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Fox and friends host would write history books. i am sure history professors are like when do we get to host morning shows? you are stealing work from bonified history professors. you have a successful job in the morning and you are destroying the lives of history professors. >> i am glad you brought that up. >> [laughing]. >> i wrote it down. >> i like to take a slice of history and bring it forward. all of a sudden history is in the news. they are taking down statues and apologizing for it. we...

Made in the angle, point by point refuting her, thats kind of easy to do but what the real point is is to knock off conservative heroes, right? youve got the john wayne deal couple weeks ago. its part of the tradition, the dna of conservatism, correct? when you want to remake the country, remake of history, ripped down statues, look at everything in todays context. >> rewrite history. >> laura: what statue is going to survive? >> none of them. if the left has its way. the left understands that f...

Today. >> laura: craig, the point i made in the angle, point by point refuting her, thats kind of easy to do but what the real point is is to knock off conservative heroes, right? youve got the john wayne deal couple weeks ago. its part of the tradition, the dna of conservatism, correct? when you want to remake the country, remake of history, ripped down statues, look at everything in todays context. >> rewrite history. >> laura: what statue is going to survive? >> none of them. if the left has ...

Of songs and artists that we better get big sharpie pen and go through the entire sony catalog. >> you have chris brown. jerry lee lewis married his 13-year-old cousin and bing crosby beat the kids. we dont think of that when we hear white christmas. >> laura: i dont know where this ends. >> well -- >> they pull down statues. they dont let people live in the current time. >> the music is about us. our relationship with the time. it captures a time for us. its not about these people. when you see...

Of songs and artists that we better get big sharpie pen and go through the entire sony catalog. >> you have chris brown. jerry lee lewis married his 13-year-old cousin and bing crosby beat the kids. we dont think of that when we hear white christmas. >> laura: i dont know where this ends. >> well -- >> they pull down statues. they dont let people live in the current time. >> the music is about us. our relationship with the time. it captures a time for us. its not about these people. when you see...

When you look at barack obama, remember, when he was in the illinois state legislature, i think he voted present over 100 times. so, is it about having a record or not having a record? >> no, its not about having a record. its about sort of capturing a feeling and thats what these people are running on. they are running on emotional feeling and trying to appeal to voters that way because they have no record and they have no accomplishments to point. to say. steve: well, we have looked at the num...

Statues, calling the framers racist, all of the things you hear kids coming out of universities today? >> he would have been appalled at the tearing down of statues and the ignorance widespread in public schools today. part of reagans appeal, a lot of his appeal was that he spoke to young americans, he spoke about opportunity in the future. when he was reelected in 1984, he got 50% of the overall vote, but 65% of the under 30 vote. what when he left office in jany of 89, overall approval was 60%...

Every day. you are comparing oranges and lemons here. the refugees of the 1980s -- >> laura: different from the economic refugees of today, it is a completely different dynamic and different world. he talked in the speech a lot about young people, and they need to educate young people. lets watch. >> very directly what it means to be an american. we absorb in the area youd love of country, younger parents, ambivalent appreciation of america, the right thing to teach modern children. we have to t...

Lets get rid of them all. if we are going to go down this road, theres no stopping it. >> madison, wisconsin, how about that? >> there you go. jackson, mississippi.. this is the problem. when this whole thing started where we had to remove confederate statues and we had to rename schools that were named after confederate generals and jefferson davis. it was really obvious from the beginning that there was no limiting principle to the renaming, that once we start renaming schools and streets in c...

>> lets get rid of austin, houston, washington, d.c. lets get rid of them all. if we are going to go down this road, theres no stopping it. >> madison, wisconsin, how about that? >> there you go. jackson, mississippi. this is the problem. when this whole thing started where we had to remove confederate statues and we had to rename schools that were named after confederate generals and jefferson davis. it was really obvious from the beginning that there was no limiting principle to the renaming, ...