George Floyd Riots Damage Persists, DEI Jobs Disappearing, and Where are Epstein Files, with Heather Mac Donald and Alan Dershowitz | Ep. 1082
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It has been five years since the Black Lives Matter riots in the U.S. in the wake of the death of George Floyd. On May 28th, 2011, rioters took over Minneapolis' 3rd Precinct and burned it to the ground.
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Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, live on Sirius XM Channel 111 every weekday at New East.
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Hey everyone, I'm Megyn Kelly. Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show.
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It may be hard to believe, but it has now been five years since the Black Lives Matter riots of 2020.
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The protests caused weeks of unrest and destruction in cities across the country in the wake of the death of George Floyd.
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A report by the Major City's Chiefs Association documenting 2,385 looting incidents, 625 acts of arson, including 97 police cars burned, 2,037 police officers injured from May 25th to July 31st of 2020.
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David Dorn, a 77-year-old former police captain, was shot and killed during a burglary of his pawn shop in St. Louis during the riots, which were, of course, infamously described by CNN as mostly peaceful.
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According to the New York Post, insurance companies made between $1 and $2 billion worth of payouts to cover the damages around the country from the week of May 26th to June 1st, 2020.
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It started with the Memorial Day death of George Floyd, who died during an arrest by Minneapolis police officers, where video showed Officer Derek Chauvin with what appeared to be his knee on Floyd's neck as he shouted for help.
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Officer Chauvin is now in prison after being convicted of second-degree murder, later pleading guilty to violating Floyd's civil rights.
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Protests over Floyd's death quickly erupted in Minneapolis and soon after spiraled out of control, with the city overwhelmed with incidents of looting and destruction and a governor who did next to nothing.
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A report by the city finding the riots caused 133 structure fires, $500 million in damage, again, just from May 25th to June 3rd of 2020.
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We got individuals breaching the gate at the 3rd precinct.
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We also got people trying to breach the front doors.
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Airing information citywide, the 3rd precinct has been compromised.
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In perhaps the most dramatic moment, rioters took over Minneapolis' 3rd precinct, you heard it referenced there, burning it to the ground.
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That happened on May 28th, exactly five years ago today.
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Here's what officers said about that event from an Alpha News documentary.
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So I get a command over the radio that we need to evacuate the 3rd precinct.
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We run with our belts on and 50-some people and three SWAT teams, and we get to the fence.
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There was only one way in and one way out, and the way out was locked.
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12A3 has reached the northwest corner of the front.
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Northwest corner of the front has been reached.
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One of the squads rams through the fence to get it open.
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I remember looking through the rearview mirror as we left.
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They all just rushed to the fence and started climbing the fence, and they caused the fences to collapse.
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But as I got maybe a quarter block away, I realized that not everyone was in vehicles.
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They were running, basically, for their lives at that point.
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It was put together by Alpha News, including Liz Collins.
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But our in-depth look at the documentary with Liz is episode 670, if you want to go back and listen to it.
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There was a complicit mayor and, as I mentioned, the governor.
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And no one was looking out for regular law-abiding citizens in Minneapolis.
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And as you well know, it went far beyond Minneapolis.
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The BLM bullies went coast to coast in their so-called activism, trying to target not just cops, but regular people to repeat and support their message, including this incident in Pittsburgh.
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The BLM bullies went coast to coast, galloping in fishy in Pittsburgh.
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doors, which we were all forced to do because of the covid mania by these BLM rioters, protesters,
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They were bullies harassing private citizens into repeating their message or raising the
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fist like what happened here in Washington, D.C.
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For the listening audience, one woman is surrounded by dozens of mostly white people with their
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The city of Minneapolis still has not recovered, despite all of the money that's poured into
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that city to rebuild so-called George Floyd Square.
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Many buildings showing the scars from the unrest.
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The New York Post earlier this month, talking to a black man who owns an auto detailing shop
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near the George Floyd Memorial, who said, quote, Black Lives Matter was never here.
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Even one time, everyone was just capitalizing off of a dead man.
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But let's not forget what Democrats were saying at the time.
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Here's what Kamala Harris told Stephen Colbert in June of 2020.
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I know that there are protests still happening in major cities across the United States.
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I'm just not seeing the reporting on it that I had for the first few weeks.
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And everyone beware, because they're not going to stop.
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They're not going to stop before Election Day in November, and they're not going to stop
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And that should be, everyone should take note of that on both levels, that this isn't, they're
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not going to let up, and they should not, and we should not.
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It really brings up strong emotions when you see it now five years later, the insanity, Heather,
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that we were subjected to in the wake of George Floyd's death.
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What's your take on the insanity we went through, whether it was temporary, whether the fever's
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Well, Megan, I think we're living through a cold riot.
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We're living through a slow-motion George Floyd anarchy.
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When you have Luigi Mangione assassinating a health care executive and getting widespread support,
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when you have Tesla dealerships, Tesla cars being assaulted, you have assassinations of
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This is because there was virtually no consequences for this absolutely civilization-ending mayhem.
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I'll believe that we're good and over the George Floyd mass psychosis when I can buy toothpaste
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without having to wait five minutes for a clerk maybe to come and unlock it.
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When we're locking up the criminals who steal things and not locking up the things that they steal.
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And I just want to emphasize, Megan, that this period of overt hatred for law and order
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and for people that abide by the rules was based on a complete lie.
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It is not the case that the police are systemically racism, that the criminal justice system is racist.
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Here's the reality in Minneapolis itself, where Jacob Fry, who you quoted earlier, the mayor of Minneapolis,
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just said on the five-year anniversary that George Floyd Square should be a sacred space
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for the racial injustice that Blacks continue to suffer from.
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Here's what the police chief of Minneapolis himself said.
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A Black person in Minneapolis is 480 times more likely to be killed by a cop.
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I'm sorry, to be killed by a Black person than he is to be killed by a cop.
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Nationally, police officers are 400 times more likely to be killed by a Black male
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than an unarmed Black male is to be killed by a cop.
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The fact of the matter is, is that any disparities in the criminal justice system,
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whether it's with regards to arrests or stops or incarceration rates,
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those disparities are not based on police racism.
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They're based on real differences in criminal offending.
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Blacks commit the majority, the disproportionate majority of violent crime.
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That's why they have more encounters with police officers.
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Nevertheless, this view that George Floyd was a sacrificial lamb to systemic racism
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became the jumping off point for a level of anarchy that we have not seen
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We have to be vigilant and continuously beat this thing down.
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I'm out here in Irvine, California this Saturday in Los Angeles.
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There was a crowd that rampaged through streets, tagging everything in sight.
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They tagged police cars with the police still in them,
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Because we sent the message that if you're if you're vandalizing, if you're looting in the name of of social justice,
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We have an organization called BLM, you know, in addition to the overall movement of which some untold numbers say that they're a part.
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But the organization of BLM has basically imploded.
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Several of its founders have found themselves in trouble for allegations of fraud and related misdoings when it comes to the donations and federal investigations.
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This is under the Biden administration into where the money went and whether their declarations about themselves as tax exempt entities ought to be honored.
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And, you know, it's just the story after story after of the multiple homes owned by someone like Patrice colors.
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So that's the organization now in tatters because of all of these things.
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But so are many of our police departments, thanks to the lies that were spread about them by the BLM crowd and all of their media enablers.
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Heather, you know, this week in the news is that book, Original Sin.
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We had Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson on last week, and I believe I'm literally the only one to have given them a hard time about whether Jake Tapper in particular is the right messenger for this.
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You've gotten a complete pass on every other program.
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But, you know, he's acting dumbfounded about the fact that Joe Biden was mentally infirm while CNN was covering him and running cover for him daily.
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The media was equally, if not more complicit in covering for BLM and the lies that they were telling about law enforcement.
