. >> benjamin franklin. >> jimmy: you're going to go with benjamin franklin? [ cheers and applause ] that is -- well, it turns out you can't whip them up into thinking it's benjamin franklin because -- >> it's on me. >> jimmy: oh, it is benjamin franklin, everybody. [ applause ] all right. what horse race is the biggest hrse race in the world? deandre? >> i'm going to go -- we're going to go with kentucky derby. >> jimmy: that is absolutely correct. [ applause ] and embarrassing that you guys played at kentucky and -- >> i had the answer. he hit -- >> jimmy: he did hit the -- he might be a double agent, actually. all right. next question. in what state is the george h.w. bush presidential library located? yes. >> texas a&m. so texas. yeah. >> jimmy: texas is correct. [ applause ] you guys are off to a big lead. all right, guys. your whole state is rooting for you right now. the statue of liberty was a gift to the united states from which country? yes. >> we're going to go with france. >> jimmy: that is absolutely -- [ cheers and applause ] going to go with fra

and if wanda is watching, benjamin franklin was a founding father. buck sexton is a former cia analyst and co-host of the clay travis and buck sexton show. so, wanda wasn't supposed to say that. you are not supposed to say that you are supposed to think that, but you can never say that as a democrat. >> you have two major things happening right now for the democrats, jesse. one is the end of the make believe living constitution jurisprudence that they lived with and used as a certainly a step. in something that comes in when they can't get what they want through the legislature for decades while simultaneously you also have, i think, the impending realization that they're facing electrical annihilation in november. that's why you are getting not precise comments even legal commentators at cbs and nbc don't pretend they read the recent roe v. wade decision. instead it's mobs on the streets and people repeating ridiculous arguments on tv. some of the things that they are saying returning this issue of abortion to the states is anti-democratic? it's an

franklin. born the same day as muhammad ali and one of the most compelling figures of the 18th century. i have been editing all last week and this week. as soon as we are done, we are going to dive into the editing today on the history of the u.s. and the holocaust. what we knew and what we did not know. what we did and didn't do and what we should have done. a very complicated story that needs to be told. we are doing a history of the buffalo. sort of -- it is actually a biography of not an animal but a biography of people who use the animal, who brought that animal to the brink of extinction, and the very same people who nearly killed it who brought it back from extinction. it is a parable of de-extinction. we are doing a history of the american revolution. not just 55 white guys with powdered wigs in philadelphia but a very, very complicated story, a bottom-up story of 1/5 to a quarter of the country remain loyal to great britain. this was a civil war. our civil war was not a civil war. it w

franklin wrote about how to have a successful abortion and what they failed to attention to even though they say they're originalist and textualists is that there is originalism in the constitution that protects individuals bodily autonomy from not only slavery but involuntary servitude and what they fail to take into account was that when the drafters of the constitution the 13th amendment were reviewing it analyzing it figuring out what they were doing. they paid very specific attention to the ways in which black women had. forced into involuntary servitude by their wombs that black women were forced into reproduction. they were sexually assaulted they were raped senator charles sumner from massachusetts was nearly beaten to death in the halls of congress two days after giving a speech about black women being subjected to these kinds of cruelties and yet the supreme court makes absolutely no reference or mentioned to the fact that the 13th amendment abolished exactly what they're sending. into the united states right now, you're talking about involuntary and servitude at a time. we're

he went on to say of second rank or benjamin franklin. alexander hamilton andrew jackson of second rank so this is the way theodore roosevelt understood ulysses s grant in 1900 i'm so pleased that in 2022. we are restoring him to his rightful place as my editor said when we talked about doing a grant biography don't you think grants do for an upgrade? yes, he is. thank you very much. dr. white you are as good a storyteller in person as you are when you read the book. president grant comes alive both in the challenges and in the opportunities today we gather as part of our understanding of public memory the capital historical society is dedicated. to ensuring that our public memory is presented in a way to inspire inform patriotism? mr. blanton, thank you for your work. thank you for your creation and dedication to recreate this statue to the glory it belongs. we thank senator blunt for sponsoring us to be here for sponsoring the legislation. we thank senator brown. congresswoman ann wagner and we thank each of you. this event would not be

rush, thomas f jefferson and benjamin franklin. and they were debating what was the world's oldest profession. and doctor rush was a physician. he said the world's oldest profession is a physician because eve was cut out of the rib of adam he had to be a physician. jeffersonof said i don't think that's right. he was an architect and designed monticello and that is something near and dear to him. the oldest profession is the architect. who do you think created the order out of all the chaos and frankliner said no, you're wron. the oldest profession is the politician. who do you think created the chaos in the first place? and policy has matter to probably more than ever over the last few years and i am pleased to say on issue after issue florida has led the way and i will talk about some of the statistics and outcomes but you don'tt even need to read that yu can just open your eyes and look and see how people behave because not only have we seen an unprecedented w migration into florida for people relocating but we have seen huge inc

