well, thomas jefferson. thomas jefferson is a man who has a background that similarities to washington. he's 11 years younger, not that much difference in age, but he's not military. thomas jefferson's, he had a father that was a robber man who was also a surveyor for lord fairfax and established the fairfax stone, which i visited at the western extremity of maryland and west virginia, served saying the western edge of large fairfax property, peter jefferson there's a map that peter jefferson and joshua fry make in 1751 that washington uses when he's going there. bounds so he was kind of a burly outdoors guy. he dies when thomas jefferson is 14 and basically thomas jefferson is a rich at age 14, washing up to son of a second marriage, totally different multiple brothers doesn't inherit much money, inherits three slaves. jefferson inherits a hundred and and his father is the mapmaker, not him. and the father was the father was the map maker. jefferson establishes environments and you can see the final ones th

thomas jefferson he was 33 when he wrote the declaration of independence. think about that.he swivel chair while he was at it. this is a guy who was fluent in seven languages, right in two of them. he was a guy who wrote i tell students when i talk to them, he wrote 16,000 letters over the course of his life. like 16,000 letters, that's like 4000 works, okay i give up her do that. no, no, no. he wrote 16,000 letters, essays over the course of his life. when he sat down to write the declaration of independence the public is going to sit there for a long time. he invented the swivel chair, the modern swivel chair that we sit in today was invented by thomas jefferson. one of our founding fathers. and then the polygraph test. these were the guys who set this country and motion. what would we say today? you get to do, you're not an expert, you didn't get it for your college degree. shut up and sit down to it are told. not our founding fathers. these were the pioneers, the explorers, the unafraid, the people who would not be stopping somebody else telling them what they can and ca

you hear about thomas jefferson as a slaveholder.t you did not hear was john adams was a principled abolitionist. he did not have to be. around him the normal thing was to be a slaveholder. his son john quincy adams was our first non-founding father who became a resident. this was a guy who in his father's legacy wanted to abolish slavery. he tried everything he could in his post-presidential career,, served one term w -- career, served one term. he was called back into what pulled him into public service in the first place. he got elected as a congressman actually. think about that happening today. after serving as president of the united states, he went back to serve as a mere congressman in u.s. congress. served for multiple terms and he went there with one objective. to abolish slavery. so back when he was serving in congress, they had something called the gag rule. the restrictions on speech today, they had restrictions on speech back then. some congressman from the south said you cannot say the word slavery on the congress floo

so if i look at the seven presidents that i focus on, you know, thomas jefferson was a serial founder. he always knew that he wanted to found a great university. you know, john quincy adams, you know, had no idea what he was gonna do next. and in a much lower station, he found a much higher calling as a abolitionist, you know, ex-president in the house of representatives. george w. bush never knew that he was gonna, you know, become so passionate about painting that it would, you know, he'd be a painter longer tn he was a politician. - john quincy adams, the son of john adams, the second president, is the only former president who went on to serve in the house of representatives. he served nine terms, almost two decades. explain the circumstances of adam's trajectory. - well, first of all, it's worth noting, so john quincy adams, who gets his first job appointed by george washington in his administration, dies in his ninth term in the house of representatives as an ex-president in 1848, serving alongside abraham lincoln, a freshman congressman from illinois. so talk about- - and he di

and the thomas jefferson foundation. please join me in welcoming our panelists. like. well, good afternoon. oh, it's so good to see you. oh, i see. we have after lunch. crowd oh, right. very good. well, we're excited to be here this afternoon to talk about president sites and various forms and formats and how we interpret history at these sites in an inclusive way. and in a way that sheds light on how these presidents have been successful and have had tremendous impact on our nation, but how they have also harmed others in the process. so let us begin our conversation on this afternoon with gail. if you could share with us a little bit about yourself often you are actually a descendant of thomas jefferson and the hemings family, and you've written a wonderful book called reclamation, which which i have with me. yes. and tell us about how has your journey in reclaiming your heritage, as well as the journeys of other descendants, elevate it and enhance the visitor experience at monticello? thank you for that question. and first of all, i have to tell you how thrilled i a

