both mccain and james khomeini, though he was given the green light to share it on tv. >> i have talked to the highest level of intelligence officials, and they have assured me that "the new york times" story about constant contacts is grossly overstated and inaccurate. >> the president went off on the fbi for yet another leak, tweeting, "the fbi is totally unable to stop the national security 'leakers' that have permeated our government for a long time. they can't even find the leakers within the fbi itself. classified information is being given to media that could have a devastating effect on u.s. find now." in between fighting political fires, the president got some business done, signing another executive order on regulatory reform. this one directs agencies to establish task forces to identify and rescind regulations the president claims are stifling economic growth.
donald trump. we are not afraid of the opposition because we are going to unify, come together, and kick some ass, we are going to take names. >> with seven candidates buying two replaced donna brazile, the leading contenders include tom perez, who enjoys strong support from the democratic party establishment. says he plans to support perez. >> this is a generally centrist country. mainly in the center, got to have a message that resonates across the board. >> the other front runner, minnesota congressman keith ellison, an early supporter of bernie sanders. but ellison has had to defend himself against accusations of anti-semitism because of his now severed ties with nation of islam leader and comments he allegedly made in graduate
school. >> these are false allegations, and that is why i have 300 rabbis and jewish communities supporting me. >> with many dnc voters still uncommitted, the other candidates have a fighting chance. >> i like all of them. i have really narrowed it down to four, and i am intending to remain open to persuasion right up until the vote. >> political scientist saying that the young mayor there is a mother another candidate to watch. >> he points to successes in his party and state legislative races. he wants to not be totally progressive or totally establishment but try to figure out a way to bring all types of people together. >> and that is really the delicate balancing act democrats hope to achieve. on one hand, they want to capitalize on strong anti-trump sentiment among the parties younger, more liberal base.
at the same time, they hope to win back their reputation as being the party of working americans, a group that, in the last election, came out and large support for president trump. >> jonathan, thank you. the government will begin accepting bids for work on the president's border wall next month. customs and border protection says it plans to start awarding contracts in april during his cpac speech this morning, president trump set the ball is ahead of schedule. a federal judge in brooklyn is ordering government lawyers to work with attorneys representing people stopped from entering the country during the first hours of president trump's first executive order and travel ban pete senior correspondent rick leventhal was in that courtroom today. >> when president trump's executive order went into effect temporarily banning travelers from seven predominantly muslim nations from entering the u.s. it sparked protests and lawsuits.
it also affected far more people than originally claimed by the administration. speak with the white house, the president said that there are only 109 people who were minimally inconvenienced by the executive order, and for the first time, the government has revealed that there are over 700 people who had some contact with customs and border protection under the executive order. and we don't even think that that number is complete. >> in a hearing friday morning, attorneys said they were simply handed a list of names but no other information to help track down the 746 people who may have been wrongly barred from entering the country in the first 26 hours after the ban took effect. >> we are trying to assemble a jigsaw puzzle. the government already has that puzzle together, and they could disclose that tomorrow if they wanted to. >> in court, the judge ordered the two sides to work together in sharing information. but there are still questions about how a new executive order, expected next week, might impact this and other cases. >> what we are working with is
like a 26 hour slice of a much larger problem which begs the question of what the government is hiding and why they're hiding it. >> at the justice department declined to comment on the specifics of this case, but in court, a u.s. attorney told the judges they cooperate by giving giveaways additional information on all of people who were turned away. this issue is not raised during today's off-camera white house press briefing, but it is expected that next week when the new executive order is issued that will allow anyone holding a legal visa to enter this country, no matter where they are coming from. bret? >> bret: rick leventhal tonight. thank you, expecting that sometime next week. a white house spokesman is dismissing a security report saying there is insufficient evidence that citizens of seven muslim majority countries including president trump's travel ban pose a travel threat to the u.s. the spokesman calls it an open source report, says it does not
contain high side classified intelligence, this source calling it incomplete at best. we are learning more tonight about what may be in the republican plan to repeal and replace obamacare. one crucial point, medicaid expansion. correspondent peter doocy has the latest. >> fans of obamacare like to point out that more than 26 million people got coverage through the law, but a majority got covered through expanded state medicaid programs which cover low income americans. 31 states and the district of pe tab with expanded funding from the feds that republicans suggest will be reduced. but the g.o.p. should be aware, because 84% of those surveyed by the kaiser family foundation want congress to keep the expanded funding in place. and g.o.p. leadership isn't just under pressure from the public. they are hearing it from house speaker paul ryan's predecessor. >> fix obamacare. i shouldn't call it appeal and
replace. that's not what is going to happen. >> he was >> during dozens of successful votes is off-base. >> i sure hope he is wrong. we need to do that, it is a commitment be made. >> . >> a 106 page documented published today by political reportedly contains the gop's long-awaited replacement in terms of plans to talk cut oute individual mandate. dr. sica manual has been warning against this. >> it would be a disaster. the first thing is, and the first year, 18 million americans will lose their health insurance paid >> democratic governors now probably make protesting. >> i think what congress would love to do is push all those costs on to the states. >> republicans lawmakers hope that even there if there is les funding they will have more flexibility. >> the federal government wants to be involved in who gets
covered, get the money to me and let me figure out if i can do it better. >> one of the 16 republican governors who took money to expand medicaid coverage in his estate, john kasich, was at the white house today, and he is heading back tomorrow to meet with hhs secretary to explain my he thinks the feds should keep sending states like his money for medicaid. bret? >> bret: think you paid the gal rallied late, posted its 11th reset my consecutive record close. the nasdaq gained ten, the dow was up about a percentage point. the s&p 500 gained two-thirds. the nasdaq finished i heads about one seventh every percentage point paid up next, a special fox news investigation into a tax text taxpayer funde. it is a story you will only see here. first, what some of our fox affiliates around the country are covering. fox 13 in tampa, officials say a
prayer that damaged this tampa area mosque overnight was arson. calling it terrorism and offering up a reward. the fire was extinguished quickly, but the facilities sustained significant water damage. fox 5 in new york where bill de blasio was interviewed as part of a public corruption investigation, at issue, or that a democrat broke the law to benefit his 2013 campaign or his shuttered nonprofit. the mayor's office says it is confident everyone acted appropriately. and this is a live look at the long beach, california, from our affiliate, fox 11, one of the big stories there tonight, and i'm police are maintaining watch on a neighborhood where a raucous demonstration erupted after an off-duty los angeles police officer scuffled with teenagers and ended up firing a gun shot into the ground. the anaheim police chief is suspending these decision -- defending the decision not to arrest the officer. tuesday's confrontation was the
result of an ongoing dispute between the officer and teens who have reportedly walked on his lawn. tonight's live look outside the beltway. for "special repopopopopo
it advertises as military friendly, helping vets complete new and advanced career. that same day, agents raided the home of umt president. she is watching agent searcher home. 3 1/2 3 1/2 years later, here ss speaking at the 2016 graduation. >> we are excited for our students. >> the school has received upwards of 6 million taxpayer dollars from the defense department but school officials didn't want to talk to fox news about how umt is run. >> it is a bad bill for the soldiers, and is a bad deal for the taxpayer paid >> he is stepping forward for the first time. >> absolutely disgusts me. it needs to stop. >> he says he worked at umt recruiting vets when they approached him in 2012.
documents reviewed corroborate key elements of history paid >> where you asked to be an informant in a case? how long did he do that? >> about three years. >> documents reviewed suggests there is another side to umt's leadership. in this solution, he suggests that paid >> one of the first things she ever threw out, i was a colonel in the army. >> yanping told her she was a member of the chinese military? >> absolutely. >> the a west point graduate we one of the definitive books about the chinese military. this picture from the mid-'80s appears to show chen before she went to george washington university. >> if someone was wearing that uniform, i would say there is a great likelihood that they were in the people's liberation army. >> what can you tell me about
that uniform? >> this is a pla officer's uniform, between 1987 and 2007, and from the epaulets, you can see that this three stars and two red stripes would be a full colonel. >> after the 2012 raid, chen denied being a colonel in the chinese military, and she checked no on this form when asked, are you now or a few ever been in any way connected or associated with the communist party? chen became a naturalized citizen. fox news asked an expert to review the form. >> if she has marked no on the petition but if, in fact, the answer is yes, that we have a false statement, and where that comes into play most assuredly is in the arena of passport fraud. the answers she provided on these immigration documents ultimately ends up being her approval to become a naturalized
u.s. citizen. >> with no laws preventing a natural u.s. citizen running a school like umt cannot rose remains concerned about the security of vet records. >> got uploaded into a drive, personal military bio, where they were trained, how they were trained, how that could be remotely accessed. >> during its investigation, the fbi discovered the contractors in the umt beijing office have access to the student database. >> she was very interested in wright-patterson air force base paid >> a technology hub, their crests apparently went further. >> she wanted me to go out to these remote reserve and national guard centers to get the information. >> how did she react? >> oh, you don't tell him anything. we don't know each other. you don't know what you don't know was her buzz phrase. >> was the fbi aware of that?
>> they were. >> these emails show rhoads and at least one fbi agent alerted the office, yet confirming another multimillion deal was signed. >> how much money was you into getting from the defense department and the va every month? >> between $200,000.300000 a month. >> the eastern district of virginia, got the case, but it stalled after a disagreement with the fbi over how to proceed. neither the bureau nor gillis would comment to fox, but separately, the naval criminal investigative service, ncis, confirmed the case is an ongoing investigation but said nothing further. after repeated interview requests, fox went to umt where we were told chen and dr. frame were in the office. but both refused to come out after learning it was fox news.
according to umt's web site, graduated 1700 students, contact by fox news, a spokeswoman said they are reviewing the deal which runs through 2019. and fox news put a series of questions to the chinese embassy here in washington but there was no immediate response. >> bret: we will see if there is any follow-up on capitol hill. >> we will definitely follow up. >> bret: thanks. the help wanted sign us up at virtually every federal agency here in washington, but the matter of actually getting those openings filled has become something of a political football. chief washington correspondent james rosen tells us how and why. >> as his deputy, rex tillerson picked a veteran who has written a book about the israeli-palestinian conflict, then someone in the white house, and abrams has his suspicions
about who it was, red flag that had characterized president trump as unfit for the presidency, just like that, till or since joyce was out. >> they are called political appointees for a reason. the idea that people who come into this government should want to support and enact the president's agenda that he campaigned on. >> and aid to the secretary designate was escorted from the building after his october op-ed in "the hill" resurfaced last week. >> you would hope when the president is in this time of reflection and learns more about the critiques toward him by people in the community. >> and the nsc's new latin american chief was sent back to national defense university after off-camera remarks last week critical of the president reaching the white house. political reports -- political reports they are starting to reach them in the filling of the sub cabinets 400 jobs while supporters of abrams stated white house is hardly applying a
consistent standard. >> nikki haley. >> donald trump is everything i taught my children not to do in kindergarten. >> the candidate fired back, the people of south carolina are embarrassed by nikki haley paid since then, haley has been confirmed as the president's ambassador to the united nations paid supporters of the administration contended is not just loyalty that is slowing down staffing. >> the approval of the trumpet nominees. >> of the 4,000 positions, those who make the executive branch run, upwards of 1200 require congressional confirmation. as of this week, the trump administration has just over a dozen confirmed nominees. bret? >> bret: james, thank you. there are signals coming out of the white house tonight that he trumpet administration may take enforcement of federal laws against recreational marijuana use much more seriously than its predecessor.
but with recreational pot exploding into a multibillion-dollar industry, some are asking, is it too big to jail? >> white house press secretary said the marijuana industry and the in the states -- >> i think that is a question for the department of justice. i believe you will see greater enforcement of it. >> in 2013, president obama's doj said it would take a hands-off approach to states approving recreational use. no questions abound. in california, which recently passed recreational use, many medical marijuana dispensaries are making plans to expand their customer base. >> we have taken all of the preparations that we possibly can, and we are ready to face that music. >> recently, a cannabis industry representative said it is going to be difficult to unwind these laws. >> if the federal government starts to pull the rug out from
under these businesses, i think you are going to see, obviously, business owners being very disrupted, but also you're going to see state and local leaders speaking up and saying, you know what, our voters chose this. >> eight states in the in and e district of columbia have legalized medical marijuana. last year, the three states combined collected nearly half a billion dollars in tax revenues from recreational weed. confusing matters, comments made by then-candidate trump on the campaign trail. >> then i really believe you should leave it up to the states. it should be a state situation. >> during a confirmation hearing, jeff sessions put the ball squarely in the court of lawmakers. >> if that something is not desired any longer, congress should pass a law to change the rule. >> in a pull out this week, 71% of americans said they support -- against states that already
legalized medical or recreational medical marijuana. when asked by fox news, the department of justice declined to comment on spicer's comments. >> alicia, thank you. in international news, and syria, isis car bomb suicide bomber killed people a day after the town was liberated, meanwhile, syria peace talks resumed in geneva today. serious u.n. ambassador says his delegation is considering details of an unspecified paper presented by the u.n. envoy for syria. malaysian officials say the people who assassinated the estranged half-brother of north korea's dictator used a powerful chemical warfare agent banned by international treaty. senior foreign affairs correspondent greg palkot has more disturbing implications. >> the north korean regime of kim jong-un unleashed a weapon. the dramatic new claim by malaysian authorities investigating the death of kim
jong-nom. the tocsin was apparently applied by two young women, one who was nauseous after the attack. experts say north korea has some 5,000 tones of chemical weapons, and the small amount needed could have been smuggled in. >> while there was only one person who died in this, we have to be fairly clear that the north koreans are willing to use the world's most destructive weapon on a regular basis. >> seven north koreans being sought, the one under arrest, also a chemist. officials there continue to deny involvement. malaysian foreign minister shot back. >> the investor has been formed of the process involved, but he continues to be delusional. >> in fact, experts say this public killing could be pyongyang's way of sending a
message. like the former number two who recently declared the regime's days are numbered. he is now reportedly and hiding. it could be a message to a longtime ally china as well-paid north korea criticized this week new rules beijing against pyongyang in the wake of a recent missile watch. saying kim jong-nam had long been protected by beijing at his home in a chinese territory. back in the '90s, domestic terrorists used this to kill. it could be first time that north korea north used it. >> bret: president trump takes a victory lap in front of adoring conservatives at cpac then drops the hammer on certain hi. i'm dave nemeth.
