ben franklin said you're both wrong, the world's oldest profession is the politician. who do you think created the chaos in the first place? president reagan understood this was his famous quote, the most terrifying words in the english language i am here from the government and i'm here to help, he understood the vital role government had to play. he didn't say no government. he understood that there was a core function of government but he also understood how government could be a negative force if not applied properly. if you look at the last four or five years and the performances of individual states and compare florida versus california, new york, illinois, those other states, we have had a great experiment. a great test in governing philosophies because of course you know, things much differently in florida than you guys have out here, much different in florida than they have done in new york and illinois and other states. what is the result of that? you have an election in your state, that is fine. the american people as a whole in some ways have voted about th

benjamin rush, thomas jefferson, and ben franklin and the debate was about what was the world's oldest profession and dr. rush said, as a physician, he said the world's oldest profession is a doctor because eve was cut out of adam's rib so it has to be the physician. thomas jefferson, who you know designed monticello, no, the world's oldest profession is the architect. it was the architect to brought order out of the chaos in the universe and ben franklin said you're both wrong. the world's oldest profession is the politician. who do you think created the chaos in the first place. [laughter] >> and president reagan understood this. his famous quote that the most terrifying words in the english language, i'm here from the government and i'm here to help. he understood the vital role that government had to play. he didn't say no government and he understood that there was a core function of government, but he also understood how government could be a negative force if not applied properly, and i think if you look over the last four or five years, and you look at the performances of indiv

and ben franklin said no, you are both wrong. the oldest profession is a politician. who do you think created the chaos in the first place? and p president reagan understod this. he understood the vital role that government had to play. he didn't say no government and he understood that there was a core function of government but he alsorc understood how it coud be negative if not applied properly. and i and i think if you look at the last four or five years into the performances of individual states and you compare florida versus california versus those other states. we approach things much differently in florida at the tu guys have out here much differently in florida than they've done in new york and illinois and many of these other states and what is the result of that? you have elections in your state and that's fine, but the american people as a whole in some ways have voted about this experiment because they voted with their feet and if you look over the last four years, we have witnessed an american exodus from states governed by leftist politicians imposing l

ben franklin's operation would have been another one. it is robert bell who publishes the first edition but because there was no copyright back then, competitors would soon buy a copy and print their own compete against him. so robert bell is fiercely trying to hold on to that earlier advantage. i am obsessed with common sense. i have this assignment i do with students, which i am pathetically proud of. it uses one of these amazing databases we have now. which is digitized a hall's on of early american newspapers from this era and you can search them by keyword. any mention of common sense next to each other will get flagged and you can scroll through them and see who used that phrase. i have an assignment where i tell my students, writers over the years have said that everyone in america read common sense, it was almost universally read. people who have tried to count the number of readers have speculated it is 300,000 or something like that. but nobody has bothered to prove that. they have just asserted that. so i have my students use

ben franklin had this saying text the guy behind the treat. the bottom half of americans pay no federal income tax and the tax burden is on the shoulders of upper income people. you can only text people so far, then you tax them out of existence. the other thought i have is corporate's -- everyone is going to tax corporations. corporations are not taxpayers, they are tax collectors. the consumer ends up paying it. guest: i do not want to offer too much of an opinion on this. the congressional budget office tries to not offer opinions on anything but the technical issues. if you want to raise taxes, you can raise taxes. you have to think about where you could raise them. you have a really progressive tax system, it may not be progressive enough for you. wealthier folks in the united states pay more than a lower income folks. again, i keep pointing this out, 120 ways to live with the deficit. it actually has a number estimate, it tells you how much the different actions will reduce the deficit, so you can see if you raise the income tax rate on

