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March 18, 2021 - Dennis Prager Show

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	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	For Dennis today, I'm coming to you from Minnesota.
	And if you have been following the news at all, you know what the big story in Minnesota is these days.
	It is the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin for the alleged murder of George Floyd.
	And that trial has been dominating the news here in Minnesota, and it's been obviously a big story in the news around the country.
	I'm planning on spending the entire first hour of the show today talking about the trial.
	I've got a guest coming on in a little while.
	We'll talk about it.
	And also take your calls, get your thoughts on what's going on with this trial, which some view as kind of a world historical event.
	And I want to start by just kind of painting the scene for you of what's going on here in Minnesota, and specifically...
	In the city of Minneapolis, because this trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin really does have some extraordinary elements.
	And I think the first of those is that I'm not sure there has ever been a criminal defendant who has had the power of the state arrayed against him in the way that Derek Chauvin does.
	He has already been tried and convicted, not only in the press, but by senior government officials in the city and the state.
	Governor Tim Walz, a left-wing Democrat, has already publicly pronounced Derek Chauvin a murderer.
	That's the word he used, murder.
	And that same sentiment has been echoed all up and down.
	Among public officials.
	The day after George Floyd died, the mayor of Minneapolis, Jacob Fry, publicly said that he didn't understand why those police officers were still on the loose.
	Why aren't they in jail?
	They should have been arrested by now.
	And so public officials have really led the lynch mob against Derek Chauvin and these other officers, really from the day that this incident occurred way back in May of 2020.
	And the press, of course, has enthusiastically joined in.
	Derek Chauvin has got a very substantial defense here.
	His defense is that he didn't kill George Floyd at all.
	Not on purpose, not negligently, not at all.
	That what happened was that George Floyd had ingested a fatal overdose of fentanyl, along with some other drugs, and that that killed him.
	And there's a lot of evidence to support that.
	But you could scour the local newspapers and watch local TV shows in vain to get any understanding of what Derek Chauvin's...
	Defense is, or why it is, that he may, in fact, not be guilty at all.
	And, in fact, the local newspapers, which are full of stories about this case and this trial, say about three or four times a day that Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd, or that George Floyd was killed by...
	Minneapolis police officers, and they think they're being neutral because they say killed instead of murdered, leaving open the possibility, I guess, that it could only be manslaughter and not second or third degree murder.
	So that in very, very broad terms is the landscape.
	And by the way, Derek Chauvin is standing trial alone currently.
	We're in the midst of jury selection.
	The other three police officers are going to be tried together, but not until later this summer.
	So it's Derek Chauvin standing all alone against the power of the state.
	And the power of the state in this case is really immense.
	The prosecution early on was taken over by Attorney General Keith Ellison, another far leftist.
	And so Keith Ellison is actually in the courtroom every day, as far as I can see, observing jury selection.
	There's an assistant attorney general who I believe is going to be leading the team at trial and others from the attorney general's office.
	And that team is supplemented by volunteer lawyers.
	It's a kind of a dream team for the prosecution.
	Volunteer lawyers.
	Some from...
	Minneapolis or Twin Cities law firms, at least one, a former official in Barack Obama's Department of Justice.
	So there's this entire array of legal talent trying to secure a conviction for murder against Derek Chauvin.
	Of course, they're accompanied by a jury consultant and the usual entourage that goes with a highly publicized trial.
	That's for the prosecution.
	Derek Chauvin, on the other hand, is represented by a single lawyer, a single man, a criminal defense lawyer named Eric Nelson.
	If there has ever been a David versus Goliath story in a courtroom, this is it.
	And Eric Nelson is David.
	And the state of Minnesota, aided by some former federal officials, too, is Goliath.
	And so that is one aspect of how this trial is shaping up.
	And by the way, they are now in the second full week of jury selection.
	They have so far seated nine jurors, and they have five to go, 12 jurors and two alternates, and they've got the rest of this week and next week set aside to try to complete jury selection.
	And they are conducting the trial.
	The trial proper will start finally when the three weeks of jury selection are done or however long it takes.
	And the trial is being conducted in downtown Minneapolis at the Hennepin County Government Center, a building where I, in my earlier days, tried any number of jury cases.
	But it looks different now.
	It looks different from how it looked when I was there.
	Because it is now surrounded by concrete barriers and barbed wire.
	And all business in the Hennepin County Government Center, which is kind of a dual building with an atrium in the middle, a quartz tower on one side, a government administration tower on the other side, I think it's 24 or 25 stories high, so it's a good-sized building.
	But all business has now been shut down at the government center.
	Trial of George Floyd and you can imagine how spooky it must be to be a prospective juror and to be called into this this this this tomb-like environment surrounded by concrete and barbed wire and of course fully understanding what the concrete and the barbed wire are there for because after the George Floyd incident occurred in May of 2020 at the end of that month what happened everybody knows was a series of riots In,
	primarily in Minneapolis, also in St. Paul and a few other areas, but a two-mile stretch of Lake Street, which is a major street in the south part of the city of Minneapolis, was completely destroyed.
	Every building burned.
	Six-story apartment building burned to the ground.
	The city of Minneapolis was unable to protect.
	The third precinct station house, which is located in this area, the Minneapolis Police Department was ordered to abandon its own third precinct station house to the rioters.
	They took it over and burned it.
	They burned two miles of Lake Street to the ground, along with other...
	Parts of Minneapolis and certain other areas around the Twin Cities.
	And so everybody understands that the reason for the concrete and the reason for the barbed wire is that if the jury doesn't return the right verdict, if it doesn't convict Derek Chauvin, in fact probably if it doesn't convict him of murder, not just manslaughter, there's going to be more riots.
	The city's going to burn.
	And this is one of the reasons why the local government, from the governor on down, is determined to see Chauvin convicted.
	They do not want to take the risk of what will happen if the jury should against all the odds.
	Return a verdict of not guilty.
	Now, of course, the prospective jurors know all this, and when they are brought in, you know, their anonymity, they're trying to protect it, they're brought in, they fully understand that part of what's going on here is that if they don't convict Derek Chauvin, everybody thinks there's going to be massive, massive riots.
	And you have to think that a lot of prospective jurors are thinking, If the city of Minneapolis couldn't protect its own third precinct station house, how is it going to protect my house if I don't return the verdict that the mob wants?
	That is the situation we are facing here in Minnesota.
	We're going to be right back with Howard Rutt after these messages.
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	If the president or the ostensible president is not behaving as the president, the country needs to know, is the vice president in charge?
	So it strikes me we have a constitutional crisis.
	I don't know how you get around it.
	So let me give you the best guess that I can kind of piece together.
	All of Capitol Hill is sitting behind a fence with razor wire on top of it.
	Joe Biden is not taking public meetings.
	He is barely having public appearances and even those are tightly controlled.
	He shows up with note cards in his pocket when he loses his way.
	He pulls the note cards out.
	He can't even read what's on the note cards.
	Kamala Harris is taking all of the heads of state meetings.
	She's making all the phone calls.
	She's the one interacting with other heads of state across the world.
	Barack Obama never left Washington, D.C. Unlike other presidents, most presidents leave the Capitol once their time in office is over.
	Susan Rice, who was his most loyal foot soldier of all of the Obama administration officials, she went out on 9-11 of 2012, lied to the entire nation on all the television shows about the Benghazi attack.
	She suffered no wrongdoing for that.
	In fact, she got promoted.
	She left the ambassadorship that she had in the UN, and she came into the White House staff after that event was carried out.
	So you've got someone who's very loyal, who is now Joe Biden's domestic policy chief advisor.
	And my guess is that she's also probably the author or responsible for the authoring of most of the executive orders that the executive branch has issued since he's been in office.
	My hunch is that President Obama is pulling the strings vis-a-vis Susan Rice.
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	This is Carol Platt-Lebow of Yankee Institute for townhall.com.
	Matt Meyer is president of the Berkeley Federation of Teachers, a union leading the effort to keep children at home, insisting that reopening schools is just too unsafe.
	So jaws dropped when video of him was seen taking his own daughter to in-person preschool.
	The episode highlights the hypocrisy and cynicism evident in too much COVID policy, especially in education.
	School districts with strong teachers unions are less likely to hold in-person classes.
	Meanwhile, our children remain trapped at home, suffering from social isolation and learning loss.
	The achievement gap has increased, and there's a worsening youth mental health crisis.
	Parents have stood by helplessly at the mercy of the unions, even as the CDC admits that schools can reopen safely.
	In-person learning shouldn't be reserved for children of the privileged.
	Our kids deserve policies that put their rightful needs over the self-serving demands of union elites.
	I'm Carol Platt-Lebow.
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	I kind of am obligated to get into this story right now, which is the story of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry.
	So I want to read this tweet here from Ben Means, an expert on the British monarchy.
	A lot of respect for the tradition and all of that.
	A lot of great friends in London and Great Britain.
	She's not a primary concern of mine.
	And so I want to read from Ben Goldsmith's tweet, which I thought was terrific.
	The narrative being promoted by Meghan, friends of Meghan, and the leftist mainstream media and everyone else who hates the royal family and British traditions generally, is that the royal couple were driven out of Britain because of snobbery and racism.
	This just isn't true.
	The British tabloid press and the British publicly initially adored the idea that a glamorous star from Suits was marrying into the royal family and got terribly excited by the novelty of their royal wedding in the chapel of Windsor Castle.
	They only started going off Meghan when they...
	Welcome back to the Dennis Prager Show.
	I'm John Hinderocker from Powerline, filling in for Dennis today.
	We are already getting calls, and I haven't even put out the number yet.
	If you want to weigh in on the Derek Chauvin trial, you can call us at 1-8-PRAGER-776.
	That is 1-877- 243-7776.
	If you're holding, keep holding.
	We'll get to you before too long.
	We are joined now by Howard Rutt.
	Howard is a retired pharmaceutical company CEO, and Howard has some valuable experience here because he was outrageously and unjustly prosecuted by the Obama Department of Justice.
	He had to take his case all the way to a jury, which not only acquitted him, but resoundingly Vindicated him, and Howard has written a book about that experience.
	It's called Cardiac Arrest.
	You can get it at Amazon.
	I highly recommend it.
	It is a tremendous book about what it's like to feel the entire pressure, the entire weight of the state pressing down upon you.
	Howard, thanks for being on the program.
	Good morning, John, and thanks for inviting me on.
	Howard, one thing that I didn't get to before the break, I was kind of setting the stage describing the atmosphere here in Minnesota and some of the background in this trial, but something happened earlier this week that is just unbelievable to me, and that is that earlier in the week, Monday or Tuesday, the city of Minneapolis held a press conference.
	And announced that it had settled the wrongful death case brought by George Floyd's heirs for $27 million.
	Howard, can you think of any reason why they would do that other than as a further attempt to poison the jury pool?
	Well, I think you're right.
	I mean, you know, my perspective, as you mentioned, I was a criminal defendant, but as opposed to Derek Chauvin, who's one of the most unfortunate criminal defendants in America because of his lack of resources and all of the weight of the state against him, I was one of the most fortunate.
	I mean, I was the CEO of a public company, and I had the ability to hire over 100 lawyers and spend $25 million in my defense to go all the way through trial.
	And at the end, we got to the trial, and the whole entire case blew up, and the jury came back not guilty.
	It was a weird process of prosecutors believing a disgruntled former employee and not going away.
	But in Derek Chauvin's case, he's got the power of the state as well.
	And even in my fortunate example, I had prejudicial pretrial publicity from the Department of Justice and from the FDA saying that I was guilty.
	Before I was even in court, you know, innocent until proven guilty, but they did a three-page press release, and at the end they just say that.
	But the three pages before that says all the bad things that you think you've done.
	So this is the M.O. for the government when they go after a criminal defendant, mainly because they want the person to crumble and collapse, but also because they want to win.
	And this one is such a clear example, because two years ago, you know, we had this case in Minnesota again.
	Officer Noor, a police officer who shot Justine Damon, and that went to trial, and they had a settlement on the civil case as well, but they waited to announce that civil settlement the day after the verdict came in, in the criminal conviction in Officer Noor.
	In this case, Mayor Frey and the City Council does a bombastic press conference in the middle of jury selection when all the jurors are there.
	And just to prove the point, They brought the seven jurors back that had already been selected and re-interviewed them, did more dear.
	Two of them, or nine of them, they brought back in.
	Two of them they cut off because they had seen the settlement and they said, I can't be impartial anymore.
	If the city pays $27 million for this act, the guy must be guilty.
	So the challenge of getting a fair trial in this case with so much prejudicial publicity is almost unheard of.
	And, of course, Howard, the judge interviewed the nine jurors who had already been seated, and two of them acknowledged that the settlement put them over the edge, that it just made it obvious to them, Chauvin must be guilty.
	But what about the other seven?
	You know, they're still on the jury.
	But I think it's reasonable to assume that anybody who knows about the settlement, and they all do, it's hard not to view it that way.
	And when you put...
	Yeah, go ahead.
	Yeah, yeah, let's be honest.
	The worst person to determine whether you can be impartial or not is you.
	And if you say, oh, I can be impartial, I don't know if you understand your own misgivings, your own prejudices, and that type of information.
	So they really have to delve in deeper.
	Now, I mean, you were a litigator.
	I was a lawyer way back when.
	I wasn't a litigator.
	But, you know, when you pick a jury and they do Bourdier, they ask, do you know the defendant or the victim?
	And if you say yes, you get excluded.
	Well, in this case, everyone would get excluded because everyone knows the name George Floyd, and almost everyone knows Derek Chalvin.
	Then they would ask, so they can't exclude all jurors because of that, but now they ask, do you have a negative connotation about either the defendant or the victim?
	And, of course, they have that as well.
	Now, in a normal case, that would be cause for strike.
	Now they have to go down to ask this question.
	In spite of what you've heard, in spite of what you believe, can you put that all aside?
	And listen to only the evidence in the courtroom and make an impartial verdict on whether he's guilty or innocent beyond a reasonable doubt.
	That is a Herculean task.
	And the people who say they can, I think, are just really deluding themselves in a lot of cases.
	Well, I think in some cases there are people who want to get on the jury and know that's the way to get on the jury.
	And whether they actually are harboring a determination to get Derek Chauvin, the former police officer, Who knows?
	Absolutely.
	I've seen that.
	I've been watching a lot of the jury selection.
	I mean, on the one positive side, the judge in this case, Peter Cahill, is doing a phenomenal job.
	First, his decision to allow cameras in the courtroom so we can all see what's going on was important because otherwise it would be cloaked in secrecy.
	Then, the way he acts in front of the camera.
	I would say he's the anti-Judge Ito.
	Remember Judge Ito from the O.J. Simpson trial?
	The most dangerous place in his courtroom was to be between Judge Ito and the camera because he wanted to ham it up whenever the camera was on him.