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And regular folks are still dealing with the fallout of those lies.
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Well, they still are complicit because they still are.
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The New York Times is gamely putting forth the the message that say if Trump gets rid of disparate impact liability,
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it's going to plunge blacks back into Jim Crow and possibly even slavery, that there's so much systemic racism in this country,
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that the only way that blacks can be protected is with these completely unnecessary rights to sue unwitting, non-discriminatory employers.
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This this phony idea that that the blacks are are subject to systemic racism.
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The effort to find examples of that gets pretty desperate.
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So you have things like the mayor of Brandon John mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson,
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canceling the so-called shot spotter technology.
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These are audio sensors that are put up in neighborhoods to be able to hear shootings,
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even when somebody in the community doesn't call them in,
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which is the vast majority of shootings in in minority neighborhoods are not called in
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because people sort of don't give a damn anymore.
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But the technology allows the police to be able to get to shooting scenes very quickly and give aid to the victims.
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Well, Brandon Johnson declared that this was a racist technology because it showed that most shootings go on in black neighborhoods.
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So we're supposed to believe that non insensate, blind audio sensors are somehow discriminating against blacks.
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We're also getting rid of red light cameras because they show that the driving in inner city neighborhoods is very poor.
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That's why blacks die of traffic accidents at much higher rates, because the driving in inner city neighborhoods is insane.
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But we'd rather shoot the messenger and believe that red light cameras are somehow discriminating against blacks.
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So those types of of completely preposterous hysterical reactions to a reality,
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which is great disparities in criminal victimization and criminal offending continue to drive our criminal justice system.
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Mayor Brandon Johnson was just in the news this week because he's notwithstanding the law is doubling down on his racial quotas and preferences and hiring, which is illegal.
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It is illegal to consider skin color in your hiring or firing of people.
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But again, post George Floyd, we didn't honor it.
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We just decided decided to pretend that wasn't the law.
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We don't hire whites here, which when you flip it, we don't hire blacks.
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Everybody would see its racism and illegality immediately.
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But somehow we went nuts post George Floyd and we're still doing it.
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And he went on camera and was like, I'm still doing it.
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And then there was announcement that there was a DOJ investigation into him because this is illegal.
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And in response, he decided to go off on Trump.
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You know, as far as, you know, the president's animus towards women, people of color, working people,
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We have the most diverse administration in the history of Chicago.
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You can tell when someone is fearful is because they act out.
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We have a president that is screaming and having tantrums right now because we have an administration
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that reflects the city of Chicago, but he would much rather have administrations that reflect
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So that man says that he's got a 6% approval rating, just FYI, 6% lower than Blagojevich did
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You know, I'm enough of a pessimist, Megan, that I'm never going to really celebrate until
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You know, Johnson was the one that, again, the long arm of the George Floyd insanity.
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Chicago still has these marauding youth mobs that come to the Magnificent Mile and break
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And every time they come, Brandon Johnson says, oh, these poor youth, we shouldn't arrest
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them because they're just victims of lack of opportunity and we need to understand our
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This idea that poverty, first of all, let me put poverty in like six layers of scare quotes
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because it is a preposterous concept in the United States, especially with these kids.
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You show me a single marauding, looting kid who does not have a smartphone and I'll eat it.
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Yeah, police media is the best friend of the police.
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Because these kids that are committing the lootings, that are committing the shootings, they all
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have smartphones and they're throwing their gang signs on, on, you know, WhatsApp and Instagram
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Any kid that has a smartphone is not a poor child.
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And by definition, anybody living in America is not poor.
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You have clean water, electricity, as Heritage Foundation, Robert Rector periodically shows
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up, shows the, you know, 100% practically of so-called poor people that the government
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categorizes as such have cable TV, they have air conditioning.
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But Johnson says, oh, it's because they're poor.
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But that type of excuse making and refusal to hold people to a single standard, but instead
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to have racial standards of behavior is what has gotten us into this mess.
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The same ideas that drive the George Floyd long arm of the cold riot has also destroyed
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When you had the Biden and Obama administrations suing schools if they had disparate rates of
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school discipline for blacks and whites on the assumption, these lawsuits were that teachers
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are somehow racist, teachers, which is the most left-wing profession in the country, teacher
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ed schools is two years of long marination in critical race theory and white privilege theory,
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that somehow these teachers were blindly and arbitrarily disciplining black kids.
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No, it's because if you, given the degree of illegitimacy and social breakdown in black
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communities, yes, black kids are acting up more.
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But instead, we had to have double standards of discipline and or get rid of discipline entirely.
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The optimists and the Trump supporters in your audience are going to be saying, wait a minute,
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Trump is waging war on the phony racial victimology, on the lies about American racism, about white
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And I had a very telling experience a week after the inauguration.
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We all witnessed another theft, a kid with a black garbage bag who ran out the door, having
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And the clerk, who looked like a Puerto Rican radical with dreadlocks and a long beard, shook
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his head and said, maybe in another week this will be over.
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And I was amazed because this guy looked like somebody who would be voting for maybe Bernie
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Sanders, although he may be too conservative for this guy.
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And he said people, and he didn't even need to mention Trump.
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He just assumed that I knew what he was talking about.
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And so Trump comes in with a lot of expectation from the working people, those who have lived
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the brunt of this unchecked looting, this unchecked anarchy, and have seen that it's heartbreaking
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to be there helpless as your store is plundered.
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And he is making some progress, but it is going to be a hard fight.
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The Brandon Johnsons of the world are not going to go quietly.
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There's still prosecutors who are handing out different deals explicitly based on race.
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They'll plea bargain more leniently with black criminals than white criminals.
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The universities are not going to go quietly into the night.
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Nevertheless, it matters that we have somebody standing up there who in essence is saying,
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the grift is over, I don't care, call me a racist, you can't scare me, we're going back
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It's so heartening just to hear him say it and stand by it.
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It's just whether he can do it is a different question.
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But there's a lot, I don't know, it's just validation and hearing somebody in that position
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Just say what we know is real, which is this is racist.
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First, you and I have talked about this before.
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And by the way, you were on that episode with Alpha News and number 670 where we looked at
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But we've spoken many times about these bogus consent decrees that first the Obama administration
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and then the Biden administration, especially as it was closing out, the Biden administration
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opened up with their investigations by the DOJ into various police departments.
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And then they get the police departments who have zero bargaining power in this situation
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to agree to these, quote, quote, consent decrees, which are ill named.
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And it allows the DOJ to have authority over law enforcement and how they do policing.
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So Harmeet Dillon, who is now a deputy at the DOJ, went on Tucker recently and and talked
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about how this has become one of her main initiatives to dismantle these consent decrees
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that make no sense, including she started with the one in Kentucky where Breonna Taylor
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was killed and then one in Minneapolis where George Floyd was killed.
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It was a priority of this administration to review all pending consent decrees and look
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at the data and see, are these really justified?
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And Tucker, I looked at these findings and I and the lawyers who report to me in the DOJ
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I can't stand in front of a judge with a straight face and say that Memphis's problems are racist
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They simply are dealing with a population that happens to have a particular racial makeup.
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The conclusions are not correcting for what neighborhoods have crime.
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She's trying to crack down on it and specifically raise the example of Memphis, Tennessee, where they
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allege that there was a disproportionate amount of arrests of homeless black people.
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So there must be some sort of racial animus going on with the police department.
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And she said the fact is the majority of the city is black.
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The majority of the police officers are black and the majority of homeless people are black,
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That doesn't make it racist that the majority of people who are getting arrested as and they're
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But finally, we have an administration that looks at actual facts and data making these
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Well, first, I want to give a shout out to Jeff Sessions, who was Trump's first attorney
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He, too, put basically an end to the consent decrees.
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He said, you've got to have much, much stronger evidence before you put these on.
