something of a feeding spree this fall sampled every secret service agent he could get his fangs to sending one to the hospital secret service agent described the white house as commander a hostile and dangerous work environment. he was caught on camera by the daily mail taking a bite out of a long time white house guard. that sent them over the edge the bidens finally sent their dog to undisclosed location. they say dogs reflect the temperament of their owners i think we need to ask the question, what were the bidens doing to this dog to make him act this way? maybe people should consider that as they decide whether or not to send the bidens to an undisclosed location, just a thought as 2023 ends per. >> what a happy way to end the show. i thought diarrhea was much higher. [laughter] happy new year that does it for us. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

♪ ♪ ♪ hello america i am mark levin this is a special edition of life, liberty, and levin. i hope you're all having a wonderful holiday season. as 2023 comes to a close, i want to take a look back at some of the guests who joined us and shared their insights into how fragile the balance between liberty and purity actually is. we began with my friend bret baier who reminds us of our nation's humble beginnings and our founders a incredible accomplishments. go. >> i came across a fantastic book, to rescue the constitution george washington a in the frage american experiment. can you think of a better time to read a book like this given what's going on in this country? i cannot. as someone who is maybe not

officially historic, a historian of sorts and a constitutionalist and all the rest. this book is unbelievable. it is written by my friend bret baier. george washington is a big big subject. to rescue the constitution, what you mean by that? lexmark, thanks for having me on. this book is a labor of love. i think i've done a number of these and i've been fortunate to have been on your show and your radio show talking about them. this book us back to the beginning the founding of our country and how crucial washington was to that happening. a lot of people do not realize it after the revolutionary war in that time before the constitution was locked in and then ratified we had a government work washington become the first president. in that interim time was the most dangerous time our country would ever see. it's one of these times the

country almost wasn't formed. it was breaking apart. it was disparate colonies arguing about a lot of different things are a lot of people at that time who believed may be, we as a country should go back the different colonies go back to be under the rule of the british. it was in that time that washington's leadership in the study force got people to come together he led the constitutional convention and then as i said became the nation's first president. >> you almost had to be begged to go to the constitutional convection didn't question ricky put in his time with that revolutionary war that went on over seven years. has property they're going broke and cannot keep up the farm. he loved his property he loved mount vernon he wanted to stay home but there's numerous treaties he wants to go to philadelphia and sit in that special chair. which i visited many time of the

sun is rising or falling depending on how you look at it according to benjamin franklin. heat wasn't persuaded was and he questioned. >> he was was at the biggest lesson of washington. his service numerous times in his life post to serve it. he was a reluctant servant. he went to the war, became the commander of the forces. fired up in the revolutionary war a force that was a ragtag bunch with at times router to close and bloodied feet and at valley forge was a crucible they had to get through. they beat the british and he is seen as this big figure and leading that effort. he goes tobacco to mount vernon. that is what he love us. he loves his farm, loves his wife martha. and he wants to stay there. he thanks he has served. but they need him because the continental congress and the

articles of confederation were loosely holding the country together. the colonies together. they were not cutting it. there are a lot of different disputes that did not have any unity on the different colonies. he is called to be the leader again and the congressional constitutional convention. he reluctantly agrees. he is kind of got some lumber toward arthritis. he doesn't want to get into the carriage all the way up to philadelphia but he says for the good of the country he is going to do it. he gets there and not surprisingly he is elected the head of the constitutional convention. he sits in the chair that is ornate and carved. you are right benjamin frankel looks at that chair and where the carvings and said son on the back of the chair is rising or setting. when they finish in 1787 at the end of the summer it is rising.

