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00:00:33.760Hello, everybody, and welcome to The Great America Show.
00:01:19.000Do you have doubts that that conversation happened the way Michael Cohen testified on his direct examination, that he called Trump and so on?
00:01:29.200I think it's devastating, I mean, for Michael Cohen's credibility on this, I mean, in this one particular topic.
00:01:34.120Whether it's, you know, he just didn't, I mean, it's hard to, I don't know.
00:01:40.760Yes, I think if I was a juror in this case watching that, I would think this guy's making this up as he's going along,
00:01:48.220or he's making this particular story up.
00:01:51.100You know, Todd Blanche is pointing out, you were testifying just on Tuesday in this court, you know, and all morning long he's been pointing out, you know, inconsistencies in Michael Cohen's testimony,
00:02:05.500or at least questionable aspects of Michael Cohen's testimony, but nothing that you would necessarily, as a juror, think, okay, that's clearly a lie.
00:02:14.100Maybe that's just a, he was misunderstanding, or, you know, he was bragging, or whatever.
00:02:20.600This one, Todd Blanche clearly saved this to right before the lunch break, I'm assuming, because it was just so well crafted,
00:02:30.260and just point by point walking through this story, which at first seemed, you know, why, why, this seems like a ridiculous story.
00:02:37.660Some 14-year-old is sending him, you know, nasty text messages, and he's going to call a Keith Schiller about it.
00:02:43.180And then you realize, you look at, he showed the phone logs that the prosecutor had shown,
00:02:48.280and it's the phone call that Michael Cohen had previously talked about.
00:02:52.380I think it is severely damaging to Michael Cohen's testimony.
00:02:55.280The cross-examination of Cohen is expected to continue today, and Trump's attorney says they expect to start bringing in their own witnesses this week as the case winds down.
00:03:06.280While Trump fights in that New York courtroom, Joe Biden's DHS is fighting to protect terrorists.
00:03:12.560Right here, on the Homeland, the Department of Homeland Security has declined to share the nationalities of those illegal aliens on the terror watch list who entered the United States.
00:03:26.340The DHS claims those illegals have their right to privacy.
00:03:57.280And Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker.
00:04:01.160I'm nominating him for the MVP of the NFL, the man who's been under fire from the Marxist left for proclaiming his Christian faith.
00:04:10.680He has the backing of the American people as well.
00:04:14.020Butker's jersey is now the most sold jersey on NFL.com, not just for the Chiefs, for the entire NFL.
00:04:21.660The skyrocket in sales comes after a petition that was in circulation garnering almost 80,000 signatures to have Butker actually removed from the Kansas City Chiefs.
00:04:36.520The Marxist Dems are losing again, and Butker is, I mean, he is just right now, he is a hero for the NFL, and there are not many of them when it comes to Christianity, faith, and this country's founding values.
00:04:50.920And our guest today, former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and author Dr. Ben Carson.
00:04:56.820His new book, The Perilous Fight, Overcoming Our Culture War on the American Family, and we recommend it to you highly.
00:05:05.100And now here is Dr. Ben Carson, and doctor, it's great to have you with us.
00:05:10.900And I just want to say, we're going to talk a lot about your new book, and I want to say, first of all, congratulations on your book.
00:05:17.420But let's talk a little politics, if we could, just to kind of warm things up here.
00:05:24.240You are, without question, I think one of the most interesting political figures in the country, in part because most people identify you first as a great neurosurgeon, a great American.
00:05:36.760And you've got, I think what the word is, is cachet, because you're above the, let's say, the run-of-the-mill kind of narrative that runs through politics.
00:05:52.320And that, by the way, I mean, is the absolute compliment that it sounds like.
00:05:56.540I want to turn to all of the talk right now about vice presidential candidates.
00:06:02.380I think you would make one heck of a vice president.
00:06:06.400I think you are a terrific public servant, in large measure, because you're a reluctant public servant.
00:06:14.180And I'd just love to hear what you and your wife have to say about the thought of serving as vice president.
00:06:21.880Well, you know, there is no question that we're going to do everything we can to help preserve our country.
00:06:30.880It's in a very difficult situation right now.
00:06:34.420And should I be asked to assume that role, I would certainly seriously take that to the Lord in prayer.
00:08:03.640And I use the initial title, The Perilous Fight, because we were in a big war to establish this country and to keep it free from the British.
00:08:15.780The crucible of wars, how we came into existence.
00:08:19.000And now we have a situation where we have so many things that are impinging upon the principles of our founding that we almost don't know where to start.
00:08:31.920You know, it's the Cloward Piven, two professors at Columbia several decades ago, who said, you know, just hit the people with so many things.
00:08:42.760They won't actually be able to focus on anything.
00:08:45.140That seems to be what's going on in our society right now.
00:08:49.040There are those who want to fundamentally change this society into something else.
00:08:53.620They don't like what we stand for as a nation.
