I only think I called Dr. Fauci a bad name, probably fool, once.
I've never had any animosity toward him.
But that's changed.
Man is a gigantic fool.
Gigantic.
Let me make something clear.
This notion of, I follow the scientists, which is what the President of the United States constantly says.
Why?
Do you follow the generals in war?
Why not?
Why are you, who know nothing, like I know nothing, about military strategy, if I were President, I would be in charge?
Why is a civilian in charge of war?
There are a lot of lives at stake in a war, correct?
So, why would they do that?
Because the fact that you are a military genius, which you might be, doesn't mean you are not a fool.
Harry Truman overrode General MacArthur.
Fired him.
A hero, and true, a true hero.
Man, there should be monuments to Douglas MacArthur in every city in South Korea.
But nobody says, I follow the generals.
Why do they follow the scientists?
And that's a lie, too.
They don't follow the scientists.
They follow the scientists they agree with.
Fauci said we will have to wear masks every flu season.
Did you see that?
Yeah, I've got to dig that up for you, folks.
I'm sorry?
Flu season?
Yes, exactly.
It's like the price that society pays for your idiocies is just...
It doesn't matter.
Society price is not something...
That scientists think about.
Oh, my God.
Yes, here we go.
USA Today.
Why get a COVID-19 vaccination if you have to wear a mask?
Answer, it beats getting sick.
Health experts say.
Health experts.
Staying home beats getting sick.
You should get the shot and stay home.
Right?
Abundance of caution.
AOC. It's the new motto of the country after better safe than sorry.
USA Today.
Getting two shots of either the Moderna or Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine reduces an individual's risk of developing symptomatic COVID-19 by about 95%.
So you understand the chances of your getting it to begin with, symptomatic COVID-19, are very small.
If you are young, they are infinitesimally small.
The chances of your then dying from it are infinitesimally small.
But life won't get back to something like normal for the broader society.
Until national infection rates come down further, according to Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Now listen to the way he's described.
The nation's top infectious disease expert.
Now by top, I assume they mean in charge.
I don't know why otherwise he'd be considered the top, so fine.
And a sister in foolishness, Dr. Rochelle Walensky.
The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
This is what Fauci said.
There are things, even if you're vaccinated, that you're not going to be able to do in society.
For example, indoor dining, theaters, and places where people congregate.
Indoor dining.
There's indoor dining now in many states, in most states.
What is he talking about?
California, a thug runs the state, and hopefully he will be removed from office.
You know how little the press has covered the suffering of small businesses?
It's so minuscule.
Every so often you'll get, and it's always COVID. A victim of COVID. They're not victims of COVID. They're victims of Democrats.
Do you understand, folks?
If you care about truth, say the truth.
They are victims of Democrats.
I'm angry.
Not on my behalf.
I have the same work that I had before.
I don't own a restaurant.
I haven't put my family fortune into a business that I... You know how much people who own restaurants work?
God, I think of my favorite restaurant in my little town where I live.
They're open for outdoor dining.
By incredible luck, they built a patio about two years ago.
By unbelievable luck.
I'm happy for them.
But you know how many people are out of work that I've known who work there?
It's also possible, the USA Today article continues, though research increasingly suggests it's unlikely that vaccinated people could still though research increasingly suggests it's unlikely that vaccinated people could still transmit the virus even if they don't fall ill
For that reason, Fauci said, we want to make sure that people continue to wear masks despite the fact that they're vaccinated.
A fool is someone who knows a lot about a little.
And that's it.
That's all he knows.
A lot about a little.
And he knows how to stay in power.
The guy must be a genius that way.
Is Fauci rich?
He's the highest paid federal employee.
What is that?
Do you know what that salary is?
400 and something.
Yeah, okay.
That's a nice salary, 400 something, but it doesn't make you rich.
I'd like to know, because I just wonder if he has any interest in pharmaceutical companies, or if the CDC does.
Well, he's not the CDC, he's just the expert.
I continue with this absurdity.
It is now an act of patriotism not to wear a mask outside.
I have never said this before.
Right?
If you love your fellow American, if you love liberty, if you love science, you will not wear a mask outdoors.
Unless you are so vulnerable to COVID and so likely to die that you will just feel a lot better.
I have a relative who's like that.
I just spoke to her.
Poor thing.
She's very afraid.
She has been alone in her apartment for a year.
A wonderful, wonderful human being.
She's afraid.
Fear is a very paralyzing emotion.
Again, if you love America, if you love science, if you love people, if you love truth, do not wear a mask outdoors.
I was told a story about a man on an airplane who would take off his mask when eating on the plane and when drinking.
It was told by the Can you imagine sitting next to such a person?
Why is this disgusting idiot?
Why is this paranoid fool flying?
They know the rules.
You don't have to wear a mask while eating.
Don't fly!
For you to fly and then give the person sitting next to you a hard time?
This guy, this crackpot, called the flight attendants four times until they finally made an announcement, please wear your mask between bites.
How do you do that?
You go...
Mask.
mask.
Thank you.
California Democrat Linda Sanchez, the sponsor of the bill, said the impetus for introducing the legislation was due to the former president's encouraging of racism and hatred.
H.R. 484. It's called the No Glory for Hate Act.
It would prohibit the use of federal funds for the commemoration of certain former presidents, namely those who have faced impeachment proceedings from the House on two separate occasions.
They're so goofy, they don't come out and say it's the Trump shouldn't be buried in Arlington bill.
They say certain former presidents who have been impeached twice.
The bill would also restrict the use of government funding to create or display any symbol, monument, or statue commemorating a twice-impeached president.
And it would bar the naming or redesignation of any federal building or land after presidents in question.
Hmm, who would that be?
Wonder who they're referring to.
Wonder which president they mean.
Illinois Republican Representative Mary Miller wrote on Twitter yesterday, seems as though no matter where he is buried, he will be living forever in your minds.
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But there's a very interesting study out by two Johns Hopkins professors who say, you know what, let's not think that the problems with the blue collar working class people that they have with the Democratic Party is ended by the defeat of Donald Trump.
In essence, they're saying this problem has been growing for a long period of time.
Trump is the beneficiary, not the originator.
And his disappearance from the scene, therefore, is not going to necessarily mean this problem goes away for the Democrats because these are value-driven voters.
They think the Democratic Party is out of sync with them.
And guess what?
I think that's absolutely right.
You've got some blue-collar family in Ohio who's sitting there saying, you know, we go to mass, we stand for the pledge, we put our hand over our heart, we think cops are trying to do the best thing they can to protect us.
You know, we believe in work, and now we've got a bunch of snotty-nosed elitists from academia and Hollywood looking down their nose at us from either coast, and we don't think that party that they embrace embraces us.
Academia, Carl?
Not just academia and media, and that's my last question.
I have said to people the best media analyst is that analyst who is a partisan but who can accurately and objectively state with fair detail the position of the other side.
Are any of those people left?
Very few.
I mean, I read the New York Times out of professional necessity, and I'm just astonished at how often you get editorial comment not in one or two paragraphs, but in virtually every paragraph.
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This Democrat New York Assemblyman, if you're not following this story, this was Ron Kim.
He's a Democrat now.
Remember, he's an assemblyman in New York State detailing the threatening phone call he says he got.
From Governor Cuomo, all because Assemblyman Kim is asking for...
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I'd like to remind you of two major trips I will be taking.
England hopes to be open by June, as the last I read.
So going from England to Iceland, obviously if we don't go, you don't pay.
But I can't think of a better way to celebrate liberty than to be with each other on a cruise.
England to Iceland.
The banner for that trip is on my website, as is the banner for my Israel trip.
Every two years I take hundreds of you.
Along with Mike Gallagher to Israel.
And it is an extraordinary trip for everyone.
That's late October.
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The nation's fool, Dr. Fauci.
There's a term.
And I'm not calling him this.
I'm just telling you there is a term because it's so...
If there's a term for something, it means it's widespread.
There's a term for people who know a great deal about something and nothing else.
It's called an idiot savant.
I don't know if he fits that label, but he is someone who the moment he speaks about society is a fool and is a dangerous fool.
But people listen to him.
Because they've been trained to listen to experts.
Experts.
That's all they need to know.
You're an expert.
But why are you an expert in judgment?
You're only an expert in knowledge.
Expertise in knowledge and expertise in judgment have nothing to do with one another.
Nothing.
Correct?
And his cohort.
Rochelle Walensky, head of CDC. Walensky said the agency had concluded that, quote, if you've been exposed and you've been fully vaccinated, two doses, there is no longer the need to quarantine after you've been exposed.
Okay, so you don't have to quarantine.
Aha, so they have faith that you can intermingle.
No, that's redundant.
You can mingle with people.
Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children's Hospital in Philadelphia, said his behavior has changed since he got his two shots.
As a vaccinated person, I definitely feel different, Offit said, even though I could be one of those 1 in 20 who isn't protected.
Offit agrees, though, that it's still not safe for people who've been vaccinated to go out in crowds.
Because infection rates remain so high.
That's quite a vaccine, huh?
Did you ever hear of that?
Vaccine, eh, it's not good enough for you to be with people, just individuals.
So the vaccine, according to this character, is only good to get you out of solitary confinement in quarantine.
And people listen to this.
God help us all if a guy sits next to me and tells me to put on my mask between bites.
I have very, very good control of myself.
The most frequent thing people say to me when they meet me is, how do you stay so calm?
I would be tested.
Because my mind would say, yell at him and use every expletive you know.
Since childhood.
To describe the moron, the imbecile you're sitting next to.
And the audacity of this person to fly.
Just the chutzpah.
I fly with my rules, not the airline's rules.
And then the airline bends.
It's always like that.
The fanatic wins.
Maybe Offit said...
We will want to wear masks.
Oh, it's Offit.
Excuse me.
Not Fauci.
I take that back.
So maybe, Offit said, we will want to wear masks every winter to protect ourselves and our loved ones against all sorts of respiratory viruses.
There is no reason to believe that medical doctors have any more wisdom than gravediggers, smokers, and by the way, gravediggers do a great service to our society.
It's just that people don't think immediately, let's get our advice on masks from gravediggers.
Truth is, I wish we did.
the chances that I will get better advice than from doctors is very high.
These are hypochondriacs.
Let me finish the sentence.
Every doctor faces the occupational hazard of hypochondria.
Every profession has hazards.
So doctors are trained to see the worst possible scenario, which is fine.
I don't care.
Maybe even good.
But you don't take advice from people who see the worst possible scenario.
Like John Kerry and the crackpots, similar crackpots in the environmentalist movement.
One of the most fanatical movements in American history since the Salem Witch Trials.
My old riddle.
What do you call a religious person who says the end is near?
You call the person a fanatic, a crackpot.
I know.
This is a segue into that.
What do you call a secular person who says the end is near?
An environmentalist.
And now John Kerry himself.
He's coming.
He's about to speak.
He's not about to speak.
I thought he was about to speak.
Just a fundamental question.
Do you believe that illegal entry at America's border should remain a crime?
No, this is the wrong one.
This is not John Kerry.
Well, I haven't thought about...
That's bad enough.
I'll do that later.
Merrick Garland comes across.
I can't believe it.
He was so...
We were told what a distinguished thinker and jurist he is.
Comes across as a nothing.
As a colossal zero.
We're in the hands of colossal zeros.
It's all theater.
For the left, it's theater.
How much time do we still have left to avert climate catastrophe?
Well, the scientists told us three years ago we had 12 years to avert the worst...
Wait, let me just interrupt John Kerry for a moment.
The scientists told us this 30 years ago we had 12 years.
So it begins with a fraudulent claim.
