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The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
China Sanctions Hudson Institute for Their Serious Stance
"John, Hudson institute is very serious about China. Mike Pompeo is your senior fellow. So you're very serious about China. But you were of the school that says we can do two things at one time. We can support Ukraine and we can get ready for China. Is that a fair summary of your position? The position of captain Jerry Hendricks who's often on this show as well. Yeah, and yeah, we are serious. I mean, I will say, I have been personally Shang sanctioned by the communist Chinese, as is Mike Pompeo. As has miles you who is ahead of our China center and Hudson institute as an institute has been sanctioned by the communist Chinese. So we wear that with a badge of honor. I mean, it's nice to know people talk about impact in D.C.. I call that impact. And so yeah, we believe that we put it simply. It's clear to, it should be clear to everybody. The Chinese communist Putin and Russia and Iran are in an alliance. You can not peel off part of that alliance and say, I just want to fight part of it. And it's expect to win. You
The Charlie Kirk Show
A Conversation With Chinese Cultural Revolution Survivor Xi Van Fleet
"We should have a tradition of free speech, but a Christian school allegedly Christian school. Whitworth university in Spokane, Washington. Has just voted to block a turning point USA chapter from hosting a Chinese dissident. Yeah, we have nothing to learn from a Chinese dissident. We're tolerant. Meanwhile, we're not going to let the Chinese dissident come on campus. Whitworth university, which you guys can go to Whitworth dot EDU and express your opinion to them, has done this. Well, joining us now is G van fleet's survivor of Mao's China, senior fellow at 1776 action. G welcome to the program. Well, thank you so much, Charlie. You are my hero. I listen to your podcast every day. Oh, that's very kind. Thank you so much for inviting me. Well, thank you. Well, now you're on the podcast. So God bless you that that really means a lot. So G tell us about this situation here involving Whitworth university. Why are they so afraid of having you attend on campus? Yeah, it is a question I have myself. And I was invited and then later told I was a band of voted out. And they reason gave me that they saw from my Twitter account that I was supposedly anti BMM and LGBT. And whatever. And that is absolutely insane. First of all, I have to say, I am I never against LGBT community. That is a false accusation. And but I do have according to what they say. I think they got from a tweet that tweeted out. And it's a list of vocabulary that I said is a woke terms. And unit including BMM. BMN is not that I say that Marxism. They are absolutely claim themselves that they are marxists. They are trained marxists. These people, this student do not have the correct information. Then
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis (Ret.): 'Shoot It Down, Worry About It Later'
"Here's lieutenant colonel Daniel Davis, he's a defense priorities senior fellow. This is with Fox News channel's trace Gallagher over the weekend. It seems kind of odd to me that we're going to shoot something down. We don't know who it is. Who is it was? What it was, whether it was something that could potentially have been harmful if it gets shut down. I mean, I think we would have wanted to know a little bit more about it before we took, you know, that kind of decisive action, but look, I think that, you know, because of all the uproar that happened this week over the delay of shooting down the last given that it came over Alaska and senator Murkowski, you know, really being upset and Senate hearings this week. I think that they decided they're just going to be, you know, air on the side of shooting it down and then figured it out later. Well, one thing's for certain and I don't think anybody doubts that we're being tested. And I guarantee you, if Trump were the commander in chief, there would be a much different response from the one we're getting from the Biden administration.
Dennis Prager Podcasts
"senior fellow" Discussed on Dennis Prager Podcasts
"A Chris rufo. Welcome back to my show. It's great to be with you. Where do you live, by the way? Yeah, I have outside of Seattle, Washington, and a small town on the kitsap Peninsula. A bit far away from Florida, but I found myself in the last few years. Spending a lot of time in the sunshine state and really having a huge admiration for what governor desantis has been doing there. Listen, Washington state to Florida is a serious trip. I salute you. In the last two weeks, you may be the only person working full-time in Florida who's living. You know, pilots do that. Where were you based Denver, you know, where you fly out of Laguardia. Okay, but you really got it bad or fascinating. All right, so let's explain everything. This is beyond interesting. It's equally important. So he contacted you, governor desantis to do what. Yeah, I've been working with the governor and his team on critical race theory on gender ideology in schools. I helped with the stop woke act and attended a number of events with him, including the bill signing for the legislation. And then I got a call last month from one of the governor's team. And he said, hey, look, we're going to overturn, we're going to take over the whole board of new college of Florida, which is Florida's smallest public university. It has about 700 students. It's notoriously kind of left wing and progressive. There are some located in Florida. It's in Sarasota, so it's on the gulf side of Florida. Of the state. And it's actually been really failing. It actually has the lowest scores on all the performance metrics. For the Florida high dropout rates, can't recruit enough students, huge problems for years. And the situation that they describe was this, the legislature is ready to actually just dissolve the university entirely. They're so frustrated at the university has been sailing for so long. They are ready to actually shut it down. But the governor had a different idea. He said, rather than shutting it down, why don't we do an experiment? We're going to get a new majority of board members that are kind of solid conservatives, intellectuals, from hillsdale, from other institutions, and we'll take over the board and we'll perform it from the top down. And so I said, great, well, how would you like me to help? And he said, we want you to be on the board, which is a bit surprising at first. But it's turned out to be really, I think, just a great experiment. And it really is the future of saying, hey, look, when conservative win elections, when they get to a point people to board the boards of trustees at that public universities, those people should actually take action. They should actually start doing something so that the public institutions start reflecting the values of the public.
Dennis Prager Podcasts
Dennis Talks to Chris Rufo, Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute
"A Chris rufo. Welcome back to my show. It's great to be with you. Where do you live, by the way? Yeah, I have outside of Seattle, Washington, and a small town on the kitsap Peninsula. A bit far away from Florida, but I found myself in the last few years. Spending a lot of time in the sunshine state and really having a huge admiration for what governor desantis has been doing there. Listen, Washington state to Florida is a serious trip. I salute you. In the last two weeks, you may be the only person working full-time in Florida who's living. You know, pilots do that. Where were you based Denver, you know, where you fly out of Laguardia. Okay, but you really got it bad or fascinating. All right, so let's explain everything. This is beyond interesting. It's equally important. So he contacted you, governor desantis to do what. Yeah, I've been working with the governor and his team on critical race theory on gender ideology in schools. I helped with the stop woke act and attended a number of events with him, including the bill signing for the legislation. And then I got a call last month from one of the governor's team. And he said, hey, look, we're going to overturn, we're going to take over the whole board of new college of Florida, which is Florida's smallest public university. It has about 700 students. It's notoriously kind of left wing and progressive. There are some located in Florida. It's in Sarasota, so it's on the gulf side of Florida. Of the state. And it's actually been really failing. It actually has the lowest scores on all the performance metrics. For the Florida high dropout rates, can't recruit enough students, huge problems for years. And the situation that they describe was this, the legislature is ready to actually just dissolve the university entirely. They're so frustrated at the university has been sailing for so long. They are ready to actually shut it down. But the governor had a different idea. He said, rather than shutting it down, why don't we do an experiment? We're going to get a new majority of board members that are kind of solid conservatives, intellectuals, from hillsdale, from other institutions, and we'll take over the board and we'll perform it from the top down. And so I said, great, well, how would you like me to help? And he said, we want you to be on the board, which is a bit surprising at first. But it's turned out to be really, I think, just a great experiment. And it really is the future of saying, hey, look, when conservative win elections, when they get to a point people to board the boards of trustees at that public universities, those people should actually take action. They should actually start doing something so that the public institutions start reflecting the values of the public.
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
Danielle Welcomes Charles Kessler of the Claremont Review of Books
"I'm delighted to welcome to the podcast Charles Kessler. He's the senior fellow at the Claremont institute and the editor of the Claremont review of books. Charles, thanks for joining us. Well, Danielle, thank you for inviting me. It's always a great pleasure to be on the Jesus podcast. Oh my gosh. Well, yes, he's taking a little time off this week because of Christmas. So I've been hosting his podcast this week and whenever he takes off and so I wanted to invite on my favorite people and I loved going to your seminar this fall and it was so interesting because your guys information always really dives into the heart of what is most important. So I wanted to just ask you a little bit about your story and what inspired you to pursue political theory. Oh, sure. Okay. I guess I've always been interested in politics. I mean, my first political memories go back to the 1968 election when I would have been about 11 or 12 years old, I guess. Which end the late 60s were very anarchic time in American politics, very conflict ridden time. And so somehow or another I got the bug for politics and history back then. And then when I was in high school, I started reading political theory. I mean, I guess I was inspired partly by national review and sort of the conservative literature at the time that I was reading. But even more so, I think by a couple of my teachers in high school who were very good and very knowledgeable about American politics and about American history. And then I went to school. I went to college. I went to Harvard. I had a very good time in the 1970s when Harvey Mansfield, who my teacher, my main teacher, who still there teaching at age 90, this is his final year of teaching, however, but still it's been an amazing run.
