i know is the ben franklin bridge, baby. that's how you get to the jersey shore. oh, yeah. >> we're the worst. yeah. how's john fetterman doing? >> john fetterman is doing perfect. >> who is john fetterman? somebody. >> i don't know, but he sounds like a good person. he's a liberal. >> i love when he wears, like, the sweatshirts and stuff. he's a diva. he's your senator. >> what has he done for us lately? >> he's been wearing hoodies around the capitol. he got to wear a suit. >> oh my god. really? oh, my gosh, you know. oh. it's devastating man. >> donald trump's getting sworn in next week. what do you want? to see him tackle the border instead of the gulf of mexico? >> gulf of mexico. >> the mexicans alone. because they can build the whole house from ground up. >> he's gonna tackle mulanda. it's melania. >> melania? >> oh, that's a nice one. >> i can't wait to see what melania is gonna wear, to be honest with you. i'm so excited. oh, my god, my mom is freaking out. she hates donald trump. >> special shout out to my mother a

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in fact, ben franklin at the time reminded them of the job.ranklin said as he signed the declaration of independence we must all hang together or most assuredly we will all hang separately. they knew the risks but took on the fight anyway and did it for us. they gave us this experiment of a republic if we can keep it. and now is the time. they fought and let's not lose it on our watch. i will tell you one last story before i leave your years ago i had a lady walked up to me and she said to me my name is sherry and she said you don't know me but i own a pearl store. i said, really? she goes, yes. i go, why do you only sell pearls? she said because they are the only precious gem made from a living creature. all others are created a different way but pearls are created by a living creature and in order for that pearl to be created, that oyster has to go through something hard, something that causes it pain and is uncomfortable and is challenging for it but it takes that challenging thing and it turns it into something beautiful and precious. sinc

they rejected overreach of distant monarchies yet today we face exactly what ben franklin and our founding fathers feared that the bureaucracy is often removed from the very people it is intended to serve. from the unfounded russian collusion hoax from the trials to the shackles of the covid-19 mandates and beyond. the playbook has been exposed. without any sort of remorse prioritize their agenda about the agenda of the american people. we envision power it does not live in the hallways of a distant institution but loose in the hands of the american people. for the people build our cities the people who fight for us every single day the people dream of a better future for the children. in conversations like the ones we are having today we will advance in america first agenda for the american people not the political elite, to have the honor of introducing distinguished leader in america first movement brooke rollins. brooke visions are spirit of our founding fathers she's in a small town in texas you can say she left her farm to serve administration and chief strategist. after her service

. >> ben franklin. >> very dedicated to the costumes. jake made his wig. otherwise, i believe the costumes were ordered online. tell us how you got here. >> we drove from jersey this morning, arrived around 5:00 a.m. >> why did you want to come down today? >> just to celebrate america, celebrate trump, have a good time. spread positivity, visit our own home grounds. >> what all are you going to doing -- going to be doing well down here? >> just see what is going on. celebrate with our brothers here, and sisters, for america. >> and you are trump supporters, your excited. what do you want to see him focus on as a fellow president? >> just improve the country and get everyone getting together -- getting along together. >> just ending the wars overseas, getting that big corn reserve, maybe -- bitcoin reserve, maybe. >> just fiscal responsibility. >> are you guys warm enough right now? >> yes, ma'am. >> just warm enough. >> hand warmers. >> thank you so much for your time. host: tammy's out there talking to people as people are gathering in washington, d.c. if

as we prepare for today, i couldn't help but think of our founding fathers specifically ben franklin. after the constitutional convention of the 1787, he was asked what kind of government did our founding fathers give the nation? his reply, well -- a republic if you can keep it. you see the founding fathers had a vision of a government that was efficient, streamlined, and above all accountable to its people. they rejected the overreach of distant monarchies in a power yet today, we face exactly what ben franklin and founding fathers feared in the form of a bureaucracy for power and decision making is often removed from the very people it's intended to serve. from the unfounded russian collusion hoax and baseless impeachment trials to the shackles of the covid-19 mandates and beyond. the playbook of the unelected elite beurre carrots has been exposed. they have repeat think and without any sort of remorse prioritized their personal agenda above the agenda of the american people. at america first works we envision in america where power doesn't live in the marble hallways of a distant i

it is a sacred billy tradition that goes back to when ben franklin shimmied onto a lubed up liberty bell has been one week since trump took office and there have already been big surprises. i did not know a week could last ten years. as far as the awful stuff he has been doing, i don't like it and you don't like it. that's just what the maga folks really like about it. for instance, even though trump is threatening to withhold disaster aid from california, his visit got a ringing endorsement from mel gibson. mentally ill max went on the tv and said this. i am glad trump is here at the moment. you know, it is like daddy arrived and he is taking his beltoff. stephen says okay, weird to get like that about an abusive father but we know this about mel gibson and it explains this scene. >> sons of scotland, i am william wallace. daddy's home and he is taking off his belt. >> i am sorry, what? >> he is going to be able to see his face in our swollen ass cheeks. >> did hr read this speech? [applause] do you have some cocaine?" when you think about it, this whole weird daddy thing is maga acting

ben franklin is there. james madison, of course, of virginia is there. i'm it would have been very hard to have imagined the philadelphia convention ultimately in terms of its ability to kind of secure some level of support without george washington's support. washington being someone that was widely he was the american sense that he was someone who had laid down power when he had the opportunity to take it up. so if you were worried this turning into, you know, a power play, power grab, something sort of anti populist in that sense, then presumably washington's presence his support from it would give you some comfort, right? some of pause that in fact, that isn't what it was all about. so there are some attendees there. alexander hamilton, of course, as i said, he wasn't able to stay the of the time, but nonetheless, is there. not to mention him as kind of the. sort of leading among a group of sort new nationalists, if you put yourself into that meeting in philadelphia, if you were there in independence hall or pennsylvania state house, you say washingt