rush, thomas jefferson and benjamin franklin. they were debating what was the world's oldest profession. [laughter] doctor rusher was a physician. and so he said the world's oldest profession is a proficient address was eight physician per eve was cut out of the rib of adam. jefferson said no i don't think that is right. jefferson was an architect he designed monticello felt something near and dear he said the world oldest profession is the architect. after all, who do you think created the order out of all the chaos? franklin said no you are wrong. the oldest profession is the politician. who do you think created the chaos in the first place. [laughter] and unfortunately policy has mattered probably more than ever over the last few years. i am pleased to say on issue after issue florida has led the way. and i will talk about some of the statistics and some of the outcomes. but honestly you don't even need to read that. you can open your eyes and look and see how people behave. not only have we seen an unprecedented migration int

rush, thomas jefferson and benjamin franklin. they were debating what was the world's oldest profession. [laughter] doctor rusher was a physician. and so he said the world's oldest profession is a proficient address was eight physician per eve was cut out of the rib of adam. jefferson said no i don't think that is right. jefferson was an architect he designed monticello felt something near and dear he said the world oldest profession is the architect. after all, who do you think created the order out of all the chaos? franklin said no you are wrong. the oldest profession is the politician. who do you think created the chaos in the first place. [laughter] and unfortunately policy has mattered probably more than ever over the last few years. i am pleased to say on issue after issue florida has led the way. and i will talk about some of the statistics and some of the outcomes. but honestly you don't even need to read that. you can open your eyes and look and see how people behave. not only have we seen an unprecedented migration int

and yes, i'm sorry and benjamin franklin, so why not hamilton? why why do you think given all that he did? why he is not at the four like that with others. why do you think that it? well, i think with the exception of franklin in part is because they're all presidents, right and we understand what presidents are and what they do and we, you know on the president's generally speaking so it's easy to kind of know what they do, even if we don't fully understand it franklin is kind of so notorious in so many ways kind of makes sense hamilton is you know the coordinator like the you know, he's the person. figuring things out. that's not the person you normally celebrate. so i think in some ways there wasn't really space that there were people didn't they really just didn't and it's very interesting to me when i talk about this people. don't believe it when i say that people really just didn't know who he was didn't care who he was he wasn't a president and you had to argue for the ways in which he shaped everything right? and in many ways he really sh

franklin. they knew it was wrong, they didn't get out of it. we know it's wrong but you can put yourself in our time in 2021 and say i know exactly what life was like in 1750. we use to understand. we knew it was interviewed at us. we can't tell people, we haven't talked to people if you talk to your great-grandparents or grandparents some of the things they say are so on politically correct youwonder why they bought it and you found in 1950 turns out it was a different generation . they're not bad. later people will look at us and say what were they t thinking c? actually, we are saying that today. driving over. listening to the radio watching tv but i digress . so they see both these men get on parallel paths and they finally meet. when he was doing the research two months ago, when they finally meet him and the person who wrote it down for meeting was frederick douglass lincoln didn't have the time to do it. i would love to have read his book. he waits online and get online outside the white

franklin. they knew it was wrong. they couldn't get out of it. so i don't judge. i know we know what's wrong. but you can't put yourself in our time in 2021 and say i know exactly what life was like in 1750 we used to understand that we knew that it was imbued in us. we didn't do that. we can't tell people we haven't talked to people you talk to a great grandparents or your grandparents some of the things they say is so unpolically, correct. you wonder why they thought it then you found out in 1940 and 1950 turns out different generation, they're not bad later. people going to look us at us in 2021 and say what would they thinking actually we're saying that today driving over listening to the radio watching tv, but i digress so they see both these men get on parallel paths and then finally meet when it when he's doing the research it started two years in two months ago and when they finally meet and the person who wrote it down verbatim was frederick douglass lincoln sadly didn't have the time

and benjamin franklin's book, he supports that position. i don't find any right in the constitution that covers the right of one person over another person's body. usage of it. i am interested to hear what you have to say about that, and how it extends to other non-enumerated rights, and things like that. just a quick catch-up for those who are looking for think takes on these judges. focus on the heritage society. host: sackett, you go first. -- zach, you go first. guest: when a right is not enumerated, the question becomes how is it protected. appropriately in this case, the justices look back to our history, our tradition. they look back at common law. traditionally, abortion was criminalized. prior to the enactment of the 14th amendment, many states criminalized abortion. and if they did not criminalize it, they did not take steps to protect it. there is a long history of not occurred during -- encouraging abortion. it is up to the people and their elected representatives in the state legislators to decide what the appropriate policy sh