WTOP
"senior fellow" Discussed on WTOP
"Lie. The 22 year old woman's father speaking through an interpreter there, the government claims that masa died from a heart attack. Ben and Ben Talib is a senior fellow at the foundation for defense of democracies. He was with us just minutes ago saying this week's protests are taking on a new tenor and the unrest is far from over. There are gender dynamics to it. There are social dynamics to it through our religious dynamics to it, but ultimately all of these grievances are coming together. Men and women to push back against the regime because there is a massive chasm in that country between state and society. And as triggered by the latest killing, the killing of Massa ruhi, a 22 year old woman from Iran's Kurdish province, the city of southeast. She was simply visiting Tehran. It was yet another straw that broke the camel's back, driving everybody to this bridge. At least 9 people have died since the demonstrations began against the government. Some other news tonight, two indictments have now been thrown out against a music teacher, charged with sexually assaulting young students during lessons at his home. WTO's Neil Augustine reports on the actions of a fairfax county judge today. Last year, roger McKay was charged with unlawfully touching a young student during lessons at his home between 2010 and 2013. He was indicted in May. But after fairfax county prosecutors made their opening statements and trial earlier this month, a defense asked the judge to exclude any evidence other than the offense date listed on the indictment. The prosecution asked the judge to widen the date range. She said no and throughout the indictments. Sources in the prosecutor's office say they told the judge they intend to re indict McKay, no immediate comment from his lawyer. How did a fairfax county guidance counselor keep his job despite being arrested and charged with soliciting prostitution from a minor? The investigation has wrapped up superintendent Michelle Reid is expected to hold a meeting at Glasgow middle school Tuesday night to share the key findings. But WTO has already learned Darren Thornton state employed because Chesterfield county police sent information about a 2020 arrest there to three bad email addresses. Thornton was arrested again in June of this year, placed on leave days later and was fired last month. The commander is getting ready to meet a division foe as their quarterback prepares to face his former team. Rob has that, plus he's watching a lot of live football right now. Stay with us. Me knew appliances? Be sure to get to bray and scarf for our incredible one day sale. This Saturday only September 24th. Get amazing appliance savings in store and online
The Ben Shapiro Show
Democrats Won't Tell People to Stop Gay Orgies to Prevent Monkeypox
"Who exactly really is radical in American politics? Well, my suggestion is that it is the Democrats who are significantly more radical than the Republicans, particularly when it comes to social issues. And you can see it on pretty much every social issue. So to take an example, when it comes to monkeypox, it is a source of constant amazement to me. That there is a very easy solution to monkey box. There are actually two. One is there's a vaccine. The vaccine needs to be more widely available. The FDA has prevented it from being more widely available. So that is solution number one. And the federal government's already screwing that up. Doctor Scott gottlieb former commissioner of the FDA, and a senior fellow at American enterprise institute, one of the loudest voices during COVID. He now suggests that the CDC has failed on monkeypox again. He says our country's response to monkeypox has been plagued by the same shortcomings we had with COVID. If monkeypox gains a permanent foothold in the United States and becomes an endemic virus that joins our circulating repertoire of pathogens, it will be one of the worst public health failures in modern times. Not only because of the pain and peril of the disease, but also because it was extremely avoidable. There is limited testing access, there was not enough stockpile of vaccine, even though the vaccine was widely available. Okay, but that's really not the most extreme response to monkeypox. The most extreme response to monkeypox continues to be the complete unwillingness of anyone in the media chattering class or in the Democratic Party to simply say, stop having gay orgies. I understand that this is unpopular with a particular segment of the democratic base, but you guys literally advocated for the shutdown of all of American life, all of it. Kids going to school, going to the park with your children, being able to go to work, killing hundreds of thousands of small businesses. For COVID, in airborne virus. This is a virus that has passed almost entirely between gay men having sex with one another. And you can't say, stop having sex with randos. You can't say it.
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
Why 'Supreme Disorder' Author Ilya Shapiro Resigned From Georgetown
"Guys, I'm really happy to welcome to the podcast Ilya Shapiro. He's senior fellow director of constitutional studies at the Manhattan institute, but previously he was the executive director and senior lecturer at Georgetown university, the center for the constitution. He's the author of supreme disorder and other works. I want to talk about his experience at Georgetown and related to some of the larger issues we're dealing with in academia. Ilya, welcome to the podcast, great to have you, it seems like you've gone through a kind of a traumatic experience that Georgetown. But I think you're not alone in facing this kind of an issue. So maybe I'll begin by just asking you to describe what happened at Georgetown. It all started, I believe, with a tweet. Yeah. Yeah, good to be with you, dinesh. I had been at the Cato institute for nearly 15 years doing constitutional law. And thought it might be a good time in my career to switch to try to have a different kind of impact, got a wonderful offer from Georgetown to head up the center with alongside professor Randy Barnett, a giant of constitutional law. A few days before I was due to assume my new duties, so this is at the end of January, when news of justice Breyer's retirement leaked, I was doing media that day, I was on the road. I was in Austin, Texas, and used what's not a best practice in doom scrolling my Twitter feed late at night in my hotel room, and was unhappy with President Biden's having declared that he would be limiting his candidate pool by race and sex. He said that he'd pick a black woman. And I said, well, look, and to my mind, if I were a democratic president, I would pick Sri srinavasan. He would be the first Indian American justice as well, very well reputed on the D.C. circuit. But of course, he's disqualified because it doesn't have the right intersectional characteristics. And that tweet set off a firestorm. I was even before joining Georgetown, I was suspended, and there was a four month long investigation into whether my commentary violated the university's harassment and anti discrimination policies. At the end of which they discovered, oh, one of their lawyers looked at the calendar and realized I had not been an employee when I tweeted. And so those policies didn't even apply
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Sebastian Is Joined In-Studio by the Love of His Life Katie Gorka
"This is a very special interview. Why? Because I get to share with you my love of my life and to talk about the incredible work she's been doing, not only in the administration as a presidential point to the problem of Homeland Security, then the press secretary for customs and border protection where you worked with Mark Morgan, who's a huge supporter of the show. And then now, as senior fellow at the heritage foundation for civil society, but let's begin at the beginning. I've known you for quite some time. Yes, you have. And we met in Eastern Europe in Romania. I was working for the Hungarian government defense ministry after the fall of communism. You were working for a New York think tank helping in the democratization process in Central Europe. Share a little bit about your journey because when I met you, allegedly, there were only two charities you gave to. And 8 charity and a gun control chat. And gay men's health crisis. Gay men's health crisis and gun control ink. And I think your life has changed somewhat in the last 26 years. Yes, it has. Why? Talk to us your journey and how you look at this nation we live in now. Well, I think the important thing is that so many young people who got a terrible education overall, I did not understand this country at all. I did not love this country. I would not say I was a patriot. I remember growing up in a part of Long Island. I remember maybe when I was about 6, a 4th of July parade with the streamers woven through my bike spokes and the good humor ice cream and that's kind of the last act of patriotism. I remember, because you go to school, I mean granted, this was a while ago, but let's say this would have been, you know, I was growing up in the 70s. It was not a great time to be an American.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Victor Davis Hanson on the West's Current Mindset of Self-Hatred
"And he is professor Victor Davis Hanson, senior fellow at the Hoover institution. Welcome to America first. Thank you. Professor, we've been going back and forth emailing each other over the last few days. My son has graduated from Stamford. We went through the proceedings, the commencement I played clips of the prayer from the dean of religion that opened the ceremony. I played the blessings from the in-house rabbi as well. My commentary was it's strange to have a blessing and a prayer that doesn't mention God and talks about judeo ism as a tradition, not a religion. What I didn't share with my listeners and I saved for our conversation given your storied background as the preeminent classicist in America today, my son majored in classics, I listened to the head of the department give his graduation speech and the second sentence was a mayor culpa for slavery and the lack of female voting rights in western civilization. I put that as the scene setting, the stage setting, is there a history of a civilization a culture faring well or even surviving professor when it's elite hates its own history? Well, when that starts to happen, then you have to have some kind of re enlightenment or renaissance. So if you look at the neronian period in the literature of that period, petronius, the Tony as you get this sense that affluence and leisure did create a lot of self hatred, but then you had the 5 good emperors come in. You had a hundred years of correction. And France was intellectually bankrupt between the wars and its army reflected that and collapsing in 6 weeks, but then it had sort of a recuperation after World War II. In fact, it's troops did very well under American auspices and of course. So we have to have that enlightenment and that rebooting. And if we don't, no, you can't
Mark Levin
Norm Eisen: AG Garland 'Fears No Person' & Coming After Trump
