raising health concerns for those with lung disease like asthma. the thickest it's been in more than 50 years. that's fox report june 27, 2020. thank you for joining us. see you tomorrow. ♪ jesse: this is life, liberty and within. see this? this is my mostly peaceful protests. i'm sick and tired of this country being torn down i'm sick and tired of hearing people in the streets about how awful our history is. i'm sick and tired of multimillionaire athletes telling us about systemic

racism, i'm sick and tired of the media, which just repeat the same propaganda as thend left ad so are millions and millions of you. we are hard-working americans, we are good people, we gone all over the globe to protect people. we have people all over the globe right now putting their life on the line and protect people of different religions. different races, liberty, i'm sick and tired of our flag being disrespected, the national anthem being disrespected, three members of my family fall in world war ii, three of them. they are my heroes, not calling up next, a third rate or back. two members of my family served in the police force, they are all gone now and they serve honorably. i stand with the cops, not against the cops. i don't stand with anybody who's racist or anybody who'sai a bada whether they are lawyers or doctors or professors or teachers, media people for this is a great society to imperfect

society and it's a great fesociety. this flag is my peaceful, mostly peaceful protests and that's why is it right here and nobody's going to knock it off either. take a knee, now we are being told no, taking a knee has nothing to do with the military for the flag, don't hand me that. we are pulling down monuments whether they are part of the confederacy or union, we are trashing monuments, abraham we can in washington and all the others, this is an attack on the core values and principles of the society. nothing less and we, the people, need to stand up to this an object to this because this doesn't represent the vast majority ofor americans. it does represent the vast majority of the media and academia and students not the rest of america. the effects of tonight, when i decided to do is look at two

areas that i think are crucial one is a female and the other is the media to really outstanding scholars and the firstst documet i want to introduce you to, a distinguished of university of california santa cruz, john ellis, he's written a magnificent book, the breakdown of higher education, it couldn't be more timely. chairman of the california association of scholars, professor ellis, i want to welcome you and i want to read to the audience, just to lay it out and throw it to you, the paragraph at the beginning of your after of your outstanding book, the assault on free expression in the public best regarded as relatively superficial symptom of a much larger problem understood will ever be able to restore respect for freedom of speech on our campuses. tomorrow, every campus of the nation for to start enjoying visiting s speakers shouting don the underlying sickness of

higher education remain untouched. we cannot understand the nature until we ask. why isd free beach constantly on the threat of the campuses? why do shotguns and rights now occur with such regularity? questions to the broader subject of how higher education has been corrupted and diverted from its real purpose. this book came out this year but before, mostly peaceful protests and rights we seen a couple of weeks. let me say to you, what exactly are you talking about taking place on our college campuses? >> i'm talking about is the fact that the public sees thele shutdowns and near rights, in regard to visiting speakers but it doesn't think about how that could happen, students doing in those cases but they are taught

by radical professors to the real source problem is not the shotgun, the source is in the classrooms with the kids learn, their contempt for ideas that don'tt fit with what the professors are teaching, so you're seeing a superficial symptom. the real problem is the classrooms which the public never sees. >> very incestuous when you have faculty members hiring faculty members many from the same same universities and same ideology, you can see certain faculty members that don't fit into the far left, they are being pushed out of universities, boycotted by the students all kinds of pressure and threats, how did bt come tont be? we, one b1 you had a very long.

john: you had a very long pumpaign with one party campuses. if you go back 50 years,, study done in 1969, three left to two). by the end of the century, 1999, another finds racial, which is very v mild, three to two, thats consistent with the public debate between the left and right on campus by the end of the century, shows 51 got a great concentration that another six years later to one and the current study being done now, something like 13 to one.

