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On today's show, Glenn Beck talks about AOC's comparison of migrant detention centers on the southern border to concentration camps. He also talks about the Democratic response to the comments made by Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-New York, on CNN's Chuck Todd.
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The Fusion of Entertainment and Enlightenment. This is the Glenn Beck Program.
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So, it's a feeding frenzy as the left just starts to eat each other.
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And I'd like to wallow in that for a minute. I would just like to marinate in that.
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Because there is a revolution happening in the Democratic Party.
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And it's clear. Now, are the Democrats going to wake up to it?
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You know, I don't know if anybody else has a problem with reparations hearings, you know, on Capitol Hill.
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I mean, if I were prioritizing the things that would help America and fix America, reparations would not even be on the list.
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Chuck Todd is going after AOC and you have to give him credit.
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I mean, when somebody does something brave, no matter if you agree or disagree with them,
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you should come out and say, hey, Chuck Todd don't normally agree with you,
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Here's what Chuck Todd said about AOC calling these holding facilities
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If you want to criticize the shameful treatment of people at our southern border, fine.
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You'll have plenty of company, but be careful comparing them to Nazi concentration camps
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because they're not at all comparable in the slightest.
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But here's where it's upsetting as her comment.
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Some Democrats have been reluctant to condemn her remarks.
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Fellow New York Congressman Jerry Nadler tweeted in response,
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One of the lessons from the Holocaust is never again.
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We fail to learn that lesson when we don't call out such inhumanity right in front of us.
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Jerry Nadler surely knows migrant detainment camps are not the same as concentration camps.
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Why are we so sheepish calling out people we agree with politically these days?
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Obviously, this isn't a Democratic Party thing.
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It's an even bigger problem on the Republican side of the aisle when it comes to President Trump and the reluctance there.
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Are we really so ensconced in our political bubbles, liberal versus conservative, that we cannot talk about right versus wrong anymore?
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Some things are bigger than partisanship, or at least they used to be.
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Now, I disagree that the problem is even bigger.
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I mean, you have people now saying, I want to dismantle the free market system.
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But I would think that would be something that would be pretty big, you know.
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These members of Congress are, they come and represent their district and their point of view.
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And they take responsibility for the statements that they make.
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I saw something in the news, but I, no, I haven't spoken to her about that.
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I do have some comments to make to my caucus, writ large, about the political nature of how politically charged the atmosphere is.
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So understand that while the Republicans have no interest in holding the president accountable for his words, they will misrepresent anything that you say.
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Just if you have one word in the sentence that they can exploit.
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This is politically charged and we'll take everything out of context.
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So you've got to calm down because you don't want things taken out of context.
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Think about the despicable people we've had in history.
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Would you say that that person is allowed or let's put it this way.
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If you could look back on in history, would you say, well, I'm so glad that that person was allowed a platform so that they could spread their hate and propaganda and lies?
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Or would you say that probably wasn't the right thing to do to spread that?
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Because you knew in the moment that that was a bad person and they were doing bad things.
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Not only were they hurting people, they were killing people.
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And so I just think that I think that the example matters.
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First of all, the German people were not all that sold that this was a bad guy.
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And yes, I'm actually happy that the New York Times and Time Magazine and others gave him a platform so we knew his words.
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The problem I have was the journalist we sent over, just like the journalist from the New York Times that was sent over to Stalin, said that he was a wonderful guy.
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So, yeah, you probably shouldn't have given him the New York Times and Time Magazine, you know, saying how great he is.
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Yeah, I think that's what our First Amendment is all about.
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And I think the only way we stop people like Hitler is by knowing what he's saying.
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If we wouldn't have read Mein Kampf, it would have been a little harder to spot him.
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It does no good burying our heads in the sand when it comes to evil.
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But so now he's called him now he's called him a Hitler.
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You'll know when we're closer to a civil war, when they just start beating each other in the Senate.
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OK, that's what happened before the last civil war.
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They just started going after each other in the Senate.
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This is an argument between Joy Behar, Meghan McCain and Whoopi Goldberg.
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I explained because one of my producers this morning was saying, why do people love him so much?
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And I was like, sometimes it's not just that they love Trump so much.
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It's that they hate the same things Trump hates.
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I really come here every day open-minded just trying to explain it.
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I get that you're angry that Trump's president, like a lot of people are.
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But I don't think yelling at me is going to fix the problem, OK?
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I just said it was hard for me to watch Lindsey Graham, who I considered an uncle for a long time, OK?
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But then you're talking about the Trump supporters.
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But I'm trying to explain why 2020 is not in the bag for you.
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It's a it's a great discussion and we can go back to it.
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Meghan McCain takes a beating every single day.
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You are the you are the token conservative and they beat you every single day.
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Did we get the audio by any chance yet of the subcommittee hearing on the Constitution and civil rights and civil liberties?
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Yesterday, they had H.R. 40 that they were debating, and it was the path to restorative justice, which is a reparations bill.
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Now, I can think of a lot of things that would be helpful to fix the country.
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But I want to play some of the audio of of what happened in this.
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We should watch what we're doing to stir things up.
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These things would not have happened a year ago.
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They certainly wouldn't have happened four years ago.
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Pretty remarkable audio because they turn on their own again.
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So we put together a cruise through history, which is a cruise that we're taking next spring.
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You got pretty much all the knowledge that you can contain in a 10 day period.
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We're going to learn a lot about the history of the world, history of democracy, the history and the role our faith is played in all of this.
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I want to play just a little bit of this audio of somebody standing up who is testifying, who is a Democrat, who says, reparations, this is crazy.
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He is a writer for Quillette, which is fantastic.
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Nothing I'm about to say is meant to minimize the horror and brutality of slavery and Jim Crow.
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Racism is a bloody stain on this country's history, and I consider our failure to pay reparations directly to freed slaves after the Civil War to be one of the greatest injustices ever perpetrated by the U.S. government.
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But I worry that our desire to fix the past compromises our ability to fix the present.
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We're spending our time debating a bill that mentions slavery 25 times, but incarceration only once, in an era with no black slaves, but nearly a million black prisoners.
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A bill that doesn't mention homicide once, at a time when the Center for Disease Control reports homicide as the number one cause of death for young black men.
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I'm not saying that acknowledging history doesn't matter.
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I'm saying there's a difference between acknowledging history and allowing history to distract us from the problems we face today.
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In 2008, the House of Representatives formally apologized for slavery and Jim Crow.
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We need safer neighborhoods and better schools.
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We need a less punitive criminal justice system.
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And none of these things can be achieved through reparations for slavery.
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Nearly everyone close to me told me not to testify today.
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They told me that even though I've only ever voted for Democrats, I'd be perceived as a Republican and therefore hated by half the country.
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Others told me that by distancing myself from Republicans, I would end up angering the other half of the country.
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And the sad truth is that they were both right.
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That's how suspicious we've become of one another.
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If we were to pay reparations today, we would only divide the country further, making it harder to build the political coalitions required to solve the problems facing black people today.
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We would insult many black Americans by putting a price on the suffering of their ancestors.
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And we would turn the relationship between black Americans and white Americans from a coalition into a transaction, from a union between citizens into a lawsuit between plaintiffs and defendants.