they were debating and ben franklin actually said, the alternative is assassination.his is probably a better system to deal with than a tyrant of a ruler. for a long time, the prospect of impeachment was a real -- hanging over the oval office. richard nixon resigned rather than face the -- of actually having removal. the last five years there have been impeachment. a bill clinton who i have worked for. it seems clearer then it ought to be that impeachment turned out not to be ultimately the sanction that people thought it was for a long time. which leads to the criminal process, which has its own strengths and weaknesses. are we uncomfortable that the only way to hold a president accountable turns out to be the criminal law? or is that not really the right thing to worry about. i will ask each of you to weigh in on that? andrew, you were as mentioned at the beginning deputy robert moeller in the investigation of russia's interference in our election. i'm sure this is something you all thought about a great deal during that time. andrew: the special counsel investigati

virtues that make this state great and men and women who sacrificed everything and if you recall ben franklin when a woman asked in 1776 after the declaration of independence was passed what have you given us mr. franklin he responded a are. you can keep it and we have to keep it. every generation has to renew it it's not the natural state of humanity otherwise many nations? the world would embrace it. we have an oasis in midst of a vast desert and if we do not promote and defend this country who else will? so i'm optimistic in the sense that i know how it all turns up. but that's opt mistwk kind of leadership we have right now good people don'ts want to run for office if you've done something you'rear embarrassed about who hasn't, myself may be the exception -- [laughter] you know, you'll be -- you'll be demagogue today. my solution and suggestions are people running for office put out a press release on any known sin you've committed to the frepgdz in the media it is about what you've done and what you vice president spoken about. anyway, keep trusting on upward way and talk to your neighbo

country great and established it the men and women who sacrificed everything and you'll recall ben franklin's great line when a woman askeden in 1776 after the declaration of independence was passed what have you given us mr. franklin? he responded a republic, if you can keep it and be up to keep it, every generation as to renew it. it's not the natural state of humanity. otherwise many nations in the world would embrace it. we are and always as in the midst of a vast desert and if we do not promote and defend this country who else will? i'm optimistic inhe the sense tt i know how it all turns out. i'm not so optimistic with the leadership we have right now. if you've ever done anything in your life and myself being the exception newbie demagogues to. my solution is chosen for people people running for office put out a press release on every you commit because it's not what deep down it's what you haven't spoken about.ny keep n pressing on the upward wy and talk to neighbors and talk to your friends and tell them what america is really all about and ask them how their ideas are working. >> je

the rattlesnake, as ben franklin said, they never attacked first. they never back down. americans identify with that spirit. look, it goes deeper than that. if we want the moral high ground, abby, to say that schools shouldn't be banning rainbow flags on kids binders or backpacks to celebrate pride, we have to also say they should be banning free speech on the other side. this is a country that treasures free speech. frankly, i hope it leads to a frank discussion, in that school, and others around the country. about how free speech means we support the speech even when we don't agree with it. >> yeah, it interesting point. in the context of all the kind of against the bans, i don't wear the politics of this teacher, are i can't speak to that whatsoever. but this certainly seems to be a case where they were, to some extent, trying to police speech, even for a 12-year-old. are you concerned that this is something that could be more widespread, as people in your party, maybe on the left, you know, want to address types of political speech that they disagree with? >> i think

because even ben franklin thinks this pie is spanking.s all about u-s-aand b es." [ laughter ] i'm looking at you, granny smith. >> jimmy: all right, okay. >> tariq: and if you're feeling steamy - add a little ice creamy.oh god ! thata hole in one in my pie hole [ cheers and applause >> jimmy: wow, tariq that looks fantastic >> tariq: yo, i didn't ask for your opinion, man. i'm outta here [ laughter ] [ applause ] >> jimmy: the fourth of july weekend is almost here, and of course that means companies are releasing their america-themed commercials. but one commercial really surprised me take a look at this one. ♪ >> amemerica was b built on grg determinination, andnd resilien. so when you hit the open road thisis summer, chohoose the only trtruck in this s economy affordabable enough toto drive [ laughter ] power wheels god bless 'merica. [ cheers and applause >> jimmy: that's exactly right and speaking of trucks, some drivers in new jersey got an unexpected show when a truck that was hauling fireworks caught on fire [ audience oohs watch