what did thomas jefferson mean by the words all men are created equal. he surely did not mean that they were equal and or identical in what they could do, or in what they believed. after all, he was himself the most remarkable person. at the age of 26. he designed this beautiful house in monticello, supervised it to construct and indeed is said to have worked on it with his own hands. he was an inventor, a scholar, an author, a statesman, governor of virginia, president of the united states, minister to france. he helped shape and create the united states. what he meant by the word equal can be seen in the phrase endowed by their creator to thomas jefferson. all men are equal in the eyes of god. they all must be treated as individuals who have each separately a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. of course, practice did not conform to the ideals in jefferson's life or an ours as a nation. he agonized repeatedly during his lifetime about the conflict between the institution of slavery and the fine words of the declaration. yet during his

uh -- not thomas jefferson.h -- thomas jefferson. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: didn't you just say thomas jefferson? >> that's the only name going through my brain right now. >> jimmy: do you think he's on all the coins? >> no. >> jimmy: no. give it one more try, jeff. think of a different president. >> uh -- let's see -- >> jimmy: oh, no, i'm so sorry. wow. you know what, you lose all 6 of those cents. it was roosevelt. fdr. and what do we have for jeff there? >> lou: a ps-5. >> jimmy: i'm so sorry, jeff, you'll have to take this ps-5. [ cheers ] thank you for playing "on the money." wow, we've got to really work on that. we're going to have to -- the mint's got to get an ad campaign going, we've got a problem on our hands here. [ laughter ] we have a good show for you tonight. from "abbott elementary," tyler james williams is here. [ cheers and applause ] we have music from the beaches, and we'll be right back with jeff goldblum. so stick around! conservative republican steve garvey is the wrong choice for the senat

what did thomas jefferson mean by the words all men are created equal. he surely did not mean that they were equal and or identical in what they could do, or in what they believed. after all, he was himself the most remarkable person. at the age of 26. he designed this beautiful house in monticello, supervised it to construct and indeed is said to have worked on it with his own hands. he was an inventor, a scholar, an author, a statesman, governor of virginia, president of the united states, minister to france. he helped shape and create the united states. what he meant by the word equal can be seen in the phrase endowed by their creator to thomas jefferson. all men are equal in the eyes of god. they all must be treated as individuals who have each separately a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. of course, practice did not conform to the ideals in jefferson's life or an ours as a nation. he agonized repeatedly during his lifetime about the conflict between the institution of slavery and the fine words of the declaration. yet during his

october 4th, 1825, at 82 years old, the worst day in thomas jefferson's life, the students at his belovedrsity, ug covering and face masks, championing down with european professors, and throwing bags of urine esat the administratio jefferson calls an oath to assembly for the next day for the students to meet before the committee. that committee was thomas jefferson, james madison, and james wrote, most intimidating disciplinary committee past, present, and future. and the reason this is prescriptive for today, jefferson stands up and he starts balling, hysterically crying down is 82-year-old face. and he was a man with such tremendous principle that when james madison, five foot one, puts his hand fon jefferson's shoulder to sit down, the students are so distraught by saying thomas jefferson emotionally tarnished by what they've done, that they guilty confess one by one. and they sort of abandoned, this sort of show of southern honor where they won't get each other up -- >> what a great story! this is great. the new book is entitled life after power, seven presidents and their purpose be

if people don't respect thomas jefferson they should go find another country to live in. i work for the richest people in the world and they have the in the world and they have the there is, there actually is, this is 100% truth. there are higher standards by far at a race track controlling horse races integrity than there is in any election in the united states of america. >> thank you mr. merrell . >> i supported trump in 2016 and i enjoyed the trump presidency. i thought it was time for an entrepreneur to be president. but, things change and the country has changed and we need a different type of president. i thought that -- i am big on lincoln and the team of rivals, doris kearns goodwin. i thought he had a chance to make mitt romney his secretary of state and i think that is the biggest ball he dropped because then mitt romney turns around and becomes a utah senator and votes against him twice for impeachment. so, if i was president -- and also, we have a 70 year embargo against cuba. china is building this army over there and we have all types of relationships with

