as much as as much as i enjoy the standing ovation when you start with a standing ovation, you'd only go backwards. so that's what i worry. so i appreciate everybody being here tonight. i've never been invited to a book festival. so to be invited was great to have a book ready to go with fantastic, and i'm so glad everything lined up to be here in a beautiful saturday, and there's no kentucky basketball scrimmage that's keeping all of you busy. that would allow you to show up. but i think we have a few things in common. i don't care about politics. i think we all love the country. we also know where we come from has not been perfect. it's not been a straight line, but we always get better. we constantly get better and as i tell you as i tell to say a time and time again, i think the thing that's great about our country. it's not that we're perfect and it's in my dedication. it's that we try to be and we are our toughest critic and that's why it sounds loud and noisy and uneven from the outside, but that's only because we're constantly getting better and you don't become the number one economic and military superpower and the envy of the world overnight you do it constantly over the course of years in generations, and when i first started looking at the history books i said, i've always had a passion for history if i had some free time. that's the book. i'm picking up even when i was doing sports full-time and then realized that when i'm picking up our history people in news are not rooted in our past and they have no idea that what's happening today is not the beginning and end that you need a perspective to understand the hurdles who are clearing and the ones we're dealing with on a regular basis, but i never knew that history would be so part of the news. i thought to myself i want to get on hannity show, but my history book on george washington is not exactly like trump running for office or george bush in the iraq war. i had no idea that's so much in our past was going to come up in our news now every one of these powerpoints is a little different. i've never worked this control before but ethan just goes straight ahead and if i make mistake you just hit that yellow button button that red button, okay. so this is the book that's out for a few hours or a few days the president of freedom fighter and i think the subtitle tells it all number one. how dare frederick douglass have the same last name as steven douglas. i couldn't put their last names in the title. so i thought that describes them both. abraham lincoln frederick douglass and their battle to save america soul to make us a more perfect union to get the 13 states together. we got to make certain compromises then we had to beat the british. we did both but it put off a problem that had to be dealt with we thought would sunset the 1820s that went right to the 1860s all throughout time. we had great people stand up and lead us and sometimes for the most unlikely circumstances andrew jackson and orphan kid in the midwest. this guy should have been a criminal he ends up being a war hero two-term president and dominate 50 years of american politics, you take lincoln and douglas their their way they started and when he ended up, you would never predicted either one would be the people to save our country, but i would argue they did but can i take a step back a little and talk about where i started at fox? you guys been watching me a fox. so does anyone remember i started foxes the sports guy? so i was a sports guy steven i would do the weather before it was even fox and friends and it was called fox express so we would do the sports or as through the weather then go sit in the green room. then they would read the news. it was like headline news and wasn't really going. well the anchors were doing their checkbook. they were so sick of doing the same news over and over again. i noticed there was no personality there steve and i would be kidding around people in our ear would be rapid up wrap it up and i go wait a second. i think what we're doing is better than what they're doing and we got a chance to talk. they were later shut down the teleprompter make it more conversational have news, but make it part of the story make the talking points the story where we get a chance to use our personalities for better for worse because maybe people don't want want me to use my personality. so what happened is when you you guys are into sports right a lot of you? kids place sports well to me. i wanted to be great. i want to be a great soccer player in the 70s. not many people are playing soccer and the cosmos were out there and i wanted to be a great player and i something happened along the way. oh, yeah. i remember i wasn't so. i was an average division two player. and i thought wow what an epic fail. i'm 21. it's been playing since i was five about three, you know, ten out of every 12 months indoor outdoor. what a waste of time, but i said, i'm gonna be a sports guy and with that it's worked really hard sports phone was the first predated all sports radio sports phone was nine seven six one three one three you do a sports update in 57 seconds eight hours a day 40 hours a week nonstop. no script if people wonder why i talk a little fast. i'm forever afflicted with getting every sports score and story in and 57 seconds. so what happened is when people come up and talk to the sports guy. they talk sports. i would turn it on them. so the kevin sorbo i go. kevin would talk sports i go would you play? ah, i was gonna be a great basketball play a university of minnesota. i got hurt my coach didn't like me. all right. talk to henry kissinger i go why you such a soccer fan he goes. well, i used to play in germany right before world war ii the jewish kids used to play against the non-jewish kids, and i was really good. and in fact, i had a chance to to do something, but i had to get out of there because of what was happening in germany, but i but i have a passion for that game ever