00:08:56.640And we also are the major obstacle to one world government.
00:09:00.800So how do you bring down a country like that?
00:09:04.480We're much too strongly brought down militarily.
00:10:02.180And we have to be much smarter than that and recognize that if we don't pass our values on, we get what we see on these college campuses.
00:10:12.540And we're going to get that in spades if we don't stop soon and begin to fight back.
00:10:19.220But most people don't recognize that we're actually in a war.
00:10:23.960So that's why I wrote the book, so they could understand that the Marxists are coming.
00:10:29.460And they planned a lot of what's going on right now.
00:10:33.140All you have to do is look at the congressional record from January the 10th, 1963, where Congressman Herlong of Florida read into the record the 45 goals of communism in America.
00:10:45.600And you'll see all of these things happening, gaining control of the public school system and the teacher unions so you can indoctrinate the kids, gaining control of the news media and Hollywood so that you can control the thinking of the people, driving wedges between parents and children, removing religion first from schools and then from every aspect.
00:11:08.700The list goes on and on, making sexual perversion normal, natural and healthy.
00:11:16.120I mean, it is just a textbook of all the things that they're doing right now.
00:11:20.860And I think that's the reason that Khrushchev said to Eisenhower, your grandchildren's children will live under our system.
00:11:27.780Well, and they've had a good run at it.
00:11:33.200They lost, of course, in the 1990s when they lost the Soviet Union itself.
00:11:41.140But now, insidiously, Marxism is insinuating itself into American culture, into American society, into our educational system, into our corporate structure in this country.
00:11:57.400And, of course, the Democrat Party and the federal bureaucracy are riven with Marxists.
00:12:06.940We can call them cultural Marxists, but they mean to be all-encompassing Marxists, and they have a head start on it.
00:12:13.780Let me bring to the subtitle of your book on the American family specifically.
00:12:21.620I think all of us would understand if we're talking about the war on the American family in terms of a number of subjects, including the war for their hearts and minds in the classrooms.
00:12:35.540We are watching two large teachers' unions that are outright Marxist in their philosophy, the ideology that they are, frankly, supporting and also trying to – every classroom seems to be filled with a Marxist missionary.
00:13:13.920By the time a baby is born, it's still proliferating at a great rate.
00:13:18.720That's why newborn babies sleep 20 to 22 hours a day.
00:13:22.140But the brain doesn't fully develop until the mid to late 20s.
00:13:25.860So we're in the process, particularly in our schools, of asking 9, 10, 11, 12-year-olds with incomplete brains to make major decisions about the rest of their lives, confusing them about their gender.
00:13:42.340When they're at a state where they're very curious and very suggestible, that's the reason that children need parents to protect them from that kind of savagery.
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00:16:06.040His new book is The Perilous Fight, Overcoming Our Culture Wars on the American Family.
00:16:13.040And with that, doctor, I want to turn to the American family because as you were talking about the assault that is generating for so many in the public school system that used to be the great equalizer for this society.
00:16:37.020Our public school system, if properly led and cherished by every American, I think could have been the salvation for the entire country and may still be.
00:16:47.320But as you talk about education, the idea that we would subject our children to teachers who have an agenda, an agenda that is not about supporting the family, but rather, frankly, dismembering the family in too many instances, whatever the issue.
00:17:08.240Well, you know, parents have to recognize what an enhanced role they have today because a lot of people like to say that nothing has changed.
00:17:18.540It's all about the same, just different iterations of the same thing.
00:17:24.060Our kids are bombarded with just incredible things.
00:17:28.320I saw some of the books in the libraries of some of the elementary schools, and I frankly was embarrassed, the pictures that were in there of people in different sexual positions and talking about, you know, how men do things with men.
00:17:47.900And this is in schools where elementary school children can be exposed to it.
00:18:42.900You know, you're substituting all of these gender pronouns and things like that instead of teaching them the basics of what they need to know.
00:18:50.600And we're seeing the manifestation of that.
00:18:53.200You've probably seen some of these man-on-the-street interviews where they ask people simple questions.
00:18:58.320Who was the first president of the United States?
00:19:00.200How many branches of government are there?
00:19:02.080What country is the border of the United States?
00:19:04.860And if you're that ignorant, when somebody comes along and says to you, the southern border is completely secure, well, don't mind all those millions of people coming across, some of whom may be terrorists.
00:19:27.940And, you know, to that point, we're watching the teachers unions get behind various woke agendas, including the idea that suddenly, whether it's critical race theory, whether it's let's start American history for most students at the let's try 1877 and skip over a number of important issues.
00:19:47.200I mean, it's breathtaking to see a level of ignorance that is the motivation for those who should be educators, illuminators.
00:20:00.920And instead, they're leading our children to a path of darkness that is, for many, if not most, something from which they don't recover if they are not well and early.
00:20:15.660And it can only succeed if people are docile and relatively ignorant.