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What we should do is pay reparations to black Americans who actually grew up under Jim Crow and were directly harmed by second-class citizenship, people like my grandparents.
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But paying reparations to all descendants of slaves is a mistake.
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I was born three decades after the end of Jim Crow into a privileged household in the suburbs.
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Yet I'm also descended from slaves who worked on Thomas Jefferson's Monticello plantation.
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So reparations for slavery would allocate federal resources to me, but not to an American with the wrong ancestry,
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even if that person is living paycheck to paycheck and working multiple jobs to support a family.
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I call it justice for the dead at the price of justice for the living.
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I understand that reparations are about what people are owed, regardless of how well they're doing.
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But the people who are owed for slavery are no longer here.
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And we're not entitled to collect on their debts.
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Reparations, by definition, are only given to victims.
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So the moment you give me reparations, you've made me into a victim without my consent.
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You've made one-third of black Americans who poll against reparations into victims without their consent.
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Don't agree with him necessarily on everything he says, but so rock solid.
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Since when does the sin of the father get passed to the son?
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This is just another reason why social justice warriors are so out of step with the way Americans think.
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But never, never do we pass the sins of the father onto the son.
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If my father racks up debt, I don't have to pay for it.
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Moms and dads, is this the kind of country you want your children to inherit?
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One to where you make a mistake and they have to pay for it?
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So, I mean, I understand why if you are a descendant, you could look back at your history and say that was a huge problem.
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And we all obviously recognize it was a terrible, terrible thing, as you'll be pointing out in the museum in just a couple of weeks.
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But that does not mean that I get punished for it.
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I don't get punished for things that I didn't do.
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You're supposed to be able to be responsible for your own actions, not actions for people that, by the way, not only was I not around for, but never met.
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And I didn't have any, like, my descendants weren't slave owners.
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Like, only, what was it, about a third of Southerners, white Southerners, were slave owners.
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I mean, you know, it was an expensive thing, I would imagine, and, you know, mainly relegated to those who were well off and also believed in slavery.
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But about a third, so you're talking about two-thirds of white Southerners would be being, have their descendants taxed for something they didn't even do.
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Not to mention, it was a divisive issue, right?
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There were a lot of people who were white and in the South who thought slavery was horrible, just like every issue today is divided.
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We had people who were the founders who fought against it.
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I mean, did the descendants of Benjamin Franklin, an abolitionist, do they pay reparations to someone who may or may not have been a descendant of slaves?
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Let's say right now we reversed Roe versus Wade.
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And a hundred years from now, you would say, well, I want everybody to pay for reparations because my great-great-grandmother was advised by Planned Parenthood that she could get an abortion.
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And so I want you to pay for reparations for all of those 50 or 60 million children that have been killed since Roe versus Wade.
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I would imagine that if you were doing it closer to the actual event that you could make the case, well, that was to financially cripple this organization to make sure that they were put out of business.
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It's to add to an already $22 trillion debt to do something that makes absolutely no sense.
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But I contend this is to do nothing other than to cripple our government, to cripple the United States of America.
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And when you really look at how they would do it, there's no constitutional way to tax only white people.
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There shouldn't be a constitutional way to tax only one specific race.
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It's like it's this idea that, you know, of course, there's no way to actually correctly trace the lineage of every single person to make this right.
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And what they want to do is say, OK, we're going to tax white people and give it to black people is where it kind of gets summarized to.
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But even that that's blatantly unconstitutional, just like it would be unconstitutional to tax black people to give it to white people.
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Because, you know what, there are plenty of times where people who were incredible racists would have argued that that was just.
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What's going to how would this actually play out?
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Let's just put it in not in this idea of whether it's right or wrong.
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Put it in the idea of actually designing a policy.
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There's no constitutional way to do it the way it's being discussed.
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What it would wind up being is an excuse to take money from people who were supposedly too rich and benefited too much off of this evil system and give it to people who are poor, who've been hurt by this system.
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So what you'd wind up doing is having middle class and upper middle class black people playing higher taxes to give it to people who probably underprivileged, quote unquote, white people who wound up getting the becoming the beneficiary.
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It would wind up being just a generic argument to redistribute wealth all over again.
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And what a surprise that one of these topics and one of these big pushes by the left comes back to that fundamental principle once again.
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Remember, we said the reason why health care is being pushed is because it's just redistribution of wealth.
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It doesn't it's not going to affect in a positive way.
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It's not going to affect your actual health care.
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In fact, it's going to make it worse, which it has.
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If you remember, who was it from the Center for American Progress?
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I think said that you cannot have a health care program.
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He was the head of Medicare or Medicaid, wasn't he?
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And he said there is no health care unless it is involving redistribution of wealth.
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Secondly, this is why it's dangerous for us as humans beyond the Republic and everything else for us as humans.
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History is what you did or failed to do yesterday.
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Now, you can allow that history to affect the rest of your life.
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I'd get up every morning and I promised myself I wouldn't drink the day before, you know, and I'd look and go.
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I just promised this yesterday and I broke my own promise.
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Today, today, I'm just not going to drink today.
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And I broke that promise to myself for five years, every single day.
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I let my history control me instead of instead of forgetting what happened yesterday and saying that does not control me or chart my course.
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What it did was it told me every day, you're a loser.
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And this is why when you hit rock bottom, sometimes it's suicide because you've convinced yourself you're worthless.
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Just get through, you know, the next hour, then the next day.
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And what's happening to us, and this is the point of the museum that we're opening up next week.
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And it's going to be very controversial, especially in this atmosphere.
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What we're doing is we're showing you the history of the slave trade, not just America.
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We're showing you that 45% of all the slaves that were transported went to Brazil.
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We're showing you that, yes, Mexico stopped slavery before we did.
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Because all they really did was say, okay, you can keep your slaves and you have to give them up in 100 years and no slave trade.
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Well, we were the first to say no more slave trade.
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We were the first in the world to say no more slave trade.
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But again, what does that do that just beats us again over and over every single day?
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There is a report out today that China has imprisoned in actual concentration camps.
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Three million people are in these concentration camps.
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And just to help Ocasio-Cortez out, here's the difference between a detainment center and a concentration camp.
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In this case, you leave alive, you leave with your kidneys.
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There's a new study out, the China Tribunal, that has shown now that forced organ harvesting is being committed in China on a significant scale.
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There is no evidence that any of this has been dismantled.
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And one of the reasons why they know it was going on was because, well, there's not a waiting list.
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How come there's no waiting list in China for organs?
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And what they're doing is they're taking these people in these concentration camps.
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They're giving them thorough inspections and medical testing.
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And then when somebody needs an organ, they're like, oh, we have this guy.
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Take him out of cell number 23 and rip his organs out.
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Now, we can talk about the concentration camp on our border, and it will do nothing but tear us apart.
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Or we can look at this and say, hey, maybe we should look at China.
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We look at why didn't the United States do anything about the concentration camps in Germany?
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Three million people are in concentration camps in China alone.
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Unless, unless you are somebody that history will not judge well, and your concept of right and wrong and justice is upside down.
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So, Stu, I've got to talk about something that's, it's not racist, but I know that's what racists say right before they say something racist.