every reason to believe iss getting more extreme all the time because while these studies the list of appointees but it's associate professors found left r right is monogamous, what's being done now is that the rate of about 50 to one 514821. we wind up with the complete in a short period of time. everyone can see, very unhealthy. we can't have a serious debate about the issues of the day when one party is missing. now what i find really strange about this is this. everyone can see that it's wrong, it's unhealthy and no one

does nothing to stop it. so professors, administrators see this happening and they don't lift ais finger to start their progressing one party campus. it's a campus that is dysfunctional. >> bernie sanders says everybody ought to go to college. why does he want everybody to go to college? is because it's an indoctrination in washington? i watched the so-called peaceful part of the mostly peaceful practiced, it seemed to be a lot of college students. probably members of school is out and is been o up a very long time. what are these professors, what are they teaching about economics? what are they teaching w about

history? is it similar to the new york times project that american began in 1619 was slavery and its not anything we can do about it? is that the kind of indoctrination going on? john: it is indeed. you can bet onha the fact that most of the almost insane left radical ideas in the surface in the world now, coming from the campus. the campus is so far left and so irrational now, it plays in the culture and professional is being corrupted. >> i happen to know a few young people going to universities,

one of them is a law student, one is aec medical student. one is an undergraduate student. they all told me if they don't keep their politics, they're not necessarily concerned but they are not radical left. don't keep it to themselves, they are literally shunned.ot shunned or worse, they're not invited to events, and we keep funding these institutions, there's no oversight, have massive dominance from nonprofit organizations,, congress never looks at them, staterg legislatures never look at them and they have enormous costs is to keep expanding getting bigger cpaand bigger, there has to bee kind of oversight on this or some kind of competition, don't you think? john: well, that's the problem. the academia is very fashion place. a new politically correct alliance one campus, it will spread to the other campuses rapidly so you don't have

competition in the sense that you have a rational institution competing with an irrational institution. they all, essentially, and up very quickly.na the competition is going to be a very difficult thing to do. precisely because contingent spread throughout so rapidly, if you have a one party campus, that is, by definition, an irrational campus. you cannot have a one party system that stays same. my favorite quote on thisn, you will always need to have a healthy political state, you always need ata party stabilityn one hand up party of progress and reform on the other and then it's precisely the opposition of one to the other that keeps each

one of them reason in fantasy. what he's really saying is, you take away one of those parties which is what you've done on the campuses, you take one partyty away the other one goes in same, for lack of discipline of having arguments. that's where we are. we have a completely irrational campus and there's no end in sight. if anything, it is getting worse of left to right professors increases. right now, even though there's still a few left, most even intimidated, stay silent and you see an example of one of the doesn't of states, he's made an example of it, it keeps the others quite.

mark: so we don't have academic freedom, we don't have free speech, taxpayers and pants keep subsidizing this, we ought to take a look at this. will be right back. ♪ b

welcome back. professor ellis, before the break, i was talking about, we seem to be subsidizing within your state tax dollars going into these schools whether parents paying tuition or even others paying tuition and you sent your risk kids into these schools in the, quite differently. why do we keep doing this and is there something else we can do about it? john: part of the problem is old habits die hard. it's a fixed attitude derived from the past, sending kids to college and we launch them into a life and career and then the fact that the institutions of harvard, yale, it's very

impressive, cast a spell over the public, the cannot believe one so glorious is now no longer that. now there are some signs the public changing its attitude. there was a study done of kids in higher education, nine years ago, three and a half million students in higher education, today that number down 17.5 million. if it's an increase in population, that should be, there should have been a game for 20 and have to 21 and a half. 4 million students missing so it is true the public is becoming more skepticals but the simple

outline of the situation is this,, parents intuition, students get through a life in college, then state legislatures vast sums of money in higher education. mark: they are not getting it. john: a good chunk of that money, the majority of it is involuntary campaign contribution to the radical le left. the public has to h wake up and realize it is paying lots of money to support something it doesn't want to support. legislatures need to get busy, looking very seriously, the appropriations they make for the funding in higher education,

they really supporting the higher education? mark: if you're attacking academic freedom, which of course this ideology is destroyed. this ideology we are talking about, you can tell me whether we disagree or agree, it is not flat out marxism, it's some version of it. when i see the protesters in the street, what they are talking about, we have to burn down what exists. everything that exists, the history must go, pull down the statues, chisel out the names and then we will start new. that comes right out of the communist manifesto, destroying the society that is this, and everything else, start with a clean slate. is that what they are being taught? john: i'm afraid so. some of the professors are doing is marxist, a quarter of them at