but it is his service it's the biggest part of washington's life frequency watches the delegates to get out. it is very intense. it will determine if the united states is the united states. they still have to get it raratifiedwhen they are done. you read madison's notes, did washington say much during the constitutional convention? he didn't he was pretty silent throughout it and purposely so. he believed as the arbiter sitting in that chair he should keep his thoughts to himself until the end but he was over watching presence. he gave the convention a gravitas and adjust his presence. but he was silent a lot of the time. he did get into the middle of disputes and try to find common ground. he thought that it was good to

have this dissent in the back and forth over. representation for small states in big states that was a big deal. what the executive should look like and what it should be called. we forget this is the formation of this country that has developed in this room and there was no blueprint they had thrown out the articles of confederation they said we are going to start from scratch. that document is the result of compromise and common ground. >> it really is a great book. to rescue the constitution george washington the fragile american experiment you're going to love this book. i know my audience i know you folks you love history. you love our founders despite all the grief they take and this is the book you can get it at amazon.com and any major retail store. those of you who know to defend washington because he is the father of the country now you will really know why to defend

washington. my question to you is this, the character of this man he has the key rolls in the revolution pretty has the key roles in the constitutional convention. the first president of the united states. what is it about this man that drew the attention of all of these different personalities? different parts of the country by different attitudes, what was it? lexi was a unifying figure he was somber, humble, it was never about him it was always about the greater good for the citizens of the country. he was the living embodiment of the new government to be. there was no blueprint to say how it was going to be. there was no someone before leaving a note in the desk telling him what's going to happen. there was no torch passing. he was the torch and in that he

understood the gravity of the situation. he was not a great or a chore. he was not fiery. he wasn't a guy slopping everyone on the back like ben franklin. he wasn't the young hamilton who is giving speeches. he was the embodiment of steady sober coming together of a nation. he tamped it down some of the chaos happening at that time. there is a a lot to learn from that time. and that man until today we write about the beginning and the end of the book obviously, mark you talk about all the time we could use a george washington. we could use leaders to get to the next level. i do think there is a lot to learn and where we have been. in each one of these books, i am a reporter of his street not a historian. i do in this process find nuggets that tell a story in a

different way in a narrative way that hopefully, especially young people who are not getting enough history in schools who are not getting how our nation was informed can read this and say wow, it feels in a lot of blanks for me on how the country was formed and who this man was free. >> reporters can be patriots too. and that is what you are and that is why you write these books. you also write about mount vernon in itself and i have been there many, many times. they really improved it it's such a fastening place but this varvaries document and so forth. what would you say to the american people out there about mount vernon, how it reflects on washington's life? if they're going to visit washington they got to make sure they go to mount vernon. >> one 100% it's a fabulous place. i was just out there and spoke of his the tenth anniversary of the library there i know you have been active as a part of that and some of the documents

there. it is fabulous. everything and think about george washington and martha washington at the library there about mount vernon itself is this sprawling property overlooking the potomac river. it became the center of the political and the nation as washington was there after the war and after his presidency. he welcomed people to mount vernon. if you are going to see the founding of our country, mount vernon is a part of it. they do a fantastic job and lay out washington's job in visual form. more than any place in the world but. >> i regret we cannot discuss your book more because there's so much we have not even touched on. i want to encourage people that satisfy people write books you cannot cover it on tv and radio

it the way you should to rescue the constitution george washington the fragile american experiment fit is out tuesday. >> it is out tuesday women our special on sunday, sunday night 10:00 p.m. that puts a visual sense on a lot of this book. but you talking about it your love of history and how you tie that into today is really why i wanted to come here first. if anybody gets it, you get it free. >> it's an honor and you came to the best audience of audiences. you can get this book to say it's released grab your copy tomorrow night at 10:00 p.m. eastern i guess yo you would cal her little documentary. absolutely fantastic. i wish all the luck with this book because history we take a k at the founding is crucial.

cap next steven miller the prosody is occurring on the southern border. we will be right back.