	Here, Peter Cahill is doing a phenomenal job of conducting a normal criminal trial as much as he can and doing it the right way.
	So that's all going well.
	But these jurors who say...
	I can be fair.
	In a lot of cases, I think they're saying, I want to be on this jury because I want to convict Derek Chauvin of the murder that I already know he committed.
	So the question that kind of hangs over this whole situation, Howard, in my view, is...
	Is there any possibility that Derek Chauvin can get a fair trial, given the pre-trial publicity, given the statements of public officials, given the threats of mob violence in the air, given that $27 million settlement, given the bunker atmosphere at the government center?
	Is there any way that that can add up to a fair trial?
	It's so difficult to believe this is going to turn out in terms of justice.
	I mean, you start off, over 300 potential jurors filled out questionnaires.
	They've gone through 90 jurors so far, 9-0, 90 jurors.
	They've selected 9. So only 1 out of 10 potential jurors that they interview are able to even claim that they can be impartial and not be stricken by the prosecution or the defense.
	Now, of those people, How many of those really harbor other kinds of prejudicial thoughts of what's going on in this case?
	And again, if you have only one of those, it's got to be an anonymous verdict.
	So in terms of him getting a not guilty, I think it's almost impossible.
	A hung jury might be possible, but that means he'd just have to do it again.
	And keep in mind, he's going to have a federal lawsuit right behind this.
	The Department of Justice has already said, so this man is the most wanted man in America.
	We've got to run to a hard break, but we're going to be right back with your calls after these messages.
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	Check out the governor of California.
	Here's Gavin Newsom standing in front of an empty Dodgers stadium.
	This is an unbelievable sight.
	Because of him, Dodgers Stadium will probably stay open.
	And according to the embattled governor of California, even when the pandemic is over, it isn't going to be over.
	Because it's never over.
	We're never going to have normal again.
	I give you the governor of the state of California.
	You know, when this pandemic ends, and it will end soon, we're not going to go back to normal.
	Because I think we all agree, normal was never good enough.
	And normal accepts inequity.
	That's why Latinos are dying from COVID at a higher rate than any other racial or ethnic group.
	And while essential workers' wages aren't enough for them to afford the essentials.
	And why mothers...
	Mothers have been leaving the workforce in staggering numbers.
	Look, our eyes are wide open to what's wrong.
	And so our journey back must also be a path to close those inequities.
	There is no economic recovery, no economic recovery without economic justice.
	Latinos are dying from COVID more than any other ethnic group.
	Because of inequity?
	Really?
	What, COVID is racist?
	A virus knows that I'm going to infect a Latino and kill a Latino more than a white guy?
	Uh, got it.
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	Trending now on The Charlie Kirk Show. . .
	So there's the mile marker, 24 miles from the border, right?
	24 miles.
	All these hills right here are notorious for scouts being on top.
	I mean, there's a lot of people that are abused coming across the border, right?
	It's horrible because sometimes you see these women that come across the border when they're menstruating.
	They'll say, because I'll be less likely to be raped.
	Just look at when we're catching thousands of unaccompanied children.
	And it's difficult unless you see it.
	These kids are hardcore, dude.
	They'll take your lunch money when you're five.
	They were having sexual relationship through the chain link fence.
	What we did is we put plywood in between the fencing.
	The day after the plywood was done, they had already made holes in the plywood so they can, you know, interact.
	These are not your typical innocent children.
	They're not, man.
	That's the Mexican border.
	98% of all heroin comes across this border.
	It's ridiculous.
	It's ridiculous.
	And this makes a nice bench for the...
	Coyotes, right?
	Just sit here.
	Because technically you can sit here and make fun of agents as they're coming through.
	Seriously, though, right?
	And then you just kick over and you're like, what do you got?
	Journalists don't get here very often.
	No, they don't get here at all.
	No, they don't get here.
	I'm in Mexico.
	Drugs on my back.
	No agents.
	No border patrol.
	No cameras.
	No wall.
	And what's the first thing I see?
	I see a sign, a deterrent, that says, oh, be careful.
	Don't expose yourself to the water or the rattlesnake.
	Yeah, that's really going to stop them, right?
	And you know what?
	Even if you have ladders, a better physical barricade gives our agents the ability and the time to come up here and make the apprehension.
	That's what's needed.
	This is a national security problem.
	You say, who could possibly be opposing this?
	Politicians.
	We have 44,000 illegal immigrants in our federal prisons currently.
	An illegal immigrant is twice as likely versus a natural born citizen to commit a crime here in the state of Arizona.
	Tens of thousands of kids are being illegally sex trafficked across the southern Welcome back to the Dennis Prager Show.
	We're talking with Howard Root, and we are taking your calls on the Derek Chauvin murder trial.
	Let's go to Gary in Valencia, California, on Line 3. Gary, you are on the Dennis Prager Show.
	Thank you.
	Good morning.
	This is a kangaroo court.
	Like you said, even before the settlement, there should have been a change of venue.
	I don't know how.
	Your guests can comment, the trial judge, if he hasn't granted a change of venue before the settlement was announced.
	And then when the settlement was announced, it's simply impossible for him to get a fair trial.
	In fact, the attorney for the George Floyd family is Benjamin Crump, and he was the attorney for the Trayvon Martin family, and he's the one that conjured up a false witness in that case.
	All right, Gary, thanks for that call, but I want to bounce that question to Howard Rutt.
	Howard, what do you think of the idea of the defense getting a change of venue here?
	Well, they did bring motions for a change of venue, and they renewed that motion, and they also brought a motion for a continuance to delay this trial, and those both will be decided by Judge Cahill tomorrow morning.
	But everyone looking at it is almost certain that he's not going to grant it.
	Now, the problem with the change of venue is it's a Minnesota state case, and so it has to be in Minnesota.
	And although Minnesota is not a small state, everyone in the state has heard about it.
	So you have the same prejudicial publicity everywhere.
	And he's agonized over this about whether if he moves it to Duluth or Rochester, Minnesota, would it make any difference?
	And while it might, it wouldn't guarantee it because this publicity has gone statewide.
	As far as the continuance goes, he certainly could do that, but they didn't have to start all over again.
	And there are so many political and social things that are considerations in this trial, which should not be in a trial of justice.
	But now it's inevitable.
	Judge Cahill's in a horrible situation.
	He's trying to make the best of it, but it's compounded by what the city of Minneapolis has done.
	These statements are just out of control.
	If a private litigant had done this, The judge would be down on them like a ton of bricks, but he let them go.
	The judge only said he was disappointed with the announcement of the $27 million settlement.
	I was a little bit more than disappointed.
	I was outraged, I would say.
	You know, the other issue with a change of venue, if that motion were to be granted, is that in greater Minnesota, I don't know if you could get a less contaminated jury pool, but you would have a whiter jury pool than Minneapolis in all probability, and of course that would be a source of enormous controversy.
	In the event of a not guilty verdict.
	Let's go next to Conrad in Minneapolis on line one.
	Conrad, welcome to the Dennis Prager Show.
	So I'm on a Bluetooth in my car.
	Can you hear me okay or should I... Oh, you're good.
	Go ahead.
	Go ahead.
	So I'm a Minneapolis.
	I lived here all my life.
	I was born in North Minneapolis.
	I'm 62. And I drive Uber for a living at this stage of my life after a career as a salesman.
	I've been all over this town my whole life.
	And I just want to clarify a couple things at the opening.
	I want to make sure that the country knows exactly what's going on up here.
	The city did not burn Lake Street down completely.
	What we had when we had the riots in the beginning was localized destruction in a couple of key areas, and then there was pockets of both absolute burning down of, say, Gas stations, a lot of service stations, a lot of convenience stores were hit sort of in the South Minneapolis area, some even in North Minneapolis.
	But the real concentration of burnt buildings happened as pockets.
	But you can drive around the city today, and the city is functional.
	We do have the George Floyd Memorial Zone, which is now, you know, sort of a no-go zone for about four square blocks.
	You can't get into it.
	You have to turn and redirect yourself if you're trying to come up Chicago.
	We're down 38th and work around it.
	There's just a different vibe in the city.
	But the city, Lake Street did not get burned.
	Lake Street is a very long street.
	It reverses the entire city and then continues on into St. Paul as Marshall Avenue.
	So it's an east-west street that never touches downtown.
	It's a commercial street like many cities have.
	And, you know, fortunately, it's been rebuilding.
	But it did not get burned completely.
	I just want to make that clear.
	One other thought I have is that it's not really about the trial of Derek Sullivan anymore.
	It's about holding a gun to the city of Minneapolis.
	And I don't see how any juror could conceivably find him not guilty, knowing that they're committing the city, and not just our city.
	They could hold this trial anywhere in the world, and if the wrong result occurs to the people who want a certain outcome, they're going to destroy it not just here.
	Conrad, Conrad, we've got to move on, but thank you for that call.
	We only have 30 seconds before a hard break.
	Let's go to John in Circle Pines real quick.
	John, we're up against a hard break here.
	We're going to bring you on right after this commercial break.
	And anybody else that wants to get on the air, 1-8-Prager-776 is the number to call.
	We'll be right back.
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	. you .
	You really think that the number one problem in America is Donald Trump and Donald Trump supporters?
	As opposed to a country now where almost 40% of kids brought into the world are brought into the world without a father married to the mother.
	50% Hispanic kids, 25% white kids.
	And the reason that number is important is because in 1965, there was a booklet put out by Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who later on ran for and got elected to the Senate in New York as a Democrat.
	At the time, 25% of black kids were born outside of wedlock, a number they thought was alarming.
	It is now 70%.
	Now 25% of white kids are born outside of wedlock.
	Is CNN talking about that?
	Is Don Lamont talking about that?
	15,000 homicides in this country, Don.
	Half of them are black victims.
	Of those black victims, how many of them do you think were shot by people from QAnon?
	By people from the Proud Boys?
	By white nationalists?
	The real issue going on with black people in this country, Don, since you're so concerned about the black community, it's not white nationalists.
	Not Confederate statutes.
	Not QAnon, but the fact that in my state of California, one of the wealthiest states in the union, 85% of black children in the state of California cannot read at state levels of proficiency, and the math scores are even worse.
	Where are you on that?
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	Let's talk about the border.
	You're a ranking member for the Republicans on the Homeland Security Committee.
	We know we have a crisis.
	What is going on?
	It's like a repeat of 2014. I mean, if you tell them they can stay, they're going to come, right?
	And I think the messaging has been awful.
	And you couple that with the president's rescinding.
	The Remain in Mexico policy and the Northern Triangle policy, that essentially meant that you could not enter the United States.
	You had to apply for asylum in Mexico, or if you came from Central America, the first safe country, and that would be Mexico as well.
	So that was being enforced.
	The Title 14 safety provisions due to COVID were being enforced.
	So we pretty much had it shut down in terms of political asylum.
	And then with the stroke of a pen, Biden completely reversed those policies.
	And then Secretary Mayorkas said something as dumb as, well, I'm not saying you can't come, just don't come right now.
	And those kind of messages, and I've been in this business for a long time, live in a border state.
	When you say that, those kind of things, the traffickers and the cartels, they pick up that language.
	And, you know, they basically send a green light to them.
	The cartels and the Coyotes make money by peddling the message that the border is open.
	President Biden and his team amplified that message.
	Are they doing anything to change that message, Congressman McCaul?
	No.
	They sent FEMA down.
	Obviously, it's a federal emergency management agency.
	Saying it's an emergency, it's obviously a crisis.
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	Welcome back.
	I'm John Hinderocker from Powerline filling in for Dennis today, and we are talking with Howard Root, author of the book Cardiac Arrest, a terrific book which you can get at Amazon, and we are taking your calls.
	If you have a question or want to be heard on the Derek Chauvin trial, give us a call, 1-8-Prager-776.
	That is 1-877-243-7776.
	Let's go now to Matt in Pennsylvania on Line 5. Matt, you're on the air.
	Hi.
	Good day to you.
	This is the reason why the Bill of Rights are a right and not suggestions, because the Sixth Amendment states that the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy...
	And the longer you have this time period of the media to slander and create all this animosity towards the person being tried, you end up with a situation we have now.
	Well, maybe, Matt.
	I mean, if the trial had been held, you know, last summer, what do you think, Howard?
	I mean, could Derek Chauvin have gotten any more fair trial last summer than he could get now?
	I doubt it.
	Well, it's a great point.
	I mean, the Speedy Trial Act is meaningless.
	No one gets a speedy trial.
	I mean, 60 days after your indictment, I think you're supposed to be starting your court case.
	And the government comes up with ways that doesn't happen.
	I tried to do that in my case.
	There was no way we could do it.
	But it wouldn't have mattered in this case, because the government can do its prejudicial publicity in a minute.
	And it doesn't matter if the trial's the next week or if it's a year later.
	There's still going to be that lingering effect.
	And actually, right now, for him to get better justice or even a semblance of justice...
	We should delay the trial for a year.
	But I don't think that's going to happen.
	But that would be a way for people to forget about it, figure out where to hold this, and try to get jurors who don't have a preconceived notion of his guilt.
	Yeah, one of the issues, it seems to me, Howard, is that there's been an enormous amount of publicity.
	About the state's case against Derek Chauvin, no publicity about his defense.
	I mean, how many people understand the drug overdose that I think in all likelihood killed George Floyd?
	And likewise, I have not watched as much of the jury selection as you have, Howard, but...
	The portions that I've watched, it's really interesting because everybody has seen the seven-minute video that was filmed by a passerby, which is the one toward the end of which George Floyd dies.
	And it's very powerful.
	If that's all you knew, you absolutely would think that the police officer is squashing George Floyd there on the street.
	But there's another video that lasts for 20 minutes or more that shows what happened before.
	And it shows that all the while, George Floyd is complaining that he can't breathe, which is a symptom of fentanyl overdose.
	The police officers just wanted him to sit in the backseat of the squad car and he wouldn't do it.
	He said, no, I want to lie on the street.
	I've got to lie on the street.
	And I mean, you get a completely different picture.
	But none of the jurors that I saw in voir dire had seen that video.
	They'd only seen the one shot by the passerby that was all over social media.
	Right.
	They've either seen that or at the minimum they've seen the still image of Officer Chauvin with his knee on the neck of George Floyd.
	But they haven't seen the rest.
	I mean, George Floyd had three times the lethal limit of fentanyl in his blood.
	There's also a video from a year or so before where he was pulled over by the police where he had the same complaints.
	He cried, he was asking for his mother, and he swallowed drugs.
	And he was hysterical.
	That probably will not get in.
	To evidence at trial, there's an argument about it right now.
	That video will not get in, but the video of the actual act will get in.
	So it just goes to show, I mean, any time the juror has seen evidence before they get into the courtroom, it's just, it's impossible for me to believe that they can be completely impartial.
	So you've got a situation, it's almost impossible to get there.