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>> and i love the first amendment; nobody loves it better than me. nobody. so i'm not against the media, i'm not against the press. i don't mind bad stories if i deserve them. but i am only against the fake news, media or press. they should put the name of the person. you will see stories dry up like you've never seen before. >> bret: president donald trump at cpac, and rock star welcome there. he spent a lot of time talking about, as he does, the media and "fake news" ." sean spicer hadn't on the record off-camera gaggle, it is called, were not the press pool, what he
called an expanded pool. he did not include some networks and some organizations, and that caused quite a kerfuffle. the white house correspondents association said the wac a board is protesting strongly how it is being handled. organizations that were allowed into share information and were not. the board will be discussing this further with white house staff. fox joined the complaint in the pool to the white house staff as well. but the material was accessible. it was put out by the press poo pool. let's bring in our panel. byron york, chief political correspondent of the washington examiner, charles lane, and charles krauthammer. i want to get to the overall message that president trump continues to hit on here. and the specifics of this gaggle and why it caused a lot of
people to question access. >> i think you were like when you called it a little arcane. i think that is probably true. i think the first thing you should say, all of us in journalists should be in a favor of access. that said, i don't think this was the worst thing in the world. the white house has had briefings for limited numbers of journalists for quite a while. as you point out, not only did they get a cool report pull ret a recording of the whole thing. my guess is, you won't see it again, and if the white house wants to stick it to organizations, they will find more subtle ways to do it. i think the bottom line is, we should be in favor of more access for everybody. >> bret: that is a key, the excess. i guess on a day when he is out saying he is going to do something about it, then this happens, this expanded pool that includes "the washington post," "the new york times" ," time,
others, cnn, that kind of send a message that sent set off alarm bells. >> denial of access wasn't random. it was selective and targeted at various media that have been sort of, you know, on his blacklist for some time. and he has been complaining about them specifically on calling them fake news. i have to say that what struck me about his remarks though, there was a hint of defensiveness in and for the first time. he took pains to say, no, i wasn't really saying all the media is the enemy of the people, just a fake media. nobody loves the first amendment more that i prayed in the scheme of things for donald trump, that sounded like kind of a climbdown in the sense that it seemed like some of the criticism he had been getting for that awful enemy of the people remark had started to hit home. you remember the admiral said it was one of the most dangerous things he has ever heard or
words to that effect. what the president is trying to do in a time when conservatives have a lot of internal disagreements amongst themselves, one thing they can agree on is that they don't like the mainstream media. he is trying to use that in addition to pursuing his own little quarrels with particular media, trying to strike this one theme that all conservatives agree on and take advantage of that. >> bret: here is another little part of the speech. >> somebody said, a poll came out, and i say, what network is it? and they'll say, a certain -- let's not even mention names, right? we have a lot of them. look, the clinton news network is one.
we have to fight it. >> bret: charles, a popular message with his supporters, what steve bannon talked about. is it working, does it work long-term? >> it works on the base. he will get the cheers and applause. i don't think it works anywhere else. i think people are rightly somewhat concerned. they may not be alarmed. what happened today was symbolic and minor, as a real thing. nonetheless, the symbolism is alarming. the president uses a phrase from lennon, enemies of the people. if you were an enemy of the people in lenin's day, you were dead. these are serious historical terms that shouldn't ever be used, and you are sending a message that you are hostile to certain media outlets. as you say, on the same day, you explicitly, and subtly exclude them from any gaggle. in the scheme of things, that doesn't matter, but i am glad to see that fox joined with all of the others, we being a favored
outlet for trump, remembering that when obama excluded fox from access way back when, everyone rallied around us and said, if you don't include them, we're not going to be there. it is the only way to do it. the press can't allow itself to be bullied. and i'm glad it's not. >> bret: but i can hear middle america in my head, i can hear them say, god, they are obsessing about this white house gaggle, and their heads were exploding about the words he is using. i can hear it, i can hear it on social media. it is important though. >> it is important but i will speak for middle america. i went to the speech day. trump comes out and talks for a long time about the press, 10, 15 minutes. then he says, in conclusion, and you think, is that all he's going to talk about today. then he delivered a long speech, the speed you thought he would give about his agenda, talking
about what he has done and what he intends to do. i counted a dozen bullet points, border security, violent crime, tpp, lots and lots of stuff. so in an alternate universe, you could cover the, say, two-thirds of trump's speech that was about his actual agenda. >> bret: i should point out to command the was included, "new york times" ," and the "l.a. times" were not. >> on the other hand, he took a shot at "the washington post" in his speech, talking about the story with the nine sources. >> you know what we're not talking about today and every network is not talking about today, this whole fbi deal and whether reince priebus talked to the fbi about getting the story straight about "the new york times" reporting create the white house put out a very detailed kind of background on what priebus says happened, that "the new york times" story was wrong. but we're not talking about tha
that. >> as in many other cases, it's hard to decide whether this was a deliberate act of misdirection or whether it just happened to turn out this way. i always tend to not believe in intentions and conspiracies because it gives anybody that you talk about, even washington, too much credit. they couldn't organize a two car funeral if they tried. i would assume it was random. but it did actually take attention away from an odd story and one that seems to imply that even though the impetus came from the fbi, there was the white house political sort of operatives trying to persuade the fbi to make them look or to help to dismiss a story about russian influence, and those kind of interactions -- >> completely pushed back on that. president trump tweeting the fbi is totally unable to stop
the national security 'leakers' that have permeated our government for a long time. they can't even find the leakers within the fbi itself. classified information is being given to media that could have a devastating effect on u.s. find now." he says. to your point, byron, he did come on to talk about the travel band that's coming up, as well as repeal and replace of obamacare, at house speaker john boehner says is not going to happen. there was substance in there. >> here is the important thing about the speech in that room, the conservatives in cpac. it was very well received. it was not below the roof off well received, but it was well received. and the people who love trump, they left all of it, but the people who really didn't love trump, about that supported ted cruz. most of them had come around to support trump, some of them not completely, they left parts of it, the part about cutting regulation, tax reform, increasing military spending.
>> and they loved the part that cpac with clinton. >> came to cpac, hasn't happened in a long time. >> bret: democrats choose a leader, what is going on with leader, what is going on with north korea, plus winners a a aa
hillary clinton. i believe i could pull people together so we can come together as a party and we can win elections so we don't have to go through this thing anymore. >> tom perez and keith ellison actually leading in the hunt for the dnc chair. there are seven candidates still up for grabs voting tomorrow in atlanta. a couple of the candidates have dropped out. the question is, which may what does the democratic party go. we are back with a panel. byron? >> the interesting thing is how little it has to do with why democrats just lost. and why they have lost so many seats and so much power and influence across the country. it started basically as kind of a real fight of the hillary-bernie fight with tom perez being the hillary stand-in and keith ellison being the bernie stand-in. now it seems to be a heading
trump contest. >> bret: what is clear, either one, chuck, going to take the party, it seems, towards the elizabeth warren-bernie sanders wing. >> or even further to the left. all of the energy now is on the left. so much so that chuck schumer has actually, through pressure from the base, been forced to endorse keith ellison. this has been described in some of the press as group therapy for a defeated party still trying to make sense of novembe. the question i think a lot of people are saying privately among the party, if we brand ourselves so far today left coming out of this, will we be able to recover in those
battleground states? >> bret: quickly to north korea. you have this strange story that continues to get more strange, the assassination, which now they are saying was a chemical nerve agent that was used on this half-brother of kim jong-un. and you have north korea threatening missiles and launches and tests to come. >> outlook, the vx agent that was used is very rare, very sophisticated, and probably the deadliest agent on earth. it is not something you pick up at walmart. it clearly makes this an obvious part by an obsessed and paranoid leader in north korea who happens to control some nukes and is working on missiles. i think this is sort of the signature of a regime plot, and it just reminds people, including the chinese, of how dangerous this regime is. >> this one lightning, winners or losers, winner first. >> winner, mike pence, putting pressure on nato to spend more money, saying, i want you to expand your plans to spend more, if you don't have a planned, get
one. >> bret: loser? >> andrew mccain, the second guy who's managed to get himself involved in both scandals. republican saying he was in the tank for hillary clinton, democrats complaining he is in the tank for the trump white house. there is no winning. >> bret: winners and losers? >> my winner, teresa may, favored her candidate in an ancient labor constituency, in another district, her enemies on the right were defeated. she commands the center and the political high ground in britain as a result. my loser is milo yiannopoulos. it seems like ten years ago, but it was this week when his career crashed and burned for some comments he made about how great pedophilia is. i say good riddance to him.
>> bret: winner and loser? >> kim jong-un is the loser. so enrich that the chinese have cut off outgoing exports out of pyongyang, 40% of their exports. my winner, of swords, julian assange, the weekly -- wikilea. apparently has been visited with increasing frequency by pamela anderson who says that she spent more time with him than with her three ex-husbands. family show. i'll leave it there. slow and that was worth the extra seconds i gave you. >> i needed all three. >> brerererere
president's war on fake news: yes. no accountability. fire heather? no i do not agree with it. the press is supposed to call out those in authority. if they don't, who does? also asked if the democrat party would move toward the center. gary harden running to the left as fast as leadership can take them. leaving much of mainstream leadership behind. during alicia acuna's story that should enforce president rules against it none your business, no. if he was smart like he claims, he would start collecting tax revenues from it and make it federal. casey kelly, yes, because it's illegal. i don't care about the facts of its benefits. he i actually agree with the studies i have read bottom line drugs equal illegal. that's your friday feedback thanks to all of you. on twitter @ bret baier very close to 1 million followers. if you don't follow me at bret baier. thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. that's it for this "special report," fair, balanced and
work yesterday morning and brokenhearted at what i saw congress doing. a member of congress who listened in on a phone call from the president of the united states and in his way tried to express that opinion, he was a brave man, fallen hero, he knew what he was getting into because he enlisted. he was where he wanted to be, exactly where he wanted to be, exactly the people he wanted to be with when his life was taken, that was the message. >> kelly's own son robert was killed fighting for the us in afghanistan in 2010, donald trump's chief of staff describing the agonizing process of notifying a family member of a loved one's death and the pain those loved ones go through and live with. >> typically the only phone
calls a family receives are the most important phone calls from their buddies. in my case after my son was killed his friends were calling us from afghanistan telling us what a great guy he was. those are the only phone calls that really matter. >> kelly said he was upset by will finance committee had to collect his thoughts by walking through the graves at arlington national cemetery for more than an hour. heather: remarkable moment to see him standing there explaining to people the significance of the phone call from the president of the united states. and the significance of serving our country. we will talk more about this. this is what donald trump had to say blasting frederica wilson on twitter. commander-in-chief writing this. the fake news is going crazy with the congresswoman wilson
loved ones. >> as a commander i have had to write those letters. i have had to make those calls. there is nothing more difficult in the world to do. those men are out there doing what they love. the families have to suffer. they get weepy choices, don't come back in the come back missing arms and limbs, or not write mentally and not the same as how we left. nothing more sacred than the. heather: you have a lot to say about that. and tell us what you general kelly's speech. we will share your comments and look forward to that. a crucial step forward for donald trump's agenda republicans passing a $4 trillion budget proposal for donald trump tweeting great news on the 2018 budget, mitch
mcconnell first step toward delivering massive tax cuts for the american people. let's get to griff jenkins with developments all about the hashtag. >> right down party lines. the senate passed budget framework 51-49 paving the way for the tax reform plan donald trump promises would be the largest tax cut in history. >> we completed the first step toward replacing our broken tax code by passing comprehensive fiscally responsible budget that will put the government on path to balance. the budget gives us the tools we need to strengthen our economy after years of stagnation under the previous administration. >> when mcconnell mentions tools the senate can use a special process known as budget reconciliation to avoid a democratic filibuster and pass
tax reform with a simple majority of 51 votes. this would cut spending more than $5 trillion, for medicare, and $1 trillion for medicaid but senator rand paul was the only republican to vote against the bill joining democrats and opposing it. he said he couldn't in good conscience vote for budget that ignored spending caps as minority leader chuck schumer blasted any adding to the deficit. >> after eight years of debts and deficits under a democratic president republican deficit hawks seem to have flown the coop. >> one of the worst budgets congress has ever passed a. here is what happens, the house passed at the budget plan last week, house and senate, in the package coming next week. >> they want to get on the president's desk by christmas. >> that may be a bit hopeful but
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the time is 11 minutes after the top of the hour, free speech under fire, rowdy crowds, richard spencer putting the event short watching people discover their years. and emotional message about the sad state of politics from the left. >> i just got selfless devotion that brings man a woman dying in the battlefield, might be sacred. >> next guest is a us army veteran who understands the sacrifice and honor service men and women make. he joins us live up next and we will be talking to him. no uniform but there will be a frenzy over the new freaky cappuccino. find out what is in it next. ♪
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>> white house chief of staff general john kelly giving an emotional defense of donald trump, the media continues to politicize a tragedy. should not fall in service members and their loved ones the spared political attacks. army veteran doctor darren porcher. >> we were just talking, and general standing yesterday. having to explain and defend the president and what happened to him. >> a unique position as relates to this, goldstar father, and chief of staff and a prior marine corps general.
