there has never been a nation like it. if you are some godforsaken miserable place with dictators boot on your neck and you see soldiers coming over a hill with a flag, you pray the american flag and american soldiers, why? because they re not there to hurt you. they re not there to take your wealth or to take your wives, they are there to help you. that s what america has been and that s what makes america unique. when is the last time most 16 or 17-year-old heard that? i toured the schools and went to a hundred 20 schools. i asked kids what about america. very few of them could make the case that there was something special about it. i don t mind talking about the sins of the problems and all that, but patrick meehan and jim moynahan said am i
there has never been a nation like it. if you are some godforsaken miserable place with dictators boot on your neck and you see soldiers coming over a hill with a flag, you pray the american flag and american soldiers, why? because they re not there to hurt you. they re not there to take your wealth or to take your wives, they are there to help you. that s what america has been and that s what makes america unique. when is the last time most 16 or 17-year-old heard that? i toured the schools and went to a hundred 20 schools. i asked kids what about america. very few of them could make the case that there was something special about it. i don t mind talking about the sins of the problems and all that, but patrick meehan and jim moynahan said am i
we ll fight for the notion that we are all in this together. and that what makes america unique is that from all around the world, people, our grand parents, parent, generationsing a go or in some cases fairly recently came here because they believed in a certain set of ideals. we hold these ruths truths to self-evident, all of us created equal with certain inalienable rights. what that means is we are not bound by blood lines or not by what we look like, not by the twha we practice our faith, not by our last names, not by our
his whole life is brought people together, together in our common identity as americans, our common values, individual rights and rule of law and freedom of speech and freedom of religion and tolerance. and so we should learn from john mccain s example now, because it s really a critical time for our country. and i hope that we can transform his memory, what we remember about him and his tremendous qualities into a legacy, a legacy that helps bring americans topics. one of the most striking references of course was one of his final references after the helsinki summit when he called the president s performance one of the most disgraceful performances, what he viewed as being much too accommodating to vladimir putin. how did that strike you? well, what john mccain has always been is a very strong advocate. he always will remain, through his memory and his legacy, an advocate for what makes america
with me. it s hard to hear that out loud on television, but we are. tammy bruce has been watching, and she joins us tonight. what you just heard is, and out in the open, bald, justification for political violence. it is and of course we are not unfamiliar with this, we see this historically. americans have looked backed traditionally on history and wondered how that did happen in germany, how did these things happen in left-wing cultures where people do inexplicable things and here it is unfolding in front of us, this remarkably obscene suggestion that certain violence is okay against your fellow americans. we have a system here that is unique in that people who would disagree with, we can argue against them and we have these ideas in the open and we can even marginalize them. we can make it public that we don t like them, we have a legislation and government that protects us with the rule of law and that is what makes america