least in some areas. some have marxist ideas but wouldn't call themselves marxist, more like activists but the end result is certainly the majority opinion ons campuses nw is something it isn't. to abolish what they call capitalist system, intelligent people call it free-market system and to remake it in the image that the radicals have. if you're honest, you start to get varied replies because once you describe the social country, they know very well it doesn't go over very well but as an analyst against the way the country is and has been for some

time. the radical left seizing the opportunity now to press it case has essentially taken over the academic world. it is now boot camp for political radicalism. it is no longer a place that prepares children to confront the careers that are facing them, the lives that are facing them. these challenges, analyze situations, respond to new challenges they face, that not happening. when a political activist tells you to get in line behind them and join the cause, higher education is stopped dead. there's no development of mental capacity involved in the. on the contrary, the other way around. they're telling you to stop thinking, just do as you're told. mark: well, you know, a society

can't survive very long when it children and grandchildren are taught to hate it. every bit of it.ra this is an big what is not only in universities and colleges but you can see it in hollywood, people who live in luxury and society, whatever their race is our background is, who claim to be joining these revolutionary movements, it's almost chic, the cool thing to do. so what we are doing, we are losing culture. do you agree? john: i am afraid so. academia is poisoning one after another, it is total journalism. they teach in the high schools, high school teachers were trained college campuses. society needs to wake up and

desired whether it really wants to pay these vast sums of money for this apparatus. one has to face the fact that the one party campus is made precisely because those ideas don't stand up to challenge very well. the radicals allow a healthy debate on campus, they would lose. they always lose so the only way they can actually win is by shutting out people with other ideas. that's what they are doing. the public has to throw up the spell created by the great names of columbia and that the past. the present is quite different. mark: i agree. professor ellis, fantastic book.

crucially important. i want to thank you for your bravery in coming on this program. god bless you. t john: thank you very much for having me. mark: will be right back. ♪

good evening. historic monument destruction, prompting president trump to issue executive order of

protection, order mandating maximum of ten years in prison for those found guilty, positive hard stance against destruction of monuments. emancipation monument in lincoln park. 1876 depict president lincoln freed slaves. protesters are unhappy with the way things are. individual for the victims of stabbing attack that left three dead. so far, authorities charged 25-year-old man with three counts of murder, united kingdom counterterrorism department is leading the investigation right now. the man was placed on a watchlist in 2018. now back to life, liberty and within. ♪ mark: welcome back. we've covered half of the problem. maybe more than half. t there's many parts of the problem but that academia. in big what is ideological sort

of brainwashing that's going on how it affects the entirety of society. the other half is the media and there's nobody better, tim gross is professor of economics, chair of the market is center and he's written a fantastic book not even cited in my book, it's called left turn, how liberal media distorts the american mind. in part, here's what he says. it happens when our view of the world is filtered to the minds of such a liberal group. demonstrate using objective scientific methods g, prevents s from seeing the world as it actually is. instead, we see a distorted version of it. it is as if we see the world through a glass, a class that magnifies the facts that liberals want us to see and shrinks the fact that conservatives want us to see.

perhaps most of all, the advice feeds on itself, bias makes us more liberal which makes us less able to detect the bias which allows the media to get away with more bias. which makes us even more liberal and all this means iss the political abuse we see in americans are not their natural views. we see only artificial distorted version of those views. professor and let me suggest to you, i'd like your take on this but it'ssik worse now than ever, particularly given the fact that we have donald trump as our president. you agree? >> i agree completely. remember when new york times said no, we can't run an ad, do you remember who protested? it wasn't the opinion writers, it was the journalists, the news writers. in my book, iyo ask the thought experiment, suppose you read the content from journalists and you ask yourself the question, the extent of knowing it was a news