00:20:22.720And contrast that to what happened when Alexis de Tocqueville came to look at our country in 1831 because the Europeans were so fascinated with how a fledgling nation could already be competing with them at virtually every level.
00:20:37.540And when he looked at our educational system, he was blown away.
00:20:41.280He could find a mountain man in the middle of the forest.
00:20:44.700The guy could tell you about the Declaration of Independence.
00:20:49.000And if you really want to be impressed, take a look at a sixth grade exit exam from 150 to 200 years ago, what you had to know to get a sixth grade certificate.
00:21:00.460I think it would be embarrassing to most Americans today.
00:21:06.760What is embarrassing right now is the fact that in most of the major cities in this country, the educational systems are imploding.
00:21:15.480We're looking at proficiency by grade level of somewhere between 16 to 14 percent, whether it be reading proficiency or mathematical acuity and knowledge.
00:21:28.520It is it is it should scare everyone to death in this country that we are in that situation.
00:21:36.720It's so sorry to the it's so unfair to the children.
00:21:40.800You might be familiar with the Baltimore project that was released about a year ago and they looked at all of those schools, thousands of students, elementary, high school, middle school.
00:21:53.620Nobody was proficient in math, nobody.
00:21:57.940And what does that do to their future prospects of success in society?
00:22:02.380Yeah. And people look at you strangely in the workplace.
00:22:08.000By the way, I can tell you many times people have on my staff or working in the in the newsroom because I could do mathematics in my head.
00:22:18.620And I'm talking about the most elemental mathematics.
00:22:23.020It stunned them because they really had never they just didn't grow up with that in there.
00:22:29.400And I'm talking about very bright people, but they just simply it was alien to them.
00:22:36.520And unfortunately, we're seeing more indoctrination now, it seems, than education in our public school system, which I've always thought is the bulwark of this nation,
00:22:48.840because that that public education is so critical to every one of us, no matter our career or our choices for what we're going to make a living at.
00:23:00.860I want to I want to I want to I want to get to to the idea of overcoming this culture war and your prescription for doing so.
00:23:08.500But I'm going to ask everybody to stay with us because we're going to take that up with Dr. Ben Carson.
00:23:14.720His book is The Perilous Fight, Overcoming Our Culture Wars on the American Family.
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00:24:12.840His book is The Perilous Fight, Overcoming Our Culture Wars on the American Family.
00:24:20.020Let's start with how do we overcome this?
00:24:22.640At the most basic level, how do we fight back?
00:24:26.100Well, first of all, we have to recognize that we're in a fight and that this is just not life as usual.
00:24:34.600And then we have to recognize what are the things that are interrupting our family formation and family continuation.
00:24:46.120Things like no-fault divorce, which is really killing us.
00:24:52.900Things like usurping the position of parents and making the government and government facilities much more involved in the development of our children.
00:25:06.900Things like just talking to each other.
00:25:10.060The average young person spends more than four hours a day with their devices.
00:25:19.100We need to steadily work with our children.
00:25:24.460You know, when my kids were growing up, we wanted to eat dinner together.
00:25:28.780We had each child give us a fact that nobody else would likely know, which means they had to do some research.
00:26:06.220And then mothers and fathers have to support each other.
00:26:11.740There's a lot of stuff that's been happening, particularly since the women's movement, and the denigration of the role of men in the family.
00:26:21.600All you have to do is look at some of these sitcoms that have been on for the last 50 years.
00:26:25.700Father's always some adult who is bringing all kinds of problems, and the mother has to solve them.
00:26:33.300I mean, these may be subconscious pieces of information, but they see themselves in people's minds.
00:26:43.180All this stuff is designed for a reason.
00:26:46.300It's designed to gradually undermine what was such a strong element of our country, and it's working, and we have to fight it.
00:26:57.720And to that point, I mean, I have to say, when I tune into something on TV that is about the family, I always object to it because, nearly always, always object to it because you're right.
00:27:16.460But it seems to me that they make everyone look like an idiot.
00:27:20.020The mother, the father, the kids are self-interested and extraordinarily puerile.
00:27:31.960Beyond, they should be somewhat more mature.
00:27:35.840And they take the alternative family forms, and they try to make those the preferable forms, particularly in terms of identity and sexuality.
00:27:46.280Yeah, it's really strange how quickly that's happened, too, to see the number of sitcom series that are about LGBTQ, the way in which it's – and it's very insidious, really.
00:28:06.000It gives you the sense that everything is LGBTQ and nothing is, quote-unquote, normal.
00:28:12.340It is, as you say, it's an assault on the senses, it's an assault on the mind, and it's truly a fiction with a purpose, as you say.
00:28:26.920There's an agenda behind this, most certainly.
00:28:29.980Well, you know, the other interesting thing is you've heard from the time that you were a child, there are two things that you should never discuss in public, right?