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debate it was easier to shut down unwelcomed speech and write it all off as misinformation. they were trying to protect you, america. >> the only way we get passed misinformation is to be careful what we say and use the power we have to stop the spread of misinformation. >> my hope is facebook taking it personally, i'm saying facebook is killing people, that they do something about the misinformation. >> relying on the social media giant to take down mistruths. >> hunter biden, this laptop that intelligence officials have warned is likely russian disinformation. >> raymond: the golden oldies. only much of what they were protecting you from during two election cycles turned out to be true. now the censorship squad has been exposed in a bombshell ruling on july 4th a federal judge in louisiana has blocked the federal government from contacting or meeting with social media giants. it turns out, the government has

been targeting and censoring speech they disagree with for years. in a blistering landmark decision, judge terry doughty writes that he has seen evidence of a massive effort by defendants from the white house to federal agencies to suppress speech based on its content. during the covid-19 pandemic, he writes, the united states government seems to have assumed a role similar to an orwellian ministry of truth. this targeted suppression of contive ideas is a perfect idea example of viewpoint discrimination of political speech. the evidence produced thus far, the judge writes, depicts an almost dystopian scenario t judge says there was coordination between homeland security, the fbi, the department of justice, the white house, some eight agencies to pressure big tech to censor information they deemed that

rentical. masks, covid lockdowns which we'll discuss with a scientist who was personally censored. facebook alone took down 18 million pieces of what they called covid misinformation. that's just what they admitted to. went far beyond covid. the administration also hugsled to cover hunter biden's tracks. remember when the new york post first reported on the contents of first son hunter's laptop. the paper got locked out of its twitter account and then the post were censored. it was all russian disinformation. facebook got the message, too. >> the fbi, i think, basically came to us, some folks on our team and was like, hey, just so you know, like you should be on high alert. we thought that there was a lot of russian propaganda in the 2016 election. there's about to be some kind of dump of -- that's similar to that, so just be vigilant.

>> raymond: be vigilant. facebook dutifully adjusted the algorithm and suppressed the hunter laptop story. coverage was spottier than a hunter biden canvas. later the laptop and its contents were verified in late 2019 by the fbi. according to one whistleblower and subsequently by the new york post and the new york times, and still, hunter biden's team is trying to sew doubts about its authenticity and info suppression even extends to how many kids hunter has. according to the new york times, it's now official white house protocol to claim the president only has six grandchildren. even though he actually has 7. hunter's love child is simply wiped from existence. >> the story in the new york times over the weekend about hunter biden's daughter in arkansas, does the president acknowledge this little girl as his granddaughter. >> i don't have anything to share from here. >> raymond: pay no attention to that little girl crying behind the curtain. how is it that standing up for

human dignity and respect is the hall of mark of biden's administration? the president said they're all our children except for hunter's daughter who is actually one of his children. i guess she doesn't fit the bill. personal or political narratives, there's a trend here. an administration bent on expressing anything they don't want to deal with, and it's not just directed at one party even democrats like rfk jr. have been shut down by social media. >> we now have, for the first time, government participating in censorship of political dissent, of people criticizing their policies. >> raymond: we see this tendency in pop culture as well where unacceptable messages or ideas are suppressed. the film sound of freedom is the number one movie in the country. we'll talk to its star jim caviezel later in the show. it exposes the evil of child sex trafficking which even variety is admitting this week is a topic hollywood has avoided and, quote, let's face it this

matters more than the cocaine or opioids industry which they've done multiple movies on. sound of freedom locked in a battle for screens with disney after sound of freedom showed indiana jones where to shove his dial of destiny at the box office. what these people fail to understand is, when you suppress thought and expression, you create pent-up demand and the audience is not stupid. neither are voters. though the white house has apparently not gotten that message. >> we are going to continue to promote responsible actions to protect public health, safety, and security. our view remains that social media platforms have a critical responsibility to take action or to take account of the effects of their platforms or having to the american people so we're going to continue to be responsible in that way. >> that's not being responsible. it's limiting free speech and the american people, right, left, and center, they do not support that. now we go to someone personally affected by this major court

