. >> nearly 30 years ago dinesh desousa wrote a book called a liberal education.t described in lurid detail how on college campuses the american left had gone from championing free speech to stifling it. conservatism under reagan had become a potent force of liberating optimistic and patriotic alternatives to the malaise and pessimism of the 1970s. the faculty in the administration of campuses became dominated by liberals who were desperate to turn young minds away from reaganism in the america he represented. which these activists maintain, let's face it, as inherently racist and sexist because it's founders were privileged white men. conservative challenging the liberal orthodoxy on campus or suited, maligned and they were maligned by students and professors alike. they were subject to disciplinary action and even physically threatened. the ultimate goal was to bully them into silence. of course that effort failed. conservatives probably now see how naive it was to believe that this squelching of free speech would end once they left campus. instead, the left's p

rest of the panel, we only have a quick amount of time, but jonathan, also today, the pardon of dinesh desousat says that he is considering a pardon of martha stewart saying that the president use of pardon powers is concerning enough bread for the possibility that he may be sending a message to witnesses in a criminal investigation into his campaign is extremely dangerous in the united states of america, nobody is above the law. is a part in a pardon or a part in a message? >> i am a reporter, so i need facts. and this is the same thing as before, i can only report what i know for a fact. i do not have any evidence that president trump has said to do an act that to anybody privately, so for me to say that is what he is thinking, that would be pure speculation. i'm not going to do that on your show. >> bret: a lot of that on capitol hill. next up the u.s. pulls the trigger on what could start a trade war. we will take a look. ♪ for your brain. with an ingredient originally found in jellyfish, prevagen is the number one selling brain-health supplement in drug stores nationwide. prevagen. the na