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[applause] [applause] >> good evening, everyone. my name is john hi bush and i have the honor of -- i have the orhonor of being executive director of the ronald reagan presidential foundation and institute. thank you for joining us this evening. in honor of our men and women in uniform who defend our freedom around the world, we stand.
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join me for the pledge of allegiance. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the unitedte states of ameria and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisibleib with liberty and justice for all. thank you. please be seated. everyone here knows we are gathered not too far from hollywood. it is a fact that there would have been no platform for ronald reagan to establish himself first as an actor, president screen actors guild, ge theater in a political commentator.
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without that political commentary, there would have been no governor ronald reagan and certainly no president ronald reagan. so i think you of sorts is in order to hollywood for writing what became the first successful chapter in the reagan revolution. our guest this evening, david has had own remarkably successfulul relationship with hollywood as well. a number of the award-winning works he's written, produced or directed that define this stage in green career came to life in the thick of the reagan presidency. titles among them, when gary, glencross, the co- span. [applause]
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the verdict, later works of david's during the reagan post presidency your, my favorite, rag the dog. [applause] but david, like ronald reagan deviated from the standard hollywood political groups and in doing so, he's established himself as a freethinking political socialor commentator, unafraid. the same sharp pin that wrote compelling dialogues in the broadway stage has often been the ploy for what he has turned in this day and age the virus of conformity. tonight we welcome him to the reagan library stage for
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discussion on his new book. the death ofee free speech and cost of a free lunch. one conversation about the book but first, i want to share a passage from one of the essays in histh book. out of many that struck me. in this critique and broadway and current state of the american fear, he writes the following -- it was, i believe, friedman who stunningly said free market must exist to entice and reveal their ability. if one hasin no possibility of doing anything but staging platitudes, countless will step up but the inspired have no reason to do so. the award is unfettered
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creation. asti noted, writing about the theater but his words resonate in the realm of politics and government as well. we have been talking about the reagan library to our speaker series, the future of the republican party and conservativeve movement. when we canceled or punish every perceived departure from the party line or political correctness and we don't give space offer, refined positions and we get the same problem. the robots of political orthodoxy will step up but the inspired will stay home. how sad our world would be a leader like ronald reagan had not had the chance to step forward just because he held some on orthodox views because
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he defied party lines as he did now and then. what i mean to say is david is onto something and has been for a while. what we strive to do at the reagan library is create apa spe to have these conversations and discussions and debates that stray beyond acceptable platitudes. it can a a be provocative and my but also exhilarating and rewarding. that's the nature of free speech, democracy, the nature of the great experiment we call america. so ladies and gentlemen, to challenge us this evening, please welcome the pulitzer prize-winning oscar any tony nominated writer, director, also commentator, an american legend, david mammoth.
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[applause] [applause] >> thank you. [applause] >> it is a great honor to be here among friends and the great relief. [laughter] ... technology today seems to hae connected us like never before. but it is also in many respects. put distance between us i think and i think the point in you're making book is with. no quality. they don't know theater. nothing of great worth
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oftentimes on the stage. we are not gathering as a people together and i wonder what the ii wonder what kind of influence that has owned the nation if we are to be as far apart as we seem to be because we are not coming together. >> that's what occupied me during covid ando got me rising every day figure out what's going on. i don't yet appear to know how this magnificent country has come to teeter on the actual edge of suicide in such a short time. i don't understand it. i don't get it and i have a lot of time on my own hook and the other quarter my wife read them. i tried to reason my way saying
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this doesn't make sense. i'm looking at it doesn't make sense. so when you write the most challenging part of the tragedy because in tragedy that seems to be a solution ends up being a problem in what seems to be the problem turns out to be the solution so at the end you say oh my gosh it was there all along and i didn't see it. aristotle tells us at the end of the tragedy would undergo just like the hero recognition of the situation in reversal so the hero oedipus undergoes recognition. oh my i told my father of the situation. i went from being a king to a -- but when we view a tragedy is so clumsy clumsy that when you go situation. the i thought i was the smartest person in the world.