welcome back america to this special episode of life, liberty and levin as we take a look back at some of the great patriots we've had on their show this year. and handling or should i say mishandling of the dire situation on the southern border is one of the biggest blunders of the by the administration. it only continues to get worse. steven miller has some ideas on how to fix the problem, go. >> this issue of the border. according to the left to a separate representation as heavy representation throughout our media particularly msnbc a and. should a president trump when the presidency? you should do nothing about all the people who have come into our country. millions and millions and millions of people we know terrorists have been stopped you have to assume some got through. we know the drug cartels are present in every state and every

metropolitan area. we know tens of thousands of women have been sold into sex trafficking. little kids have been sold into sex trafficking for the "new york times" even did a piece months ago about 85000 young teenagers who basically are slave labor throughout our corporate and business environment in this country. this has all been done because joe biden has allowed it. my question to use you sir is , under our constitution you commit a high crime. if you defy federal statutes, if you take steps that do not protect the national security of the country that is a high crime that is what the framers meant. i know, i went back and look tod to this is not even in dispute i'm not talking about money or anything else, should this not be one of the major issues when and if the house republicans take up the issue of impeaching president biden?

it is absolutely critical that articles of impeachment be sent from the house to the senate for both mayorkas and biden. for their conspiracy to commit human trafficking, drug trafficking, smuggling illegal immigration and the violation of dozens of federal immigration statutes. now people will say they have federal immunity for these crimes. that is thick by the impeachment process is so essential. you must use the impeachment process to hold them accountable and remove them from power. >> when you watch joe biden relentlessly talk to israel behind their backs to other countries and apparently to netanyahu and the government of israel claiming concern about citizens and gaza how seriously

can you take a man who could and 24 hours reverse course on what he's doing on the southern border and protect the citizens of the united states? why is it he is so focus on the jewish state and not focus on his own state? >> there is a disease in the minds of the american left. it fundamentally disallows, prohibits any feeling of support for national sovereignty here in america. any affinity for america as a coherent nation states. the idea that america has inherent interest in controlling who can and cannot enter the country and controlling the flow of immigration. all of these thoughts have been banished by the modern left to the point to which the left celebrates it as a virtue to flood this country with the

millions of unknown masses. to demolish and unravel our institutions. to break down social trust. to break down community bonds. all other things that happened when you take a city or a place and overnight transform it with countless people who speak a different language. have a different cultural values set. have a fundamentally different way of looking at the world with no process for assimilation. no process for integration. not to mention the fact they are very being here is an act of criminal trespass compounded by one crime after another stealing a social security number, working illegally. failing to pay taxes. crimes that are amnesty into the in action of d.o.j. for the deliberate and action of the department of labor and homeland security. that if committed by an american citizen would have them over the ones they would be in jail,

their businesses stolen, their livelihoods taken so american citizens are forced to watch not only as their communities are change without their consent but the loss they must comply with and the taxes that they must hand over are not taken or taxed on the illegal aliens the laws are not apply to those illegal aliens. it is a two track society. citizens live under one set of rules, and illegal aliens are exempt from every rule. >> well said and i do find interesting biden, the media and the democrats never tell us when enough is enough when too many is too many. they never put a number because they do not want a number. i also find interesting but not coincidental purposefully the same people who hate our country whether they be in in the medi, the democrat party or elsewhere their colleges and universities, tenured professors who trash our history. who trash our founding. clear trash capitalism are the same people w want the borders

wide open to import people from different cultures. you mentioned assimilation, it is harder and harder to assimilate into a country that's destroying its own culture. many of the same people who insist on these open borders, insist that we destroy our own culture so there's nothing to assimilate into pretty want to thank you steven miller for all of the hard work you're doing i am very, very sorry you have to be a target of suss racist and bigoted anti-semitic individuals throughout the media. take care of yourself. >> thank you mark it is a small but unfortunate price to pay to be able to have this platform like i have with you today to fight for what is right and just in america. >> but we returned my buddy steven a smith talks sports and politics. we will be right back.

