David chang, musical guest Lady Antebellum, and the legendary roots crew its the tonight show at home edition. And now, heres jimmy. Jimmy hey everybody, welcome to tonight show at home edition my name is jimmy fallon. Thank you very much. It is day 59 of quarantine 59, i believe. Thats the number going out there. So, almost 60. Tomorrow is 60 days in quarantine im staying at home. Im wearing my mask if i do go out, which is rare im walking my dog my dog, gary, was faking a limp today. She was she didnt want to walk as long as i wanted i go, gary, come on. This is a thing. She started, like, limping i go, all right, no problem. So, i try to walk her home really slow, stopping on the way. Then once we got home running around nothing, like Nothing Happened lets get to some jokes here guys, if things arent crazy enough, this weekend, it snowed in new york city weve been quarantined for so long, most new yorkers woke up like, holy crap i slept through the summer. Yeah what season is it . L
Class for 2020 and we are talking about free speech, incitement, tree threats and will get started on obscenity. True threats. We will be less socratic than usual because the cspan people asked me to be. And heres a task text we are using, demings constitutional law, a good casebook. The first time i have used it so we are learning our way. Today we talk about free speech and we havent talked about it will protection and race discrimination, gender and things like that. Now we are pivoting to a core part of the bill of rights, a different section about free speech. The framers valued free speech highly. Itthe extent they talk about , they saw as mostly political, more than artistic or expressive. The interesting thing about the First Amendment is the courts did little with it for the First Century of its existence. Fromt all case law comes the 20th century or that when he first. R the 21st. Or that when he First Century. 21st century. E many matters were not federal issues incitement w
With oneeading intellectuals and commentators, his new book is the Second Mountains, how many people read this book yet . Okay . How many are going to read after this is over . Okay. How many people are going to get an autographed copy from david today. Okay so david thanks for doing this. So lets go before we go to this book Second Mountains which i have read, i would like to go a little bit about your background. You grew up in new york . I grew up in the lower side of new york and my parents were somewhat left wing, so the story i tell about my childhood is when i was five, and they took me to it a place where hippies would go to be. Im one of things they did is they would set a garbage can on fire and they with their their wallets in it to just show about how much they little they cared about money and material things. And i saw 5dollar bill in the garbage can and i reached in and grab for a breach in the fire, and grabbed the money and ran away that was my first step to the right.
Dutyfree. Sounds a lot like falling stock prices, doesnt it the averages started strong. But after the news broke the dow ended up plunging 281 points s p plummeted. 90 , the nasdaq fell 1 . One fell swoop, President Trump has given the hard liners exactly what they want if you import goods from china, hes making you pay, no exceptions that includes the iphone no wonder apples stock reversed it went from up big to just, well, ugly because its the most visible importer suddenly everything either they need to eat the tariffs or they need to make their phones even more expensive relative to samsung, which does its manufacturing in south korea can you imagine, the outcome of this is that samsung is the winner but apple is one example out of many i used it because its so in your face. The president figures hes given American Companies enough time to get out of china, roughly a year and a half sins aluminum and steel and change sourcing. Thats up to them. The reaction was so negative the yie
Party in particular are offering not much more than their thoughts and their prayers. And you know, i was thinking and praying about it, and both parties say they say one thing, that were too divided. This is something we hear a lot, that we need to find something we can agree on. Well, heres something we can agree on. Too many people are being shot with highpowered weapons. I think wed agree on that. [ applause ] and agree on this too. They did a poll last year. 97 of gun owners, these are gun owners, support universal background checks. 97 . Thats unheard of. You can ask people is ice cream delicious and not get 97 . But the Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell, this evil soulless old creep wont even allow the senate to vote on a bipartisan bill to require background checks for gun purchases at gun shows. There are two bills, each written by democrats and republicans together because background checks, something we agree on. These bills the bills passed in the house in february, an