They didn't tell us this a few years ago.
They told us this 30, 40 years ago.
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And, you know, I really never spoke publicly a lot about this, but I had the opportunity to get to know Rush very well.
And Rush was someone that supported Turning Point in a variety of different ways.
He was someone that I had the opportunity to have many different meetings with and get advice and counsel from.
He was always so kind and courteous, gracious and humble.
I remember the first time I met Rush, he was golfing at a certain country club in Palm Beach.
Was so incredibly magnanimous.
Wanted to meet me, ask questions about Turning Point.
I remember we had breakfast together.
He only ate bacon for breakfast.
And I always remember that.
He said that the grease made him smarter.
So maybe that's a lesson for all of us.
And the years that came, Rush then spoke at two of our events.
One of the events being our Turning Point USA Student Action Summit.
Where we had the opportunity to have Rush and President Trump.
I think this was the last public speaking event Rush ever did in Palm Beach when Rush introduced President Trump at our event.
And it was unbelievable.
And we'll be posting clips from there.
And what I can say about Rush is that he did so much for so many people and even things for me and for Turning Point that I can't even mention, but I can just say they were unbelievable.
It was really...
Incredible.
The generosity, the spirit, and how he cared for this country.
You know, when I was in the White House visiting many times my friend Avi or Jared or Kayleigh McEnany, you know what a lot of people would be talking about in the White House?
They'd say, hey, did you hear what Rush had to say earlier in the day?
It was the White House that was talking about Rush.
Not always Rush that was talking about the White House.
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Donald Trump, of course, is complaining about the election, claiming the election is stolen, and he is being accused of engaging in conspiracy theories.
Is it whataboutism, Paul?
I'm asking.
I'm really asking.
I'm not fighting with you.
I'm asking.
Is it whataboutism to bring up the fact that Hillary for four years has used the S-word, stolen, and is for four years referred to Donald Trump as illegitimate, and people on CNN and MSNB Hee Haw, the ones that are accusing Donald Trump of undermining the integrity of our elections by using the S-word, stolen, when they don't say that, Is that about Hillary?
Am I engaging in whataboutism or am I talking about hypocrisy?
No, you are 100% correct.
You're talking about you're using whataboutism and you're using hypocrisy.
Okay.
But that's not my point.
That's kind of what I'm trying to say.
Is it okay for Donald Trump to not accept the election even if he thought it was stolen?
He went through proper channels.
He can continue to fight for it.
I agree with you.
What I'm saying is It's great for me because I'm an independent voter.
So if I have a person that's a Republican tell me, well, what the Democrats do are hypocritical, I agree.
Both sides are hypocritical.
That's kind of my point.
Right.
Again, fair enough, Paul.
My reaction is this.
When Hillary claimed that the election was stolen, she had zero basis to say this.
She feels that the election was stolen in part because of the Russians.
The intel community looked into whether or not the Russians interfered.
They found zero evidence that they interfered with vote tallies, and they did not find any evidence that whatever they did changed the outcome of the election.
Yet, Hillary has convinced, and many people on the left have convinced 78% of Democrats to the point where 78% believe that the Russians not only interfered, but they changed the outcome of the election.
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So...
So this doctor in Philadelphia, cited in USA Today, says we'll have to wear masks every winter.
If the reputation of the medical profession has not declined, there's something wrong with you.
There is.
It means that the worship of degrees continues in your life.
The evil that has been done by the medical establishment in denying people ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine and zinc will go down as the worst example of medical malpractice on a national level in American history.
It's hard to say how many Americans were killed by the medical policy.
Then the fanaticism of these people.
Not giving a damn about people's businesses, livelihoods, the sanity of children.
Where is the article?
I have an article here.
I've got to dig it up, but I don't have it right now.
Oh, yes, I do.
Look at that.
Dennis, well done.
Not often I compliment myself.
New study finds masks hurt school children physically, psychologically, and behaviorally.
Study involving 25,000 school-aged children shows that masks are harming school children physically, psychologically, and behaviorally, revealing 24 distinct health issues associated with wearing masks.
Why are children wearing masks at all?
Why do the airlines insist that two-year-olds wear masks?
I'll tell you why, because they all went to college and they learned not to think.
I give you my word, I believe that.
College.
Makes most students stupid.
It is not a cute line.
It is not a meme.
I mean it literally.
You are taught not to think.
You are taught to listen to experts.
In fact, college produces the personality that is likely to succumb to fascism.
You are ordered to do the X. I will do X. That's it.
Will you snitch on someone who does not do X? I will snitch on someone who does not do X. That's what's produced.
Children wearing masks, it is a scandal.
I don't care what country it is, it is a scandal.
World leadership has been pathetic.
Including Israel.
Just as much as this country.
The fanaticism of the worship of experts is just as great there, probably because it's such a well-educated population.
So they've had a chance to stop thinking as well.
And India?
Remember, I blew up at Modi the day he announced the lockdown for India?
A country on the brink of poverty?
Let's make sure we don't get out of poverty.
And these are right-wing leaders.
In the United States, it's been left-wing leaders.
Boris Johnson went from, you know, we've got to be free to being a nut.
Australia, I don't, I can't even, and Canada?
See that video?
Tucker showed it last night again.
The video of the people whose home was invaded, what were they doing?
Were they shooting up heroin?
Were they plotting a takeover?
Of the national government in Ottawa?
No.
They were having a get-together.
Eight people, I believe it was.
You can't have more than six.
Police came.
Police.
Some neighbor snitched.
What did the neighbor think?
What did that neighbor in Canada think?
I'm going to die because eight people are in that apartment?
I'm not kidding.
I don't understand.
What did that person think?
The health issues and impairments observed in this study were found to affect 68% of masked children who were forced to wear a face covering for an average of four and a half hours a day.
Some of the health issues found in the study included increased headaches, difficulty concentrating, drowsiness or fatigue, malaise.
And nearly a third of children experience more sleep issues than they had previously, and a quarter of children develop new fears.
And not to mention, the lack of friendships, the lack of friends, the more time on video, the lack of schooling for a year.
Why aren't they all set back a year?
I'll tell you why.
Schools teach so little, it's hard to set them back.
I've really come to that conclusion.
What didn't you learn?
That America was founded in 1619?
That men give birth?
What did you miss by not going to school?
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Nobody voted for that.
If they did, Biden would have campaigned on that.
He virtually said nothing about this.
But it wasn't a secret, Jim.
It wasn't a secret, but he didn't say anything, right?
He didn't give people to vote against him.
You know, it came up once in the third debate, and he got so hammered for it, he never mentioned it again.
So they do not have a mandate to do something.
Not just 50% are over here with Trump, and 50% are over there with those guys.
This isn't a 50-50 thing.
Most Americans don't want their communities to be less safe.
They don't want some people to have more advantages and benefits that actual American citizens have.
And they don't want more COVID. And they don't want more COVID, and they don't want to bear the unbelievable costs of housing everybody from Latin America.
I don't know who said it, but a wise man said, you can have open borders and no welfare system.
You can have a welfare system and closed borders, but you can't have open borders and a welfare state.
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is rolling back Religious liberty and doing all kinds of things that are very serious, very far-reaching.
Tell us about what the Biden administration has done with regard to athletes, transgender athletes.
Well, on day one of the Biden administration, he issued an executive order telling all of the agencies that you need to start enshrining the gender identity into regulations and specifically called out sports and athletics.
And we know firsthand what happens when policies like that pop up.
In Connecticut, we've got four young female athletes, very courageous, incredibly talented runners, and found themselves competing against two biological males.
And these were guys that at one season had been competing on the male's team where they were mid-level athletes.
A few weeks later, switched to the female team and suddenly at the top of the podium time and time again.
And so there was over 16 instances where girls lost out on championships or had records broken or lost instances where they were able to advance into competition, all because these two biological males came to dominate.
And that was, again, just two guys in Connecticut.
Now imagine we start rolling this out across the country.
All it takes is a handful of biological males to destroy women's sports as we know it, where girls end up being spectators in their own sport.
One of the girls describes how Disheartening it is.
You walk up to the starting line and you look over and you see a biological male next to you.
You know the race is already lost.
You know you don't have a chance.
And that's exactly what the Biden...
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I have a young woman on now through my great admiration.
Isabel Brown is someone who gives people hope in the next generation, as it were.
She's a spokesperson for Turning Point USA. Prager, you great partner.
She's a co-host on the Charlie Kirk Show.
And now she has a book out, Frontlines, Finding My Voice on an American College Campus.
Isabel brought me, you brought me to Colorado State, correct?
I did, Dennis.
That was a great evening.
I still have a picture of the policemen who guarded me.
They were so well-armed, I had to take a picture.
It looked like I had visited Afghanistan.
Are you there?
I am, yeah.
It certainly was.
It was a crazy night, and I think we were both completely blown away.
At the length the left took to try to shut down your visit to campus that evening.
That's right.
We were blown away.
And I thank you for arranging it.
It turned out to be a great evening as it happens.
It was, yeah.
Let everybody know a little bit about you.
Were you raised conservative?
How were you raised?
I sure was.
And first and foremost, Dennis, I'm just so glad to be back on the program with you and having a great chat this morning about all sorts of stuff, including my new book, Flatline, Finding My Voice on an American College Campus, which is officially out today.
I was raised conservative, but truthfully, politics was a larger conversation about values when it came down to the way that I was raised in my family.
Both my parents are attorneys, so we frequently spoke about politics around the dinner table in our home, but we were never told which way we had to think.
We were simply encouraged to go out and do the research for ourselves and find which system identified most closely with the values we were raised with.
Obviously, that centered around conservative and Christian values in our home, which led me to a life of conservatism.
But unfortunately, far too many young people today are never given the encouragement or the opportunity to expose politics at a young age to begin with.
And that's why I believe so many are falling victim to these lies of the left on their college campuses.
Because they were ill-prepared?
Precisely because of that.
You know, you have an 18-year-old showing up on their college campus never having discussed politics or even values.
Around their family dinner table, so they're eager to accept anything the expert in the room says.
And unfortunately, those experts, their college professors, are leftist to conservative at a ratio of 12 to 1. So the likelihood of an 18-year-old encountering conservative values in their community when they show up on their college campus is astronomically low.
Therefore, they just accept socialism and far leftism.
And social justice and these identity politics that we're seeing raise awareness about the left across our country be accepted as cold, hard truth.
The only thing that they are less likely to do on a campus than have a conservative professor is get COVID. That is very true, Denny.
Right.
But, of course, they closed that down, too, at the campuses.
So your book, Finding My Voice on Frontlines, Finding My Voice on an American College Campus, what is that exactly?
Does that mean this is how I came to speak out?
In a way, yes.
And it does highlight my specific story of that backlash I received from the left at An unbelievably intense level that I never could have expected while I was an undergraduate student at Colorado State University.
But it also speaks to this larger culture war that you hear a lot about in conservative politics and media fighting for the future of American culture.
I'm of the opinion that the front lines of that battle happens right in the heart of our college campus.
And unfortunately, far too many of the stories Associated with that culture war never make it to the mainstream media.
And those are the untold stories of conservative students.
We hear a lot about the crazy latest campus protests or a controversial speaker coming to campus, but we don't hear anything in the national conversation about the student who invited those speakers to speak on campus or who runs a conservative club being berated months later.
They receive failing grades on their assignments when their professors retaliate.
They are docs, meaning their personal information or address is posted online without their consent.
They're threatened and harassed for being conservative or maybe even worse.
And I believe that it is these students, Generation Z, who are the unsung heroes of our culture war in America right now.
They receive zero recognition for what they do, but they continue to stand up for diversity of thought over and over again.