ruling. dr. jay bought chair i can't professor of stanford university of profession. you coauthored what was called the great bearing ton declaration back in october of 2020. it questioned covid lockdowns based on science and the nature of diseases. three days after its release, dr. anthony fauci and other government officials urged its suppression. soon it was scrubbed from social media and the accounts were shutdown. dr. joins me along with attorney general jeff landry both are parties to this lawsuit against the government. dr. j i want to start with you. you were censored yourself, your reaction to this ruling and how did you and your colleagues suffer as a result of this government censorship? did you. >> i am absolutely delighted by this raymond. it basically restores my faith in america. the biden administration and the

federal bureaucracy used its overwhelming power to essentially say here's what you can say and can't say working with social media. you ask me what it did to me. the power of the censorship is they don't actually -- they can't fully stop me from talking. what they can do is put a misleading label on me or limit the extent which people see my tweets or whatever. the upshot is to undermine true things that i'm saying in the minds of the public. so, for instance, when i had a round table with governor desantis in 2021 youtube censored it so people couldn't see it. what was the purpose of that? so people couldn't see the advice a sitting governor was getting? that's just bad -- there's no good justification. >> raymond: this isn't advice from a television archer this is an esteemed epidemiologist from stanford university.

i want to play dr. fauci's reaction to the great barrington declaration and the justification for spiking the warnings that you all were offering. watch. >> the great barrington declaration, in there is the implication, let everybody get infected that's going to be able to get infected and then we'll have herd immunity. quite frankly that is nonsense and anybody who knows anything about epidemiology will tell you that that is nonsense and very dangerous. >> raymond: doctor, your reaction when you hear that and how the dr. fauci and the biden administration fall into their own media trap here. >> you can see they censored other people and as a result they censored their own minds. the thing you see there is that it is a falsehood. right? first of all the great barrington declaration called for protection of vulnerable people, especially older people, wasn't calling for letting the virus rip. second, what technology did tony

fauci expect to use to control the spread of a respiratory virus? he was calling for school closures, he was calling for many of the devastating policies that we actually followed that have led to huge numbers of kids with learning loss, depression at catastrophic levels, opioid abuse at catastrophic levels, economic damage. he basically was ignoring every single thing that could harm american health except for his view of the lockdowns which he thought was the only way to protect american. imagine if we hadn't been censored. >> attorney general landry, this evening the biden justice department announced its appeal of this injunction. what are their chance of success at the fifth circuit and why were they so quick to react do you think? >> i hope their chances at the fifth circuit are nil. we're going to defend it, it's a good thoughtout ruling. judge doughty spelled it out in

154 pages. i think he left plenty of exceptions for the government to be heard and to say things on social media. look, i've heard what all the liberal press is saying. this order in no way prevents the government -- no one's trying to muzzle the government. we're just trying to keep the government from mussling its citizens. >> raymond: attorney general landry, i want to show you some of the media you referenced there. they're upset about this ruling and they're urging more government censorship. watch. >> this is one of the most aggressive far-reaching rulings you'll ever see. what this judge is purporting to do is to micro manage really the day to day interactions between essentially the entire executive branch and the leading social media companies. the full faith the american public has in elections could be undermined. couldn't that potentially be a national security threat? >> of course. and really one of the core issues here is to what degree can there be consequences for the company not doing what the white house wants. >> raymond: attorney general, is

information not edited by the white house a national security threat? >> absolutely not, that's called a violation of the first amendment. again, let's make it clear. nowhere in the order does it say that the government isn't able to make its case or to put warnings out or to discuss things and inform the american people. what this order says is you can't go muzzle americans. you can't muzzle or throttle back people like the doctor who you just said, i mean, he's an esteemed epidemiologist. he had something to say and something to say to the american people so that they could understand what was going on during the covid-19 pandemic. and yet because he didn't fit their narrative, he was throttled back. that's a violation of the first amendment. again, no one is saying the government can't talk to social media companies. we're just saying you can't censor americans speech. >> raymond: doctor, i want to give you the last word. when you hear the media urging