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>> welcome to fox news live i'm bryan llenas a new york special counsel jack smith is challenging from a president trump's claim he should have absolute immunity from criminal prosecution. a new court filing he said trumps claim quote threatens to license presidents to commit crimes to remain in office. the family comes less than two weeks before the immunity issue comes before an appeals court. trumps team is asking for the court to throw the case out bright u.s. supreme court has already rejected to fast-track the case. cities across the world up in the finishing touches on their new year's eve preparations. right here in new york city more than 1 million people expected to ring in the new year with the iconic ball drop in times square. mayor eric adams said the city is beefing up security this year due to the israel hamas war. i am brian dennis back to life, liberty, and levin.

♪ welcome back america. i hope yo you are enjoying the holiday season. if you months ago i caught up with my buddy steven a smith who told me all about politics in the world of sports. here is what he had to say, go. >> have a good friend of mine steven a smith. you know i'm glad you are here. people say why do you talk about him? where you friends with him? i do not understand that question. do i have to be friends only with people who agree with me? my wife doesn't agree with me all the time. it is just ridiculous. but tell people why we are friends, where we get along. >> first of all had the pleasure of meeting you years ago at a radio convention i have always found you to be somebody who tells it like you see it. and you know where marco levin comes from whether you like it

or not that something obviously we have in common we speak our minds. we believe what our truth is and should be and we go with it from there. if we disagree we can disagree without being disagreeable which is a what this world should be all about so it does not matter to me whether our politics agree or don't agree, i know i respect you i know that is reciprocated and that's how friendships are made as far as i am concerned because it's a great new podcast steven a smith podcast on youtube you've got first take outstanding show on espn. you also have a wonderful book, straight shooter that was on that "new york times" bestseller list for two and a half months for crying out loud that's a long time. but you want to kind of spread it beyond supports you do not want to eliminate sports and leave it behind that's sure bread and butter i can ask you any question you will say and 11974 naugle whoa, whoa.

[laughter] so anyway the truth is you want to get involved in the culture. politics to a point in society because you have thoughts about that too. and if i am correct i believe you have told that you're not a republican, you're not a democrat you are an independent you voted that way before. you have an open mind about candidates. so when you are watching without getting into names are you thinking about candidates what you want in a candidate? >> competence, knowledge, but more importantly than anything else particularly when it comes to the presidents, statesmanship i want somebody who understands they are overseeing and they are governing all of the people not just their constituency and they're putting america first not just their own specific interests. as a voter we may tend to do that obviously for the most part whether your position as immigration, abortion, the

economy, the list goes on and on. as a voter you have a model the view in terms of those things are certainly where passion lies. but when you are an elected official your job is to do which you perceive to be in the best interest of the country. and obviously from time to time that varies. there is not a direct a monolithic view to take at all times but statesmanship goes a long way toward that. and putting america first as opposed to our own individual self-interest for there's a lot of decisions as an individual i may make that i might believes in my best interest but if i were the president of the united states if i was a senator, if i was a congressional figure i would take into account my constituency and most importantly what is the best interest of the whole as opposed to small individual parts. that is what i believe governing is all about a medicine to take into consideration any time and voted for anyone.

>> are not you like to look at issues you might go with the rearepublican you might go witha democrat. but in that you are in the minority, aren't you? a lot of the hosts in sports tend to beat democrats tend to beat left wing not all but a lot of them. a lot of athletes for chiefly dependent upon what the sport is, same thing. do you ever discuss politics or anything other than sports when you're not on air at these folks? >> sometimes they try to get a little out of hand and i checked them, that is what i do certain when they try to debate with me i'm ready for if i am not knowledgeable about something open and honest if i believe i am not knowledgeable i will express that knowledge are more important than anything else the issue of fairness comes into play. a lot of times when you see people like yourself, or others on the left or what i consider to be a leftist centrist like chris cuomo and others i take into account not just your knowledge but where you are coming from and why you feel the way you feel.