since that's a pretty good story. and i thought why did i play? didn't do anything division two soccer player in front of playing in front of 12 people. why did kissinger play? why did the rock play he wanted to go pro rock wanted to go pro all his friends university of miami dual one pro. he got cut in the cfl. he's living in his parents' basement married and said what a loser. i turned out to be but it set him up for life because life is not easy. we all have goals. we want to get that house. we want to get that girl that guy we want to get that car. you want to get that job and it doesn't happen sports. i would say there's a slice of life which brought me to these two books the games do count. i talked to 72 people america's best and prices of the powersports not one of those people you would know as an athlete from condoleeza rice figure skating to jack welch is a baseball player. he's the america ceo. yeah, i go what happened with you because i was a great player in 9th grade. and then what happened he goes, i never grew. so he ends up being a leader on the bench and got to know what it was like to be the so-called blue collar worker and georgia bush 41 first base at yale his son kendall being a president. he said i regret to this day. my dad was an excellent player. i had the same ability. i was so wilted under what he did in baseball at the same high school. i froze i didn't end up playing well in pressure. i didn't go to those camps like my dad did before and when i went to college i played one year, but i just said to myself i'm gonna have to work twice as hard and here on in and then i run to prove that it doesn't matter if you go pro if you joe montana or george foreman. or if you're somebody in history like george patton playing west point football. he talked about we found letters writing back to his future wife 145 pound middle line outside linebacker. can't break the line up. he's writing letters. what's wrong with me? oh i ever wanted to do was play on this football team. i finally break the lineup and i break my forearm and i said to myself wait mr. blooding guts plays the blood and guts game and can't get on the field. so it's not who what you what you want you go for his horse. you can and your glory is not denied. it is delayed. so i wrote those two books fell pretty good about it. i have a lot of parents telling me it inspired their kids to keep playing the average athlete the pro athlete and i thought good. i'm finished. i'm done, but there's something about in that book the people in history than intrigued me reading about patton reading about lincoln reading about reagan how they wanted to be great athletes, but it helped them later on when they so-called failed. so at the same time i'm working on this other idea. i've been studying george washington's spies. i grew up on long island. they went been to long island. all right. i grew up went to long island university. i did not know george. yeah, i did not know that george washington had a spy ring that lived and died without any fame and acclaim without them. they wouldn't have won the war top secret till the 1930s and as this was put together in comes the depression world war ii. i found a little blurb in the new york times local historian makes major finds. so i see this and i look at this for 20 years and then nicholas cage comes out with that national treasure i go. i have a better story and really happen and my lead actor could actually be understandable. he tends to mumble. i don't know if you noticed spend nicolas cage so it brought me to george washington's secret six. and as i did it there was a cia and intelligence scandal, so i was able to equate that in the news. we have this thing called the war on terror anytime anybody wanted to talk in comprehensively about islamic extremism. they always go back to jefferson. so i went to the jefferson library. and i looked there and there's one guy in charge. he goes. nobody ever asked me in depth until recently about how we took on islamic extremism. so i thought you know jefferson that might get you to look at the book. and if i told you islamic extremism we live with it every day. but can i tell you what we did and how we prevailed and jefferson did so much on his resume. no one really talks about it. so i go uncloud ground like the spies go do it. and people love the story they can relate to jefferson because he's fantastic. he belongs at every statute not to be taken down. right but what if i told you william eaton probably don't know him. what if i talk about presley o'bannon probably don't know him. so the rest of the world turned away and said we don't want to deal with these islamic nations. we're just gonna pay him money not to invade us us not to attack us. america stood up for itself and they sent a group of people 500 miles through the desert and took triple it. we're about to take tripoli before we cut in ill-advised peace deal. and i'll give you that rest of that story which brought me to another era the war of 1812 andrew jackson many people can relate to the fact you weren't connected in when virginia many people can relate to the fact that sometimes it's given horrible circumstances grow up in so i thought you could see jackson become this leader and win a battle. everybody told us they didn't have to fight. it's upon further review. he had to fight it without it. they probably would have taken and so the british probably would have stopped us from moving past the mississippi, which would have been a little bit of a problem and then that brought me to texas live from, texas. good. i grew up. not that i am happy about it, but i was everybody likes their region. you learn a lot about kentucky history. i get it. i learned a lot about new york history. i understand it, virginia, but in texas they have their own unique history, but it's our history. so i know everybody knows the alamo, but i said what happened after the alamo. nobody knows that outside, texas. so i go unplowed