more censorship and for the biden administration to double down on this as a public health advocate and someone who soundedd the alarm, what would you say to that? >> i'd say to them that they are hurting public health, they are hurting americans. the best way to promote public health is to allow free speech. censorship kills because it basically locks in bad ideas just as we've seen during the pandemic. >> raymond: dr. bhattachari, attorney general landry thank you for being here. >> joining me now john radcliffe former director of intelligence. you served as intelligence chief while much of this was happening. what does this mean to the larger issue of government surveillance of americans and do you buy the government argument here that they weren't actually censoring anything, they were just pointing tech companies to problematic content. >> well, i don't buy that argument a, because what we have

e seen here ray mobbed this wasn't just a victory for free speech it was a victory for truth. because at the end of the day as you talked with your prior guests about what's going to happen on appeal here, the reason this bodes well for the plaintiffs in this case and frankly for the judge's opinion is, so much of what you talked about in your opening that was raised as the matters at issue here about covid, about covid origins, about the efficacy of treatments, about transmissibility, about election interference and hunter biden's laptop, it wasn't just that they were censoring speech about that, they were censoring the truth about those issues. and, you know, at the end of the day i think that's going to have an important bearing. here's where i think the problem is going forward, is because you've seen this abuse of these important intelligence and surveillance tools, and putting political objectives in front of national security, they've jeopardized those. so let me give you an example. as the director of national

intelligence as you talked about, one of the things that i did was on a daily basis prepare the president's daily brief. that's the collection and ago gras gags of our most sensitive intelligence to brief the president on national security concerns. one of the tools we use was section 702 of the foreign intelligence surveillance act. >> raymond: i was going to bring that up. >> that's the same tool that was abused to spy on the trump campaign. >> raymond: right. >> and so now, when 702 comes up for renewal at the end of this year, you have republicans saying we can't renew that in its current form because it's been abused for political reasons. and so the abuses, these orwellian abuses that i think the judge correctly characterized have really placed our national security at risk by these officials putting political objectives above america's national security posture is incredibly dangerous. >> raymond: you believe they really need that surveillance capability but it shouldn't extend to every american who has

contact with a foreigner, john. >> these are legitimate national security intelligence tools that, when used properly, help us to collect intelligence on our adversaries that mean to do us harm. but as we've seen and talked about, the problem here is that they've been abused, turned inward on american citizens to spy on them and to use it for political gain and control and censor political speech. >> raymond: yeah, to shut them up. to shut americans down you disagree with or the administration does. john, as i mentioned you were running national intelligence when the hunter laptop emerged. now former congressman denver regalman who's advising hunter's legal team says quote, forensics makes clear that considerable information linked to hunter biden is questionable. what data is being used? a laptop and data saying it's a laptop are two different things. i'm not even sure what that means but i think what he's getting at is data mining. he's questioning the data mining. do you buy that argument and is

the laptop material inauthentic? >> well, i don't buy it because i've spoken directly to the principals involved in this. look, on october 18th of 2020, i came out as the director of national intelligence and publicly issued a statement saying hunter biden's laptop is not russian disinformation. we have no intelligence that it is. raymond, that was based on conversations with attorney general bill barr and fbi director christopher wray, who related to me that the laptop had been verified by the fbi and was being used in connection with a money laundering investigation that was ongoing. so, you know, the sad thing is, at the very same time that those representations were being made to me, you had fbi agents in the field going to twitter and shutting down saying, hey, this could be russian disinformation. so, you know, again, we have this problem of political part sans being embedded within the department of justice and the fbi and it's why it's a problem

that the next republican president's going to have to address. >> raymond: yeah. john, we certainly had misinformation. the problem is, it's coming from this administration. thank you for being here >> up next, we have a new update to cocaine-gate. you'll hear from a form secret service agent who was in charge of the biden family when he was vp. plus, vivek ramaswamy reacts to the bizarre media treatment of the story. stay with us. s