if anyone understands it will be him and interesting, i felt terrible that he had to introduce this pattern in connection with goldstar family. it goes back to this no right way to do this. >> was to relive those moments, heart wrenching. >> it is a prior army officer. and on the other side of this to a goldstar family, and one thing donald trump mentioned, talking out of context, and the truth of the matter is i knew what i signed up for, initially and enlisted soldier but transferred to being an officer, this was in the back of my mind so talking
about training exercises, the element of danger present in those. >> the most controversial line brought out. what about the congresswoman, in terms of her and what she has done to bring this out and politicize with the family? >> she could handle this in a more professional manner. this was a discourse between the president and the goldstar family and should have stayed there. she should have stayed back. she is running for reelection soon, something she will tout moving forward, in diametric opposition to the trump administration and something came to the forefront more so and the sorrow of a goldstar family. >> call for his impeachment among other things in the past, going to families and their loved one has died. >> in a very unique position.
i was an officer, so we had people that passed away and never a good way to do this. traditionally when a family member or military member passes, someone referred to as the casualty officer knocks on someone's door and makes the notification as the person passed away but often times on the other end, the command staff make these phone calls to goldstar family members and it was never the same thing. it amazes me when i look at. a mortician in that line of work how they are able to do that. fortunately i only did it a few times. >> thank you for joining us, we appreciate your service. >> appreciate you keeping me on
fox. heather: the time is about 19 minutes after the top of the hour. no man left behind, search for a missing soldier in somalia is intensifying. >> the moment of contact, no one is left behind. >> what happened to these four men in these final moments, plus a modern-day goldrush, cities battling to become the site of amazon at newest headquarters. why it actually could ruin your city. ♪ these days families want to be connected 24/7.
protesters flooding the campus as ryan spencer took the stage to deliver a speech, the way nationalist to help organize the deadly rally in charlottesville virginia barely able to speak before the crowd shut him down. >> i am not going home. and add this speech. another high school catering to pc police in the name of being gender inclusive, ending a 50-year-old tradition of having the guys and girls again. now everyone will wear the same
color. the decision is about being respectful to select a gender or not select a gender. game on amazon in search for a new city to have the second headquarters in the competition heating up, it was actually yesterday but is it really worth? the cyber guy to explain pros and cons of having a billion-dollar retail company land in your city. thank you for joining us. >> talking about a goldrush, 39 cities across the us yesterday with the deadline. we think amazon knows who the winner is but haven't announced it yet. what we do know is it is pretty incredible. with regard to the amount of money that can come into your community. in seattle, amazon where they are currently headquartered has already -- speech is getting a
little feedback with mike. >> talking $38 billion from 2010 to 2016 that went into seattle. this could be coming into your community. if your city already has 1 million people in it, within 45 minutes of international airport and they want a friendly town, high-paying job coming into your town talking home values that will shoot up overnight, local economy boosted so the money will be converted to better schools hiring better teachers, hard-working this and that and $5 billion is what they will spend to fill this out and talking about a huge investment, adding the economy component and attracting new businesses. there is clarity so all these people hire local people and all the model shops going out of business because amazon is
shutting down by nature of the economy would be thriving again. this is like living in your house while you renovate. huge traffic jams, chaos during construction, and the existing identity of your town, you may know judy at the dry cleaner but that could change immediately when you have such an influx. >> cities in contention have to promise how large a facility, 8,000,000 ft. . >> you are right, 8 million square foot of the building they are going to build, 50,000 people to bring in, people spend $5 billion overnight building this, 39 cities and interesting things some mayors are doing,
kansas city mayor, once dollars of amazon boxes, please come to my city, pretty fun stuff. heather: the top five contenders. >> those are some ideas. >> my hometown charlotte in new york city. >> new york, chicago, but pittsburgh. heather: pros and cons to everything. it is half past the top of the hour almost. high praise for donald trump's chief of staff. >> there was a speech given by a general, chief of staff, goldstar father, an american. that is what people needed to hear. >> navy seal rob only of having the general on the back for speaking from the heart. what do you think of general kelly's emotional speech? we are share your comments. president obama helping fellow democrats with campaign speeches
but his message still the same. >> some of the politics we see, with we put them to bed.
>> welcome back to "fox and friends" first, emotional, rare patriotic moment from chief of staff general john kelly producing a riveting and stunning condemnation of frederica wilson's claims about donald trump's condolence call. 's love of country shining. >> i was stunned when i came to work and brokenhearted at what i saw congress doing. a member of congress who listens in on a phone call from the president of the united states to a wife and his way tried to express that opinion, a brave
man, fallen hero. he knew what he was getting himself into because he listened. he was where he wanted to be, exactly where he wanted to be with people he wanted to be with. that was the message. >> kelly's own son robert, a marine lieutenant with killed fighting for the us in afghanistan in 2010. general kelly knows what happens when troops are killed. he watched it happen firsthand. rob o'neill reminds us and america of the general's experiences and why it is so important to hear his speech. >> general kelly is the classiest guy in washington dc, that was a speech given by a general, chief of staff, goldstar father, an american. that is what people needed to hear because this is a goldstar
family, the most sacred thing we have, the bickering, the political politics, playing politics with families is unacceptable and i would like to see it end. people said stuff they hopefully regret and it ends, the president made a phone call that has got to be very uncomfortable, he asked general kelly what to said he said the best way he could. i know donald trump, he cares about the military, won't insults anybody, way general kelly said, it broke his heart. i watched it live and it was an excellent speech. >> praise is pouring in for general kelly online with some of your comments. >> a lot of praise for general kelly, i was crying before he was halfway done, moved beyond words and appalled by the reaction of some media.
jim on facebook, you are a great american, john kelly. even if he said the wrong thing or it was taken the wrong way it was meant to be kind, that is what hit general kelly so hard and got a little emotional. shirley on facebook, he was right on the mark, there is no draft like there was in vietnam, young men and women join because they want to. >> a great deck of the general made, they don't have to do this, they do it because they have the heart. thank you. everyone keep doing us your comments. another story, the pentagon putting the pieces together to find out what happens when four green berets were killed in a terrorist ambush. live from london more on that investigation. >> lots of questions about the
ambush and the handling of the ambush. us special forces soldiers were injured in that ambush, we know the body of the fourth soldier was recovered and what is less clear is why that -- david johnson or his body was left behind after that initial conduct and whether there was an appropriate search and rescue mission. >> the moment of contact no one left behind, the us, partner in nigerian forces or french forces on the ground actively searching. it is a battlefield, it is in the middle of nowhere so not as clear as the briefing room. >> information is foggy about details of the ambush. two of the outstanding issues, did the soldiers have the appropriate intelligence going
into a routine patrol just before this one. have they been appropriately briefed, second question was it appropriate because of soft skinned vehicles, did they have the right security posture? general kelly saying there is going to be an investigation but a lot of people in congress including senator mccain say that the white house has not been forthcoming with formation. they want more of it and if necessary will use a subpoena to get it. heather: bottom line whether it is the controversy over presidential phone calls and condolences or the investigation is green berets lost their lives. we need to remember that in all of this. donald trump meantime back home meeting with puerto rican governor at the white house and giving his administration a grade of 10 towards hurricane
relief efforts. >> we have done a really great job, we had tremendous cooperation from the governor and we are getting there. >> i'm confident with your commitment and support we will be able in the long haul to give citizens of puerto rico adequate resources. >> giving the okay to provide additional funding to repair the ravaged islands, 80% of puerto rico remains without electricity. after months of vacation since leaving the oval office barack obama returning to the campaign trail. >> four more years! heather: promoting gubernatorial candidates in new jersey and virginia, president obama slamming the current administration without mentioning donald trump by name. >> the politics we see now, we thought we put that to bed.
looking 50 years back. it is the 21st century. not the 19th century. heather: obama breaking with presidential tradition in recent years by going out and campaigning for his party after leaving the white house. this is pretty exciting. hdtv's last season going out in style with two of favorite jewels announcing former first lady laura bush and minor league outfielder tim tebo will appear as special guests. the fifth and final season is on november 21st at 9:00 pm eastern. the time is 20 minutes until the top of the hour and controversy in the classroom after a teacher.tapes not one but ten elementary students mouths shut and the school is responding.
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bays and bring down a plane. a recent test shows lithium batteries in laptops can overheat from pressure and catch fire in less then a minute especially near certain products that contain aerosol. since 2006 pilot have been killed by in-flight fires that were caused or made worse by igniting batteries. general motors paying a big time for the ignition switch defect leading to 100 death. here with the latest on that. >> reporter: this comes three years after general motors recalled 5 million cars that contain that ignition switch defect that would not cause the airbag to deploy. it cost 120 death. they paid millions in
settlements, but general motors going to have to pay $120 million to 49 states and the district of columbia to resolve allegations that general motors didn't disclose the safety defect in a timely manner causing these deaths. the states say general motors new this in 2004 but we didn't hear about this. >> i heard this before the diet soda makes you fat but people are suing over that. >> these are several federal lawsuits this past monday, separate lawsuits against the largest sodamaker's, pepsi and dr pepper. the lawsuit said the marketing gets people to think they will lose weight when it is the opposite. we will see if there is a case.
heather: starbucks, do you remember the unicorn? >> back in the summer. heather: it didn't taste too good. >> but it was so popular. starbucks reporting on something called the zombie, they haven't announced the drink yet. it is going to be green apple, pink powder, don't know what flavor that is. and pink mocha drizzle, just in time for halloween, october 26th. >> i want to know how long it will take to break that. >> starbucks -- >> thank you, have a great
weekend. the time is 15 minutes until the top of the hour. and 8 is called out for softball questions. >> so many people asking you to tell the story, you're talking about it now and you won't talk about it again. heather: what we learned about this bizarre interview. fired up for picking up a dollar, fired for picking up a dollar off the floor. this grandmother was let go from walmart. ah, dinner.
about the bizarre interview ellen degeneres scored with a las vegas security guard. at 8 has been called out for softball questions to jesus campos and the daily mail is reporting hotel executives pressured him to only appear on ellen to keep him from talking with the media. reporters who broke the story saying mgm is trying to keep the timeline from changing. >> we spoke to an insider who confirmed this with all mgm. they were concerned about the timeline it keeps changing and they would not keep it great if he was put on hard talk shows with pressure. heather: the report claims mgm is worried the disputed timeline could prompt victims families to sue if police were not called right away by the hotel. substitute teacher has been banned from teaching after placing duct tape over the mouth of ten, fifth-graders. students according to officials
in texas, the incident lasted several minutes before the teacher was removed from the classroom. no word why she did it. all the students were checked out by the school nurse and return to their classes. and 84-year-old grandmother demanding answers after she is fired from walmart. she was working at the door as a greeter for nearly a decade. she said she was told to turn in her vest and badge after picking up a dollar bill she found on the floor. a manager is telling her she was being let go because of her, quote, integrity. >> i thought how am i going to be able to push my walker and walk myself outside? i needed the job. heather: walmart not commenting on it firing so far.