it was ben franklin designed that flag, it was the colonies uniting really against the french and indiand to me, is that flag racist? no. why is every single thing in history racist to these people? that's problem. when you allow them to control these policies and these decisions and what is and is not offensive, you're infringing on free speech rights, and your really trying to memory hole american history. stuart: yeah. everything's about race these days, isn't it? it's as if race dominates everything including our history, and it's it's the got to be scraped clean. i find it -- like the world turned upside down, ian. >> i mean, it really is, right? it's race, and it's transgender issue is. these are the core issues of the left that they will not remeant on, and they are going to -- relent on, and they are going to keep fighting. for parents pushing bark, you can't necessarily expect this is going to be solved in two or three years, this is a long-term fight. this is an inflection point in the history of our country, and we have to keep fighting in counts, school boards, at the legisla

the ones we didn't choose include ben franklin, dr. seuss, margaret sanger, alex haley. those are some of the names on the list of books that shaped america created by the library of congress that we did not choose necessarily for perhaps season one in this series. our producers were up at the library and your curators put out some of the artifacts. they talked about the oliver wendell holmes, hurston papers, and the mass from the lewis and clark expedition. i guess there is a map of the united states that in the middle it basically says to be determined or to be discovered. >> that's what's so wonderful when you think about that expedition and the fact that the library of congress has the world's largest collection of maps. we have some of the maps that were used on the expedition. then the diaries of the expedition. you get to see in real-time as that discovery was being made. what were people thinking? what were they writing down? how are they describing it? it's time when we are thinking about our environment and the things that have changed, to have real-time descri

and she's very proud of it and extremely proud of it and commuted in every day on the ben franklin to go to philadelphia and i found out in the years right before my mother died that my grandmother was also a maid was a maid for a tremendously time, probably more than a decade and she was living. and my mother would always tell me stories, her aunt sis and staying with her and how she was different than her parents because says cook differently and her and did stuff and i like well you know like where is this aunt says how she related to us like where she where she go and if this wasn't a relative she was a woman who kept my mother for the first three years of her life because, my grandmother lived in and could not come home. and so learning and really thinking about the toll that it took on as a family for her to have to take that work, the only work she could get after, this migration from south carolina to north carolina and all the way to philadelphia. there's story in particular that, having known your mom just took me out to, read a choice your grandmother had to make. so i thin

i mean, when ben franklin said, a republic, if you can keep it, he being cheeky.didn't think we had this sort of pull towards authoritarianism in our democracy. >> i'm deeply afraid for our country. yeah, i'm afraid that the kind of political violence, the kind of abandonment of the rule of law, the kind of abandonment of the constitution that we watched does threaten the foundations of democracy, the foundations of our system, and the fact that so many in my party are willing to be silent, are complicit, are enabling it adds very much to the peril. because it's a very dangerous place for the country to be. >> i was discussing with an older friend of mine the subject of our documentary tonight, the erosion of american democracy, the continued undermining of basic rule of law and respect for facts. stay sane, he said to me. then, alluding to that famous quote that shamed joe mccarthy in 1954, my friend said, somebody has to sit up and say at long last, have you no decency? on the other hand, my friend said, somebody has to be listening when he says it. the thing is

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if you're doing the ben franklin close, you had 4-1 you had four reasons for the -- and only three reasonsy running at or even above potential and inflation is coming down we talked to jeremy siegel and he suggested we may be having a productivity surge and causing inflation to fall. i don't know how long it's going to ask there are those head winds we talked about it could still be on the come here >> any normal person who hears, well, for us to accomplish our goals we're going to have to really cut growth and make sure things slow down i mean, just -- i wish -- doesn't a normal person say i wish it didn't have to be that way. and then if it turns out it didn't have to be that way -- i wish we could lower inflation without killing growth >> very quickly, joe, that's one of the things i'm going to be asking people about in the hallways here is this really challenges the model the fed operates under hopefully we'll get some answers and i'll come back and talk to fed folks and tell you exactly what they say. >> excellent, thank you. the river runs through it there in jackson hole. it does. >