♪ >> raymond: welcome back to the ingraham angle, i'm raymond arroyo. it was an essentially, especially wild fourth of july. not essential, especially, at the white house, where on sunday cocaine was found. there's been a lot of speculation about where it could coronavirus originated and today kjp was pressed on it. >> how determined is the president to get to the bottom of who brought illegal drugs to the white house. >> secret service is getting to the bottom, that's what matters and it's under their purview. >> the question is how is the president. >> the president thinks it's very important to get to the bottom of this. >> he can't get to the bottom of the stairs, how''s he going to get to the bottom of this. i'll leave that aside. one official familiar with the

investigation is telling politico the cocaine culprit is unlikely to be found given it was discovered in a highly trafficked area of the west wing. joining me now former secret service agent bobby mcdonald. he was the assistant special agent in charge of the vice-presidential division when joe biden was vp. fox's jacqui heinrich is reporting that the secret service is conducting dna and fingerprint tests and reportedly reviewing visitor logs and surveillance. how long could something like this take? >> well, good evening, raymond. it's nice to be with you tonight. i think the secret service is going to be utilizing every asset and capable that it has in its reach. they're going to be working with other agencies that can assist in this investigation. nobody knows that facility better than the uniformed division officers and the special agents of the secret service that work there every day, they know every nook and cranny of it, every place videotapes are available, they have access to the visitor logs.

i would disagree with the comment earlier it's a highly traversed location. it may be monday-friday although i don't think it is over a holiday weekend. my guess is the secret service has a fairly good idea of who may be involved in this situation. they definitely have an idea of who was on the cut that weekend. >> raymond: let's talk about that, bobby. the location where the coke was found is important. originally it was a library, then it was in the west wing and then this cnn reporter tells us more about it. watch. >> this is typically where tour groups which can come in sometimes during the weekend would pass through in order to get a tour of the west wing and also near where there are cubbies where people are asked to leave their cell phones. so that is an important piece of information. >> raymond: bobby, i think i'm familiar with that area where the cubbies are that they're talking about. do public tours use that entrance? >> no. the public tours use the entrance at the east side of the white house. this would be more for specialized tours for people who

are bringing guests in and the people who would be giving the tours are hard pass holders, so they are known people who work in and around the white house who have a regular hard pass for entrance in and around the white house on a regular daily basis. >> raymond: so it may be either a staffer or a guest of a staffer you think, that's what you would surmise? >> again, based upon a holiday weekend, the fact that most people who work in the old executive office building would not be in and around the campus, sweeps are conducted all the time in and around the white house as you know to make sure that there's nothing that's inappropriate in various locations. so so the idea that this may have been in the can you bey for several days just doesn't hold water for me. >> raymond: okay, bobby thank you for the insight. when it was reported donald trump drank multiple diet cokes per day and even had a diet coke button in the office this is how the media responded. >> we see him go up and down

during the day it may depend on the supply of diet coke. the thing that would concern me more is the consistent consumption of fats and sugars. >> 12 diet cokes is a lot and not healthy. >> it causes things you would expect, irritability, insomnia, sometimes you become unfocused. >> now that there's actual coke, not in a can but in a line, they act like it's a big joke. >> i would like to notice blow by blow who was responsible for this. [laughter]. >> no one was injured, as far as we know. and it's an elicit drug at the white house. why can't you actually have a little bit of fun with it? >> raymond: joining me now vivek ramaswamy he is the republican presidential candidate. vivek thank you for being here. why do you think the media is so unconcerned about this especially since hunter biden's been all over the house and how

does she know no one was scleroid. >> so if the media's going to joke about this, the joke to crack is this joe biden doing his debate prep for the presidential debates using performance enhancing drugs because his recent public statements would suggest that perhaps he needs it. that might be the direction you'd take with the joke if you find cocaine in the white house. but as you said, coca-cola, that's a media story. actual cocaine in the white house, brush that along. and i'd say all joking aside, if you really get to the seriousness of this, it's just one more yet another example of two standards of law in this country. one, if you're part of the privilege class, one if you're part of many people across this country, which many democrats have railed against, who are locked up for possession of cocaine. now it shows up in the white house and it's a laughing matter. so in certain sense it's just evidence of a deeper problem. >> raymond: this situation made me think of an incident i remember covering back in the clinton administration. the secret service in 1993 balked at granting permanent