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excited and they wanted to know what made you do this. >> a friend of mine said write a song about the nfl. that was on thursday. so i wrote the song. heather: we got to fix the like while you are talking. >> i started writing political songs, one of them was the monica lewinsky -- and one about sarah palin. last year, i wrote i am voting for donald for president. >> you are a donald trump and. are you a football fan? >> i certainly am. heather: they beat us but that
is okay. so what did you think, when you see these players not standing for the national anthem? >> they have a constitutional right and i have a solution for all of this, you wanted to know about the song. on thursday we wrote the song and friday we performed in pennsylvania and i didn't have a chance to rehearse with the band but i wanted to try it out in the evening so susie, my bandmates and cowriter holding the lyrics sheet concentrating on singing the song. so we got going. heather: the crowd loved it. >> they were shared.
a new book. "things that matter" is not a confessional memoir or scandalous kiss-and-tell. it's a collection of newspaper and magazine pieces from the pulitzer prize-winning columnist. or maybe it's more than that. >> are you decoding my book? >> i am decoding it right now. >> like it's entirely about me. >> [ laughs ] >> but it's all written in hieroglyphics. >> well, it's not quite as impenetrable as hieroglyphics. let's start with part one of your book, and it is titled "personal." and in there, the first column is really an incredibly moving piece about your brother. marcel krauthammer died of cancer. he was 59. charles writes this about his older brother. "he taught me most everything i ever learned about every sport i ever played. he taught me how to throw a football, hit a backhand, grip a nine iron, field a grounder, dock a sailboat in the tailing wind. and how we played. it was paradise."
tell me about that. >> it was a paradisiacal childhood. my brother and i were inseparable. he was four years older, which is why this was a priceless gift. he always insisted i be included, so i got used to being around the big boys and taking the slings and arrows, and that's how you get toughened up. my parents were from europe. he was american, my brother. born in brazil, but that's a long story. but american, and he made me an american. >> that long story short -- krauthammer's mother, thea, is from belgium. his father, schlum, was a real estate developer from what is now a province of ukraine, both jews who'd left world war ii europe. they met in havana, moved to rio, and eventually new york city, where charles was born in 1950. when he was 5, the krauthammers moved to montreal. but they spent summers at the family cottage in long beach, new york.
charles recalls spending every day with his brother on the field, on the court, or in the water. >> i don't think i owned a shirt till i was 21. all the pictures, the family movies, my father is shirtless, my brother's shirtless, i am. we're outside in the sun. i read on the beach. that's where i got all my knowledge was reading. >> of course, there was reading and studying. schlum krauthammer, who spoke nine languages, even carried his son's stellar second grade report card around in his coat pocket. >> his motto for us was, "i want you to know everything. i want you to learn everything. you don't have to do everything, but you got to know everything." he thought that was part of life. >> that life did not include a tv, says the cable news pundit. >> my father wouldn't allow it. once a week, sunday night, we'd go to the neighbors to watch "the ed sullivan show." that was the one concession, the television. >> inspired by uncles who were doctors, marcel krauthammer went to medical school. it was assumed charles would
follow. but as a 19-year-old senior at mcgill, the internationally renowned canadian university, he was bitten by a different bug -- political journalism. >> well, that was a little bit of campus intrigue. the editorship of the newspaper at mcgill was controlled by the student council. i'd been elected to the student council, and the paper was becoming unreadable. it was run by marxists, maoists. i mean, it was just -- it looked like it came out of the soviet union. you just couldn't read it. so we engineered a coup to fire the editor, and then we sort of realized, "well, what do we do now? we have to find an editor." so they looked around and they decided it was gonna be me. so i said, "wait, i've never worked on a paper." said, "eh, a detail." >> a poli-sci and economics major, he loved thinking and writing about all things political. he applied to medical school to please his family and got accepted to harvard, but he got into oxford, as well, to study
political theory. would krauthammer choose a life of science or a life of letters? the brilliant graduate had enviable options, but he hadn't figured out what mattered most to him, so he split the difference. he put off harvard, enrolled at oxford, and while studying history's great political philosophers, he met a fellow student from australia, robyn trethewey, attractive and brilliant, too, a clerk to the chief justice of her home state's supreme court. but so much would change in the three years between when they met and married, beginning with his sudden decision to leave england. >> i had this little epiphany of sorts. i started in political theory. it was getting more and more abstract. i learned a lot, but i began to feel that i was very sort of spinning out into a universe that didn't have anything to do with the real world. i called the registrar at harvard medical school and said, "i'd like to come in the coming
class," and i remember her saying, "well, one guy dropped out. we got a spot. if you're here on monday, it's yours." so i grabbed a toothbrush and i didn't pack. i got on a plane and i left. and that's how i decided to become a doctor. now, when i woke up in boston the next day, i thought to myself, "oh, my god, what have i done?" >> [ chuckles ] >> but there was no going back. >> why did you choose psychiatry? >> i was looking for something halfway between the reality of medicine and the elegance, if you like, of philosophy. so psychiatry was the obvious thing. that was my intention from the first day, and i was lucky because it was probably the easiest branch of medicine for me to do once i was hurt. >> "hurt." that doesn't even begin to describe it. when did you realize that the accident was life-altering? >> the second it happened. >> after the break. ♪
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♪ >> welcome back to "fox news reporting." so far, you've met the young charles krauthammer, harvard medicine, class of '75. his life seemed to be going according to plan, but then no life ever really does. this snapshot was taken in may 1972. it shows a strapping 6'1" charles krauthammer standing on the beach. it's the confident smile of a young man well on his way to making it -- smart, athletic, handsome, driven, the future all his. >> that was spring break in my first year in medical school. i went with a bunch of friends to bermuda. that actually is the last picture of me taken standing. of course, i didn't know at the time. and i was coming out of the water carrying my sandals. i saw one of my friends with a camera, and then when i got to
the top of the dune, i just stood there for a picture. thought nothing of it until i discovered it years later lying around in a box. and remembering it, of course, it was a fateful picture. >> fateful because of what would happen back at harvard that summer. you were 22 years old. tell me about that day. >> i went out. we had -- it was -- it was the end of my first year in medical school. we're doing neurology. we're studying the spinal cord, of all things. my classmate and i decide to skip the morning session. beautiful july day. we're gonna -- and we played tennis instead. >> after their game, they head back to class for the afternoon session, but along the way, they stop at a pool on campus, set down their books, and pull off their sneakers. >> we're very sweaty. it's very hot, so we go for a swim. we take a few dives, and i hit
my head on the bottom of the pool. >> a freak accident, says krauthammer. >> the amazing thing is, there was no -- not even a cut on my head. it just hit at precisely the angle where all the force was transmitted to one spot, and that is the cervical vertebrae, which severed the spinal cord. >> when did you realize that the accident was life-altering? >> the second it happened. >> you knew? >> i knew exactly what happened. i knew why i wasn't able to move. and i knew what that meant. >> at the bottom of the pool. >> i wasn't getting out. i knew, yeah. >> he was paralyzed, unable to move his arms or legs. his friend thought he was clowning around and hesitated before diving down to save him. was there ever a moment that you thought "this is the end"? >> well, when i knew what happened and i knew i was at the bottom of the pool and i knew i wouldn't be able to swim, i was
sure that was the end. >> do you think back to that day often? >> not really. it doesn't -- i kind of have a distance from it. i see it like as if it happened in a film. um... and interestingly enough, for people talk about near-death experiences, there was no panic, there was no great emotion. i didn't see a light. my life did not flash before me. you sort of get to a place where you're ready and then you're suddenly brought back to the world. >> so no cosmic revelation as he was rushed to the hospital, though krauthammer notes the irony of what he left behind. >> there were two books on the side of the pool when they picked up my effects. one was "the anatomy of the spinal cord" and the other one's "man's fate" by andré malraux.
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which are sort of having to do with gravity. i'm not gonna defy gravity. and i'm not gonna walk, i'm not gonna water ski again. that's fine. so that you know. but on the big things in life, the direction of my life, what i was gonna do, that wouldn't change at all. >> krauthammer says he never entertained the notion that one day, whether through his own effort or even some medical miracle, he'd regain full use of his arms and legs. he resigned himself to the cold reality that wherever he went in life, he'd go in a wheelchair. was it hard? >> i think the physical part was hard, getting -- learning to do everything again. i have a great capacity for erasing memories. >> [ chuckles ] >> so it seems very short. it was long, but it would seem very short. >> his teachers and classmates certainly thought he was rushing his decision to resume his studies immediately. you never thought about taking a year off or taking a couple
years off? >> no. i knew that would be fatal. it was not a question. >> 'cause you just couldn't survive. >> yeah, i mean, life would be over. it's a little early for life to be over. >> so while nobody had heard of someone with krauthammer's injury standing up to the rigors of a med school curriculum, krauthammer convinced harvard to let him try. amazingly, mere weeks after his accident, he resumed classes while still in his hospital bed. >> i was lying on my back, couldn't move. the professors would come in, repeat their lectures and project slides on the ceiling, 'cause i had asked the medical school to let me stay with my class. >> and you read by laying on your back. >> one of the cardiac residents hooked up a plexiglas plate above my head that he hung from the posters of the bed, and the nurses would put a book on it face down. now, you don't want to call them every minute and a half to turn
the page, so i put two books up at once so they'd only have to come half the time. but you got to remember where you were. [ chuckles ] it's a bit of a challenge. it keeps you busy. there wasn't a lot else to do. >> with such force of will, krauthammer graduated on time in 1975 and near the top of his class. along the way, he got the girl, too, and married robyn. but as he began his three-year residency at massachusetts general hospital, there were indications from the beginning that charles and psychiatry might not be the perfect fit. part of the residency is that you're supposed to go to this weekly group therapy session, and you didn't want to go. >> there were 12 of us residents at mass general, and there was a group therapy once a week. and i didn't go. i thought it's a pointless exercise. so i was called into the chief's office after about seven weeks
of non-appearance, and he said to me, "why aren't you going to therapy?" and i said, "sir, i came here to give therapy, not to receive it." and he said to me, "you're in denial." >> [ chuckles ] >> and i said, "of course i'm in denial. denial is the greatest of all defense mechanisms. i could be a professor of denial. i mean, i'm an expert at" -- well, i was going on and on. he wasn't very amused. >> he gave krauthammer an ultimatum -- go to group therapy or leave the program. >> so i went to the next 21 weeks of sessions or whatever it was, but i didn't really say a word. so whenever people would notice that, they'd say, "why aren't you talking?" and i said, "'cause i'm in denial." >> [ laughs ] >> i'm not a big therapy guy. >> was it because you didn't want somebody looking around your head? >> yes. i don't like to talk about myself, except with you, i guess. >> [ laughs ] >> i'm not a touchy, i'm not a feely guy. and that's probably why i quit
psychiatry. [ chuckles ] if you're not into feelings and emotions and all the backstory, then you ought to be doing something else. >> so in 1978, krauthammer took a government job in washington at what would become the national institute of mental health. it wasn't what he really wanted, but it put him in the right neighborhood. >> i thought, "once i'm in washington, isn't that where they do politics? one thing will lead to another." >> his folks worried about their son tossing away a doctor's livelihood but didn't discourage him. his wife, robyn, who would leave her career in law to become a painter and sculptor, urged him to follow his dream. >> she was the one who, 35 years ago, encouraged me to follow my heart and, with her wit and humor and generosity of spirit, has co-authored my life. >> in a moment, charles' co-author helps him answer a
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sounded the alarm over communism. politics trumping science. that might explain why krauthammer traded a big-time medical career for a one-way ticket to washington and why, once here, his eyes locked on to a "help wanted" ad in the political opinion magazine the new republic. >> i showed it to my wife, and she said, "why don't you apply?" said, "well, how can i apply? i've never written anything, don't know anybody." she said, "you write it, i'll hand-deliver it." >> i was intrigued, so i called him. >> michael kinsley was looking for a managing editor for the left-leaning magazine. was there something in his application, something during that phone call that made you want to bring him down? >> it was mainly the fact that he was a psychiatrist, because he had no writing samples. >> well, what did you see in him, though? >> you know, i just enjoy talking to him so much. i had this feeling he must be able to write this down. >> krauthammer gave it a shot. as the saying goes, he wrote
about what he knew. his first article, "the expanding shrink," protested how psychoanalysis was creeping into political discourse. for example, president carter's famous malaise speech that blamed the horrible economy on americans' crisis of confidence. >> they liked it and they published it, and i got lucky again. it was republished on the op-ed page of the washington post. it was the first time any article in the new republic had been picked up by the post. >> krauthammer wrote a few more pieces for the magazine and might have joined the staff, except he got an even more intriguing offer -- as a speech writer for vice president walter mondale. >> that lasted six months. and when we got totally crushed in the general election, i got a call from the new republic, and they said, "we think you're unemployed now. would you like to come work for us?" i said yes right away and started on the day reagan was sworn in. that's the first day i started at the new republic as a writer. >> so help me god. >> the new president was
promising big changes, even starting the world anew. reagan's inaugural truly signaled a great clash of ideas. >> in this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem. government is the problem. >> and the new republic was right in the midst of it. >> well, it was overwhelmingly liberal. the writers were the best of that era. i was still a democrat at the time, a traditional liberal democrat, a great society liberal, but i was pretty hard lined on the soviets. it's hard for people to believe now, but the democratic party had a very powerful wing that was very anti-soviet. >> but those democrats were a dying breed, and krauthammer found himself agreeing more with president reagan than with his liberal readers. >> i ended up supporting just about every element of the reagan foreign policy, and boy, did we get reaction from our liberal readership. i wrote one editorial excoriating the nuclear freeze
that caused the largest number of canceled subscriptions in the history of the magazine, which i was very proud of. >> [ chuckles ] what was his writing like? >> it's always been extremely step by step logical. if you can read a column by charles about something and you can still disagree with him after you're through with it, then you know you must have a pretty good argument. >> [ chuckles ] those arguments had conservative columnists like william f. buckley wondering why krauthammer and the new republic were not supporting reagan's reelection in 1984. >> what buckley was writing was, why don't you give up on the democrats, and i was still one of those who wanted to sort of save the soul of the democratic party and maintain this conservative element of which the magazine really was. >> krauthammer fired off a letter to buckley, writing, reagan still had "a lot to answer for" on foreign policy, and his domestic policy was far
worse. "the catalogue of sins we believe the president has committed is too long to recapitulate here." but krauthammer tells me he privately wanted reagan to beat his old boss, walter mondale. >> but i had worked for mondale in 1980. i liked him and had respect for him. and as a personal matter, there's a kind of a matter of honor. i didn't want to vote against a man for whom i had respect and affection. >> so you have a vote -- reagan or mondale. >> that's the only presidential election where i left that line blank. >> left it blank? >> but if i had been, you know, the swing vote, i would have obviously have voted for reagan. >> it was a turning point in krauthammer's transition from the political left to the political right. >> and just a few months after the election, i wrote something called "the reagan doctrine." >> it was a time magazine column, and it was provocative. for awhile krauthammer had praised reagan on a number of foreign policy issues.