And it is that standing up, that action of taking a stand for conservative values.
That's ultimately going to determine what the future of our culture as a nation and as the free world will look like in the generations to come.
So that all deserves to be told at the end of the day, and that starts here with this book, hopefully spurring a national conversation about how we can support these students moving forward.
What would you tell a parent?
I've had this question posed to me on the show very frequently.
Dennis, what do I tell my son or daughter?
Who knows that if he or she writes conservative ideas, they will get a lower grade.
I want you to answer that.
Yeah, hold on.
Answer that when we come back.
I want to remind everybody the book by Isabel Frontlines is up at DennisPrager.com.
This is Hugh Hewitt for Townhall.com.
Republicans would do well to stop fighting among themselves.
Henry John Temple, Lord Palmerston, was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the American Civil War.
He celebrated for saying many memorable things about politics, including his remark about an up-and-coming politician nearly 50 years his junior, the conservative Robert Cecil.
Beware of that young man, Palmerston said.
He possesses one of the secrets of success.
For instead of defending himself and his cause, he attacks the other side.
The GOP ought to ponder that observation as it considers its course as the loyal opposition.
For all the talk about splits within the respective parties, the sharpest, deepest divide remains between the two parties.
The GOP ought to attack the other side, not themselves.
While in the minority, Republicans should attack the points of difference, drawing distinctions with Democrats and not with each other.
Unless, of course, they'd like to remain...
in the minority.
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We talk national security and foreign policy, and my, oh, my, we've got a lot to talk about this week, don't we, Jim?
Oh, man.
That's why I said the danger zone.
This is not a safe place if you want to be around me.
You said you might get a little bit emotional.
It's like, what's your nightmare?
You know, it's like the Freddy Krueger movie.
Like, you're in a nightmare, and you wake up, and you're looking at Freddy Krueger!
It's the nightmare within the nightmare.
Let's talk about the five-meter target first.
We'll talk about Iran later.
You've unleashed, I'll call them the three horsemen of the anti-apocalypse.
Not the apocalypse, the anti-apocalypse.
You've got the best of DHS, including Mark Morgan at Heritage now, as your fellows.
We had Chad Wolf at the top of your Twitter feed, JJ Carrafano.
So give us the institutional response, your take as well, the Heritage Foundation, the ICE guidance, the immigration bill.
Bad, right?
So we have to kind of break this into two parts.
So first we're looking at the stuff that the president can do by executive order, which is if you were in for impeachable offenses for high crimes and misdemeanors, you would think not enforcing the laws of the land would be something that people might be concerned about.
Literally, the president has deactivated the ICE. This is the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, the guys who are responsible for detaining and deporting people who are in the country illegally.
He's basically told them...
They're still there, but they can't do their job.
They have to actually have permission to arrest someone.
If you...
Let's do a thing.
I'm going to take him down to Dulles Airport and have him walk through the airport and try to get on a plane without a mask.
I will bet you that the odds of him getting arrested All right, y'all I'm Dennis Prager, Isabel Brown.
Her book is out today.
It's great.
Frontlines, Finding My Voice on an American College Campus.
We met when she brought me to Colorado State University a few years ago.
And she was active there and got the arrows.
She got inoculated against leftism.
So you were vaccinated at Colorado State.
I love that analogy.
That is precisely what my journey looked like.
Right.
Yeah, that's the way people should look at it.
So I asked you, what would you say to all the parents who call me when there were lectures being given?
Dennis, what should I say, or what would you say to my son or daughter who says that if he or she writes a conservative idea, they will get a lower grade?
What would you tell this student?
First and foremost, I just want to acknowledge how sad it is that we have to ask that question today.
Political affiliation should be no reason to lower a student's grade or somehow punish them in the classroom to force them to behave a certain way and even adapt their own values to a certain mindset.
But unfortunately, that's the reality on college campuses today, and students are having to make that decision as we speak every day on most college campuses in this country.
If I were speaking to parents facing that question from their children, I would encourage them to remind their families that the situation we find ourselves in in 2021 in our nation is so much bigger and more consequential than a grade on an assignment.
Yes, grades and GPA are important for students, and they do matter as they prepare for what's next after graduation.
But you taught me, Dennis, that taking a stand for one's values will forever be infinitely more valuable than a number or a letter on a piece of paper.
And right now, in 2021, this year, we're seeing what happens when we fail to take a stand and when we embrace the apathy that so many people have embraced before us.
These crazy ideas dreamed up at universities like socialism, getting rid of the First Amendment, having infinity genders, and I could go on and on, eventually graduate with students who fail to speak up beyond their campus and into the real world.
And now we're seeing this radical ideology seep into the halls of Congress, into corporate boardrooms, and America's streets as we literally are watching the radical left burn down our country.
to fundamentally change our culture.
So whether it's speaking up in class or writing a paper that adheres to your own values or posting something on social media that shares the truth about conservative values, we're in a culture war that requires active participation from all of us if we really want freedom to live into the next generation.
Well, if that doesn't recommend the book, folks, nothing will.
Front Lines, Finding My Voice on an American College Campus.
It is out today.
It is up at DennisPrager.com.
Isabel, God bless you and keep up your work.
Thank you, Dennis.
God bless you.
God bless you.
He virtually said nothing about this.
But it wasn't a secret, Jim.
It wasn't.
Well, it wasn't a secret, but he didn't say anything, right?
He didn't give people to vote against him.
You know, it came up once in the third debate, and he got so hammered for it, he never mentioned it again.
So they do not have a mandate to do something.
Not just 50% are over here with Trump, and 50% are over there with those guys.
This isn't a 50-50 thing.
Most Americans don't...
don't...
Want their communities to be less safe.
They don't want some people to have more advantages and benefits than actual American citizens have.
And they don't want more COVID. And they don't want more COVID, and they don't want to bear the unbelievable costs of housing everybody from Latin America.
I don't know who said it, but a wise man said you can have open borders and no welfare system.
You can have a welfare system and closed borders, but you can't have open borders and a welfare state.
We're talking to Jim Carrafano of the Heritage Foundation.
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The Biden administration is rolling back Religious liberty and doing all kinds of things that are very serious, very far-reaching.
Tell us about what the Biden administration has done with regard to athletes, transgender athletes.
Well, on day one of the Biden administration, he issued an executive order telling all of the agencies that you need to start enshrining the gender identity into regulations and specifically called out sports and athletics.
And we know firsthand what happens when policies like that pop up.
In Connecticut, we've got four young female athletes, very courageous, incredibly talented runners, and found themselves competing against two biological males.
And these were guys that, at one season, had been competing on the males team, where they were mid-level athletes.
A few weeks later, switched to the female team and suddenly at the top of the podium, time and time again.
And so there was over 16 instances where girls lost out on championships or had records broken or lost instances where they were able to advance into competition, all because these two biological males came to dominate.
And that was, again, just two guys in Connecticut.
Now, imagine if we start rolling this out across the country.
All it takes is a handful of biological males to destroy women's sports as we know it, where girls end up being spectators in their own sport.
One of the girls describes how How disheartening it is.
You walk up to the starting line and you look over and you see a biological male next to you.
You know the race is already lost.
You know you don't have a chance.
And that's exactly what the Biden administration's policy, as it's put into effect, is going to cause for women and for all athletes across the country.
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I want to get two things to you.
Teachers unions and the Chinese running the Olympics.
Michael Waltz, a congressman, was on the show this week, called for a boycott of the Olympics in 2022 in China.
What do you think about how should GOP be dealing with teacher unions who will not reopen, and what ought we to do about the Olympics?
I have a long history with the teachers unions.
But, you know, everybody said follow the science until Randy Weingarten said don't follow the science.
Now we don't follow the science.
All the science tells us that opening schools is not only not dangerous, in fact, much less dangerous than any other type of community spread, but it also tells us, Hugh, that the impact it's having on our children not to be in school is devastating.
The suicide increase in the Las Vegas area, the increases in drug abuse and depression among children is going to be an issue we're going to be dealing with for years.
It's going to be the next public health crisis after we defeat COVID. And the teachers union is selfish.
I learned that in the 2010s in New Jersey and fought them, as you know, a hammer and tongs.
And this is the new fight against the union, who not the teachers themselves, because lots of teachers speak out.
It's the union that is selfish and tries to get their members something for nothing all the time.
Very quickly, the waltz option in the Olympics, boycott or not?
I would not boycott this.
I don't want to penalize the athletes, Q. I don't think the athletes should be used as pawns.
But we have to get much, much tougher on China in ways that will matter to them even more economically and otherwise.
And I don't think we've done a good enough job at it.
And, you know, I really never spoke publicly a lot about this, but I had the opportunity to get to know Rush very well.
Someone that supported Turning Point in a variety of different ways.
He was someone that I had the opportunity to have many different meetings with and get advice and counsel from.
He was always so kind and courteous, gracious and humble.
I remember the first time I met Rush, he was golfing at a certain country club in Palm Beach and was so incredibly magnanimous, wanted to meet me.
Asked questions about Turning Point.
I remember we had breakfast together.
He only ate bacon for breakfast.
And I always remember that.
He said that the grease made him smarter.
So maybe that's a lesson for all of us.
And the years that came, Rush then spoke at two of our events, one of the events being our Turning Point USA Student Action Summit, where we had the opportunity to have Rush and President Trump.
I think this was the last public speaking event Rush ever did in Palm Beach when Rush introduced President Trump at our event and it was unbelievable and we'll be posting clips and from there and what I can say about Rush is that he did so much for so many people and even things for me and for Turning Point that I can't even mention but I can just say they were unbelievable.
It was really incredible.
The generosity, the spirit and how he cared for this country.
You know when I was in the White House visiting many times my friend Avi or Jared or Kayleigh McEnany.
You know what a lot of people would be talking about the White House Hi, everybody.
I'm Dennis Prager.
I was just thinking about parents.
Kid comes home from college.
They get into some discussion about something.
And the kid tells the parents that there was an insurrection on January 6th.
A violent attempt to overthrow the government.
That anyone who denies that men give birth is a bigot.
Anyone who thinks that it is unfair for biological males to compete against biological females in sporting events is transphobe.
America was created in 1619. Not 1776, and it was created in order to preserve slavery.
That was the reason for the war against Britain.
That the country is systemically racist.
That mom and dad, you and I, they would say me, but they'd be wrong.
You and I, because we're white, we're racist.
A black cannot be a racist, but...
All whites are.
So what is a parent supposed to do when a child is brainwashed?
It's a very tough question.
I admit, I'm very transparent with you, I admit, I thank God almost daily that my two children are not leftists.
There would be a pervasive sense of sadness in me.
And there is.
I meet people, and I'm very, very bad at just chit-chat.
So I ask people personal questions, not as a voyeur into their life, but because I want to know them.
And they can ask me intimate questions.
I mean, obviously there's a line you don't pass.
I don't ask how their sex life is, but pretty much anything up to that.
And I ask them, how many children do you have?
This is routine in my meeting people.
Say three.
And are any of them conservative?
That's the way I'll put it generally.
Very rarely.
It happens.
People say all three, or all four, or all two, or all one.
The sense of loss, because they've lost their minds when they take these positions.
I don't want to make people feel worse by speaking this way on the radio right now.
I want to say this so that, A, I want you to know I feel for you, but I feel your pain is not one of the most important things I could say.
I want to prevent it from happening.
You lose your child.
It's not that we differ on politics.
You think I would care if my kid were a Henry Jackson or a Hubert Humphrey?
Or for that matter, a John Kennedy Democrat?
I couldn't care less.
I mean, I'd rather they be a Reagan Republican, but that would be no big deal.