passes to about a dozen people in the clinton white house because of concerns that they had recently used illegal drugs. that in some instances included crack cocaine and hallucinogens. your reaction to this. why the blah say approach this time when it might be staffers who dropped this bag or, cocaine, around the white house in the west wing? >> i find it very interesting that you do go back to making a clinton era comparison. that's a good one. one of the things i've been actually doing is comparing a lot what we see from the biden white house today to other aspects of that clinton error. even then senator joe biden on a more serious topic here was voting for the work fair requirements passed under president bill clinton, and yet, for much lighter work fair requirements proposed by republicans today, joe biden calls that racist and dismisses it. it shows how far we've come as a culture. this is not just a republican

versus democrat tug of war. it's a shift, a ground shift in even the makeup and the pre suppositions of the democratic party itself. it is an interesting comparison, and if you go down the list, even compared to bill clinton, the joe biden presidency of today is a foreign terrain all together. >> raymond: vivek, let's talk about shifting landscapes. you were in the inner city of philadelphia a few weeks ago. i need your reaction to this. the da there, larry krasner, said, after a philadelphia mass shooting left five people dead, he explained it this way. >> it is time for everybody in our legislature, including the ones who would like to walk around with an ar-15 lapel pin. it is time for every one of them to face the voters. and if they're not going to do something, then the voters are going to have to vote them out. because that's what that lapel pin means. it means vote me out. i am against you. and i am against your safety. >> raymond: vivek, after

everything we've seen in blue cities, are republicans against -- or the people against safety? >> so, look, i think that we have to get to the root cause of what's going on here. a mental health epidemic across our country. i know the facts are still coming out, but it appears that it may have been yet again a transgender individual involved, or at least someone suffering from an appearance of a mental health condition. that's what we need to actually have the courage to stand up and address in this country. the crisis of fatherlessness, most mass shootings are committed by people who did not grow up in a dual parent household. i visited kensington. part of the problem is, the government is literally paying for some of the behaviors that we would rather not see people engage in, giving out crack pipes or giving out needles for free through so-called aid programs. that's what we need to address is the upstream root causes, and democratic politicians like

krasner, the easy thing for them to do is virtue signal in a crisis, the harder thing and the thing they need to do is step up and address the root causes right there on their home turf and it is he a shame what i saw in kensington when i visited, that isn't the stuff of the united states of america, it's the stuff of a third world nation right here at home. >> raymond: vivek so good of you to go there where a lot of other republican candidates do not go or would not go. important light you shown on that communitiment thank you for being here. good luck on the trail. the sleeper hit of the summer has arrived and hollywood did not see it coming. the sound of freedom is based on the true story of tim ballard, a man who quit his government job to rescue children from sex traffickers. theaters are sold out all over the country, even in manhattan, where i asked moviegoers their reaction to the film. watch. >> it was brilliant. it was very engaging and fun to watch and amazing work of art. >> i thought the movie was really well made. i really enjoyed it. >> it was a great movie.

heart breaking. >> i saw you wiping your eyes when you came out of the theater. what happened? >> it was just so intense. it was like, you know, real life just right in front of the screen. >> the story is very sad, we could do that to, you know, to people. i cried all the time. >> it was shocking because it's true. >> raymond: and wait until you see the huge surprise we had for those moviegoers. plus the star of the film, jim caviezel is here to discuss the battle between tim ballard and indiana jones. stay there.

