we want some people to come in and clean out the swamp. i lived in the swamp for 30 years i have a more benign view of the men and women who serve in government day in and day out , but i think that was the politics people wanted the old regime out and they didn t want a restoration of a regime they had seen however successful or unsuccessful it had been years before it. they wanted a fresh start somebody would come in and shake things up and that s what the american people got. neil: are you surprised that bill clinton rebounded the way he did, not only through the last couple of years of his presidency but even today, arguably one of the most successful financially after leaving office, and held in very very high regard by a lot of americans. no, he really is the come back kid. he showed again and again, incredibly resilient and obviously very skilled. david marinus, of the washington post and his biography of the
country and way, way too many. you say what? i say that guns in the hand of law abiding citizens protect us from those who would harm us. if you look at gun violence across america, in many areas, it s down. in texas, about one out of every 17 or 18 people over age 21 have a license to carry. neil: you re right about the guns, but why does it happen so much here when the same force is at play and same about devaluing life and things you worry about and violent games, movies, et cetera, all pair mount across the globe, but why disproportionately here? neil, i can t compare, and i ve traveled to many places in the world and i m not going to try and compare, it s not apples to apples, different countries and different culture and family values and all of those issues. but, neil, someone has to step back and take a look at where we are as a culture. i did talk about how we ve devalued life through abortion. we ve devalued life through the
about law and order again. you know, we have a lot of crisis going on in our country and it starts at home it starts with parenting but you can t do that when everything that happens around you, you want to go against the rule of law. every job in america and people at your home is watching this show right now think about it. can you go into your workplace right now and start protesting your political views? no. you ll get fired. neil i don t know what happened with you at fox but i know at the jobs that i ve had, if i go in and start protesting my political views they ll kick me out of the place so let s be realistic about this whole debate. neil: they get mad at me for breaking into the vending machines but that s a separate issue but i did want to ask you about what happened to the players who try to find a way around this and one idea that s all right we won t do the kneeling thing we ll either hold arms thing or something that won t be as obvious but you know what they re doing. w
what do you make they were not prepared for that, much like the old soviet union wasn t ready for ronald reagan walking out of the conference with mickhail gorbachev. you know, that s apt and appropriate. and this is a chess game and the president has kept them off balance and china off balance. think about it, from the beginning, he breaks the glass and starts talking in pretty strong terms about the reality that no president recently has talked about, in a way that really makes people sit up and listen. the next thing he does, when kim jong-un suggests a summit, within 24 hours he accepts it. that s like you start a chess game, pawn to pawn and all of a sudden you castle. that s completely different and now you ve done it again. he said, you know what, if you re not serious, i m not serious. we can go about creating more pressure, go about talking how the future will look without this summit. all of a sudden, they didn t want that discussion and i think that china, believe it or no
russia. that s just the bottom line. and so, it would have been much better to do that, and i think at every step of the way, i think they deliberately took aggressive investigative steps because i think that they did want to get the goods and, oh, by the way, at the same time this is going on, the fbi s also running the hillary case with a lot of the same cast of characters, like peter strzok and at every step of that investigation instead of being zealous, they made disconnect and this spy-gate only adds to that. neil: and congressman, as i said earlier, the prosecutor whose original mission was to find real estate articles on bill and hillary clinton and into a relationship with an intern and some would question the