It's not quote-unquote political.
The differences, this notion of, oh, well, the differences are political is dishonest.
The differences are moral and rational.
They go to the heart of the ability of the person to think or to be led by the nose by the ideologues who teach them, who indoctrinate them at school.
There are 56 genders, mom and dad?
You're going to say, oh, darling, what an insight.
Wow, I am proud of you for being an idiot.
I am proud of you.
For unquestioningly hear something so stupid.
56 genders.
Remember?
Wasn't that the list for signing up for Facebook?
You want to get it up again?
I'll read people.
You may wonder, gee, what could that be?
I'd like you to read my column this week.
It's about...
You should give every young person this column.
It's at DennisPrager.com.
It's at TownHall.com.
It will be at Daily Wire and American Greatness and many other places.
Jewish World Review.
It's a 900-word summary of what communism has wrought.
People should be aware of it.
And I make the point there.
That when people don't fight real evil, they make up evils.
The left doesn't fight communism.
The left fights heteronormativity, patriarchy, etc.
You with me?
By the way, the proof that there's so little racism, I should make this point every day, is that didn't ABC just declare, or Disney, sorry, didn't Disney just declare the Muppets to be racist?
Was something wrong with them ideologically?
What could be wrong with that?
Was Kermit the Frog a bigot or was he a victim?
them?
I don't know how it works.
The very fact that we have so much inanity and that there are so many hoaxes about racism proves how little racism there is.
You have to find it and make it up.
Movies from the 1940s are being banned.
Kids aren't reading anything from the past.
Romeo and Juliet is patriarchal.
It's sexist.
Your kid is not going to read Romeo and Juliet because it's sexist and you allow that child to continue with that school?
People are in denial about how morally and intellectually corrupt most schools are.
They're in denial.
Because it's a daycare center, and I totally get it.
You want to be able to go to work and have your kid taken care of.
I get it.
Totally.
You have a challenge that I did not have, that my parents certainly did not have, that sending the child to school is to make them a worse human being.
So, you'll have to figure out something.
Another school or homeschool.
By the way, Not only does Germany ban homeschooling, now France is considering banning homeschooling.
Did you see that?
Yeah, take a look.
I discovered that in a letter to the Wall Street Journal, and I looked into it.
The ostensible reason is interesting.
Can you think of why would France be considering banning homeschooling?
Because of their fear of Islamic extremism.
So it's an understandable motive.
But of course they can't just say you can't have it if you're an Islamic extremist.
They have to say you can't have it, period.
Another price paid for the massive influx of people from the Middle East.
There are a lot of wonderful people among them.
And there were a lot of bad people among them.
Are you allowed to say the truth?
No.
Because leftism is first and foremost a war against truth.
So I was thinking about the parents today.
Last hour I reported on the guy in the airplane, yelled at by the next...
The person sitting next to him for not wearing a mask between bites.
Man had the audacity to board an airplane knowing the rule is you don't have to wear a mask while you're eating.
So what does the man think, this idiot?
Oh, he said, you're going to cause me to die or you'll kill me.
The ease with which people are brainwashed is one of the most disconcerting revelations of the last year, one of the most disconcerting revelations of my lifetime.
I thought it could only happen in a totalitarian state.
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Everyone is now taking a moment for good reason to remember a true American hero.
And, you know, I really never spoke publicly a lot about this, but I had the opportunity to get to know Rush very well.
And Rush was someone that supported Turning Point in a variety of different ways.
He was someone that I had the opportunity to have many different meetings with and get advice and counsel from.
He was always so kind and courteous, gracious and humble.
I remember the first time I met Rush, he was golfing at a certain country club in Palm Beach and was so incredibly magnanimous.
Wanted to meet me, ask questions about Turning Point.
I remember we had breakfast together.
He only ate bacon for breakfast.
And I always remember that.
He said that the grease made him smarter.
So maybe that's a lesson for all of us.
The years that came, Rush then spoke at two of our events, one of the events being our Turning Point USA Student Action Summit, where we had the opportunity to have Rush and President Trump.
I think this was the last public speaking event Rush ever did in Palm Beach when Rush introduced President Trump at our event, and it was unbelievable, and we'll be posting clips from there.
What I can say about Rush is that he did so much for so many people, and even things for me and for Turning Point that I can't even mention, but I can just say they were unbelievable.
It was really incredible.
The generosity, the spirit, and how he cared for this country.
You know, when I was in the White House visiting many times my friend Avi or Jared or Kayleigh McEnany, you know what a lot of people would be talking about in the White House?
They'd say, hey, did you hear what Rush had to say earlier in the day?
It was the White House that was talking about Rush.
Not always rush, I was talking about the White House.
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Donald Trump, of course, is complaining about the election, claiming the election is stolen.
And he is being accused of engaging in conspiracy theories.
Is it whataboutism, Paul?
I'm asking.
I'm really asking.
I'm not fighting with you.
I'm asking.
Is it whataboutism to bring up the fact that Hillary for four years has used the S-word, stolen, and has for four years referred to Donald Trump as illegitimate, and people on CNN and MSNB, the ones that are accusing Donald Trump of undermining the integrity of our elections by using the S-word, stolen, when they don't...
Am I engaging in whataboutism or am I talking about hypocrisy?
No, you are 100% correct.
You're talking about you're using whataboutism and you're using hypocrisy.
But that's not my point.
That's kind of what I'm trying to say.
Is it okay for Donald Trump to not accept the election even if he thought it was stolen?
He went through proper channels.
He can continue to fight for it.
I agree with you.
What I'm saying is It's great for me because I'm an independent voter.
So if I have a person that's a Republican tell me, well, what the Democrats do are hypocritical, I agree.
Both sides are hypocritical.
That's kind of my point.
Right.
Again, fair enough, Paul.
My reaction is this.
When Hillary claimed that the election was stolen, she had zero basis to say this.
She feels that the election was stolen in part because of the Russians.
The intel community looked into whether or not the Russians interfered.
They found zero evidence that they interfered with vote tallies, and they did not find any evidence that whatever they did changed the outcome of the election.
Yet, Hillary has convinced, and many people on the left have convinced 78% of Democrats to the point where 78% believe that the Russians not only interfered, but they changed the outcome of the election.
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So the man who Barack Obama told us should be a Supreme Court Justice of the United States, remember that, Merrick Garland? - Good.
And how we were told, oh, this is a moderate, this is not a leftist, this is a liberal.
That we have reached the point where a...
A prospective Attorney General of the United States cannot answer the following questions posed to him, as you will hear, is why people are worried.
For good reason.
Let me put it this way.
You should worry far more about America dying of leftism than you dying of COVID. You've got your worries mixed up.
If you don't, listen to this exchange with Merrick Garland.
Josh Holy asking the questions.
Do you believe that illegal entry at America's border should remain a crime? ...
Well, I haven't thought about that question.
I just haven't thought about that question.
Okay, so let's hold that there.
Why doesn't that disqualify him from any consideration in any position in the American government?
Any.
Like third undersecretary of state for Southeast Asian affairs.
I have never thought about it.
Is there an American you know who has not thought about illegal entry into the United States?
So he lied.
Of course he's thought about it.
If he didn't think about it, he should not be considered for any position in the U.S. government.
If he did think about it, he's a liar.
And I hate saying that.
I hate saying it.
That's the worst thing other than murder or rape you could be accused of, is being a liar.
Everybody tells a lie now and then.
Just the human condition.
A white lie, you know, just to make somebody feel good, for example.
But this?
This is gargantuan.
I've never thought about it.
Does anyone in America believe Merrick Garland?
Republican or Democrat?
Does anyone believe that?
You have never thought about it and you are the candidate for Attorney General, the law enforcer of this country?
You have never thought about whether illegal entry into America is a crime?
Am I overstating it?
It's inconceivable, correct?
Inconceivable.
He lied to the face of the national cameras.
If the press lies with him, so this is not going to be covered.
This is one of the most disgraceful moments that I have experienced in any confirmation hearing.
I've never thought about it.
Well, you're certainly qualified to be Attorney General.
Continue, please.
That question, I just haven't thought about that question.
I think the President has made clear that we are a country with the borders and with the concern about national security.
I don't know of a proposal to decriminalize but still make it unlawful to enter.
I just don't know the answer to that question.
I haven't thought about it.
Will you continue to prosecute unlawful border crossings?
Well, this is again a question of allocation of resources.
Allocation of resources.
The department will prevent unlawful crossing.
I don't know.
Just think, my friends, he could have been on the U.S. Supreme Court were it not for a man vilified greatly by many Republicans.
And that is Senator McConnell.
Right?
...crossing.
I don't know.
I have to admit, I just don't know exactly what the conditions are and how this is done.
I think if...
I don't know what the current program even is with respect to this.
So, I assume that the answer would be yes, but I don't know what the...
Allocation of resources.
Where is it?
Which one?
Garland calls U.S. terror a peril and capital inquiry a priority.
There you go.
And we were sold this bill of goods because President Obama appointed him.
Nominated him, I should say.
That Merrick Garland, oh, he's a moderate.
He's not a lefty.
What a lie.
The whole thing's a fraud.
The whole thing's a charade.
U.S. terror, a peril, and capital inquiry a priority.
What's the woman's name?
She was on Tucker last night.
The woman, was it the Federalist, was it American Greatness, who wrote a whole report on her inquiry into how many weapons were actually brought in.
You know, an insurrection without weapons can't say it's a real threat, can you?
Some bats?
Bats.
Some people brought in bats.
Is that right?
I guess.
I don't know.
They said that.
I don't know if it's true.
Was that to spread the Wuhan flu?
Different bats.
Oh, no, different bats.
That was a good one, Sean, I must say.
You didn't know if I was joking or serious?
That is...
I do have a gift.
I will acknowledge it.
I can say truly absurd things with such a...
A seriousness that it is difficult for the uninitiated to know whether...
But it amuses me.
Let me tell you something.
In this life, making yourself laugh is a really great gift.
Because of the...
The true nonsense.
So, they want you to wear masks even if you get vaccinated.
Isn't that something?
And I read last hour, in the USA Today, Dr. Offit in Philadelphia, we should wear masks every winter.
The mark of an immature mind is that it does not ask the cure, The key question of every decision you make in life.
What price is being paid?
The only time we ask what price is when we actually buy something.
Here's a word of advice.
Every decision made in your life and in the nation's life must come after the question is answered, what price?
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Donald Trump, of course, is complaining about the election, claiming the election is stolen, and he is being accused of engaging in conspiracy theories.
What about isn't Paul?
I'm asking.
I'm really asking.
I'm not fighting with you.
I'm asking.
Is it whataboutism to bring up the fact that Hillary for four years has used the S-word, stolen, and has for four years referred to Donald Trump as illegitimate, and people on CNN and MSNB, the ones that are accusing Donald Trump of undermining the integrity of our elections by using the S-word, stolen, when they don't say that about Hillary, am I engaging in whataboutism or am I talking about hypocrisy?
No, you are 100% correct.
You're talking about you're using whataboutism and you're using hypocrisy.
But that's not my point.
That's kind of what I'm trying to say.
Is it okay for Donald Trump to not accept the election, even if he thought it was stolen?
He went through proper channels.
He can continue to fight for it.
I agree with you.
What I'm saying is...
It's great for me because I'm an independent voter.
So if I have a person that's a Republican tell me, well, what the Democrats do are hypocritical, I agree.
Both sides are hypocritical.
That's kind of my point.
Right.
Again, fair enough, Paul.
My reaction is this.
When Hillary claimed that the election was stolen, she had zero basis to say this.