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>> raymond: such a powerful movie. sound of freedom, starring jim caviezel is based on the inspiring true story of tim ballard. he quit his job at dhs to rescue children from sex traffickers in third world countries. it just came out on monday and it's already surpassed expectations. sound of freedom is the number one film in the country. joining me now, star of the movie, actor jim caviezel. jim, so great to have you here. >> great to be here, ray. >> raymond: what was it about tim ballard, his story, his mission, that captured your imagination and you said i have to play this role? >> just the script was phenomenal. i saw a movie taken years ago and this is a real story about taken, and it's a quintessential good versus evil and those that want to protect the children and those that want to exploit the children. so it's good versus evil. in our time right now, so many things that are happening across the boarder where children are

disappearing and what not, and i looked at it and i thought of my own children and would i defend with them -- would i defend them with my life? absolutely, without even a thought and tim is that guy. >> raymond: amazing guy, incredible mission this underground railroad network he set up. you and i went on a little outing the other day to the theater and we surprised moviegoers. watch. >> what did you think of jim caviezel's performance? >> he is a very great actor but the silence, i mean, when he is silent and he just tears up, it's -- >> raymond: breaks your heart. >> yeah, breaks my heart. >> i could feel the emotion from everything he was witnessing and he was putting himself into. >> his performance is excellent. >> raymond: i want to introduce to you somebody. >> hi. how you doing? >> oh, my gosh. >> oh, my god. >> oh, my god. >> oh, my goodness. >> thank you, thank you very much for that movie. >> we have to help our children, don't we?

>> i know, i know. >> raymond: why do you think audiences are responding that way? some of these people were in tears, they didn't know what to expect and why do you think they're buying out theaters? >> well, i think that of the same way the, it's a wonderful life, all that you can take -- i can't remember the line, but, anyway i memorized it with jimmy stewart, but anyway, they love their children, they love -- raymond, i -- that scene right there with that lady made me cry. i don't know, man. i just looked at it and i said, this -- i thought of my children. i thought, i know that they're all watching right now, and i thought -- >> raymond: everybody else's children? >> i did. >> raymond: and i see your reaction and this to you is not just a role. people don't realize this is a $150 billion industry, more than ten million people are

trafficked every year, 27% of those children. it's really bringing that cause to light as well. >> yes. >> raymond: for you. >> oh, absolutely. and it's -- i just, i think about all of the stuff that i had to go through, and then i thought about what tim had to go through daily, and it's in the movie. and this guy is willing to sacrifice himself to save them, and his wife would send him on this road that she felt that if she would lose her salvation if he wouldn't go do this. and he was willing to sacrifice himself like, you know, many of the stories in the bible that you read. it's like a king david, you know, when he was kicked out of his house and so it was very emotional seeing those people right there. >> raymond: well, and, look, the subject matter is very hot,

something hollywood has not touched before. and now there's this battle going on between sound of freedom and disney's indiana jones. i'm going to read you, this is from deadline. >> all industry eyes are watching the anomaly of this non-major studio independent title that has faith-based elements, some pre release projections had sound of freedom doing 11 million to $15 million over six days, not one day. jim, the film being shown in only 2600 theaters compared to indiana jones 4600. it has made $14 million in one day. indiana jones made 11.7. what's going on here? why is disney fighting? they're saying the pre sales shouldn't count but they do count. you're the number one movie. >> yeah. well, this isn't about them. it's not about angel studios putting it out. it's about the children. and americans waking up right now, and the only way these laws are going to be changed is that

if the people move right now to save them. this is a good versus evil story. this is a battle hero story and i was very blessed that i got the opportunity, just as i was blessed to do the passion of the christ. and this is the best film i've done since that film. it is a controversial issue. it shouldn't be. we should be just naturally wanting to save our children but again there's those out there that want to exploit them. >> raymond: it's curious to me that disney had an opportunity to distribute this film when they bought 20th century fox. they let that go. and now, sound of freedom has shown indiana jones the dial of destiny, which is pointing to extinction i think. >> raymond we are not disney's film. we are the people's film. can we love our children. can we love god's children more than we fear evil. that's the challenge here and americans are up to it and i love it. and they hear the sound of freedom because god's children are no longer for sale. >> raymond: we will leave it

there. jim caviezel, thanks for being here and going for an outing, sound of freedom theaters everywhere if you can get a ticket but try. in moments comedian rob schneider dishes on the scourge of modern day tipping plus he dishes on his comedy special. you do not want to miss this. stay there.