ground. i want to tell that story. which brings me to a quick look at these four books these slices of american life and on top of that a lot of the stuff can be seen on fox nation. what made america grow? great, they do specials now the special on my latest book is ten o'clock tomorrow night, but here's a quick look if this button works and i think it does these four books come to life. okay. received the backwards button works. you guys know? all right. i think this will work, you know. do we have the tape? okay. so bring it to this while we wait. for people who say we didn't have to fight that war. this is what thomas jefferson said. keep in mind james madison's president. the defensive new orleans should teach the nations of europe that while americans intended to take no part in their wars neither would this country shrink from self-defense? we would never be invaded again. so of case you think i'm overstating what was going on in the world at that time and what people thought about this upstart nation the war of 1812. let him know we're not going anywhere. and then the islamic war against those four islamic extremists nations pope pius the seventh said this the americans with a small force. we literally built a navy in the middle of the war of 1805. the americans with a small force in a short space of time have done more for the cause of christianity than the most powerful nations of christendom have done for ages. so when people walk around and go america like our former governor, we were never that great. could someone tell pope pius the seventh and i believe the other six piouses would have agreed. which brings me to the president and the freedom fighter? so, why would i pick these two incredible men? number one? i know frederick douglass got book of the year by david blight three years ago. so i know people are aware and i know this abraham lincoln is the most written about president in our history and i get it. but what if i talked to you in about the the most crucial time in our history? one man born of the midwest to two illiterate parents in abject poverty. who loses his mom at the age of nine who everyone describes as unseemly and gangly with? terms we wouldn't use today because they're politically incorrect a man that people had to pay attention to but couldn't get their eyes off of and then later would be because of his mind and his intellect. and what have i told you another man was born a slave who really never knew his mom and dad ended up being one of his slaveholders. what have i told you you need to have clothes until he was eight years old. what have i told you that he would be told that if he was to read and write he'd be arrested anyone who taught him would be jailed. he would manipulate his way to learn to read and write he would see the value of education. he would read the same book as this guy named abraham lincoln thousands of miles away from each other called the colombian order. they talked about george washington play-doh and cicero and these great minds and freedom and what society could be that was frederick douglass. he had a thirst for learning while we're all talking about education what our schools could teach he could not find a school. he would be sitting there watching the other white kids who were friendly with him because he was under the belief that kids don't see color as we are. frederick douglass born a slave his best friend's growing up were white kids because he though kids did not care and frederick douglass in the 1840s rights. i think it'll take a generation for to live and die before they realized there's no difference between the races. we'd have a few more to wait, but that is why we protest as i digress second and third graders and why we care so much what they learned. because they told us. it matters. abraham lincoln one year a formal schooling one year combined. he never could sit in a classroom. his dad says a moses fishes of those people that learned to do the reading and writing that's who is up against but he went to learn he never stopped reading he had that reputation of a great intellect a great mind great kindness great strength, and then he said i'm going to become a lawyer. not a lot of political connections with abraham lincoln. he started running for office to become a one-term congressman. nobody is looking at linking to lead us to freedom to the most difficult time for frederick douglass. he's got to escape for freedom. he's got to stand up to his slave master. he's got it once free. he could still be arrested for years later seven years after that. he writes his autobiography then he goes to europe for 21 months. they still have statues for him with him and plaques in ireland, scotland and london of what he did and what he said and they saw the promise he could have stayed there sent for his family. going back because i'm gonna bring that message because he he wanted to be an american. and a man that was born into slavery that was told the constitution had to be destroyed. but the more he worked the more he read the more he realized the constitution was the key to freedom. we weren't living up to it. we didn't have to tear it down. it was built to be brave. it was for perfect. we just weren't living the perfect country that we actually for the founders who drew it up and i opened up with the book with the introduction with madison and jefferson weighing in on what they saw it as slavery including benjamin franklin. they knew it was wrong. they couldn't get out of it. so i don't judge. i know we know what's wrong. but you can't put yourself in our time in 2021 and say i know exactly what life was like in 1750 we used to understand that we knew that it was imbued in us. we didn't do that. we can't tell people we haven't talked to people you talk to a great grandparents or your grandparents some of the things they say is so unpolically, correct. you wonder why they thought it then you found out in 1940 and 1950 turns out different