nonstop on cable news. not just on cable news. we are hearing the very same thing from elected officials including some republican elected officials. we are hearing it from the leaders of federal law enforcement agencies and of the intelligence agencies. we are hearing it from the pentagon. just this week the new secretary of defense ordered the entire u.s. military to, quote, stand down while investigators cleanse the ranks of political extremists. and of course we are hearing it from the business establishment from wall street from the tech monopolies from the massive multinational corporations that increasingly control the contours of american life. all of them are now on the hunt for political extremists. and at one level that does not sound bad. because no sane person is for political extremism, especially violent extremism. we are against it. we re for moderation. we are for incremental change. we are for the consent of the governed. we said that every day for four year
we are hearing the same thing from some republican elected officials, we are hearing it from the pentagon. just this week the new secretary of defense order the entire u.s. military to stand down while investigators cleanse the ranks of political instigators, we are hearing it from the business establishment from wall street,r from the massive multinational corporations that increasingly control the all of them now on the hunt for political n extremists. o we are for moderation and incremental change, we are for the consent of the governed, we don t like extremists either, we attack them regularly. it s not enough to be against something, you have to be more precise than that. what is it you re against? in order to root out a problem, you have to know what it is. you need a sense of what you re looking for, a clear sight picture. you have to define the terms. here s the remarkable thing weabout this public conversation we re having. no one is doing that. have you noticed? n
sporting a familiar look, smoke from the wildfires in canada are filling the skies again. madonna is recovering after a health scare and spending several days in icu. a full recovery is expected. i hope she recovered. when he gets rolling he is just so fun to watch at his craft. we begin with another chapter in the hunter biden saga. he is said to be deposed in the defamation lawsuit where hunter left his so called laptop from hell. john paul mack issac is being sued. that s right he reported the contents of the laptop to the fbi when he discovered damming photos and files. hunter s deposition today will be recorded, but it is unclear if video or a transcript will be made public. and you have to figure the very first question that the computer guys lawyers are going to ask hunter is is this your laptop? do you remember dropping it off? don t be surprised if he says don t remember. he is probably going to say that. that is usually the answer. i don t remember. th
he is reacting against what he feels inside, which is the steady loss of his power as a man. the faster that power recedes, the more frantically he asserts it. he is raging against the dying of the light. these last embarrassing decisions are in fact his death throes. it is sad, really. unfortunately what happens to men also tends to happen to the systems they create. for the last 80 years our world has been covered by a system formed in the final months of world war ii. it s features define our life. free and open global trade routes guaranteed by the u.s. navy, a universal currency called the dollar and overseein it all one supreme power, the worlds largest economy, the united states of america. it s been a great system in mos ways. but for many reasons, including the passage of time, that syste is dying. what comes next is not entirely clear but how to influence it t america s greatest advantage is the most important task that faces any u.s. government. nothing else comes
we will be playing country music over the place even if you are not a fan of country music, it is memorial day and patriotic. todd: it puts you in the mood to honor america but most importantly honor those who paid the ultimate price that we can enjoy today and everyday in the land of the free and of course, that the home of the brave. this is definitely the home of the brave. with that, a lot of you traveling will see a lot. a holiday crisis, gas prices and flights being canceled due to staff shortages at airlines. ashley: alexandria hoff live with more, alexandria. good morning, ashley, todd. i wrapped up my holiday travel at the airport and it was no joke. aaa predicts 25% more americans will travel for this holiday than they did last year between weather, airline staff issues, hundreds of flights canceled this week and including more than 200 so far today. that is on top of passengers already having to shell out more, listen. when i travel, i m not really surprise