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The second administration of Trump is doing things much more publicly.
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And let's remember, you know, that Harmeet Dillons oversees the Civil Rights Division in
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These are the lawyers who went out crying and weeping and and and moaning that they were
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now in a racist administration and were being let go.
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Yes, the Civil Rights Division of Justice has been infamous for years among people who know
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They they have no connection to policing and they go around deciding, well, what what city
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Well, I want to visit my girlfriend in Seattle.
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So let's find some incident in Seattle to investigate.
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They write these completely preposterous reports that are based on the phony idea of disparate
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I cannot emphasize enough, Megan, to your to your listeners that this is the key thing.
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Disparate impact holds that if you apply a neutral, colorblind constitutional standard
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and it has a disparate impact on blacks, it's per se racist.
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And so if you if you look at a city and find that, yes, most arrests are of are disproportionately
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And so these all of these reports that said Minneapolis police are racist because the
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But that's because that's who's committing the crime.
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So all of these consent decrees were based on a lie.
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The only thing I would correct a little bit in what you say is that the police departments
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Oftentimes, to my amazement and frank disgust, the police chief would go along with it, which
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was such a seemingly completely voluntarily, which was such a admission of complete powerlessness
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Like you're so incompetent as a police chief that you can't enact if you say these reforms
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The the sort of more real politic explanation is that it allowed departments to go to the
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state and say, well, we need another hundred million dollars of funding to to comply with
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this federal monitor requirement and the consent decree.
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So they saw it as kind of a way to leverage money.
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But a lot of that money just went into the care and feeding of these ridiculous monitors who
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So this is going to be a big change in morale for the police to know that they can do their
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jobs, go where crime is, go where people are being victimized.
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Don't worry about who you're arresting and what the color is of the criminal, because the
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criminal doesn't give a damn about the color of his victim, more or less.
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Although let's also be honest here, if we're going to be our honesty hour, that that the
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vast majority of interracial crime is disproportionately black on white, not white on black.
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About 85 percent of all interracial violent crime is is black on white rather than white
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But nevertheless, the law enforcement system should be and is colorblind in going where
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people are being victimized, not based on the skin color of the perpetrators.
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And the you know, the people who are struggling economically, who in the inner city, many of
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whom are black, are the ones who want more cops more than anyone.
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You've done a great job of documenting that in your journalism.
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The other thing that came from George Floyd Palooza was the explosion of these DEI so-called
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It became this very popular degree that you could get at all these elite universities.
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I mean, by the thousands, they they churned out these DEI graduates who were ready to go into
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all of corporate America and DEI, if I, their companies and make sure that everybody was
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learning about implicit bias and equity and all of this nonsense.
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It's documented in part in Matt Walsh's brilliant documentary, Am I Racist?
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But there was an interesting report on NPR on Monday, Heather, Tuesday, that was lamenting.
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But to me, it was a very interesting fact, the collapse of this industry and how now under
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All these DEI heads at all these companies, they're getting fired and they're crying in
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their soup because they can't get hired someplace else.
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More than twenty six hundred jobs in diversity or DEI have been eliminated in the last couple
00:34:10.840
That's more than 10 percent of the jobs that existed at the start of 2023.
00:34:16.160
This was a dramatic change from five years ago.
00:34:19.360
After George Floyd was murdered, there was this huge rush for companies to hire chief diversity
00:34:24.340
officers and other people with experience in this kind of specialized field.
00:34:29.660
But now these people are being reassigned or having their jobs renamed or in some cases
00:34:36.400
So this is a really steep loss of a lot of jobs, and it's affecting thousands of people
00:34:45.320
So I know I think we're both happy about this news, but you tell me, I know you say you're
00:34:51.640
Is it really possible to root out DEI from corporate America and, dare I ask, from universities?
00:35:01.160
First of all, there were very few programs that actually had majors in DEI, but all it
00:35:08.780
took was to major in women's studies or black studies or gender studies to find yourself
00:35:14.600
qualified to be a diversity bureaucrat in a corporation.
00:35:20.060
And the idea that these are highly specialized fields is absurd.
00:35:33.880
You know, I hate this phrase that says, well, studies have shown that DEI training doesn't
00:35:39.900
I reject the entire premise of that because that presumes that there's a problem that
00:35:48.960
There is not systemic bias in corporations against females or minorities.
00:35:55.900
Females and minorities are being privileged at every possible opportunity.
00:36:00.400
It's straight white males who are being disadvantaged by their race and sex and sexual preferences.
00:36:10.220
Interestingly, though, you notice she slipped in that even in the corporate world, well, they're
00:36:18.420
OK, and that's what's going on in universities where a lot of.
00:36:22.160
Wait, wait, before we get to university before, because I know I compounded the question, but
00:36:25.420
I do want to ask you something quickly as an aside.
00:36:28.100
What you just said is so true about the young, white, straight males.
00:36:35.260
You know, the Democrats are unleashing the news in The Times over the weekend was 20 million
00:36:39.720
dollars and try to figure out how to talk to white men.
00:36:42.580
They can't get, in particular, young white men to vote Democrat, and they don't understand
00:36:47.840
And they're they're studying the syntax used in talking to them so that they can find a
00:36:55.780
And I mean, what they need to do is listen to what you just said, like until they start
00:37:02.840
hiring them again and treating them as full, equal citizens who are not demonized because
00:37:10.000
of their immutable characteristics, they will continue losing them in election after election
00:37:20.780
I get approached by so many people when I speak publicly saying my son had perfect MCATs
00:37:27.860
and he didn't get into any of his medical schools that he applied to.
00:37:37.120
They can also stop talking about the patriarchy.
00:37:40.240
Females to the despair of anybody who cares about civilization are taking over institutions.
00:37:46.680
That's why the universities are so in such bad shape right now, because poll after poll
00:37:51.980
shows that it's females who do not believe in the pursuit of truth, who do not believe in
00:37:56.680
academic freedom, who believe in safetyism, of shutting down ideas that some psychotic people
00:38:08.120
So, you know, females are being privileged all the time and it's white males who live this
00:38:14.680
So, yes, the Democratic Party should say we no longer believe that we have toxic masculinity.
00:38:21.260
We are grateful to the contribution of creating Western civilization, of creating civilization
00:38:31.160
And yes, it's not a question of rebranding or or getting Tim Walz out there in a in a
00:38:44.340
Like, I don't I'm not even sure what the idea is there.
00:38:47.720
OK, now let's do universities, because Trump is in a massive fight with Harvard and Columbia
00:38:55.160
over the anti-Semitism that has exploded on college campuses.
00:38:58.600
Let's face it, in large part due to the same DEI principles about the oppressor and the
00:39:03.780
oppressed and the hierarchy of skin color, where now because whites were at the top for
00:39:12.040
Kendi theory, the answer to racism is more racism.
00:39:14.800
Um, Trump's trying and he's has two massive fights going with those two universities.
00:39:20.480
But you tell me whether it really can ever be routed out of the so-called academy.
00:39:27.300
Well, I'm I believe everything that Trump says about the universities is absolutely correct.
00:39:36.940
Harvard, you know, let's not forget that Larry Summers, the economist who is the president,
00:39:42.600
was run out of the presidency in large part because he dared in a academic conference to
00:39:51.920
He did it very gently and and and tentatively that is actually true, which is that the disparity
00:39:58.720
in the higher end STEM fields between men and women may be based on the fact that men are
00:40:05.200
more interested in pure ideas in coding in abstract things and women are more interested in relationships
00:40:12.160
and at the high end and low end of math skills, men way outweigh females in the high end of
00:40:21.480
That that that was unacceptable to to Harvard's community.
00:40:26.140
There's, you know, one one string after another of of free speech violations of Harvard.
00:40:35.840
So these schools, it cannot be overemphasized enough.
