This picture on the left is that real . Oh yes. [laughter] not a wig. I would guess 71. I think a martian left i did not make enough sense to be communist or prosecutor. Went to the transformation occur . It was gradual. There is a book coming out from the hoover institution. Who is backing this and why i turned right. Its a story of a bunch of us. I was a radical leftist i got a job. 150 a week i was a messenger per week that was a lot of money as far as i was concerned living on the Lower East Side and i was pretty broke. We get paid every two weeks. I was looking forward to 300. So is my landlord. And my drug dealer. [laughter] and other people. I got my first paycheck like is supposed to be 700 that after federal tax and estate tax and Social Security i have been advocating socialism. Communism, marxism for years screaming and yelling and demonstrating and we already have it. They just a calf my pay. Whats going on . Also politics is christopher hitchens. Much more recently. Back i
The violent mayhem we have seen in the streets and cities that are run by liberal democrats in every case is the predictable result of years of extreme indoctrination and bias in education, journalism, and other cultural institutions. Against every law of society and nature, our children are taught in school to hate their own country and to believe that the men and women who built it were not heroes, but that were villains. The radical view of American History is a web of lies. All perspective is removed. Every virtue is obscured. Every motive is twisted. Every fact is distorted. And every flaw is magnified until the history is purged and the record is disfigured beyond all recognition. This movement is openly attacking the legacies of every person on Mount Rushmore. They defiled the memory of washington, jefferson, lincoln, and roosevelt. Today, we will set history and historys record straight. [applause] pres. Trump before these figures were immortalized in stone, they were american
On his undergraduate course on the topic of ordinary lives in the American Revolution. And his book, stolen five free boys kidnapped into slavery and their journey home, which tells the true story of five boys kidnapped in the north and sold into slavery in the deep south and that during attempt to escape and bring their captors to justice, is being published by Simon Schuster in october. Thank you once again for joining us this evening, and without any further ado, please join me in welcoming dr. Rick bell. [applause] dr. Bell thanks to heather, thanks to cspan for covering this. Those of you who might have been to the Smithsonian Associates before and heard me give other programs wont be surprised to hear my strange accent, which is not exactly a maryland natives accent. I was raised in england yet find myself teaching about the American Revolution as part of my job, which let me tell you is a blessing and a curse, an undergraduate classroom to teach with an accent like this. Im very
How the white house has celebrated the fourth of july through history. Washington journal is next. Good morning. It is Independence Day in america. At the white house later today President Trump will headline a salute to america event involving a flyover the washington on you meant. The head of those festivities ahead of those festivities, we are spending this morning asking viewers how you feel about this country this morning . Are you proud to be an american . If you live in the eastern time zone, call 202 7488000. If you live in the pacific time zone, the number is 202 7488001. You can also send us a text this morning. 202 7488003. Please involve include your name. A very good saturday morning to you. You can start calling in now about this question. Asking this question in the wake of a gallup poll last month that found u. S. National pride has fallen to record lows. From that pole, although a majority of adults in the u. S. Say they are either extremely proud or very proud, these