Why is a horrific tragedy the price we have to pay? Hurricane Harvey and Tropical Storm Irma come just as we are reminded today of the 16th anniversary of one of the most tragic days in American history. The human toll of these hurricanes, thank God, does not come anywhere near in America to the horror of September 11th, 2001. But the enormous loss of property and livelihood provides us an opportunity to wrap our arms around American neighbors who need our help.
00:06:43.080I don't have words to describe what I'm witnessing right now.
00:07:13.880Effective immediately until further notice, flight operations in the national airspace system by United States civil aircraft and foreign civil and military aircraft are prohibited.
00:07:24.940Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward.
00:15:44.020You know, this year, I want to spend more time looking at 9-11 on the broken promises, but not even the broken promises like that.
00:15:56.860Not on political promises that are broken.
00:16:01.540I mean, gosh, what a graveyard that is.
00:16:04.380Today, I challenge you to think of the broken promises that you made, that you broke, that I made, that I broke.
00:16:18.300The things that we have to do to remember, like we did on September 11th, that the only thing that really matters is one another.
00:16:27.080For that fraction of a second in our lives, we remembered that nothing else mattered.
00:16:37.020We could lose everything, but as long as we had each other, as long as we had a chance to be free, we could rebuild and reconfigure anything.
00:16:57.080Today, I challenge you to find it once again today.
00:17:14.640Coming up, we have ways for you to help out with the hurricane, with Mercury One, and all the efforts going on with Irma, and still Harvey.
00:17:44.580So far, Equifax determined that the credit card numbers for about 200,000 consumers and personal data, including social security numbers for 180,000 consumers, were accessed, taken.
00:18:28.880LifeLock detects a wide range of identity threats, threats that you are going to miss through just credit monitoring systems like, I don't know, Equifax.
00:18:40.780Somebody is capable of stealing your 401k.
00:40:08.220Terror attacks are no longer the third story on the 10 o'clock news.
00:40:12.380They're weekly, sometimes daily discussions.
00:40:15.020For those who are graduating this year, terrorism is something that they've had to consider almost with everything that they do.
00:40:24.020Attending a 4th of July fireworks display, going to a concert, planning a trip to Europe, going on the airplane.
00:40:30.720What does it feel like to go to a New Year's Eve celebration and not have to think in the back of your mind?
00:40:41.200Well, what do we do if there's a terror attack?
00:40:46.660It's almost been so long now that I've forgotten what that is like.
00:40:50.600What did it feel like to graduate high school to see the world as completely accessible, where you could plan a trip to Egypt and see the pyramids, go to France, go to Spain, not a worry.
00:41:04.980Would any parent today be comfortable sending our kids to any of those places?
00:47:21.460So, if you are sitting here listening to him, I want you to know what he is fighting for and what the president, he says, at least he says, the president is fighting for is tariffs, a central bank, infrastructure bailouts,
00:50:45.000The reason why the Nazis are so spooky is they have the ability, through a nationalized government, a very strong centralized government, to kill everybody they disagree with.
00:52:22.000One of the things Bannon did before he came into the political eye was he worked for a company that, I think it was World of Warcraft, the video game.
00:52:30.060And in there, you mine for, like, fake video game gold.
00:52:33.480And he started working for a company that hired farms of people to mine the fake video game gold and sell the gold, the fake gold, to people for real money that played the game.
00:52:47.800So they would have people go in by the thousands and play the game to get these credits, right, and sell the credits to people who liked playing the game but didn't want to work so hard for the credits.
00:52:59.840Now, the business was a complete disaster, as many of his have been.
00:53:02.720And then it fell apart in a sort of catastrophe sort of situation.
00:53:08.620However, the interesting part about it was that is where he sort of found the fuel.
00:53:15.420Because that gaming community was so insular and so passionate that he found that those sort of quirky, weird movements could provide a lot of fuel for a much larger movement.
00:53:27.820And that's where it's believed he got the idea to bring in the movements like the alt-right and take the energy that they had through these really passionate niche sort of beliefs to drive a candidate if he could convince them that this candidate was friendly to them.
00:53:50.260See, here's the problem with this, is the average person is being driven right into the arms of these spooky people, quite honestly.
00:54:09.800Mike Lee is fighting for religious freedom.
00:54:14.040And the reason why this is happening is because there's something we're going to address next hour.
00:54:20.260That happened on Capitol Hill where senators were questioning a person's Catholicism and saying, I'm not sure if you're if you're qualified to be able to serve in the federal government because you are a Catholic.
00:54:37.860Now, listen to what the warning is here from Mike Lee.
00:54:40.380Another one of my colleagues even went so far as to ask Professor Barrett to confess her faith under oath in the committee.
00:54:47.620Hey, what's an Orthodox Catholic, this committee member asked.
00:54:52.820Do you consider yourself an Orthodox Catholic?
00:54:56.360If these remarks had been some sort of bizarre one-time aberration, I probably would have passed them over in silence.
00:55:05.780But I feel compelled to speak out because I wonder whether a pattern might be emerging, a pattern of a hostility toward people of faith who come before this body.
00:55:15.780Just a few months ago, another eminently qualified nominee, Russell Vogt, appeared before the budget committee to be considered for a post at the Office of Management and Budget.
00:55:27.920One of my Senate colleagues used his time to question this nominee.
00:55:31.620Not about management, not about management or about budgets, but about the nominee's evangelical Christian beliefs.
00:55:41.460Quote, in your judgment, asked this senator, do you think that people who are not Christians are going to be condemned?
