A huge socialist turnout worldwide. The may day march for labor and immigration rights. This is the socialist partys International Labor day. Welcome to risk and reward im Liz Macdonald in for deirdre bolton. Just as President Trump wraps up his first 100 days this coming monday, protests are planned to turn out in the hundreds of thousands in some of the nations largest cities from the country from l. A. To new york. Some even threatening to shut down highways and even airports. And like seattle some employers are allowing to take a paid day off in order to protest. Facebook telling its workers they can take the day off as well. Facebook even threatening independent contractors that work with facebook that if they dont let their own workers protest, then facebook may terminate its contract with those independent contractors. For even going so far as to put out a protest guide. But the schedule of protest events like the Climate Justice contingent free rally at 10 00 a. M. In the park or capitalist march by the revolutionary Peoples Party at 6 00 a. M. That is unless you rather go to the may day antifascist march by the seattle antifascist at 6 00 a. M. Beautiful day. When is enough, enough . Lets bring in political author mark steyn. Good to see you, liz. Liz it looks like theyre creating protest just to create a protest. When is enough, enough . Yeah. I think we need a march against marches. By the way, im having my million tree march to protest trumps canadian lumber tariff. So if you want to come to that, liz, come dress as a pine tree. Its going to be its going to be a great thrill. Weve got William Shatner and celine dion dressed up in a giant moose suit playing mad cow disease playing trump from maralago. Its a terrific march. Youll love it. Liz i love it. Heres the thing. Lets get to seattle whats going on with the city council there. We had a seattle city councilwoman, shes a socialist, her name is shauna. Shes urging protesters to resist donald trump by being disruptive, block freeways and airports. You know, but that doesnt hurt the big guys like trump, it hurts the little guys; right . No. And basically, americas airports are disrupted enough anyway as anyone whos trying to get out of ohare at this time on a friday afternoon will know, so all youre doing there, this is frivolous. Resistance is what brave people are called to do in totalitarian societies, and we have seen that around the world in Eastern Europe and in other places. It requires courage. Its not an act of moral narcissism, which is what these socalled marches largely are. Its an opportunity to go and basically hear big time celebrities and other prominent persons congratulate themselves for holding correct attitudes. Its absolutely the opposite of what protest marches used to be, and its not effective. Its not getting any of these people. I didnt even remember. I mean, what was that thing that you said at the top of the show . A day without a woman . That one passed me by. Every day is without a woman for poor ol me. Liz you just lit up social media about that one. Lets get over to facebook with what facebook is doing. If you dont want to go to work, you dont want to go protest, what about the people that want to work . Is that fair to them . Yeah. No, i think this is a form of subtle intimidation because youre basically instructing your workers that if you want to work at facebook, you have to hold certain attitudes. And i think this is actually one of the horrible things about a lot of these stories like the cancelation of the rose parade in portland that actually nonpolitical things, everything is political now. You know, i just a couple of days ago, i had some jazz singer being interviewed and the interviewer was fascinated and wanted to know why she had a republican bass player. There arent a lot of bass players and the ability to play the bass well doesnt depend on whether youre in favor of transgendered bathrooms or nuking north korea. Its irrelevant to that. And this politicization of everything, which these socalled hipster monopolies like facebook and google and the rest of them are encouraging. Eventually basically trying to enforce a state ideology in every aspect of life. Liz yeah, you know, theres also another story. So protesters are allowed to take the streets. But when it comes to conservatives, some of them cannot march in a parade. Weve got that right. Portland, oregon cancels its annual rose parade tomorrow after organizers got an anonymous email that warned them to cancel the local Republican Group from marching or else. It was a threatening email. Heres what it said, quote. You have seen how much power we have downtown and that the police cannot stop us from shutting down roads. So, please, consider your decision wisely. At least 200 will rush into the parade and drag and push this Republican Group out. And now, mark, whats happening, a member of the Republican Group responding. Lets take a listen. This city has tolerated these left wing psychos for a long time. Weve raised a generation of what you might call little nazis. Theyre little totalitarians who have no fundamental constitutional principles or anything other than shutting people up who authoring with. Liz so its hecklers veto. Threaten violence and the republicans get yanked. What do you think . Yeah. And i think whats disturbing is actually the connection between the thugs and