She feels that the election was stolen in part because of the Russians.
The intel community looked into whether or not the Russians interfered.
They found zero evidence that they interfered with vote tallies, and they did not find any evidence that whatever they did changed the outcome of the election.
Yet Hillary has convinced, and many people on the left have convinced, 78 percent of Democrats to the point where 78 percent believe that the Russians not only interfered, but they changed the outcome of the election.
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Republicans would do well to stop fighting among themselves.
Henry John Temple, Lord Palmerston, was the prime minister of the United Kingdom during the American Civil War.
He's celebrated for saying many memorable things about politics, including his remark about an up-and-coming politician nearly 50 years his junior, the conservative Robert Cecil.
Beware of that young man, Palmerston said.
He possesses one of the secrets of success, for instead of defending himself and his cause, he attacks the other side.
The GOP ought to ponder that observation as it considers its course as the loyal opposition.
For all the talk about splits within the respective parties, the sharpest, deepest divide remains between the two parties.
The GOP ought to attack the other side, not themselves.
While in the minority, Republicans should attack the points of difference, drawing distinctions with Democrats and not with each other.
Unless, of course, they'd like to remain in the minority.
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We talk national security and foreign policy, and my oh my, we've got a lot to talk about this week, don't we, Jim?
Oh, man.
That's why I said the danger zone.
This is not a safe place if you want to be around me.
You said you might get a little bit emotional.
It's like, what's your nightmare?
You know, it's like the Freddy Krueger movie.
Like, you're in a nightmare, and you wake up, and you're looking at Freddy Krueger!
It's the nightmare within the nightmare.
Let's talk about the five-meter target first.
We'll talk about Iran later.
You've unleashed, I'll call them the three horsemen of the anti-apocalypse.
Not the apocalypse, the anti-apocalypse.
You've got the best of DHS, including Mark Morgan at Heritage now, as your fellows.
We had Chad Wolf at the top of your Twitter feed, JJ Carrafano.
His recent Fox hit.
So give us the institutional response.
Your take as well.
The Heritage Foundation, the ICE guidance, the immigration bill.
In Prescott, Arizona.
Hello, Michael.
I wonder what you thought about Senator McConnell's floor speech.
He rarely takes the floor, and it's never against Democrats in any major way, but he took the floor to say that the former President, Mr. Trump, that he's still subject to local prosecutions for crimes committed.
What do you make of that?
I didn't like that speech at all.
Well, I don't either.
And I think you also tie that in with the fact that McConnell has become wealthy through contacts of his family, Elaine Chao, through shipping with China.
That's correct.
He's pretty locked into China.
He might well be.
He won't stand up for our interests, I feel.
I think he's sort of a junior league.
I think he did a magnificent job while President Trump was president.
I thought he did an awful thing in attacking him afterwards the way he did.
However, he was loyal to the president.
He got incredible things done.
He made sure that Merrick Garland, who turns out to be a nothing, Was not put on the Supreme Court.
He did a lot of very powerful things.
People are mixed bags.
The vast majority of human beings are mixed bags.
As I wrote in my piece in the Wall Street Journal last Friday on Rush Limbaugh, I figured out the man broadcasts, as I do, extemporaneously, right?
We speak without reading anything.
I mean, sometimes we read from an article, but it's all extemporaneous.
Spoke for about 24,000 hours on the radio.
And they all pick five or four bad comments, and they were bad comments, that he made.
Like of Sandra Fluck, the girl he called a slut.
It was wrong.
It was wrong.
And I wrote about it in the piece.
How many of you could talk 24,000 hours and not say something you regret?
We have decided to judge people not by the moral bank account that I believe in, wherein you make a deposit every time you do something good and a withdrawal every time you do something bad.
Mitch McConnell, I think his bank account is in the black.
He's made withdrawals.
I don't understand why he made the speech that he made at the end.
Okay.
Very few people can be thoroughly dismissed.
I say this with great sadness.
My experience with Merrick Garland is that he's close to earning thorough dismissal.
I really don't know, since I find it so difficult to lie.
I just do.
It's built into me.
How can you say I've never thought about the issue of illegal immigration?
And be a nominee for Attorney General of the United States.
How is that possible?
Is there one person listening to me?
None of you being candidates for either the Supreme Court or Attorney General who has not given this subject thought?
Do you know anyone who hasn't?
Anyone?
Maybe you're a college kid.
Thought in college or not.
Generally related.
Oh God.
The Democrats hate Mitch McConnell because of the way he was able to negotiate factors, get Supreme Court nominees in.
Not that it's been a big help.
When you get a conservative onto the U.S. Supreme Court, you have no idea if they'll actually govern as conservatives.
Three Supreme Court justices thought that they should at least hear evidence on the last election.
And the great, he is great.
Clarence Thomas is a great man.
I don't use that label often.
He is a great...
Man, he's a profile in courage.
To use the term from John F. Kennedy's book, Profiles in Courage.
And he said, don't we want to clear the air?
Wouldn't this be a service to the American people?
What if the Supreme Court ruled, you know what, there is no evidence of fraud.
Wouldn't that be helpful to the American people?
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want to get two things to you.
Teachers unions and the Chinese running the Olympics.
Michael Waltz, a congressman, was on the show this week, called for a boycott of the Olympics in 2022 in China.
What do you think about how should GOP be dealing with teacher unions who will not reopen, and what ought we to do about the Olympics?
I have a long history with the teachers unions.
But, you know, everybody said follow the science until Randy Weingarten said don't follow the science.
Now we don't follow the science.
All the science tells us that opening schools is not only not dangerous, in fact much less dangerous than any other type of community spread, but it also tells us, Hugh, that the impact it's having on our children not to be in school is devastating.
The suicide increase in the Las Vegas area, the increases in drug abuse and depression among children is going to be an issue we're going to be dealing with for years.
It's going to be the next public health crisis after we defeat COVID. And the teachers union is selfish.
I learned that in the 2010s in New Jersey and fought them, as you know, a hammer and tongs.
And this is the new fight against the union, who not the teachers themselves, because lots of teachers speak out.
It's the union that is selfish and tries to get their members something for nothing all the time.
Very quickly, the waltz option in the Olympics, boycott or not?
I would not boycott this.
I don't want to penalize the athletes, Hugh.
I don't think the athletes should be used as pawns.
But we have to get much, much tougher on China in ways that will matter to them even more economically and otherwise.
And I don't think we've done a good enough job at it.
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Just everyone is now taking a moment for good reason to remember a true American hero.
And, you know, I really never spoke publicly a lot about this, but I had the opportunity to get to know Rush very well.
Someone that supported Turning Point in a variety of different ways.
He was someone that I had the opportunity to have many different meetings with and get advice and counsel from.
He was always so kind and courteous, gracious and humble.
I remember the first time I met Rush, he was golfing at a certain country club in Palm Beach and was so incredibly magnanimous, wanted to meet me.
Ask questions about Turning Point.
I remember we had breakfast together.
He only ate bacon for breakfast.
And I always remember that.
He said that the grease made him smarter.
So maybe that's a lesson for all of us.
And the years that came, Rush then spoke at two of our events.
One of the events being our Turning Point USA Student Action Summit.
Hi, everybody. everybody.
I'm Dennis Prager.
Remind you, two magnificent trips with me coming up.
End of June, London to Iceland.
My annual cruise, which of course was cancelled last year for no good reason.
But that's what the world did to the tourism industry.
And still doing.
That's right, and still doing.
God, my heart breaks for these people.
And my trip to Israel with you, hundreds of you, every other year.
That's coming up at the end of October.
Both have banners at my website.
This time with Israel is the Israel banner and the other is the cruise.
Naomi Wolf, lifetime Democrat, lifetime liberal, was on Tucker Carlson last night.
She said if she knew that Joe Biden would...
Shut down the economy with all these lockdowns, she wouldn't have voted for him.
I commend her for speaking out as a liberal against Democrats.
She will lose most of her friends, as Alan Dershowitz found out.
So I commend her courage.
But I must admit, it's a bit bizarre.
You didn't know he said he would lock down the country.
He said it.
The people would buy his remorse when they vote Democrat.
I'm happy that they have it, but it doesn't, how shall we say, improve my view of human nature.
How could you have been so naive as an adult to vote for the Democrats?
How could you?
They're ruining the country.
They're suppressing freedom in a way that has never been done in American history because the left has never given a crap about freedom.
Never, ever, ever.
Liberals like freedom and they vote for the people who hate freedom.
Liberals are fools and the left is evil.
It's a bad combination.
By the way, it doesn't mean every liberal is a fool in every way.
They're foolish on macro issues.
There are plenty of liberals in my life who are wonderful human beings.
Wonderful human beings can do a lot of damage.
It's a very sad fact of life.
Because they let the bad human beings get power.
How does a liberal possibly morally, politically, Americanly defend voting for the left?
How?
Because they've been brainwashed into believing that the Republicans are a bigger enemy than the left.
Wrong.
LA Times.
Thank you.
New optimism that COVID-19 is finally dwindling in LA as LA gains some herd immunity.
When I read that, It was a good thing that my chair had armrests because I would have fallen over.
Do you see how the press says only what furthers its agenda?
The LA Times commitment to truth is as great as Pravda's was.
I believe that literally.
Literally.
You could put me on a lie detector test.
And ask me, do you believe that the LA Times' commitment to truth is similar to that of Pravda?
I would say yes, and whatever they measure would not be measurable.
The whole left derided herd immunity, remember?
Because Sweden was thinking about herd immunity.
Ah, that's absurd!
It's absurd!
The arrival of spring will likely aid the ongoing precipitous drop in coronavirus cases as warmer weather allows people to spend more time.
This is another hilarity.
Listen to this.
You ready?
Why don't I just read to you?
The arrival of spring will likely aid the ongoing precipitous drop in coronavirus cases.
Why?
Because warmer weather allows people to spend more time outdoors.
Oh, so spending all this time in lockdown indoors has actually spread the virus.
You can't have it both ways, correct?
Which is it, LA Times and all of the left and all you in the CDC and all of you Fauci followers?
Which is it?
Is it stay home?
That was Barbara Ferreres, this woman who should be the head of health.
In L.A. County, like I should be shortstop on the Dodgers.
I wonder who does more harm.
I would do less harm to the Dodgers as a shortstop than she has to L.A. County as the head of its health.
Oh, no, no, no, no.
Stay indoors.
No, no, don't go out.
Don't go out.
We have signs.
Don't go out.
Stay home.
Remember that whole billboard thing we have in L.A. County or maybe all of California highways?
Very expensive system of giant signs that can say anything.
Like, he who smelt it dealt it.
You know, that sort of thing.
And so they, oh, stay home, save lives.
Stay home, save lives.
Now I read in the LA Times, whoa!
Warmer weather allows people to spend more time outdoors.
That's why there'll be a precipitous drop in coronavirus cases.
There is no reason to read the New York Times or LA Times.
There is no good reason.
You don't even know exactly when they're lying because they will change their tune.
Oh, the New York Times reported, and the whole country followed, as they heard, that the officer, what, Sicknick, was murdered by a protester who hit him with a fire extinguisher.
Then they note, last week, turns out he was not...
He was not hit by a fire extinguisher or any other object.
Okay.
Okay.
So we made up a lie.
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Nobody voted for that.
If they did, Biden would have campaigned on that.
He virtually said nothing about this.
But it wasn't a secret, Jim.
It wasn't, well, it wasn't a secret, but he didn't say anything, right?
He didn't give people to vote against him.
You know, it came up once in the third debate, and he got so hammered for it, he never mentioned it again.
