Moving into that as well. I apologize if some of this is familiar ground. Okay. I would like to start by painting a picture of a time. Imagine this, if you will. Wiretapping and spying on americans, and even targeting a foreign adversary for assassination. Wait, im describing 2013. P not just liberal institutions and democratic leaders, but also on the other side. For example, in 1971 nixon discovered maybe yomen and Charles Bradford had been stealing documents from henry kissinger. Secretary of state. Anyway, nixons resignation in 1974 was followed by a heavily democratic socalled reform congress. Some of the names that we recognize. Henry waxman, tom hartman, and Patrick Leahy were elected in that congress. They immediately voted funding restrictions on the vietnam war which nixon had been succeeded by former Warren Commissioner gerald ford who along with his chief of staff Donald Rumsfeld feld and his aide dick cheney wasnt on quite the same page as the congress. Ford was not in a p
If i dont get the nomination he will skirt. Ill relieve him of that and get the nomination so he does havent to. I would love to have that competition. I dont think the American People want our nation to move toward an oligarchy. Kennedy in order to regather the focus, trump may have to shoot someone on fifth avenue just to get our attention back. They say i have the most loyal people. Where i could stand in the middle of fifth avenue and shoot somebody and i wouldnt lose any voters. Okay . Its incredible. Kennedy the bloomberg hasnt come off his rose. I think its hillary who suffers fit a three way between her and michael statusberg. If michael runs he could pull more votes from hillary than the donald. Bloombergs biggest problem, people outside of frustrated new york city have no idea who he is. Hes the guy who want to kill fun and destroy your life under an infinite pile of ambitious executive orders. Would he would ban guns and 307 and guns and expand the gun snooping and have a st
Campaign in New Hampshire . How can you not like donald trump . John will he help americans live free . From iowa to New Hampshire. Thats our show tonight. Announcer and now john stossel. John the next big president ial primary vote is in New Hampshire tuesday. The New Hampshire state mott tow is live free or die. That sounds libertarian. So will New Hampshire voters pick three loving candidates . Who might win in New Hampshire and who should win . Rich lowry is an editor. National review. And New Hampshire is the live free or die state. If you live free you have might die. If you look at the polling they may have that libertarian motto, but they want to increase spending on education, healthcare, and background checks on guns. They are much more for those establishment conservatives. Thats why you see trump leading in the polls and jeb bush appearing in the polls. Trump has been strong there all along. Well see whether he experiences a downdraft after iowa. But many things you can say
Tectonic plates of politics undergird us. Theant to look at event that is the most traumatic event of the last halfcentury of American Life, the. Ssassination of jfk and at almost 50 years removed, is there anything new to be said about this grim episode . Surprisingly there is. Jim pearson argues in camelot and the cultural revolution that the trauma of his killing went beyond the nations grief and outrage and led to the d formation of our political consensus. It was the catalyst for transformation of liberalism in the 1960s and should be regarded as a key turning point of the end of americas law liberal tradition and the beginning of a new kind of liberalism that represents a repudiation of the older tradition. Whether this older tradition was too brittle because of its predecessors is a matter that the panel will take up. We have david brown and the author of a biography of Richard Hofstadter. Hofstadter is important because he is one of the leading midcentury. He consensus liberali
Undergird us. We want to look at the event that i think most people would agree is the most traumatic event of the last half century of American Life, the assassination of jfk. Even if we judge september 11 more consequential. At almost 50 years removed, is there anything new to be said about this grim episode . Surprisingly there is. Jim pearson argues in camelot and the cultural revolution that the trauma of his killing went beyond the nations grief and outrage and led to the d deformation of our political consensus. It was the catalyst for transformation of liberalism in the 1960 s and should be regarded as a key turning point of the end of americas long liberal tradition and the beginning of a new kind of liberalism that represents a repudiation of the older tradition. Whether this older tradition was too brittle because of its predecessors is a matter that the panel will take up. We have david brown and the author of a biography of Richard Hofstadter. Hofstadter is important becau