	And, you know, the state compounding it, you know, yesterday, Chief Arradondo, the chief of the Minneapolis Police Department, At a press conference where he said, we're going to take back that George Floyd Square, 38th and Chicago.
	We're going to take that back.
	It's not an autonomous zone.
	And the mayor, in response, wasn't there at the press conference.
	Mayor Frye said he was aligned with the chief in his viewing of opening up the timeline for reestablishing traffic in that area.
	And then he said he wanted to maintain a bump out to prevent tires from ever crossing that sacred ground where George Floyd died.
	Now, you know, we had, I think, four people killed in that area last weekend.
	That's unreported, or if it's reported, it's forgotten.
	But the death of George Floyd is going to be sacred ground.
	The Mount Calvary for the Black Lives Matter movement, and we're going to reroute traffic and destroy businesses because of that.
	The police chief is in an untenable situation with his lack of support by the mayor, and it also leads to not getting fair justice for Derek Chauvin.
	Let's go next to Ron in Minneapolis on Line 2. Ron, you are on the Dennis Prager Show.
	Yes, thank you, my friend.
	Just out of curiosity, are you from Minneapolis?
	I was not born in Minneapolis.
	I've lived in the Minneapolis area for 46 years.
	Okay, so yeah, you're very knowledgeable of the area.
	So, my point here, by the way, if it's just a slight better fair trout chance to move it to...
	To Duluth or Rochester, they should do it.
	But anyway, my main point here, what killed South Minneapolis with these riots is our young, immature left-wing loon and Cowley Mayor of Minneapolis.
	He knew what was coming in the South Minneapolis area.
	He knew the damage that was boiling, you know, in the start.
	He should have called the governor, who's also a left-wing loon.
	But at least request the National Guard.
	If he would have done that on a timely basis, we would still have our precious South Minneapolis Lake Street, East Lake Street area.
	My friends, I have a lot of friends who own businesses there, restaurants, you name it.
	It was the mayor.
	He should have called in the Guard.
	Your point on that, or your response?
	Well, Ron, there's no doubt that Minneapolis is one of the worst-led cities in America.
	Now, the mayor, of course, claims that he tried to get the guard, and the governor wouldn't call it out.
	They pointed fingers at each other, and I think both of them are utterly incompetent.
	Let's go real quick, before the break, to Jim in Minneapolis on Line 1. Jim, we have literally got 30 seconds to make a quick point.
	Well, my quick point is, and it's amazing that nobody has mentioned this.
	I've never heard any discussions about it.
	So when you look at the pictures of Derek Chauvin with his knee on the neck, on the back of George Floyd's neck, what has never been brought up is...
	Jim, you've got to hold through the break.
	Got to hold through the break, Jim.
	Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye. .
	.
	So there's the mile marker, 24 miles from the border, right?
	24 miles.
	All these hills right here, notorious for scouts being on top.
	I mean, there's a lot of people that are abused coming across the border, right?
	It's horrible because sometimes you see these women that come across the border when they're menstruating.
	They'll say, because I'll be less likely to be raped.
	Just look at when we're catching thousands of unaccompanied children.
	And it's difficult unless you see it.
	These kids are hardcore, dude.
	They'll take your lunch money when you're five.
	They were having sexual relationship through the chain link fence.
	What we did is we put plywood in between the fencing.
	The day after the plywood was done, they had already made holes in the plywood so they can, you know, interact.
	These are not your typical innocent children.
	They're not, man.
	That's the Mexican border.
	98% of all heroin comes across this border.
	It's ridiculous.
	It's ridiculous.
	And this makes a nice bench for the...
	Coyotes, right?
	Just sit here.
	Because technically you can sit here and make fun of agents as they're coming through.
	No, seriously though, right?
	And then you just kick over and you're like, what do you got?
	Journalists don't get here very often.
	No, they don't get here at all.
	No, they don't get here.
	I'm in Mexico.
	Drugs on my back.
	No agents.
	No border patrol.
	No cameras.
	No wall.
	And what's the first thing I see?
	I see a sign, a deterrent, that says, oh, be careful.
	Don't expose yourself to the water or the rattlesnake.
	Yeah, that's really going to stop them, right?
	And you know what?
	Even if you have ladders, a better physical barricade gives our agents the ability and the time to come up here and make the apprehension.
	That's what's needed.
	This is a national security problem.
	You say, who could possibly be opposing this?
	Politicians.
	We have 44,000 illegal immigrants in our federal prisons currently.
	An illegal immigrant is twice as likely versus a natural born citizen to commit a crime here in the state of Arizona.
	Tens of thousands of kids are being illegally sex trafficked across the southern border every single year.
	98% of all the heroin in America comes across the southern border.
	And the cost of illegal immigration is $115 billion a year.
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	It is pretty remarkable.
	So about two weeks ago, we had a story in Just the News that a major Democratic bundler, a guy named Imad Zubairi, had been sentenced to 12 years in prison for an extensive scheme to rout foreign money to Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton.
	And, you know, it seemed like an open-and-shut case of...
	You know, a Democratic scandal.
	Keep that in mind.
	Remember, Joe Biden keeps saying there wasn't a hint of scandal during the Obama years.
	Well, the Justice Department would like to differ because they have now convicted Ahmaud Zaberi of routing millions of dollars of illegal foreign money to Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton's campaign.
	Crime committed.
	Obama, Biden, Hillary, millions of dollars.
	Welcome back to the Dennis Prager Show.
	Before the break, we were talking to Jim in Minneapolis.
	Jim is still with us.
	And Jim, you were explaining something about this, about the famous picture of Derek Chauvin kneeling on George Floyd.
	Why don't you finish that thought real quick?
	So what I was going to say is, when people look at that picture, why do people assume that 100% of Derek Chauvin's weight was being applied on the knee that was on George Floyd's neck?
	I mean, we don't know if the majority of his weight was supported on the knee that was on the pavement.
	The only person that knows how much pressure was applied was Derek Chauvin.
	All right, thanks for that call, Jim.
	And, of course, the autopsy did not find any physical injury in the area of George Floyd's neck, any of those structures.
	Let's go next to John in Tampa, Florida.
	John's been waiting patiently.
	John, welcome to the Dennis Prager Show on line eight.
	Everybody else, you should have the trial right now in the city that he allegedly committed the crime in.
	I mean, they have it on tape.
	He's on there.
	What if you shoot somebody?
	And they die from an overdose after you shoot them.
	Should they not be prosecuted?
	Well, he didn't shoot George Floyd, John.
	And the defense is that kneeling on his neck had absolutely nothing to do with the fact that George Floyd unfortunately died.
	Thanks for that call, though, John.
	Let's go to Matthew in Lansing, Michigan, on Line 5. Matthew, welcome to the program.
	Yeah, it was pretty quick.
	I want to talk about the strategies of the left.
	For the last six years, I've been working on a book, and I got it published, and I figured out what they do in this book.
	Are you there?
	Yeah, go ahead.
	Don't summarize the whole book, though, please.
	They reversed the Declaration of Independence and forced conformity.
	They don't want anybody breaking from that conformity.
	They'll destroy anybody that gets in their way.
	They also break Darwin's code.
	They destroy Darwin's natural code in man, no matter who it is.
	Could be Kavanaugh, could be Trump.
	It doesn't matter.
	They are all about power 100% of the time.
	In this book that I wrote, I call it The Hidden Code of God because it makes up the Bible structure, too.
	All the sins are on that side.
	When you flip the Declaration of Independence upside down...
	You get all the evil in the world.
	You get the Hitlers, the Stalins, the Pol Pot, the mass murderers.
	Matthew, I've got to agree that you've got a point there.
	We are going to have to go to a break here in just a moment.
	We've been talking about the Derek Chauvin trial, where they're in the midst of jury selection here in Minneapolis.
	We've been talking with Howard Rutt.
	Howard, thanks so much for being on the program.
	Thanks, John.
	Thanks for inviting me on.
	And one last time, I will say that Howard is the author of the book Cardiac Arrest, a terrific book.
	You can get it at Amazon.
	on.
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	We have cops, we have law and order.
	Why are we allowing people to burn down cities, to destroy property?
	It's just crazy to me.
	It's like we don't need to allow that.
	It tells you that the leadership don't care about the community.
	They don't care about the people.
	Just like your child.
	You know, I care about my sons, so I'm not going to let them act a fool.
	And I'm going to support them, but I'm not going to let them act out and ruin their lives and ruin their reputation and all of the above.
	I'm going to treat them right because I love them.
	If I didn't love them and didn't care about them, then I'd let them flip out, roll on the ground, cry, spout, lose composure, all of the above.
	And that's exactly what these leaders are doing in the community.
	They don't care.
	They think Black people are animals.
	They think this is an appropriate response.
	These people deserve to burn down their own communities and burn down Black businesses and have property value go down in these areas.
	It's racism in the fact that they They think so little of black people in these inner city communities.
	And it's also racism because they wouldn't have cared if Officer Chauvin was not white.
	It's all propaganda.
	It's all racial tension that they make money off of and on the back end.
	It does seem to me like a profound lack of courage not to stand up to mobs that are destroying property.
	It's just an amazing thing.
	But it's an interesting thing, really, since the 60s.
	We've been seeing this in America when we had You know, radical students taking over universities and they pretty much let them get away with it.
	They didn't need to, but they kind of had this attitude like, well, who are we?
	You know, we're over 30. What do we know?
	And it's kind of that, you know, throwing common sense in the garbage and letting people act out or act the fool, as you put it.
	It really is, in my mind, you denigrate somebody when you allow them to behave that way.
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	Let's talk about the border here.
	You're ranking member for the Republicans on the Homeland Security Committee.
	We know we have a crisis.
	What is going on?
	Tell them they can stay, they're going to come, right?
	And I think the messaging has been awful.
	And you couple that with the President's rescinding the Remain in Mexico policy and the Northern Triangle policy.
	That essentially meant that you could not enter the United States.
	You had to apply for asylum in Mexico, or if you came from Central America, the first safe country, and that would be Mexico as well.
	So that was being enforced.
	The Title 14 Safety provisions due to COVID were being enforced.
	So we pretty much had it shut down in terms of political asylum.
	And then with the stroke of a pen, Biden completely reversed those policies.
	And then Secretary Mayorkas said something as dumb as, well, I'm not saying you can't come, just don't come right now.
	And those kind of messages, and I've been in this business for a long time, living in a border state, when you say that, those kind of things.
	The traffickers and the cartels, they pick up that language.
	And, you know, they basically sent a green light to them.
	So the cartels and the coyotes make money by peddling the message that the border is open.
	President Biden and his team amplified that message.
	Are they doing anything to change that message, Congressman McCaul?
	No.
	They sent FEMA down.
	Obviously, it's a...
	Federal Emergency Management Agency.
	say it's an emergency it's obviously a crisis.
	So about two weeks ago, we had a story in Just the News that a major Democratic bundler, a guy named Imad Zubairi, had been sentenced to 12 years in prison for an extensive scheme to rout foreign money to Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton.
	And it seemed like an open-and-shut case of a Democratic scandal.
	Keep that in mind.
	Remember, Joe Biden keeps saying there wasn't a hint of scandal during the Obama years.
	The Justice Department would like to differ because they have now convicted Ahmaud Zubairi of routing millions of dollars of illegal foreign money to Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton's campaign.
	Crime committed.
	Obama, Biden, Hillary, millions of dollars illegally funneled from foreign actors through this man's offices, Imad Zubairi, and then you...
	He's guilty to it.
	He's an idiot.
	He pleads guilty He goes to prison for 12 years.
	But you, because you've been in the business for decades, you understand what the acronyms hide.
	What did John Solomon see in those filings?
	There was one document where I think the judge mistakenly left blank an acronym that stands for the Classified Intelligence Protection Act, CIPA. What does that mean?
	It means that spy agencies and spy information was involved in this case.
	And the first thing I'm thinking is...
	How could there be spies involving political donations?
	There's nothing to do with espionage.
	So the antennae went up.
	John Solomon realized there's a bigger story.
	And what's the bigger story?
	Let's start digging.
	And here's what we found out.
	That the entire time he was routing money and raising money for politicians and going on trips with John McCain and Lindsey Graham and raising money for Barack Obama, Joe Biden, he was working with U.S. intelligence agencies in a significant way.
	How significant?
	There is a filing in the court that is 77 pages long that lays out all of his operations for the U.S. Intelligence Committee going back to 2000. And we're going to have over two million signatures turned into the various board
	of registers up and down the state of California.
	Well, Mike, I can tell you, I watched the governor's press conference.
	I almost said president, good lord.
	And I can tell you he's scared.
	He no longer now is talking about if the recall happens.
	He's now conceding that it is going to happen.
	I actually watched The View this morning because Gavin Newsom was on it.
	And I also find it interesting that he bothers to go on The View and other national shows, but isn't actually addressing the California press or even addressing, you know, California-based shows like yours.
	Well, Mike, you know he's in trouble when out comes a race car.
	During this press conference today, he attributed the recall effort to, wait for it, QAnon, Trump supporters,
	white nationalists. - white nationalists. -
	Welcome to the Dennis Prager Show.
	I'm John Hinderocker from Powerline, filling in for Dennis today.
	And we are joined now by my friend, Kendall Qualls.
	Kendall, thanks for being on the program.
	Well, John, thank you so much for having me.
	Kendall, you have founded a new movement.
	It's called Take Charge Minnesota.
	And I want to talk about it because I think...
	I think your effort really is the antidote to Black Lives Matter and critical race theory and some of the trends that we're seeing in America today.
	But since this is a national show, most of our listeners probably aren't familiar with you and your story.
	So let's begin by just taking a couple of minutes to just tell our listeners who you are and what led you to get into public life.
	Sure, absolutely, John.
	Thank you again for having me.
	You know, my story is a story that many people have, regardless of race, that most of us don't come from means or from wealthy families.
	We make our way, and I'm no different.
	I started my life, unfortunately, my parents divorced when my dad came back from Vietnam in the late 1960s.
	And we moved from Fort Campbell, Kentucky, home of the 101st Airborne, to Harlem, New York, where my grandparents lived.
	And this was in the late 60s.
	And where basically Harlem was the epicenter for drugs, violence, and gangs.
	And so my mother and my four siblings moved there.
	Literally, we get off the bus, the Greyhound bus, and Grampsville Station.
	We take a city bus to Harlem.
	And a block before we reach my grandparents' apartment, we're held up in broad daylight.
	And I'm in second grade.
	I'm seven years old, roughly.
	And I'll never forget it.
	My mom basically pleads with the guy, please, mister, this is all the money I have.
	I have five kids.
	And some guy standing not too far from her, he could barely stand up.
	I couldn't tell if he was drunk or on drugs.
	He basically said, lady, you better give that man all your money.
	You know, he doesn't care if you have five kids or ten kids.
	So that was our first day in New York.
	And unfortunately, my mom couldn't raise all five of us by herself.