thomas jefferson invented the swivel chair, even the polygraph test was invented by thomas jefferson.iosity, the unafraid, the explorers. we can bring that back but it will take a generational change to do it. >> what keeps these creative types down and discourages that kind of out-of-the-box thinking? >> you see it in the classroom now. it is not cool to be the smartest kid in the class. you are supposed to hide your excellence. one of the things we need to do in this country again is celebrate excellence. it is unified and that is what america is founded on. we are the pioneers, unafraid, the people who would never be stopped. we have canceled them from history. we need to celebrate people. inventors are not often like the people around them. might they say things that are wrong at times, yes, but you have to celebrate what they achieve. >> jesse: don't pick on the smart kids in school. that is a start. how was mar-a-lago? he talked about flying taxis? >> we had a good dinner. we did not get to flying taxis. we need batteries that can charge themselves. >> jesse: thank you so much.

thomas jefferson survives. - when thomas jefferson and john adams die within hours of each other on the nation's 50th anniversary, the first chapter in american history comes to a dramatic close, earned with tremendous courage and perseverance. our nation stands on the sacrifice of our founding patriots and the liberty they fought so hard to achieve. while our government does require constant evaluation and revision the core values of the patriots remain firm. and so does their grand democratic experiment called the united states of america. larry: hello, folks. welcome to kudlow, i'm l arry kudlow. well, speaker mike johnson said happy valentine's day with more love for america by stopping ukraine funding bill and closing america's border instead. right on. matt taibbi will be here asking if election fix is already in. and oversight chair james comer will update us on joe biden influence peddling and classified documents, we begin with a couple thoughts off the top of, i love what speaker johnson did today, happy valentine's day. >> house g news conference mr. johnson said he wants to

you think back to our founding ,benjamin franklin, thomas jefferson.se guys invented things like the franklin you stove, the lightning rod at the top of the home. >> benjamin thomas jefferson invented the swivel chair. he invented it. even the polygraph tesel chairts invented by thomas jefferson, an early prototype of it. g back thatto brin founding spirit of curiosity that were the un, the unafraid, the explorers. that's part of what we've lost. i think we bring that back.ck bt >> but it's going to take a little bit of a generational change to do it. what i e a s it about the psychology of the country that kind of keeps creative types down and discourages that kind outnd of the box? >> thinking? well, if you see it even in the classroom right now, it's not cool to be the smartest ki d in the class. tell me that. cool to be the best at anything you're supposed to. you're suppose u ard to hide your actual excellence. >> and so i think one of the things we need to start ong in this country again is celebrating excellence. excellence, unifying. and i thin

people in rural areas that they who were considered kind of the heart of the american story, thomas jefferson's chosen children of god were being supply entered by an urban story story and, a place where living in the city seemed like an increasingly sophisticated thing to do. and farmers who once had been seen as the backbone of america are portrayed by some in the cities as kind rubes. and there is a growing urban rural divide divide. and it's going to play out in a lot of ways ways. cities in the late 19th century, people went there because there were jobs, immigrants went there because that's where they landed. but they were tough. the number of people arriving completely, the infrastructure pollution, sewage problems, horse manure everywhere. it was not pretty. but as a result of a movement known, as the progressive movement, at the turn the 19th into the 20th century, cities had been cleaned up. improvements in housing and sewer and parks and playgrounds and sanitary ocean and changes in the form of government to make them more efficient. and germ being applied to clean up cities. you can

you know, thomas jefferson gets his beautiful memorial in d.c. and george mason has a bench like in the shadow of. and you kind of feel like if george mason would have just been for i. i was there something you might not but then marcellus warren goes on and writes, you know, the greatest like early history of the american revolution, three volumes published in 1805. and and so some of that was so important to that generation then i i'm guessing that most american schoolchildren wouldn't be able to say who she is, except she is in the texas standards. so have both works of humanities. yeah, well, i would add in the people know who he is. i would say this john marshall, as a father story. john, john marshall. i mean, you know, chief justice who basically transformed ed the supreme court, which was pretty much nothing before he was there in a little power. and they start out they don't even have an office and there you know nobody wants to be it there trying to get somebody to be chief justice and he doesn't want it. you know, jay does want to come

