people look, are the southern states,
00:47:48.460Intermountain West states? Have any states approved this already?
00:47:52.220Yeah, what you have so far is you had Louisiana do it and Texas did it. You've had Arkansas that did it. You have Louisiana, excuse me, Tennessee that did it. You have Alabama that did it. Kentucky has gone back. Kentucky didn't pass a law because they were the state where it was taken down in 1980. And they said, well, since the court said we can do it, we're just putting it back up. So they didn't have to pass the law.
00:48:15.580to do it. So there's really six states that have done it now. And there's a couple dozen more that
00:48:19.940are getting ready to do it in this next session. And it has been introduced, I'm going to say
00:48:24.760primarily in what we've considered to be the more conservative states. Now, the irony for me is,
00:48:31.220you know, these guys, like we started with calling this Christian nationalism, timeout.
00:48:35.840When I'm at the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., inside the Supreme Court, I have counted more than
00:48:40.82053 depictions of the Ten Commandments inside the U.S. Supreme Court. They've got it posted
00:48:46.840everywhere. I walk outside the Supreme Court, turn left, go to the Library of Congress. I walk in,
00:48:51.740there's an eight-foot statue of Moses holding the Ten Commandments. Then I go across the street to
00:48:56.260the House of Representatives. As you walk into the chamber, there's the Ten Commandments. I go
00:49:00.620further down the street to the National Archives. As I walk up to see the original Declaration of
00:49:05.420Constitution embedded in the floor in front of me, Ten Commandments medallion. It's all over
00:49:10.400Washington, D.C. It's in government buildings, not church buildings, and they're calling this
00:49:13.960Christian nationalism. Come on, guys, give me a break. So I'm intrigued with the fact of how
00:49:19.840permeated our society had been with the Ten Commandments prior to the recent generation,
00:49:25.140and there is a growing desire among the populace, among legislators, among others,
00:49:31.160to get back to some of those standards.
00:49:35.620David, where can people go to find out more information
00:49:37.920to support your efforts and just to find out more about it
00:49:41.260and what they can do in their own states?