	After three years of going to elementary school in Harlem, you know, my older brothers and sisters were getting absorbed into the street culture of Harlem.
	My father, who was a drill sergeant in Oklahoma, he came and got me and my younger brother to live with him.
	And because he was paying alimony and child support, you know, he was living in a trailer park.
	That's how I got my start in life.
	I've been called trailer trash and ghetto kid and a lot worse.
	But I tell people, you know, in the country that we live in, you know, where you start in life is not where you have to stay in life.
	And I made sure I didn't stay there.
	Yeah, and so you've had a terrific career, Kendall.
	You know, you went to school, you were in the Army.
	Just maybe summarize that real quickly for our listeners.
	Then we'll talk about how you got into public life.
	Sure, sure.
	So, John, basically, I paved my way through college.
	I had a taste of poverty.
	I didn't like it.
	I didn't know how I was going to get out, but I knew it started with an education.
	So I worked full-time, paved my way through college.
	After college, I got a commission in the Army.
	I was an artillery officer.
	I served five years on active duty here in the U.S., as well as right on the border of South Korea and North Korea on the DMZ. After five years, I pursued a civilian career.
	Johnson& Johnson, they recruited me at that time.
	And sales, sales management, marketing, earned another graduate, earned actually two graduate degrees.
	And, you know, moved through the home office and started leading business unit.
	You know, literally, here's this kid that started in Harlem, held up when he was seven years old.
	And at 37, I was leading a brand team, a product that was worth a billion dollars and had a $95 million budget.
	Well, they're literally an hour away from where I held up as a kid.
	And this is one of the reasons why I decided to get in.
	So this is not much about, hey, look what this guy did in a successful career.
	In my life, my personal or professional life, there are people that helped me along the way.
	They were white and black, rich and poor, male and female.
	And I said this throughout my life in the campaign that I had, was Americans help each other.
	When they see someone trying to better their life, They help each other and they don't put a filter on that help.
	And so it was one of the reasons I decided to run for office because the narrative that I started hearing about our country was so wrong that I felt obligated to do something based on the people that helped me and because when there's evil that's pervasive across the country, good people need to stand up and I felt obligated to do so.
	And so you ran for Congress in 2020 against an incumbent in the 3rd Congressional District in Minnesota and unfortunately fell short.
	But after that Congressional run, you decided to get active in a different way and to start an organization that would really be directed primarily at...
	The African-American community, and especially young people.
	Tell our listeners, we're talking, by the way, with Kendall Qualls, who's from Minnesota.
	Tell our listeners about that effort, Kendall.
	Yeah, it's interesting.
	So it's really kind of a spin-out of the message that I gave during the campaign, is that America is a great country.
	You know, when we think about the issues that we talk about with our country, it's always improving, always evolving.
	No country is perfect.
	But one of the things for a kid like me to be able to have the kind of life that I have, I'm not unique.
	There's nothing special about me.
	We just live in a special country and a special place.
	And if you have faith, regardless of what that faith is, I'm a Christian by my faith, you have an opportunity to do things that you couldn't do anyplace else in the world.
	So this organization that I started...
	It's really a spin-out from that.
	It's really to counteract this critical race theory that is such a divisive, not only divisive, but it's built upon, you know, false narratives.
	It's built upon a lie.
	The racial disparities that we see across our country have more to do with two-parent disparity versus fabulous homes.
	And one of the things I really...
	We pushed through is this idea that, you know, the black community didn't used to live like this.
	Throughout my campaign and throughout my discussions, I remind people that the black community, through the 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, and 60s, before we got help from the government, we were nearly 80% two-parent families.
	And we were focused on faith, family, and education.
	And what happened, that trigger that happened in the black community more than anything.
	Is that this idea, when you think about it, sounds kind of pervasive.
	I don't say pervasive.
	Perversive is the right word.
	Perversive.
	That actually a government would actually pay women to have children unmarried and keep that money going to incentivize them to be unmarried, not to remarry.
	And basically I saw that.
	My mom, who got public assistance, I lived in Project in Harlem.
	She worked extra that earns more money to help provide for us, but she had to keep that unreported because if she reported it, she would lose her benefit.
	So it's a program to keep your nose just above water, and it's a program that keeps people in poverty because if they wind up getting married, the benefits are cut off, and there's not a waning period at all.
	So one of the things I'm focusing on is returning back to our cultural roots of faith, family, and education.
	And I'm getting resounding support, not just from the suburban community, but also within the black community, within the Twin Cities, and even calls from outside the state.
	We are talking with Kendall Qualls.
	If you've got a question for Kendall or want to comment, you can call 1-8-Prager-77.
	That's 1-877-243-7776.
	Kendall, your group, your movement is called Take Charge Minnesota.
	And the basic concept, as I get it, is that you're urging young blacks in particular, but all people, to take charge of their own lives.
	Is that right?
	Yeah, it's the concept.
	Take charge of your life, your family, and your community.
	Look, we never waited, as a country, as Americans, we never waited for whatever Washington, D.C. was going to do or the state capitol was going to do.
	We took charge of our own lives.
	And that's what I did during my life.
	You know, rarely did I have to wait or care about what government said how I lived my life.
	And God bless that I did that.
	And so the idea, we're going to use women from the black community, mothers, moms, to help...
	We're going to advance our movement and educate the populace on this narrative and reminding them of our history, that we were always, as a culture, faith, family, and education.
	We were dedicated in that way, and we're going to get back to the basics of what made us as a culture stay connected and stay together through the worst of our country when there was systemic racism.
	When we had sanctioned segregation, we persevered.
	Because we were connected together with family, with strong faith, and we wanted education for our kids.
	And unfortunately, again, after the government help came, that was basically destroying all three.
	We have none of those three now.
	All right, we've got to run to a break, Kendall.
	We're going to be right back with Kendall Calls after these commercial messages.
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	- Got it, now let's talk about the border.
	You're a ranking member for the Republicans on the Homeland Security Committee.
	We know we have a crisis.
	What is going on?
	It's like a repeat of 2014. I mean, if you tell them they can stay, they're going to come, right?
	And I think the messaging has been awful.
	And you couple that with the president's rescinding.
	The Remain in Mexico policy and the Northern Triangle policy, that essentially meant that you could not enter the United States.
	You had to apply for asylum in Mexico, or if we came from Central America, the first safe country, and that would be Mexico as well.
	So that was being enforced.
	The Title 14 safety provisions due to COVID were being enforced.
	So we pretty much had it shut down in terms of political asylum.
	And then with the stroke of a pen, Biden completely reversed those policies.
	And then Secretary Mayorkas said something as dumb as, well, I'm not saying you can't come, just don't come right now.
	And those kind of messages, and I've been in this business for a long time, live in a border state.
	When you say that, those kind of things, the traffickers and the cartels, they pick up that language.
	And, you know, they basically send a green light to them.
	The cartels and the Coyotes make money by peddling the message that the border is open.
	President Biden and his team amplified that message.
	Are they doing anything to change that message, Congressman McCaul?
	No.
	They sent FEMA down.
	Obviously, it's a federal emergency management agency.
	saying it's an emergency, it's obviously a crisis.
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	It is pretty remarkable.
	So about two weeks ago, we had a story in Just the News that a major Democratic bundler, a guy named Imad Zuberi, had been sentenced to 12 years in prison for an extensive scheme to rout foreign money to Barack Obama.
	Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton.
	And, you know, it seemed like an open and shut case of, you know, a Democratic scandal.
	Keep that in mind.
	Remember, Joe Biden keeps saying there wasn't a hint of scandal during the Obama years.
	Well, the Justice Department would like to differ because they have now convicted Ahmaud Zubairi of routing millions of dollars of illegal foreign money to Barack Obama.
	Hillary Clinton's campaign.
	Crime committed.
	Obama, Biden, Hillary.
	Millions of dollars illegally funneled from foreign actors through this man's offices, Imad Zubari.
	And then you...
	He's guilty to it.
	And he pleads guilty.
	He goes to prison for 12 years.
	But you, because you've been in the business for decades, and you understand what the acronyms hide.
	What did John Solomon see in those filings?
	There was one document where I think the judge mistakenly left blank an acronym that stands for the Classified Intelligence Protection Act, CIPA. What does that mean?
	It means that spy agencies and spy information was involved in this case.
	And the first thing I'm thinking is...
	How could there be spies involving political donations?
	There's nothing to do with espionage.
	So the antennae went up.
	John Solomon realized there's a bigger story.
	And what's the bigger story?
	Let's start digging.
	And here's what we found out.
	that the entire time he was routing money and raising money for politicians and going on trips with John McCain and Lindsey Graham and raising money.
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	We're back on the Dennis Prager Show, and we are talking with my friend Kendall Qualls about his movement, the Take Charge movement.
	And we've got a number of callers who want to talk with Kendall.
	Let's start with Tom in Glendora, California, on Line 3. Tom, welcome to the Dennis Prager Show.
	Hey, thank you very much, John.
	Mr. Qualls, I am a conservative college instructor.
	I need help under the Endangered Species Act.
	Don't think I'll get it.
	But I would love, I am so absolutely in great praise of you.
	You are a true American hero.
	It sounds like you're a black, Christian, great American patriot.
	You are just an amazing man.
	We need thousands more of you in this critical time when the country is on the verge of being totally lost.
	Your enforcement of self-reliance, Christian values, raise yourself up by your bootstraps, the rugged individualism.
	God bless you, sir.
	You truly are an American hero.
	Well, thank you for that, Tom.
	Kendall, I think you got a fan there.
	Let's go to Jim in Minneapolis Online 2. Jim, welcome to the program.
	Hey, Kendall, how are you?
	We're on for breakfast.
	I'm well, Jim.
	Thank you.
	Hello?
	Jim, are you there?
	Hello, hello.
	I'm sorry.
	Jim, are you still there?
	Go ahead.
	Yeah, I'm here.
	I'm here.
	Can you hear me?
	Yeah, we can hear you, but you've got to say something quicker or we'll cut you off.
	All right.
	No, I was a supporter of Kendall's.
	Met him over breakfast with a friend of mine, and we really liked everything he said.
	And I'm really sorry he didn't win, but he was a true conservative gentleman, and he understands the issues as good as anybody.
	Couldn't agree with you more, Jim.
	Let's go to Chris in Columbia, South Carolina, on Line 8. Chris, welcome to the Dennis Prager Show.
	Hello.
	Yep, fire away, Chris.
	Hi, I just wanted to have a question of how you stay motivated and stay encouraged when, I mean, I'm a military veteran.
	I've been married 20 years, I have a black family, and I work with the Innocent Project and really try to help our own community.
	But it's to the point where you get disintegrated, call different names such as Uncle Tom and things like that.
	When you're really trying to educate your own community, how do you keep motivated and just say, you know what, forget it, let me just focus on my family, and that's it.
	Because it's not even another race.
	I try to educate people on facts and exactly.
	About the government, how they try to, you know, tear up our family by giving us assistance, like you mentioned, but also about black-on-black crime and violence within our own community, and you feel like you're going against the grain.
	Yeah.
	I hope you understand my question.
	I'm happy to answer that question.
	How do you stay?
	Yeah.
	Well, Chris, so first of all, absolutely love to answer that question.
	You know, I have the same issues in my own family.
	Really, they think I'm the unicorn, weird guy out.
	But here's a scenario.
	When you have truth on your side, and when you have faith, this is the message.
	You've got to remember, you know, Dennis Baker always talks about faith and is going to pull us together as a country and returning back to our roots.
	Even God's prophets had problems communicating this to the people of Israel.
	So, we're not going to be accepted with a narrative until it hits critical mass.
	We're going to win, and we're going to win this, but you know what?
	What people got to see is resilience, they got to see leadership, and they see bold confidence.
	I can't tell you how many men and women in the black community are joining this movement.
	Now we're still in the minority, but when they see someone standing up against the narrative, and guess what?
	They're standing up for things that are right.
	Faith, family, and education.
	Reigniting.
	And resurrecting them to parent American black family, who could be against that?
	Right?
	If they're against our movement, they're against something that is basic and pure and innocent as family, then they have issues.
	And I'm going to fight for that every step of the way.
	All right.
	You can learn a lot more about Kendall's movement at TakeChargeMN.com.
	Let's go next to Doug in Princeton, New Jersey, on Line 1. Doug, you're on the Dennis Prager Show.
	Hey, great.
	Hey, there was a commentary on that, Danielle Sittel, S-I-T-T-E-L, on Google.
	In her WordPress, she went to college.
	They give her a diploma.
	You're forced to have children.
	It says, blur the other lines.
	I'm going to force marriage to two older females in town like my look.
	That's two judges' daughters.
	Obtaining me is easy to search and click online.
	Get the message somehow.
	Since secondary school, eighth grade, pumps children with unhealthy.
	I'm completely surrounded.
	There's no escaping it.
	Hey, listen.
	Hey, thanks for that call, Doug.
	Thanks for that call.
	No idea what that was all about.
	Live radio, Kendall.
	Let's go to Terrence in Spartanburg, South Carolina, on Line 3. Terrence, welcome to the program.
	Yeah, just commenting on what you said about the black culture changing.
	I think a lot of the stuff changed once.
	Now that it's so easy to put someone's child support, like you said, when the government health started, I don't think it's as much as a focus on keeping a family together once.
	It's so easy for them to go and just have the support given to them so family focus is out of the window.
	Well, you're right.
	So you guys didn't hear basically this whole idea of it's an easy, especially generationally, it became easily generationally.
	If you see not only your mother that was on support, but everyone in your community is on support, and when we get back to our basic roots, faith, you know what?
	From a God-centered life, the idea of having the government support you is not consistent with our faith.
	And number two, we have 50 years of evidence that shows what has happened to us as a culture.
	50 years ago, there was a...
	He wasn't a senator yet, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, he warned us.
	He warned America.
	Black Americans right now in 1965, 24% of us in the black community were unwed births.
	24%.
	He said, if this continues, these people won't have the benefits.
	They won't be able to experience the benefit of America from what we all know of it.
	He was ridiculed and mocked.
	No one listened to him.
	Fifty years later, that's not that 24%.
	In parts of North Minneapolis, 90% of these kids have no father in a home.
	That is our number one racial disparity issue.
	Kendall calls.
	Hey, Kendall.
	Kendall, we're up against the break.
	So thank you very much for being on the program.
	Go to TakeChargeMN.com to learn much, much more.
	We'll be back after these messages with Governor Christine Olam.
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	Okay, last thing has got to be the borders.
	It's obviously a crisis.
	It's obviously self-inflicted.
	Joe Biden's messaging was, come on, all in, all in, all in free.
	What happens next?
	Well, I mean, the borders open, and this has fueled a crisis in the country.
	And to, you know, give credit where credit's due, the...
	The Trump administration did a really good job of getting this thing under control, but now having a lot of these asylum seekers just coming in, unaccompanied minors coming in, reducing enforcement, quit building the fence, and there are just so many things that they've done, including revoking the emergency declaration in January.