"Merrick Garland quote fears no person says legal scholar norm eisen who the hell that is And he's coming for Trump And Politico reported earlier today that Peter Peter navarra has said that he has now been summoned in front of a grand jury Did you see that mister producer Like other forms of fascism authoritarianism and reactionary politics Donald Trump's so called movement Is a symptom of deeper problems in society not the cause Trumpism is not a boil that can be lanced there by ending the infection It's more like a tumor growing from the bones ladies and gentlemen This is a radical left neo Marxist operation in my view but nonetheless it's not exactly true that the Republican Party was conquered or taken over by the Trump movement As many observers still perceive it the seeds of trumpism were planted in Republican soil decades ago and founded a hospitable environment It's more accurate to perceive trumpism as the next evolutionary more properly devolutionary stage of the Republican Party and the overall conservative movement It's where right-wing politics were going in America whether leading conservatives understood that or not The discuss the current state of the Trump movement America's efforts to defeat it I recently reached out to Norman I and a senior fellow in governance at the radical left He doesn't say it I do Brookings institution He served a special counsel to the House judiciary committee during Donald Trump's first impeachment Wow
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
'Trumponomics' Author Stephen Moore on Biden's New Press Secretary
"Seen. He's the author of trumponomics. He's back at the conservative mothership, the heritage foundation has senior fellow. Welcome back to America first, one on one, Stephen Moore. Hi, Sebastian, great to be with you. And if you're hoping that I can explain that answer from our new press secretary, I have a brain I can not. I couldn't make heads or tails. Why don't she was saying, it was actually kind of awkward, and I felt a little bit sorry for her, actually. You know, she was kind of partially reading from the notes and just reading a script, even though it had nothing to do with what the question was about. But look, all of this, all of these policies, I'm an 8 from Joe Biden. She's just a mouthpiece spitting out that the sound bites that The White House has been putting out. But I think what's really more important than those crazy statements that were made in that press conference was, you know, you have somebody now, you know, who's the Jeff Bezos who runs one of the largest companies in the world who is a Liberal Democrat Sebastian, who's saying, wait a minute, none of this stuff is going to
WNYC 93.9 FM
"senior fellow" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"Is a senior fellow at the center for a new American security This is really clear and informative Thank you so much Thank you A federal judge yesterday ruled that Oakland California's police can take a big step toward ending nearly two decades of federal oversight The judge ruled that Oakland can now enter a one year probationary period after meeting dozens of reform measures required in the wake of a police abuse scandal But critics say the fact that basic improvements took 20 years is scandalous in itself From Oakland NPR's Eric westerville reports Federal monitoring stemmed from abuses surrounding a west Oakland anti gang unit who called themselves the riders Scores of victims 22 years ago alleged the riders routinely planted drugs on suspects and dished out beatdowns alongside their falsified police reports unlawful arrests and obstruction of justice A rookie officer blew the whistle and the riders scandal was born A 119 Oakland victims filed suit But back then civil rights attorneys Jim Shannon and John burrus made it clear they wanted more than a settlement and money for their clients Burr says they saw the rogue cop scandal as an opportunity to try to change an Oakland police culture of impunity To take a real good look to figure out where it was that these problems originated from because I was very much interested in the issue about racial profiling we saw that people were being stopped We're interested in the fourth questions What kind of forces being used How would it be in record of what kind of investigations were taking place in the internal affairs And that was a big deal Slowly very slowly Oakland is checked off more than 50 federally mandated reforms The OPD improved its use of force policies and practices reduced racial profiling and traffic stops and more Allegations and payouts for brutality and excessive force are down dramatically While acknowledging there's much work still to do the city's mayor welcomed the end of federal oversight as a sign of real progress Progress that Oakland chief Laurent Armstrong says is sustainable He's been chief here for just over 15 months And I think the 15 months where we haven't had a scandal or any issues come out of the department that would cause anybody to be concerned about our ability to remain in compliance and practice constitutional policing is the beginning of us building a new history But many see any progress and that new history as fragile and it took 20 years Rashida grenache is with Oakland's coalition for police accountability As shameful as shameful that it has taken this long The first federal monitoring team quit en masse convinced Oakland was incapable of real change The glacial pace of reform underscores the department's deep resistance to improving says lawyer Jim Chan the other lead civil rights attorney who brought the writer's case I would say the first 9 years there was zero progress And then the last ten they've come up to the point where they're now on the cusp of compliance And that compliance is seen by many as precarious The city has gone through 11 police chiefs in just over 20 years last year homicides here soared Today Oakland officers are leaving the department in record numbers And there have been half a dozen new scandals since the writer's case including in 2016 when multiple OPD officers were criminally charged for sexually abusing an underage girl and continued to exploit her after she turned 18 The city settled for nearly a $1 million in officers were fired an independent report ruled the department failed to adequately investigate those sex crimes a violation of federal task number 5 It's always been lawyers journalists or victims who've exposed OPD corruption and lawyer Shannon is worried that when federal monitors pack up the backsliding could set in We've gone 20 years to have a perfect record of never discovering and remedying a single scandal on their own So I'm concerned about that That's bad It is worrisome Rashida grenade with the coalition for police accountability is worried too but she says the creation a few years ago of the city's independent civilian run police commission is one key safeguard to protect against relapse since the riders scandal Trust but verify right We have a police commission that will verify that they are in compliance and will take the necessary steps to make sure that if they fall out of compliance that there are repercussions Repercussions like when the commission fired police chief Anne kirkpatrick in 2020 she's now fighting her dismissal in court Activists who've pushed for greater racial justice after George Floyd's murder at the knee of a Minneapolis policeman say any incremental progress in Oakland was not the work of federal monitors or lawyers It was the work of the people in the streets that forced OPD to shift Kat Brooks cofounder and director of the anti police terror project she's not convinced OPD has changed much at all A culture of violence and recklessness she alleges simply runs too deep If you go to east Oakland they are still profiled and they are still harassed and tormented by OPD So right on I'm glad they ticked off all the boxes But they are not a police department that this community trusts or should trust After two decades the last of the 51 reforms was improving racial disparities in disciplinary policy as more black officers were facing discipline than their white counterparts In the end none of the officers in the riders scandal was convicted The city paid out about $11 million to a 119 people to settle the class action brutality case And the alleged ringleader of the riders gang officer Frank Vasquez he skipped bail and fled the country on the eve of his trial To this day former officer Vasquez remains a fugitive His case open.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Who Is Mark Morgan, Senior Fellow for the Heritage Foundation?
"He's in studio, none other than the heritage foundations and fairs commissioner Mark Morgan Mark. Welcome in studio. Thanks for having me, Sebastian. I could see the your neck arteries expanding as you were listening to that cut. We'll get to that in a second for those who see you everywhere. Speaking truth fully about what's happening on the border, but who may not know everything you've done in your past before you got to be the commissioner for CBP. Tell us all the different ways you've served this nation, give us a little summary of Mark Morgan's history. I appreciate it, Sebastian. Look, I've served this country for 35 years. I started off. I listed in the United States Marine Corps on his 19, later became a commissioned officer in the Marine Corps. I was a police officer for the Los Angeles Police department. I served over two decades in the FBI, and I was also chief of the border patrol before I later became active director of ice and then acting director of customs and border
The Eric Metaxas Show
Who Is 'The Devil's Delusion' Author David Berlinski?
"Are a mathematician. I've written a lot about mathematics. Not many people can say that, David berlinski. So I want to help my audience who isn't familiar with you because I don't want to just read your biography. How do you describe yourself? I mean, you've written many extraordinary books, the most recent for me that I've read is the devil's delusion, a spectacular takedown of the so called new atheists. I borrowed from it for my new book is atheism dead, but you've written many books. How do you, how do you describe yourself if somebody were to ask you what you did? I think honestly, I spent a whole lot of time in the academic world. And I wound up teaching mathematics up and down Silicon Valley in various community colleges, various college San Jose state university, for example. But around 1992, I said, I'm going to live strictly with my pen, just as a writer. And so I would describe myself now exactly those terms. I'm a writer. I happen to have written a lot about mathematics. Right. That's true. Well, actually, in the bio that I have on you, it does claim that your mathematician. So I'm going to go with that. We're going to kick your dividends to the curb and we're going to say that man is a mathematician. He's a philosopher. He's a polymath. Senior fellow with the discovery institute. I am a gigantic fan of the discovery institute and grateful that they have you aboard there. I often hear about you through Stephen Meyer, whom I just saw very recently. And I think he's the one that said to me that David berlinski is coming from his home in Paris to America and maybe he'll be in the same time zone and you can have a conversation. So it's to Steve and the discovery institute that I owe this time.
Dennis Prager Podcasts
How Much Energy Do We Need?
"Mark mills is a senior fellow again at the Manhattan institute. We're headed toward an exciting all renewable energy future. Wind and solar will power the world of tomorrow. And tomorrow isn't far off. It's time to wake up. You're having a dream. Here's the reality. Oil, natural gas, and coal provide 84% of all the world's energy. That's down just two percentage points from 20 years ago. An oil still powers nearly 97% of all global transportation. Contrary to headlines claiming that we're rapidly transitioning away from fossil fuels. It's just not happening. Two decades and $5 trillion of governments investing in green energy and we've barely moved the needle.