he was now crediting him with a breakthrough insight that changed the calculus of the cold war. >> i realized that what reagan had done without a grand master plan was to challenge what, at the time, was called the brezhnev doctrine, and that was "whenever we take over a country, it becomes a communist, it's ours." and all of a sudden, what reagan had done is to challenge that and to say, "no, you don't get to keep what you got. we're gonna challenge your possessions wherever they are." and i thought, "this is a really good idea. and i'm gonna give it a name." >> he invented the reagan doctrine, not reagan, and now everyone has got to have a doctrine. >> [ chuckles ] yeah. >> charles has made it mandatory to come up with a doctrine for every president. >> but even after reagan's 49-state landslide, krauthammer was still not sure what to make of reagan the man, who he met at the white house in 1986. >> he invited me to lunch.
i tried to engage him, like, on the contras. "what are you gonna do?" and all of a sudden, what i'm hearing from him is this story about how when he and nancy were in the guest house of president marcos of the philippines, there was a giant spider on the ceiling, and the question was how to get him off without scaring nancy. and i'm thinking, "i don't get it. this is the most successful president in my lifetime. he seems to be out to lunch. what's going on?" >> he says it was only later that he realized what eluded him about reagan. >> he had no need ever to show how smart he was. he knew exactly what i was asking. he didn't want to talk about it. and if you thought he was a dunce, he didn't care, 'cause he knew that he wasn't. >> it would also be some time before krauthammer embraced a conservative domestic policy, taxes, welfare, small government, and other reagan-esque sins. >> it took me about a decade. i was skeptical of tax cuts. i was skeptical of smaller government at the beginning. and then by the end of the '80s,
i had begun to change. >> what happened? >> empirical evidence. as a doctor, i'd been trained in empirical evidence. i mean, if the treatment is killing your patients, you stop the treatment. and i began to look and to read and to think about whether the view i had of a social democratic society like they had in europe was the right way, and i sort of -- i moved gradually to the idea of a more limited society, smaller government. >> by that time, krauthammer's world was really falling into place. in 1985, his son daniel was born. two years later, krauthammer won the biggest honor in print journalism, the pulitzer prize. not bad for someone who started in the business less than a decade earlier without even a writing sample. he went straight from the ceremony to see his father, who'd once worried about his son's jump from medicine to journalism. schlum krauthammer was 84 and gravely ill. >> i went to the hospital where he was, and i said, "dad, i have
something i want to give you." and i gave him the medal. and he beamed and he showed it to all the nurses. >> it turned out to be krauthammer's final visit with his dad. >> so, the last time i saw him was a time when this whole circle was closed, and he could feel that the choice had been redeemed in some way. it was a very comforting thing to remember about the last time you see your parent. [ cheers and applause ] >> krauthammer called the 1990s a holiday from history. the cold war was won. the era of big government declared over. [ siren wails ] and 9/11 brought a new urgency to his commentary. >> people understand there is a nexus between these weapons, these states, and the terrorists, and we have to attack them where they are. >> krauthammer began appearing on "special report's" all-star panel and was soon an audience favorite. you've been a fixture on
"special report" for a long time, and even still a lot of people don't know that you're in a wheelchair. they don't know the extent of your paralysis. >> i am sitting behind a table. and it is true. i say half the people i meet are absolutely surprised to see me in a wheelchair. and one of the more amusing of those incidents happened about, oh, about eight, nine years ago. and i remember i was sitting in madison square garden in the fox box. i think it was a convention. and then sean hannity stands up and walks up the stairs. he looks at me and he goes, "what happened?" i just -- you know, i told him i was hurt as a medical student, it was no big deal. but it just told me that even somebody i had been on the air with wouldn't know. >> what is apparent is that krauthammer has the attention of people in high places. just one example -- krauthammer's opposition to white house counsel harriet miers not only helped block her nomination to the
supreme court. a comment on the panel apparently gave president bush a way out. >> i remember thinking, "how do they get out of this?" and it came to me while on the set of "special report." i think what the administration ought to do is to say, "look..." >> his face-saving solution basically went like this. because miers' legal writings were covered by executive privilege, the senate couldn't vet her, so she had to withdraw. >> and three days later, that's what they did. >> are you surprised by the amount of influence that you have with your column, with "special report," that you hear or see things that happen as a result of a column or a statement? do you ever think about it? >> i think about it, and i find it worrisome. >> [ chuckles ] >> the reason is that when i was totally unknown, i could say anything i damn well pleased. >> coming up, power players and
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♪and the world will live as one♪ ♪ >> welcome back to "fox news reporting." charles krauthammer set out to write a book about the things that matter most, and he didn't mean politics. the palm on 19th street, one of washington's legendary power scenes. and you know you're lunching with one of d.c.'s power players if his caricature's on the wall. >> i got one other scenario for you. >> and today charles krauthammer is holding forth on the nuances of power. >> oh, i can't wait to hear this. i know where this is going. >> not the political power of the white house 10 blocks away. he's talking about the washington nationals and whether they can power a late-season playoff run. >> the nats finish 14-2, one game ahead of cincinnati.
>> right. >> and werth is the mvp. >> i was wondering where he was going. harper, desmond. but werth. >> i think charles and i are both people who write about politics to support our baseball habits. >> noted conservative columnist and newly minted fox news contributor george will has written two books on baseball. do you remember when you first met charles? >> i think it was 1982 because he was then with the new republic and wrote a cover story on me. so i said, "interesting guy." bring him to lunch. and that's how we met. >> so, how long did it take before you were friends? >> i think it was instantaneous. five years later, i bought a new house, and the first thing i did was build a wheelchair ramp in the garage so charles could get in. >> he told us that when you get together, you first talk baseball. and then when you've dealt with all the important issues, you go to politics. >> if there's time left over, yes. >> [ laughs ] >> tim kurkjian, a senior writer for espn magazine, has lunch
with will and krauthammer a couple of times a year to talk baseball. >> to say they're fans is an understatement. to say they love the game is an understatement. >> i grew up playing the game. i love to play the game. and as a kid, my brother and i would go around on our schwinns on the streets of long island with transistor radios hanging from the handlebars listening to mel allen and phil rizzuto doing the yankee games. this was our lives. >> since the nationals came to washington in 2005, they've had no bigger fan than charles krauthammer. >> when i started to do your show every night, you know, it ends at 7:00, the game starts at 7:10. the garage at fox is seven minutes if the wind is fair in the third street tunnel. >> [ chuckles ] >> from the garage at nat stadium. so i get there in the bottom of the first. i mean, how can i resist? >> he makes that trip in a special vehicle designed just for him that lets krauthammer
accelerate and brake with his left hand and steer with his right. >> everybody comes in here the first time is terrified. >> [ chuckles ] >> and i don't blame them. in fact, when i went for my driving test, the tester didn't want to get in. >> [ laughs ] >> i told him he had to. it's the law. i think he passed me because he survived. he was so happy to be alive when it was over. >> the first time i saw you go into the parking lot, i waved to you, and then the next day you said to me, "you really shouldn't wave. it's a little dangerous." [ laughs ] >> yeah, the wave is a little bit hard. when somebody lets me in in traffic, i'm tempted to take one hand and to say the "thank you" wave. >> [ chuckles ] >> but then, of course, i wouldn't have a hand on the steering wheel. >> it actually took us eight minutes to get to the stadium. when we took our seats, the nats were beating the braves 1-0. krauthammer went into analyst mode right away, as though he was breaking down a procedural
move harry reid might use to thwart a ted cruz filibuster. >> on a 1-0 count, you want to steal on a breaking ball 'cause it's slower. and does he like you to throw a breaking ball? no. so he's unlikely to try to steal right now. strike one. now he might go for a breaking ball. >> turns out, nine innings with charles krauthammer is not just a day at the park. it's essentially grad school for baseball. >> okay, this is unfortunate matchup. the only reason solano is in there -- he's the backup catcher who doesn't hit very well. >> get through. come on. no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. awww. >> he's a catcher. he can't run. >> from time to time, charles writes about baseball, typically in a way that transcends the sport. take his column about rick ankiel, a 21-year-old pitching phenom who, back in 2000, fell apart when he was
picked to start a playoff game. with a huge national tv audience watching, he suddenly couldn't throw a strike. he never pitched the same again. but instead of quitting, ankiel went back down to the minors, learned a new position, and returned to the majors as a hitter. the column is reprinted in krauthammer's book, "things that matter." it's in the "personal" section just a few pages after the piece about his brother, marcel. i was thinking about this column. this is not really about you. but then your last line, "the catastrophe that awaits everyone from a single false move, wrong turn, fatal encounter, every life has such a moment. what distinguishes us is whether and how we ever come back." >> that's why the rick ankiel story resonated so much with me. i mean, i had my fatal encounter, as did rick ankiel. there's an element about
everybody's story, their low point. do you want it enough, and are you lucky enough? that's a part of it, too. >> while krauthammer's injury has kept him off the playing fields and courts, he's pursued another competitive outlet -- chess. which lights you up more? baseball or chess when you're in the game? >> there's no comparison. it's chess. >> do you still play chess? >> no, i gave it up. it's an addiction. >> completely? >> it's a poison. >> [ laughs ] >> i mean, it's -- you know, you reach a point when you're on the internet, you know, middle of the night and you're playing speed chess or you realize you're in a motel room and you're drinking aqua velva. >> [ laughs ] your book was supposed to be a collection of essays on things other than politics, but it didn't turn out that way. why? >> in the end, everything, all the beautiful, elegant things in life, depend ultimately on getting politics right. >> you say science, art, poetry, baseball must ultimately bow to
politics. >> i have a column in the book where i write about the fermi paradox. fermi was a great physicist who posed a simple question. we know that there are millions of habitable worlds out there. so there have to be thousands, millions of civilizations. why have we never heard from any of them? the most plausible explanation is that every time a civilization achieves consciousness and the kind of science that would allow you to transmit a signal, they destroy themselves. and the question is, can we regulate our politics in a way that will allow the human species to flourish and produce all the beautiful stuff? and that's a question that only can be answered by politics. >> coming up, battering the president and ticking off the tea party. have you seen this mail? >> my assistant reads most of my mail, and he's now in therapy.