	Sending FEMA down there.
	So it wasn't an emergency, I guess, but now it's an emergency because we've got the Federal Emergency Management Agency heading down to the border to help down there.
	But this is a big, big problem for this administration.
	The left doesn't like an immigration policy that has tough borders in it, and I think he's going to be under a ton of pressure to continue to relax enforcement and continue to stop building the border wall and to pause deportations and all those sorts of things.
	They're going to have to own this, and it's going to continue to be a big problem.
	I hope they recognize that and take steps to fix it, but I don't know if they have the political wherewithal to do that.
	Now, I note that FEMA is going to open the Dallas Convention Center as a temporary shelter for thousands of migrant teenage boys.
	That's not going to end well.
	I had two teenage boys, and if you put thousands of them in a convention center, I don't care how well-staffed it is, that is not going to end well because they're teenage boys.
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	You really think that the number one parliament in America is Donald Trump and Donald Trump supporters?
	As opposed to a country now where almost 40% of kids Brought into the world are brought into the world without a father married to the mother.
	50% Hispanic kids, 25% white kids.
	And the reason that number is important is because in 1965, there was a booklet put out by Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who later on ran for and got elected to Senate in New York as a Democrat.
	At the time, 25% of black kids were born outside of wedlock, a number they thought was alarming.
	It is now 70%.
	Now 25% of white kids are born outside of wedlock.
	Is CNN talking about that?
	Is Don Lamont talking about that?
	15,000 homicides in this country, Don.
	Half of them are black victims.
	Of those black victims, how many of them do you think were shot by people from QAnon?
	By people from the Proud Boys?
	By white nationalists?
	The real issue going on with black people In this country, Don, since you're so concerned about the black community, it's not white nationalists, not Confederate statutes, not QAnon,
	but the fact that in my state of California, one of the wealthiest states in the Union, 85% of black children in the state of California cannot read at state levels of proficiency, and the mass scores are even worse.
	Where are you on that?
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	Welcome back to The Dennis Prager Show.
	We are delighted to be joined now by Governor Kristi Noem of South Dakota.
	Governor, thanks for being on the program.
	Oh, absolutely.
	Thrilled to be with you.
	Thanks for having me.
	Governor, South Dakota is known for freedom, for Mount Rushmore, and for fireworks.
	And if you put those things together, what do you get?
	You get...
	Fireworks at Mount Rushmore on the 4th of July.
	But you folks are now having a problem with the Biden administration.
	Tell our listeners about that if you would.
	Oh, we are, John.
	We're just so disappointed because we were recently notified that the Biden administration is not going to allow us to have fireworks at Mount Rushmore this year.
	I think most everybody remembers the fantastic celebration of American independence that we had last year.
	And we had signed agreements even last year to continue on with that for the next three.
	But the Biden administration has come in and made a decision that we won't be allowed to do that.
	And we're just extremely disappointed.
	We had hoped that we could continue to focus on our founders, on this wonderful monument, and on that special day of when we celebrate our freedom.
	My sense, Governor, is that the left, and I think the left is thoroughly in charge of the Biden administration, doesn't really like patriotism.
	They don't really like the 4th of July, fireworks, Mount Rushmore.
	Am I being paranoid, or do you think that's what's going on here?
	Well, you know, President Biden had talked about the 4th of July as a day we will celebrate our independence from COVID-19, but yet they turn around and...
	Do something like this and it's really frustrating for us because this was just a political decision.
	Some of the arguments in the past have been that it's not safe to have fireworks, that some of the environmentalists have said there was a danger of wildfires and contamination of our water supply and all of that.
	We went through the processes, the permitting, the studies and proved that none of that was true, that we were going to...
	Make sure we were doing it safely and responsibly and had checked all the boxes and gotten signed off and then they still decided to not allow us to move forward with fireworks this year.
	So it does feel very political.
	It feels like it's on purpose and it's unfortunate because it really is an event where we all can unify and not be of one political party or another.
	We can just be Americans and I'm sad we won't be able to do that this year.
	You know, over the last year, you mentioned independence from COVID. I don't know that the 4th of July was originally established to celebrate independence from COVID, but I guess that's another story.
	But South Dakota, you in particular, and South Dakota in general, have really stood as a beacon of freedom throughout the last year amid all the shutdowns and the mask mandates and the children being barred from the schoolhouse and so forth.
	And you've become kind of a lightning rod.
	Do you think there's some hostility toward you on the part of the Biden administration because of your stand on behalf of freedom?
	You know, it's possible, but really I just, this last year, focused on doing my job and then not overstepping my authority as a governor.
	So, you know, this last year I made decisions based on what my role would be.
	And told the people of my state that I was going to give them all the information that I had and then let them use personal responsibility to make decisions on their health, but also running their businesses, taking care of their families.
	And we're doing, you know, very well as far as balancing all that goes into having a quality of life.
	So I think that is extremely...
	It's a different path than what Democrat governors took, and therefore we've seen the left just come after me.
	They've come after me and attacked me and are trying to make an example out of me, and perhaps this is another way that they're doing it.
	But I would really like to work with them, since we already did have the agreements all signed and done.
	It'd be nice if they would honor their previous agreements.
	You know, it's interesting because the Washington Post, the New York Times, all these people have attacked you over the course of the last year.
	But what's happening, though, is that Governor Newsom is being recalled.
	Governor Cuomo might have to resign.
	Governor Whitmer is being investigated.
	You folks in South Dakota are looking really good right now.
	Well, we've got wonderful people here.
	You know, I think people here just recognize that what we have is special, that we have neighbors that...
	Trust each other and that we use common sense when we make decisions.
	In fact, we're having a lot of people and businesses move to South Dakota right now.
	I think the vast majority of them that are moving and coming here are saying that they want to be somewhere where the government respects them and that the government knows that it isn't the entity that should be making all their life decisions and determining exactly how they do every single thing and keep their doors open on their businesses.
	You know, that's resonating with folks across the country, and it's given us a wonderful opportunity to tell our story.
	I told folks when I ran for governor that I believe South Dakota could be an example.
	It's called freedom.
	Governor Kristi Dohm, thanks so much for being with us.
	You bet.
	Thank you.
	Have a wonderful day.
	Have a wonderful day.
	Now let's talk about the border.
	You're a ranking member for the Republicans on the Homeland Security Committee.
	We know we have a crisis.
	What is going on?
	It's like a repeat of 2014. I mean, if you tell them they can stay, they're going to come, right?
	And I think the messaging has been awful.
	And you couple that with the president's rescinding.
	The Remain in Mexico policy and the Northern Triangle policy, that essentially meant that you could not enter the United States.
	You had to apply for asylum in Mexico.
	Of course, we came from Central America, the first safe country, and that would be Mexico as well.
	So that was being enforced.
	The Title 14 safety provisions due to COVID were being enforced.
	So we pretty much had it shut down in terms of political asylum.
	And then with the stroke of a pen, Biden completely reversed those policies.
	And then Secretary Mayorkas said something as dumb as, well, I'm not saying you can't come, just don't come right now.
	And those kind of messages, and I've been in this business for a long time, living in a border state, when you say that, those kind of things, the traffickers and the cartels, they pick up that language.
	And, you know...
	They basically sent a green light to them.
	The cartels and the coyotes make money by peddling the message that the border is open.
	President Biden and his team amplified that message.
	Are they doing anything to change that message, Congressman McCaul?
	No.
	They sent FEMA down.
	Obviously, it's a federal emergency management agency.
	It's obviously a crisis.
	So about two weeks ago, we had a story in Just the News that a major Democratic bundler, a guy named Imad Zubairi, had been sentenced to 12 years in prison for an extensive scheme to rout foreign money to Barack Obama.
	Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, and it seemed like an open-and-shut case of a Democratic scandal.
	Keep that in mind.
	Remember, Joe Biden keeps saying there wasn't a hint of scandal during the Obama years.
	Well, the Justice Department would like to differ because they have now convicted Ahmaud Zubairi of routing millions of dollars of illegal foreign money to Barack Obama.
	Hillary Clinton's campaign.
	Crime committed.
	Obama, Biden, Hillary.
	Millions of dollars illegally funneled from foreign actors through this man's offices, Imad Zubari.
	And then you...
	He pleads guilty to it.
	And he pleads guilty.
	He goes to prison for 12 years.
	But you, because you've been in the business for decades and you understand what the acronyms hide.
	What did John Solomon see in those filings?
	There was one document where I think the judge mistakenly left blank an acronym that stands for the Classified Intelligence Protection Act, CIPA. What does that mean?
	It means that spy agencies and spy information was involved in this case.
	And the first thing I'm thinking is...
	How could there be spies involving political donations?
	There's nothing to do with espionage.
	So the antennae went up.
	John Solomon realized there's a bigger story.
	And what's the bigger story?
	Let's start digging.
	And here's what we found out.
	That the entire time he was routing money and raising money for politicians and going on trips with John McCain and Lindsey Graham and raising money for Barack Obama, Joe Biden, he was working with U.S. intelligence agencies in a significant way.
	How significant?
	There is a filing in the court that is 77 pages long that lays out all of his operations for the U.S. Intelligence Committee.
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	Welcome back to the Dennis Prager Show.
	I'm John Hinderocker from Powerline, filling in for Dennis today.
	And my day job is, I am the president of Center of the American Experiment, which is a policy organization headquartered in Minnesota.
	And we are joined right now by Isaac Orr, who is a policy fellow.
	Isaac, thanks for having me on, Yeah, boss.
	So, Isaac, one of the things that have been in the news here over the last few weeks has been the blackouts in Texas.
	And, of course, that followed rolling blackouts last summer, I think it was, in California.
	And this is kind of a new phenomenon.
	I mean, in America, they have blackouts in places like Lebanon or Venezuela, but it's been a long time since people in the United States of America had to worry about whether the lights are going to go on when you flip the switch, and yet...
	Here we are in 2021, and all of a sudden, blackouts are back in the news.
	Let's just start by having you kind of explain at a high level to our listeners what the heck is going on.
	Why did they have blackouts in Texas?
	Yeah, so they had blackouts in Texas, but they also had blackouts in about 20 states during that same period.
	So it's important to remember that Oklahoma, New Mexico, Even North Dakota, some portions had rolling blackouts at the same time, and portions of the South United States, so Louisiana, Arkansas, also had blackouts.
	So what's happened is our grid has become so reliant on wind and solar, and those two sources of energy rarely show up during polar vortexes.
	So we've been planning to fail for a very long time.
	And what's the problem with wind and solar?
	We all keep hearing about how great they are.
	What's the problem?
	Why don't they show up?
	Yeah, so the biggest problem with wind and solar is they only show up to work when the weather is cooperating.
	So the wind needs to be blowing at a certain speed.
	It can't be too low.
	It can't be too high.
	Otherwise, the wind turbines don't work.
	And the solar panels only generate electricity when the sun is shining.
	And, unfortunately, there's no way to store the energy that is produced by these sources for later.
	I think that there's a very common misconception out there that the grid is the sort of bathtub that fills up with energy during the day when the wind is blowing or the sun is shining and dispersed later.
	But that's actually not how the grid works at all.
	It's the opposite of how the grid works.
	It is a highway, not a parking lot.
	And so, in other words, as I understand it, electricity has to be consumed at the instant when it's produced.
	So if the wind is blowing and the wind turbines are spinning, great, they can produce some electricity, but if they're not spinning, you're in trouble.
	That's exactly true.
	So...
	So walk us through, if you would, Isaac, what happened?
	Focusing specifically on Texas, where most of the publicity, at least, is banned, what exactly happened that caused the lights to go out all across much of that state?
	Yeah, so Texas was a cascade of failures that have been in the works for a really long time.
	What happened was there was a cold snap, a polar vortex, if you will, that caused single-digit temperatures in...
	Texas.
	In Minnesota, we're used to that.
	We're actually jealous of those warm temperatures during the polar vortex, but Texas isn't set up for that.
	So a lot of the natural gas pipelines in Texas aren't designed to operate at that cold of a temperature, so they have problems getting natural gas to the power plants.
	They also had a problem that a lot of the homes in Texas are heated with either electricity or natural gas.
	The polar vortex, a lot of times what happens with these systems, these cold weather systems, is the wind dies down.
	So all of the wind turbines in Texas had a big reduction in output from even a few weeks ago.
	They were bragging about how high the wind was blowing in Texas a few weeks before the polar vortex, but when they needed it most, it got down to only generating 1.2% of its possible output.
	So it was an over-reliance on Natural gas and wind that caused there to not be enough electricity when supply or the demand for electricity was growing very rapidly to heat homes and keep the lights on.
	So if the supply of electricity doesn't meet demand, what the grid operator does is they actually shut the power off to certain areas to keep the entire grid from failing.
	It could have been like a post-apocalyptic movie in Texas if they hadn't done that.
	And so what they do is they on purpose set up rolling blackouts.
	They turn it off in various areas, and they do that because if they don't, the entire thing is going to come crashing down.
	Is that right?
	Yeah, it would be exponentially worse.
	So the blackouts in Texas were awful.
	It should have never happened.
	They should have had better winterization stuff for their pipelines, but they also shouldn't have been relying on these, you know.
	Intermittent or undependable sources of electricity like wind and solar to be beating electricity demand.
	And that ultimately, you know, people say it's not renewable's fault.
	It was the planning.
	But all of the planning that's been put into place has been planning to integrate more renewables onto the grid.
	So the renewable energy advocates are trying to have it both ways.
	And it's important that we hold their feet to the fire.
	So we know that natural gas facilities can be hardened against temperature extremes, like we do in Minnesota, is an obvious example, you know.
	But the problem with wind turbines isn't regional.
	The problem is inherent, right?
	If the wind doesn't blow, they will not produce electricity.
	We've got just 25 seconds.
	Sure.
	Yeah, you can winterize the natural gas pipeline.
	You can't make the wind blow.
	It's an inherent physical limitation of weather-dependent resources.
	And you can't make the sun shine either.
	And so what happens is those two forms of energy tend not to show up for work when they're needed the most.
	We are talking with Isaac Orr of Center of the American Experiment.
	We have to run to a break now.
	We will be back with more with Isaac and the blackouts after these messages.
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	And what we found out was that was on track.
	All he had to do to get a simple deal, get a million dollar fine, no prison time, was roll on Donald Trump.
	Tell a story that Donald Trump, when he donated a million dollars to Donald Trump, Ahmaud Zabari, that he used foreign money.
	The problem was Ahmaud Zabari wasn't willing to lie.
	He did not use foreign money to make a donation to Donald Trump's inaugural committee.
	As soon as he wouldn't go along with that statement, prosecutors throw the book.
	And he went from a million dollar fine offer to 12 years in prison and 18 million dollars in fines, which, by the way, is historic for any donor crime case that I've covered in the last 30 years.