WTOP
"senior fellow" Discussed on WTOP
"Hub in the east This morning Bill Rochelle senior fellow at the foundation for defense of democracies on the latest carnage They are certainly expanding the scope of the operations One of the places is in a key city in the central eastern part of Ukraine This to me tells me the Russians are preparing to try to sever the eastern half And the strikes in the west appear to be against air bases There's been a lot of talk about the Russians and ability to achieve air superiority I'm not so certain they're Russians are fighting as we would So I think there's a lot of misinterpretation of what's happening there Russians can achieve our superiority locally But these strikes seem to be targeting air bases So it looks like the Russians are trying to interdict some of the Ukrainian air force activity that's coming from the western half of Ukraine The activity has been largely nonexistent since the war began You use the expression sever the eastern half for those of us that are not military tacticians What does that mean that Russia would essentially control the eastern half of Ukraine A lot of the focus on the operation is the capital of Kyiv But what the Russians are doing they take control of nearly all of the territory along the Black Sea and the sea of azov That's an industrial and export heartland of the Ukraine And along the east yeah they're preparing to chop that portion off They're moving from both the south and from the north And if they can take this town of dnipro you're going to see about one 5th of Ukraine directly under Russian control Maybe a quarter of the country We've been watching that Russian convoy in the meantime tanks other vehicles They had lined up north of Kyiv They now have broken up vehicles or parked in the forest others on near antonov airport That could be looked at as a positive development from the Ukrainian side and perhaps looked at differently as well How do you see it Yeah I think again there's been a deep misunderstanding of this Unfortunately The Pentagon has been repeating a lot of the Ukrainians talking points And this mud is the water the Ukrainians are trying to put the best phase on everything that's happening I don't think this convoy was stalled has been reported for the past week I think the Russians were organizing their logistics and preparing for the siege of Kyiv right now they're in the process of surrounding the city They border it on three sides now It's just the south is open And there's forces that gathered in the northwest of the city They appear to be moving into position to begin an assault on the city And then as well as attempting to surround the city from the south Now to be fair we have seen with our own eyes if you are to believe the cable news video that's being shown that the Ukrainians have had successes blowing up in one case a small convoy of tanks Aren't they more than holding their own aren't they putting up quite a great fight They're putting up a heroic fight They're fighting fiercely The question is is it enough The Russians can have tactical failures and still achieve strategic success And that's what I'm seeing There are advancing on multiple fronts The Ukrainians are making them pay and pay dearly The Russians fight in a Soviet style where they just keep throwing armor and soldiers at the problem They have failure They just keep throwing and the Ukrainians do they have enough weapons and men They're spread thin They're trying to defend everything right now And often in military when you try to defend everything you defend nothing And if the Ukrainians don't consolidate their lines they can start losing large parts of their country And their soldiers can be surrounded So they're yes they're fighting hard They're punishing the Russians but I don't think it's enough at this point in time Later the.
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Who Is Dr. Scott Atlas?
"He is senior fellow in health policy at the Hoover institution and author, most recently of a fabulous fabulous book, a plague upon a house, my fight at the Trump White House to stop COVID from destroying America. Welcome, doctor Scott Atlas to America first. Oh, thanks for having me. I appreciate that. So we've been tried for the longest time to get you on the show, your buddy Victor Davis Hansen constantly said, yes, you gotta get him on, you gotta get him on. We're delighted to have you on. I've got a multi page multi page resume CV bio for you, so you clearly have the cres for those of our millions of listers who may not have watched you at those press conferences. Please if you would just start as we do with all of our one on one guess, give us a potted summary of who you are, your qualifications and what you are focused on as we speak. Sure. So I am a senior fellow in health policy at a policy institute at Stanford University called the Hoover institution. Where I research and work on healthcare policy solutions, I've been doing that for more than a decade full time before that I had about a 25 year history, a career in academic medicine as a professor in the school of medicine for the last 14 years before the ten years as a professor in chief of neuro radiology at Stanford University school of medicine. And I had a previous experience and the medical science that various top level medical centers in the U.S., including iterative mania, graduated from University of Chicago with my MD degree.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
'The Adversaries' Author Ned Ryun on the Idea of a National Divorce
"Greatness, senior fellow Ned Ryan author of the adversaries a story of Boston and bunker hill. Ned, welcome to Mike Gallagher show. Yeah, no great to be with you slicked her. Oh, well, it is great to be with me. I'm amazing, said the modest Los Angeles trial lawyer. Hey, you've got a terrific book here. The adversaries. I've read it. I loved it. And frankly, I cribbed a little bit about bunker hill, the battle of bunker hill for my upcoming book, the fallen rise of the United States. We've been talking about a national divorce. This was kind of a divorce 250 years ago. Marjorie Taylor Greene's tweeting about it, what do you think of the concept? I got to tell you, kirkus, I think there's two options. One is the national divorce. I mean, we're looking at two very divergent world views on how you approach governments, inherent rights, which honestly occurred is not something new. I mean, this is when you look at the genesis of the progressive movement early 20th century, they were always attacking inherent rights, all of these things. And now it's coming to full fruition. So you've got the national divorce angle or an angle that I also like as well in which we beat them into submission enforcement unconditional surrender. So I think that I love when you talk like that. Makes me want to have a cigarette in a cuddle.
Mark Levin
Is Congressman Jamie Raskin's Father Tied to the KGB?
"What you see Liz Cheney sitting on the panel next to her is congressman Raskin congressman rascal's father was a founder of the KGB front group institute for policy studies Is that right Yes And one of the senior fellows of the institute for policy studies Let's slow down Let's slow down A little bit more detail because this is a radical hard left organization the institute for policy studies in Europe making the assertion That Jamie Raskin Congress nutshell from Maryland that his father was one of the founders of this organization that had ties to the communists Is that what you're saying Right Ties to the KGB They work directly with The New York Times Washington Post They say policies opinion everything in America It's sort of like the go between between various communist groups communist countries including Soviets and how they sort of it's a nexus between foreign and American enemies The nexus between them the government and the media very powerful group in the past what's his name Glenn Beck talked about the institute for policy studies But look it gets better A senior fellow of the institute for policy studies is Francis Fox pivots Worked with Joseph booty gag boutique Joseph booty Greg was the founder of the international gram sheet society His son is Pete booty gag You've got two three generations of Marxist revolutionary and throughout our media and government and most of it is out in the open and it's extremely dangerous So you could have somebody connected to America's enemies on the panel but you can't have a loyal American like Jim Jordan on the January 6th
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Victor Davis Hanson's Take on Glenn Youngkin's Upset Victory in Virginia
"Victor Davis Hansen senior fellow at the Hoover institution at Stanford University and author most recent so many things. Anything with his name on it, buy it, but the dying citizen out now follow him at vide Hansen. Professor Hansen, welcome to America first. Thank you for having me again, Seth. So much to discuss, personal news on your front with regards to a very storied conservative publication, but let's talk about the events in Virginia of the last few days. My take is the following. I would like you to be the sanity check for this. We have seen 9 out of ten of the analyses post the young con victory have been incredibly sophomoric, very, very simplistic, basically half of them have said, this is an indictment of Donald Trump because young and isn't Trump and the other half said this is a victory for Trump because he's just like Trump and critical race theory, et cetera, et cetera. I think the truth lies somewhere in between a very cautious candidate who didn't go full America first. However, embraced a culture war issue much like president Trump, which propelled him to the top of the ticket, who is to blame or who gets the credit for this massive upset victory professor. I think you have it right. I think he ran more successfully or at least as successfully in those red counties of Virginia than Trump did. So he was able to get the base. He was able to keep the base because Trump endorsed him and he didn't no issue did he disagree with the Trump magazine. He might have downplayed abortion in the particular suburbs. But he didn't, and he thanked Trump and that he won. He said that I appreciate that. But Trump made it easier for him because let's face it, this ostracism of Trump on social media, boomeranged against Silicon Valley. Because Trump found out that when he wasn't commenting on personalities every day, that in time people are remembering his record and not what he tweeted. And his tweets bothered some people. Some people they encouraged. But the point I'm making is people looked at Biden's disaster's first 9 and a half months and they've said this was all self created. The opposite of what Trump did. So Trump's stature has risen the more I don't know how to say it because it's a contradiction or paradox, the more remote. It's almost as a Trump is everywhere in the mind of the Democrats, but he's nowhere on social
KIRO Radio 97.3 FM
"senior fellow" Discussed on KIRO Radio 97.3 FM
"Experts tell us this information has never been more prevalent than it is now, According to a just released study by the German Marshall Fund. Facebook users interacted with deceptive posts more than one billion times in October, November and December. Twice. The rate of 2016 deceptive content on Twitter also reached all time highs driven at historic rates, not by bots or anonymous authors. But by verified Twitter accounts. Hello. My name is Karen Corn Blue. I'm me senior fellow and director of the Digital Innovation and Democracy Initiative at the German Marshall Fund. We wanted to know exactly how the study sifted disinformation and measured its scope. We're looking at Is Thies outlets or websites that spread disinformation online pretending to be journalism. So the independent news rating source news guard Looks at sites online and rates them according to whether they've repeatedly published provably false information and whether they gather on present information credibly and we took out. Let's say it failed both those categories. We used news whip data, which looks at how things spread online, and we saw that it had greater engagement in 2020 than in the past. What we're seeing is that there are these outlets online. These air massive Footprints. Go to Joe off now of Gateway Pundit. Yeah, thanks, Steve. Great to be back. Yeah, repeatedly put out false information that slap a headline that has nothing to do with the underlying information. And they're working often with networks of pages and then further propagated or influencers who propagated or baht networks that propagated And in that way, people get the sense that this Says, you know, fact checked verified news that their neighbor sent them. And in fact, it's a whole disinformation campaign. It is in itself. Disinformation virus, is it? Not exactly exactly. You know, we we've gotten to this whole wacka mall situation where the platforms after the content is already gone viral. I'll take it down Facebook did that was something called planned Emmick, a 40 minute disinformation video riddled with falsehoods about Corona virus. By the time Facebook acted, that video had been shared millions of times. After the fact monitoring is, experts tell us more about face saving for big tech companies than curating content for accuracy and reliability. Disinformation makes money the way the platforms work, as we know is they sell ads. The longer you stay online, the more your friends stay online, so What's incendiary, What's conspiratorial that keeps you online? Being fed ads, and that makes money for the folks who are propagating the disinformation and it makes money for the platforms and the platforms are being asked to do anything but make money by their shareholders..