story, what if instead you thought was a speech by a politician? what would you guess is the ideology of the politician? one thing i found in my book, i said mainstream media to the left but not quite as left as mainstream democrat. l with the new york times journalists, i would argue even left more left than the average democrats in congress. just watch anything on c-span, whenever there's a major bill, nancy pelosi, whenever they introduce a bill from democrats will say two hours for debate, the first thing is they say i get half my time to the republicans. the new york times journalist, it's beyond the pale for them getting any time to sum up like tom cohen. the journalists, although maybe when i wrote my book, they acted white as left as the average democrats in congress. now they are acting even more

left. mark: but doesn't that underscore one of the points in your book? self-fulfilling and self generating so it gets worse and worse, less in terms of diversity and less in terms of tolerance and much more ideological? >> i agree. people are getting their information from the mainstream media. they have no idea what's going on on the other side. one little anecdote, john mcwhorter was a professor, i would call him something of a right-leaning moderate. african-american man, he wrote about police killings and he said yeah, i'm not sure police are racist but where are the names of the white people being killed? i think there is a problem. send in, here areop the white people killed.

he said while, i didn't know of this. because we only hear about the black people being killed.bo sure enough, some of us reporting the statistics by the washington post, the washington post gathered this database 201e killings and you look at these numbers and its actually white people have been killed of all police killings, about 50% are white, only about 25% are black. the news is incredibly disproportionally, you only seek the black killings. so if your information only came from mainstream media, you would think only black people are being killed the police and that is not the case at all one more example of how the media -- >> let me interrupt you there, statistics show that police are not running around killing clear so we need to be about that because this movement

now talkingtu about disbanding police and so forth, the people running around killing people of the people in the streets, people and communities running around killingng people the pole are not running around killing people in fact your book, we have this false reality that said trust each and every day, congress acts on it, he can'ty act fast enough. you want to create new bodies, they want to nationalize policing is run by left-wing democrats and many of these states are as well and they take no responsibility for it whatsoever. how does the average person after get actual information? they are certainly not getting it from so-called newsrooms in this country. >> that is part of my book, to try to actually give numbers to say this is the extent to which is media out his left course this is right.. put numbers on these so lots of

people say just watch fox news, balance it with an m msnbc. part of my book, it is not quite true. limited the data i had to analyze only one fox news show in its special report and i found that yes, show was right-leaning, it had, if anything, conservatives bias but it's conservative bias was, something like half of the liberal bias of the mainstream bias. it is about 25.5 bias to the left where his special report was only about eight-point highest to the right. so if you want a balanced set of news, it means you would have to watch special report about three times, three times as many

minutes special report as you would the new york times if you want a perfectly balanced version of the news. mark: when we come back, my question is to you. cnn, msnbc, to me, i don't break it down the way you do with your models, it is never ending. we'll be right back.we ♪

professor, it's a steady drumbeat on some of these networks. it's much like college campuses, very little diversity of thinking. in my wrong or right? >> especially after trump. one thing for good or bad, trump

helped expose it. i think it used to be the mainstream media would say no, we are balanced but after trump, they would say no, of course we're not balanced. we have to oppose trump. that's what we should do, that's the proper and moral thing to do so at least now they admit it. mark: what about cnn newsrooms? i don't see a lot, i can name a bunch of left-wing posts and big time contributors. a basically what i see when it comes to some of these networks is they will have a conservative across the stage every now and then but it's about it. just for show. what can be done about this? these are private corporations. >> that's a hard one. the diversity isn't there. that is true.

the newsroom national media has anything to do with politics, it's about 93 to seven. that's what the surveys say. you asked the journalists how they voted last, 93% democrat. i think 7% is a little artificially high and i explained in my book, if journalists are lying, even a small degree to the survey, the posters that 7% is going to be defined, you look at campaign conservation the number is like two or 3%. newsroom is only about two or 3% people vote republican. here's how high or low that number is. here's one example. if you watch the view on abc, you watch five. mark: by the way, i don't but go ahead. [laughter]