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i'm. i couldn't see this coming and it's so evident. so i was going through the tools they used in writing the tragedy to say ift you know the answer right on. you were writing a pageant or a melodrama but h the author has o go through exactly the same things that the hero goes through which is a lot of pain and self-loathing and confusion. doesn't make sense, it doesn't make sense. i have to make it makes sense. there was again at the decay of our institutions the decay of education and the government and coming up to now with the united states government to say we have
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to have this information. doesn't make sense because a few politicians and unfortunately many of the when you you look at who are these people. few of themd. are any good and they are all it for money and are we all but nonetheless we are the chips in their game. how was it that these people who are completely predictable as mark twain said suppose i was a congressman and suppose i was a thief what i've reprieved myself? the with it these people have learned this most prosperous -- prosperous country in the world? i said maybe they didn't do it. maybe we are looking at something else s altogether it y be what these people are our taking lessons from medicine and
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and it comes to the fore when the bottom becomes. n it's not the temple which causes the blood disease. i say now it begins to make sense that what's happening is a decay of an organism that gives rise toct infractions. if you're in eating well your eyesight is going to go bad g etc.. soso i say okay what is the overriding fact that weekends so left in the entry answer i came up with what is prosperity. there so much prosperity that we now have three generations of
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liberal nonsense fostering the idea that law should not be low. rather an expression of feelings that e work is air and its types air and we have to give away anythinge we have too anyone who says they like it. so i'm looking at not biden or not nancy pelosi or not antifa for the squad. opportunist is -- fractions that are weakening about it because we ceased to base their actions rationally which means what are we looking at with the weather, we are looking at 2000 years of heritage and the system before.
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so this gave rise to the idea that human life is worthwhile and gave rise to the united states of america the idea that we are endowed by our creator with inalienable rights that can be taken from us except i force because they weren't given to us by any human being. this is an extraordinary idea that comes right out of the old testament. extraordinary. and a bunch of guys got together and said what about a new country based on judeo-is on? i needed to lose 15 pounds and i lost the 15 pounds. i don't have to stay on a diet anymore. i get it. i get the idea. i'll gained 15 pounds back him in some sort religion dead and
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the rest was kept her nose to the grindstone to a certain extent.ty because we have a community that says i get it. that's not a good idea. it's written right here with 10 little commandments. there willen be consequences not only in your law but the community and your families. and so the left became so prosperous we invented thisa, whole idea which is you don't have to be in touch with each other all the time. that's called a. it's this little device that we all love because can do anything. in addition to doing anything there's one thing that is not a good idea which is and to find it in the power of babil. where are all going to speak the same language and what we are going to do is we are going to build the power light god
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because we don't speak the same language we all want the same things. what happens to that civilization? the dies and the king of kings of the roman empire. at some point prosperity we have to be able to revert to principals and sayt yeah i get t that -- let them die. let's ditch the state of israel. i get it. let's let putin invaded ukraine. how does that affect me? howt it affects you are good friends the liberals on that side of the aisle you party destroyed delights your children because you just gave them over to the state.
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so my answer is the society became so popular just like a billionaire. ms. last time a billionaire change the oil? will miss the last time their grandchildren change the oiler mowed the grass or had to get a job or did those things that made usng all human beings and americans and their feelings were important. what was important is that your behavior had consequences. if you take that away and we have a society based" feelings you have rule. whoever screaming the loudest has the right to control our lives. >> one point. you talked about social media down to this little piece of technology.
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meanwhile what has happened to art and creativity? can you envision some of the really great works reaching someone powerfully on a two-way screen now? >> no. i'm 75 years old. you know? i was in the studio system in the heydayhe of the 70s in a broadway theater. means of distribution change. if that 100 years we still have entertainmentt go from vaudevile to radio into television and movies and then into -- every time it changed, everything changed.d. when you look at the people in radio who were they? they were the people who could make it in by the bill. all of these forms change and everything goes out the window.
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so everything has gone out the window yet again. anybody who's looking at the media went to last time you heard anything funny? never? not in the couple of years because as always society is controlled by the people who hold the high ground and the highgh ground in this case is illegal distribution. god blessus elon musk. he said the guys there's a new sheriff in town. now we will see. >> you have really jumped to the valueze of citizenship. in the last year. we have had as many as 2 million people come across the american southwest and like it or not now they are american. and if this continues in the
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next six or seven years we'll have another seven or 8 million. i think your service with the united states what values is -- does our solution at half where anyone can just buy walking could defeat across the river become an american whether they hide out orit not or whether thy are legal citizens are not. what is the body when that? >> the value is the people inom power are looking for votes like these people fleeing of russian. i don't know why they'd want to come to a country that's so and racist compared to where they are. if you don't have a border you don't have the countries of the people in power and the democrats are perfectly willing to say go ahead. if you don't have the country don't have citizenship. >> exactly.