♪ >> raymond: okay, joining me now a man who needs no introduction, actor and comedian rob schneider. he's alsos the star of woke up in america, available exclusively right now on foxnation.com. rob, what an honor to have you on tonight. we'll get to your comedy special in a second. >> thank you. >> raymond: but first -- >> thank you raymond, i want to just. >> raymond: go ahead. >> i want to tell you thanks for having me on after the sex trafficker movie. i appreciate that. very nice. and now rob schneid snore we're not on brand. this is a departure. that was a clear break in between. a new trend in men's fashion. daisy dudes. they are short shorts that barely cover the jewels. rob i believe we have footage of you sporting a pair of something like this. watch. [laughter]. >> that is the stupidest looking swing i've ever seen. >> i'm going to take a molokai

on that one. >> let's see what you get. >> raymond: rob are you going to break those out again in public? >> i think there's an age limit. you can't have too much stuff hanging out of those and i think i was just at the limit in my 30s. >> raymond: i agree. me too. i don't think this looks good on anybody, rob. these are really horrible. okay. your fox nation special. >> no. but i will -- thank you, thank you. no, if you can pull it off, god bless you. you know, but you've got to do a lot of work to be able to pull those off well. i think i was able to barely do it back in the early 2000s. >> raymond: i'm not going to press any further on what you're pulling off. but, rob, your fox nation special tackles the issue of wokeness, and there's an issue in hollywood about certain actors not being able to play particular roles. like a straight man playing a gay character. here's stanley toochi, here's

what he said about it. watch. >> obviously i believe that's fine. when gay men come up to me and talk about the devil wears prada or supernova and say it was just so beautiful, you you did it the right way. an actor is an actor is an actor. you're supposed to play different people. >> raymond: your reaction. should be be shoe horned into only your own nationality as an actor. >> when guys who wear daisy dudes come up to me and say you know what you did it the right way. you kept most of your butt in your shorts. no, of course you've got to play other people, that's the whole fun of it. it's not like in the sex trafficking movie, child trafficking movie, you can only have child traffickers play it? it's crazy. i'm half asian half german, i only play half german half asian roles? it's another part of loon situate that i think people don't really feel that way. what happens is, i really believe that people, they're

using your good will against you. everybody wants to make the right decision, but these are like trojan horse terms, you know? social justice, who wouldn't be for social justice, but there's bad ideas that hide inside of them and this is another crazy one. first of all you should be able to play any role you can. honestly. sean penn won an academy award playing a gay guy you know. >> raymond: that's the delight we get to watch rob schneider play multiple roles what he he transforming into and what's the game. >> that is fun. >> raymond: i want to talk about your special, woke up in america, roaringly funny. here's a sneak peek. watch. >> this country was in trouble when i went to a bank and the guard at the bank was like, excuse me, sir, you're in a bank. you have to wear a mask. the last hundred years you wore a mask in a bank, you were the bad guy. all right, here you go. give me that money, let's go. this was going to be a deposit,

now it's a robbery. >> raymond: rob, people have told me how great it is to hear comedy that actually embraces what they're experiencing every day. what have you heard? you've got to hear great reactions to this. >> well, it's been really nice, because the point of comedy should be to challenge you so that your fix ideas get challenged and people who have a little bit more time on their hands, like all comedians do, can look at things and say maybe this is out of whack or this is too far or this is too crazy and it's been good, you know. going back to like playing different characters, i played a cashinger in the movie zohan where i played a palestinian guy no one complained because no one realized it was me. that's what you do. it's fun to hide behind people. >> raymond: rob i'm out of time. thank your family for letting you come on. i know you're on vacation. we'll be right back. great to have you on. final thoughts in a moment.

>> greg: great time we had being with you tonight. i'm raymond arroyo in for laura ingraham. now that school is out, summer's

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