we tend to be libertarian on things. we don't like government involvement. createdcrat party has an interesting coalition with libertarians where you have the governor kind of proudly talking about how he's the first pot governor. colorado was one of the first state to legalize recreational marijuana. and libertarian coalition how the different parties interact with them is an important conversation especially in light of the 2020 election. host: we will let viewers take part in the conversation. opening up the phone lines. democrats you can call in at (202) 748-8000. republicans, (202) 748-8001. independent, (202) 748-8002. we are always reading on social media on twitter at c-span wj and facebook at facebook.com/c-span. i want to go back to a point you were talking about. president trump lost colorado in 2016 by five points. since then, you got the democratic governor as you just said and a state legislature controlled by democrats. is colorado out of reach for president trump and 2020? so.t: i don't think i think the left is doing a lot of things that wil

in other words, functioning libertarian.hey do not care how you live as long as the bills are paid in the markets function. somehow they do not see a connection between peoples 'opossum's personal lives and the health of our economy, or the country's abilities to pay their bills. as far as they are concerned committees are two separate categories. social conservatives, meanwhile, come to the paint from the opposite perspective. and yet reach a strikingly different conclusion. the real problem is that the american family is collapsing but nothing can be fixed before we fix that. yet like the libertarians they claim to oppose, many social conservatives also consider markets sacrosanct. the idea that families are being crushed by market forces never seems to occur to them. they refuse to consider it. questioning markets feels like apostasy. both sides of this miss the obvious point. culture and economics are inseparably intertwined. certain economic systems allow families to thrive, thriving families make market economies possi

i am a libertarian on some issues. i'll tell you, the guy who writes the wikipedia article about me decided i was a libertarian, so there i am. i am a libertarian on many issues, but as to the -- because i feel that -- years ago, i took a class with milton freidman. and i thought, you know, there's something to what he says. that those folks who are spending other people's money are very incautious with it, and the government is not always the best solution, sometimes it's the problem. but as to how many libertarians there are in the university, well, i will leave that to your guess, but there aren't hardly any. i mean, i think that most professors are liberal democrats. and when universities hire faculty, they hire people like themselves. there was an interesting book written last year in which -- to the two authors whose names i don't recall right now -- surveyed a conservative faculty. so they had trouble finding any. and they interviewed people, and they reported that one person they interviewed was so afraid of be

this would not go over well with libertarians or hard-core free market rights. he said he thought one of the ugliest things that had developed in american culture were roadsigns, big billboards. he has an editorial in one of his newspaper columns where he thought all americans should spend their time defacing billboards because they do not do anything for america. he loved architecture inside and out. in his lifetime, he planted thousands upon thousands of trees because he said it was his duty to make up for the sins of his ancestors who had raped the environment. when we hear radio personalities in the media today who are espousing conservativism, not generally what we hear. as to your second question, i cannot really answer that. i know a lot of my friends who are conservative feel very oppressed in the academy. i am teaching at a small college that is very open. i have never experienced that. last year, i had the great blessing of teaching at the university of colorado in boulder. i loved it. i'm sure people thought i was weird, but i had nothing but good exp

they does favor conservatives and libertarians. if they will get the special favors, that should not happen. if google wants to advance a liberal point of view, that is fine. this is a free competent -- this is a free country and they are a private company. they should not get a special subsidy for government that they currently debt in the form of section 230. powers dealing with the of companies and other multinational companies based in this country but do not consider themselves citizens of america. they are happy to partner with the chinese government when it suits them. america,, divesting in refusing to invest in our workers. dealing with these challenges is one of the great problems of our era, and doing it in a way that protects competition and freedom is one of the great challenges. yes, sir. in the context of protecting individual freedoms, how far can the government go in terms of limiting what businesses can do, where is the line? sen. hawley: in regards to censorship, my view as if facebook -- let me tell you what the

judge napolitano: thank you trish, michigan libertarian congressman justin amash has become a lightning rod of convery since he called for trump's impeachment. last week he quit the g.o.p., why is he doing it? what is left, i ask him live. judge andrew napolitano in for kennedy. judge napolitano: congressman amash as been one of most principles lawmakers on capitol hill since winning his seat back in 2010, cofounded house freedom caucus and stood by constitution through thick and thin, but things changed in may, he argued that mueller report demonstrated that president trump was unfit for office. republicans including president turned on him. then last week on 4th of july, no less, congressman amash shocked political world again, he wrote an op-ed in "washington post" that reads in part. today i am declaring my independences and leaving the republican party. no matter your circumstance, i am asking you to join me in rejecting the part son -- partisan loyalties and rhetoric that divide and dehumanize us. during a parade on same day, in his home state of michigan, he explained his reasoni

from freedom fast, the libertarian conference in las vegas. 45% of the countries in the world don't report firearm homicide data. the countries that do not report are the countries that tend to have the highest homicide rate. >> on sunday the coverage from freedom fast continues at 8:00 p.m. with georgia congressman talking about his book, the meaning of it. we have allowed public discourse in political activity to sink to the level where we don't demand a requisite amount of understanding, education, stability and professionalism on what we do and demand of. and what happens in, those important mechanisms, such as impeachment, are devalued. then at nine eastern on "after words". in his new book the fifth domain. george w bush administrator for cybersecurity, richard clark talks about how to make cyberspace less dangerous. >> there are corporations in america and they're pretty secure. are they in vulnerable to attack? no. but they're resilient to it. can someone penetrate their effort? >> i'm not sure because there's no perimeter anymore. can they do real damage to the companies? and the