when a liberal be heads a statue of thomas jefferson, that is good old-fashioned free-speech.ling wasn't just tolerated, it was encouraged by washington's most powerful people like nancy. beheading thomas jefferson was free-speech but a man who toppled the statue of satan is being charged with a hate crime. the devil was erected at the iowa state capitol by a satanic temple right next to the nativity scene in an intentionally provocative and disrespectful act. before christmas a guy beheaded the satan statue. the men, former u.s. navy reserve pilot michael cassidy told prime time it was good old christian civil disobedience. >> i was surprised that the legislature allowed it and they didn't do anything to take it and it offended me. it touched a nerve. it was righteous indignation. i call it christians civil disobedience. yes, i took the statue that was there and the idol or whatever you want to call it, and it's no longer there. spec democrat prosecutors now charging cassidy with a hate crime for removing satan's statue. it's a hate crime to take down satan. it's a hate crime

but he he loved the idea of the renaissance man that thomas jefferson.i don't think he thought much beyond my mother, who's from greensboro, carolina, like the kid that it was jefferson davis. but i don't think that was the case. but if we take this. jeffersonian idea, maybe is something sort of psychologically at work here, it is a critique of this idea that, you know, like jefferson felt that that every county should essentially rule itself and and have very limited interaction power. and in some ideal universe that's true. but we don't live in that world and. local forms of power are very coercive of and lead to this freedom to. and so that's why i'm in some ways i'm trying to overthrow sort of jeffersonian, jacksonian idea of of what freedom is, although i have sort of jackson revisionist thing going within the book. yeah. no. do you think. yeah it's going right and. could you comment on the inability of our country to change the constitution? that's a softball, right? yeah, right. yeah. i don't even know where to begin with that. but yeah, it is, it

everybody let's talk about thomas jefferson. true or false. he did not sign the us constitution. that would be false. >> false founding father he did not. >> it is true. it's true. he was in paris at the time and john adams was in london. so neither one of them signed the constitution. is that crazy? >> well, tricky. there are you guys even american? >> i know andrew and i should not be playing trivia together. >> clearly. >> okay, i think this one's easy question number three. this is a gimme. uh, guys, abraham lincoln is still the tallest president in us history. what do you think ? yes, true. it is true. at six foot four, he is the tallest by an inch. >> because donald trump is pretty tall. he's over six feet. >> obama six two. biden's six foot one, the shortest president at james madison at five four are james madison. but isn't that crazy? because, like, we're getting taller as a society. yet lincoln is still the tallest. that is wild. >> yeah, wild. >> okay. question number four. what was question number four i think had to do with teddy roosevelt. yo here we go. teddy bear

court decided not to intervene in the case of a supposedly race neutral high school in virginia thomas jefferson high school says the policies encourage diversity, not looking at national test scores and led to decline in asian students. two justices disented conservatives alito and thomas. >>> downtown los angeles has received more than 85% of its average annual rainfall. liz kreutz zb zblush. >> reporter: massive boulders, drivers needing dramatic rescues. los angeles has seen as much rain as typically all year, more than seattle, new orleans and memphis. deluge and storm after storm hitting california, taking a toll on the infrastructure, and some of the already eroding coastlines this area of rancho palos verdes in moving now by feet. >> started with a crack, and sinking, gotten worse and worse. >> reporter: water mains continue to break. the city is asking for help. >> i feel sorry for this part of our neighborhood. >> reporter: the historic wayfarers chapel closing, 175 weddings canceled. >> our structures are heaving, foundations are cracking everything on the property is being affected b

they are going to take one look at that and do it they did with thomas jefferson and kick it right outit goes, outcome it done. we are operating in the lawless city. we are operating with the council that has it out for our cops. they've got it o out for our co. >> the statue of thomas jefferson. >> yes they did that was disgusting. >> that stood there for 150 years or something but city councilwoman vicki, will keep track of that bill in the migrant crime crisis. >> we thank you both the family of a young pennsylvania police officer killed in the line of duty nearly a year ago is demanding justice from philadelphia's district attorney. sgt christopher fitzgerald was trying to stop three teens from carjacking someone near temple university when he was shot and killed. christina coleman is live with the story. christina? >> hi arthel played the young 31-year-old police sergeant pols behind a wife and five children on fox and friends this morning his parents and his widow described fitzgerald as a devoted father it with an incredible personality who cared deeply for his community and who