generation, they're not bad later. people going to look us at us in 2021 and say what would they thinking actually we're saying that today driving over listening to the radio watching tv, but i digress so they see both these men get on parallel paths and then finally meet when it when he's doing the research it started two years in two months ago and when they finally meet and the person who wrote it down verbatim was frederick douglass lincoln sadly didn't have the time to do it. i would love to have read his book. he waits online. he gets online outside the white house. he's there for two minutes. he expects to be there for two days as soon as his card goes forward lincoln sends for him and he walks past sitting senators congressman rich people poor people and he gets right into his office and the credit he was very critical lincoln because he didn't move fast enough on a few major issues. he had been store newspapers able to write a daily basis. huge impact. but as soon as he saw lincoln, he says sitting at a chair that was way too small with his legs out. he saw every line in his face and so the worry and kindness of the man before he even spoke. and he came out and said frederick douglass take a seat and they talked and what amazed him most is lincoln listened and then he understood the perception of the two and what they both were up against. and they understood each other and all those preconceptions melted away. they would meet three more times. the last time would be on the podium for a re-election. guess who helped lincoln get reelected frederick douglass. guess who helped convince lincoln that he had to let african-american fight for the freedom for freedom frederick douglass. guess who helped? don't recruit frederick douglass. guess who told them all so frederick douglass. turn around says now pay him the same and when they get caught i want them treated the same as white guys. so he wasn't going to stop until he got everything but he understood where lincoln's coming from. and i thought this quote would be something we can enjoy a few of them. actually, i think we're going to see a tape. this is actually the tape. i'll finish up with a few quotes quotes. this is a look at the book that maybe you're all gonna get the american civil war over 600,000 would die over the course of four years. for the united states to survive then reunify and become for the first time a nation-free for all they would need extraordinary leaders to emerged above the rest abraham lincoln the president frederick douglass the freedom fighter together. they would make america more perfect union. america has been blessed to have the right people the right time. you think back to those days in the civil war where brothers literally fought blood brothers fathers fought their kids. because they wanted the declaration of independence in this notion that all men were created equal to be real. in abraham lincoln you had a person with the odd stacked against him bill how can a young man born to it illiterate parents in abject poverty? with only one year formal education emerge as one of america's perhaps best presidents who would lead us through a war and emancipate all enslaved people. well, he was amazing person, i guess today we call him gift. he had a vision he had ambition. as tough as abraham lincoln's first 14 years were frederick douglass had a whole lot worse. he was born a slave here to escape to establish his freedom, but he wasn't satisfied with that. he would want freedom for himself and freedom. for all once grief and bondage douglas would relentlessly continued with self-education be mentored by esteemed abolitionist, right bestselling biography start a newspaper and be a lecturer known around the world as flawed as america was for the african-american. he didn't want another country. he wanted to make his stand here it almost in biblical terms. he saw the promise of america, which is hard to do when you're being beaten. so douglas's gift was he never let the slave owners own him in the 1850s is douglas and lincoln began to rise in stature miles apart. america was coming apart the north and south were diverging on the issue of slavery the status quo would not stand paving the way for the emergence of a new party the republican party seizing the opportunity a one-term congressman lawyer from the midwest abraham lincoln the rail splitter from illinois would grab the nomination and presidency. but by the time he arrived at the white house seven states had left the union. can secession was not an option the war was on he took over divided country. did he actually know what he was getting into? i don't think so, but lincoln knew the law and he knew the constitution about backwards and forward and so he realized what after port sumner happened in that a lot of the country wasn't accepting him as president. he correctly diagnosed union union keep the country together and then the abolition of slavery is the two grand causes of the civil war as for frederick douglass. lincoln's win was all about hope, but when he didn't immediately free the slaves and messaged appeasement in exchange for reunification frederick seed the whole story. is that progress takes patience. douglas should have been rightfully so angry at the lack of progress. pushing lincoln to move as quickly as possible. but at the same time you have to admire respect lincoln's patience the white house. looks a lot like it did back in 1860 when abraham lincoln was president you could line up on that porch and hope the president would see you one-on-one. that's exactly where frederick douglass decided to do. he wouldn't have to wait long lincoln was smitten with douglas. he knew that he was a prophetic figure he knew that he carried some baggage with him politically, but he wanted to meet douglas after the initial meeting a bond who was formed lincoln released the emancipation proclamation douglas traveled the nation recruiting blacks into the army for the first time the most prolific