i wrote about ben franklin once.e here's one side, here's the other, let's do the calculation. >> i city still think most americans come down on the side of not necessarily being far right or far left. they look at issues and decide based on issue by issue. >> absolutely. and most of us try to have open minds. i've changed my mind on so many different things over the course of political debate, but the technology of a fractured media where you want to grab a hard core, whether it's on your corner of the bloggosphere tend to drive people in echo chambers and those of us like most americans and trying to see all sides, we don't have a natural base now if you go back to cnn, it's hard right now because it's all trump all the time it's hard for them to get off of that it would be useful to see if you could try to do a very high value information, nonpartisan, nonideological news and that would appeal to 60% of us. >> i think that's what they started off trying to do >> there's an addiction to trump. i hate to say it when

allen, a lot of times i can't figure out which side to come down on, so i do the ben franklin close.s like 13 to 12 on this. i mean, there's camaraderie at work. there's all the support staff in new york that needs people here. they have jobs they have to show up for. it would be nice if they could service the people coming in in new york. i think about, you know, commuting costs and child care, and so it's really split between is it about 13 to 12? i can come up with 13 really good things about it and 12 bad things about it? >> good question in terms of how you score this. covid did not cause remote work. remote work was caused by the fact that the pace of work was getting so frenetic, this was going to happen anyway. covid was a shock to the system, and made it a topic, made it possible, sent everybody home, and gave us the opportunity to rethink. so absolutely right, we have to be better at creating culture remotely. we have to be better at training and developing people remotely. all of that is true. i come down, quite frankly, on hybrid, but i also have a caveat. early career pe

ben franklin had this saying text the guy behind the treat. bottom half of americans pay no federal income tax and the tax burden is on the shoulders of upper income people. you can only text people so far, then you tax them out of existence. the other thought i have is corporate's -- everyone is going to tax corporations. corporations are not taxpayers, they are tax collectors. the consumer ends up paying it. guest: i do not want to offer too much of an opinion on this. the congressional budget office tries to not offer opinions on anything but the technical issues. if you want to raise taxes, you can raise taxes. you have to think about where you could raise them. you have a really progressive tax system, it may not be progressive enough for you. wealthier folks in the united states pay more than a lower income folks. again, i keep pointing this out, 120 ways to live with the deficit. it actually has a number estimate, it tells you how much the different actions will reduce the deficit, so you can see if you raise the income tax rate on the

the ones we didn't choose include ben franklin, dr. seuss, margaret sanger, alex haley.hose are some of the names on the list of books that shaped america created by the library of congress that we did not choose necessarily for perhaps season one in this series. our producers were up at the library and your curators put out some of the artifacts. they talked about the oliver wendell holmes, hurston papers, and the mass from the lewis and clark expedition. i guess there is a map of the united states that in the middle it basically says to be determined or to be discovered. >> that's what's so wonderful when you think about that expedition and the fact that the library of congress has the world's largest collection of maps. we have some of the maps that were used on the expedition. then the diaries of the expedition. you get to see in real-time as that discovery was being made. what were people thinking? what were they writing down? how are they describing it? it's time when we are thinking about our environment and the things that have changed, to have real-time descript

franklin foer. let's bring in our panel byron york. leslie marshall, democratic strategist and bench podcast on fox news rooflt much byron, it is amazing that some of these stories that the white house is fact checked on and they are asked about continue to bubble up in different moments and bizarre moments. >> he will never stop telling them. this book just came out. i have not read the book but have looked at the excerpts. i think it kind of shows that joe biden is exactly the guy we thought he was on the afghan with drawvment the disastrous afghan withdrawal. he thought he knew more about t. than anybody else about it because he had been on had senate committees for a million years. he micromanaged it. probably made things worse. and then wouldn't take any blame at all for it. that's kind of what we thought about what was going on. and there is one more thing he occasionally has told aides that he feels tired. well, we can actually see that i mean, if he told his aides, you know, i think i'm just too old for this job, now that would be news. i think we are really learning basica