	So like Mike Flynn, the authorities said, if you tell us what we want to hear...
	If you give us, manufacture, implicate Donald Trump in this, it's going to be much better for you.
	But this man refused.
	Yeah, because he didn't want to lie, right?
	He didn't use foreign money.
	He was adamant about it.
	And then all of a sudden, they're threatening his wife with prosecution, just like Mike Flynn's son was threatened.
	And they start throwing all these other cases.
	Now, let's look at some of the charges and what I learned about them.
	One of the charges they threatened him with was obstruction of justice because...
	Some of the materials on his computer were erased while he was under Justice Department investigation.
	What I've been told from my sources, a U.S. government intelligence scrub team went in and did the erasure.
	That's something that should be clear to the judge, but we don't know about it in public.
	So he gets threatened with something that someone else did, the intelligence community did probably to protect his operations.
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	I don't think Officer Chauvin did what I would do.
	I don't think he did what was right.
	But what he did, did it cause the death of Joyce Floyd, is what everybody should be wrapping their mind around.
	Justice was quote-unquote swift because the next day they all went to jail and got charged, or at least shortly after.
	So all of the outrage is bullcrap.
	And I'll tell you this, and I'll make a prediction that I really am questioning whether or not Officer Chauvin will even be convicted.
	The other officers guarantee they won't be convicted, in my personal opinion.
	And why do you say that?
	In other words, is it because now we know that George Floyd was high on two different drugs and there were health issues involved and that it wasn't what it looked like?
	Or why do you say that?
	Well, there's a few things because George Floyd, you know, the knee on the neck situation, even though it was ridiculous and I would have never done it, it looks, you know, I think the police are.
	Welcome back to the program.
	We are talking with Isaac Orr, Policy Fellow in Energy, the Environment, and Natural Resources at Center of the American Experiment.
	And we've been talking about the Texas blackout, the recent Texas blackouts in particular.
	And Isaac, before the break, you were explaining how it is that these blackouts happened and how the root cause is the over-reliance on so-called green energy sources, wind and solar.
	Seems rather obvious when you look at the facts, and yet I've been kind of surprised in the wake of the Texas blackouts.
	Environmentalists have continued to try to explain away or to justify the miserable performance of wind and solar energy.
	Let's talk about that.
	What are some of the arguments that renewable energy advocates have been making?
	Yeah, so I'd like to hit on three arguments.
	There's the one that says, Well, Texas' grid is isolated from the rest of the country, so they couldn't import electricity from their friends and neighbors.
	Then the next one is they say, oh, the wind is reliably unreliable, so we should have to plan around the fact that we can't depend on it.
	And lastly, this one's fun, too.
	They say, well, you know, the wind actually outperformed the forecast from the day ahead.
	So, you know, even though wind wasn't very present on the Texas grid, it exceeded expectations.
	Yeah, so we've got about two minutes here, so let's just take those one at a time.
	Texas was isolated from its fellow states.
	What's the answer to that?
	Sure, that one's malarkey.
	So the problem with that is the Southwest Power Pool and MISO were having blackouts at the same time, and you can't import electricity from states that don't have any.
	This is why California had blackouts in August, because they rely on Nevada and Arizona for power, and they didn't have any to spare, so they had blackouts.
	And this idea that the wind is reliably unreliable, so we need to plan around it.
	Just imagine going to a private business and saying, this employee never shows up to work on time, but we know that, so it's okay.
	It's an absurd argument.
	And the idea of outperforming the forecast, Mitch Rowling from American Experiments said, if you assume the Minnesota Vikings were going to win no games in this season, and they won one, would you consider it a success?
	The low expectations that people set for wind and solar generation during these events doesn't explain away or excuse the fact that they're not very reliable.
	Yeah, I mean, the weather forecast said, uh-oh, we're only going to get about 1% performance from the wind turbines.
	The wind blew slightly more than the forecast, and they got like 2% performance from the wind turbines.
	And the environmentalists said, oh, look at that, wind energy outperformed the forecast.
	I mean, it's the dumbest argument I've ever heard.
	Yeah, and, you know, it's the same people that say, oh, well, we didn't plan well.
	We need to have, it's natural gas's fault.
	Those are the same groups that want to get rid of natural gas.
	They're the ones that want to ban fossil fuels.
	So they can't have their cake and eat it, too.
	It's either you want to get rid of those things or we need those things because the wind that you love is not reliable.
	All right.
	Thanks, Isaac Gore.
	We've got to run to a break.
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	Listen, there are people who are now saying on the Cuomo scandal in New York, there was somebody who literally said, well, at least Cuomo was wearing a mask and Biden wasn't wearing a at least Cuomo was wearing a mask and Biden wasn't wearing I mean, Trump wouldn't wear a mask.
	He made fun of masks.
	At least Cuomo, listen to this.
	This is a member of the New York Times editorial board.
	Talking to MSNBC, Cut 8, Mara Gay.
	Listen, this is how people are now about masks.
	Because I think a lot of Cuomo's success, especially with Black voters, but not only, within the past year and a half of the pandemic, has really been defined by him being the anti-Trump in some ways.
	So whereas Donald Trump was...
	Making fun of people for wearing masks, Governor Cuomo was holding these press conferences, like holding court, you know, and there's a joke within New York politics that says he should win an Emmy for them.
	But truly, he was talking about the importance of science in this and the importance of protecting all New Yorkers.
	So I think that profile is still really helping the governor in this moment.
	That profile, I see.
	So Cuomo was pro-mask while Trump wasn't.
	Don't pay attention to all those thousands of elderly people who died in New York and then Cuomo trying to cover it up and lie about it.
	Don't pay any attention to the seven accusers that say that Cuomo did everything from being sexually inappropriate to assaulting them.
	him.
	He wore a mask.
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	So there's the mile marker, 24 miles from the border, right?
	24 24 miles.
	All these hills right here, notorious for scouts being on top.
	I mean, there's a lot of people that are abused coming across the border, right?
	It's horrible because sometimes you see these women that come across the border when they're menstruating.
	They'll say, because I'll be less likely to be raped.
	Just look at when we're catching thousands of unaccompanied children.
	And it's difficult unless you see it.
	These kids are hardcore, dude.
	They'll take your lunch money when you're five.
	They were having sexual relationship through the chain link fence.
	What we did is we put plywood in between the fencing.
	The day after the plywood was done, they had already made holes in the plywood so they can, you know, interact.
	These are not your typical innocent children.
	They're not, man.
	That's the Mexican border.
	98% of all heroin comes across this border.
	It's ridiculous.
	It's ridiculous.
	And this makes a nice bench for the...
	Coyotes, right?
	Just sit here.
	Because technically you can sit here and make fun of agents as they're coming through.
	No, seriously though, right?
	And then you just kick over and you're like, what do you got?
	Journalists don't get here very often.
	No, they don't get here at all.
	No, they don't get here.
	I'm in Mexico.
	Drugs on my back.
	No agents.
	No border patrol.
	No cameras.
	No wall.
	And what's the first thing I see?
	I see a sign, a deterrent, that says, oh, be careful.
	Don't expose yourself to the water or the rattlesnake.
	Yeah, that's really going to stop them, right?
	And you know what?
	Even if you have ladders, a better physical barricade gives our agents the ability and the time to come up here and make the operation.
	That's what's needed.
	This is a national security problem.
	You say, who could possibly be opposing this?
	Politicians.
	We have 44,000 illegal immigrants in our federal prisons currently.
	An illegal immigrant is twice as likely versus a natural born citizen to commit a crime here in the state of Arizona.
	Tens of thousands of kids are being illegally sex trafficked across the southern border every single year.
	98% of all the heroin in America comes across the southern border.
	And the cost of illegal immigration is $115 billion a year.
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	And what we found out was that was on track.
	All he had to do to get a simple deal, get a million dollar fine, no prison time, was roll on Donald Trump.
	Tell a story that Donald Trump, when he donated a million dollars to Donald Trump, Imad Zubairi, that he used foreign money.
	The problem was...
	Ahmaud Zaberi wasn't willing to lie.
	He did not use foreign money to make a donation to Donald Trump's inaugural committee.
	As soon as he wouldn't go along with that statement, prosecutors throw the book, and he went from a million-dollar fine offer to 12 years in prison and $18 million in fines, which, by the way, is historic for any donor crime case that I've covered in the last 30 years.
	Tell us what we want to hear.
	If you give us, manufacture, implicate Donald Trump in this, it's going to be much better for you.
	But this man refused.
	Yeah, because he didn't want to lie, right?
	He didn't use foreign money.
	He was adamant about it.
	And then all of a sudden, they're threatening his wife with prosecution, just like Mike Flynn's son was threatened.
	And they start throwing all these other cases.
	Now, let's look at some of the charges and what I learned about them.
	One of the charges they threatened him with was obstruction of justice because...
	Some of the materials on his computer were erased while he was under Justice Department investigation.
	What I've been told from my sources, a U.S. government intelligence scrub team went in and did the erasure.
	That's something that should be clear to the judge, but we don't know about it in public.
	So he gets threatened with something that someone else did, the intelligence community did, probably to protect his operations.
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	Let's go.
	I don't think Officer Chauvin did.
	What I would do, I don't think he did what was right, but what he did, did it cause the death of Joyce Floyd, is what everybody should be wrapping their mind around.
	And justice was quote-unquote swift because the next day they all went to jail and got charged, or at least shortly after.
	So all of the outrage is bullcrap.
	And I'll tell you this, and I'll make a prediction that I really am questioning whether or not Officer Chauvin will even be convicted.
	The other officers guarantee they won't be convicted, in my personal opinion.
	And why do you say that?
	In other words, is it because now we know that George Floyd was high on two different drugs and there were health issues involved and that it wasn't what it looked like?
	Or why do you say that?
	Well, there's a few things because George Floyd, you know, the knee on the neck situation, even though it was ridiculous and I would have never done it.
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	I want to talk about something completely different now.
	We don't have a guest for the next couple of segments.
	And I want to talk about a subject that I think is one of the most important going on right now.
	There are so many issues right now.
	We are being attacked by the left on so many fronts.
	It can get kind of discouraging.
	It's hard even to keep track of all the areas where our country is really being imperiled by the left.
	But what I'm going to talk about here for the next couple of segments, in my opinion, is probably the most important one of all.
	And I really want to get some calls on this topic.
	I really want to hear from you, our listeners, and find out what you think.
	So give us a call, 1-8-Prager-776 is the number, or 1-877-243-7776.
	And what I want to talk about now is the way in which the left wants to educate our children, or as I would say, mis-educate our children.
	And the story that I'm going to tell is one that comes from my home state of Minnesota and one in which my own organization has been deeply involved.
	But if you think it's not happening where you live, think again, because I think if you investigate, you're going to find that the left is making the same efforts in your town, your state, that they have made in ours.
	And so I think it's a topic that needs to be addressed all across.
	All across this country.
	So what's the background?
	Well, the background is that in my state, Minnesota, the State Department of Education promulgates what they call standards and benchmarks in a variety of subject areas, eight or ten different subject areas.
	Could be math, could be science, whatever.
	And periodically, those...
	Those standards and benchmarks get revised, and they are revised by a committee that is appointed by the Department of Education.
	So ultimately, ultimately answerable to the governor of the state.
	Well, this year, 2021, the Minnesota K-12 standards and benchmarks for social studies are due to be revised on that roughly every 10-year.
	Now, very few people knew that that was true, knew that that was going on, but the policy organization that I run, Center of the American Experiment, has a policy fellow who specializes in education.
	Her name is Katrin Wigfall, and she keeps track of things like this, so she knew that 2021 was the year for social studies, which includes, among other things, history.
	And so she was very curious to find out who was going to be appointed to the committee to revise the standards that govern how our children are taught all the way from kindergarten through 12th grade.
	And she saw when the committee was appointed that it consisted almost entirely of representatives of left-wing pressure groups.
	Not 100%, but the large majority of members of the committee fell into that category.
	And she knew that the first draft of these standards was due at some point in January.
	And so she was waiting and watching, and sure enough, the committee came out with the first draft of these standards.
	And she took them and she read them and she compared them to the standards that were currently in effect, are currently in effect.
	And they date back, really, to the last time we had a Republican governor in the state of Minnesota.
	And she was shocked at what she found, and she brought it to me, and I looked at it, and I said, you can't be serious.
	This can't be true.
	This is ridiculous.
	And she said, read it and weep.
	Read it and weep, because if you look at the new standards as proposed by this committee, the first draft, and compare them to the existing standards, this is what you find.
	And by the way, we set up a website to inform people about this.
	It is Raise Our Standards MN. Raiseourstandardsmn.com.
	And if you go there, you can see exactly what I'm talking about.
	So, what is it that got dropped out of the existing standards for educating public school children in Minnesota?
	Well, one thing they dropped out is the American Revolution.
	That's right.
	There's nothing about the American Revolution in the proposed new public school But that's not all.
	They've also dropped out the Civil War.
	The Civil War is no longer, apparently, to be taught in public schools in Minnesota if these new standards go into effect.
	It goes on and on.
	World War I dropped from the standards.
	World War II dropped from the standards.
	The Holocaust.
	There's no longer a standard on the Holocaust.
	In this first draft of the new social studies standards for Minnesota, some of the things that at least touched on patriotism used to be in the standards.
	For example, there used to be standards that talked about the Pledge of Allegiance and the American flag.
	Gone.
	Gone.
	Nothing about the pledge.
	Nothing about the flag.
	The standards used to contain information and require that students be taught some basic information about some of the major figures in American history.
	People like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.
	Gone.
	Gone.
	There's no reference to people like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson in the...
	In the draft, new standards, which have been put together by this committee out of the direction of Minnesota's far-left governor, a guy named Tim Walz.
	Well, you look at that and you say, okay, all that's gone.
	The Revolutionary War, the Civil War, the Holocaust, World War I, World War II, the Pledge of Allegiance, George Washington, all that's gone.
	Well, what the heck is in the standards?
	What have they added to replace all of those things?
	That they have taken away.
	Well, I'm afraid that the answer to that question might not shock you.
	So here are the standards that have been added.
	Systemic racism in the United States and how it is rooted in our founding.
	That's a new standard.
	Another new standard.
	How freedom and democracy have included or excluded certain groups throughout our history.
	That's another new standard.
	Here's another one.
	Teaching children to develop a respectful awareness of the LGBTQ plus community.
	Well, what does that mean?
	I'm in favor of being respectfully aware of everybody, but what does that mean?
	Well, for the third grade, there's a benchmark for third graders where third graders are to be taught to be able to explain how it is that a white heterosexual male has more privilege Than a black, trans, female.
	More privileged.
	And I saw that.
	This is for third graders.
	They're supposed to be taught this.
	And of course my reaction was, the people on this committee must not have children because if you were to ask a typical 8-year-old that question, his first question back to you would be, what's a heterosexual?