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But this isn't racist, but I'm kind of caught in this conundrum, and it's a good thing I don't work for ESPN, because I have to ask for the audience help on something, and it's very racist, except not at all.
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And I don't know if there's a big demand for it or something.
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But if I can't get it done now, I have to wait a year because it can't be done in the winter.
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So, look, I'm desperate for anybody who knows how to chink.
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If you know how to chink and you're in the Idaho area, please, please, I'm begging you.
00:40:24.980
And that would get me fired for ESPN, but luckily I don't work for that.
00:40:33.280
You know, back in the 1850s, slavery was a big problem, but no one in Congress actually wanted to do anything about it.
00:40:49.180
And that's why Charles Sumner stood up and said, you know, the South is sleeping with the horror of slavery.
00:40:56.400
This is why the Republican Party was born, because there were Democrats and Republicans that both saw that this was a problem, and they wanted to solve it.
00:41:13.240
And they realized that nobody is serious about solving this problem.
00:41:23.360
Well, don't we have that same problem right now?
00:41:27.740
We're going to get into that a little later on today with some amazing stats that you've never heard on how bad this is.
00:41:36.860
Instead, Congress is talking about reparations.
00:41:39.060
Because historically, has this, have we been this close to, is this normal?
00:41:47.940
Or is this leading to some of the worst parts of our past?
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We're going to talk to one of my favorite historians in one minute.
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Arthur Herman, who has been one of my favorite historians for quite some time,
00:43:32.360
and I'm going back and I'm reading all of his back catalog, and it's just, it's so fantastic.
00:43:37.700
He's such a good storyteller and teaches history in a way I think it needs to be taught.
00:43:44.060
But he is, in my opinion, I don't know if anybody knows who Daniel Boorstin is, but he was one of my favorite historians.
00:43:51.940
He was the guy who was the head of the Library of Congress, and I loved his Discoverer series.
00:43:59.240
And Arthur is the same kind of guy with just a gift for bringing history to life.
00:44:11.840
You know, I met Daniel Boorstin when I was a young scholar, right after my first book,
00:44:16.620
The Idea of Decline in Western History was published.
00:44:19.800
He invited me to lunch at the Cosmos Club, as a matter of fact,
00:44:24.140
and we met and talked about various kinds of matters, writing history.
00:44:29.600
In fact, the book, How the Scots Invented the Modern World,
00:44:33.260
was really kind of inspired by that conversation, because we were talking about Adam Smith.
00:44:37.720
We said, you should really do a book on Adam Smith.
00:44:40.280
And it planted a seed, which, you know, two years later, three years later, really became the seeds of that, too.
00:44:48.200
You know, it's funny, Arthur, that you would say that that was the book that was born out of inspiration,
00:44:53.940
because I felt this way about you with Daniel Boorstin for a while,
00:44:58.620
but I happen to be reading How the Scots Changed the World right now.
00:45:04.040
I'm going through your library, you know, your back catalog, and I'm thoroughly enjoying it.
00:45:09.800
And it's very, in some ways, it's very Daniel Boorstin.
00:45:12.920
It is. And, you know, Boorstin, in that lunch, explained to me how he wrote those books.
00:45:18.460
Those books have, you know, the discoverers and the others in that series,
00:45:24.100
really sprang from his reading of the philosopher Henri Bergson, the French intuitive philosopher.
00:45:31.440
And those all come out of the way in which Bergson talks about how we experience the world
00:45:37.500
through our senses, through our intuitions, and through our connections with nature.
00:45:42.260
So there's a, I don't have to go, I'm not going to walk your readers through the philosophy of Henri Bergson,
00:45:49.460
But there was, in other words, that wasn't just sort of book titles, like,
00:45:54.100
That's the kind of intellectual that Boorstin was.
00:45:58.920
So I wanted to get you on, and I wanted to talk, we're talking about reparations now in Congress,
00:46:08.920
People were booing, you know, blacks who were testifying and saying,
00:46:18.640
I haven't seen this level of vitriol, and it gets worse every day.
00:46:26.300
You know, last night we had somebody on CNN, a host, compare Donald Trump to Hitler.
00:46:41.120
You have Ocasio-Cortez comparing what we have happening on our border to a Nazi concentration camp.
00:46:50.420
And people like Chuck Todd are being hammered because he said,
00:46:54.700
Can you give me a framework of where you think we are in history?
00:47:03.920
Yeah, well, I think that, you know, this is a very strange kind of development
00:47:10.820
that you and I have talked about kind of where the country is right now.
00:47:15.020
I think that it would be good to mention that about four years ago I wrote a piece that appeared
00:47:22.400
on Fox Opinion called America's Coming Civil War.
00:47:25.980
And it was about what I felt was, and I'm going to use a term that you'll recognize, Glenn,
00:47:31.140
because it comes out of that period just before 1860, that there was an irrepressible conflict
00:47:36.340
that was coming between those for whom the growth of government and of government control
00:47:45.120
versus those for whom government control required extracting resources, including money,
00:47:54.400
but also our own cultural identities as a conflict that could be as serious as the one that broke out over slavery.
00:48:04.480
And you were just talking very correctly about how what we saw there was that the impossibility
00:48:12.280
of finding any kind of clear middle ground between those two sides.
00:48:19.820
There was a lot of criticism of, what are you talking about, America, you know, America's Civil War.
00:48:23.560
I wrote a follow-up piece after Barack Obama's inauguration because I sensed that the Obama administration
00:48:29.280
and his re-election in 2012 was really a turning point in this discussion and what was going to take place here.
00:48:37.900
So with all of this, now everybody's talking about America's coming Civil War.
00:48:42.620
Everybody is debating these kinds of questions about, are we really reaching an existential moment
00:48:51.760
And I think what you see on the media and particularly on the social media suggests that I was right,
00:49:00.440
that the Civil War may not come in terms of actual violence.
00:49:04.980
You know, we're not going to be refighting the Battle of Gettysburg.
00:49:08.060
But I think we're moving very quickly into a space where it's going to be harder and harder to find sensible compromise,
00:49:16.700
even on fundamental kinds of issues, which in the past would have been considered, you know, beyond politics.
00:49:24.740
Well, because we're not talking about, but we're not really talking about those issues.
00:49:32.080
How does reparations, in all of the problems that we face,
00:49:37.240
the politicians always pick the ones that are absolutely the most divisive,
00:49:43.360
and with an exception, I think, of abortion, the least consequential at this point?
00:49:51.080
And reparations is a classic example, because you know it's never going to become reality.
00:49:56.600
You know that this is simply done by the Democrats as a way to try and increase the African-American vote,
00:50:04.160
which they sense disaster looming ahead in the 2020 election.
00:50:11.240
You actually really believe that, that they're headed for a disaster?
00:50:21.560
And I think that the disaster is reflected both in the pathetic field of candidates that have come forward here,
00:50:28.680
but also the kinds of issues that they're reduced to addressing and putting out there
00:50:36.500
in the hopes that they'll be able to collect votes.
00:50:38.540
You know, of course, what will happen is when Trump is reelected,
00:50:42.560
there'll be all kinds of claims that the election was stolen yet again.