Newsradio 700 WLW
"senior fellow" Discussed on Newsradio 700 WLW
"Us access to land to do it, so it's up. I'm in a different camp. I'm not arguing we can we don't. We can't get the minerals eventually we can. I'm barred doing that. It has consequences. Economic, social and environmental. We had a lesson. We had a lesson, too, during all this to Mark Wright is is, um, you know, look at just a few months ago, right? Gas prices ridiculously cheap, But I want to say that's because we basically said okay, we're gonna open up, please. We're gonna become energy. Independent for the first time in my life. Great. You know, when I look good at the pump now, prices are going back up. You know, hydrocarbons in such does this young from a Ah, bigger world. If you have an OPEC, Russia, they're gonna become more dominant in the global oil and gas markets, aren't they? I mean, a sense. We're gonna go back to where we were before we started drill baby drill. Well, you put your finger on it. The world is using more oil and gas and will and even the mystic forecast from the International Energy Agency about More rapid increase promises of uses of wind, solar batteries and hydropower will still need to world using more oil and gas if we produce West You're absolutely right. The world will get it from somewhere and the principal, you know, marginal producers will be happy about this or Russia. And the Middle East. They will produce the be happy to produce it. So it's if we consume oil in the future, and we will, because little choice in the timelines that have any meaning will be importing more from those countries. It's uh, it's impossible for that not to be the outcome in time frames that are meaningful, but that I mean for the coming couple of decades. Mill Senior fellow on Energy Policy Manhattan Institute. Thanks again. Thanks for having me appreciate it. All right. Thanks again. Mark Mills, senior fellow on Energy Policy Manhattan into testifying for Congress yesterday and again next week. Mabel Cycle back, then circle back then on this whole thing Too, as well. And it's interesting. You know, you talk about the energy plan. We got rid of the Keystone XL pipeline. We gotta shut that whole thing that we got to shut that down. That's bad for the Empire. Bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, but then, so it's not like all of a sudden we're going to stop getting feel for vehicles. Yeah, okay, that we shut it down. There's leaks along the way. Absolutely. There's no doubt about it. But, you know, we just had a rail accident in Cincinnati one a week or two ago now. Fortunately, it was more like a holy crap. Did you see that? Getting a selfie with it? Because The car's It backed up on the viaduct or or stacked like, three. Hi how the only thing that paid the price for that was, I think, a couple Duke energy poles. But you know, it could've been tankers. They could've been field and these things happen all the time. Generally, unless there's a huge fireball, as you see, made with an underground pipeline from time to time, But rail accidents happen all the time in America very pretty. No, I wouldn't say you know it's common is car accidents, but certainly it's up there. You just don't hear about it, because generally they only care about the other areas where they happen. So if you get a a derailment that causes loss of life, Yeah, that's a story. But if you get derailment in the middle of somewhere where you're hauling tankers, it's really not that big a story But is it any less catastrophic to the environment? You know, every I think on a pipeline something like 5000 tankers eyes What is transport have to be transported via roads and rail. Instead of through a pipeline by turning off the XL pipeline. And yes, certainly it means jobs now that the job's transferred anymore trucker sure that that might be debatable, But you know, we had this great energy program and quite honestly, gas prices are based on what Based on supply in the market, Everything else. Gas prices are up. I don't know if it's a direct result of this, but it works enough for me to go. Hey, you know what? Energy independence Great thing. If we can start producer on stuff we get from our allies in Canada. There's no tension there. Things are good. Now we shut down the XL pipeline. Okay. Does that hurt our energy independence? No question about it. Doesn't that put more? You know as much as Russia got vilified the last four years, doesn't that put more strength in the Russia Doesn't that give Russia more juice against the United States? If we decrease oil production in North America or Lisa supply, anyway, OPEC Russia They enjoy more dominance in the markets. They get a bigger hand in there and also China and the hat too, as well. Because they're the ones doing a lot of the mining with batteries and everything else. In China supply something like 90% of those elements that Mark was talking about to the rest of the world. So now we're beholding toe. OPEC, Russia, the Chinese even more. How's that good for the United States of America? How's that? Good for me and you? And yes, I like you. I'm sure Or maybe not You I don't know. I want to be a good steward as I can to this planet. I want my grand kids and their kids do inherit a cleaner planet that we found. Because of what we went through in our industrial revolution. But here's the thing I can only control what happens in America. How do we control what happens in an emerging countries? How do we can get what? What about China? And I'm not talking about your Hong Kong. I'm talking about the rulers of China. I'm also talking about Russia. I'm talking about India. I'm talking about these other things. No, just because we don't and it's it's you know, so first world Well, we got this big pipeline in running through here. Okay, well, you know, we have stringent regulation Canda, extremely conscious about the environment. Hey, here in the United States? Yes, Same thing. But okay, so China puts a pipeline and think they give a damn about it. You think if they did this in some other country that we'd have the same now you have a leak there instead of here, So the energy's gotta come from somewhere we all want to move towards cleaner burning fuels. We wanna learn Get off of carbon emissions. Right of Hydrofluoric carbons makes sense. Good. To think that somehow if we put a more battery operated cars like GM wants to do this and get their share market makes sense test look great, But look at where the minerals air coming from. They're coming from halfway around the globe through horrible labor conditions and were demanding that why? Because it makes us feel good in America or in first world countries to make it look like we're doing something. It diversifies. We shouldn't be this simply turning everything off and go. Hey, let's do this Fracking is another thing. And fracking is a fairly misunderstood things. Simply because it sounds it sounds awful. Yeah, you're pumping water and high pressure into the ground your forces. It's a different way to extract these Thies valuable elements from the ground. And if we do it here rather than somewhere else, we have more regulation. It's not perfect. You're gonna have industrial actions. There's no doubt about it every time we have a spill. Oh, my God. The polar bear. Yeah, it's bad. But on the same token, what? What's the alternative to this? Well, that's what we need to move. Move towards more cleaner burning feels okay. How clean of those fuels My heart was just talking about how dirty they really are. Because once you mind the battery in the battery last what? 7 10 years, maybe You know, it's some point. You're gonna have to start fracking things like lithium and cobalt. And the things used to make these batteries. You're gonna have to come with better technology extract that from the ground, So if you're extracting the cobalt and tearing the ground up and polluting the earth Getting a battery halfway around the world or getting oil out of the shell here in North America. What the hell's the difference? You're still destroying the earth, aren't you? We're going to make a footprint here. That's part of it. That's part of who we are. It's it's unfortunate, but you know you can't live and not create some sort of footprint. It's incumbent upon us to reduce that. Absolutely it is. I'm not making an argument, saying that the global warming is a real It's foolish. Of course, our planet is warming. If we can control some of that, at least have a handed. Yeah, but somehow seem to think with you in four years we're gonna turn this whole thing around. Because who we elected president of one country in the entire world. I mean, you got you got stones, his biggest.