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for a citizen has rights and responsibilities and i wrote an essay in the book about this guy i think his name was william lloyd and he was lloyd ah-hah during world war ii. if a bunch of english speakers on out of germany called germany calling. surrender that old church. and william lloyd after the war they tried him as a war criminal and he said wait a second youcr can't tell me he's a war criminal because my parents are british i was born in the united states. i went back to him than i was raised in england but i went to germany where i was born we were not at war with germany so you can trim is a war criminal.
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they said you are so right except for one thing and they hung him as a traitor. he was the last person executed for treason in great britain. i contrast that with nathan hail who was hung as a spy and he said i only regrets that i have one life to give for my country. his last words are not recorded. so what they said was that's very funny and it's a great yourselfbut you update with the attentional -- potential into your responsibilities and they hung up. if we don't have responsibilities if it's difficult to understand that our rights are.. i'd if i say i can do whatever the heck i want what is my right and my responsibility?
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is my responsibility to turn -- pull a kid up at earning building? >> with rights should come responsibility. >> sure. here's what i think to the extent i hope they don't dore something really interesting in october. the people are going to say gas prices but you cannot take my grandchildren. i'm sorry it's just not going to happen. [applause] i have several friends here who are like me and god bless them and put them into a catholic school so they could give them an education. these are people you care about education so i went to college in the 50s and 60s and i said that free speech movement tand all of that and the chicks
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have come home to roost because now we in the effort report generation. the purpose of college is to have lots of to get high and go to the dublin for money or mom and dad. they haven't had to apply for a job. how do you learn responsibilities of citizenship if you don't have defaced the actual harsh injustices and thet delights of the free-market? you don't. >> you talk in your book about equity. define equity. >> what does it mean, anybody? what does it mean? we don't say that here. we talk about liberty rather than equality because other than
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under the law in what sense are we equal? w that's what makes society do different things better than each other. they have different desires. one person with security and the other wants financial success. one person wanted venture in one person wants rest. everybody has to do the same thing allnd the time. that's what the universities have become. s >> in a broader sense when you try to define equity it seems as though the left has been able to find a way to redefine for us either words that had a common meaning.
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there's intersection now the common toxic masculinity, triggered, social justice. the unhoused and it becomes microaggression. who the heck is in charge? >> we are. we are in charge of their own speech ultimately give up we are in a lot of trouble and maybe as much as 20 years ago they said may not be politically correct. , which is already granting the opposing sides promised. one of the wonderful things about donald trump is he speaks english. people look and say my god the conservatives -- but the other side says no, no you are not speaking pig latin.
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therefore you are not a politician. that happened to me when i first started writing. this doesn't sound like a plate to me. this doesn't sound like eugenee o'neil. it's not boring. what are you? [laughter] so because we have free speech in the country i said to myself sound like a play to me now and i have the opportunity to do that in the storefront theaters in chicago.y' it's marvelous. [applause] by the left definition it seems todayy your skin happens to be white you are a racist. a lot of people here are racist. should the proper response about
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the you are marxist? >> here's the thing. if you are black conservative you are racist too. it has nothing to do with the color of one's skin so with the correct response is language oht yeah? [laughter] napoleon who is like me. >> thank you. >> he t said who dictates the terms of the battle big dates the terms of the peace which is the surest things i know whether it's on the battlefield or the on the street or martial arts or defer. my dad to say it all depends on which pew you get into. that's enough is going to win. so to dictate the terms of the
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battle i demand you defend this and i demand you defend that. like my friend says put on the armor of god and stand still. i'm sorry, no. in each of us us has the capacity to does that mean we are goingren to prevail? when you do that you have party prevailed. >> you have a connection to what the left is doing t in america d in the marxist sense the elimination of the classes. is race for the modern day n american marxist a new distinction is taken the place for marxism in thet class of individual? at my friend shelby steele said the great secret is racism.
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so what's happening there was a book published in 1780 purported to be the memoir of a slaveholder. i've forgotten the name a white guy.yo he said is this is how you control. you have to turn the young against the old bill skin against the dark skin the men against the women of. you have to keep them constantly fighting each other and the othert thing it did is they made it a crime to appoint african-americans to teach them to read and the institute for what they called monitor squads that went between the plantations every night to make sure this group script couldn't talk to that group.