00:50:46.620
This is also part of the Democrat playing book now,
00:50:50.080
is that any election that doesn't return a Democrat,
00:50:55.540
and particularly a liberal Democrat, is illegitimate,
00:50:58.540
has been manipulated either by voter suppression or by collusion with foreign governments
00:51:09.080
This, too, works to undermine people's confidence in our institutions.
00:51:13.640
On both sides of the aisle, Glenn, I mean, this is the other point, too,
00:51:17.020
is that the increase, the hyper-exaggerated rhetoric that we're getting out of the left
00:51:23.640
also convinces those on the right that there is no grounds for compromise.
00:51:33.940
that we would be staring a proto-totalitarian state in the face.
00:51:38.480
The equivalent of, you know, Mao's cultural revolution is on the way.
00:51:41.860
And whether that's true or not, the degree to which the excessive rhetoric on the part of the left
00:51:48.060
requires an equally exaggerated response from many of the voices on the right
00:51:56.320
is all pointing us towards the idea that we're in dangerous, dangerous territory.
00:52:03.900
Arthur, I want to ask you a couple more questions.
00:52:08.240
As a historian, to be able to, and I know this is almost impossible,
00:52:15.360
to take yourself out of today and try to put yourself in the future
00:52:25.820
And what the, you know, there's always these turning points.
00:52:32.180
There's always these road marks where, you know,
00:52:34.980
you, it's the easiest place to find is in the Bible
00:52:37.460
because they've summarized civilizations into, you know, a chapter.
00:52:43.000
And so you'll see this, this rise and fall of a civilization
00:52:47.100
and then the next rise and you're like, okay, well, they're going to get it right this time.
00:52:51.020
And then they, you know, they, they fall again.
00:52:53.800
And you're like, didn't you, all you had to do is read the last chapter.
00:52:56.480
And I want to, I want to talk to you a little bit about some of the things that you see
00:53:07.700
And I, and I also want to talk to you a little bit about socialism
00:53:10.900
and this, this growing state of technology and the silencing of voices.
00:53:21.480
And what should we preserve back in a second with Arthur Herman?
00:53:28.660
And I think the, the, he's, he's my favorite historian.
00:53:33.040
Uh, and I can't believe he listens to this show
00:53:35.200
because I'm a little embarrassed, uh, you know,
00:53:39.340
at history as he is listening to me blab on about it.
00:53:54.480
You know, everybody is in pain at some, some form or another.
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I heard, uh, Keith Malinak, who's one of our producers.
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Uh, he was talking this morning that he's got a bum leg and I don't know you,
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So, um, we're with Arthur Herman and, and, uh, I just read a new study and I'm
00:55:32.200
Um, the overwhelming ratio of adults, uh, 12 to one say they prefer nation with
00:55:39.400
individual ownership of private property and where all the property is owned and
00:55:43.400
where none of the property is owned by the government.
00:55:50.600
Americans want a government that takes its direction from the people rather than live
00:55:53.920
in a nation where the population takes its direction from the government.
00:56:01.000
Um, economically six Americans who want a country featuring the prices of goods based
00:56:06.640
on the free market for everyone who prefers the price of goods determined by the government.
00:56:12.400
And yet overwhelmingly people say they support socialism.
00:56:24.440
Nobody even knows what socialism is or capitalism.
00:56:27.360
The study found out that most people don't even know what capitalism is.
00:56:31.000
So Arthur, have we been this close to this, where people are coming out and saying who are
00:56:42.820
in power, I want to destroy the free market system.
00:56:52.300
Well, I don't know if we've been in this country here before.
00:56:55.100
Uh, but if you look at, uh, the experience in Europe, uh, between the world wars, and I'm
00:57:00.880
not really so much thinking about Nazi Germany because that's such a cliche and the differences
00:57:07.280
I think a better model for thinking about where we are and where we could go if we're not really
00:57:13.080
careful and begin to take some, take some serious steps, uh, backwards to rethink the
00:57:21.380
way in which political debates have shaped up is France.
00:57:23.880
You know, France, like the United States, you know, emerged from World War I as a, uh,
00:57:33.260
It seemed that to the rest of the world that it was Europe's, uh, you know, superpower on
00:57:40.640
the continent of Europe, just as Britain was, uh, still a major superpower in a global sense.
00:57:47.020
Uh, and yet within, with the 1920s and 1930s, the French squandered everything that they had
00:57:56.200
And they became so politically divided, uh, over the, between Marxism and the extreme right
00:58:02.540
and a political establishment, which was, uh, too corrupt and unable to address, uh, the
00:58:11.740
most significant issues confronting France and Europe during those years.
00:58:16.000
That when, in 1940, the German invasion came, uh, both the left and the right were so determined
00:58:23.380
to see the other side lose so they could say, I told you so.
00:58:27.620
I said that you guys were, were leading us to a disaster that they refused to unite.
00:58:31.820
And so France collapsed and their entire system of government.
00:58:37.880
Do you like, am I talking about a situation in which bears amazing resemblance to, uh, to
00:58:46.540
You could, you could, you could see that happening with China.
00:58:50.300
You could see that really happening with Russia.
00:58:53.000
Uh, I mean, you know, our, we could have the, the, just the border, you could lose the country
00:59:00.980
and there would be a lot of people that would, would want to be right.
00:59:08.940
And, you know, and, and, and the French chamber of deputies at a time in which the Nazi war
00:59:13.680
machine is gearing up when the Spanish civil war is threatening to embroil the world in
00:59:21.820
Uh, the big debate in the chamber of deputies was how many days of vacation should French
00:59:27.760
I mean, talk about, talk about the irrelevancy of an issue like reparations.
00:59:32.500
And, and fortunately, you know, there was a man, his name is Charles de Gaulle and he
00:59:37.980
came, he, he was able to be the man of the hour who alone with everybody else in France
00:59:43.840
had basically given up with the, the, the, the, the armistice, basically handing France's
00:59:53.600
Uh, he was the one who said, no, France, France is going to continue to fight.
00:59:57.420
Even if I have to do it entirely alone, uh, I will do so.
01:00:02.040
And what he managed to do was to save what was left of France's honor in World War II and
01:00:08.760
to really take upon himself the mission of saving his country from the disgrace and the
01:00:15.620
humiliation and the collapse that had gone through in the last two decades.
01:00:19.340
And we always talk about Winston Churchill and, you know, I've written about Churchill.
01:00:24.920
De Gaulle, I think, is a figure who we might want to think about looking at more closely.
01:00:29.640
I wrote my first college paper of him in 1971 and I've always been fascinated by De Gaulle.
01:00:36.520
He got a bad press because, you know, he pulled France out of NATO and, uh, chased out American
01:00:42.800
bases in France, uh, during the 1960s, during the Cold War.
01:00:46.840
But he was a man who looked at his country, saw the state of intellectual and moral rot that
01:00:54.380
had set in and said, you know what, there's more to France than this and there's more to
01:00:59.360
my country and I have a patriotism to which I will sacrifice my career and to which I will
01:01:05.740
sacrifice all of my resources even if I have to do it alone.