	I mean, this is, you know, it's child abuse.
	It's just child abuse to take this left-wing dogma.
	and try to inflict it on our public school Of course, it goes on and on and on.
	The Reconstruction, they don't teach the Civil War, but they teach Reconstruction, and the standard there says the Reconstruction period specifically successful efforts to disenfranchise newly freed black Americans and connecting this history to persistent discrimination and inequity in the present.
	It goes on and on.
	Fortunately, the story takes a turn for the better.
	We're going to learn about that after these commercial messages.
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	It doesn't change the absolute obsessive, compulsive craziness of and what a production they go through for the vice president and the president to say a few words at a podium.
	The poor guy, there's people all around trying to get it ready.
	This is right out of a...
	Like a bad movie.
	All right, so I give you the two of them trying to prepare and what they go through for Biden and Harris to say a few words.
	Wiping down the podium.
	Opening the binder.
	Scrubbing the podium down.
	Put your mask on.
	Take your mask off.
	Here comes Kamala.
	She's ready.
	Our commander-in-chief, President Joe Biden.
	Now they start all over again.
	Take the binder away.
	They start scrubbing down the podium.
	She puts her mask back on.
	There's the scrub.
	Hear the scrubbing?
	And here comes Biden.
	You guys get the mask off.
	Take the mask off.
	Takes the mask off.
	Thank you, Madam Vice President.
	Oh, I mean, it's...
	People were posting that last night on social media saying, what in the world?
	Are you kidding?
	This is what you're going...
	This is what you go through?
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	Okay, last thing has got to be the borders.
	It's obviously a crisis.
	It's obviously self-inflicted.
	Joe Biden's messaging was, come on, ollie, ollie, ollie, and free.
	What happens next?
	Well, I mean, the border's open.
	And this has fueled a crisis in the country.
	And to, you know, give credit where credit's due, the Trump administration did a really good job of getting this thing under control.
	But now having...
	A lot of these asylum seekers just coming in, unaccompanied minors coming in, reducing enforcement, quit building the fence, and there are just so many things that they've done, including revoking the emergency declaration in January, and then now sending FEMA down there.
	So it wasn't an emergency, I guess, but now it's an emergency because we've got the Federal Emergency Management Agency heading down to the border to help.
	Help down there, but this is a big, big problem for this administration.
	The left doesn't like an immigration policy that has tough borders in it, and I think he's going to be under a ton of pressure to continue to relax enforcement and continue to stop building the border wall and to pause deportations and all those sorts of things.
	They're going to have to own this, and it's going to continue to be a big problem.
	I hope they recognize that and take steps to fix it, but I don't know if they have the political wherewithal to do that.
	Now, I note that FEMA is going to open the Dallas Convention Center as a temporary shelter for thousands of migrant teenage boys.
	That's not going to end well.
	I had two teenage boys and if you put thousands of them in a convention center, I don't care how well staffed it is, that is not going to end well because they're teenage boys.
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	Thank you.
	You really think that the number one problem in America is Donald Trump and Donald Trump supporters?
	As opposed to a country now where almost 40% of kids brought...
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	Welcome back to the Dennis Prager Show.
	We've been talking about the effort that's going on all across the country to miseducate our youth and in particular to turn them into anti-Americans.
	It's basically a suicide mission by America's public school establishment that I've been talking specifically about the state of Minnesota where I live and these new standards that are being promulgated to govern K-12.
	Public education, and I'm going to go back and tell you some more about the battle that we're fighting here, frankly, in just a moment.
	But first, I want to take a call.
	We've got Arthur in New York who has been waiting patiently.
	Arthur, welcome to the program.
	Yes, hello.
	Good afternoon.
	Listen, my question is twofold.
	The first part is very simple.
	I understand that the immigrants, these people, undocumented aliens or whatever you want to call them, Massing on the border in southern Texas and California.
	And the Mexicans are just allowing them to come through.
	What I don't understand is it's not only immigrants from Central America, but sources have said that there are immigrants coming from other countries as well, as far away from the Middle East.
	Is that true?
	Well, I've read the same thing you have.
	I haven't been down to the border myself, but I've seen the same reports.
	And I guess if you open the borders and you let all comers in, how are you going to control where they're coming from?
	There's no control at all.
	So at the moment, I think it's come one, come all.
	Thanks for that call, Arthur.
	I want to go back now to the topic of education and the left's attempt to really hijack public school education and turn it into an anti-American direction.
	Before the break, I was talking about the fact that the new standards, the first draft of the new standards for K-12 education in Minnesota left out things like the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, George Washington, Tom Jefferson, World War I, World War II, the Holocaust, goes on and on.
	And replace those things with a bunch of stuff about systemic racism and, you know, there's race stuff just shot all through this.
	And one that I didn't mention, this is a new standard in the first draft of these social studies standards that came out toward the end of January, a standard that reads, an analysis of the ideology of manifest destiny and its relationship to whiteness.
	Christianity and capitalism.
	So our school children now are to be taught that the westward expansion of the United States was oppressive and that it was driven by the axis of evil.
	This is left's axis of evil, whiteness, Christianity, and capitalism.
	Well, this is obviously an effort to just hijack our children and turn them into So we responded to it.
	We set up this website, raiseourstandardsmn.com.
	At that website, we had information, and you could sign on to a letter that would be sent to the committee that's coming up with these standards, responding to the first draft and pointing out some of the defects that I've been talking about.
	Thousands of people did that.
	Thousands of people went to raiseourstandardsmn.com, signed the letter, and there's a public comment period, so these are public comments.
	And well over 80%, well over 80% of the public comments that were received on this first draft of the social studies standards came from that website, raiseourstandardsmn.com.
	So the next thing that happened was that the committee scheduled a public meeting to talk about the comments that they received during the public comment period, which, to put it bluntly, were not complimentary.
	That public meeting, and it was over Zoom, of course.
	They didn't get together in person.
	And apparently, the members of the committee didn't expect that anyone from the public would actually tune in on Zoom and participate in the meeting or listen to the meeting.
	But, once again, Katrin Wigfall, the intrepid education fellow at Center of the American Experiment, knew about the public meeting, and she attended it.
	Again, via Zoom.
	Not only attended it, but recorded it.
	Recorded the entire thing.
	So we have audio evidence of what the committee members said when they talked among themselves about the public comments, the thousands of public comments that they received.
	Remember, the committee suggested that they should just delete all the public comments.
	I mean, after all, who cares what the parents and citizens think?
	The chairman of the committee said that it seemed to him that the letter that came from our website, raiseourstandardsmn.com, was racist and manifested the dreaded white supremacy.
	Now, if you go to that website, you can read the letter, and there's a special prize to anybody who can find any racism anywhere in it, or any taint of white supremacy.
	But that is how these people talk.
	That's just their reflex that anybody points out that what they're doing is...
	It's crazy.
	And so we put out these audio clips.
	We turned them into videos with some graphic overlays, and we put them on social media.
	And a lot of people, many, many, many people in Minnesota found out that this is going on, that this committee is revising the standards, that they've gone off in this kind of crazy left-wing direction that parents of public school children certainly are not looking for.
	And they were supposed to come out with a second draft of these standards on February 17, but they beat a retreat and they announced that that second draft has been indefinitely postponed.
	The chairman of the committee was brought before a committee of the Minnesota Senate and asked questions about what the heck are you guys trying to do?
	To all of which, by the way, I misstated that.
	The head of the Minnesota Department of Education Which point of the committee was brought before the Senate Education Committee and had questions.
	And, of course, she pled complete ignorance and said she didn't know what the committee was doing.
	But this is what's happened.
	So the left has tried to steal a march.
	They've tried to do this kind of privately.
	The disinfectant of sunlight has been shined onto their process and onto their product.
	But the fight is not over.
	The fight is not over.
	They've retreated for the moment, but the second draft will be forthcoming before too long.
	I'm sure it's going to be better, but I'm also sure it's still going to be terrible.
	And so it's a battle, folks.
	It is an absolute fight.
	It's the fight of our lives to keep the left from, which completely dominates public education, by the way, with the teachers.
	But it is the fight of our lives to prevent the left from completely dominating public education and teaching our children to be anti-American.
	That is their agenda.
	They want to raise a generation of young people who hate America and who, because they hate America, will be malleable and can easily be turned into the far-left socialist direction that the left.
	And if we don't do something about it, they are going to succeed.
	This is a fight.
	It's going on in all 50 states, and every American who cares about the future of our country needs to be engaged in it.
	We're going to go to a break now, and when we come back, we're going to talk with Steve Hayward about radicalism of the Joe Biden administration.
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	- I think like we have cops, We have law and order.
	Why are we allowing people to burn down cities, to destroy property?
	It's just crazy to me.
	It's like we don't need to allow that.
	It tells you that the leadership don't care about the community.
	They don't care about the people.
	Just like your child.
	You know, I care about my sons, so I'm not going to let them act a fool.
	And I'm going to support them, but I'm not going to let them act out and ruin their lives and ruin their reputation and all of the above.
	I'm going to treat them right because I love them.
	If I didn't love them and didn't care about them, I'd let them flip out, roll on the ground, cry, spout, lose composure, all of the above.
	And that's exactly what these leaders are doing in the community.
	They don't care.
	They think Black people are animals.
	They think this is an appropriate response.
	These people deserve to burn down their own communities and burn down Black businesses and have property value go down in these areas.
	It's racism in the fact that they They think so little of black people in these inner city communities.
	And it's also racism because they wouldn't have cared if Officer Chauvin was not white.
	It's all propaganda.
	It's all racial tension that they make money off of and on the back end.
	It does seem to me like a profound lack of courage not to stand up to mobs that are destroying property.
	It's just an amazing thing.
	But it's an interesting thing, really, since the 60s.
	We've been seeing this in America when we had Radical students taking over universities, and they pretty much let them get away with it.
	They didn't need to, but they kind of had this attitude like, well, who are we?
	We're over 30. What do we know?
	And it's kind of that throwing common sense in the garbage and letting people act out or act the fool, as you put it.
	It really is, in my mind, you denigrate somebody when you allow them to behave that way.
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	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Let's talk about the border.
	You're a ranking member for the Republicans on the Homeland Security Committee.
	We know we have a crisis.
	What is going on?
	It's like a repeat of 2014. Tell them they can stay.
	They're going to come, right?
	And I think the messaging has been awful.
	And you couple that with the President's rescinding the Remain in Mexico policy and the Northern Triangle policy.
	That essentially meant that you could not enter the United States.
	You had to apply for asylum in Mexico.
	Or if you came from Central America, the first safe country, and that would be Mexico as well.
	So that was being enforced.
	The Title 14 Safety provisions due to COVID were being enforced.
	So we pretty much had it shut down in terms of political asylum.
	And then with the stroke of a pen, Biden completely reversed those policies.
	And then Secretary Mayorkas said something as dumb as, well, I'm not saying you can't come, just don't come right now.
	And those kind of messages, and I've been in this business for a long time, living in a border state, when you say that, those kind of things.
	The traffickers and the cartels, they pick up that language.
	And, you know, they basically sent a green light to them.
	The cartels and the coyotes make money by peddling the message that the border is open.
	President Biden and his team amplified that message.
	Are they doing anything to change that message, Congressman McCaul?
	No.
	They sent FEMA down.
	Federal Emergency Management Agency.
	That's to say it's an emergency.
	It's obviously a crisis.
	So about two weeks ago, we had a story in just the news that a major Democratic bundler, a guy named Imad Zubairi, had been sentenced to 12 years in prison for a extensive scheme to rout foreign money. had been sentenced to 12 years in prison for a Welcome back to the Dennis Prager Show.
	I'm John Hidrocker from Powerline, filling in for Dennis today.
	And we are joined now by one of my colleagues at Powerline, Steve Hayward, who in his day job, if you can call it that, is an inmate as a professor at the University of California at Berkeley.
	Steve, thanks for being on the program.
	Hi, John.
	I'm going to talk to you.
	We never talk.
	You know, we just write, but we never talk to each other.
	Yeah, it's kind of fun.
	So, Steve, When Joe Biden ran for the Democratic presidential nomination, the theory was that he was the moderate candidate.
	Barack Obama was a leftist, we all knew that.
	Bernie Sanders is a leftist.
	And supposedly, Joe Biden was the moderate guy, and that's the basis on which I think he got the nomination.
	But it's not turning out that way, is it?
	No, I mean, you're right.
	I mean, he was the moderate, and if he...
	Talk back to just 10 years ago, there was Joe Biden was, sorry, Obama was, you know, thought to be pretty far left in his private views, at least.
	And Biden was the moderate counterweight as his running mate.
	But now, the Biden administration has unfolded very rapidly to be much further to the left than Obama ever was.
	And I think actually Holman Jenkins put this in the Wall Street Journal today in a very good column, saying, essentially, we elected the Bernie Sanders administration, and we have no way of knowing it.
	Now, the puzzle here is, it's not really a puzzle.
	Joe Biden's superpower, if you can call it that, is being where the center of the Democratic Party is, or where he thinks the center of gravity is.
	If you go back to Biden, who's been around forever in the 1970s, he was surprisingly conservative.
	He voted for the Capital Games tax cut in 1978. He voted against the Humphrey-Hawkins full employment bill that had been watered down, but it was still a very left-wing measure.
	And he said at the time, there's something the government just isn't very good at doing.
	And this is the one that shocked me.
	When he ran for re-election in 1978, he was endorsed for re-election by Howard Jarvis, the guy who's touched off the tax revolt in California, the author of Top 13. And then don't forget, Joe Biden in the 1980s voted for every single one of President Reagan's tax cuts.
	So what happened to that guy?
	Well, what happened to that guy is he puts his finger in the wind.
	He realizes the wind is blowing from the far left, and he's going to go with that wind.
	And so I'm really, I guess I'm not completely surprised, but I'm a little surprised that he has broken so sharply and consistently to the far left on everything imaginable in the, what, 60 days he's been in office.
	Let's just tick off, Steve, some of the areas in which the Biden administration has really veered to the left.
	You know, what are we talking about here?
	Well, you know, to me the most shocking thing is something that people have commented on, but I don't think they've really absorbed how fully shocking it is.
	And that was the cancellation on day one of the Keystone Pipeline.
	Now, it's one thing for the government to block a new pipeline from being built in the first place.
	I can't ever think of a president in the past who wiped out thousands of jobs at the stroke of a pen.
	In the private sector, a project that had its permits and was already in the process of being built.
	I don't think that's ever happened before.
	Maybe a government contract or a government project, like an Air Force base or something, but this is a private sector project.
	And I understand this morning that I think 20 states have filed suit.
	Again, by the administration, and we'll see how that goes.
	But that's a very shocking thing to me.
	It really did mean that for those workers and their families and their communities, their jobs were on the ballot, literally, in this last election.
	And that's not supposed to be the way elections go in this country.
