Tried to please them with handouts. Sound familiar . Is this whats happening to america . Well, a thousand of us gathered here to debate that question. And thats our show tonight. [ applause ] and now john stossel. [ applause ] tonight im in las vegas, nevada, for a special edition of our show. Id like to say that all these people came here just for that. But they really came for freedom fest. The worlds biggest gathering of free minds. This years topic, are we becoming rome . Now, free minds, thats a phrase we libertarians like to use to describe ourselves. This is basically a big conference of libertarians and i think our minds are unusually free, right . [ cheering ] [ applause ] we had to free our minds to but a lot of people think were crazy. But on to tonights topic. Rome. Is the United States about to fall as rome did . Heres the depiction of barbarians sacking the city. Is this our future . First we hear from a conservative, historian and a libertarian. The conservative, steve