>> was thinking about thomas jefferson, thomas jefferson was a guy who had a. took the gospel of and cut out all the miracles and left all the teachings because they thought he was a fine moral teacher but he could not be defined and that was not possible in this unscientific to bring someone back from the dead and turning water into wine. he wanted to keep the teaching of jesusus figure where the miracles and folks worshiped the temple of reason during the colonial period. that was their highest calling signs in recent that's how what gave us to help understand the world around us. we don't need miracles we just need -- they believe god existed and he was a divine watchmaker created the laws of science and gravity and then he took his p hands off and let things happen the way they were supposed to happen. >> let's go to fill in johnson pennsylvania religious. hi bill. >> good morning. i'm an■ evangelical lutheran and we don't think as -- of evangelicals the way lot of people think of evangelicals. my question house to do with televangelist and the rise of the

this is hardly what the third president of the united states, thomas jefferson, whose monument this is had in mind when he defined a wise, frugal government as one which restrained men from injuring each other and them otherwise free to, regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement. ever since the corvair affair, the us government increasingly been muscling in between buyer and seller. in the marketplaces of america. by thomas jefferson's standards, what we have today is not a wise and frugal government, but a spendthrift and snooping government. the federal regulations that govern our lives are available in many places. one set is here in the library of congress in, washington, d.c. in 1936, the federal government established the federal register to record all of the regulations, hearings and other matters connected with the agencies in washington. this is volume one. number one, in 1936, it took three volumes like this to record these matters. in 1937, it took. and then it grew and grew. and. at first, rather slowly. and gradually. but even so, by year, it took a bigger an

. >> very few of those rioters were charged because when a liberal badge, a statuea st of thomas jefferson. >> that's good old fashioned free speec thomas h. statue toppling wasn't just tolerated. it was encourageg wasn't jusd by washington's most powerful people like nancy beheading. >> thomas jefferson was free speech, but a man who toppled a statueas of satan is beingbein charged with a hate crime. >> so the devil was erected at the iowa stats erece capitoly a satanic temple right next to the nativity scene in anll intentionally provocative and disrespectful acovocativt. >> so before christmas, a guy beheaded the satan statue. the man, former u.s. navy reserve pilot michael cassidy, told primetime it waits good old christian civil disobedience. ee >> i was surprised that ite allo that the legislature allowed it up and that they didn't do anything to takehing t it. and it it offended me. it touched a nerve. it was a, you know, righteous indignation, i call it, you know, christian civil disobedience, disobedience. >> and yes, i took the statue that was there and it foratever the idol, wha

thomas jefferson was the greatest intellectual force that the united states ever had. no one else in the ballpark. those that don't respect jefferson, you might as well find a different country. have to run a team professionally. i work with the riskiest people in the world with the highest standards. 100% truth, there are higher professional standards by far at a racetrack controlling horserace integrity then there is in any election in the united states. >> wrapping up the debate, mr. mitchell, you are the final word. >> i supported zdenek trump in 2016 -- i supported president trump in 2016. i enjoyed the trump presidency. i thought it was time for an entrepreneur to be president. thanks change. and the country is changed and we need a different type of president. i am big on linked in. and the team that -- mitch becomes the utah senator. and also, we have a 70 year embargo against cuba. china is building an army. and we have all types of relationships with people. after 70 years, if i were president i would end the embargo and tear down that wall. >> thank you very

and since you were to me to see them in the thomas jefferson general, have you heard back then that would have been impossible. 9 alan roscoe was the f, a o official responsible for crop protection in latin america and the caribbean for many years. we asked him what these agreements mean for you in organization like the f a o. to no longer are we in a spot where we can discuss with member countries that human health hazards are pesticides and with the companies and play this role of neutral broker that is so important for f, a l for you into play. now this partnership with a couple, i for nasa out destroys that completely because now there we are. you know, there's the director general smiling with the head of crop life saying we're in this is strategic partnership together. and we're moving forward together. well, to me as sense just the wrong image and message to everybody that i say it was no longer an honest a neutral broker. as we went through pesticides shipment data that could be traced to specific companies, one firm stood out. the chinese state owned syngenta the how could the as