So, they do not have a mandate to do something that not just 50, because we say, oh, well, 50% are over here with Trump, and 50% are over there with those guys.
This isn't a 50-50 thing.
Most Americans don't want their communities to be less safe.
They don't want some people to have more advantages and benefits than actual American citizens have.
And they don't want more COVID. And they don't want more COVID, and they don't want to bear the unbelievable costs of housing everybody from Latin America.
I don't know who said it, but a wise man said you can have open borders and no welfare system.
You can have a welfare system and closed borders, but you can't have open borders and a welfare state.
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The Biden administration is rolling back religious liberty and doing all kinds of things that are very serious, very far reaching.
Tell us about what the Biden administration has done with regard to athletes, transgender athletes.
Well, on day one of the Biden administration, he issued an executive order.
Telling all of the agencies that you need to start enshrining the gender identity into regulations and specifically called out sports and athletics.
And we know firsthand what happens when policies like that pop up.
In Connecticut, we've got four young female athletes, very courageous, incredibly talented runners, and found themselves competing against two biological males.
And these were guys that at one season had been competing on the males team where they were mid-level athletes.
A few weeks later, switched to the female team and suddenly at the top of the podium time and time again.
And so there was over 16 instances where girls lost out on championships or had records broken or lost instances where they were able to advance into competition, all because these two biological males came to dominate.
And that was, again, just two guys in Connecticut.
Now, imagine we start rolling this out across the country.
All it takes is a handful of biological males to destroy women's sports as we know it.
Girls end up being spectators in their own sport.
One of the girls describes how disheartening it is.
You walk up to the starting line and you look over and you see a biological male next to you.
You know the race is already lost.
You know you don't have a chance.
And that's exactly what the Biden administration's policy is.
It's put into effect is going to cause for women and for all athletes across the country.
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Hi, everybody.
I'm Dennis Prager.
Madison in Chicago, Illinois.
Hello, Madison.
Hi, Mr. Prager.
Hi.
How old are you, Madison?
I am 14. Okay, nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you, too.
Good.
What's on your mind?
So, last year in seventh grade, I had a social studies teacher.
Who would make fun of my political beliefs, and it was really bad.
Like, he would take me out in the hallway in the middle of class and start making fun of me, and he would yell at me, and then he would call me stupid, and he was a leftist, and he would just make fun of me.
Wait, he actually called you stupid?
Yes.
A teacher called a student stupid?
Yes.
I don't have great admiration for most teachers, but that's a hard one to believe.
I believe you.
I'm just saying it's hard to believe.
Did you report this to anybody?
Yeah, I report this to my principal.
And what happened then?
And it gets better here.
He started messing with my grade after that, and I went from a B-plus to a D-minus, even though we were working on a project.
That was like a two-week project.
Well, tell me, we don't have a lot of time.
What did the principal do?
The principal fired him, and to cover it up, they said that he left the school, but he got fired.
But did your D-minus remain?
Yes, for the rest of the year.
Because then COVID started, and we all went online, and everybody's grade kind of went all over the place.
I left with a D-minus, and it was really annoying.
Have you had any teacher at that school who spoke well of America?
My eighth grade social studies teacher, I don't know if he's listening, but he's my favorite teacher.
He's a proud American.
He loves his rights.
There's kids in my classroom that sit for the national anthem, and he'll come in and start yelling at them.
Fascinating.
And how did you discover my show?
I listen to you every single day on the way home from school.
And I was just like, I want Mr. Prager to hear about this.
Well, I really hope we meet one day.
Pretty articulate, eh?
I want you to consider her sitting in for me when I take off one day.
Hi, this is Madison sitting in for Mr. Prager.
That would be nice.
Madison, that was impressive.
Thank God for that one teacher.
Evan is 18, calling in from Arizona.
I can't take the call now, Evan, but I would love to speak to you.
We've got Ultimate Issues Hour coming up with a guest from Poland.
This is Hugh Hewitt for townhall.com.
Republicans would do well to stop fighting among themselves.
Henry John Temple, Lord Palmerston, was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the American Civil War.
He celebrated for saying many memorable things about politics, including his remark about an up-and-coming politician nearly 50 years his junior, the conservative Robert Cecil.
"Beware of that young man," Palmerston said.
"He possesses one of the secrets of success, for instead of defending himself and his cause, he attacks" The other side.
The GOP ought to ponder that observation as it considers its course as the loyal opposition.
For all the talk about splits within the respective parties, the sharpest, deepest divide remains between the two parties.
The GOP ought to attack the other side, not themselves.
While in the minority, Republicans should attack the points of difference, drawing distinctions with Democrats and not with each other.
Unless, of course, they'd like to remain in the minority.
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We talk national security and foreign policy, and my oh my, we've got a lot to talk about this week, don't we, Jim?
Oh, man.
That's why I said the danger zone.
This is not a safe place if you want to be around me.
You said you might get a little bit emotional.
It's like, what's your nightmare?
You know, it's like the Freddy Krueger movie.
Like, you're in a nightmare, and you wake up, and you're looking at Freddy Krueger!
It's the nightmare within the nightmare.
Let's talk about the five-meter target first.
We'll talk about Iran later.
You've unleashed, I'll call them the three horsemen of the anti-apocalypse.
Not the apocalypse, the anti-apocalypse.
You've got the best of DHS, including Mark Morgan at Heritage now, as your fellows.
We had Chad Wolf at the top of your Twitter feed, JJ Carrafano.
So give us the institutional response, your take as well.
The Heritage Foundation, the ICE guidance, the immigration bill.
Bad, right?
So we have to kind of break this into two parts.
Okay.
So first we're looking at the stuff that the president can do by executive order, which is if you were in for impeachable offenses for high crimes and misdemeanors, you would think not enforcing the laws of the land would be something that people might be concerned about.
Literally, the president has deactivated ICE. This is the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, the guys who are responsible for detaining and deporting people who are in the country illegally.
He's basically told them...
They're still there, but they can't do their job.
They have to actually have permission to arrest someone.
If you...
Let's do a thing.
Seb Gorka, I'm going to take him down to Dulles Airport and have him walk through the airport and try to get on a plane without a mask.
I will bet you that the odds of him getting arrested are way higher than if you're an illegal in this country who is a criminal alien with a felony warrant out for your arrest.
the odds are that Seb Gorka will get a ticket and get arrested faster.
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Most people know this is madness.
When you see a young man who suddenly decides that not only does he want to identify as a woman, he wants to compete against women, you know, who have quadriceps half the size of his.
He's going to be a better sprinter.
He's going to be able to do all kinds of stuff because he says...
Now I'm a girl.
Look, I don't think we're talking about wanting to persecute people.
This is very complicated stuff.
But my goodness, this is pretty basic stuff.
Wasn't there just an MMA fighter or something that a guy who identifies as a woman and he crushed the woman's skull?
I mean, I'm not making this up.
I couldn't even believe it when I read it.
Do you know about this case?
I did, yeah.
And I believe the fighter's last name is Fox.
I don't remember the first name.
But yeah, it was an MMA fight.
And his opponent, I mean, just her, I think, some broken bones and some things like that.
And this shows it's not even just a matter of fairness, of making sure women get to compete, but it's a matter of safety.
Because you start taking this into sports like MMA, like soccer, like others, where you've got some physical contact going on.
And we've had girls reach out to us to say, I have genuine concerns that...
If I go out into the field and I get slammed into by a guy, is that going to be the end of my athletic career?
And I think that shows there are so many reasons why we've had men's teams and women's teams.
And we need to preserve those for equal opportunities, for safety, and just for making sure that our daughters and granddaughters don't find themselves sitting on the sidelines when they ought to be out there winning the gold medal and using their God-given talents to their fullest.
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California Democrat Linda Sanchez, the sponsor of the bill, said the impetus for introducing the legislation was due to the former president's encouraging of racism and hatred.
H.R. 484. It's called the No Glory for Hate Act.
It would prohibit the use of federal funds for the commemoration of certain former presidents, namely those who have faced impeachment proceedings from the House on two separate occasions.
They're so goofy, they don't come out and say it's the Trump shouldn't be buried in Arlington bill.
They say certain former presidents who have been impeached twice.
The bill would also restrict the use of government funding to create or display any symbol, monument, or statue commemorating a twice-impeached president.
And it would bar the naming or redesignation of any federal building or land after presidents in question.
Hmm, who would that be?
Wonder who they're referring to.
Wonder which president they mean.
Illinois Republican Representative Mary Miller wrote on Twitter yesterday, Seems as though no matter where he is buried, he will be living forever in your minds.
Nothing says unity like a bill targeting one person.
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To be or not to be?
That is the question.
Where is God?
Is God supposed to be good?
Does God want us to suffer?
Ten years, you're not finished yet.
Marty!
Why did you do this to me?
Who are you?
Bruce.
I'm done.
Bingo!
Yahtzee!
Is that your final answer?
Hi everybody, I'm Dennis Prager.
This is the Ultimate Issues Hour.
The third hour every Tuesday is about the great issues of life.
If it is not clear now, with the staggering deprivation of liberty, Completely at peace with, that it is critical for us to ponder the great questions of life, then it will never be clear.
One of my joys is my periodic visits with people who share my values, our values, and who are nationals of other countries.
Delighted to have as my guest today, Richard Legutko.
He is a Pole.
He's in Poland now.
He's a professor of philosophy at Jagiellonian University in Krakow.
He is a former minister of education of Poland and is now a member of the European Parliament.
He has a new book out on freedom.
The cunning of freedom, saving the self in an age of false idols.
Mr. Legutko, welcome to the Dennis Prager Show in America.
Thank you.
Great to be here.
Thank you for having me.
Yes, I'm delighted to be on your show.
Thank you.
Just for your pure edification and interest, you should know, I was...
A student of East European Communism and Soviet Communism.
And I went summer after summer.
I would travel to Poland when it was under Communist rule.
So I have a certain familiarity with your country.
I enjoyed the visits, actually, immensely.
And I will just tell you, my first published article...
It was a national review in the United States.
You may be familiar with William F. Buckley, Jr. Yeah, sure.
Okay, so I was in my 20s, and I told him that I was going to Eastern Europe.
Would he like an article?
And to his great credit, he said yes.
He'd like to cultivate young people.
So I wrote an article called, Will Gerich Survive?
Now, it's funnier than you think.
So, in it, I said, based on speaking to Poles, it seems like the days of Garrick, Garrick, I just want to tell my listeners, I know you know, Garrick was the leader of Communist Poland for many years.
Yeah, he was the first Secretary of the Communist Party.
Right, right.
So, I said, his days are clearly numbered.
To make a long story short, the man lasted another ten years.
Yeah.
But I never got a letter from Buckley.
Gee, I really regret publishing you.
So, I just wanted you to know my background in visiting Poland.
I lived with a family in Lublin.
And I have a lot of thoughts on this.
You first have knowledge of communism.
That's correct.
Yes, yes, that's correct.
So you interest me a great deal.
I saw your brief speech at the European Parliament, and you're a man of courage.
So let's talk about all of this.
Freedom, Poland, what is happening in the world.
So, I spoke in Romania two years ago, and I told the audience in Bucharest and in Kluge, and it was almost all young people, and I told them, I think that liberty, or even more, if Western civilization is saved, it will come from East Europe.
Does that make sense to you?
It does indeed, which is kind of a paradox.
You know, communists, you were here when the communist system was in full swing, and most of us who were against the system, we were kind of hoping that once the regime falls, we will be a part of the need of the free world.
And, well, the free world will be free.
And the communist regime did fall, and we joined the free world, but after some years it turned out that, well, the free world has a problem with freedom.