00:40:39.000
They are are pervaded through and through with the left wing ideology.
00:40:45.500
That having been said, I'm going to take issue somewhat with Trump's methods.
00:40:55.160
I think he should be scrupulous about obeying the law, whatever anything he does.
00:41:01.400
I ask myself, what would we think if the left were doing this?
00:41:08.640
We have to be concerned about the federal government seizing power that it doesn't necessarily
00:41:14.440
have illegitimately because these precedents are going to be used against us.
00:41:18.220
And I would also say this, Megan, and this is the most controversial.
00:41:23.360
I think he is using the anti-Semitism charge pretextually.
00:41:27.200
I don't think that that's the main problem with these universities, but he uses it because
00:41:34.200
There's buy-in to the fact that we should go after anti-Semitism, but I think that's
00:41:43.360
Yes, there's students who in their pathetic studentdom and their desire to go around in
00:41:51.740
packs and be conformist and to feel like they're the first people to ever spot injustice have
00:41:58.680
become just shameful apologists for anti-Jewish, anti-Israel terrorism.
00:42:09.280
But I do not think that these institutions are anti-Semitic.
00:42:19.220
So and I don't know, you know, how do you prove that you're not anti-Semitic any longer?
00:42:29.000
If you're going to be stripping funding right and left because of anti-Semitism, you have
00:42:35.180
to be clear about what it will take to get that funding back.
00:42:39.220
And because I think the diagnosis is wrong, it's not really clear what the remedy is going
00:42:43.960
to be that having been said, I'm not sure I have a solution myself because these universities,
00:42:52.240
I say the real problem is that their entire worldview is to approach every creation of
00:43:00.280
Western civilization with skepticism and with contempt.
00:43:05.700
Every humanities course, every social sciences course starts out from the premise that they're
00:43:13.480
going to read the art of Michelangelo or the music of Mozart or the novels of George
00:43:19.880
Eliot or or the philosophy of Kant and Hegel as a smokescreen for illegitimate power.
00:43:30.300
That is the stance par excellence of the academic world today.
00:43:34.560
And that teaches students to hate their inheritance when instead the only obligation of universities
00:43:41.700
is to teach students to be down on their knees in gratitude for what they have been given
00:43:48.200
through no accomplishment or virtue of their own and to appreciate how fragile is the legacy
00:43:56.360
of civilized order that the West has given them.
00:44:05.180
I mean, people, not just me, but lots of people for four decades have been talking about this
00:44:13.860
So I certainly applaud Trump for making this a central aspect of his administration.
00:44:20.560
But I share your hint of doubt, Megan, whether this can be done quickly.
00:44:28.980
And I'm also a little bit worried that Trump is actually kind of looking like a maniac now.
00:44:35.440
I mean, I get the argument that it's a lot easier if you single out like Harvard, which
00:44:42.140
everybody hates because it's so damn wealthy and it sits on its fat hedge fund, a $53 billion
00:44:48.720
endowment as it goes around with its cup saying to the federal government, if you pull our funding,
00:44:55.140
we're going to just die and what will the American be without Harvard?
00:45:00.700
But at some point, it looks a bit deranged where he's just coming in with one day after
00:45:13.700
And now this may be that I'm way too much like with my ear trying to hear the left, but
00:45:20.460
But I would almost say that he's making Harvard look like a virtuous David standing up against
00:45:28.640
the big mean, the line of government because he is the a lot of these executive orders have
00:45:39.180
Written, you know, legal procedures for how you go about stripping funding, and he's just
00:45:51.400
I listen to NPR's morning show every day so that you don't have to.
00:45:55.080
And occasionally they do have something interesting on there, like that DEI report, though it was
00:45:58.740
interesting to me for very different reasons than it was interesting to them.
00:46:01.560
Anyway, they did they did this week have the current president of Harvard on in an interview.
00:46:07.640
It was in connection with this fight they're having with Trump over defunding.
00:46:13.600
And the president, Alan Garber, did say something that caught my attention.
00:46:18.700
I don't know whether I believe one word of this, Heather, but tell me how you feel sought
00:46:24.960
And it's particularly concerning when people who have views that they think are unpopular
00:46:30.180
and the administration and others have said conservatives are too few on campus and their
00:46:38.620
And so far as that's true, that's a problem we really need to address.
00:46:44.040
I think that we have heard from some people that they do feel that way.
00:46:53.480
That second part, he won't admit that it's true.
00:46:55.520
Just some people feel that that conservatives are too few on Harvard's campus.
00:46:59.700
I'm sorry, like this is I really I should just be on our team completely and not have any
00:47:06.580
well on the other hand, because it is sickening to hear these universities garber when as soon
00:47:12.280
as Trump started in this, he sent around all these emails to the Harvard community about
00:47:18.820
We free beacons of free speech and free inquiry.
00:47:22.000
And we're the source of enlightenment and openness in society.
00:47:36.840
It wasn't a university wide mandate, but many divisions, many departments required any
00:47:42.260
applying faculty member or faculty members that wanted to get promoted to sign loyalty
00:47:48.400
owes to diversity, equity and inclusion, which basically means I agree that systemic racism
00:47:54.200
If we don't have enough blacks at Harvard, it's because we're discriminating against them in
00:48:06.240
Students do not feel like they can express in classrooms or in social settings, dissenting views
00:48:14.140
on race, on gender, on family structure, you name it, the disparities in political affiliation.
00:48:25.520
Now, I think that's less of a metric that we should look at, but it is useful, I guess,
00:48:30.920
to see, because I can imagine a school that is 100% Democrat, where those professors are
00:48:37.840
so committed to open discourse and so committed to not just institutional neutrality, but faculty
00:48:44.840
neutrality, that they assiduously keep their point of view out of the classroom.
00:48:51.360
But nevertheless, these schools are not in any shape or form supportive of free speech.
00:48:59.820
And yes, they are complete ideological monocultures.
00:49:02.740
But the difficulty is, again, I keep having to look at the other side.
00:49:08.560
It is not a good precedent for the Trump administration to say to Harvard, you are going to engineer
00:49:21.500
Because what if the Kamala Harris administration said to a university, you are going to engineer
00:49:28.120
understanding of systemic racism or you'll use your lose your funding?
00:49:38.760
Now, the response to that is they're already doing it.
00:49:41.940
You know, they're already using power illegitimately.
00:49:51.100
Um, so, you know, maybe I just don't have the stomach for the fight, but I to me, I just I think
00:49:58.400
it's funny because to me, he sounds like one of those characters in a Jane Austen novel.
00:50:07.420
It's like I have no idea that whether there's actually a viewpoint problem in not having diversity
00:50:16.260
Yes, many people do claim it because it's obviously fact.
00:50:20.460
And the fact that you can't just acknowledge it is hashtag part of the problem.
00:50:31.740
Well, back next with speaking of Harvard, Harvard professor of 60 years, Alan Dershowitz.
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We just talked Harvard with Heather McDonald, and we've got to get into that and more with
00:52:14.080
Professor Emeritus at Harvard Law School, Alan Dershowitz.
00:52:18.600
I mean, when you think Harvard, you think Alan Dershowitz.
00:52:21.360
I do, he's like their most famous professor for the longest time, and he's got thoughts
00:52:25.860
on what's happening between Trump, who's a former client of Alan's.
00:52:28.620
He defended him in the first impeachment trial, and Harvard, too.
00:52:33.720
Alan has also just released a new book called The Preventive State, The Challenge of Preventing
00:52:40.980
Serious Harms While Preserving Essential Liberties.
00:52:46.700
Alan's calling this his magnus opus, that this is it.
00:52:51.280
This is the book that you've got to read if you like Alan's viewpoints on various subjects.
00:52:58.100
So let's pick up where we left off with Heather, who said she's really not sure about Trump's
00:53:04.100
methods in cracking down on Harvard, though she's not opposed to the general thoughts.