KCRW
"senior fellow" Discussed on KCRW
"Right now it is clear and 65 degrees in perfect is all things considered from NPR news. I'm Mary Louise Kelly and I'm Audie Cornish. Donald Trump made cracking down on immigration a centerpiece of his presidency from his travel ban on mostly Muslim majority countries. To his expansion of the border wall with Mexico On day one of his administration President Biden got to work, reversing those policies with a stack of executive actions. He also sent a sweeping immigration bill to Congress that would create a path to citizenship for an estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the US now to unpack some of the details of Biden's policies. I'm joined by Mustafar shifty. He's a senior fellow at the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute. Welcome. Thank you so much for having me a lot to pick apart from day one. Was there something in particular in your area of study that struck you? I think what the Biden administration really wants to send a strong signal that immigration in our national identity should be seen as a value and an asset. And not as economic and national security threat, which is what most of the four years of Trump Administration had dedicated themselves to. Are there any changes you saw yesterday that actually could have An immediate impact for immigrants living in the U. S right now, especially, you know, with with all of these executive orders, but the immediate action probably is going to be on the enforcement priorities. In the very beginning of the Trump Administration. You should a very aggressive executive order, which essentially made everyone in this country who's deplorable, a target for enforcement. So that meant that even if you're just an ordinary status while interviewed a nanny or a landscaper, with no criminal record, you could be picked up from the petition. You could leave in the morning and never come home at night. That era off immigration enforcement. This administration wants to end So what is the administration's got to do through an order? They should yesterday as put a moratorium on all immigration enforcement for the next 100 days, except for People who are committed terrorism and espionage crimes and use those 100 days to review what priorities should be in place by and was, of course, vice president at one point to Barack Obama. Who some immigrant advocates accused of being a reporter in chief. Deportation levels were actually hire under Obama than Trump. Do these first day steps. Give us any sense about how Biden's approach might defer to Obama's. I think it's clear there was a sharp difference between Obama's first term in Obama's second term on removals. He became known as the department chief for the first By the end off his second term, he had really managed to get most of our moral policies under control that only high level criminals were now targets of enforcement. I think by the demonstrations going to start from that premise that look we cannot deport every we don't have resources. We must target enforcement, but I think they may make it actually narrower. Then even the Obama administration had been able to achieve towards its end. As we mentioned earlier, the immigration bill that President Biden is proposing carves out a path to citizenship for millions of undocumented immigrants. What is that path starting to look like? Now That's a really bold initiative. I mean, every single administration since George W. Bush is in 2000 have tried to accomplish that. It's an important goal because 11 million people are living in the shadows of our country, and that's not good, either for them or for the rest of us. So I think that is a proposal to provide a possible for citizenship. The issue with this is that there's just too many other priorities, both administratively legislatively, which may make that bold action come to fruition quickly. Hard. So I think maybe more likely is that small subsets of the population may be picked for either a pathway to citizenship or at least protection from deportation. And the ultra. Fundamentally, is this a bill that feels symbolic to you. Most of the bills and executive orders that was sent yesterday are important symbolically. But they're symbolically important in on very important issues, and I think it's also reminded that look just because we can't accomplish it tomorrow doesn't mean we shouldn't try. So he has opened the door. But he can't create all the possibilities off a positive outcome in Congress, which ultimately had to be decided by members of Congress themselves. Mustafar chesty. He's a senior fellow at the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute. Thank you for your time. Thank you so A presidential transition, unlike those of the past was welcomed today at a national prayer service within especially sharp political message it post Inauguration Prayer service is a tradition that dates back to the presidency of George Washington. But the faith leaders who offered prayers today for President Biden, Vice President Harris and their new administration were unusually out, spoken as NPR's Tom Jilting explains. In recent decades, Faith leaders from a range of religious traditions have gathered to call for divine blessing of each new presidential administration..
KCRW
"senior fellow" Discussed on KCRW
"I'm Madeleine brand presidential inaugurations are typically celebratory affairs yesterday was no exception. There was, of course, the pomp and the circumstance praise for President Biden's call for unity. But if you watched conservative media last night, especially Fox News, it felt like a different world. Team, Biden turns against to marry truly un remarkable, totally forgettable, even pre rehearsed cetera Mark Now that we're waging war on white supremacist, so to falsely frame half the country is racist. Don't feel like jives with his unity, massive unity. We all must join the ranks of rampant butt kissers. All right, So what is the future of the media magazine fear now that it's number one viewer Donald Trump is no longer in office. We're gonna ask Matt Gertz, he's senior fellow at the left leaning watchdog group Media matters where he has spent the past half decade focusing on Fox News. And its relationship with Trump. Welcome to press play, Matt Thank you for having me well, in that montage we heard from Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Tucker Carlson, among others. What did Fox News look like yesterday and was there a split between the daytime, more newsy side and the nighttime commentator side? Uh, yes, There was a bit of one, um, you know, in general, Fox was trying to help its audience cope with the reality that, uh Donald Trump.
KCRW
"senior fellow" Discussed on KCRW
"As the party's become more polarized you, each party has more and more of an incentive toe, prevent the other party from trying to get things done. Really, If you're in the minority, you don't want to cooperate with the majority, and if you're in the majority, you really don't want to cooperate with the minority. So all of these conditions together have helped. Use the brutalization of the filibuster that we see today. Well, now, as we've discussed, there is an appetite on the part of Democrats to get rid of it. Now the Democrats are in power in all three chambers. And so I'm wondering, though, if they're thinking well, G. We're not. We might not always be in power, and it was pretty useful too. For example, stymie some of President Trump's priorities when they were in the minority in the Senate, and so Are some Democrats thinking, you know, maybe we should hang onto this. So it is. Ah, there's a real question. I think that we're seeing more and more Democratic actors, both inside the chamber it outside the chamber push the Democrats to to eliminate the filibuster because they are they do see it as really the obstacle for accomplishing a lot of progressive policy goals, but that prospect of losing control of the Senate in the future A future period of unified Republican control and the number of things that Republicans could try and do once the filibuster is eliminated. There is this difference between kind of the issue on which the damn actually breaks and the Phil and Party decides to get rid of the filibuster with what are all those things that are pent up behind the dam that might flow through more easily once the filibuster is gone, and so kind of balancing those considerations, I think or what Democrats are going through right now. Mm. So given all of this, do you expect that Biden would be able to get through his ambitious policy agenda? With the rules as they are, or does there need to be a significant change in the way the Senate operates? So it depends a little bit on which issues we're talking about. Obviously, there are things that bind would like to do that could be done through executive action and don't require acts of Congress. But for some of the things that he's talked about, it really would require overcoming the threat of a filibuster in the Senate, so it will either be a matter of getting Republicans to cooperate or getting Democrats to decide the issue is sufficiently important and they're in sufficient agreement to go ahead and change the rules of the Senate in order to get things done. Molly Reynolds, senior fellow at Brookings and expert on the filibuster..
KCRW
"senior fellow" Discussed on KCRW
"Reform, President Biden has a lot of other big plans dealing with Cove in healthcare climate change, etcetera, But there is a massive hurdle in the way of all of that, and that is the Senate filibuster. That's the rule that requires 60 votes to end debate on a bill before it can actually be voted on. The filibuster has been used by both parties when they're in the minority to kill legislation. And it really is the main reason why Congress doesn't seem to accomplish much these days. So how did we get here? And is it possible or even desirable to get rid of the filibuster? We're going to ask Molly Reynolds that she's a senior fellow at Brookings and an expert on the filibuster Welcome. Thanks. Thanks for having me. Was great, Have you well, we already see the filibuster or the threat of it in action right now or or at least wrangling over it with Senate Minority Leader I guess that's his new position. Mitch McConnell. Saying he wants to hold up switching committee chair ships to the Democrats, Um, while asking Chuck Schumer, the Democratic majority leader, To promise not to kill the filibuster. So can you describe exactly what's happening today? Sure, So every time the Senate starts a new with the beginning of the new Congress, the Senate adopts what we call it. Organizing resolution, which I importantly, sets the ratios for communities decide how many Democrats and Republicans will be on this committee is to some other kind of procedural organizational things that resolution. Right now the Senate is a little bit tied in knots over because, as you said, Mitch McConnell is asking Chuck Schumer to promise. Not to Bay on legislative filibusters, He McConnell saying that Republicans Wolf will obstruct that very basic organizing resolution. Until I'm sure makes this promise. We'll have to see kind of how this ultimately gets resolved, But it is, as we start to think about the future of the filibuster in the current Congress. It's a pretty strong signal from McConnell that Republicans are willing to obstruct and are willing tol make Get more difficult for Democrats in United Party control of Washington to get things done s so already we're seeing a gumming up of the process. Does Chuck Schumer want to get rid of the filibuster? So Schumer himself has said a number of different things on this over time he's under. I think a fair amount of pressure from both some of the members of his own party in the Senate, and certainly from lots of folks outside of the Senate to eliminate the filibuster because as as you mentioned, it really is preventing Some things that Democrats want to do with their new and unified control. Washington Something that they really want to get done, right and So let's explain exactly how we got to where we are now, because, as I said in the intro, where it a point where the filibuster is used pretty much to kill legislation. It was never intended to do that. And it wasn't even in the Constitution. So why do we have Filibuster in the first place. Yes, So the filibuster is a little bit of an accident of American history, so it, she said. It's not in the Constitution on DTA understand how we got it. We have to go back to the early 19th century Tohno five. Aaron Burr is vice president and he's presiding over the Senate on he basically had of It takes a look at the rulebook that the Senate has and says there's a lot of stuff in here that the Senate's not currently using it, Z your rules that do the same thing. You're not using all of them. One of the rules that you have that you're not using something called the previous question Motion, which allows a simple majority in a in a chamber, this case Senate to cut off debate again with just a simple majority. Senate wasn't using the previous question. Motion. 18 05 So Aaron Aaron Burr recommends they deleted from the rule book. The Senate goes along with us Takes it out in 18 06 on Once it's gone, there's not an immediate kind of explosion of filibusters, but it doesn't make possible the possibility of extended debate over the course of the rest of the 19th century. We don't see a whole lot of of obstruction in the Senate, but then by kind of the middle of the 19th century moving forward, we see much more effort by the minority to obstruct what the majority wants to do. Especially when it comes to issues revolving around slavery, right certainly are rubber around slavery and civil rights on Ben this this continues in into the 20th century as well. Again involving civil rights. Yes. So The filibuster, though it seems to be Used now on steroids in the last. I don't know several administrations. It seems that this is the primary. Moat way for the minority party to stymie the legislative priorities of you know the president and power in the party in power and So how did it become such a Such an overused option. Sure, So I think the kind of what we see is the modern use the filibuster today the roots of that are really in kind of the mid 19 seventies. When a couple of things happen. One individual senators start to be under more and more pressure from groups and actors outside of the chamber to use all of their procedural rights to try to make things happen or not happen in the Senate. So you have that and then Beginning in the late 19 seventies, early 19 eighties, We have the start of the really significant political polarization that we observe in American politics happening, and so.