unit the 54th, massachusetts infantry one of the beauties of that recruitment efforts included his own two sons who served in the 54th. i was amazed at how important the american flag. was when they were being shot at but african-american holding the flag doesn't want it to touch the soil because it was so important to defend our flag because it was defending our nation lincoln and douglas would meet a total of three times face to face and there they would help lincoln win reelection. douglas would be a special guest as inaugural. the union would go on to win the war free an entire race from slavery and allow our nation to reunite with so much work left to do to gather john wilkes booth's assassination. rob frederick douglass of a partner to do that work with in america of its greatest president at a time of our greatest need frederick douglass without live abraham lincoln by 30 years staying here in rochester, new york until 1872 his major mark on american history came alongside our 16th president. individually, they were great men together. they were unstoppable. that's right. that's what i thought that. you know both men, but i thought if i could get their lives to go inside it might be something that would give us some perspective what we're going at today. just give you a few quotes. so the final well meeting i kind of went over this a little bit here comes my friend. this is the verbatim that's in douglas's book. i'm glad to see you. i saw you in the crowd listening to my inaugural. he asked douglas how he liked it said mr. lincoln. i must not detain you with my poor opinion. there are thousands waiting to shake your hands. there is no man in the country his opinion. i value more mr. lincoln. that was a sacred effort another quote i think is important. so when lincoln finally frees all african-american's everywhere south and north and border states, he goes after jefferson davis leads his version of the white house. he wants to go to richmond at which time he goes aboard himself. can you imagine that with his son the president united states that all black crowd greets him and here's what his address to him is extemporaneously and he's clearly moved by their feelings towards and many of which are crying. this is my poor friends. he said you were free as heir liberty is your birthright. god gave it to you as he gave it to others and as a sin that you have been deprived of it for so many years the crowd shouted. joyful approval lincoln resumed speaking they fell it you must try to deserve this priceless spoon. let the world see that you merit it and are able to maintain it by your good works. so think about that point in moment and even lincoln brought there by douglas in many ways was moved by he changed he evolved too. and douglas and his frustration now picture this they got a dedicate to now controversial statue of an african-american rising up out of change with lincoln looking down and i'm in freedom park and watching dc. they don't actually useful ulysses has granted dedicate the statue the sitting president. they asked douglas 10 years after his assassination. the money is raised by freed slaves and this is what he said. knowing that he was pushing and lincoln was pausing. had he put the abolition of slavery before the salvation of the union. he would alienated large numbers of people and rendered resistance to the rebellion impossible viewed from the abolition point of view that's his point of view mr. lincoln seemed tardy cold dull and a different after he met him. but measuring him by the sentiment of this country and the sentiment he was bound as a statement to consult. he was swift zealous radical and determined they came together and even after his death. he learned to understand what lincoln was doing and leading our country and douglas on freedom. what a glorious day when slavery shall be no more in this country when we have bought it out the system of wrong and made this united states in fact and in truth what it is in theory the land of the free and the home of the brave the words of frederick douglass, and that's what i wanted to capture. i don't write for the yale professor because i couldn't get into yell. i didn't like the campus. i write for us the way i speak is what's in this book. the first thing i did is talk it all through with my editor said we got something here. i hope you feel the same way. so it's only been a few days the first time i feel like i left study hall and now i have to take the oral exam. so i like to take some of your questions now because you do have another speaker coming up shortly. great. thanks mr. can we absolutely i'm everybody we're so thrilled that you're here. obviously, we can't take every question. so what i'm going to do is walk through the center aisle. we'll take about three or four questions and then i'll come back up again and instruct you how to go and talk to mr. kill me a little bit more beyond that. so if anybody has a question right along this aisleway, support brandon, i want him to go. let's go brandon. yeah. okay. hey brian, i want to thank you for that bringing godfill with you. i'm so what do you say? i'll probably a gutfelt. yeah. yeah, he doesn't travel. well. anyway, he complains a lot. but nothing's ever right for him. yeah, did you see that show last night? unbelievable? ryan we have a question here brian. i have 17 grandkids ages 13 down to two which of your books would be the best book to give to my friends. i think that the one thing i'm not i don't deserve any credit for but scholastic knock the books to the books down from 12 to 17 year old or eight to 12 year olds, jefferson and washington, i would get him all of them that some will get into an afford toddlers, but i would say washington you know why it's got invisible ink, it's got it's got dropped dead drops and everyday people farmers and shopkeepers and longshoremen so i would go with washington. hope you got their interest for the next one. thank you. we have another