the respectable figures on the left. Only terribly weak ideas cannot withstand an old point of view. So if your reaction, these socalled antifascist group. If youre the one whos reaction to some weak mild mannered chamber of commerce republicans is to say youre going to go into the parade and club them out. Youre the fascist. And the problem for this is that it starts at the highest levels of the left in this country. Going right back 100 days to the inauguration with respectable figures like john lewis and many other prominent democrats actually denied the let legitimacy of the change of power, as if this was a republic like the president who lost power was reducing to get out of office back then. Were in exactly the same situation. One side does not respect the fact that this is a Pluralist Society in which there are multiple political positions and the idea that only one of them has legitimacy is actually forcing us into a dark, hellish, ugly, and violent place. Liz so how seriously should these threats be taken . Oh, i think absolutely serious. I think if you cant have whats next . You know, the macys thanksgiving day parade is geoto be canceled because theres somebody marching in it who has the incorrect position on transgender bathrooms. I mean, this makes all life this makes any kind of civic life shared civic space impossible. We do need separate parades and separate streets and separate jurisdictions according to who you vote for. And then in effect, theres actually not enough social glue to hold the society together. This is one of the most disgraceful aspects of life in america today. And the people who are doing this should be ashamed i dont i dont want to club and ban my political opponents. Im happy for them to have their say, then i have my say, and may the best man win. Because these guys who just want to shut things up, theyre killing this country. Liz without you know, do it without the masks on. I mean, the police should stop that immediately because in many places, its against the law to wear a mask. Right. Liz lets move to this topic, mark. Conservative author ann coulter did not show up at that controversial event in berkeley, california and ended up being a peaceful rally. Ann coulter explains. Lets take a listen. The polices argument was we cant have ann coulter. Theres going to be violence. Well, i dont know. Call a cop. Whats your job . Like youre on a plane thats about to take off and the pilot says how am i supposed to get this thing across the country . Thats your job. Liz mark, does ann coulter have a point . Why couldnt police or the authorities, berkeley find a safe place to have her and let her speak . Yeah. Because the police and the authorities in general are on the side of the thugs. Thats the sad fact in berkeley. Theres a politicized police chief who affects position of neutrality between the guys smashing windows and burning cars and the thin, blonde lady giving a speech. And now when you say you have a position of started neutrality between the thugs who want to smash and destroy and one lady trying to give a speech, then you are effectively on the side of the thugs. And thats actually what this police chief is at his website. He offers protesters a deal, like, you can have a symbolic arrest, you know, theyre not going to shoot you, theyre not going to tase you, theyre not going to get the police dogs to rip your leg apart, but youll get a nice, symbolic arrest where you can have a cute little selfie, and it will look great on youtube, and you can stick it to the man without the man sticking to you back. Lutely right on thi. Who needs a Police Department if the Police Department is not even capable of letting one woman give a speech . Liz yeah, and its on taxpairfunded property; right . Right. Liz thank you, mark steyn. We love having you go on. Come back soon. Always a pleasure, liz. Liz President Trump today addressing the nra. He is the first sitting president to do so since Ronald Reagan. Former trump spokesperson Katrina Pearson weighing in next. Being part of this group, you know that good organizations dont just happen. They take root in the body of shared beliefs. 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Does my spirit good to be with people who never lose faith in america, who never stop believing in their future, and who never back down one inch to defend the constitutional freedom that are every americans birthright. Liz President Trump now the first sitting president since Ronald Reagan to address the National Rifle association, telling the audience that the quote eightyear assault on the Second Amendment is over. The eightyear assault on your Second Amendment freedoms has come to a crashing end. [cheers and applause] you have a true friend and champion in the white house. Liz joining me now is former spokesperson and America First policies spokesperson Katrina Pearson. Katrina, good to see you. Hi, liz. Liz what does it mean to republicans that President Trump spoke to the nra today . I think that this event that took place today was very important for a number of reasons. You had already mentioned that the last eight years of an assault on the Second Amendment were particularly in a day and age where terrorism faces everyone at any given moment across the globe, and its very important, particularly for those americans who have the right to protect themselves with a firearm