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"McGuire, Some 25,000 National Guard troops have just part of the layers of security ahead of Wednesday's inauguration of President elect Joe Biden and Vice President elect Kamala Harris. Protection following the capital riot nearly two weeks ago. Brookings Institution senior fellow John Hodak, there is no difference between the president's supporters who believe in those types of ideals or lack of ideals. And Al Qaeda and Isis their domestic terrorists, and they're not going to hang up their guns and their M O vests on January 20th, the nation's most populous state tops of frightening milestone. California has become the first state to reach three million known Corona virus infections. The Golden State reached the grim milestone Monday in the tally by Johns Hopkins University. Alarmingly, California only reached two million caseloads on December 24th. It took 292 days for California to go from its First coronavirus case last January 25th toe one million infections on November 11th. But it took just 44 days to top two million. On average. California has seen about 500 deaths and 40,000 new cases daily. For the past two weeks. I might cross you. Texas has more than two million cases. Florida, New York and Illinois have at least one million each. In an open letter recorded for Dr Martin Luther King Jr on the holiday honoring the slain civil rights leader, singer songwriter and musician Stevie Wonder. Calls on the incoming Biden administration to set up a truth commission to address continued racial inequalities. What we say has not been.
News-Talk 1400 The Patriot
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"The false alarm briefly interrupted the rehearsal for Wednesday's inauguration ceremony. A quadrennial exercise in which stand ins take the roles of bythe another V I. P s Rehearsal resume not long afterwards, Accompanied by frequent passes by helicopter patrolling the skies over the capital and email alerts sent out to lawmakers shortly before 10:30 A.m. said there was no entry or exit from the complex. Was inside the buildings were instructed to stay away from exterior windows and doors. Those outside were ordered to seek cover for any Bennett in Washington. Washington D. C is militarized and there's heightened tension leading up to the inauguration of President elect Joe Biden following the deadly right at the Capitol. This terrorism investigation is hitting close to home. John Hudak is senior fellow with the Brookings Institution. We're talking about online shatter. We're talking about the dark Web. We're talking about efforts to commit violence against the United States and its institutions into assassinate members of the government, and they're not going to hang up their guns and their M O vests on January 20th more than 20,000 National Guard troops are being dispatched across the capital to bolster security. Ed Donahue. Washington California's become the first state to record more than three million known Corona virus infections. That's according to a tally Monday by Johns Hopkins University. The grim milestone wasn't entirely unexpected in a state with 40 million residents, but its speed was stunning. State only reached two million reported cases on December 24th. It's count far outpaces Other large states such as Texas, California also has seen more than 33,600 deaths due to Cove. It 19 More on these stories at town hall dot com. Tell me why really factor is so successful in lowering or eliminating pain? I'm often asked that question. Beatings have child. But the father and son, founders of.
860AM The Answer
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"It's almost death invention. What do they want to do when they say the program? What does that mean? You put somebody in the cage and you put wires on the brain? Or you put him on North Korea type up for re education camp where they have tutors or you want to go back to the cultural evolution, where the word dunce cap. Was making the cane me. We're gonna cut, not try people, which is gonna put him down and get Malone sit for a year to go. It's really scary how quickly these people resort to these fascist tropes and images. When they think that they could get away with it. But our system is, you know the United with Ying and Yang reaction. Reaction and mark my words. There's going to be a reaction to all this and it's going to come in 2022. I think it's gonna be analogous 2010 reaction when they lost the large number of seats and crea 36 election because people will not put up with this. I don't want to miss on us. I don't know. Misunderstand you so You say there's no ramifications. There's no consequence with this. This incredible language of de programming and re education. Is that the fault off conservatives that we haven't pushed back and we haven't made language like that anathema. Where does the culpability like Professor Hansen? Well, I mean it. I think you're on the right pathway. I think that all of us know that. It takes a few people who speak out and say you're there has to be symmetry. We have to know what the rules are, if you burned down and loot a business in many apples, Or you break and burn a church and Washington and you try to go across the ground and get into the White House that is analogous to storming the Capitol, whether it's right wing or left when there has to be consequences. But when we don't do that, then people can say there is such a thing as good writing of that, right. Equal retired steam military. They gave all of these lectures. But under no circumstances should do ever call up the military into the civilian on riff situation, and these are people will actually burn the church, and they were headed toward the White House. Where they say Now. We have 20,000 visit from no theory on the streets him saying that since the Civil War, I haven't heard one. Military officers say this is outrageous. Notarized the nation's capital with 20,000. So when they do this, and so asymmetrical people get very cynical, and they said You know what? If you take over six blocks of Seattle in the raw, Simone, you carry us, You know something like a New York 18 or even AK 47 mollified rifle. Your warlord. Four people were shot into our killed. You're gonna get sanctuary and if you if you get anything Approaching that MMA capital, or we conservatives say we want you arrested. You did something very terrible, Your violent But the left doesn't do that rules. So the rules for the and not for me and there will be consequences. We talked to the Hoover Institution senior fellow at Stanford University.
WNYC 93.9 FM
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"Me again, or Maya King, politics reporter at Politico and Matt Gert, senior fellow at media matters. Matt. Let's talk a little bit about the explosion and conservative and right wing media. How have the messages coming from those media on dime thinking, particularly Fox and other and other outlets that we mentioned that the top really influenced what we saw last week? Well, I think the purpose of the right wing media is to keep the Republican base and sort of a constant state of frosting rage. I mean, its most powerful and prominent figures are constantly warning their audiences that liberals air trying to destroy them. And that their way of life this sort of apocalyptic rhetoric this unhinged fearmongering. Is what creates their audiences of 20 keeps them coming back for more. That's what makes the people who practice this sort of rhetoric rich and famous. And so you know, in the in the week since the election host said Fox News and O N and Newsmax have been lying to their viewers. They've been telling them the election was rigged and stolen that Donald Trump was the rightful president. Third been effectively a coup. By the Democrats against him. It's been a real constant drumbeat across all of these networks and across the platforms of their colleagues and right wing media, and you know if you tell enough people that some of them are going to believe you, but they're going to take action. I think that's what we saw last week. You know, according to NBC news, Actually, Babette, who's the writer who was killed while trying to Storm House Chamber was a quote loyal Fox news watcher, according to thousands of tweets to Fox News hosts On she then you know, sort of descended through the right wing Echo chamber into Cuban on conspiracy theorists. This stuff is toxic and dangerous. It's really prevalent across a vast swath of right wing media. And it does lead to this sort of violent insurrection and terrorism. Why? What about you? I mean, how has the tone of Conservative media in your mind that really sort of made our jobs in many ways more difficult, because, really, we're confronting misinformation and disinformation. On a daily basis at this point And I think that's exactly where it makes our our jobs a little bit more difficult, because one you have the growing number of Americans who are watching these news channels and believing Ah, lot of the miss a disinformation that's being put forth and then our job, of course, is to try to go back and correct the record or at least present. The The most accurate form of information, and it's really difficult. I think when you're also going against a White House that is continually discounting. Ah, lot of the things that were reporting to try to correct the record or to present the most accurate picture, even if that makes the president or his administration. Um, look less than favorable. And I think it gets that you know the larger difficulty and the opportunities for growth really in this in this news environment. Now we've had to be confronted with Lies and we've had to. I think a number of political journalists do the really uncomfortable thing of saying that the president of the United States is lying about something on that. It's endangering a number of Americans through Do this lack of truth, and it's forced us really again to revisit this idea. What the truth is on, make sure that we're presenting the clearest picture possible. But the rise of missing disinformation I think really cannot be overstated here on especially its danger and what it causes. I think we can look at the events of January 6 as one of the more extreme manifestations of that. Matt. What about journalists who don't say things who allow and I could tell you on this show? We have very specific, um, you know requirements as far as what's allowed to be aired in terms of some things that are truthful versus things that aren't truthful. I think of journalists role to call out the lies and I've seen Um, some journalist sort of struggle with that and allowing people to have a point of view, but not really challenging that point of view in the name of quote unquote fairness. I think this has been a problem throughout the Trump administration in particular, because we know that President Trump is a liar. We know that he lies constantly on issues big and small. You know, it is far beyond the sort of casual falsehoods that you see it from a typical politician. It's It's really the heart of his political project. It Z trying to create this sort of alternate reality fantasy world. In which he is the source of truth and and the media and everyone else are the ones telling lies. And so I think journalists had A great deal of trouble adjusting to that I think there was a lot of good reporting that happened on the individual lives but the degree to which they would really willing to incorporate that the the fact of the president was a liar into their daily work to really consider before You know, and writing a headline that amplified what the president had said whether or not what he had said was true or not, was a real challenge for them. On Gwen. I think that was not to their credit over the course of the last four years. Matt Gertz is a senior fellow at media matters. And Maya King is a politics reporter at Politico. Matt Maya. Thanks for joining us. You for having me Thanks for having me..