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to me that magnificent thing aboutth african-american as they stay together. it didn't destroy them and they persisted in prevailed in the midst of this 400 year long oppression. to a b certain extent -- >> to find gourmet social justice. >> i gift. anybody? justice means making a rule so you justify it by making a rule. if you do this, this happens and if you do that, that happens. it's a rule. you can refer to it and you know how far to go. you can stop short or you can transgress it and takeou your
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chance. society is not in charge. the legal system is in charge so the idea off social justice are based on feelings. i feel with mype lift experienc. >> i have my own truth. >> yeah i have my own truth. and i have you at gunpoint. so we are living in a time where the rule of law is crumbling around us. george gascón refuses to press charges against the fellow who assaulted dave chapelle. will smith who had a assault on stage and everybody knows nothing was going to happen to him. something even happened which was the audience stood up and gave him a standing ovation whee he got his award. that's the rule of the mob and
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they aren't kidding. we have to reinstitute the rule of law. somebody's feelings are always gettingg hurt. that's a pretty good definition. you have two parties in somebody's not going to get what they want. but they haveel to believe in te one thing they have to believe in that led to believe is that the laws obeyed. although you didn't get what you want you got a fair hearing.ou and somebody read -- is getting her. that version has a claim onit everyone else. it says in the bible the thing in the word is a server when -- you can't allow people to take charge because they are they
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will form into a. f that's what fascism is in common is amiss. they say i'm nothing. i get that put together we have strength. what do they do at that strength that they have together? they do evil. here always better off. i so much time with my family but it's nice to be with people that -- [applause] you are always better off to have a dispute with a strong person because a strong person they say big deal let you one a little bit. there is some worth in your position or i'll have to stand opposite too you to have a litte
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bit of self-respect. that's not true dealing with the left. they have to win everything all the time because your they are dealing with a lie. if they can win one thing the lie begins to crumble. they can never be seen to lose. >> a minute ago we were heading in this direction and the smash and grabs and anarchy and the rest.on the abandonment of the minneapolis police station marks the beginning of the mature phase of the insurrection. as they solidify their power it will be remembered as the fourth sumpter of the revolution. >> whoever heard of this? theyak give up a police station because writers are takingio ov?
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i don't know m of the city state anything about it. my cousin was in your cup for 40 years and is out now but he was talking about the riots and they said tell me the most important thing about the new york writes and he said alt-a the most important thing. where were the mounted? new york city has this wonderful mounted squad for the control of crowds. its amounts it amounts would have shown that there would have been no riots. the city was given up in effect as i looked at the world around me what i saw was this the cities have become open cities. they have been in effect abandoned to the left into the mob. we are going to let the teachers do whatever they want and we arg going to have any police or any laws against homelessness. they can steal whatever they
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want. we can take all the illegal immigrants who want to come across the border. that's a the definition of an on city like a war between the and americans that there is no government. that's a we are looking at but the question is what happens next and the other question is does it happen nationally for state-by-state depending on the political makeup? >> let's carry that over to education. i'm going to pull another quote from your book. you talked about and description erthat appeared over the auditorium at francis harper school that you attended and above the door says the school should be a m model and a comple community and embryonic democracy. in the book you write gets it's
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the job of the educators. it was not the job of the home but the mission of the elites propounded by the schools. >> yeah that's what's happening today. >> it's been happening for a long time. it really goes back to rousseau and education and the whole idea of enlightenment. the idea that the enlightenment and society must raise the children so if you see it in the writings of emerson i have no idea what he's talkingut about. but it feels very very good and then you talk about earning her doing. when i was coming up in public schools the teachers there a lot of them were born in the 19th century when there was the rule of the ruler. so writing arithmetic we sang 15 songs every morning and then we got into learning by doing and
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the rule of educators. i don't know what an educator does. does anybody? not anymore. i note teachers supposed to do but i guess they are t supposedo teach teaching. i don't know. so the question was what is the purpose of the school and the purpose of the school is reading riding and arithmetic and keep c your hands off my kids. my son camec home from santa monica public schools at age 10 sang the teacher was talking about racism and he said will give me anle example. give me an example of racism and teacher said he should be ashamed of yourself for asking that question because you are doublynd you should be ashamed for asking that question because you are. this is your tax dollars at work and thesehe were with kids in public schools and private schools have had to put up with
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this. parents go to school board reading the protest of the fbi, the doj says to the fbi don't mess with tears. how did this happen but that happened because people got too big for their riches and the unionoo got too powerful and the union is the big cash cow the democratic partly -- party andn' some people and in office say i want to educate my kids. [applause] >> there's a new story that came out last week and you talk about administration sources are telling the media and the media's broadcasting event this fall we can now once again expect as many as 100 million cases of covid infections again.