01:01:09.400
And it became a symbol of strength that, you know, that really made him a revered figure,
01:01:15.220
uh, a, a, a savior and, and really pulled France out of the abyss that it was in thanks to,
01:01:24.460
Arthur, I know I've only asked you for a half hour of your time this morning.
01:01:28.000
Would you be willing to give me another 15 minutes?
01:01:29.780
Cause I still have more things I want to talk to you about.
01:01:37.160
Uh, more with Arthur Herman, uh, one of my favorite historians and we'll get into reparations
01:01:43.020
and, uh, a little bit more of socialism when we come back.
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If there were two things, uh, if there were two things that I could fix tomorrow that
01:03:29.760
I think would, would help the country survive, there's a lot of choices.
01:03:36.160
There's a lot of choices, but two of the easiest, uh, really, uh, is the border and the debt.
01:03:47.400
Abortion is actually number one on my list, but I mean, if,
01:03:51.080
if we're going to be serious about saving our nation, we have to get the debt under control.
01:04:00.480
In fact, yesterday they had a hearing that went pretty awry, um, in the house on reparations.
01:04:08.160
Now we're a society that doesn't believe in the sins of the father being paid for by the son,
01:04:17.300
This is the sins of the possible great, great, great grandfather being paid for by the great,
01:04:24.480
great grandson who, whose great, great grandfather may not have even been here at the time.
01:04:31.300
Is there any example in history of this being done before, uh, we, uh, welcome back to the program,
01:04:40.520
Arthur Herman, one of my favorite, uh, uh, authors and the author of freedom's forge,
01:04:45.720
which is a must read must read, uh, for everybody.
01:04:49.800
Arthur, I, I think one of the biggest mistakes we made as a country was, was not doing the 40 acres
01:04:58.060
You know, we had the land back then we could have done it.
01:05:01.060
We still have the land, uh, but we could have done it.
01:05:06.760
Um, and you know, we just broke so many promises.
01:05:10.780
However, that was 150 years ago, uh, 170 years ago.
01:05:17.500
Now, this idea of reparations and the, the great, great grandson paying for the crimes of a possible
01:05:26.020
great, great grandfather, has that ever been done before?
01:05:29.680
Well, um, yeah, it has, um, it's how the Marxist mind, and I might also add the National Socialist
01:05:41.820
And that is, is that the world, uh, in which you live is based upon an injustice, uh, and
01:05:50.220
foisted upon you by great impersonal historical forces, which require the overthrow of the entire
01:05:58.360
system, whether you're talking about the overthrow of capitalism, or in the case of the Nazis,
01:06:07.200
So that's the kind of mindset that we're fighting against, Glenn, is one that sees human
01:06:13.320
beings not as free individuals, not as beings gifted with a soul, with a, uh, with, with
01:06:22.320
an independent will, uh, to make our future and to make our density as we see fit or as
01:06:29.560
we desire, but instead as pawns of these vast historical forces, white supremacy, patriarchy,
01:06:42.480
Uh, and that in those circumstances, it becomes then, uh, uh, irrelevant whether in fact, uh,
01:06:50.400
for example, African Americans living in this country have a longer lifespan than, uh, Africans
01:06:55.440
who are living in, in, in, in their own, in their own continent, uh, that the stories of
01:07:00.940
people like Oprah Winfrey, uh, stories of people like Clarence Thomas, uh, are meaningless
01:07:07.440
because things are posed in terms of these huge, ultimately meaningless abstractions.
01:07:12.660
You know, the, the issue you just put your finger on reparations and the issue you just
01:07:17.760
mentioned immigration are in fact intimately connected because they are both based upon
01:07:24.400
an historical lie, which is, is that America is ultimately an evil place built by white supremacists,
01:07:32.500
uh, built by, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Christian, uh, uh, uh, fundamentalists, uh, believers in
01:07:43.300
the enslavement of the rest of the world, patriarchalists, all those kinds of cliches.
01:07:48.580
And therefore, why would you defend a country, right?
01:07:51.220
Why would you want to protect the borders of a country which was born in sin?
01:07:54.620
Why would you want to, uh, uh, not, uh, repay those that have suffered, uh, as a result of
01:08:02.440
that, uh, of, of that original sin, uh, in the sense of, uh, you know, those who, who may
01:08:09.560
And by the way, that is going to be a really hard issue to sort out.
01:08:17.980
And then, you know, I look at my own experience, right?
01:08:21.960
Well, my great, great grandfather fought in the Union Army.
01:08:24.540
He was wounded at the Battle of Stones River, fighting against slavery, fighting against the
01:08:30.200
So where do I fit in terms of, uh, who's going to be responsible for, for reparations,
01:08:35.820
uh, and who is, who ultimately needs to be called into account for, uh, for what happened
01:08:42.660
and what, what was part of, an indissoluble part of the 13 colonies that became an independent
01:08:51.320
Um, and that was an issue that every great statesman up until 1860 wrestled with and tried
01:09:00.840
to find a solution to, and that, that haunted American politics for all those years, uh,
01:09:08.380
since, and that ultimately required the shedding of blood of more than 600,000 Americans before,
01:09:18.280
Look, you and I know we bungled the reconstruction period immediately after the Civil War.
01:09:28.740
And you just mentioned one of them, the 40 acres and the mule, the, the ways in which to
01:09:35.400
Uh, if we really were a, a irredeemably evil society, those options we wouldn't have chosen,
01:09:41.600
you know, the past that we did, it would have been inevitable, would have been locked in,
01:09:46.780
but we didn't, uh, mistakes, uh, were, were, were, were made by, uh, in those two decades
01:09:55.600
But the reasons why those mistakes were made, and there are, uh, there's no way you can look
01:10:01.940
at the historical record since and not see the history of the United States, uh, as one
01:10:07.580
that has promoted all of the most important human values and the most important foundations
01:10:15.060
of human freedom in any society, any society in the world.
01:10:19.720
And that includes the Civil Rights Movement, which, as you know, goes back much further than
01:10:25.520
Martin Luther King, uh, that King was the culmination of, of, of work, of a, of a title move in
01:10:34.860
consciousness in this country, uh, that had been set in motion, uh, before, before he arrived
01:10:40.300
on the scene and that he was able to, that he was able to, to bring, to bring to fruition.
01:10:45.220
The, the, the story of America, of a race in America is one that could be written in a
01:10:52.160
very different way from the way in which the organizers of this reparations campaign have
01:10:58.980
written it, and it would be much truer to the historical reality than their distortions
01:11:05.460
All right, Arthur, I've only got a couple more minutes with you, and I, I gotta ask you this,
01:11:09.380
um, I, I'm, I'm concerned, very concerned, and so is everyone in my industry about the
01:11:15.080
silencing of voices and how we, how fast we can be de-platformed and entirely erased.
01:11:21.620
And that leads me to look at things, you know, like, uh, like Huckleberry Finn and Mark
01:11:29.020
Twain being removed from shelves of libraries and not, not taught anymore.
01:11:33.240
Um, if, if we would enter this dystopian world that China is already in, or if we were hit
01:11:42.820
by an EMP, uh, God forbid, we had some, some sort of war with Russia and we're trying to
01:11:49.480
knock each other out, uh, electronically, uh, all this knowledge could be lost.