00:53:09.580
But she also thinks it's about much more than anti-Semitism.
00:53:13.740
She thinks, really, Harvard's problem is it's anti-West.
00:53:20.040
Obviously, it's anti-Western, anti-Christian, but it's primarily anti-Semitic in terms of
00:53:29.100
To an example, a bunch of thugs, one from the law school, one from the divinity school,
00:53:35.480
and a few other people, surrounded an Israeli student, put an Arab garb on his head, wouldn't
00:53:42.980
allow him to move, wouldn't allow him to say or do anything.
00:53:48.140
And the school said they would punish these students for their harassing behavior.
00:53:53.440
Instead, the divinity school made one of them the class marshal, which was the highest honor
00:53:59.360
And the other one was given a $65,000 scholarship from the Harvard Law School in order to...
00:54:05.480
continue his anti-Israel work at an anti-Israel organization.
00:54:09.500
So, you know, in one respect, it understates the problem of anti-Semitism.
00:54:14.160
Harvard not only tolerates it, it teaches it in the divinity school, which is a cesspool.
00:54:20.320
In the name of Christianity, in the false name of Christianity, the divinity school, this
00:54:24.860
is according to the Harvard report, not me, according to the Harvard report, is a centerpiece
00:54:31.380
The public health school, similarly, the Carr Center for Human Rights, has become a sewer
00:54:42.720
A lot of it is a manifestation of anti-Western, anti-Christian values.
00:54:47.320
But the core group that is being attacked, because they are a distinct minority, are Jews,
00:54:56.520
You know, in my book, The Preventive State, I predicted what happened tragically last week
00:55:09.340
I defended many protesters in the 60s and 70s, anti-war protesters.
00:55:14.760
And I saw some of my own clients become murderers.
00:55:21.400
The line between violent protests, making bombs, shooting somebody, is a very thin line.
00:55:29.420
And so I think we have to take preventive action, including, for example, one of the
00:55:34.780
most important preventive actions you can ever take is denying people the right to come
00:55:39.080
into the country and deporting them if they engage in illegal conduct.
00:55:48.460
People were exiled when they threatened the legitimacy of the country.
00:55:52.740
So we can take a lot of preventive measures to assure that these shootings like last week
00:55:59.740
You know, I got an honorary degree the day after the shootings.
00:56:02.800
The school that gave me the degree had to redouble their security.
00:56:07.120
They had to give me a security plan telling me how to escape, to make sure that there were
00:56:12.280
policemen there with shields to protect my life.
00:56:15.920
Because I'm an outspoken, prominent Jew who supports Israel.
00:56:25.280
You know, they come for the Jews first, but it's not long before they come for other perceived
00:56:30.860
enemies of the radical, correct approach to life.
00:56:35.140
These folks from DEI and from intersectionality know no principles, no morality, and they will
00:56:43.840
Did you happen to see last week, Alan, the segment with the CNN anchor Sarah Sidner, or Sidner is her
00:56:52.880
name, where an eyewitness to that double murder of those two young people leaving the Israeli event,
00:57:02.200
an eyewitness went on CNN and was still very jarred.
00:57:07.440
It had just happened the night before, and he made a correlation to what we're seeing on college
00:57:13.400
And the anchor absolutely revolted in response.
00:57:17.860
Like, I'm sure you don't mean to conflate this double murder with anything we've seen
00:57:24.600
And this young man was like, well, you know, actually, I'm okay with some conflation here.
00:57:29.840
It's the exact same messages that we're hearing in both places.
00:57:32.220
She did her level best to try to knock him off of that viewpoint.
00:57:38.760
He wasn't saying one directly caused the other, but he was saying exact same rhetoric.
00:57:42.860
And it actually happens to be, I know this is a problem for us free speech lovers, and
00:57:46.840
you are definitely one, somewhat dangerous rhetoric.
00:57:51.360
Well, there's no question that globalize the Intifada means kill Jews all around the world.
00:57:56.020
And we know that people understand it that way.
00:57:58.420
I think it's intended that way, but even if it weren't intended that way, that's the
00:58:04.760
And we saw this guy who killed these two people was essentially mimicking those statements.
00:58:12.100
Now, the vast majority of people who participate in these demonstrations would never, ever kill.
00:58:17.360
But the majority of people who do kill or do plant bombs, do shoot, are influenced by these
00:58:24.080
college demonstrations, which have become legitimated.
00:58:26.780
Look, both Vice President Kamala Harris and her vice presidential nominee both legitimated
00:58:36.900
And these protests included from the river to the sea, there'll be no Jews, you know,
00:58:40.900
Judenrein, from the river to the sea, and globalize the Intifada.
00:58:48.760
Now, those incitements are protected free speech because they're not directed at a particular
00:58:54.280
That doesn't mean Harvard has to tolerate them.
00:58:57.220
You know, the one thing, the one reason why I think it is anti-Semitism, and the definition
00:59:04.540
of anti-Semitism is very simple, applying a double standard to things Jewish, including
00:59:11.080
What has been tolerated against Jews would never be tolerated against blacks or gays.
00:59:17.640
Can you imagine somebody who had a reputation for harassing blacks or gays on campus, getting
00:59:23.400
elected class marshal, or being given a $65,000 scholarship?
00:59:31.200
It's what is permissible to be said against Zionists, Christians, Jews.
00:59:35.760
The West can't be said against people who are favored and privileged.
00:59:42.580
There's no group on campus that's more privileged today than African Americans.
00:59:50.200
They may not be privileged off campus, but we're talking about on campus.
00:59:56.440
These are the groups that get all the advantages.
00:59:59.140
And yet we have DEI, and we have intersectionality, and we have all these fake academic programs that
01:00:05.820
are being taught at schools at Harvard, schools at Harvard.
01:00:09.480
And I can tell you, having been there 60 years, today there is no room, no room on the campus
01:00:16.340
for pro-Israel, pro-American, pro-Western statements.
01:00:20.220
I have been retired from Harvard now almost 12 years.
01:00:22.660
I have never been invited back to speak about Israel.
01:00:25.640
The one time a student group invited me, they had to take my speech off campus for fear
01:00:31.460
that I would be physically harmed if I made the case for a two-state solution for Israel.
01:00:39.020
Not a single one of these demonstrations, not a single one has ever called for a two-state
01:00:47.960
In fact, they prefer a no-state solution to a two-state solution.
01:00:52.000
Obviously, their preference is for a one-state solution.
01:00:55.160
So none of these demonstrations are pro-Palestinian.
01:00:58.880
They are anti-Israel, anti-Semitic, anti-Zionist, anti-Western, anti-Christian, and they are embedded
01:01:07.020
And thank God that Donald Trump is doing something about it.
01:01:14.300
For example, he shouldn't be defunding cancer research.
01:01:17.660
He shouldn't be keeping students out by denying them visas if they're good students and if they
01:01:27.420
But remember, when it comes to coming into the United States, no one has a constitutional
01:01:31.960
right to come into the United States and then preach against the values that make our country
01:01:39.060
Let me just interject because he's now ordered a review.
01:01:41.720
He wants all of our embassies taking a much harder look at those seeking student visas to
01:01:46.300
check social media and other things to make like, who are we letting in?
01:01:49.220
We don't seem to have a very good vetting process.
01:01:51.200
But with respect to Harvard in particular, he said if Harvard doesn't turn over all the
01:01:56.220
data he's demanded on who the foreign students are and other facts around them, then all of
01:02:04.360
the foreign students who are there now, some 7,000 of them, are done.
01:02:09.740
Harvard will lose its rights to have foreign students starting in the fall of 2025.
