pete: i belong nowhere near that. jedediah: i could play your sister brenda. if the producers don t send me to peach pit, there s going to be a war. [laughter] ed: in the meantime, celebrating independence day, some in the media decided to attack the president and, yes, our flag. donald trump has hijacked the nation s previously nonpartisan fourth of july. they re going to have their confederate flags flying. it may have been schoolhouse rock trump version our next guest says they got it all wrong. his outrage is coming up next. it s the easiest because it s the cheesiest. kraft for the win win. liberty mutual customizes your car insurance, hmm. exactly. so you only pay for what you need. nice. but, uh. what s up with your. partner?
have their confederate flags flying it may have been schoolhouse rock, trump version. jedediah: some called the early american flag a symbol of slavery used in the 1700s before slavery was abolished. here to react is dan gainor from the media research center. dan, welcome. [laughter] thank you. that was certainly it was a fun week where people bashed the flag, bashed the declaration of independence, bashed the fourth of july. they kind of ran out of american icons to attack. jedediah: yeah. it seemed kind of unhinged, and the thing is it s persisting. it s almost as if they came off the gate and said he s going to talk about himself, it s going to be about him, but nobody bothered to watch what he said because their commentary continued in that same vein even though he didn t make it about him. they were wrong, basically, the whole time. so much so that abc, cbs, nbc
bill is in jeopardy in this administration. they are delaying past 2028 when it should have been 2020. if you didn t know better the list goes on. the list goes on. i could go on. but if you didn t know better this president is trying to recreate his history before he celebrated the military. he needed this moment. if you didn t know better, if you didn t fact check and go back to what he said or had done about certain issues it would be a soaring speech. but for someone who covers him day in and day out and understands some of the issues i m stim checking on when he said he said the isis caliphate is 100% gone. we have to check that one as well. there are a lot of things in the speech that it may have been schoolhouse rock trump version. but nonetheless we still have to fact check. and it was his attempted at a soaring moment for history. i do want to get phil mudd s perspective on what we just saw,