. >> that was my initial guess but i'll deviate ben franklin. >> keep it interesting that's fine.ronco buster won tonight they'll be in the nfl playoffs bronco buster is your correct answer good job everybody here. second question did trump had ronald reagan's rug in his oval office during his first term? so that's a yes or no yes. joey? >> yes. >> all right. alicia? >> yes. >> just copying joey. >> didn't have the oval office rug -- >> that was a different rug. >> there was a picture. >> i can't see that. my glasses on i'll continue to be -- >> doctor nicole saphier and in this case contrarian is wrong. >> like in this oval office -- one of the popular presidents you keep the rug it is good karma. third question. did trump have a portrait of andrew jackson in his oval office during his first term? we're going to go to nick coal first so she doesn't have to play contrarian this time. >> i want joey to go first. >> i'm going to say -- >> control over this answer -- >> saying no. >> no as well although a lot of nice things specifically about andrew jackson to say often. >> i'm going

but you know, they ranged from know deist skeptics like, thomas jefferson and ben franklin to more traditional christians like patrick henry. but i still think that despite their diversity views, there were common principles that they still agreed that religious liberty, though there were some debates, the details of what religious liberty entail, the danger of vice, importance of virtue in a republic the danger of consolidated power. you know that god had a providential role in human history, even even if that was a very generic kind of providential role, that there were these kind of public views that they shared that i think helped to give balance to the revolution and the framing of the constitution despite fact that the founding among themselves had deep divisions over their personal religious beliefs. thank you so much. introducing the topic. well and in your new book, you do argue that this shared commitment to what call public spirituality united the founders who had different degrees of religious observance and different private religious views. philharmonia and in addition to your im

they rejected overreach of distant monarchies yet today we face exactly what ben franklin and our foundinghers feared that the bureaucracy is often removed from the very people it is intended to serve. from the unfounded russian collusion hoax from the trials to the shackles of the covid-19 mandates and beyond. the playbook has been exposed. without any sort of remorse prioritize their agenda about the agenda of the american people. we envision power it does not live in the hallways of a distant institution but loose in the hands of the american people. for the people build our cities the people who fight for us every single day the people dream of a better future for the children. in conversations like the ones we are having today we will advance in america first agenda for the american people not the political elite, to have the honor of introducing distinguished leader in america first movement brooke rollins. brooke visions are spirit of our founding fathers she's in a small town in texas you can say she left her farm to serve administration and chief strategist. after her service she

the first lobbyist was ben franklin. he was retained by the quakers to lobby against slavery in this very same building. he did not do very well. but the thought of our flawed country -- we have a great country. we are going to celebrate in a 250 year celebration. we are honored to have you where is pete? he's working. thanks for the leadership you've shown in bringing -- this is the second time. the last time we were together before pandemic, we had a debate here, ed will remember it, it was a debate on impeachment matters, and it was quite a spirited debate, right, ed? and we had some former members involved as well as the organization supporting it, and i thank you and all of you for supporting what we do here at federal hall by being here. now, i have a great honor of introducing a great author were energious, he has -- a great author, fergus. he's written more than i ever know because i fly by the wheel. but he wrote "congress at war." think about this, how the republicans fought the war and ended slavery and for a

formally prosecuted and some of them are in i think we're on this side now, to paraphrase the ben franklin character in the plea, 1776 as a general rule, with some exceptions can can we say that at the time of its occurrence that atrocities happened in the third person not the first person is in their atrocity not our atrocity. yeah. yeah. i mean, it's yes, it's political language and it can be used either to to castigate and stereotype your enemy or in way to excuse your own conduct. i think this is part of what pete's part of pete's point in talking about what might have transpired in the hicks third raid, is that the you know, the unions burning of homes was perhaps a response to the murder of union soldiers, which was itself perhaps a response, the sexual assault by union soldiers of white southern women in sussex. right. and so there's sort of, depending on who you ask, some of those are atrocities and some of are appropriate responses to atrocities. and i don't think cecily brought this up is that has to be one narrative from the perpetrator versus the victim side. she mentioned that

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i think of ben franklin, your book on him, your book on einstein, your book on leonardo da vinci, stevee dimon was with us yesterday. he said, you know, elon is our einstein. and i think that is true. but i think part of the reason people think it, not just because of how many spectacular things elon has done, but also because you've put him in that pantheon. you only look at really interesting people. what do you think of what's happened in the last 36 hours or so between elon musk, the administration, sam altman and beyond? >> you know, if you want to understand elon musk, just look at the way he's been for the past 50 years or so. and there are two chapters in my biography of his relationship with sam altman and the forming of openai and musk's fury at sam altman. when openai no longer becomes open and it no longer becomes a nonprofit, and there's a simmering resentment there. as you know, there have been lawsuits there. and, you know, i've seen them together. it's sort of this interesting thing that musk can do is be both a total enemy, but also somebody who feels like he's just a g

churchill franklin roosevelt. gandhi. david ben-gurion and mao zedong. very different ideologies coming from very different systems, very different histories. but all trans formed. and we're going to be talking about why you chose them, how you would them. we've got some specific questions on some of those folks. and then of i will ask you to take a look to the present and into the future on what will prove to be the transfer formative titans, if there are any of the 21st century. i'd like start off of by welcoming you to the institute but by asking you a question. titans of the 20th century. why did the 20th century produce these titans and how did you define the characteristics that made them subjects for your book. well thank thank you ambassador satterfield. thank you all for coming. thanks to the baker institute for making this possible. and to our c-span viewers for tuning in, i wrote this book for two reasons. first, i wanted to remind or in some cases, in form readers about just who these titanic were in their day. they dominated the world's head