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to the right? nobody had any ideas. >> well, that was part of mr. obama's great strength. he was a national rorschach test. >> so we spent three hours with this new man. he leaves, and we're staying behind a little bit, and i say the same question. is he a centrist? is he a lefty? nobody knew. >> you think you've figured him out? >> i figured him out after that first state of the union speech. >> we will invest $15 billion a year to develop technologies like wind power and solar power. we can no longer afford to put healthcare reform on hold. it will be the goal of this administration to ensure... >> i was so astonished that i wrote five columns in a row on what kind of unusual political animal he was in giving an agenda as radical as any since fdr. he basically said, "i'm not here to tinker. i've come here to transform america." >> you've been pretty tough on this administration, this president. >> well, i think he's done just about everything wrong. [ chuckles ]
>> but just as he was willing to offend his fellow liberals back in the '80s, he is equally willing to take on conservatives he believes are wrong. have you seen this mail from some of the things you've said about ted cruz? i mean, i get the e-mails. >> oh, i know you get the e-mails. i've seen the tweets. my assistant reads most of my mail, and he's now in therapy. >> [ laughs ] >> just kidding. >> the krauthammer on fox did not appreciate what cruz did. >> if he listened to talk radio, it might really send his assistant over the edge. >> dr. charles krauthammer, in the 1980s, he was working for walter mondale. >> it's my job to call a folly a folly. if you're gonna leave the medical profession because you think you have something to say, you're betraying your whole life if you don't say what you think and you don't say it honestly and bluntly. >> do you think you'll ever stop writing? >> no, i intend to die at my desk. >> really? >> i would like to. i'm not sure i can arrange it. >> [ laughs ]
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in the usa berkeley california students are fed up. civil rights free speech the war in vietnam social topics that culminated in massive protests with national implications and sparked demonstrations around the globe the rebellion has a soundtrack. the call for change and freedom spreads to germany to west berlin june one nine hundred sixty seven the shah of iran makes an official visit students demonstrate against his authoritarian regime and terrible human rights record police crackdown violently and ben is shot his death fuels the outrage of the student movement. the process though how and the demonstrators specifically playing as newspaper. owners
august death in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight becomes a catalyst for the student revolt. their leader. the revolutionary his comrades and the authoritarian. the is one of the spear heads of the movement that formed in the post-war era as are. reaction to bush german society the charismatic head of the socialist students' union demands a d. not such a case of the police and other branches of government and criticises legal reforms as undemocratic. in april one thousand nine hundred sixty eight an attempt is made on route because life he survives seriously wounded but never fully recovers. the mood escalates the willingness to use violence grows in left wing circles the fear of germany becoming fascist is strong the movement is radicalized. this contributes to the founding of the notorious terror group red army faction. nine hundred
sixty eight a turning point in the post-war era of germany politically charged volatile controversial even today. his pictures are part of the collective memory of an entire generation robert lee back as one of the greatest photographers of the post-war era what his images from one nine hundred sixty eight not what you might think. the final students were protesting and being clubbed by police and more strawman robert maybrick ones elsewhere. like of the documentary exhibition in casa de the year of the student on rest took place without being clever crowed in his memoirs profiled others making history like joseph was. never an issue pervasive when he wasn't in paris or west berlin or tokyo anywhere where students were demonstrating. but he was on the road in other places and captured the essence of that year of violence that year of
media to zation and his photo series such as it is so you can learn much about contemporary history from this exhibition so i shifted on the hundred dollars to. almost two hundred of liberty photos are being shown and more school just nineteen of them are published down the man. as in he worked for at the time. the banks were joke order though was just six years old and nine hundred sixty eight is provided to i manage his estate is huge and i've been dealing with his photos ever since i met him i put together most of his books the photos my. started . the pics images are historical documents which hold some surprises sometimes he visited places just before history was written before the graft in prague in early april nine hundred sixty eight at the all christian peace assembly just a week later the student leader was shot and critically wounded in berlin. the
photos show what was to become known as the prague spring and none of the pictures appeared inch down back then. but clarke is even nish to they're not the images of the prague spring that are burned in our collective memories of the soviet tanks rolling down the streets rather there of the real prague spring like a few of the things that made the spring blossom alexander dubcek the reformer to the press freedoms people reading newspapers on the street these the mention of. robert levy it took twenty four trips to produce reppert taj's in one nine hundred sixty eight three of them talking divorce book which was celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of its founding. that was reason enough for shutdown to devote several illustrated stories to the city at the heart of the german auto industry. fifty years on it's also the reason this exhibition is being presented here i photojournalism from the year nine hundred sixty eight. robert lay back wasn't
interested in ideologies or political parties he was interested in people and capturing them at just the right moment. the funeral of robert. kennedy assassinated less than five years after his brother john f. kennedy. there's never been such a concentrated focus on a single year and i have to say that list i was a little skeptical since. heidi what these kaleidoscopes like photo reports charges don't really stand up in a museum stoned might upset on its wife and. these photos weren't originally taken to be displayed in a museum but the unusually large format prints made of the more. they're destined to become part of the collection at the const museum bourse book playbacks glossy
photos were shot almost entirely in black and white but the photographer who was born in berlin in one thousand twenty nine turned down assignments to cover wars. isn't biased. i know that robot never sought out war situations taht out of this but was he consciously avoided volatile events and see once said i don't need to photograph those horas i experienced enough of them during my youth hobbesian mind i didn't leave it. at the end of one nine hundred sixty eight conflict was brewing in northern ireland the violence between protestants and catholics known as the troubles threatened to break out into civil war earlier that year standard sent robert lee back to belfast the capital of northern ireland was plagued by high unemployment and labor experts years showed the precarious nature of the situation that. these are the exhibitions only color photos displayed right
at the end they usher in the era of color photography and as such they also exemplify nine hundred sixty eight a year of protest problems and progress. player . the world is an uproar everything is up for grabs artists are protesting too with subversive radical performances and happenings an exhibition at the lunatic foreman i often looks back at art in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight billion this is new in itself then can grab away with impunity groping women's breasts as well coming to the unease on taste funny exploit created the p.c. assertive bold provocative characteristic of nine hundred sixty s. artists and also off their art. education is what matters whether on the streets
the gallery or its university towns revolution everything comes together in nineteen sixty and. that's what we're interested in showing in this exhibition is how early the art world picked up on issues which society hadn't yet contemplated and. paul was in denial over such as the nazi history in west germany up six drastic means of expression for an equally drastic reality. viet-nam the great american trauma. images of war penetrate the int'l of home i place. it shows how revolutionaries stick together. on the reality of china a mighty mild. place
the battle on german streets against rule emergency legislation and the detested state machinery is being forced on the painted canvas playing. the nazi punks of the new federal republic should be washed away not. the public prosecutor has judges whose hands were probably keen that jumps. him and trauma we see a premonition of the terrorism of the nineteen seventies in this painting. to find against representatives of the oppressive capitalist operator this. basically artists were the trailblazers that used art as a medium of change for people to change their way of thinking. alternately the idea was that artists become activists that art is just a thoroughfare
a way of changing things in society or done. stop painting demands the painter. breaking with tradition is theme in hand life is not and everyone is an artist is how joseph boy saw it and so he set off sweeping the streets of burning. a philosophy an artist a politician and a conservationist he was the guru of a holistic view of art in this event a provocative collective hitler salute has hefty consequences is punched in the face and of course turns it into a lot. his use now on the liberated body free sexuality and female amounts of patients. as in the legendary performance of. unpaid viable in vienna the subservient man
provocation which writes out history. which the subservient woman as an object fetish slave american artist brutally bring reality to the center of attention. the show in aspen is exhibiting the adam god of the revolution flash. of the future in the low take forum we have been attained to the art of nine hundred sixty eight as a submissive force. didn't just react to political uproar they were active participants and their works helped to change the sciences. for women nine hundred sixty eight was a pivotal year they came out of the kitchens and found their voice sisters started doing it for themselves short shorter. verily they're
the micro-mini was a shocker the fashion statement was designed as such as a provocation of the fourth wall and attack on the establishment a symbol of liberated sexuality and the newfound competence of a young female revolutionary. climate in intolerance became friends cloaked who looked into being people think of and it became clear to me a book making doesn't mind believed not finding that if you know people because while times and what memories we needed many skin you could see our backsides. you couldn't of course we got into lots of trouble at home do you think unbelievable that everyone got so upset how can you wear such a short skirt it's indecent oh no she did. as long as it provoked the prudish moral ideas of their parents it was all right. but the real obstacles to emancipation
were and still are deeply rooted in the social role of women even the sixty eight generation realised that the female revolution needed to come a day and literally the women of nine hundred sixty eight left the action to the smart poster boys of the movement. the phones and it was a long time women weren't just seen as the chicks of the. revolutionaries i think right at the beginning women needed to break free from that they started off typing all the leaflets and making the coffee before they realized that something was wrong of course this is in the finest of us initiatives they willingly joined in with sexual liberation through like within the tory is german commune come you know i said there was a saying sleep with the same person twice and you're part of the establishment the flavor of antithesis of marriage and convention. the six relevant service that finished the sexual revolution of the sixty's just lived men. it was about enabling men to live promiscuously and many women was sold out to the new left in the name
of the revolution get involved otherwise you'll bushwa is going to build a temple and that was one thing women didn't want to be that was their image from the fifties tied to the kitchen sink. and a plow had tried leaving talkin both on the m team and. the women of nine hundred sixty eight revolted against all that as well as the social pressure to be sexually available for the cos with patriarchal men taking charge historian christina from holding back is even firmly convinced that the changes of nine hundred sixty eight were chiefly driven by women for her book. sexy the other sixty eight she listened to long forgotten audio recordings from the one nine hundred sixty s. stored in the archives of the university of bonn thirty six hundred hours of material in which men and women from all walks of life talk about their experiences which made clear how much the societal changes of the late sixty's impacted women's daily lives. and money revolutionizing the relationship between couples or the way
we raise children anything that affects people's private lives and also exerts a great cultural influence in the long run five to two zero while their male counterparts could attend university and protest many young women had to abandon their studies as soon as they became. mothers. buy school because there was no childcare available and because men didn't. so the idea was ok then we'll help each other we'll create stretches well we'll take turns watching the kids and it became a dank happen right from the very stuff of life. childcare and access to the pill helped women in their quest for emancipation finally they could decide for themselves whether they wanted to become pregnant or not another milestone on the road to self-determination came later in germany the campaign to abolish paragraph two hundred eighteen which made abortion a punishable offense women took to the streets demanding the right to choose but
the fight for equal rights continues a woman has governed germany for the last thirteen years progress is being made towards creating gender equality today women are assuming their rightful place in government ministries parliament and in the boardroom but their success owes much to the women who paved the way in the one nine hundred sixty s. and let. them know how close. it was a decade of sex and drugs and rock n roll but in west germany and entirely unique sonic universe was developing. and. this is crossed back at the start of their career with the sound of krautrock.
also on the same can from cologne broke free from traditional song structures with their psychedelic sounds. engine noise from the. reachin also helped forge the new sound of the crowd. were just let rip we develop the music we played it we waited to see what would happen next. poser. began exploring new musical horizons at the age of eighteen he was a member of craft and went on to form two of the most influential crowd rock bands ever. noyo in one nine hundred seventy one. and harmonia in one nine hundred seventy three. his band's rebelled against musical
conventions. in the late sixty's and early seventy's we were all influenced by the spirit of fighting the establishment. political and cultural. legendary british radio d.j. john peel is said to have coined the term kraut rock in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight. the pieces were epic full of improvisation and experimental sounds krautrock became a synonym for this new music coming out of germany. but one band style varied greatly from the next google for example were from the free jazz scene and played psychedelic rock. from p. from hamburg combined ethereal sounds with rocking guitar riffs government provided the vocal accompaniment.
then there was tender rain dream founded in one nine hundred sixty seven and berlin they sought to create cosmic music. and it was a sheer cliff. this into the music audition. by the midnight hundred seventy s. probably rock had pretty much sunk into oblivion then in the ninety's international bands like oasis. to save b.n. . and radiohead came out as fans and integrated krautrock elements into their music . then when you travel the world these days you realise the term has become
a sign of quality. it's no longer tarnished with memories of german first world war soldiers the crowds. the crowds today probably rock is considered one of germany's most important contributions to pop culture history. in. the fifty's. from flower power to psychedelia and pop art nine hundred sixty eight was the year the world went from black and white to color technicolor in fact. while important events were taking place in space and a small step for man became a giant leap for mankind people on earth had other things on their minds.
the world around them had previously been muted monotone and conservative but then . suddenly. the late one nine hundred sixty saw an explosion of colors and shapes and one color in particular shone brighter than all the others. are in such it was the i pop in color of a decade synonymous with flower power hippies and lsd. bathrooms in living rooms now displayed a dizzying array of patterns used culture made its presence felt like never before and gave holmes a warm and sunny feeling hair grew every which way and fashion became far more colorful. but how did this happen. here's one possible explanation.
holiday krishna's more on the search for new divo teams their quest for enlightenment and the color of their robes also caught on in central europe. fascinated by eastern spirituality the beatles soon embarked on their hari krishna trip. and in the musical hair and acid trip inevitably leads to people singing ari krishna there's no escaping them. by the one nine hundred seventy s. orange was everywhere on face cream tubs in dishwashing liquid and soda pop. even eating at the cafeteria like here at the german publishing house was almost
a psychedelic experience. she today it's hard to imagine enjoying your lunch with something like this hanging overhead. though it's decor by round up on top like these plastic chairs are now the design classics. then in one nine hundred seventy one the release of the film a clockwork orange pushed the limits even further and not just in terms of design. rights right. by the late one nine hundred seventy s. orange had been transformed into dog westerners seeking the meaning of life by the thousands to the point to us from india their guru rajneesh attracted followers with a mix of free love tantra and group therapy though eventually this collector's insanity did come to an end. so too does the hour of orange and bell by.