Bloomberg Radio New York
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"Sometimes whether it was really news on whether or not you know who our responsibility and kind of fueling some of the fury You know what? I think This is a legitimate concern that people really need to examine and it goes back to the 2016 presidential campaign when you had networks that would run Trump's rallies from start to finish, giving him a disproportionate amount of air time, but also at the same time airing a lot of you know the falsehood set. We have all gotten used to now in the series Always. Well, you know it's news. Well, just because it's news or might be newsworthy doesn't mean it needs to be put out there. And and how do you Properly. We're refute the false allegations in that. And how do you do that in real time and then continues all the way to you know whether it's you know his press conferences he did early. In his administration or the cove it daily briefings that he did through last spring and summer where he was just dispensing harmful misinformation. And then obviously what we've seen with Facebook and Twitter. Both suspending him. You know, what is what is the role of social media as well? So you know, we've never had a president who has Push the limits on disinformation as much and you know, the theory had always been. You know what the president says, matters that need to be covered. Maybe that shouldn't be the world going forward. That was former deputy secretary of Labor and senior fellow at the University of Virginia Miller Center. Chris Lu, a member of President elect Joe Biden's transition team, still ahead with our focus on politics this week, so easy at times to forget that we are yes. In the midst of a raging help, endemic, we will Get this under control in a way that lets our lives go on, But it won't be easy. We've got to be vigilant. We've gotta replace complacency with vigilance. Access Health International President Dr William Hazeltine on a health epidemic.
KDWN 720AM
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"I think he is going to listen to science. When it comes to the coronavirus. I think that's also very important. I don't necessarily disagree with you. He has kind of Reached across the aisle, so to speak, which could be perceived as a good or a bad thing, But I just think right now he's the right guy that helped bring us together and whether the storm of what Donald Trump put us in I agree. I mean, I think his 90% of his part policy positions I agree with. I mean, that's pretty good one about but this specific one about holding the sedition ists and the insurrectionists accountable. Is a huge, huge deal. Yep. We if we're going to face this again very, very soon. Politics or cyclical, of course. The Democrats have control of government now or in the next two weeks. But that's going to change. It's going to change very quickly, sure, and we're going to be facing this exact Situation again, probably with someone who is a lot smarter than trump. That's what's scary. I think you said it. Yeah, that that's what's really scary. And in three years from now, when they start talking about, you know the next presidential election. You're absolutely right. Can we only have a few more minutes left here? So I have to ask you something fun real quickly here. You've spent some time in Vegas. I saw your band failure here. Actually, I think this was maybe 45 years ago. You guys performed on Fremont Street. You must have some crazy Vegas stories can from back in the day that you can share with us. Do you have any Like Do you have any like, Do you have any hot spots or any places that you've enjoyed here? Over the years when you performed in Vegas? I you know, embarrassingly, I don't I mean, Part of part of being on tour is that you get sick a lot because you're just traveling. You're meeting people cry Stickley, and unfortunately, I've been really ill like the last three times I played it a face that so I didn't know that. I know it sucks. Um, but no, I I do like playing there. I do. The audiences in Vegas are super fun, and there's just a great sort of rock community there that Um, you know, I've been part of for a long time now. Well, hopefully, when this mess of a pandemic is over with can hopefully I would imagine you'll be performing here again sometime soon with your band failure is that is that a fair assumption? That is pretty much a certainty. Great. That's awesome. That's awesome. I'm really happy to hear that. Well, Ken, let me just say this. You've always been one of my favorite musicians for a very, very, very long time. And I appreciate the fact that you're you're honest. You're open and honest with your opinions Politically. I think we agree on just about everything when it comes to that stuff, And I'm glad you're not afraid. I'm glad you're not afraid to share your mind. Now on social media, you have a platform. You have a fan base And just as I have a platform, But yours is probably a little bit bigger than mine. And I appreciate you sharing your time with us sharing your opinions, and we'd love to have you on again down the road. Maybe maybe when you actually do perform again in Las Vegas, we'd love to have you in studio. But can I appreciate you coming on and sharing your thoughts with us when it comes to some very, very serious subjects? Facing this country can do you have anything you want to promote before we let you go? Um, sure. I just released a new solo EP. It's called What's coming? It's available on streaming platforms. Right now. Awesome. We'll go get it. Can't everything you put out there. I love I just want to say that can thank you so much for taking some time to join this man. Really appreciate you. Thank you so much. Thanks for having me my pleasure. You bet. There you go. That's the lead singer of the band failure. Ken Andrews, somebody that I grew up with love his music. If you love some really good alternative rock some soft stuff some loud stuff. Ken is a musical genius. As far as I'm concerned on check out his stuff. I think his website is ken Andrews dot com is well, check it out. Manny's Musical genius and really, really, really smart, intelligent guy coming up Next. Her name is Rachel Kleinfeld. She's a Rhodes scholar and a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She's going to talk a little bit about Donald Trump. Should he be impeached? Would it even be legal to charge him with a crime? We'll talk to her coming up next. Right here you are listening to the Vegas Wendy's Bacon ater is the ultimate bacon cheeseburger that puts all other cheeseburgers. Two cheeseburgers, Shane and now we're bringing.
Biz Talk Radio
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"U S. Congress has certified Joe Biden as the winner of November's presidential election after unprecedented unrest in Washington, D C brought a whole toe lawmakers attempts to uphold the vote of the day of chaos and violence at the heart of American democracy. A mob of President Trump's supporters forced its way into the capital, causing lawmakers to flee. Senior Democrats and Republicans blamed the president and his congressional allies for stoking the violence by challenging Mr Biden's victory with baseless allegations of fraud. Number of White House officials have now resigned. I write in writing and signed Scott are. Anderson is a senior fellow at Columbia Law School and joins us now. Welcome to D W Did President Trump Insight this violence? You know, it's hard to point to anyone clean. In any event as complexes this, But there seemed to be few doubts in most people's minds that the president's comments Wednesday morning before the crowd encouraging them to go to the capital was at least the final impetus the straw that broke the camel's back and pushing them towards that path of action that ultimately ended in the violent display We saw yesterday what consequences if any, should he face That is really a question for Congress at this point, the clearest consequence that the possibility would be impeachment. At this point, it seems unlikely that his Cabinet is going to attempt to remove him, which is a constitutional possibility. But the fact that we've seen some members who object to his conduct resigned means that they're likely is doesn't appear to be a way forward, which would require majority of the Cabinet members to sign on for that that that leaves impeachment by majority the House and then conviction by two thirds of the Senate. It's still a very uphill battle. Of course. The president is already been impeached once by the House but was not convicted by the Senate on that would all have to take place in the next 14 or 13 days before the president leaves office for him to be removed from office. It's worth noting. The Senate also has the ability to bar someone from future office for being convicted, and it is a theoretical but nonetheless of possibility. That a president or some other official could be impeached even after leaving office and then prohibited from holding office in the future has been a lot of talk about this thing. Riot assault being an assault on American democracy. Is that the way you said I think it's hard to see it just about any other way. This was a key institutional moment. This is the moment when, as Congress signs off on the electoral votes that determines who becomes the new president.