01:11:56.780
What, if you had to save things and beyond the Bible and, and the founding documents,
01:12:03.240
what, what books would you say every library should have, every person should read, every,
01:12:11.280
every school kid should read, we gotta have these books if we're going to tell the true
01:12:15.980
story of America, uh, and if we would ever want to reset it and put it right?
01:12:24.940
And we're going to have to have another hour, Glenn, in order to start through all of it.
01:12:29.120
I know, but I'll tell you what, I was thinking about this, uh, and, and it's one that it's
01:12:34.440
an exercise that I've conducted myself several times, but since we only have a few minutes
01:12:38.700
here, what if we just limited ourselves to, to basically five books written by American
01:12:43.760
presidents, uh, as a way in which to do this, which I think many ways encapsulate so much
01:12:49.280
of the American experience that, that they really ought to be part of and understanding
01:12:53.780
where we are and how we've gotten to where we are, that I think that, that everybody
01:12:59.140
should, should really read and should be in every library.
01:13:02.400
The first one, the first one that came to my mind was the speeches and addresses of Abraham
01:13:09.340
You and I share, share, uh, admiration and fascination for those, but for, for more than
01:13:14.920
just the ones associated with civil war, for a man who had a really deep understanding
01:13:18.600
of American history, a deep understanding of, of Western history, including, including
01:13:27.700
It's an amazing, amazing piece of, amazing piece of work.
01:13:31.460
Then the other one that I would do is, and this is going to shock you, this is going to
01:13:35.520
surprise you, Glenn, is the speeches of Franklin Roosevelt.
01:13:38.940
You know, everybody discovered with astonishment, right?
01:13:42.220
His, his, his, his prayer before D-Day, um, just this last anniversary.
01:13:47.980
But in fact, all his speeches, whatever you say about, you know, Franklin Roosevelt, he
01:13:52.560
made some huge mistakes and, uh, in policy during the new deal, uh, he, he certainly had
01:13:59.640
some, some false assumptions about how the world work and his ability to, to create a
01:14:05.360
post-war world in conjunction with the Soviet Union.
01:14:08.180
But you know what, for, as American presidents go, he, his speeches reflect an understanding of
01:14:14.340
who we are of, of, of what our aspirations need to be that in ways that, uh, made them
01:14:20.200
household, you know, everybody understood them, everybody grasped them.
01:14:24.120
What, so I would definitely put that on the list.
01:14:26.100
I would also read them, uh, Dwight Eisenhower's crusade in Europe, which is really understanding
01:14:31.660
how that man was able to put together and hold together a multinational, um, uh, effort
01:14:38.720
to, to, to free Nazi Germany and why we did it.
01:14:43.280
I would also include Ronald Reagan's diaries because those show a mind at work in the White
01:14:50.500
House, understanding how it is that we are going to be able to deal with and, and ultimately
01:14:56.900
emerge victorious against Soviet communism, which everybody else assumed we would have to,
01:15:02.640
we'd be lucky if we could find a way to engage in peaceful coexistence.
01:15:05.700
It exposes a side of Ronald Reagan that not only enhances our understanding of his importance
01:15:11.320
as an American president, but also we, we see the way in which America in the, in the
01:15:17.200
Cold War era, this mind coming to grasp with what's taking place and, and understanding
01:15:23.340
where it fits in terms of where America needs to be.
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Then the last one I'll recommend, Glenn, John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage.
01:15:33.480
And, you know, there's a lot of scandal about who really wrote that book, uh, and so on
01:15:40.980
So we get the Pulitzer Prize, but the biographies, first of all, the biographies of the men in
01:15:47.260
the U S Senate who grappled with the issue of slavery.
01:15:52.700
Uh, he has a wonderful chapter on Robert Taft, uh, the Republican center from Ohio that we've
01:15:59.040
talked about before, which is considering it is written for, you know, person from the opposite
01:16:05.640
Um, his discussion there about, uh, about George Norris, who took a strong stand against the
01:16:12.180
Wilsonian kind of view of the world, uh, and of America's involvement in world war one.
01:16:18.520
Uh, it's a lot of, it's a very readable, I read it first as a, as a school kid, uh, but
01:16:24.680
it's one which I think its value grows, uh, as the, as the decades pass as a way to understand
01:16:31.260
who we are and all of the really amazing things that we have accomplished as a society, as a
01:16:37.880
nation and of the people who have made it possible for us to, to be, to be that, uh, be that beacon
01:16:50.040
However much people try to try to try to extinguish the flame.
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I mean, you should just come in and we should just do a whole show together.
01:16:59.200
Cause I still have about two hours left of stuff.
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I want to ask you, thank you so much for your time.
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And we'll have you back again, uh, Arthur Herman, uh, you can follow him on Twitter
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at Arthur L Herman, uh, his, uh, book that is a great entry for him is, uh, freedom's
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forge, which talks about how we won world war two.
01:17:20.880
It is an amazing story and you'll all the way through it.
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He has already been deported twice, twice he was deported, and yet he was back here to
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When you actually see what is going on in our country, you'll be mad at both sides.
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Both the Democrats and the Republicans can fix this in Congress right now.
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Neither side has a desire apparently to fix it.
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We are going to talk to a mayor in Texas who his story of what's happening to his town
01:21:06.160
So a little history lesson back in 1985, a group of progressives in San Francisco, they
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created a phone company with a goal of donating a portion of their process, uh, profits to
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Well, that company has grown and evolved into a big cell phone company now called Credo mobile,
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and they are affecting elections in this country.
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In 2014, they created a super PAC that tried to flip five Republican held seats.
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In 2015, Planned Parenthood's largest corporate donor.
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Today, $80 million for progressive causes has come from this idea that started in 1985.
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So in 2013, a bunch of, uh, vets and retired vets, uh, and business people got together and
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Let me give you some, let me give you some, uh, illegal immigration stats.
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Now these are just between 2011 and 2016 between 2011 and 2016, there have been more than 500,000
01:23:38.740
criminal offenses, 996 homicides done by illegals, 996 homicides, 59,200 assaults, 14,000 burglaries,
01:23:50.920
58,000 drug charges, 605 kidnappings, 36,000 thefts, 39,000 obstructing police, 3,000 robberies,
01:24:08.780
That's just between the, the years 2011 and 2016 in Texas alone.
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The flood of illegals into Texas is going to kill Texas.
01:24:28.280
It's going to, it is strangling the small cities, especially these little teeny cities on the
01:24:36.000
They're not getting any help from the federal government and people are coming hundreds a
01:24:44.540
Don McLaughlin, I've been trying to talk to him for about a week.
01:24:49.680
He is, he's really, uh, a little outspoken on this.
01:24:53.460
And when you hear his story of his town, what's happening in his town, uh, you'll see,
01:25:08.780
Uh, I heard him, uh, I heard him speak in front of, uh, Congress.
01:25:13.720
And, uh, when you hear somebody who is actually living this and you hear him talk about, I mean,
01:25:22.140
all the, a lot of the people in his town are Hispanic and they don't, they don't want this
01:25:43.240
Uh, I think it was to, uh, Horowitz on the, on, uh, the blaze and, uh, your story is amazing.