ben benjamin franklin and john adams were already there as ambassadors, as ministers to friends too. tony joined them. and adams and jefferson had worked together in the continental conference. congress. and they bonded together. his family inherits jefferson visited adams in english and they towards some of those english gardens together, so they were very close friends. they broke apart bitterly, you know, over the politics of the 17 90s. and then in their retirement, they rekindled the correspondence. they did not talk about slavery, almost never, in the letters. and i suspect it was because adams didn't bring it up, because he knew this was a painful subject, it was one that jefferson didn't have a good answer for. he didn't like confrontation, jefferson didn't. he was a wonderful, he was a magnificent letter writer. there are almost like poetry. and he was a wonderful conversationalist. but he would certainly shy away from one-on-one confident confrontations. our atoms. in a way that jefferson off the hook. he didn't push him on slavery in the correspondence. and jefferson didn'

and at one point it was going to be the bird of the united states, that's what benjamin franklin, one of our leaders suggested, but instead we went with the bald eagle. and the turkey standing there didn't move and he leans over and says, it's a sign from allah, my brother. and i said, damn good advance work. and we got back to the house and i said, do you want to eat? he said yes. we got back and i said, we are going to have lunch. and the relief on the foreign minister's face was palpable. the reason i tell you that is the ranch was a great place to get to know leaders and establish a bond with them, as was camp david. now, camp david was initially called shangri-la, which means heavenly place. which it is. it's tucked in the catoctin mountains. thankfully it is only a 25 minute helicopter right from the south lawn. which means it is extremely accessible. so and so laura and i accessed it a lot. we went there as often as possibly we could. you're going to hear from one of the base commanders camp david, the whole deal, it's a military base, and they've got a lot of other military fu

three of our founding fathers thomas jefferson benjamin franklin and john adams negotiated a treaty of friendship and commerce with frederick the great in 1785. establishing a basis for the special in relationship that we enjoy today. americans were affected in other ways by this city when some of the best and brightest people active in berlin came to the united states. albert einstein george gross arnold schoenberg kurt vile mice vander rao the list of former residents of this city who changed the face of modern america is practically limitless. all right. he is just told me and now they want to create heaven on earth. the we celebrate with you today. well. thank you. thank you. when i thank you very much and i wish you well. so we do celebrate with you today remembering the heroic deeds. of these here on this platform and all berliners and the longstanding relationship between our two countries. but let's not forget the painful lessons of the not so recent past and draw on those experiences. together we can build a better future for this city for europe and for the world. and as we l

franklin and john adams were already there as ambassadors as ministers to france too. so he joined them and he they had you know, adams and jefferson had worked together in the continental continental congress. they bonded even more and and he with her whole family there in paris. he visited jefferson visited adams in england and they toured some of those english gardens together, so they were very close friends. they broke apart bitterly, you know over the politics of the 1790s and then in their retirement, they rekindled the correspondence. they did not talk about slavery almost never in in the letters and i suspect it was because atoms didn't bring it up because he knew this was a painful subject. it was one that jefferson didn't have a good answer for he didn't like confrontation jefferson didn't he was a wonderful. he's a magnificent letter writer. they're almost like poetry and he was a wonderful conversation list, but he was certainly shy away from one-on-one confrontation on so adams in a way let jefferson off the hook. he didn't push him on slavery in the corr

when you go back and you look at jefferson and benjamin franklin, they were closer to being atheist and agnostic. so this was not about one particular religion. the thing that i have a problem with his politicians using religion that they don't practice to be out there gathering votes. i've got a real problem with people like joel osteen praising people on social security saying that if they don't give you money, they are going to go to hell. the truth is in the history of the world, there has never been one verifiable source of evidence that anything supernatural exists from fairies and trolls and leprechauns and gods and demons, which god i like, take your pick. it is the sort of thing that has no place in political life. public life, that is your business. thank you. host: this case yesterday on kennedy v. the school district getting all the attention on the separation of church and state issue, but should note it is not the only case that falls into this realm. it was another case decided with the same lineup, a case that the supreme court ruled on last week that religious rules can

