First, at this hour, Vice President Kamala Harris finally visiting the southern border. 93 days after she became the point person on the crisis. Her trip comes during a record surge in illegal crossings in the United States. Hello. Im john roberts in washington, this is america reports. Good to be back with you again today. Seems like we have a busy news day every day. Today is. Im Gillian Turner in for sandra smith. Vice president harris is on the ground in el paso. Thats where youll recall that we saw one of the most heart breaking videos from this Currents Iteration of the border crisis. You can see Border Patrol footage from april. Shows smugglers scaling a 14 foot fence and dropping two girls on the other side. The smugglers completely abandon the girls leaving them defenseless, alone in the desert outside el paso. John critics point out the epicenter of the border crisis is hundreds of miles away in rio grande. The white house says el paso was a perfect case study. The Vice Presi
How many from outside of washington . How many had never been to the book festival before . How many have been to all 19 of them . Wow. Okay. Were going to have a very interesting conversation today with one of the countries leading i was a intellectuals and columnists and tv commentators and authors. His new book is the Second Mountain. How many people have read this book at . Come people are going to read this after its over . , okay. How many people are going to get autographed copy from david brooks today. Okay. So david, thanks for doing this. Before we go into this book, the Second Mountain which ive read and think its a very good book. I like to go through about your background. You grew up in new york . The lower side of new york. My parents were somewhat leftwing. So thel story tell about my childhood is when i was identically, this is, this is in the late 60s,s where hippies would go just to be. One of the things they did was they would set a garbage can on fire and they thre
With oneeading intellectuals and commentators, his new book is the Second Mountains, how many people read this book yet . Okay . How many are going to read after this is over . Okay. How many people are going to get an autographed copy from david today. Okay so david thanks for doing this. So lets go before we go to this book Second Mountains which i have read, i would like to go a little bit about your background. You grew up in new york . I grew up in the lower side of new york and my parents were somewhat left wing, so the story i tell about my childhood is when i was five, and they took me to it a place where hippies would go to be. Im one of things they did is they would set a garbage can on fire and they with their their wallets in it to just show about how much they little they cared about money and material things. And i saw 5dollar bill in the garbage can and i reached in and grab for a breach in the fire, and grabbed the money and ran away that was my first step to the right.
it goes back to their childhood. we don t have time for it. but their idea of hell is not being able to control you being out of power. donald trump drove them literally crazy. so the left is setting up a system of permanent power so it never happens again. there are four pillars to the power grab and we ll explain what they are tonight. the first pillar is educational indoctrination. a perfect example is the grace church school in new york city. an elite private school with a tuition of $57,000 a year. the head master is an ivy league guy. it provides an excellent education and sends many of its students to the best colleges in the country. the students will then go on to become high achievers professionally in business, science, politics and the media, and will have a lot of influence over your life. i would send my children there if that was it. but there is something sinister going on at the school. these children are being indoctrinated by teachers and administrators to
we don t have time for it. but their idea of hell is not being able to control you being out of power. donald trump drove them literally crazy. so the left is setting up a system of permanent power so it never happens again. there are four pillars to the power grab and we ll explain what they are tonight. the first pillar is educational indoctrination. a perfect example is the grace church school in new york city. an elite private school with a tuition of $57,000 a year. the head master is an ivy league guy. it provides an excellent education and sends many of its students to the best colleges in the country. the students will then go on to become high achievers professionally in business, science, politics and the media, and will have a lot of influence over your life. i would send my children there if that was it. but there is something sinister going on at the school. these children are being indoctrinated by teachers and administrators to hate america. the students probab