>> john mccain's daughter, she is the one conservative. as for liberals. it's so unfair when you watch the debate. i can't stand to watch it. those numbers are four to one. that would be a mainstream newsroom, it would be more like 12 to one so take the view, take all those for liberals, loan them two times so you get 12 liberals versus that one, meghan mccain, that would be what a typical newsroom would be like. the 7% number is exaggerated and it's more like 421, something like that. newsroom, it's overwhelmingly left. what can be done about it? i'm not sure except i think that people are on twitter. i think the average voter no longer thinks the new york times is the t record, it is fair and balanced. it is the voice of the left and

i think, because of this and other factors in the news industry, i think a lot of these mainstream outlets are going on. it's going to take a long time, i've calculated the half-life of journalists and mainstream newsroom something like 15 or 20 years. if you go out 15 years, new york times will have only half its journalists. thirty a quarter and so on. it will gradually wither away but i think it's going to be here for a while and i don't have an answer what to do about it except maybe make people aware of the bias and at least then moderate voters and conservatives will say yes but there is a bias on the left but at least we can discount it. they're not telling me the whole truth. i think that's about the best we can do. mark: when we come back, we have a free press in america?

do we actually have a free press in america? we'll be right back. ♪

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we have a free press in this country? >> in the strictest sense, yes. i don't think government is getting involved but there is censorship, a mob censorship, and never would have imagined a non- government entity could do this. if you are a conservative, the poor, i'm sure they are so stroke, the. pressure on them to squelch their views and not report the whole truth is amazing. i see it academia is a professor, there some things you just don't dare say. professor at the university of chicago lost his job will be pressured to quit as the editor of the journal, basically all he did was wrote a tweet criticizing basically only

saying he was against black lives matter. there is a mob that rose up against him, everyone kind of understand this, everyone is walking on pins and needles at least in academia and i have a feeling mainstream media. given that, yes, there is no freedom of the press. the one home is things like talk radio. we saw fox news, his few outlets out there, i used to say the internet and social media will be a savior, i think andrew breitbart was saying things like that. i'm veryi skeptical about twitter.

i am on twitter, i will sometimes write tweets and then something fishy is going on, i will look up my tweets and then i can't find them. i've talked to other conservatives, same thing is happening. shadow banning, i think something weird is going on at twitter and facebook, google, something similar is going on. given that, social media is not allowing us to have free press so even those strictly speaking, the government is not cracking down which i would not have imagined 20 years ago. we are in a sad situation. mark: the radical progressives have done a good job at devouring the media and he looked at journalists schools or professors, people come to mind like jay rose and that whole breed of thinking that is your social activists, need to advance a cause, 100 years ago, same thing. you have to change education and media to advance a social agenda and so forth.

it's taken hold of this country in a big way. these institutions of higher education, academic freedom, is very little academic freedom, very little free speech. expect the media rather than joining in the attack, standing up for free speech and civil liberty, they don't do it. look at the rush of collusion that took place, you have theg fbi going into a campaign and you have other things going on rather than reporting on it, they participate in it so this is why i say we don't have a free press. of course we do in the sense government is not slapping down media organizationsan although obama and fdr did that and woodrow wilson did that. no, we have the complete lack of professionalism, and with the founders had in mind when we got our first amendment in the first place. professor, i want to thank you very much and thanknd you for yr

excellent book, left turn and i strongly recommend people take a look at it. numeral media bias distorts the media mind. thank you, will be right back. ♪ .. can my side be firm?

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horrible country, then why do people want to come here. the hard left as a political party that is the vessel through which they operate it's the democrat party. whether it's during the civil war in the 1960s and today, it can be found mostly where, i'm telling you the truth, the democrat party is the counter revolution party. we should embrace our liberty. we should embrace our constitution. that is what stands between us and tierney emanuel give a damn what football players in nba players or overpaid media personalities that cnn have to say about it either and i sure don't give a damn about a president who seats in his basement all the day like he's in a padded cell pushing out statements left and right.

we need to push back when we see it. i will see you next time on [♪] jesse: welcome to "watters world." i'm jesse watters. the power grab. the subject of tonight's watters words. let's check in with the peaceful protesters. >> no piece. what a great group of people. the way they are speaking to those innocent officers. is that persuadingnydy