01:02:15.600
So that's one piece of where the latest fight is as he tries to get more documentation from
01:02:20.220
And two other pieces I'd love to get your take on are he's announced now he intends to
01:02:24.880
cancel the federal government's remaining federal contracts with Harvard worth an estimated
01:02:30.680
This is kind of what he was doing to those individual law firms that he was targeting,
01:02:34.280
saying, I don't think the federal government wants to do business with your law firm.
01:02:37.300
So or necessarily the clients who use you so that he's doing that with Harvard.
01:02:42.360
And he's also threatening to withhold three billion dollars from Harvard and give the money
01:02:49.700
I'm not exactly sure where the three billion is coming from, but he's saying he's going
01:02:54.420
to pull from them potentially the three billion and definitely the 100 million in federal contracts.
01:03:00.060
Well, again, I think it's a good idea to reallocate some of the funds to trade schools.
01:03:04.300
Those are very important institutions in America, and they need the money perhaps more than Harvard
01:03:13.340
But again, I think it could be overgeneralized when you focus on all the visas.
01:03:21.360
When I started teaching at Harvard, what, three percent, five percent.
01:03:27.900
Yeah, almost every foreign student who gets a place at Harvard means an American student doesn't
01:03:33.180
I think Harvard has cynically raised the number of foreign students for financial reasons,
01:03:39.760
but it has produced ideological results because I think a very high percentage of the anti-Americanism,
01:03:46.040
anti-Semitism is focused on some, not all, obviously, of these foreign students.
01:03:51.100
So I think vetting foreign students is a good idea.
01:03:53.580
By the way, before you can become a citizen of the United States, you have to take all kinds
01:03:57.640
of oaths to support things that the First Amendment would never require you to support.
01:04:02.760
So there's a big difference between your rights once you're here and once you're a citizen
01:04:07.260
or a permanent resident and what you can say and then expect to get into the United States.
01:04:12.580
I think Oliver and Holmes put it well a long time ago in an opinion involving, I think it
01:04:16.600
was a racist policeman saying he may have a right to be a racist, but he has no right to
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I don't think you have a right to get awards, get prizes, or generally get federal funding
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if you're engaged in bigotry, anti-Semitism, violations of Title VI.
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Let's just take this back to the 1950s when I was a college student.
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In the South, after Brown v. Board, some Southern schools were still allowing Klansmen to come on
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If in those days the federal government had cut off some funding to those universities,
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every liberal in the world would be applauding it.
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Harvard, under President Conant, was supporting Nazism.
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It was sending professors to celebrate Nazi universities that had excluded Jews.
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It was bringing in Nazi professors and Nazi students.
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If the federal government had said at that point, no visas for Nazis,
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even though Nazis had the right to congregate in Madison Square Garden, as they did
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in the late 1930s and early 1940s, we'd all be applauding that.
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So you can't have a separate standard for Jews and for Zion.
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No, it's just like what you were saying earlier, like these chants about globalize the Intifada.
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We can understand if they were all over college campuses saying,
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kill all the Christians, kill all the Christians, it would be very clear they had to go,
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that this is completely inappropriate and that no Christian student would feel comfortable on
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Well, that's what globalize the Intifada means.
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So, I mean, it doesn't lose its pernicious import just because the targeted group is quite a minority,
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is a very small minority in the United States and in the world.
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A smaller minority now, when I started, when I was teaching at Harvard, about 23% of the
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Now it's below 10%, which was the anti-Jewish quota that was imposed by President Lowell.
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The number of Jewish students now are lower than that.
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It's true of the number of white students in general.
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And we've seen a dramatic change in the demographics of the university.
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You know, we'll never get back to having universities first grade again unless we get back to meritocracy.
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Broadly defined, I'm not talking about grades or SAT scores.
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When you pick your surgeon, you want the best surgeon in the world.
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You don't care how far he's developed or what he's come from.
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We should have the best students at Harvard meritocratically selected.
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And I think meritocracy always produces some diversity.
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Harvard used to be in a class of really just one, like Harvard.
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It was like the unattainable height of heights.
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I would never send my kids there to go make them into little anti-Semites.
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The Harvard Corporation picked as its president, Claudine Gay, a clear DEI choice, a clear affirmative action choice, utterly unqualified, probably unqualified to be a professor.
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Why would anybody pick Claudine Gay, who was against the First Amendment, against free speech, fired a professor because he represented somebody that she didn't like?
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And this is the corporation headed by Penny Pritzker, who's still the chairman of the corporation.
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You'd think you fire the person who hired Claudine Gay to be the president.
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And so the problem goes deeper than anti-Semitism.
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It goes to changing Harvard's motto from veritas, truth, to mediocritas.
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We'll accept mediocrity now as long as it satisfies social justice principles.
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Well, you say, who would put Claudine Gay at the head of the Harvard University?
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Who would put Kamala Harris at the head of the United States?
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I mean, Kamala Harris, let's face it, was a DEI hire as vice president and would have been a DEI hire had we voted her in as president.
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She was just in Australia as an aside this week because some real estate conference hired her to speak.
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She's represented by CAA here in America, one of the biggest agencies out there.
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And they're apparently having trouble finding jobs for her domestically because they had to ship her halfway around the world in order to get a paid gig.
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And I just want the audience to know this is how she sounds.
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This is what they paid I don't know how much for.
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You have the ability to understand the context in which you live, the context in which others live.
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You're more likely to then connect with them and understand what's important to them.
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I mean, this is the thing that I've also known about life and I'm sure going here understands.
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The vast majority of human beings are very intelligent, regardless of their education level, regardless of where they're from,
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and intelligent enough to know whether when you are looking at them, you are looking at them with a level of respect.
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They will know that you are someone who is actually interested in their life and their reality and their fears and their dreams or not.
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It requires you to be self-aware enough to understand that you may not understand their life.
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And then do some work to figure out how you can understand it better.
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I mean, you've been around actual smart people enough in your life.
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I'm sorry, but we were being sold a bill of goods.
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It gets you an empty suit who they prop up as, in her case, the next Obama, when we all knew she was not the next Obama,
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or Claudine Gay as, you know, some intellect who could not be touched.
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Remember who Claudine Gay replaced two later was Larry Summers, who was the most brilliant president of Harvard, former secretary of treasury.
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He got fired, not because of what he said about women.
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He got fired because he was perceived by the left as being pro-Israel.
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And, in fact, there was a cartoon in one of the local newspapers, and it had Larry Summers on his hands and knees begging the corporation, saying,
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No, no, no, I didn't say women aren't good at math.
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So, evangelism started with the firing of Larry Summers.
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And, you know, when I started teaching at Harvard, I was the first, quote, Jewish Jew at Harvard,
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the first Jew who wore his Jewishness on his sleeve and stood up and defended the rights of Jewish students.
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Harvard had had a sordid reputation in relation to Jews for many years, and tragically, he's coming back.
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He's trying his best, but he has a hard-left faculty that won't let him sit down and negotiate.
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He should be negotiating with the president, President Trump, and giving in on about 80 percent of what the Trump administration wants.
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He says he is negotiating, and he says, Oh, well, we offered data on foreign students that was responsive to his requests,
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but we only had a couple of students that fell within his categories.
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And Trump accurately deduced, I'm sure, a lie, that they cast a wide net,
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and they got back only a couple of students whose data was responsive.
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And look, the key now is to prevent more of what happened in the District of Columbia last week,
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I think we're going to see more and more people crossing that line,
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because we're going to see T-shirts with the killer.
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But, and the same way we saw Mangione, T-shirts and people praising him.
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Once we begin to praise terrorists and killers, we become Hamas-like.
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Again, just to mention my book, The Preventive State,
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I go through all the mechanisms that we have used historically to prevent the spread of illnesses,
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And it's dangerous, because the more we do to prevent,
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the more we can restrict freedom of speech and other freedoms.