And as of today, it is my deep conviction that In Eastern Europe, in my country at least, and I think also in Romania and in Hungary, you can say more and you can do more than in other countries, certainly in Western Europe.
You can say more and do more in Poland than you can in Germany or France.
Or even the Netherlands.
Or the United States.
Well, perhaps not the entire United States, but certainly the university campuses and a lot of institutions.
So that's really...
Strange.
And it was one of the reasons why I decided to write this book, to make sense and so on, to understand what has been going on.
I mean, after all, freedom is one of those words that people all over the world use.
And they all say they're in favor.
I work in the European Union, and now everybody talks about freedom.
But there is not much freedom left.
So the language has changed, and it's become a mendacious language.
We are being deprived of freedom, and still those who take away this freedom of us and those who are losing their freedom, they all say they are free and they are happy.
So I have a kind of deja vu here.
Remembering my young years under the communist system where everybody was supposed to be happy.
In fact, everybody was miserable.
So yes, freedom is a very precious commodity nowadays, and we have less and less of it, unfortunately.
It is truly shocking, perhaps, that I am speaking, I'm saying this to my listeners, sir.
I am speaking to a former member of the Polish government, Minister of Education, now a member of the European Parliament from Poland, and he is correctly noting that when communism fell in East Europe, the assumption was, ah, we are joining the free world, but the free world does not value freedom.
So I have a question for you.
I have thought about this a great deal, so I'm very interested in your response.
How is it that people in the West are stopping to value freedom?
Well, it's an extremely important question, but the answer is certainly complex.
I wrote a book about it, but I think that there are a couple of problems in the Western societies.
The first problem is that they somehow lost all the connections with Western history.
When I talk to my colleagues in the European Union or some of my colleagues from the academia here in the States, I have a feeling that for them history started in 1968,
And before that, it's of no importance, and they don't learn from history, from Western culture.
So they have a very limited perspective, and the language illustrates it, because it's a very poor language in terms of notions, concepts that open...
All right, hold on there, please.
We have to take what we have in America.
commercial break.
This is Hugh Hewitt for townhall.com.
Republicans would do well to stop fighting among themselves.
Henry John Temple, Lord Palmerston, was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the American Civil War.
He celebrated for saying many memorable things about politics, including his remark about an up-and-coming politician nearly 50 years his junior, the conservative Robert Cecil.
Beware of that young man, Palmerston said.
He possesses one of the secrets of success.
For instead of defending himself and his cause, he attacks the other side.
The GOP ought to ponder that observation as it considers its course as the loyal opposition.
For all the talk about splits within the respective parties, the sharpest, deepest divide remains between the two parties.
The GOP ought to attack the other side, not themselves.
While in the minority, Republicans should attack the points of difference, drawing distinctions with Democrats and not with each other.
unless, of course, they'd like to remain in the minority.
I'm Hugh Hewitt.
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We talk national security and foreign policy, and my, oh, my, we've got a lot to talk about this week, don't we, Jim?
Oh, man.
That's why I said the danger zone.
This is not a safe place if you want to be around me.
You said you might get a little bit emotional.
It's like, what's your nightmare?
You know, it's like the Freddy Krueger movie.
Like, you're in a nightmare, and you wake up, and you're looking at Freddy Krueger!
It's the nightmare within the nightmare.
Let's talk about the five-meter target first.
We'll talk about Iran later.
You've unleashed, I'll call them the three horsemen of the anti-apocalypse.
Not the apocalypse, the anti-apocalypse.
You've got the best of DHS, including Mark Morgan at Heritage now, as your fellows.
We had Chad Wolf at the top of your Twitter feed, JJ Carrafano.
So give us the institutional response, your take as well, the Heritage Foundation, the ICE guidance, the immigration bill.
Bad, right?
So we have to kind of break this into two parts.
So first we're looking at the stuff that the president can do by executive order, which is if you were in for impeachable offenses for high crimes and misdemeanors, you would think not enforcing the laws of the land would be something that people might be concerned about.
Literally, the president has deactivated ICE. This is the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, the guys who are responsible for detaining and deporting people who are in the country illegally.
He's basically told them...
They're still there, but they can't do their job.
They have to actually have permission to arrest someone.
If you...
Let's do a thing.
Seb Gorka, I'm going to take him down to Dulles Airport and have him walk through the airport and try to get on a plane without a mask.
I will bet you that the odds of him getting arrested are way higher than if you're an illegal in this country who is a criminal alien with a felony warrant out for your arrest.
the odds are that Seb Gorka will get a ticket and get arrested faster.
Most people know this is madness.
When you see a young man who suddenly decides that not only does he want to identify as a woman, he wants to compete against women.
You know, who have quadriceps half the size of his.
He's going to be a better sprinter.
He's going to be able to do all kinds of stuff because he says, now I'm a girl.
Look, I don't think we're talking about wanting to persecute people.
This is very complicated stuff.
But my goodness, this is pretty basic stuff.
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The subject is freedom, and I'm speaking to someone who has lived under communism, who became the Minister of Education in the Polish government, and he is now...
He now represents Poland in the European Parliament.
I don't know if honor is the word, but I had the privilege of speaking to the European Parliament two years ago in Brussels.
And I watched his wonderful remarks last night on YouTube.
He is Richard Legutko.
I'm going to ask him something about his last name in a moment.
The coming of freedom.
That is the name of his book on freedom, and it is up at DennisPrager.com.
Is your last name Wigutko or LeGutko?
It's LeGutko, but that makes no difference.
Because the L with the line in it in Polish is a W. It's just L. Okay, it's just a regular L. Just regular.
Thank you.
Very good.
Perfect.
Oh, wait.
I'm ready to really impress you.
I was taught when I went to Poland.
I know I will get it wrong, but I have a...
I can get it somewhat right about the bee that bumbles in the bush.
Well, that's, yeah, that's a tank twister that's extremely, extremely difficult for non-pulse, but you did it fine, yeah?
I'm impressed.
Very good.
So let me ask you, did you expect that from an American talk show host?
No, no, no.
No, I didn't.
It must have taken some time for you to practice it.
I love languages.
I had a Polish girlfriend, and if you have a girlfriend, you will learn anything.
That's true.
That is exactly right.
That is the way it works.
Anyway, the book is The Cunning of Freedom, ladies and gentlemen, and we're talking about the amazing thing.
I mean, it was worth hearing Mr. Legutko, just to hear him say that, how the assumption of people in Eastern Europe when communism fell was, oh, we're entering the free world.
And it turns out that the free world, many of its members don't value freedom.
So that was the 64, as we say in America, $64,000 question, and that is, why would people in freedom not value it?
So continue, please.
Well, as I said, there are several reasons, but I think since 1968, symbolically, the entire...
The Western world has been dominated by the political left.
And it's certainly true in Europe, and I believe in some degree it's also true in the United States, at least in some parts of the United States.
And as you know, the left, the political left, try to impose a blueprint for a perfect society on people.
And they present the society as exist, as ridden with discrimination, exploitation in
If you know it better than I do how the neo-Marxists or neo-Marxist liberals depict American society with rampant racism, you know, and massive, horrendous violation of the principle of equality.
So if you have that kind of a picture of a society, You have many enemies that you have to fight.
And that's why I was amazed how modern language in the United States and in English-speaking countries is filled with what George Orwell called thought crimes.
There are so many bad people and so many sins that, you know, you have to eradicate misogyny, sexism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, logocentrism, fellow-centrism, ageism, binarism, populism, and the list goes on and on and on.
And if you have this picture of such a society...
And so many enemies, you have to employ all the means that are at your disposal.
That was a brilliant insight.
That's right.
All those enemies, how can we stay free?
In war, you have to suppress liberty.
It's a war.
But I love that your list of the sins was so...
I mean, I do that all the time, but I never thought of it as, See, it's funny.
I never put two and two together.
I've always said leftism is a secular religion, and then I have an acronym, SixHerb.
But the leftist church has 20. They have more deadly sins than we had under the communist regime.
When I compared it, of course, there were some deadly sins, and those who were considered sinful had to suffer a lot.
But the list is just amazing nowadays.
And, of course, it's out of compassion.
Because they see the society of so many people and groups that are being discriminated against.
So they say, you know, the neo-Marxists and the leftists, they say, we are doing it for the people, because we are the good guys, and the world will be fantastic.
But first we have to get rid of those bad guys.
And they changed the law, you know, and they massacred the language.
Just an example, right?
Freedom of speech.
Okay, everybody says, well, freedom of speech is sacred.
Yes, it is sacred.
But then you introduce the category of hate speech.
And then you have hate speech, so you can...
Limit or liquidate or punish people for speaking freely because they say, well, of course we ain't fair free speech, but not for hate.
Right, but not for hate speech, exactly.
I talk about that.
This man is a major thinker of our time.
The Cunning of Freedom is the book.
It's up at Dennis Prager calm Trending it now on the Hugh Hewitt show I Want to get two things to you Teachers unions and the Chinese running the Olympics.
Michael Waltz, a congressman, was on the show this week, called for a boycott of the Olympics in 2022 in China.
What do you think about how should GOP be dealing with teacher unions who will not reopen, and what ought we to do about the Olympics?
I have a long history with the teachers unions.
But, you know, everybody said follow the science until Randy Weingarten said don't follow the science.
Now we don't follow the science.
All the science tells us that opening schools is not only not dangerous, in fact, much less dangerous than any other type of community spread, but it also tells us, Hugh, that the impact it's having on our children not to be in school is devastating.
The suicide increase in Las Vegas area, the increases in drug abuse and depression among children is going to be an issue we're going to be dealing with for years.
It's going to be the next public health crisis after we defeat COVID. And the teachers union is selfish.
I learned that in the 2010s in New Jersey and fought them, as you know, a hammer and tongs.
And this is the new fight against the union, who not the teachers themselves, because lots of teachers speak out.
It's the union that is selfish and tries to get their members something for nothing all the time.
Very quickly, the waltz option in the Olympics, boycott or not?
I would not boycott this.
I don't want to penalize the athletes, Q. I don't think the athletes should be used as pawns.
But we have to get much, much tougher on China in ways that will matter to them even more economically and otherwise.
and I don't think we've done a good enough job at it.
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Everyone is now taking a moment for good reason to remember a true American hero.
And, you know, I really never spoke publicly a lot about this, but I had the opportunity to get to know Rush very well.
And Rush was...
Someone that supported Turning Point in a variety of different ways.
He was someone that I had the opportunity to have many different meetings with and get advice and counsel from.
He was always so kind and courteous, gracious and humble.
I remember the first time I met Rush, he was golfing at a certain country club in Palm Beach and was so incredibly magnanimous, wanted to meet me.
Ask questions about Turning Point.
Remember, we had breakfast together.
He only ate bacon for breakfast.
And I always remember that.
He said that the grease made him smarter.
So maybe that's a lesson for all of us.
And the years that came, Rush then spoke at two of our events, one of the events being our Turning Point USA Student Action Summit, where we had the opportunity to have Rush and President Trump.
I think this was the last public speaking event Rush ever did in Palm Beach when Rush introduced President Trump at our event, and it was unbelievable.
And we'll be posting clips from there.
And what I can say about Rush is that he did so much for so many people, and even things for me and for Turning Point that I can't even mention, but I can just say they were unbelievable.
It was really incredible.
The generosity, the spirit, and how he cared for this country.
You know, when I was in the White House visiting many times, my friend Avi or Jared or Kayleigh McEnany.
You know what a lot of people would be talking about in the White House?
They'd say, hey, did you hear what Rush had to say earlier in the day?
It was the White House that was talking about Rush.
Not always rush.