00:55:48.120Now, Mr. Vogt explained to the committee that he is an evangelical Christian and that he adheres to the beliefs espoused by evangelical Christians.
00:55:57.500But that apparently wasn't good enough for the questioner, who later stated that he would vote against Mr. Vogt's nomination because he was not, and I quote,
00:56:06.560what this country is supposed to be about.
00:56:14.060This is not what this country is supposed to be about.
00:56:17.440Some sort of inquiry into one's religious beliefs as a condition precedent for holding public office in the United States government.
00:56:24.440These strange questions have nothing to do with the nominee's competence or patriotism or ability to serve among and for Americans of different faiths equally.
00:56:41.040In fact, they have little to do with this life at all.
00:56:45.560Instead, they have to do with the afterlife.
00:59:47.640So, a nationalist as we were just talking about with Steve Bannon last night on 60 Minutes.
00:59:53.580He talked about the American system and he specifically mentioned Henry Clay.
00:59:58.740And he said the American system is what made America great.
01:00:01.840I think it's the exact opposite, but here's what the Henry Clay system was.
01:00:05.540A tariff to protect and promote American industry, a national centralized bank, and federal subsidies for roads, canals, and other internal improvements, plus an American school.
01:00:21.360So, basically a federalized public school.
01:00:24.300I don't know any real conservative or small government libertarian that is for any of those things.
01:00:46.400Well, because whenever you expand government power and whenever you sort of mince words, especially with political groups, I think it's really challenging because essentially you can make it so that you give the Trump administration the power to go after white nationalist groups, which the question of whether or not they'll actually do that is a whole other thing.
01:01:05.540But then that power can just as easily be used to target left-leaning groups.
01:01:09.260It could just as easily be used to target Second Amendment groups.
01:01:12.040When you expand that government power and allow them to classify all sorts of domestic and somewhat political groups as terrorists, really, really bad things can happen.
01:01:20.580It's amazing to me that people don't get this with what's happening with DACA right now.
01:01:24.220I mean, the government said, hey, give us your information.
01:01:52.860And I think a lot of people in my generation sort of haven't done a good job of understanding that for every Obama administration where you give them expanded power, you know, then there's the other side in charge.
01:02:03.900Or, you know, if you particularly like George W. Bush, at the end of that administration, the Obama administration comes into power.
01:02:10.060And it's worth thinking, what are the long-term consequences of these expansions of power?
01:03:14.680You guys see a different world where you're able to do whatever you want, create whatever you want.
01:03:22.940You don't need these big systems and big companies and everything else.
01:03:26.480How is it you miss the connection in your generation between that freedom and big government?
01:03:34.940I'm really hopeful that it's something that we'll learn over time and learn through trial and error, right?
01:03:41.540The more we make these mistakes, the more we'll suffer the consequences and realize there's a problem when you expand the federal government's power.
01:03:48.480I think that is really interesting what you're talking about, about how millennials are comfortable with various industries being disrupted by new technology, by change, by evolution.
01:03:57.940But then they very much don't see that connection between, should you then give some of that power back to the government?
01:04:04.760And I'm hopeful that as they see the negative results that come from that, they'll realize, you know, as they get older and older, wait a second, that's not the world we want.
01:04:13.940What are you seeing on the horizon with people your age?
01:04:45.260We have people in Washington Examiner, the American Conservative.
01:04:48.580The whole concept is that there's no limit to the number of people and organizations that can hear this pro-freedom message.
01:04:55.400So I'm an editor, and I work to, you know, get their work, you know, in tip-top shape and publish at some of those places.
01:05:02.300And what are you seeing as the, if things would melt down?
01:05:10.320And, I mean, we're already starting to see college is just, it's a nightmare.
01:05:15.700What has happened in the cost of college in the last 10 years alone, the debt that is coming, and everybody's being strapped to this.
01:05:25.740When the government is standing there and somebody like Bernie Sanders says, I'll take care of you, or on the other side, somebody like, you know, Steve Bannon says, I'll take care of you.
01:05:37.360But what's to stop your generation from saying, thank God somebody's going to step in?
01:05:45.760I think you see people in my generation being obsessed with Bernie Sanders or not understanding that there is, you know, there are always long-term consequences and unintended consequences to every decision that you make, whether it's on a personal level or on a government level, right?
01:06:00.040And I think, you know, once people in my generation become taxpayers and realize, okay, we're, you know, investing in college, we're ramping up the price of college, and we're having to foot the bill for that, I think they'll sort of begin to realize that maybe it's not the best investment.
01:06:15.820And I think they'll begin to sort of pursue a middle ground, hopefully.
01:06:19.080I like to be the person who's always negative on the program.
01:06:21.760So let me take the opposite side here.
01:06:23.400And this is an imperfect sort of comparison, but it reminds me as, you know, September 11th is today.
01:06:28.900After that, there were a bunch of, you know, musical acts that came out and actors that came out and said things that conservatives in particular were like, shut up, just do your job, sing your songs, do your acting, stop talking about politics.
01:06:42.760And I felt that way, too, I remember at that time.
01:06:45.840And then you got later on, and then some conservative celebrities started coming out, and they started saying things.
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01:16:40.640Her Catholicism came up a number of times during her hearing last week, but none of it was as disturbing as Feinstein's line of questioning.
01:16:50.700Why is it that so many of us on this side have this very uncomfortable feeling that, you know, dogma and law are two different things?
01:17:06.320And I think whatever a religion is, it has its own dogma.