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We're in a very critical stage now, because the threats are cataclysmic, nuclear war, pandemics.
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But our ability through AI and other mechanisms to prevent and predict these threats are greater than they've ever been.
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And so it's important to create a jurisprudential framework for allowing us to take preventive action.
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Deciding who lives in this country is the single most important preventive measure we can take.
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And if we can keep our country free of terrorists, of people who come from across the border illegally,
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And I think the Supreme Court ultimately will uphold the presidential decision who comes into the country,
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but will make him do it by crossing every constitutional T and dotting every constitutional I.
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You know, if you gave each one of these people here.
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Alan, a couple of things I want to ask you about in the legal world.
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And two, his attempt to rein in California, among other states, in their refusal to comply with his executive order preventing boys from playing in girls' sports.
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So the war on certain law firms has been very interesting.
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Trump's got a grudge against some who hired his nemesis.
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And it says, you know what, like Paul Weiss, you're no good because you hired this guy who hated me and tried to get me criminally prosecuted.
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And therefore, I don't think the federal government wants to do business with you anymore, which is a major threat to these law firms because their clients are calling them up saying, hey, if you can't do business with the federal government, I can't have you as my lawyer.
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Like, I'm in an industry that does business with them.
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Wilmer Hale just got a victory because it's one of the handful.
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Many of the law firms have just submitted to Trump and said, we'll do what you want.
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And it's included creating like pro bono law work for clients of Trump's preference and so on.
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Some have fought back, like Wilmer Hale saying, this is totally illegal.
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You can't interfere with a private law firm saying you can have these clients and you can't have those lawyers and so on.
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And on Tuesday, a judge struck down his executive order against Wilmer Hale and was not happy about it.
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His name is Judge Richard J. Leon of the Federal District Court for the District of D.C.
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said it was unconstitutional, must be struck down in its entirety, adding that Mr.
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Trump appeared, quoting here from The Times, intent on driving the firm to the bargaining table by imposing a kitchen sink of severe sanctions.
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He said in the ruling, the cornerstone of the American justice of American system of justice is an independent judiciary and an independent bar willing to tackle unpopular cases.
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However, daunting, the founding fathers knew this with an exclamation point, wrote Judge Leon in a 70 page, 73 page opinion, laced with more than two dozen exclamation points.
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Accordingly, they took pains to enshrine in the Constitution certain rights that would serve as the foundation for that independence.
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Little wonder that in the nearly 250 years since the Constitution was adopted, no executive order has been issued challenging these fundamental rights.
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And then he ripped into Trump for doing that here.
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My pals over at National Review, like Andy McCarthy, agreed when he first started issuing these things, calling them bills of attainder, which you explain what that is.
01:20:18.040
But that, in my mind, tends to be like singling somebody out for criminal prosecution, like one individual here out to get.
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But what do you make of the law, the war on law firms?
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Well, do you know where this idea all came from?
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It all came from radical Democratic lawyers who started a project called the Project 65.
01:20:41.880
And its express goal was to punish law firms and lawyers who had defended Donald Trump.
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So I wrote an op-ed piece saying, if you go after anybody because they defended Donald Trump, I will defend them pro bono.
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It cost me over $100,000 to defend myself against frivolous bar charges in Arizona and Massachusetts.
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But a bunch of lawyers who were asked to defend Donald Trump said, no, we don't want to be, quote, Dershowitz.
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We don't want to have happened to us what happened to Dershowitz.
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So it all started with Project 65, a group of left-wing lawyers.
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I don't like what Trump was doing to law firms.
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So this is, again, the application of a double standard.
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Don't stand up against Donald Trump if you were prepared to stand up, if you were prepared not to stand up, against the 65 Project.
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And it expressly said it was going after lawyers who defended Donald Trump.
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We should not be having warfare on either side.
01:22:10.080
But it's understandable when the left uses lawfare.
01:22:13.680
Going after Donald Trump in the New York case was the worst criminal case I've seen in 60 years of being involved in defending criminals.
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I've never seen a case as bad as the New York case.
01:22:24.280
So lawfare started, started with the Democrats.
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And now we're seeing tit-for-tat reprisals by the Republicans.
01:22:33.660
Okay, so on the boys and girls sports issue, Trump issued an executive order saying that needs to stop.
01:22:39.680
And clarifying that Title IX means what it says it means, which is it's a protection of girls in sports.
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And they should have their own sports in which to compete.
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And that does not include boys who say they, quote, identify as girls.
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California has made an open vow to not follow that executive order.
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They say they have a state's human rights law that requires that they recognize anybody's claim of gender identity when it comes to sport.
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And this is coming to a head right now because there is a male runner named A.B. Hernandez who is running in the girls' track meets.
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In particular, he's doing the long jump and the triple jump.
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I mean, we reported on our morning show today, there was one meet in February in which his jump, his long jump, was eight feet longer than the next best competitor who was female.
01:23:35.980
And Trump issued Truth Social two days ago saying, you will comply or I will withdraw federal funds from you, the state of California.
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And he added, I'm directing local authorities to not let this happen on this upcoming weekend where it's the state championships.
01:23:58.360
Now, generally, police power is with this with the state that the federal government wouldn't be directing local cops on what to do, what not to do.
01:24:05.760
But are either pieces of that threat enforceable in your view?
01:24:10.460
Well, let's just go back to Governor Wallace, who made the same kinds of statements back in 1954, 1955, and 1966.
01:24:19.000
He said, we have laws in the state of Mississippi, the state of Alabama, that prohibit black students from going to school with white students.
01:24:30.380
And the federal government said, no, no, no, we have a constitutional, and in this case, Article 9, Article, you know, all these various titles coming in that are federal law.
01:24:44.460
And under the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution, the civil rights laws, federal civil rights laws, Trump state laws.
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And so there is a legal basis for enforcing federal law over the states.
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And as I say, it goes back to the 50s when the shoe was on the other foot.
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Again, if the state of California, they would never do it.
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But if the state were to say we're not going to permit black athletes from participating in basketball because they're too good and they, you know, or dominate the sport, we would never tolerate that for one second.
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We would never tolerate, we need more diversity in the NBA.
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And, you know, when the Indiana Pacers beat the Knicks in a close game, that's because they were a better team.
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That did not go over well in my household, and I think my sons would debate that with you.
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So you think he can get away with the threat, but can he withdraw federal funds?
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And what about, is this just empty words to the attempt to direct local authorities not to allow it this weekend at the state championships?
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I think, ultimately, the Supreme Court is going to have to uphold the withholding of federal funds from states and other institutions that violate federal law.
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It has to do with the dominance of the Supremacy Clause.
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Without the Supremity Clause, you couldn't have the United States of America.
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That where the federal law and the state laws conflict, the federal law will reign supreme.
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Otherwise, we're back to the Articles of Confederacy.
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And so some of us may not like the way it's being used.
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And in my family, too, we fight like children about transgender athletes.
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And it seems to me that President Trump ran on that theory.
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So whatever you think of the policies, I think we're going to see ultimately the Supreme Court upholding most of these Trump initiatives, but demanding that they be done with due process, that they not have shortcuts around the constitutional requirements of due process of law.
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I mean, to me, it's like, okay, we're dealing with a federal law here, Title IX.
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But it's no different than that case that went up to the Supreme Court two years ago, 303 Creative, in which a woman in Colorado said, I don't want to create a website for an LGBTQ couple.
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And the state of Colorado said, well, we have state human rights laws that require you to do it, that say you may not discriminate against anybody in the providing of a business service just because they're LGBTQ.
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And there it was because of the Constitution, not a federal law, but each would be treated as trumping a conflicting state law.
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And they said the First Amendment allows her to object to doing this, notwithstanding what the state human rights law seeks to compel her to do.
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You can't use your state human rights laws to violate Title IX, which is clear and has always been clear.
