of the united states has declared our very democracy is in peril. yeah. today was a very striking speech. i don t recall and i don t think there s been a case in history a president has been so blunt in a speech about our country s racial warts. i could be wrong. leaned in that aggressively about issue of racial equity in speech like that before. remarkable speech. to your point, with covid, knock on wood, on the downslope, biden does face a real choice here. legislative focus is on the infrastructure bill but prioritization, facing a lot of pressures from different constituencies what he should be getting into. january 6th commission, voting rights happening across the country in response to the laws in different states. notion that democracy itself may be teetering toward autocracy
that s asked of us again today to engage in advocating for democracy and to nurture it together. so that someone might at that because i think the group always stay with me that i have been growing up in a dictatorship for that. i will always value the freedom my how but i would like people remember got the more christian. is a living being so we have to be part of it. and there s no one else doing it for us i would really like people to remember that. well simon as we had in the report does help us they know from history a month after those protests there was the full of the war on nov 9th that wasn t so now i m prior to the fall do you think the east german regime underestimated the magnitude of people s discontent in the end they did but they were aware that
insight, we will circle back to you shortly. ed: next guest on the ground for the reagan revolution that went into the continuation of that maybe what we might now call the bush revolution in a way. craig shirley a long-time republican operative. he is also biographer of ronald reagan. he is joining us on the phone. craig, it s so great to have you this morning. certainly not under these circumstances. we wish it were not so. but your insight is important this morning. reflect on what pete hegseth was saying. made a wonderful point about george h.w. bush sweep of history a man who literally connects us from pearl harbor december 7th, 1941, to the fall of the berlin wall? you know, when i think of george bush i think of the movie it s a buferl life. it was a wonderful life. he met every challenge with adam macy, determination and strength and determination. maybe what s under reported right now. bush was best when things
a drink and they should maybe pick up the tab to. well the tax man in europe has never been cheated the way that he has just been cheated and investigative report has uncovered what appears to be the biggest tax fraud in europe s history a network of banks and investors used a tax trick known as coming it is complex and it takes advantage of the opaque transactions which are known as short term stock trades basically it involves paying a tax bill once and then claiming that same bill twice or more times in order to get a tax refund who makes deals were made illegal back in two thousand and twelve today s stunning report the coo mix files investigation says that government tax offices were cheated out of up to fifty five billion euros that sixty three billion u.s. dollars germany took the biggest hit but the fraud has been uncovered from norway