01:25:53.860
What, what, uh, well, as we've been saying, the border patrol is just unindated with these
01:26:03.180
And the misconception that, that is out there is that everybody thinks this is strictly just
01:26:09.580
South Americans that are from Mexico and Guatemala and Honduras and El Salvador.
01:26:14.800
Well, it's 29 different countries are crossing the, the Southern border, not just, not just
01:26:22.580
And they're coming from all over and it's just, they're coming in family units and it's
01:26:28.020
un, the border patrol just slammed and these family units.
01:26:32.700
So as they're getting slammed, they're having to come out and start releasing these family
01:26:39.580
They, they're, they're at capacity at all their hold of facilities.
01:26:44.140
And so they came to us in, in May and told us, oh, we're going to start releasing, uh, uh,
01:26:53.040
Uh, we're going to release them up here at the Stripes convenience store or at your H-E-B
01:27:00.360
We, you know, no, we're not, we're not set up to, to handle that.
01:27:04.100
You know, it's not that we don't want to help them.
01:27:06.380
We're just, you know, we're a town of 17,000 people.
01:27:09.060
We're just not, you know, we're just not set up to handle that.
01:27:13.420
How many a day, how many a day were they talking and how many a day are actually coming?
01:27:17.920
Well, when they first started, we were talking about getting 10 to 20, then it went to 20
01:27:30.300
We haven't got in the last week only because of the, only because the facility that we have
01:27:35.580
here in Uvalde is used for unaccompanied minors.
01:27:43.120
So many unaccompanied minors have come in the last week that they are full.
01:27:48.180
They cannot process any family units here in Uvalde now because so many unaccompanied
01:27:54.840
Now I've, I've heard you, I heard you talk about how, um, there's one family who won't,
01:28:03.020
the kids won't go swimming unless dad is in the, in the back by the pool with a shotgun
01:28:12.060
Well, what's happening, what's happening in the border patrol that usually, you know, is,
01:28:16.580
is watching for the, you know, whether the, the coyotes that are bringing the immigrants
01:28:22.260
through or where this particular landowner is out by the train, by the train tracks,
01:28:27.820
his property is, and these immigrants get on these trains coming out of, out of, uh,
01:28:35.640
It's a, it's a, it's a main east and west, uh, railroad that comes through here.
01:28:41.980
And so the border patrol has a, uh, facility here where they stop the train and check it
01:28:48.940
Well, usually they have a pretty large contingency of border patrol when they stop that train
01:28:55.440
Well, they're so spread out and spread so thin now with these family units that they're all
01:28:59.780
doing that, that when they stop it, there may be anywhere from 30 to 40 people on that
01:29:05.700
And you got three border patrol agents trying to, to capture all these immigrants and they
01:29:12.800
Uh, since then, since this last incident, we're, we're trying to fill in with, with our police
01:29:17.540
department and the sheriff's department when, when they ask for it.
01:29:21.280
But what's happening is they're, they're jumping off this train and running.
01:29:25.020
And this particular landowner is, is starting to, it's been going on in his property, he
01:29:30.840
said, for the last 60 days, but it just keeps getting worse and worse.
01:29:34.360
And about a week ago, he had one that jumped off or a group that jumped off and came to
01:29:39.020
And one particular individual got real aggressive, uh, with him, uh, threatening and, uh, real
01:29:46.300
He did everything he could to try to catch him and, and get him.
01:29:49.740
They, uh, brought a helicopter out and tried to find him and didn't, didn't find him.
01:29:53.200
But the man threatened him and told him he was going to come back and get him in different
01:29:57.400
And he said he and his wife, you know, didn't sleep a wink that night because the guy told
01:30:05.280
Uh, and we looked, but you know, and that's when he said it, that's when I was talking to
01:30:10.320
him, he said, you know, it's gotten so bad that my grandkids won't even come out to the
01:30:13.840
house and go swimming unless I sit out in the backyard with a shotgun because we never know when
01:30:19.660
And you're, you're a town of, you're a town of 17,000, so you're not a town that, you
01:30:25.020
know, has Starsky and Hutch kind of car chases ever, right?
01:30:29.580
No, we, uh, in, in, in, in the last 25 years, we've had maybe two car chases in the last two
01:30:39.000
We've had five, uh, two of them have bailed out in town where we've had to lock, put our
01:30:45.500
Uh, the first one, there were eight individuals.
01:30:48.620
Uh, so they jumped out in the middle of town, right by our schools.
01:30:57.940
The other day we had four that jumped out of a car.
01:31:01.500
The lady that was, that was transporting them claimed that one of them had a gun and, uh,
01:31:08.840
The border patrol says that they don't think that was probably true, but we didn't know,
01:31:14.820
But again, we had to put another school on lockdown because it was in close proximity
01:31:23.940
So, so, um, we're talking to mayor Don McLaughlin, um, border town here in Texas.
01:31:34.080
It's happening, uh, where the people of the town are paying a price.
01:31:39.260
And Don, I've talked about the Bubba effect for a very long time that the government just
01:31:50.240
And the people of the town, you know, become really angry and start to take things in their
01:31:55.860
own hands because the government is not doing it.
01:31:58.740
And I'm not saying that you're there or anything else.
01:32:00.680
And God forbid we ever get there, but what is the attitude towards the federal government
01:32:11.020
Well, they're fed up with both sides because like I said, like I said before, this isn't
01:32:21.000
I mean, it's both sides and both sides are, and people in my community are fed up.
01:32:26.800
They're, they're, they're frustrated with, with, with us as local government, because we're
01:32:31.900
having to use city funds and county funds when they drop these immigrant families off here
01:32:37.880
We're having to take them and we're having to pay for a bus to take them to San Antonio
01:32:48.640
And San Antonio doesn't have the funding either.
01:32:51.520
And San Antonio is dealing now, as you said, these people are not coming from Guatemala.
01:32:55.960
They're dealing with people coming from the Congo, which is the Ebola hotspot and a place
01:33:04.480
I mean, we don't know who's coming in and bringing what into our communities and they're
01:33:11.540
Well, I asked our federal, I asked, I sent all our elected officials an email when this
01:33:18.940
first started the other day, when in Del Rio, Texas, the first wave, 115 immigrants from
01:33:29.380
I mean, if you look on the map and see where the Congo is, and then you look on the map
01:33:34.600
and see where Del Rio, Texas is, how did 115 Congolese get to Del Rio, Texas?
01:33:42.700
Then two days later, they got another 350 from Congolese.
01:33:47.920
And they also don't speak a word of English or Spanish.
01:33:59.600
And we, like I said, up until the last day or so, we have seen nothing from the federal
01:34:11.800
And until yesterday is the first time that we've seen anything that there's been a bill
01:34:16.760
to reimburse communities for the expenses they're out.
01:34:20.320
I mean, Del Rio, Texas, which is 60 miles from us, they're getting unindated.
01:34:26.800
I mean, they're getting 140 to 160 people released in their community every day.
01:34:32.500
And before they got a coalition going, they were just taking them and dropping them off at
01:34:37.240
And it's not the Border Patrol's fault, because they're being told by Washington, this is what
01:34:44.600
I mean, our local Border Patrol in this area, they work with our communities.