love and peace had gone mainstream and become a commodity there was just one thing left to do. i know toughness and darkness ruled supreme the early one nine hundred eighty s. were a bleak time in germany black was the new orange the harsh realities of life had caught up to us close it wasn't so sad and. that's carried on. and you just found out the bank . thanks the best sixty eight special and want to groovy trip it was the be joining us next week when we return to the twenty first century the
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Geopolitics of the cold war through the lens of two double agents who were pulling the strings behind the scenes threatening, did he stabilize diplomatic efforts? >> all right i always i think the early version, at least from the agency who really had a pretty good understanding of how the kgb worked there are no other the powers our everyday was so for little black he'd write these studies. >> everybody would read them and say, oh, that's really great work, rick and then that would. be the end of it. you know, they didn't really send it anywhere and all new episode of secrets and spies, a nucleus and now, the hbo original series, "real time with bill maher". ♪ ♪ ♪ how are you doing? how are you doing? thank you very much. i appreciate it. thank you, people. thank you very much. i appreciate it. all right. good to see you. thank you. please, there's so much to get to. oh, wow. i feel great about that. yes, the big news this week is hunter biden's trial. let's get right to that. it led to absolutely fucking nothing, but let's get right to it. i know the republicans -- they are like, if you take down trump, we are going to take down hunter biden and the democrats are like, knock yourself out, we barely care about joe biden. >> [ audience reacts ] >> but, this trial is only about one thing in america which is very important, you cannot mix drugs and guns! seriously, we don't take a lot seriously in this country, but this is one we are very serious about, and hunter biden was buying a gun on crack -- i mean, at the moment, he was literally on crack and buying a gun, he almost had the gun in his hand. so, the prosecutor gets up and says, no one is above the law in this country, it doesn't matter who you are or what your name is and all the republicans stood up and fist pumped and went, yeah. and then they went -- oh, wait. yeah, that's -- [ audience reacts ] that's not what they were saying last week, was it? interesting. in april, they took a survey, 17% of republicans said it was okay -- only 17% -- okay for a felon to be president. now, they took the survey again, 58% said it is okay for a felon to be president. gosh, what happened? usually, to change this drastically in the space of two months, hormones are involved. i -- [ laughter ] but, if hunter biden does get convicted, this will be a historic first. it will be the first time republicans ever objected to somebody buying a gun. >> [ audience reacts ] >> and there was testimony from hallie biden, because she was married to hunter biden's brother, who sadly died, beau biden. and then, hunter went out with her. so, she is the ex-girlfriend and the widow. i know. she is -- she testified that when he was with hunter, she got her into crack, and she is ashamed and embarrassed about that part of her life. really? >> [ audience reacts ] >> you bang your dead husband's brother and the part you are embarrassed about is the crack? okay. but -- >> [ audience reacts ] >> she said she found hunters going at one point, she knew she couldn't have it, so she took it away and threw it away in the supermarket dumpster, perfectly. [ laughter ] so, when hunter throughout -- found out she threw away his gun, he called her insane, called her stupid, said, are you on crack? if you are, can i have some? we all saw this stuff from hunter biden's laptop, right? they did a reality show about hunter biden, it would be called "naked and afraid of running out of crack." and it's just -- >> [ audience reacts ] >> and it is just bad optics for the president. the jury is looking at sex tapes of hunter biden and the rest of us are worried about if his father can walk all right. kidding. well, actually, joe was doing the d-day thing. you saw that yesterday? he did very well. i thought he did very well. he was over there commemorating the 80th anniversary of d-day. in america, you know what they did? non-congressman -- oh, gosh -- nine congressman dressed up as military people. world war ii, you know, vintage stuff, and jumped out of a world war ii vintage plane to commemorate d- day. sadly, they were wearing parachutes. >> [ audience reacts ] >> [ laughter ] and george santos -- you know, when i do dress up, you bitches make a whole thing out of it. well, yes, it is pride month again, and the spirit of pride -- >> [ audience reacts ] so, listen to this. this is a pride month story, five dry greens in philadelphia did a children's books reading as they do, made a guinness book of world records for the fastest way to get trump re- elected. >> [ audience reacts ] >> not that there aren't still bigots in this country, but did you see this? this is the head of the colorado republican party sent out an email saying, calling gay people godless horrors, which in california is not even an insult. i get my hair cut at a place called godless groomers. we have a great show. we have matt welch, abigail shrier, but first up, the democratic senator from the great state of pennsylvania, john fetterman! welcome back, it's been too long! >> good to see you. >> welcome back to the show. it's been 13 years. >> it's an honor to be here. i am a fan boy, so -- >> right back at you. i have been badgering my staff for a long time now to get you on this show, and i will tell you why i have been badgering them, and eyeglass -- i guess they badgered you. when i have seen you the last couple of years, you speak so freely. you speak like politicians who i get on this show who aren't in politics anymore, the ones who are out of office, and they can be honest, that is the way you speak now, and it is a beautiful thing. >> [ audience reacts ] >> well, honestly -- and this is true -- you speak for a lot of democrats that are afraid to say a lot of that stuff. it is a lot of release for a lot of democrats who are like, thank god, somebody is actually platforming like that. >> no, i think we are very much on the same page. but, it is very rare -- i don't have to worry about being re- elected, except by the audience. >> [ audience reacts ] >> it is, i think, even more brave for you to do it. the question i want an answer to is, is this connected to some of your health issues? when you have gone through what you have, both physical and mental health issues, does it give you a freedom? like, what can you -- >> yeah, absolutely. there is a line from the first "batman," joker is like, i have been dead once already, it is liberating. that is not reckless, that is really just freeing. it is just freeing, in a way. and i think after being all of that, i would just be able to say the things that i really believe in, and not be afraid if there is any kind of blowback. >> and what about mental health in america, at-large? what is the prescription for this? because we are going to talk about it on the show to a degree tonight. it is certainly a big issue in this country. we have, what, 50,000 suicides in the last year? >> absolutely. >> this is an outstanding number, i think. what are your thoughts on this? >> well, actually, after i signed myself in to walter reed to get help, with depression, it is not really a big clinical winter, to talk about depression. and when i started to have that conversation, i realized that if i started to be honest, i have to talk about self-harm, you know, harming myself, because you pointed at the 50,000 americans who took their lives, and i started talking about that and said, hey, i have been in that place. i now tell people, i promise you, i am begging you, please, don't harm yourself. stay in the game. now, i am being contacted by people on the regular saying, hey, thanks to hearing this, i got help, or it even saved my life. i never thought that would resonate and that is why i decided to have that conversation, because i was lucky i got help and got better, and now i want to be the kind of guy that can say something, that could have helped someone like me, who was in that situation. >> [ applause ] >> so, let's talk a little politics here, because that is your game. pennsylvania is going to be -- probably, could be, come down to three states, pennsylvania will definitely be one of them. >> i have always said, pennsylvania picks the president and there really is no legitimate path for the president if he doesn't win, and i believe he will win, actually, because trump was able to flip pennsylvania and that helped deliver his first victory. but, joe biden carried it in 2020 because he has a really strong connection thereto pennsylvania and i believe he will again, but it will be close, and that is the same conversation i have been having with pennsylvania, that it is going to be very close, because trump has a strong connection in pennsylvania and it will be very competitive and all of that. i have also been saying, i don't think that whole trial is going to be anything meaningful with people who have already decided, that is my guy. i will never understand why somebody would say, i love that, or i want four more years of that. but, i do believe joe biden is going to carry pennsylvania and he is going to win. >> [ audience reacts ] >> but, as he was -- as he has not, yet, officially been nominated by the democratic party, is he really the best one to put forward? >> joe biden? >> yeah. >> yeah. he is actually the only american that has ever beat trump in an election, and i do honestly believe that he is actually the only democrat that could win. and let me just say this -- let me just say this, i know it might be provocative -- but the last time there was a hotshit governor with $2 million, thought he was going to beat trump, then trump through him in the wood chipper and he finished third in his own state, in florida. and again, trump is pretty tough, and that is what the republicans want and i can't imagine why -- how he is feeling right now, but trump has a very -- and i do believe joe biden has that ability to win, and we have a great bench. it is a distinct kind of situation right now. >> i'm surprised at that, but i will move on. i'm sorry, i'm not on the same page there, but okay. it is probably going to be joe biden and i will vote for him. but, you mentioned desantis. this is very curious to me, desantis wants to ban fake meat in florida, and you agreed with him. i don't get this? >> really, it is not so much about making it illegal, but it is also just talking about -- i really wanted to stand with american farmers and ranchers, and those kinds of things, and i don't believe it is helpful, and that is the direction i want to move in that. but, if somebody wants to consume that, that is okay. but, i think there are going to be states that are going to decide, i don't want to ban this, or i really want to invent and create that time, so the product stays the same. >> i wouldn't eat it either, quite frankly, but i wouldn't ban it. that is what desantis wants to do, so you can't get it. i thought that was the freedom part of this freedom country. if people want to have fake meat or fake anything, fake tits, fake anything. it is los angeles. >> [ audience reacts ] >> i don't -- yeah, i don't know about that, either, but i don't know if that is going to solve anything other than -- i don't get why that would appeal to anybody. >> you have been very up front about legalizing weed, marijuana. >> yeah, of course. i've heard that from you, too. >> [ audience reacts ] >> i heard that, john, that is just a character i play on television. never in my life -- look, i heard you once say, or maybe read it, a tweet, you said once, "i am not a progressive, i am a democrat." what does that mean? because i don't think i have used the word "progressive," i think i have said "woke." i know that word triggers a lot of people because it has a great beginning as a meaning, but words migrate and it went to something else. i think there is a difference between an old-school liberal and woke person, you say old- school democrat, how do you describe this? >> look, i agree and i have been saying that for years, actually. i didn't leave the label, it left me on that front. and after that happened on october 7th, i really knew that the whole progressive stack would be blasted apart and they are not going to have anyway for the democrats to reply to that, or respond to that, and i really decided early on that i was going to side with israel throughout all of that, and i knew that democrats would continue to peel away and kind of walk away from standing with israel on that, but that is where i decided -- >> how do you explain that, if you can, that the people who considered themselves the most liberal have abandoned israel -- which was always a liberal drawing -- for the terrorist organization, for the people who outwardly say that they want a genocide, who outwardly are the one side of this who is against the two state solution. so, now that they wound up with then, why do you think that is, and will this split the democratic party? >> well, it does, because there is an appeal there. and you talked about it, last week, you really hit it with the gender apartheid. talking about some of these issues, some of the most progressive and left parts of the democratic party are standing for the kind of side that has organizations like hamas, or these kinds of nations where there are no rights for women and they certainly don't embrace the lgbtq lifestyle, and even in philadelphia, the queers for palestine blocked the pride parade in philadelphia, and i never saw that on the bingo card. but -- >> [ audience reacts ] >> all right, well, it may seem lonely out there sometimes when you are brave like you are, but you have a lot of fans. you have a lot of fans here and a lot of fans all over the country. when i told people you were coming on, a lot of them were really excited that you are here, but they all have one question they wanted me to ask you, which is, what is the deal with the wardrobe? >> [ audience reacts ] >> people are very curious. it doesn't involve me, i'm just saying, people are saying, p please ask him. >> last year, i know this, you had a great joke, you really nailed it, you put up a picture of me, you said, she dresses like a guy where the airline lost his luggage. and it's true! it's funny, because it's true. and i know i dress like a slob and i am not making a statement or anything, but, i am into comfort, it is just comfort, and it is kind of like -- i don't have to iron, and -- >> [ audience reacts ] >> but, it is kind of hard to find suits and all of those things. but, i never understood why anybody thought that was interesting. and i want to be clear, i wasn't behind the changing of the dress code or anything, i really wasn't. but, more people seemed more concerned about me wearing a hoodie on the floor, as opposed to, we have senators taking bribes from foreign entities, and -- >> [ audience reacts ] >> but, i'm learning. i'm learning. i'm still a freshman. >> you seem like you are in a really good place. >> oh, well, i'm sitting across from a great person. but -- you know, having a near- death experience and going through that kind of a blowtorch of $100 million and attack acts and all of those kinds of things to emerge on a side where i am grateful to be sure, both with you and back with my kids, my family, everything, and i just decided, i really want to be the kind of voice that is consistent, and has a moral clarity on issues that may not be controversial for democrats, but i am not sure why any of that is democrat -- controversial for democrats, whether it is about israel, or the border, or -- >> because people just want to bitch these days, john. everything is controversial to everybody, but you keep doing what you are doing. i appreciate it. >> [ audience reacts ] >> all right. see you again, john fetterman. hi! all right, here is the editor at large at "reason" magazine, met -- matt welch is back with us. a journalist and author of the new york times best-selling book, "bad therapy", abigail shrier. great to see you. okay, so, this is the week where we celebrated the greatest generation saving democracy so we can learn about hunter biden smoking crack. i feel like that has been this week in a nutshell. i feel like this is one of those stories where both sides have a lot of wrong in their handling. i remember when the laptop came out, the left-wing media would not even admit it was a thing, it just had to be a hoax, or it had to be russian disinformation, it just didn't exist. they went right about it, that was wrong. and the right is wrong to pretend it means something, except possibly about joe biden's parenting. the question i want to ask -- because i know your book is about it, you have written about parenting -- okay, why do all of the political families have this fuck-up family dynamic? is it just because they are famous, and if we went into every family that had a billy carter, a roger clinton -- george bush himself was the ne'er-do-well. >> since the beginning of time, we have learned that children basically need three things, and these are essential. they need parental authority, they need to hear "no," they need independence, and loving community. kids with high profile families often get none of those. no one is willing to tell them "no," they don't get independence because they don't want anyone to make them look bad, and they don't have loving community -- they are raised in a political battlefield. unfortunately, too many american kids today also don't have those. >> the way you describe it, it sounds like everyone is from a prominent family, because i read in your book when kids go off to college and they have never heard the word "no," or the word "wait," then -- >> that's right. kids today are under a microscope, they are under a microscope, literally, because of the projection of social media and whatnot, but also because their parents are so afraid of traumatizing them, they have been told by mental health experts that saying "no," can be punishing and traumatizing, so they don't assert their authority. we basically have a generation raised with these kids that are miserable. >> and a link with your d-day tie in, which is that we understood that generation and others, but