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It's only Joe Biden who tried to make it unclear, but it was thrown out, his interpretation, by a federal district court in one of those nationwide injunctions that the left now loves, right?
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And President Trump, once obtaining the presidency, has clarified its meaning back to the original as well.
01:28:22.580
So, all right, so do you have any thoughts on whether Trump can actually prevent it?
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Because he's saying to local authorities, don't let this happen.
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You've got a lot of girls who are about to not feel the glorious joy of winning because they're going to lose to this boy.
01:28:38.240
I mean, not a George Wallace, but can he pull, you know, a federal, like, troops in there or National Guard in there?
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Or he has no command over local authorities to actually stop it, is my point.
01:28:52.960
I suspect that we're going to see, because of the politics of California, they're going to go through with it.
01:28:58.080
That gives the governor of California and others a domestic political victory.
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And then we'll see Trump impose some punishment.
01:29:10.240
And I think there's going to be a conflict throughout the country between various titles of the Civil Rights Act and what people think is the right thing.
01:29:21.260
I helped to draft the title of the Civil Rights Act that applied anti-discrimination provisions on college campuses to Jews.
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I think you're 86 years old now and you're hashtag goals.
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But that's incredible that you were part of that.
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I was at the White House when it was announced, et cetera.
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So, you know, I've been involved in a lot of these things right from the beginning.
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But, you know, I am a meritocratic egalitarian.
01:30:14.320
I haven't changed one bit in the 70 years since I entered college.
01:30:19.240
But the world around me has changed dramatically.
01:30:22.720
And it's interesting, you know, my book, The Preventive State, I started writing this 60
01:30:27.780
I wrote my first article on prevention in the 1960s.
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The COVID vaccines, the attempts to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon.
01:30:42.340
All of these are preventive measures that we now have to create a jurisprudence around
01:30:49.380
There are so many dangers that we face every single day, and we can prevent them because
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we've developed AI methods of predicting and preventing.
01:30:58.740
But we can't do it without diminishing freedom a little bit.
01:31:03.420
And it was Benjamin Franklin who said those who would deny basic freedoms in order to achieve
01:31:10.780
But in my book, The Preventive State, I try to argue that we can sometimes diminish a little
01:31:16.140
bit of inessential freedoms in order to get a great deal of prevention.
01:31:20.040
If we could have prevented 9-11, if Israel could have prevented October 7th by falsely
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arresting a half a dozen people, that would be a trade-off that would be worth it.
01:31:29.860
And we have to figure out how to prevent these cataclysmic situations from occurring.
01:31:36.940
And we're seeing the hard left and the radicals and the terrorists and the people who call
01:31:41.880
for global intifada trying to introduce massive, massive violence into our society.
01:31:48.660
And we have to figure out ways of preventing it legally, lawfully.
01:31:55.080
I got to ask you two other quick questions before you have to go.
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Um, this was in the news like a month ago, but we've talked to you many times before about
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what I have said I fully believe were fake allegations against you by Jeffrey Epstein,
01:32:13.980
And we, for the listening audience, we've gone through this many times with Alan about how this
01:32:16.960
was, your name was suggested to her by somebody else.
01:32:19.240
She, you weren't mentioned by her in her initial round of accusations.
01:32:25.040
And that case went away with her saying, I may have made a mistake.
01:32:29.640
So Virginia Dufresne died at only 41 years old.
01:32:35.620
She, she died by suicide, uh, according to the local authorities, though her father has
01:32:47.220
Let's take a listen, uh, to her dad, whose name is Sky Roberts.
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Tell me about your reaction when you heard that she'd taken her life.
01:32:59.760
Well, first of all, I couldn't even believe it.
01:33:16.040
And then for them to say that she committed suicide, there's no way that she did.
01:33:29.100
Uh, this is not, uh, the way anything like it should have ended.
01:33:35.280
She admitted she may have, um, misidentified me for somebody else.
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Um, I was hoping to get on with my life and let her get on with her life.
01:33:43.160
By the way, we still haven't seen all the Epstein files.
01:33:53.860
I know a couple of people who are named, and, um, I think there are people who don't want
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I want everything, uh, to come out because they would prove I never met the woman, never
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heard of her, never had any improper contact with anybody, um, uh, since I met Jeffrey Epstein.
01:34:10.440
Uh, and, and so I want everything to come out and I don't know why they aren't bringing
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it all, everything, every piece of paper, some of them being, uh, being withheld by judges.
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Um, and by the way, some of them would show that some of the accusations are false, that
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they would, uh, be negative toward the accusers.
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Some would be negative toward the accused, but let the chip.
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So you're just to be, just to be clear, you're saying, you know, of certain men who would
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be caught up in the scandal and you believe what, because of influence or power that they
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have power over even this DOJ in not releasing these files?
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I don't know what the reasons are, but I know the names of people whose names have never
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been released and, uh, there's no reason for them not to be, uh, released.
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Uh, and I know information about the accusers that haven't been released, devastating information
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about the accusers, the accusers themselves having been involved in, uh, in, in, in bringing
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people to Jeffrey Epstein, uh, for improper purposes.
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And, um, I've been pushing for this since the day I was falsely accused.
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Today, saying I want the FBI to investigate me and let everything hang out there.
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You came on my show in 2020 and said exactly that long before it was resolved.
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I encourage people to go back and listen to that.
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I got to ask you about P Diddy all over the news.
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This trial has been riveting to so many Americans.
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I know you've been following a little on your show, but yesterday we had testimony from
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his assistant from 2004 to 2012 Capricorn, uh, is her name.
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And she talked about how Diddy shoved her 25 yards at one point with his hands and shoulders
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He, uh, said he was going to kill Kid Cuddy, though Kid Cuddy wasn't home.
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But it came out at the end of the day that notwithstanding the fact that she also claims
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he's subjected to her a five-day lie detector test because he suspected her was stealing
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She had multiple emails to him after the fact saying, I'd sure love to come back and work
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I, I did ever tell you I had a massive crush on you, you know?
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And so the defense was obviously trying to show, geez, for all these horrific things
01:36:35.180
he allegedly did to you and around you, you still really wanted to work for him quite badly.
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How do you think it's going for the prosecution?
01:36:42.200
Well, it's going very well at the trial, but it will be reversed on appeal for the same
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Uh, the jury shouldn't be seeing all this material because he's not charged with any
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If this were a state case in which he was charged with domestic abuse, with kicking his
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It's like these underlying predicate criminal acts.
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Trafficking and all of these things undercut that.
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It makes it sound like he had terrible relationships with the people close to him rather than trafficking
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So I think, uh, from a legal point of view, the state is undercutting its own case, but
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from a jury point of view, my God, what could be better than showing them a videotape of
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him being a terrible, terrible person, but he's not on trial for being a terrible person.
01:37:27.660
He's on trial for specific violations of specific federal laws, and they will be reversed on appeal.
01:37:34.140
Alan Dush was, in addition to his many other talents, uh, appeals are his specialty.
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And I don't, I don't know if you've ever even lost one.
01:37:42.660
What percentage have you lost Alan Dershowitz on appeal?
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I can't get into percentages, but I've won a very, very large percentage.
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So my record has been very good, which I've been very successful.
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And, uh, I'm going to continue at 86 to argue, uh, the right appeals for the right people.
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I do most of them pro bono and, uh, uh, I don't know how you do it.
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How do we, how do we wind up like Alan Dershowitz at 86 as mentally sharp as ever?
01:38:19.440
I couldn't have done the show today without the help of my wife.
01:38:34.600
It's called the preventive state, the challenge of preventing serious harms while preserving
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And as with so many of Alan's books, boy, he really knows when to drop them.
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I mean, that's, that's really one of the main things we're debating right now in our
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society under Trump and really under Biden as well.
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