volunteers to defend john scopes. the climatic. i obtained the original trial transcript in the archives of the courthouse is when darrow who knows is he losing the case stacked jury and prejudiced judge calls his nemesis women s jennings brian the prosecutor to the witness stand. the judge says you can t do that brian stands up and says i have no fear. i m an expert on the bicycle. i will bible. i will answer no questions. in the end darrow destroyed brian so much so that a couple of days later he laid down for a nap and he never woke up. he was a broken man. but the case shifted public opinion in america. they stopped banning books on evolution. they stopped criminalizing the teaching of darwin s corner stone theory.
immigration. and i m sure he s just, you know, caught and anxious about this whole thing. and it s hard. how do you get out of it? i think having a christian night was sort of a repayment but that s just going down a slippery slope. you going to have a jewish night. a muslim night? you just can t appease everybody. brian: it s pride month i guess. it i m a devout catholic. this is where i think they drew the line was when they put this group of gay men parade around as religious sisters and it s a very important part of the catholic church. and they mock the sisters in what the catholic church stands for. i think at that time it was my role to get in. brian: they are mocking a religion they are not saluting one. thank you so much. best of luck with your franchises in two separate countries. appreciate it. and read his editorial on
it s all about free speech, which is at risk once again today in america. but clarence darrow stood up for the right of free speech and academic autonomy cherished rights. ainsley: what is so cool about this story we were talking in the green room before you went to your dad s bookcase and you saw a bioon mr. darrow. clarence darrow. and you read it. you read it three times here all you were years later writing a book. i was just a teenager and i so admired this liberal icon. it wasn t his politics that defined him. it was his principles and his virtues and values and turned the animated mind it s why i became a lawyer. it changes the contours of my life. ainsley: okay. well, we re glad it did. thank you. ainsley: we became friends through it all. we did, indeed. ainsley: the trial of the century. everyone pick it up. thank you. my pleasure, thanks, ainsley. ainsley: let s hand it over to brian. brian: i m looking at my
to the left. ainsley: right but i still want to hear from him. i want to hear from all the candidates. brian: right now 90%. ainsley: i hope he changes his mind. brian: i don t think he is debating. steve: big mistake. brian: up 30, 40 points. see if ron desantis can close the gap. very interesting the way ron desantis did did it yesterday. here the problem with the president but here is my problem with joe biden. what the president accused me of? i don t think so. here s my problem, where i would bring the country. interesting, i m not avoiding the punch. i ll address it. but it s not going to be my focus and by the way he is big into eight years. i m going to need more than four years to fix this. donald trump can only do four. i need eight. i will get you eight. if you get me four i will get another four. if you elect donald trump he can t give you another four. so that s a legitimate tactic without alienating the base. famous thing is whoever beats donald trump you have
and offensive mockery of my religion and religion of over 4 million people in los angeles county alone undermines the values of respect and inclusivity that should be held in any organization. pitchers on her teams lie clayton crenshaw on the dodgers coming out and saying why are we doing this? yes. exactly. get out of politics. that s the message to all sports teams and really business, too. and let them do what they are supposed to do and let politics play itself out in the political arena. brian: but when you are in these ownership meetings, you don t necessarily pick the other owners. they are investors in this club. so could you bring us inside the boardroom in decisions like this. on our teams we do have one guy who makes the decision that s much better than group think. group think can lead to the least common denominator. i suspect in the dodgers although i don t know, i know one of the owners of the dodgers a fine man has done a lot for civil society. particularly immigr