a lot of times we see people that are dogged and their beliefs is it's one thing to express that doggedness. with the level of adamant it's an emphasis she may place on it a lot of times we take into consideration is what's coming from the other side and how you're awarding that off it. the fact there are people who are unreasonable. who won't lean on facts and elect to lean on a motion and elect to lean on profits or ideology as opposed to what is the best interest of the whole. these are all things i analyze i take all those things into consideration depending upon who i talk too. the more recent while some what is the more apt i am to listen to them because number one, they are making sense. number two, they are expressing and disseminating a strong interest in being fair and fair-minded. when that is the case, i think those are the kind of people you want on capitol hill because those of the kind of people they can talk to mark levin go on cnn or vice versa that they do not have to stay on one side because

they understand their position is somewhat universal to some degree and it is in the best interest of the whole lumen that is the case it's hard for anyone to look at you and question your intentions. when they don't get to question your intent it's hard for them to argue with anything other than facts. and that is what i think the vast majority of american citizens need. particularly in this day. >> in next writer and professor chris exposes how the radical left are turn our schools into marxist indoctrination centers. we will be right back.

>> welcome back for this past summer on life, liberty, levin i was a very impressive manhattan institute senior fellow christopher is a brave author and patriots. he's been instrumental exposing the left takeover of our

educational system. take a listen to what he uncovered about the history and education and how we can get ourselves out of this mess, go. >> the great christopher with us. manhattan institute senior fellow. city journal country bidding editor. this man has been fighting i would say for decades. to draw america's attention to crt and how the radical left are destroying our culture. and now he's written a fabulous book america's culture revolution, how the radical left and conquered everything. christopher really terrific book. let me ask you a question. they control the culture now, don't they? works they do this is part of a long-standing campaign on the left. in the late 60s and early 70s the radical left out they cocan finally overthrow the u.s. government. that certainly collapsed in the nixon administration breed then they devised a new plan, the long march to the institution's taking control of all of our

elite cultural production from the inside and that is exactly what we have done in the pre-this book traces it from the beginnings, the origins of the late 1960s all the way to the explosion and revelation of these trends during the summer of george floyd. it is not by accident conservatives feel besieged a seat marxist ideology and always institutions. as part of a plan something at work to expose in the book. >> this plan was developed by italian communists, by german communists and had an enormous influence on our economist. the universities and colleges a point out here. the plant wasn't to not violently overthrow america or democracy other that would great if you could. tell me if i'm wrong they say the people are not going to rise up and overthrow this place london said has to be t top-dow. these others said regrets or

copper their cultural institutions and isn't that exactly with their doing? what set us right in the 1970s the top neil marxist philosopher wrote explicitly the working class the middle class was not just non- revolution a bit anti- revolutionary. most middle-class americans are working class americans were happy with the country. happy with i it's principles thy said we need to lead an elite revolution that unites intellectuals on university campuses the underclass in the inner cities to put pressure in two ways on the american public and to launder the revolutionary and radical ideas through the institutions. these are explicitly anti- american. they were specifically anticapitalist. they're antiwhite too. they see that as a potent rallying cry for the russian revolutionary movement. when you see the evidence from

2020 you look back on that and astonishment program has been a cycle repeated for decades. there were no surprises you have to pin it down, seatwork comes from if you want to hope to defeat a pick website will tell you what i love about your book which by the way get on amazon.com america's cultural revolution. i have people come up to me all the time i say how did we lose our classroom how d do we lose r language? how did we lose women sports? you go through and explain it so how did we lose it all? >> education system is key. marxist and radicals all over the world no that in order to control the future of a country you have to control the transmission of values in the transmission of values in a large public school system like we have in the united states comes in the public school classroom they were very explicit. they got 100 neil marxist intellectuals work in the field of education in the universities