especially that one, to have a sense of stoicism. like, you are going to go through some bad stuff, you are going to fail, there is going to be unfair things that happen to you. the question is, what are you going to do with that? a 15-year-old and a 9-year-old, they are not teaching a lot of stoicism in the public school system, last time i checked. at some point, she starts to use it as an excuse to get out of chores. like, "that is not my journey." >> [ audience reacts ] >> [ laughter ] >> it doesn't make sense to fold the laundry, so they are making fun out of it, but there is something to that. but also, when you think about the greatest generation, they probably could have used a little bit more therapy than they got, right? >> yes, there is a happy medium. you mentioned d-day, but i couldn't help but think of it because the new york times said ptsd among adolescents is surging. ptsd. the fact that we have so -- >> [ audience reacts ] >> my father was in that campaign, he wasn't in omaha beach, but he was on that campaign. anyone who would allow kids to think they have ptsd? >> that's right, they don't have ptsd. kids raised gently in suburbs don't have ptsd. but, combat those -- our combat vets sometimes do have ptsd and they need treatment when they have it. >> always. >> it is real. but, that is not what kids that universities have. what they have, what i call in my book, "bad therapy", they have emotional hypochondria. they have focused so much on their own bad feelings that they magnify these feelings, they make them an organizing principle of their lives, then they have trouble escaping them. >> so, here is my thing, we had a reckoning of my sex in 2017, a racial reckoning in 2020. i feel like there is a parenting reckoning coming. a lot of rollback, pushback on gentle parenting. i think people are realizing that this kind of stuff has raised a lot of fucked-up kids who have -- >> [ audience reacts ] >> another statistic, but 49.5% -- so, let's just say half -- of adolescence, at some point have a mental health disorder. so, half of the kids in the country are diagnosable? either they really are that fucked-up, or we are over diagnosing. >> it is the latter. we are way over diagnosing them. this generation has had more mental health intervention in schools, more mental health treatment, 40% of them have been in therapy, they have had therapeutic parenting, and it is making them worse. these kids don't need therapy, they need less therapy, they need to be told, i love you, you will live, now get out of my house and have an adventure. >> [ audience reacts ] >> and it is worth pointing out that this generation, let's say 15 to 22, they got banged up during covid pretty bad and the more you were in places with schools and society bogged down, the more banged up you got, and also that is tied up with social media, and what you are doing on your phone all the time, like john hyde talks about. so, i think there is a legitimate mental health thing going on with teenagers, and especially teenage girls in this country. the question is, are we teaching them to get out of it, and also to have fun, and take some kind of initiative in their lives? or, are we encouraging them to think of themselves as victims? and i hope it is not the latter because you are not going to get much past your 18th birthday walking around and saying that it is somebody else's fault. >> [ audience reacts ] >> so, this is so obvious and we all agree, who is still defending this? >> i think the trauma industry is. >> the trauma industry? right. you are right. >> that is basically what we have now, we have convinced this generation any stress is trauma, now you have a disability and you have to live with that forever, and these kids are behaving like mental patients. >> right. [ laughter ] right. i mean -- and they are medicated, then. that, to me, is when it really goes off the rails, because a lot of them are on whatever psychiatric drugs they put them on. you know, when i think about the two big ones that i see always talked about that are now pathologist, shyness -- which is social anxiety disorder, as we pathologist isaac. and depression -- i mean, that is just being bummed out. my whole adolescence, my whole childhood, past college, was about those two things. i just had tons of both of those things and drugging me would not have helped. i discovered part when i was 19, that drug helped. organically. but, yeah, okay. so, i read about sel, and for those that don't know what this is, this is social emotional learning. this takes front and center -- this explains a lot to me, one, why they are so stupid. because this is the priority above learning, is that right? >> that is right. >> and what is -- obviously, it sounds like it is? >> reportedly, it is supposed to teach kids like things like emotional regulation, which we want them to have. but, how do you teach kids to handle bad emotions? because we are not worried about them having too much joy, we are worried about them having too much sadness, regret, bad feelings, so it always goes negative, it becomes a kind of group therapy, and it forces kids to ruminate, to pathologically focus on their bad feelings, on their pain, and those are the number one symptoms of depression. >> and it is interesting, 70% of very liberal students, they say -- this is from the american enterprise institute, so they are a little right- leaning -- reports feeling anxious 52% of conservatives. but, it does seem like the liberals are more in their own head, and are suffering from this. is that right, and why? >> i have seen that statistic and looked, the reason why i think so, that might be, is because those are the parents, in general, who are getting their kids more therapy, they are highly educated, and they are more anxious because they are highly educated, they are more anxious themselves, they are pushing their anxiety onto their kids. we know you can communicate anxiety. parents need to be tougher for their kids. they need to set an example here and they need to stop obsessing over kids' happiness and start worrying about making kids strong. >> [ applause ] >> all right. so, parenting is also involved in the other book you'll wrote, that book you wrote that was banned, "irreversible damage," which is about gender reassignment, as we have called it. now, we have the cast review from england which says, you must feel somewhat vindicated by this because america is now an outlier country with this. the scandinavian countries that were doing it, england that was doing it, they all pulled back. the cast report says the evidence of using puberty blocking drugs and other hormonal medications is remarkably weak. why is america so behind? usually, when we look at those countries, we say, this is what the liberals are doing, so we are just going to -- no, we are alone on this. >> yes, we are. two reasons, england had national, centralized healthcare, so they got into this faster, and they were also able to shut it down faster, and because our healthcare is obviously decentralized, it is harder to shut bad medicine down in this country, but there is something else but i have to say. they had something really special in england, they had a j.k. rowling, and she helped gender critical feminists pry away from the progressive left on this issue and stand up to the bodily integrity of girls, and stand up for the integrity of medicine. >> [ applause ] >> i think as part of that peer pressure element, it is worth pointing out to the extent that your audios -- audience might not, that abigail's book was targeted by people who work for the aclu saying, it will be the highest thing to do, to block the distribution of this book. it speaks to a kind of aggressive, illiberal conservative that takes place. not just on this issue, but many other issues, dealing with covid. i think it is kind of a new thing. the last 10 years, especially, there has been a semi-deranged moment, were people who were involved with journalism, or academia, or whatever, have said we have created a new taboo, you are on the wrong side of the taboo, we must attack this person, other people who have been working in this. yes, it hurts their careers, but we don't necessarily have to cry to them -- she is on bill maher, so she is doing okay. but, it hurts them. that is what people don't get. when you block off the information that is coming in, particularly on a contested subject, particularly that is affecting kids in life and death situations, and you are blocking off the information by enforcing a taboo, you are hurting yourself. >> it is one thing to critique, it is another thing to say, nobody should even be able to look at this, to even read it, as if you are some sort of crazy person. >> i will just say one thing, in the three or four years it took between the time i wrote my last book and talked about the same risks that are in the cast report, two until the mainstream media worked up the backbone to actually do some reporting, tens of thousands of american children were harmed. >> and what you are saying -- i certainly wouldn't be the one saying -- that there aren't trans folks who, we do need some transitioning, sometimes. what you were just saying is, there are no guardrails on desperate >> and these are children. this is not the bodies of adults, they can do whatever they want with their bodies. >> using children as cannon fodder in their culture wars, is what it looked like to me. i don't want you to move. i'm gonna miss you so much. you realize we'll have internet waiting for us at the new place, right? oh, we know. we just like making a scene. transferring your services has never been easier. get connected on the day of your move with the xfinity app. can i sleep over at your new place? can katie sleep over tonight? sure, honey! this generation is so dramatic! move with xfinity. i see this week's google has been caught doing something -- why did the tech companies do this? they have been caught collecting and sometimes leaking personal data of users, so you might want to erase that browser history. but, we thought it would be a good time because of this to do one of our favorite bits on the show, called "revealing google searches." >> [ audience reacts ] >> we believe here at "real- time," that when you look at somebody's google search, it does look a lot about them. for instance, melania trummp google, two felony convictions violate a prenup? rfk jr., where does brain work -- brain worm go? nick cannon, how many kids does nick cannon have? elon musk, "baby names that sound like license plates." oh, justice samuel alito googled "fit flags that mean not fascist, just pussy- whipped. " richard dreyfus googled "safe amount of opiates to take before a public appearance." wow. ben affleck googled "divorce lawyers that accept batman memorabilia." kanye west googled, "what to say when woman asks if anyone else at the party will be naked." rupert murdoch, "name of woman who recently married rupert murdoch." and lauren boebert, "could you get an std on your hand?" terrible. terrible, terrible. [ applause ] >> all right, airlines configure these first-class seats that feature a for curve the 22 inch screen for a cinematic experience but only if they are paired with those double-decker seats in economy. [ laughter ] on a new carrier called inequality airlines -- yes, inequality airlines -- there is something special in the air, it is just not you. >> [ applause ]. >> don't bring your kid to the office if your office is the united states congress. tennessee representative john rose did just that while making a furious speech denouncing trump prosecution, and look what happened? someone acted -- >> [ audience reacts ] >> yeah, someone acted like a goofy, childish more on, and this poor kid had to sit through it. [ laughter ] new rule, let's stop rewarding every family that has too many kids with a reality show on tlc. >> [ applause ] >> the latest one is the baldwin's. seven kids born in a 10 year span. wow. guess there were no blanks fired in that house. >> [ audience reacts ] >> well, they shouldn't prosecute him. that is the serious point. they should not. , now that a remote amazon tribe has connected to elon musk's starlet -- -- -- styling internet and become addicted to , i say, congratulations. oh, sure, the liberal inclination is to promote the encroachment of modernity on such an innocent, unsettling people, but that is not what the amazon tribes themselves are saying. they are saying, thanks, elon, it sure beats jerking off to this tree. [ laughter ] new rule, now that researchers say marijuana use has surpassed alcohol as america's drug of choice, they have to answer this -- >> [ audience reacts ] >> you're welcome. they have to answer this question. if alcohol use is declining, why is it still not safe to eat at a waffle house? i mean -- not to always be the marijuana advocate, but do you know what the stoners are doing while the fight is going on? eating their waffles! >> [ audience reacts ] >> and finally, new rule, someone has to look into the puzzling paradox of why it is that rape jokes are completely unacceptable, unthinkable, and totally out of bounds, but raped-in-prison jokes, fucking hilarious! never a bad time to do the one about how you drop the soap in the prison shower, better not bend over for it. and look, with all the talk now about trump possibly going to jail, we have all been doing it, i mean, it is not just trump. given the opportunity, it is natural to want to imagine him getting fucked in the ass. >> [ audience reacts ] >> i'm just saying, maybe we shouldn't. if not for him, then for the nearly 2 million people behind bars at any given time during this country. that is more people than 12 states. they should have their own two senators, and one can be bob menendez. america has a higher incarceration rate than russia, or china, or almost any of the other evildoer countries who we are always shitting our pants over, and for someone, everyone -- everything at walgreens is still locked behind plexiglass. but, for some reason, americans simply accept that not only do we lock up way more people, but that if you are a criminal of any time, yes, sodomy is the appropriate comeuppance. they say, if you want to survive prison, the first thing you do when you get there, what you have to do, is go up to the biggest, baddest guy, and punch him in the face, which i find also works if you are a passenger on delta. >> [ audience reacts ] >> as a prisoner here in america, you will either be alone, in solitary -- which drives you out of your mind -- or, completely on top of everybody else heard inmates in america are routinely forced to sleep on the floor and to fight for access to toilets and showers. of the world's 25 most dangerous prisons, four are here in the u.s., the san quentin, the super max in colorado, and the state pen in new mexico. where, for $45, oh, yes, you can tour the cellblock, where 33 inmates were killed in one of the worst prison riots in history. so, bring the kids, and don't forget to get that salt for the gas chamber. >> [ audience reacts ] >> here in california, the prison in dublin made headlines because it is where they sent lori loughlin after her college cheating scandal, but have since closed. why? because the rape club that the guards had going was so impervious and ingrained it was just easier to shutter the whole place. and prison in america is a place that forces the people in it -- forces them -- to become racists. if you are black, you are with the brothers, if you are white, you have to join the aryans in it. there is no "leave me out of it, i like everybody." let's just all get "coexist" tattoos on our knuckles. yeah. i mean -- >> [ audience reacts ] >> what kind of society is cool with all of this? we call them "correctional facilities," but that is like calling the nfl a brain development program. and look, i am not saying that it is not okay to lock people up. it is. of course it is. diddy does it all the time. >> [ audience reacts ] but, it is not okay to deliberately violate the eighth amendment's prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment. fake tough guys think, hey, if prison is bad enough, it will incentivize people to stay out of trouble after they get out, but they are long. it actually does the opposite. within a year of released, around 40% of prisoners are rearrested. within 10 years, it is 82%. and i don't think they want back in because they miss the toilet one. if we are trying to make inmates into criminals for life, it is working, because prisoners like linkedin for lowlifes, you can't beat the networking. it is a taxpayer-funded criminal mentorship program. but, here is the thing. around 95% of all inmates eventually to get out, so the question becomes, who do we want returning to society? some hapless broke dude goes in for selling drugs or passing a bad check and if you years later, he comes out a sexual predator with white power written on his neck. and we sort of just accept that light, that is how prison words. you go in bad, you come out worse. if you are lucky, when you get out, we will let you work the carnival, or the toll booth, or date britney spears. >> [ audience reacts ] >> jesus. it almost makes stealing catalytic converters not worth it. but, it doesn't have to be this way. we could change. there are even places in the world that offer a model as to what that would look like. norway's recidivism rate is 20%. prisoners there do yoga, they learn a trade, there is a playground for their kids when they visit, and the guards aren't maniacs who failed the police psych exam. and it is a place that looks less like our prisons and more like what you would find on an american college campus only, of course, with less anti- semitism. >> [ audience reacts ] >> of course, the big difference is that unlike here, scandinavian countries don't have private, for-profit prisons. that is what we have here. and corporations, it turns out, don't run prisons to improve society, they run them to make money, which means putting more people in the system, and the more prisoners, the more profit. this is why they lobby congress with three strikes rules and keeping weed illegal. they don't want them rehabilitated. they want to return customers. all right. that is our show. if you enjoyed this editorial -- we have more just like it for you, right up there! if that is not a father's day press, i don't know what is! june 21st and 22nd, with the music hall in boston june 26th. thank you, matt welch! now, we are going to watch "overtime" on youtube. thank you. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