his name was benedict arnold. we also learned about the good trader. was the trader who brought us information from the brits. the bad trader was the trader who betrayed abraham. abraham. george washington. and and betrayed the future. america for for the brits. we had to learn about betsy ross. we had to learn about all of these figures. we learned in other words, that these words and these ideas were bound up with particular people were bound up with particular histories. and most importantly, i think this is what philip was emphasizing. they gave us exemplary sort of exemplification of heroism, of duty, of self-sacrifice, of those who gave great higher than themselves for a cause beyond themselves. now, how do you square that with a world in which what we are is the rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? and that's all we are. if you drop out those figures that teach us about what it is to be committed to duty and principle and a way of life beyond oneself and beyond one's own lifetime, then what do you get? you get a lot of people li

their will be taught as if they r benedict arnold to be.g you can. you lose your life, you can lose your fortune. but to be forever remembered as a traitor and as a horrible exemplar. yeah, it is the bottom level of hell, dante. so this that concluding sentence of the declaration doesn't get nearly enough airtime, because what it teaches us is that these rights are only secured by the greatest form of self-sacrifice. and these are the stories we have to tell. at the se time that we're telling the stories, or at least extolling the rights that we bear as americans. i hear you saying in part that that experiment, that project could work because the ctu prodd of people who could engage in heroic acts, who recognized their duti, who possessed the right kind of virtue. and now going back to what we said at the beginning, it seems we producing those kinds of people. so it's as if these documents are laid over a cultural inheritance that was already working spent down. how do you renew that? how do you replenish that kind of inheritance that will

benedict arnold and you see arnold's navy in the lower left hand corner depicting or excused there. a similar experience a year later when he was assigned in soldiers to man a fresh water fleet that he built on lake champlain in upstate new york to fight what would become the battle of bell corps to block british advances coming south from canada and arnold describes his folks this way we have a wretched crew. the marines, the refuse of every regiment and the seamen, few of them ever wet with salt water, recognized in these challenges, congress was forced to act when it received an intelligence report■ on. the 5th of october 1775. the report said that there were two unprotected vessels moving from england, filled with reinforcements and resupply guys going to quebec. so congress assigned a committee of three consisting of john adams from new york, john langan from new hampshire, and silas from connecticut, to devise a plan to have washington captured these two vessels. they developed a plan in which they tasked washington with purchasing two merchanips, converting them into warships

. >> there is no doubt at first benedict arnold is ready to by in battle for the american cause. but unlike true patriots his loyalty has a limit but a price. instead of a here o hero, werarnold is remembered add america's biggest traitor, on his death bed, some believe that he shows remorse. they report that with his last words he asked to die in his larry: hello folks welcome to kudlow i am larry kudlow. the new biden white house strategy and center at mike lee's going to weigh in on. plus a good day for the doubt up to 460 points. while, we will report on that. trump media, my new favorite stock up 13% today. people all over the country supporting his request for a second term for it our own jesse watters on his new book get it together. the details how the leftist suffers from personality disorders. and mental health problems. former fed head governor kevin why the fed need not cut interest rates. and nbc hates conservatives. but they have to change pay ron at mcdaniel for 600-gram per one appearance. nice work if you can get up and we'll talk about with chri caria bedford an