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I'm just having a ball here talking the great ideas with the former Minister of Education of Poland, currently a member of the European Parliament from Poland.
He is speaking from Poland.
He's a professor of philosophy at a university in Krakow, Jagiellonian University there.
By the way, was John Paul II from Krakow?
In a way, yes.
I mean, he was born in a small city about Havana Drive from Krakow, but he was educated in Krakow.
He was a worker in Krakow during the German occupation, and then he was a nectar in one of the theatres in Krakow, and then he became a priest, and he was the archbishop of Krakow.
So yes, he was very much connected with Krakow.
So you're in the mountains, correct?
Well, not quite.
It's about a two-hour drive.
Oh, it is a two-hour drive?
Okay.
And right now, is it cold and snowing?
What is the weather right now?
The snow has been melting.
We've had, for a couple of years, a lot of snow, but it's melting.
Alright, just trying to get a picture of where you are right now.
I want to tell you something I watched, believe it or not, on Polish television.
It had English subtitles, so I followed it.
And I wonder if you saw it.
This is a couple of years ago.
There is a Polish boxer who is black.
Are you familiar with him?
No, no, no, no.
So this is fascinating.
I actually played it on my radio show.
So he was interviewed on national Polish television by a young woman who was the presenter, and she kept asking.
His Polish is perfect.
He grew up in Poland.
He has one Nigerian parent and one Polish parent.
So he speaks Polish like a Pole.
But he's quite black, and one does not expect Africans to speak fluent Polish.
There are not many African Poles.
So anyway, it is what it is.
I admire this man tremendously.
In any event, she kept asking him, don't you find Poles racist?
And he kept saying, in very calm tones, he would say, no.
In fact, I don't experience racism at all here.
People just see me as another pole who happens to be black.
And she kept pushing, but isn't the country racist?
And I thought, hey, she should be on American television.
Well, those guys on television, they were the same.
Yeah, we had a black member of the Polish parliament, We had two members of the Polish Parliament who were black.
We had several blacks in the Solidarity Union, so it's not there.
It happened.
Not very many of them.
But this problem doesn't exist in Poland.
I know that.
But that's what was...
Especially if you see a black person who speaks perfect Polish.
I mean, you are...
Exactly.
I said it's very rare.
So, but she was so wanting him to say that he experiences racism regularly.
Thank you.
...Solidarności, BHP. I mówiąc, cytuję, Solidarna i Wielka Polska dla Polaków to nasz cel.
I kiedy prezydent Gdańska dzisiaj mówi, Gdańsk i gdańszczanie zostali obrażeni, to ty też czujesz się obrażony?
Takimi hasłami, takimi demonstracjami narodowców?
No, akurat w moim przypadku, ja bym powiedziała, jak Polska dla Polaków, to nie jest jakiś, że tak powiem, It's not directed to me, right?
I say I think I'm Polish.
I'm one of you.
This is ridiculous.
There you go.
Exactly.
I don't think the professor expected to hear that.
Even I didn't expect to hear it.
That was well done, Sean.
Dziękuję, Sean.
Dziękuję.
Proszę, proszę.
Dobrze.
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Henry John Temple, Lord Palmerston, was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the American Civil War.
He celebrated for saying many memorable things about politics, including his remark about an up-and-coming politician nearly 50 years his junior, the conservative Robert Cecil.
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He possesses one of the secrets of success.
For instead of defending himself and his cause, he attacks the other side.
The GOP ought to ponder that observation as it considers its course as the loyal opposition.
For all the talk about splits within the respective parties, the sharpest, deepest divide remains between the two parties.
The GOP ought to attack the other side, not themselves.
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We talk national security and foreign policy, and my, oh, my, we've got a lot to talk about this week, don't we, Jim?
Oh, man.
That's why I said the danger zone.
This is not a safe place if you want to be around me.
You said you might get a little bit emotional.
It's like, what's your nightmare?
You know, it's like the Freddy Krueger movie.
Like, you're in a nightmare, and you wake up, and you're looking at Freddy Krueger!
It's the nightmare within the nightmare.
Let's talk about the five-meter target first.
We'll talk about Iran later.
You've unleashed, I'll call them the three horsemen of the anti-apocalypse.
Not the apocalypse, the anti-apocalypse.
You've got the best of DHS, including Mark Morgan at Heritage now, as your fellows.
We had Chad Wolf at the top of your Twitter feed, JJ Carrafano.
So give us the institutional response, your take as well, the Heritage Foundation, the ICE guidance, the immigration bill.
Bad, right?
So we have to kind of break this into two parts.
So first we're looking at the stuff that the president can do by executive order, which is if you were in for impeachable offenses for high crimes and misdemeanors, you would think not enforcing the laws of the land would be something that people might be concerned about.
Literally, the president has deactivated ICE. This is the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, the guys who are responsible for detaining and deporting people who are in the country illegally.
He's basically told them...
They're still there, but they can't do their job.
They have to actually have permission to arrest someone.
If you...
Let's do a thing.
I'm going to take him down to Dulles Airport and have him walk through the airport and try to get on a plane without a mask.
I will bet you that the odds of him getting arrested are way higher than if you're an illegal in this country who is a criminal alien with a felony warrant out for your arrest.
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I am having a wonderful conversation with a major contemporary thinker, the former Polish Minister of Education, currently a member of the European Parliament from Poland.
And his book is The Cunning of Freedom.
Freedom is in jeopardy, as we were talking about here.
And his insight about all the sins, it's another example of left-wing religion taking over when Christianity dies in the West.
Professor, I have told my listeners for many years, I've been broadcasting 35 years, that I'm a Jew, and I'm saying this.
When Christianity died in Europe, we got fascism, Nazism, and communism.
What'll we get in America with Christianity dying?
And we're getting a glimpse of it right now with the assault on freedom.
So I want to ask you, given we mentioned Pope John Paul II, and of course he was a leader in the battle to free Poland from communism, Do you see a connection?
I have no idea if you're religious or not, and it doesn't really matter for the question.
Do you see a connection in the West between religion and freedom?
Oh, absolutely.
It's a very close connection.
There's no doubt about it.
And religion, well, religion, of course, it's a part of full human existence.
I mean, human life is always in search for some ultimate meaning.
I'm a Roman Catholic, by the way, but I'm talking philosophically rather now, and so it's very important for the full development of human personality.
What is interesting is that when you have a totalitarian system being imposed on the society, the first enemy they fight is religion.
And that was as true in communism, in German national socialism, as it is true today.
I mean, the liberal left.
Today has taken religion, Christianity primarily, as a major object of attack.
Once they, in a way, they are acting rationally, from their point of view, as did the communists, because they assume that once you get rid of religion, people will fall prey.
to your ideology, because there will be nothing in the minds with which they could defend themselves against the own thought of the new ideology.
And I'm simply shocked by the violence of the attack on Christianity, even in my country, which is widely considered To be the Catholic country,
right, in Europe, that the attack of the left is so violent, verbally, mostly, but the language they use when attacking people's faith, their symbols, their sensitivity, It's simply appalling.
I mean, I have a feeling, you know, that I'm watching the invasion of barbarians attacking our society.
You are.
You are.
Yeah, yeah, they are.
They are barbarians.
Again, I just want to emphasize for my listeners that Religion is the one obstacle to the left's complete takeover of a society, so they attack it first.
Let me say one other thing that I think is relevant to the conversation and to the whole situation.
So you are a Polish Catholic, and I am an American Jew, and you and I, Both being religious, have far more in common than you have with a Polish leftist or I do with an American leftist.
It's all values.
It's not any longer ethnicity or even specific religion.
The bonding and the alienating is over values.
You're absolutely right.
I mean, of course.
I greatly believe in the solidarity and the common purpose of people of various religions, because we are in search of the same thing, actually.
And we may disagree on various We did disagree.
Right, but that's theology, not values.
Yeah.
Okay, so hold on, because I want to promote your book.
The cunning of freedom.
We're good at that in America.
We sell well.
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Nobody voted for that.
If they did, Biden would have campaigned on that.
He virtually said nothing about this.
But it wasn't a secret, Jim.
Well, it wasn't a secret, but he didn't say anything, right?
He didn't get people to vote against him.
You know, it came up once in the third debate, and he got so hammered for it, he never mentioned it again.
So, they do not have a mandate to do something.
Can we say, oh, well, 50% are over here with Trump, and 50% are over there with those guys?
This isn't a 50-50 thing.
Most Americans don't want their communities to be less safe.
They don't want some people to have more advantages and benefits than actual American citizens have.
And they don't want more COVID. And they don't want more COVID, and they don't want to bear the unbelievable costs of housing everybody from Latin America.
I don't know who said it, but a wise man said, you can have open borders and no welfare system.
You can have a welfare system and closed borders, but you can't have open borders and a welfare state.
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The Biden administration is rolling back religious liberty and doing all kinds of things that are very serious, very far-reaching.
Tell us about what the Biden administration has done with regard to athletes, transgender athletes.
Well, on day one of the Biden administration, he issued an executive order.
Telling all of the agencies that you need to start enshrining the gender identity into regulations and specifically called out sports and athletics.
And we know firsthand what happens when policies like that pop up.
In Connecticut, we've got four young female athletes, very courageous, incredibly talented runners, and found themselves competing against two biological males.
And these were guys that at one season had been competing on the males team where they were mid-level athletes.
A few weeks later switched to the female team and suddenly at the top of the podium time and time again.
And so there was over 16 instances where girls lost out on championships or had records broken or lost instances where they were able to advance into competition.
All because these two biological males came to dominate.
And that was again just two guys in Connecticut.
Now imagine we start rolling this out across the country.
All it takes is a handful of biological males to destroy women's sports as we know it.
Girls end up being spectators in their own sport.
One of the girls describes how disheartening it is.
You walk up to the starting line and you look over and you see a biological male next to you.
You know the race is already lost.
You know you don't have a chance.
And that's exactly what the Biden administration's policy, as it's put into effect, is going to cause for women and for all athletes across the country.
Keep up.
All right, everybody.
Dennis Prager here.
Final segment with Professor Richard Legutko.
L-E-G-U-T-K-O. Author.
Just published The Cunning of Freedom.
It is out of English.
And I know from publishing that it's pretty rare that a book is translated to any language from any language.
So it gives you an idea of how the publishers felt about this book.
I assume you wrote it in Polish, correct?
No, I wrote it in English.
Is that right?
Yes.
Your English, when you used the word mendacious in the beginning, I thought, this man really knows English, because most Americans don't know what mendacious means.
So, where did you learn your English?
Well, I think in Poland, probably.
I've been at various universities, so all over in Britain and in the United States, and I read books, I write.
So, yeah, I write in English.
The book was written originally in English.
Oh, so has it appeared in Polish?
No.
That's fascinating.
Polish professor wrote in English.
Well, do you...
Let's put it this way.
Do conservatives like you get a chance to be published in national newspapers or on national television?
Or is it suppressed like in the United States?
Well, I would say that about 30% of the media in Poland are conservative.
And 70% are left liberal.
And the national television, the public television, and the public radio is inclined towards conservatism.
So we have some opportunities to...
Oh, I see.
Okay.
Yeah, which is rare.
Yes, it is.
But you are a minority at your university.
Yeah, universities are left-wing, dominated by the leftist liberals, and the conservatives are not quite cherished.
Sometimes I have a feeling, you know, I started my academic career under the communist regime.
I was never a member of the Communist Party.
I come from a staunchly anti-communist family and never had a slightest My intention to flirt with communism.
But somehow, in Krakow, which is a special place, I managed to survive at the university.
And sometimes I wonder, if I were to start my academic career as a young man today...