question right here from a young man. hello, i'm a freshman at the university of kentucky majoring in political science. all right, and i'm cute. there's some classes that have clear left-ling biases in them, and i was wondering how to navigate getting a good grade in the class, but also speaking my mind. yeah. i have my son graduated two years ago, and then i got two daughters in college right now, but they're not ones undecided the other ones in. the ones education and she took to a couple of those courses, but i found and i'm gonna keep my fingers crossed the professors just because they don't might not agree with you. they'll be open to you. i would say this don't write anything to get an egg. you got to stay true to you but be willing to back up your argument. so go deep in your argument rehearse it with your with your family and friends and say okay. i like george w bush. i like bush 41. i love reagan. i love trump. okay, why? have four or five things to say why and know the common arguments too. and this one. what's your first name? noah so noah go online read the left read the right. i find that the people that are calm in these arguments are confident in those arguments. don't get angry. don't raise your voice. that's exactly what people want. see these crazy people. they don't agree with me and they lost their temper you listen and you come back and i find the people and it'll back up your beliefs or you might have different ideas go deep into every argument, you know, the common arguments you look at these two bills that are about one pass and ones could probably gonna pass in a couple of weeks sadly in some way shape or form save yourself. how would i argue that? was it what's a good point? what's the bad point about it? what about the people that voted for would have voted against it but just saying. i'm republican. i'm democrat. you're wrong. you're right will not get you an a but i think at the university kentucky. i'll be naive to get to that level. i think you have to understand you're an academic and an academic likes to be engaged and i think we'll respect you more and i think that it didn't ted cruz go to harvard and didn't a lot of the conservatives come with the center. josh hawley went to an ivy league school. so they tend to lead way more left and i think the university, kentucky, but that's a good question. but it but don't get nervous about it. um, but don't be antagonistic back. i don't like this assignment might not be good answer, right? but i appreciate what you're going through. but remember think it through never lose your temper. right, thank you. no. any more questions around you i tell you what, i'm gonna come over to this nice gentleman. who's waited sarah. i'll come right your way. okay. yeah, i buy like when people lose their temper because they don't no one add donate when i start yelling the voice starts going up is because of not confident there arguments. brian do you know who planned the assassination of abraham lincoln? um, do you know who planned it? you know who planned it? not personally, but john wilkes booth with some mastermind, you know, i think so. i think it was someone else. tell me. albert pike okay, i'm gonna have legal bill o'reilly because he wrote a great book that i lincoln banished him from the united states but who do you think paul the draeger? i think booth pulled the trigger, but i the planning of it i think came. from canada where he was banished to interesting. i'll pursue that i'll google that i would say this they have this derringer. i open up the special at ford's theater. and all i could think about is how much better our country would have been if lincoln could have had a second and maybe third term because you put grant with lincoln with douglas. i believe that he lived through the 1860s. we wouldn't need the 1960s. just we have another we have another question hi, how are you? and i just had a question for people that we think that we're ruining our country. the country is unrecognizable. what words are inspiration. can you give us for just hope and for us to get all the things that americans deserve and come in here legally and protect what people have built for us. we're very discouraged. it's moment. we would like some encouragement from you. absolutely you have it. number one. i never saw anything as criminal as what this administration administration is doing with the border. and that and and only 23% of the country approved. so what policy looking at that allows 1.7 million in here in long island alone? we've absorbed 6,000 kids. they have not told the superintendent or the principal. they just show up at school many of which don't even speak spanish they speak portuguese. and we don't even know how to. deal with it, but they put them into poorer neighborhoods. they don't put them into beverly hills. they don't put them into up upper east side manhattan because those those people have too much power. every day working class people and over in under taxed areas who need the schools not getting the revenue. then you go into classes already overcrowded with teachers that aren't getting paid enough and now you have english as a second language with some kid who might not be a kid. sitting next to your daughter your son unbelievable unacceptable, but i'm gonna give you you hope and here's why. if you read this book and understand even all our journey along the way it always looks grim for this generation, but in the big picture where one great leader away from bringing us together, not somebody just agrees with us, but sees people that don't and that's what's going to be. i think if it comes at the top to say you know, what aoc's way out to the left and jim jordan's way way out to the right. i like them both. there's sincere. they're both going to have to compromise. and then if you see joe manchin talk over the last two weeks. i thought that left clues. he came out and he said we're not even a center left country. we're center right country. i