Todd Starnes is a longtime, award-winning journalist and radio commentator. His daily radio presence has reached millions of listeners on hundreds of stations, and his syndicated column is also read by millions. He is a frequent contributor in major media, and social science researcher George Barna also included Starnes as one of the top media influencers for Evangelical Christians in the 2016 presidential election.
Wednesday was a horrifying and shameful moment in American history. I’ve covered attempted coups in many countries around the world, and now I’m finally covering one in the United States. Trump and his enablers talk a good game about patriotism. They denounced President Barack Obama for sometimes not wearing a flag lapel pin. They criticized Colin Kaepernick for protesting police brutality by taking a knee rather than standing during the national anthem and then Trump incited a mob on Wednesday to invade the United States Capitol. The rioters encountered a minimal police response, not the kind that Black Lives Matter protesters received.
harry truman or roosevelt used to call it the common man. if we want to be a governor party of a very diverse, and i say diverse ideologically as well as ethnically, country, then you have to have a a broader, a party that rises above the more particular issues to the generic. the general issue of making american great. if i might take that word. we re going to talk about that and continue this discussion in one minute but have some news. i want to get straightaway to our pentagon correspondent barbara starr about some new information about north korea. north korea and what it is doing with its nuclear program. barbara starr, tell us what is going on and bring us up to date, please. reporter: hi, dana. i ll bring everyone up to date. the washington post has just posted an article and i want to read to you right away what the washington post is saying at this hour they are reporting that north