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so here we go with another round of the pandemic. what i'm thinking is this creates another national vote by mail scenario this fall because of the great endangerment of the democrats losing the house and the senate and i wonder if you you -- a mic conspiracists here do you think something like that is going to win? >> i was bornn in 1947 and 18 years before was when they were throwing people and ovens. we are seeing it happening here. we are right on the edge and what happens if we allow the country to default into leftism i would say' there's going to be rich fishing gaps that there are ar. there are already education gaps in their attorneys you have to
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go to and people are getting arrested for having a march on the january 6 and the next thing after that is the ideologues among the liberals who are as always the clerics the attorneys and the teachersre are going to get put up against the wall and shot by the people who take over the country. the question is what's going to happen in november and to what extent the left is going to pull everything out and put everything on the line? i don't know. >> you make a good point. i workedil on capitol hill for 5 years. i watched the tv and many hundreds of people at the capitol chaos and mayhem in the whole rest.
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you said they let it happen. they wanted it to happen. they did not descend. they prepared themselves to defend almost like it was planned. i know i sound like good conspiracy theorist. if that's the case if the capitol can be descended upon any day, it shouldn't be protected either. >> the genius, i think starting in the clinton era they looked at the cookie jar and they said wait a second why take some of the? why not take all of it. that so easy with biden. i'm going to use it for --
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[laughter] so what waiter question? [laughter] the question is how far will theyo go and the answer has got to read history. whenol germany invaded poland ty gathered criminals and put them in polish uniforms and put them on the border and said poland invaded germany. "the new york times" covered it. the whole idea is what won't they do? they are going to stop themselves because tyranny is light the fire. .it's got to find fuel. he can'tst stand still because
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it's based on shifting sands. the paul -- the pile ours has to be increased to an attorney with a concert mightt say i got my pension i'm fine. if you are in politics especially if you're on the left there's always somebody to take it away from you.so you can't stand still and you must have more power. that's a we are looking at. the question is what happens at the next election is or appears to be -- i don't know. >> talk about power we have seen the power over someone's ability to speak is as powerful as it gets. you are a writer. talk about disinformation.
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>> i love words, you know? as confucius said man does not hide? himself. men cannot hide himself. they are calling us to her face the office of disinformation and they are in charge of disinformation. [applause] and who is seeing wait a second what about the first amendment debateme constitution or the law prohibiting government should pass no law limiting freedom of speech. what about all the rinos? i d don't know. george shapiro had an office called stratcom and he wrote a wonderful book 20 years ago. what's going to happen to america and it was looking at everything we see and he says
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it's fascinating. he said the border states are going to become part of mexico. it's just really interesting sad because the come over here and they work like mad or they love their country they serve in the military and they loved love their kids and they worship at church and i wanted to better things for their families. they are only people working in california that i can see. so he said what's going to happen is eventuallyly they'll y you can simultaneous to be in the congress deny states and the congress is mexico and eventually will turn into a land grant. >> you talk in a sophisticated way to play with power. how about last week's week of the supreme court of one of the most sensitive decisions the
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court has made in many decades. who is doing what? >> people take note to defend the constitution whether they like it or not. it's the oath that they took a nobody's holding their hand to go tore and saying directly to jail. the doj has been completely weaponized. who's going to do at? planning to do it at trump didn't read the. by machiavelli which we should all read because what machiavelli was saying was here's how you rule. so trump was a davis and director and a magnificent chief director. churchly he had such faith in human interaction. i get it the mob wants this, the
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city wants that. this guy on the city council his daughter wants a job. i'm going to have to bribe the fire inspector. these people want to charge this further building materials. i get it. here he is working on the street for 40 years getting alongev wih everybody and everybody gets to have a. people do better when i get along. but he didn't know how to rule. he let l himself be sidetrackedy a lot of people. he believed the system and he said he did realize how deep the swamp was. and neither did we, did we? i don't think so. >> hent might actually run for e
