george orwell was alive and well >> let me bring you back for a minute. throughout the book you describe an attitude of indifference and disrespect and that's very clear that there are many instances in your book not to say that that wasn't the case that there are other instances in your book where you demonstrate washington was responding to the complaints brought over by puerto ricans that they were lobbying on their own behalf and this is where i want the conversation to go because i'm interested in the way that puerto ricans negotiated this entire. for example then page 60 when writing about governor rightly you talk about the secession of the leaders and the grand jury bringing formal charges in the resistance and of course that leads to the removal and marches in the press. it really he really forced the removal of those men and i'm wondering if it isn't a unilateral manifestation of empire in puerto rico because they were not expecting a unilateral expression of power so i'm wondering even in those examples you don't consider those expression? >> i

george orwell was alive and well in puerto rico the same time he was a bestseller here in new york. >> host: let me bring you back to puerto rico for a minute and i think that you throughout the book described an attitude of indifference and disrespect of the u.s. -- towards puerto ricans and you have just talked about it quite a bit. but i think there are many instances in your book not to say that wasn't the case case but there are other instances in your book when you demonstrate that washington was responding to puerto ricans that puerto ricans were lobbing on their own behalf and this is where i want the conversation to go a little bit because i'm very interested in the way puerto ricans negotiated this empire. you are familiar with my work so you know what i'm going to ask you. for example on page 60 when writing about governor riley you talk about the secession of puerto rican regions gradually bringing formal charges against riley, resistance and then of course that leads to riley's removal and editorials in the press senators public way criticizing so these men were sent by p

well it's the kind of thing that george orwell wrote about when you manipulate language to corps, you know cover your true intentions. steve put his finger on it exactly. this recovery outside of a few places like silicon valley and the oil patch has been lackluster. the foundation shows remarkably that fewer people are starting businesses today, and that's because aunt parenures are really burdened by complex taxes and complex regulations. if you want to make the economy boom and pay for the kinds of things that hillary are talking about, then you know lighten the load on people who would start new businesses. >> hence, steve, i'm going to take a page from john. who would you rather have holding on to that capital and using it and spending it? the government or people in the private sector who seem to know a lot more about investment than people in the public sector? >> well one thing in the private sector you're responsible for those resources. you're held accountable for them. if you muck it up you're out of a job. you don't get those projects anymore. ronald reagan was right. the

. >> yeah, george orwell said within every joke is a tiny revolution i don't think we should trivializeow important jokes are to american culture. comedy is about fun and i think fun sets us apart from a lot of the world. and i think this is actually good that political correctness is starting to infringe on stand-up comedy. john: really? >> people say whoa whoa whoa don't mess with my fun. i think and i hope that comedians are starting to say enough is enough. david till said stand-up comedy is dead chris rock said he's never doing colleges again. john: because? >> comedy has a free market of ideas. like you're watching a scientist at work in the lab. he might make a rape joke or use a joke with racial epithets and it will bomb. that doesn't work the comedian will scrap that and you got to see it live. john: he's scrapping colleges. >> they would record it with cell phones and that would be on the guy's record forever. that mistake that he felt. when someone starts a business it bombs and they are forever associated with the failed business, it's not fair and bad for the economy. john:

somewhere george orwell is like that's pretty good. >> i'm becoming fan of her aloofness.his is like my favorite part of my entire life. that's when i go to my liberal panel if a fresh perspective. how are you? waking up over there. you look great. >> thank you very much. >> i would assume as a liberal you're a big fan of the metric system. >> you know it. that was like a breath of fresh air. i believe in a little thing called american unexceptionalism. that's where we wait our turn and are polite and i love europe. wearing a scarf indoors and the metric system. >> i've had enough of you. any defense of chaffee? >> i thought he was a breath of fresh air. >> who was your candidate? >> is bernie sanders running? >> he is. >> i'm going to have to think long and hard about it. none of them is liberal for me. there she is. she'll be pointing it out. i got to move on. you won't say it to my face. you're going to tweet it. our posts on the greg gutfeld page. time to take break. still ahead, donald trump. you know him. first, why is james bond the only brit allowed to carry a gun?

it brings to mind the words penned by george orwell many years ago, people sleep soundly in their beds at night because men stand ready to visit violence on their behalf. thank goodness there was some alert law enforcement officers that brought this to a safe and successful end without any innocent loss of life. >> some very brave men and women serving the public for the last three weeks. matthew, your reaction? >> i think it's a rousing success for law enforcement and for the community. you know we've been talking about the numbers of people out on the skeep for weeks now. this is no accident. law enforcement had a plan they had a strategy. we employed many resources. we stayed at the steady scloely by slowly and got it down. >> jonathan to you. do you think this is someone who, if he is in a physical condition to we don't know how badly he's been injured, is this someone that's going to tell police everything? >> i think he will talk. >> what would be his motivation? >> this is how interrogation interviewing works. he's been on the run. he's lost so much weight since he's been out th

we want to be safe, but we do not want george orwell's big brother looking over our shoulders every timeited states of america and keeping it safe on the one hand, without getting into the private or civil rights of the citizens that we all work for and represent. i would say that the way it finally came out, if i had to give a few words, are the hallmarks of the bush doctrine. once we saw what we're up against after the horrors of 9/11, work strength, commitment, and engagement. and i think that the president did an extraordinary job of giving us -- getting as energized at a time that there was an audience in the world that was listening and watching to see what the u.s. would do. i think that the president was let down, somewhat by the information that he got. i don't feel that the intelligence community, as good as it is, it was not as good then, and as wonderful as the men and women in the intelligence community, but of great sacrifice, but i don't think that the president truly had all the information he needed. i know that he made statements he thought were true that turned out to

george orwell said all men are created equal but some more equal than others.en in service. the fact my son gave his life in the line of duty i think is a strong qualification. >> so do i. since this thing became public what's the response been from the military community and from america at large? >> the response from my fellow veterans and the response from -- it's been overwhelming. i've received calls at my house from congressman and legislatures who want to make sure the right thing is done. i've had people offer up their slots at arlington for my son. and i am humbled by that. but my son earned his place in arlington. and that if it has to come to decision with the secretary of the army or the president of the united states i would like to ask them if they had a son or a daughter that volunteered for service in the national guard and they were killed while training would they want the refusal of their children at arlington? that's the type of human response that i need here and not just a bureaucratic scrub. >> let me tell you what they said here's a quot