can't go back to my state even as a democrat and tell them of destroyed the energy industry. i can't go back to my state and say we're 28 trillion dollars in debt, and i would like to add not 1.7, but 3.9 trillion more. democrat and i go wow i felt the tension in the room drop because if a democrat gets elected and talks like that. i feel as though we're not in bad hands. hey, would you prefer center right as opposed to center left? would you prefer way right? yeah, but in a country that's built on compromise. i think things will begin to get traction again. number one. i also believe number two. they should be i also believe things got to get worse before they get bad before they get better and things are getting so bad that we just saw that you biggest backlash that i've ever seen in an off-year election. not even midterm. this is those weren't just republicans. they went to the battle box those with democrats that stayed away or voted the other way. do you know there were five city council members that changed hand seats in new york city. do you know there were 10 in new jersey? do you know that i think the virginia legislator flipped? on long island. we had one congressman who was peter king. now the whole thing is flooded with republicans not because we want red it's where i live. it's because they don't want that. and they don't feel like the politicians is speaking to them. so people were already correcting. but the thing is everybody would want to be in our shoes everybody or economy is beginning to ramp up again innovation is coming back again. i think that people got to see these 10 million jobs open. we'll cut it cut in half with the right inspiration. i would love to see a president get behind the microphone and say hey america. gotta get back to to work off the beach. stoppa is to stop us counting my inflated dollars that i printed up yesterday. and he had to get back to work. there's glory in work the people that the first generation know it they come here. they can't believe the job they have just an opportunity to make a living and i think that's got to come from the top and i think things have gotten so bad so quick that i think we're gonna do we do best course, correct? here we have time for one more question. okay? okay, and i see a nice man over here that i'm going to try to get to. hold on. by the way, this is so flattering to see you guys here in a beautiful saturday. where i think everyone together has to mow the lawn here. is there any place? place that's not grass photographs as a as a state you rally around but you got to use electric mowers. please got to say the environment. i know i know i'm kidding, but i just this is so flattering. don't think i'm taking this for granted to see everyone come here like this my first visit ever to kentucky by the way, so and i think i might send for my stuff and stay. all right. brian what leaders do you see on both sides of the aisle that can help bring our country together, which seems so needed at this time in history. thanks for the question. okay on the left. i love harold ford. and if you watch him he's a great person. yeah, he sent her left. so what he bleeds red white and blue i when i was joe manches not gonna run for president, but i like that attitude. i really do. i need to democrats got to do some recruiting because there is not even i mean aoc will win queens if there's a president of queens, but queens is not representative america, but she is their biggest star nancy pelosi is a day from retiring. so where are their leaders? good luck with that. um, but on the other side, yeah ron desantis, mike pompeo. you have nikki haley you got condoleeza rice you have christy nome. who else can i see running? you have senator josh hawley ted cruz is gonna run again and the ones that will everybody i mentioned mentioned is not running if trump's in so if trump will if trump comes in that'll be it. so i think that he's maneuvering that way. i think that i just think when you talk about next generation to answer your question, sir, that's like seven or eight guys do stuff the top of my head. i think there's a lot of people that came out of the trump administration to have so much promise and i think mike pence did a great job. he's a fine. i'm person one of finest people. i will ever meet. and i think that he would get our country right direction. and you know, he does is very hard to hate mike pence. yeah, no, he's great person. so i'm just saying you have a lot of talent in there 40s and 50s and josh holly's cases 30s. we're on the left. i think the reason why jill biden is even president right now is because bernie sanders could not get elected one is 80 and one's about to turn 78 so their next generation's got to show themselves, but their next generations represented by 93 people in the house, and that's the progressive caucus and that does not and we just found out that doesn't reset represent the country. so listen, i know i'm talking i could do this for another three hours and i usually do every day. i appreciate you watching fox and friends the radio show is brian kilmeade show calm. and please watch sunday night because if sunday night race high i could do more history specials. so that'll have a good have a good argumenociate professor wilfred reilly author of taboo. good morning, and thank everyone for coming. my name is parker van houten. i am a fifth year senior at the university of kentucky. i study vocal performance and arts administration at the university and i'm very happy to be here on this brisk and blustery morning. so our first presenter today is an associate professor of political science at kentucky state university the author of the books taboo 10 facts you can talk about hate crime hoax and the 50 million dollar question. please welcome wilfred reilly. and our next speaker is the author of 11 books including thought criminal beyond woke google archipelago the digital gulag and the simulation of freedom just to name a few.