	He's installing lots of very far-left people at a lot of cabinet and sub-cabinet positions.
	He looks like he's fully signed on for all this critical race theory indoctrination all the way up and down the educational ladder.
	Good for Governor DeSantis of Florida to stand up to this yesterday.
	That's a heartening thing.
	So anyway, I mean, we're in for a very rough ride here for the next three-plus years.
	Yeah, I'm glad you mentioned Governor Ron DeSantis, who did stand up.
	I was talking about this for a couple of seconds, Steve, before you came on the show.
	This incredible effort by the left, which, of course, controls public education almost everywhere, to turn our children into anti-Americans.
	We've just got one minute here, Steve, but this is truly radical.
	Well, you want to know how radical it is?
	The government of France a month ago, the president, Macron, He said that ideas for American universities are a threat to France.
	And he mentioned critical race theory specifically.
	And so I'm thinking to myself, my goodness, if the president of France, who's really not very good, right, if he can clearly perceive what's wrong with American colleges, when is an American governor, won't be the president, when is an American governor going to start to stand up and talking as tough as the president of France?
	Ron DeSantis is the first.
	I hope we have many more.
	All right, we are talking with Steve Hayward of Powerline at the University of California about the radicalism of the Biden administration.
	We will be back with more after these messages.
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	Listen, there are people who are now saying on the Cuomo scandal in New York, there was somebody who literally said, well, at least Cuomo was wearing a mask and Biden wasn't wearing a mask.
	I mean, Trump wouldn't wear a mask.
	He made fun of masks.
	At least Cuomo.
	Listen to this.
	This is a member of the New York Times editorial board talking to MSNBC. Cut eight.
	Mara Gay.
	Listen.
	This is how people are now about masks.
	Because I think a lot of Cuomo's success, especially with black voters, but not only, within the past year and a half of the pandemic, has really been defined by him being the anti-Trump in some ways.
	So whereas Donald Trump was making fun of people for wearing masks, Governor Cuomo was holding these press conferences, like holding courts.
	You know, and there's a joke within New York politics that says he should win an Emmy for them.
	But truly, he was talking about the importance of science in this and the importance of protecting all New Yorkers.
	So I think that profile is still really helping the governor in this moment.
	That profile.
	I see.
	So Cuomo was pro-mask while Trump wasn't.
	Don't pay attention to all those thousands of elderly people who died in New York and then Cuomo trying to cover it up and lie about it.
	Don't pay any attention to the seven accusers that say that Cuomo did everything from being sexually inappropriate to assaulting them.
	He wore a mask.
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	So there's the mile marker, 24 miles from the border, right?
	24 miles.
	All these hills right here are notorious for scouts being on top.
	I mean, there's a lot of people that are abused coming across the border, right?
	It's horrible because sometimes you see these women that come across the border when they're menstruating.
	They'll say, because I'll be less likely to be raped.
	Just look at when we're catching thousands of unaccompanied children.
	And it's difficult unless you see it.
	These kids are hardcore, dude.
	They'll take your lunch money when you're five.
	They were having sexual relationship through the chain link fence.
	What we did is we put plywood in between the fencing.
	A day after the plywood was done, they had already made holes in the plywood so they can, you know, interact.
	These are not your typical innocent children.
	They're not, man.
	That's the Mexican border.
	98% of all heroin comes across the border.
	It's ridiculous.
	It's ridiculous.
	And this makes a nice bench for the...
	Coyotes, right?
	Just sit here.
	Because technically you can sit here and make fun of agents as they're coming through.
	No, seriously though, right?
	And then you just kick over and you're like, what do you got?
	Journalists don't get here very often.
	No, they don't get here at all.
	No, they don't get here.
	I'm in Mexico.
	Drugs on my back.
	No agents.
	No border patrol.
	No cameras.
	No wall.
	And what's the first thing I see?
	I see a sign, a deterrent, that says, oh, be careful.
	Don't expose yourself to the water or the rattlesnake.
	Yeah, that's really going to stop them, right?
	And you know what?
	Even if you have ladders, a better physical barricade gives our agents the ability and the time to come up here and make the operation.
	That's what's needed.
	This is a national security problem.
	You say, who could possibly be opposing this?
	Politicians.
	We have 44,000 illegal immigrants in our federal prisons currently.
	An illegal immigrant is twice as likely versus a natural born citizen to commit a crime here in the state of Arizona.
	Tens of thousands of kids are being illegally sex trafficked across the southern border every single year.
	98% of all the heroin in America comes across the southern border.
	And the cost of illegal immigration is $115 billion a year.
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	Welcome back to the Dennis Prager Show.
	We are talking with Steve Hayward, author of The Age of Reagan and soon-to-be author of a brand-new biography of Stanton Evans.
	We've been talking about the radicalism, surprising radicalism at least to some, of the early days of the Joe Biden administration.
	We're going to pause here for a moment and take a call.
	We've got Max in New York on Line 1. Max, welcome to the program.
	Yes, hi.
	I just had a quick question.
	The website you guys put together for raiseourstandardsmn.com, that's really great for your guys' state, but is every state in America going through this same time in which they're reevaluating the social studies and the schools because they're teaching different things here in Pennsylvania already?
	And I just wondered, is there something that everyone can go to based upon their state to look at that?
	Yeah, I have a great question, Max.
	The answer is no, there isn't.
	What we're doing is specific to a process in our state.
	And the point that I was trying to make is that it varies.
	The process is a little bit different.
	The details are different from state to state.
	But what I've learned is...
	It's going on in every state or nearly every state.
	It's basically the same thing.
	The left-wing education establishment is trying to use concepts like critical race theory and all this stuff.
	It's all race.
	It's all gender.
	It's the familiar litany.
	What they're doing is they are trying to implement a radical curriculum in the public schools, and the real point of it is to teach our children to hate America.
	That is the real point of it.
	And so what's happening in your community is undoubtedly somewhat different from what's happening in a different community or a different state, but trust me, it's happening, and you've got to look into it.
	You've got to become an activist to fight against it.
	So, Steve Hayward, that's an aspect of radicalism that's not limited to the Joe Biden administration.
	But let's go back to the Biden administration.
	You mentioned that some of his appointments are really far left.
	What are a few examples of that?
	Well, there's Rachel, what's her name?
	The transgender public health person from Pennsylvania.
	He's put in at HHS. There's this assistant secretary...
	Yeah, Rachel Levine, right?
	Yeah, Levine, that's it.
	There's the deputy attorney general nominee for civil rights, who has not yet been confirmed that our writing partner Paul Maringoff has been writing about.
	Vanita Gupta, I think that's her name.
	Vanita Gupta, yeah.
	She's quite radical.
	Yeah, a lot of the worst people are sort of no-names you haven't heard of that don't have a public profile.
	Of course, John Kerry is back, Mr. Longface, and he's pretty awful.
	By the way, Steve, John Kerry, it's been in the news the last 12 hours or so, for the first time in 30 years, did something reasonable and sensible.
	He didn't wear a mask on an airplane.
	Well, but there were two shocks there.
	He was on a commercial airline flight.
	It's got to be the first time he's flown commercial in decades, right?
	He explained here a month ago, you know, I just have to take private planes to Iceland.
	I'm just too important on this climate work, you know.
	And then, yeah, he didn't wear a mask.
	Now, of course, again, the privileges of the elite.
	I have heard stories that American Airlines has banned some passengers from future flights who refuse to wear masks.
	But now former Secretary Kerry is going to get away with it because, well, he's John Kerry, I suppose.
	But I think, you know, there's the old adage personnel is policy.
	So you get not only radical people.
	But, once again, if you want to compare back to the Obama administration, pardon me for rambling a bit, but the one thing right now, the one thing, maybe the top thing I'm worried about now is Obama tried very hard to press the climate change agenda and really hit the wall with his so-called clean power plan that was blocked in court.
	Well, the Biden people, by all indications, are pushing to be very radical on this front.
	I mean, they're going to make canceling the Keystone pipeline look like child's play.
	They're doing a whole lot of wonky things that are hard to describe, but they're breathtaking in their implications and their reach to, you know, distort statutes and fiddle with the scientific data.
	And, you know, we'll have to see if the courts slow it up.
	That's always a slow process.
	But, you know, get ready for gasoline prices and all kinds of things to get a lot worse a lot faster.
	Well, you know, Steve, gas prices have already risen.
	That's one thing that people do notice.
	You can think of three or four times in modern American history where there have been serious political issues rising specifically out of gas prices.
	And we've already seen some increase in gasoline at the pump, right?
	And this may be one relatively near-term check on the administration's ambitions.
	What do you think about that?
	Well, it's possible.
	I mean, you know, the climate ideology is so ridiculously strong that they may not pay attention the way past presidents did.
	You know, Bill Clinton always said, pay very close attention to the price of gas, because he understood that that was a leading pocketbook issue because everybody buys gasoline.
	But now you have politicians like, you know, my crazy Governor Gavin Newsom and others talking about banning the sale of internal combustion cars within 10 to 15 years.
	Which is sheer lunacy.
	I mean, this makes no sense at all.
	It's not going to happen.
	But you have supposed adults really believing this stuff, and they may try and impose it on us whether we want it or not.
	Well, they can try, but it simply isn't going to happen.
	It's like wind energy.
	You can order the tide to recede, and you can order utilities to get all their energy from wind and solar, but they can't do it.
	I mean, the laws of physics will not allow it, and the problem is that a vast amount of wealth is going to be destroyed in coming years if this insane path is actually followed.
	You know, your summary there reminds me of a saying from a famous person decades ago who said, and you won't believe he said it, this famous person said, reality is no bar to the progressive fantasy world.
	I think that's how it went.
	The person who said that was Arthur Schlesinger Jr., the great Kennedy liberal from, you know, the 50s and 60s.
	You know, it's the amazing world we live in when you miss the liberals of 40, 50 years ago.
	You know, I... It makes Hubert Humphrey look like, you know, John Burt Society member, what we're seeing today from the Democratic Party.
	It's just quite astounding.
	And so, you know, you can point out gas prices, food prices, jobs, whatever, and the current progressives simply leave it all away.
	It's really remarkable.
	They are abandoning what used to be considered kind of the signposts of successful policy, you know, jobs, prices, the economy.
	We've got to go to a break.
	When we come back, we're going to talk about the most sinister thing that the Democrats are up to.
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	The poor guy, there's people all around trying to get it ready.
	This is right out of a Like a bad movie.
	All right, so I give you the two of them trying to prepare and what they go through for Biden and Harris to say a few words.
	Wiping down the podium.
	Opening the binder.
	Scrubbing the podium down.
	Put your mask on.
	Take your mask off.
	Here comes Kamala.
	She's ready.
	Our commander-in-chief, President Joe Biden.
	Now they start all over again.
	Take the binder away.
	They start scrubbing down the podium.
	She puts her mask back on.
	There's the scrub.
	Hear the scrubbing?
	And here comes Biden.
	You guys get the mask off.
	Take the mask off.
	Takes the mask off.
	Thank you, Madam Vice President.
	Oh, I mean, people were posting that last night on social media saying, what in the world?
	Are you kidding?
	This is what you're going, this is what you go through?
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	Okay, last thing, it's got to be the borders.
	It's obviously a crisis.
	It's obviously self-inflicted.
	Joe Biden's messaging was, come on, all in, all in, all in free.
	What happens next?
	Well, I mean, the borders open.
	And this has fueled a crisis in the country.
	And to, you know, give credit where credit's due, the Trump administration did a really good job of getting this thing under control.
	But now having a lot of these asylum seekers just coming in, unaccompanied minors coming in.
	Reducing enforcement, quit building the fence, and there are just so many things that they've done, including revoking the emergency declaration in January, and then now sending FEMA down there.
	So it wasn't an emergency, I guess, but now it's an emergency because we've got the Federal Emergency Management Agency heading down to the border to help down there.
	But this is a big, big problem for this administration.
	The left He doesn't like an immigration policy that has tough borders in it, and I think he's going to be under a ton of pressure to continue to relax.
	Welcome back.
	We are talking with Steve Hayward about the unexpected, by many, radicalism of the Joe Biden administration.
	Steve, this is the final segment here.
	We've got to think about...
	Three and a half, four minutes.
	And the last thing I want to really emphasize is that the most extreme aspect, I think, of this radicalism is that the Democrats are trying to lock in their power forever.
	They are trying to make it impossible for Republicans ever again to govern this country through measures like H.R. 1. Talk about that, if you would.
	Yeah, I forget the name of it.
	Essentially, if the bill had truth in advertising, its title would be, Elect Democrats Forever Act, because what it wants to do is override all the state election laws of every state in the country, which, by the way, is probably unconstitutional.
	The Constitution says the states get to set the rules and regulations of elections, subject to a few restrictions, like the Voting Rights Act.
	But, you know, mail-in voting with the most permissive rules imaginable.
	Very little controls on purging the voter rolls and voters who died or moved away or who are fraudulent to begin with.
	And then there's still talk of admitting Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C. as states, and it's presumed they both be Democratic states.
	I think it may not be constitutional to admit D.C. as a state, but none of this constitutional constraints seem to mean anything to Democrats.
	And I think what they're hoping is, this very thin majority in the House and a tied Senate, I think what they're hoping is Republicans will quote-unquote compromise and give the Democrats a lot of what they want, which will put Republicans at a disadvantage in all future elections.
	And yeah, that's it.
	You know, he who makes the rules will determine a lot of the outcomes.
	And I think that's what's going on here.
	And it's pretty brazen and direct.
	H.R. 1, which you talked about there, Steve, basically makes it illegal.
	For any state to do anything to try to ensure ballot integrity, I mean, voter ID, you name it, it would allegedly be illegal under federal law.
	Yeah, you know, voter ID, that's been polled a lot of times.
	That turns out to be a very popular idea.
	You know, I have fun sometimes when I talk to liberals, it's rare and rare all the time, but I'll say, you know, you always say Europe is so enlightened on welfare and, you know, especially social welfare, but, you know, there's no country in Europe.
	That you can find that have voting rules as permissive as ours.
	You know, in France, you have to vote on Election Day.
	They don't allow absentee voting unless you're in the hospital or unless you're out of the country with prior written excuses and verification and so forth.
	And then on the immigration front, we haven't even touched on that, at least you and I have in this segment.
	On immigration, the European countries are getting very tough on this.
	Denmark has just announced this week...
	That they are not going to allow the proportion of immigrants to rise above a certain percentage, like 25 or 30 percent in any neighborhood in the country, because they don't want to have ghettos and high areas of foreign cultures.
	Sweden is going the same way.
	I like to say to liberals, you guys always like Europe.
	Would it be okay if we copied Europe on their whole ladder of social policies and voting practices?
	All right.
	We've got to leave it there, Steve.
	We've got to leave it there.
	We might be the most radical country in the Western world by the time Joe Biden is done.
	Hey, thanks, everybody, for listening.

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