01:34:48.940
I mean, they're good people, and they work hard.
01:34:58.600
Is the governor's office, is Texas doing anything?
01:35:04.540
Where are, where's, where's our leadership from Texas?
01:35:09.000
Well, you know, again, we're just starting to hear rumblings that, that, that the governor
01:35:14.360
is going to deploy more DPS troopers and that we haven't seen it yet.
01:35:22.900
I haven't seen any, anything in writing of that.
01:35:25.620
But, you know, like I said, we, we have, we have written letters called to all our elected
01:35:32.760
officials, and we're just not getting responses.
01:35:36.020
We're just not getting, it's like it's falling on deaf ears.
01:35:45.940
If there's any way we can help, or if you need to bring, shine a light onto something,
01:35:59.580
Um, I want to give you some, I want to give you some other stats here, uh, to show you
01:36:09.140
There's, it's over, uh, since 2000, and this is only up to 2011.
01:36:16.500
So we're not counting any of the Obama surge or this surge since the, you, uh, since
01:36:22.420
the year 2000, the immigrant population has grown by 43%.
01:36:30.340
The national immigration population has grown by 28% during the same timeframe.
01:36:38.840
Uh, 4.1 million, an increase of 1.5 million in a decade, 28% live in poverty, 41% lack health
01:36:49.420
insurance, 45% use at least one welfare program, primarily food assistance and Medicaid, and
01:36:55.820
46% of these immigrants never completed high school.
01:37:00.720
That was the previous decade, not the one we're in.
01:37:07.700
If we don't grab a hold of our borders and do it now.
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Um, this is a, the, uh, the average finance firm is a little better.
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It's only just over three months before they notice it.
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what's amazing to me is you look at Texas and then you look at California,
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Their homeless problem in Los Angeles is now entering third world status.
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you compare the state of New York and the state of Texas.
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I don't hear any Texans complaining about Hispanics.
01:40:11.080
Immigrant population only increased in New York,
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Why can Texas handle this and not become New York,
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Because some of the policies that we have actually work.
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our federal government is dumping illegals into our cities.
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Isn't that a violation of our sanctuary cities?
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but that's what a racist says before they say something racist.
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I am having a hard time finding somebody to chink this old log cabin.
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And when you do a log cabin and you do it right,
01:44:26.200
which you can't do it in six months because you can't do it in the cold.
01:44:33.800
so I'm like a year away from being able to do something if I can't get somebody to rechink it.
01:44:40.160
I don't know how you find people that do chinking that are good.
01:44:48.840
What would you say to a log cabin made entirely out of bacon or sausage and it's held together with maple syrup?
01:45:06.800
I could live in this until I ate one of the walls.
01:45:20.200
it'd be like one of those cathedrals that are like,
01:45:37.460
I'm sitting around trying to build a gingerbread house and you're putting icing in between the wall.
01:45:50.720
And once I got it all the way out on four walls,
01:46:00.980
And so we can't take the chinking out on the outside because there's nothing really holding this thing together.
01:46:31.960
You could make a case that that's just for the,
01:46:46.440
This is like when you want something very long,
01:46:48.600
wrong in our studios and you just come into the room and no one's around.
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So you just start pressing buttons and which that always helps a lot.
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it's because there's a good chance you're going to press on the right buttons in the right order.
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if you put a chimpanzee in front of a typewriter,
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just a matter of how many generations you have to wait.
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Literally no more than three to five minutes later,
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he's giving his son CPR and his son went into the pool,
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and I just want to share this with you because this is,
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What if you were given a gift of a thousand days on this earth and you
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If you could do that with your family around you with no real care in the
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The weather went wrong for the farm and everything else.
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there's nothing like some of my best memories as a child is holding onto the
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back of the seat of the tractor and standing of basically on the,
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the hitch in the back of the tractor as my grandfather was driving through
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There is something to be said as we're entering summer and in summer now for
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getting out of that rat race all the time that we're in with school and,
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and letting your hair fly wild and just spend it with your family and trying
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I've spent this year has been really tough for my son.
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I've only really talked about it once and I don't want to go into it again,
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but last year we had a real scare with my son and a security issue with my son.
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and he's really struggled with a lot of things and he's,
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I think with him than any of my other children.
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few weeks with him by my side and the last two weeks.
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And I thank you for putting up with any kind of problems.
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And I thank my engineering staff and the studio staff for making all of this possible,
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and just being so exhausted that he's asleep by seven o'clock at night.
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and I know that's going to change the minute we get into places where you can get cell service and internet,
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where the family is slowed down and you're just out doing the things that you would have done as a kid,
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to take the words of Granger Smith to heart because we are all given a thousand days.
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the Dell children's medical center in his son's name river.
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there is nothing more important than a children's hospital when you need one.
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He's raised over a hundred thousand dollars already just by selling these t-shirts of a neighbor's tractor,
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but he's got a lot of important things to say and our thoughts and our prayers.
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And we believe those are meaningful are with a Granger Smith and his family back in a minute.
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Relief factor is something I started taking about 18 months ago.
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people were taking it at the office and they were saying,
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I've literally woken up in the middle of surgery.
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it's like they almost have to kill me to keep me under.
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because you're going to be able to do the things with your family.
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It is very revealing what Americans know about capitalism and socialism.
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the fact that 40% of those 18 to 24 year old adults are no longer using deodorant.
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And so AOC says the thing about the border being like a concentration camp.
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She gets almost no pushback from the media or the left.
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People are going out of their way to defend them.
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there was concentration camps in the Russian wars previously to the Holocaust.
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Never forget or whatever it was like blatantly.
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And they're doing this sort of retroactive fix her comment thing.
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Chuck Todd is like the only person out there on the,
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in the mainstream media who actually pushed back against this.
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If you want to criticize the shameful treatment of people at our Southern border,
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but be careful comparing them to Nazi concentration camps because they're not at all comparable in the slightest.
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But here's where it's upsetting as her comment.
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Some Democrats have been reluctant to condemn her remarks.
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Fellow New York Congressman Jerry Nadler tweeted in response,
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one of the lessons from the Holocaust is never again.
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We fail to learn that lesson when we don't call out such inhumanity right in front of us.
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Jerry Nadler surely knows migrant detainment camps are not the same as concentration camps.
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Why are we so sheepish calling out people we agree with politically these days?
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It's an even bigger problem on the Republican side of the aisle when it comes to President Trump and the reluctance there.
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Are we really so ensconced in our political bubbles,
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that we cannot talk about right versus wrong anymore?
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someone stands up to the powers that be in the Democratic Party and calls him out.
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Chuck Todd takes heat for criticizing the use of concentration camps to describe the humanitarian crisis at the border.
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So it's not that Ocasio-Cortez or all the people defending her are the problem.
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It's the one person in the media anyone could find on the left that actually took this to task.
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But when somebody does something right that took courage and will take on the mob,
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I sent him a messenger pigeon that is arriving at the NBC studios right now with a handwritten note.
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So if it causes any embarrassment or any kind of problems at NBC,
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And the only way to apologize for that is to send another mail strip-o-gram.