and the fact that the nra came out and supported President Trump early on was very important to him personally to have that support because they are a very powerful force in this country and did help with the election of a donald trump candidate versus a Hillary Clinton who wanted to destroy the Second Amendment. Liz the media is already reacting negatively to this. What is your thought . Well, i dont think i would expect the media to cover President Trump positively, any aspect. This is a president who could literally have world peace, and they would still find something wrong with it. But this is expected of the media. But at the end of the day, what matters are the people. And a president is not going to be judged on his first 100 days with the lbj. What the president is going to be based upon are you better off now than four years ago, so i have a feeling that President Trump going to go down as one of the best in history. Liz you just quoted Ronald Reagan i think. Katrina, turn to the nightmare in venezuela, we have heard conservatives suggest its if the nra was allowed to be in this socialist hell, that is venezuela, you know, they suggest maybe there may not be as many problems. Its a controversial thing to talk about, but lets go through it. Socialist banned private gun ownership in venezuela back in june 2012 and the socialists there have been taking peoples guns and weapons. Just last august, they did so by the thousands. They took numerous bullets as well. And socialist venezuela murder rate, homicide rate has soared, so have the rapes, assaults. And there are now nearly 30 People Killed in arrests over the last month. People being electrocuted to death, what are your thoughts about the nra and venezuela . Yeah. I think its complicated when you compare one country to another, based simply on cultural differences. But in this case, there is a Historical Context to how these things come about, and youre absolutely right. And many of these countries not just venezuela the first thing they do is disarm the public. And you can look back at our own history and find that theres a reason why the Second Amendment is exactly where it is as number two because its there to protect the first, and its extremely important that we have the rights and maintain these rights so that we dont end up like some of these nations. Liz lets switch gears to north korea threatening the military bases now saying quote its our sovereignty and right to exist or interfered with at the slightest. We will turn the u. S. Military bases into quote seas of fire. I mean, weve heard the seas of fire rhetoric before from north korea. This as President Trump is now warning of a potential conflict with the kingdom. Trump theres a chance that we could end up having a major, major conflict with north korea. Absolutely. Liz but secretary of state Rex Tillerson telling fox news that the u. S. Is not looking for war but to get rid of north Koreas Nuclear weapons. We have been very clear. We do not seek regime change in north korea, were not seeking a collapse of the regime. We are not seeking to find some excuse for accelerated reunification of the peninsula. What we are seeking is the same thing china has said they seek. A full denuclearization of the korean peninsula. Liz so you heard he mentioned china and possibly south korea getting in here to help out. That seems to be the administrations position along not war but getting those two countries to take a harder stance against north korea. Well, yes, and this is something that President Trump complained heavily on, and that was Holding Others accountable across the globe, particularly for their own neighbors. When you have someone like china, who really does maintain all the leverage over north korea and their leader for that matter, they should be the one taking the initiative to calm him down. I dont think its really debatable that the leader of north korea is very rational, considering that threatening the United States with a commanderinchief who doesnt draw fake red lines in the sand. And this is also another reason why previous president s have sort of kicked the can down the road with this issue and President Trump is just not that kind of president. Liz you know, katrina, weve had experts on north korea come on and say that they do it on purpose. Theyre extremely bombastic in north korea and make threats. But then say, oh, if you want to sell us some of your goods, if you want to take some of the oil, yeah, well take that on the side. Thats basically how north koreas Business Model is. And now we have breaking news. North korea just test fired a Ballistic Missile early from a region north of its capital. No details about the missile or its flight yet. Katrina, what are your thoughts . Well, i think its a mistake to compare anything today moving forward to the things that were in the past. I think its safe to say that were in a very different political paradigm as well as a Global Paradigm where we just cant simply move forward based on things in the past. Because everythings different. World leaders are different, attitudes are different. And i do think that secretary tillerson is wanting china to take control of the situation and President Trump will react accordingly. Liz all right. Thank you, Katrina Pearson. Edge, the we have gerri willis after this. 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