then they spread their ideas to the k-12 democracy. what they have done brilliantly as force those ideas through a so-called diversity equity and inclusion programs to the point where it now, would i have discovered is a marxist revolution or literature of the late 1960s from radicals like the black panther party and the weather underground is now exactly the same it's a softening the language as many k-12 curricula in states like california, washington, oregon, and illinois. we have seem remarkable from the fringes of the radical literature although into your child's concurrent classroom. you need to know the history. you need to know where it comes from and you need to see beyond the manipulative language. if you want to get this out of the classroom and re- instill american principles in america's public education. >> after the break the great scholar and professor john ellison. he reveals why higher education

is not one of the greatest threats to america today. we will be right back. hillsdale was founded in 1844 we're passing on a cultural heritage, the culture of the west when the federal government started giving money to colleges, we didn't take it. that independence has allowed us to stay with our mission that we established 175 years ago. because we don't accept federal money,

we are free to concentrate on the mission of the college we care about freedom and that affiliates us with the free institutions of america.

>> welcome back america. just recently i spoke with john ellis who has been sounding the alarm on the higher education system in our country the dangerous progressive agenda that has infiltrated the minds of our students. go. >> we are here with professor john ellis distinguished professor emeritus university of california santa cruz. all but that was fun. he has written a great book the breakdown of higher education with the have discussed with him in the past. he is really a scholar on this

subject. california association of scholars of the road apiece and the wall street journal. it's entitled higher ed has become a threat to america you laid out in the article i wanted to dig a little deeper professor. tell us how this has come to be and what's taking place in the campuses? >> the main things i would like people to understand much more than they apparently do is that our entire educational system has been captured by a radical far left sect. this is a complete catastrophe for the country. something has to be done about it. the society cannot let this radical group take over the entire educational system and use it for its own purposes. something must be done to stop this. in the article i list a number of really catastrophic problems the society is facing that

everyone can see. for example crime is out of control. old beautiful cities like san francisco made unlivable by that. our children's test scores in the schools are just terrible, disgraced in society really. our border is in complete chaos by design not by neglect, not by accident. i explained how every single one of these huge problems the society faces now can be traced back to the corruption of the higher education system by political radicals. on the campuses the nuclear family and that suburban house with two parents, and two children, a dog at a lawn which everybody else sees as a rather pleasant place in the fulfillment of the american dream. on campus that's viewed with horror.

the average radical professor sees that as a source of all evil. that is the place those awful traditional american values are passed on from parents to children. so they want to break that transmission from parents to children. that is why we are seeing the fight between parents and teachers at the moment all over the country. so i tried to lay out in the article very serious problems have never seen that the like hm before in this country of the severity of them. the unexpectedness of them. they all originate from these corrupt campuses. >> we can also track millions of dollars pouring into these universities and foreign governments as they did in the 30s and 40s and the nazi regime. they are pouring into this country through hamas we are

pouring in the confucius institute. we have people coming into this country through student visas. many do not leave. the sobbing tracked carefully they are not assimilating into our society. that has become obvious. these college campuses are almost like little stalinist empires. they demanded money for the taxpayers we spend billions and billions of dollars on them. a few in any kind of oversight or any effort by the entities to fund their but it's congress or state legislatures, they yell about academic freedom. they yell about free speech. they yell about right-wingers trying to ban books, ban prbandprofessors and on and on . several articles why and how faculty often hire faculty. they hire the same faculty have the same ideology and belief system. they only give grants and

bonuses and other forms of merit to people who would agree with her point of view. you have this incestuous activity that's going and within the faculty and many administrators are chosen from that faculty. is that you're experiencing what your knowledge tells you as well? what's absolutely. they would answer to the most distinguished brilliant members. they frustrate faculty now the radicals are in charge. they seize control of the appointment committees for the administrators. now college administrators whose job was quality control are now in fact quite different. the eight to defend the bracket

faculty. why don't we have the administrators in their group situation. those administrators are creatures of the radicals now. they are licensed by the radicals to protect the radicals. if anyone complains about the quality instead of real education, the administrators don't stand in the way. they stop any inquiry. >> only come back some final words i would like to share. we will be right back.

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