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presidency again in what will this country be like if he does? >> i don't know. what will it be like if he doesn't? [applause] somebody said something really interesting the other day. they said, i said he has a lot of baggage as we all know and who doesn't? but on the other hand who do you want there fighting for you? who's got the stomach to get in there and fight? ronma desantis may be? >> watching president biden from the distance we see them on television but how would you speculate on what's happening and and like anyone having esenior moments at that age or o we have a real problem on our
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hands? >> easy now. i've talked to a lot of doctors and they all said the same thing. these clinicallyyy female. the question 2 is what's going o happen with the 25th amendment because they are in a lot of trouble. because with joe biden comes kamala harris. the next question is looking at 24 who's on the bench? there's nobody there. it's likely they are going to lookok and say if i want to take power better take it now. i've got nobody on the bench. >> we have got a few minutes left and a number of the provided questions for david prior to him coming on stage. >> can i say one more thing? i'm good friends with a lot of younger conservatives who are
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suggesting hope and hope is a wonderful thing because it's a magnificent country and all of the pieces are there. they are all there. we are prosperous and we are free and there is more freedom than any country in human history. someone at my age heading to the boarding process hey enjoy yourself i'm going to have a muscatel.s suddenly there was a guy called theater w rehearsal who is a well-to-do austriansi assimilatd and in 1890 he went to paris because of the trials. dreyfus was a officer in the a artillery of france who is accused of treason of selling secrets to the germans.
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it was obviously an acid that they were alerted him. when they degraded him in the courtyard of the palace of justice they weren't screaming death to the -- they were screaming to death to the. he looked at this and he hardly knew he was and the said oh my god we have to have our own country 1897. everyone said you were. what are you talking about? the homeland is known as palestine. palestine is a region. they had been there for 5000 years up until 2000 until the birth of when the romans came
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anin. people say you can't go back. there's nothing there. it's a wilderness between the mediterranean and the dead sea. there's nothingg there. so he started this thing called the latest conference in 1997. people came from all over to this think that my great uncle was actually there so they started fighting with each other which is how we communicate. they have to speak hebrew and yiddish and so he kept insisting there was going to be a country and he said in 1897 it's not going to be in five years but it will be in 50 years. 50 years later the state of israel was born. and he said if you will it it is
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not a dream. that's my message of hope to you in my message of hope to me. if you will it is not a dream. thank you. [applause] >> this question is apropos to the moment. how do you findd the transition from screenwriter to political activist and political pundit? was similar to what is different? >> playwriting iss it technical endeavor. ngit's all about engineering. you have to be able to engineer play winter you are leading the audience from wanting to the next. they say yeah yeah that make sense that the end they say wait a second, what's going to happen now and you do that enough times to conform it into a play. that's ingenuity. it takes a lot of planning and you have to write dialogue which
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some people have a knack for and some don't. you don't need to be able to write dialogue that will try to play because we have seen place in translation and u we don't understand the dialogue but we get the reading. it's two different things. writing a prose is a pain. i had these wonderful models for example milton friedman and tom sol and shelby steele and victor davis hanson who could write so clearly. i have a secret weapon which is my wonderful assistant over there. [applause] my other secret weapon is my wife who says hey we have to live here.
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>> which event or book has most influenced your revised banking? >> i think it's an great credit to world of serfdom on capitalism andnd freedom and common sense. and white guilt by shelby steele in and the works of tom sol. particularly economic facts. you probably know of looks. all of them page by page he read the menu say oh my god that so clear. thatould i not have seen before and one of the people he started with was of course milton friedman. i read the friedman said to his doctoral doctoral students i'm a thesis andrd to it can be longer than 500 words.
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isn't that great? >> yeah. i have many more questions in no time. i'm sorry about that. i'm not sorry for the last last hour prevented this is going was going to be a wonderful, wonderful experience and on behalf of everyone here thank you so much. tonight you're welcome and i leave with one and the to that? the other day ip. thought it's been a long time since i went to gun shopsan i get to the gun shp in and standing in line and standing in line, standing in line and finally i get to the front of the line and a guy comes up to me and he says smile, you are in a gun shop. [laughter] thank you all very much.
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