. >> benjamin franklin wrote about how to perform an abortion, right? so again, call it selective opportunistic, both in terms of what we have seen and in terms of efforts to dismantle reproductive health rights. and also note that within the context of so much of this, it really is important who gets to name what. right? because eugenics gets this framed health and risks associated with pregnancy get this framed. an average person were to look at what happens and where the narrative goes, you would think that having a pregnancy was the safest option that a person could possibly ever have that abortions were alarmingly dangerous. and so it is hard for people to sit with that abortions are actually one of the safest procedures that you could possibly have. as justice breyer writes, is more dangerous to have a colonoscopy that it is to have an abortion. they are incredibly safe procedures, but the narratives that harmonize around this are completely inconsistent with that. the world health organization said in abortion is as safe as a penicillin shot, so

benjamin franklin wrote about how, in fact, to perform a safe abortion. so justice alito and the majority here selectively plums history, but alarmingly and what we know from the dissent and also justice thomas' concurrence is it's not just abortion which is at risk right now. it's also contraceptive access. it's access to iuds which is a very popular form of birth control and let's not leave it there. justice thomas has made it very clear in prior dissents that he does not support lgbtq equality including marriage, quality and that, too, becomes vulnerable. we don't need to see those cases reach the supreme court because this case and others really do send dog whistles, dog whistles back to states that will be heard by county clerks and others who will just say i won't issue that marriage license and there are judges in place just like the supreme court, but lower court judges who may very well also follow that dog whistle. this is a very dark period in american history which we are already in and it only gets deeper and darker. >> claire, i want to ask

and benjamin franklin's book, he supports that position. i don't find any right in the constitution that covers the right of one person over another person's body. usage of it. i am interested to hear what you have to say about that, and how it extends to other non-enumerated rights, and things like that. just a quick catch-up for those who are looking for think takes on these judges. focus on the heritage society. host: sackett, you go first. -- zach, you go first. guest: when a right is not enumerated, the question becomes how is it protected. appropriately in this case, the justices look back to our history, our tradition. they look back at common law. traditionally, abortion was criminalized. prior to the enactment of the 14th amendment, many states criminalized abortion. and if they did not criminalize it, they did not take steps to protect it. there is a long history of not occurred during -- encouraging abortion. it is up to the people and their elected representatives in the state legislators to decide what the appropriate policy sh

and benjamin franklin's book, he supports that position. i don't find any right in the constitution that covers the right of one person over another person's body. usage of it. i am interested to hear what you have to say about that, and how it extends to other non-enumerated rights, and things like that. just a quick catch-up for those who are looking for think takes on these judges. focus on the heritage society. host: sackett, you go first. -- zach, you go first. guest: when a right is not enumerated, the question becomes how is it protected. appropriately in this case, the justices look back to our history, our tradition. they look back at common law. traditionally, abortion was criminalized. prior to the enactment of the 14th amendment, many states criminalized abortion. and if they did not criminalize it, they did not take steps to protect it. there is a long history of not occurred during -- encouraging abortion. it is up to the people and their elected representatives in the state legislators to decide what the appropriate policy sh

first, they're horrified by the situation in which this republic has found itself benjamin franklin. it's a republic, if you can keep it. >> right. >> boy, is that echoing in the room. and then secondly, they're saying to themselves, boy, this is not how we intended this to turn out. >> yeah. >> that's a pretty powerful moment. and by the way, lay alongside that, maybe the greatest resignation in military history, george washington, he resigned as commander in chief in order to preserve civilian control of the military. a lot of ghosts echoing in that oval office. >> and voluntarily, decided not to run for a third term. >> correct. exactly. >> setting a tradition that held for a century. so, eddie, the takeaway here for our friends and family that are watching, everybody that's watching and i think for all of us is, government's messy. just like i don't know, sometimes, people say university politics is messy. my mother who played music, choir director, played in churches 30 years said to me, joey, if you ever want to lose your religion, work in a church. yeah, academic politics, wha

making todd aiken and christine mcdonald look like benjamin franklin and alexander hamilton. this is a rough time for republicans if you actually want to win senate elections coming up in the fall. again, the house is the house. it is gerrymandered. you can say as manythings as you want and still probably be elected. >>> joining us now, former prosecutor, district attorney of westchester county, mimi roka back on the show. great to have you. one of the provisions is the boyfriend loophole. can you explain what that is? >> hi, great to be back with you, mika. so this is actually -- i think if people really understand this, they'll be even more shocked, to what you were talking about, that this is the thing that some republican senators are going to use to hold sensible gun legislation. boyfriend loophole, under federal law, people convicted of domestic violence offenses cannot buy or own guns. if they are an intimate partner, defined under federal law, which has a certain definition, or married to or the father of a child with the person who they committed the offense against.