ship yeah but we have to say he's not a typical republican he was just in a mosque is really a libertarian he's kind of a millennial rand paul if you will there is speculation that he's going to seek the libertarian presidential nomination and let's be honest he has been consistent for the past 8 years that he's been in congress challenging the republicans challenging people like john boehner basically getting stripped of all this committee assignments because he was always a thorn of the side of the party because he does keep to that consistent limited government government why he is the one republican or former republican now who who said that the most report presents evidence that would justify starting impeachment proceedings right and he was essentially let's call a spade a spade drummed out of the party i mean it's not necessarily that he left of his own accord he was frozen out of the party which demonstrates a couple things there's no place for a republican like justin amash in the party and the rest of the party is really circling the wagons around trump we see the transformation

campaign coordinator for roots action dot org and in washington we cross to our been for he is a libertarian party presidential candidate as well as author of pull out men modern life and mutiny are gentlemen cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate let me go to joe joe very broadly speaking speaking has political correctness just simply poisoned political discourse because what we've gotten down to is people only talking to people that agree with themselves and and what it's done is it is it's really completely corrupted and he kind of debate i debate people all the time with different political views and i learn something and i enjoy it but i don't see that happen it's happening less and less where people have different views speak to each other because. when they do their call they call the or interlocutor amoral or go to some historical reference a nazi or something like that they go very quickly to that point without really any kind of goodwill discussion and when you're talking to a person that disagrees with you go ahead joe yeah w

he said he associated more with libertarian ideology than he did traditional republican ideology.e was all on the periphery, often a thorn in the side of republican leaders. i think what you've seen in spades over the course of the last couple months with his decision to break with every other republican seemingly in america and say that the president after reading the mueller report has committed potential impeachable offenses with his decision to leave the freedom caucus, ridgedly caucus he helped found, all of these things led to this point. the big question now is what are his next steps politically, does he still plan to run for the house, does he plan to run for president. what happens now that he no longer is a man with a party as a home. >> yeah. doug, i do want your take on how much amash was a thorn in your side for so long. but also on the point right where phil left off, i mean, he's the only republican who called for the president to be impeached. he went home, had this town hall to cheers and jeers and now we have republicans in his home district in michigan who have

in washington the lobbyists for influential think tank such as the libertarian cato institute beat the drum for laissez faire capitalism and reject the role of the state involvement in tackling social issues well i think libertarianism is the basic original philosophy of the united states i want much lower taxes much less government spending much less regulation i don't think we should focus on inequality and i don't think wealth created in a free market is taken from the poor or the middle class maybe we've lost our spirit of mobility we've lost our spirit of enterprise that people are not as quick to move to where the opportunities are as they used to be. republican economic orthodoxy places all responsibility on the individual for their own success or failure of intervention by the state is unthinkable the result is a new class of forgotten people right when populists have succeeded in channeling their fears which manifests itself as anger directed at cultural elites. things a chance there's a huge divide in this country i think there's no way you can escape if you're living in amer

. >> then at 9:00 p.m., from freedom fest, the libertarian conference in australia, we feature the author of the book the war on france. >> what 5% of the countries don't report farmers -- firearm, site data, they are the countries that have the highest homicide rate. >> on sunday, coverage continues at 8:00 p.m. with bob are talking about his book, the meaning. >> we allowed public discourse and political activity to sink to a level where we don't demand the requisite amount of understanding, education, stability and professionalism and what we do with and of our elected officials. what happens then is those important mechanism, such as impeachment are devalued. >> been nine eastern on "afterwards", his books, the fifth domain, george w. bush administration special advisor force cyber security. text cyber station space less dangerous. >> are they one apple? no. they are resilient. can someone penetrate their network? sure. >> watch booktv every weekend on c-span2. >> i was on a remote jungle having just concluded a congressional foundation then congressman peter ryan and we were ambushed

the annual libertarian conference in las vegas. a couple of authors you will hear from our former congressman bob barr. on presidential impeachment and freedom fast founder, market -- looks at politics of author, jack london. check your cable guide or visit booktv.org for more information. >> you are watching booktv on c-span2. we are in new york city at the annual publishers convention. talking with authors who have books coming out and now we want to introduce you to anna wiener. who has a book coming out in january 2020, it is called "uncanny valley".a memoir anna wiener, would you do now for living and how did you get there? >> great question. [laughter] i am writing full-time. i am a writer for the new yorker website. i cover culture. i got there probably through

to run for president was not impulsive and also this weekend watch for freedom fest, the annual libertarianrence in las vegas a couple of authors and politics of author jack london, check your cable guide or visit booktv.org for more information. >> written a book by tom, an english author, historian

. >> do libertarians care what happens on democratic national convention party. >> sure, it interest rates on what the democratic party goes on issues. how much joe biden in particular was back peddling on anything that might distance himself from democratic socialists two condition tates that went over -- candidates that went after that notion. saying we have so slowdown, delaney did it. he has enough self funding. >> that rich from practicing law in new jersey. >> god less america. >> the other john hickenlooper. that is not what got -- kamala harris up 10, talking about busing. what is the lesson, stay super left on economics not come out forcibly for it go straight to social issues. >> does president, an articulate forcforceful, -- >> kamala harris is one of the weakest candidates. >> why is she three. >> she had a good debate performance, she beat up joe biden, that is all the she is get a bonus from, i don't think she has any competition with president. >> warren and samed sanders get 28% of vote, there is a limit to democratic socialism, kamala harris has access more. >> progr

so libertarian, i'm okay with it. >> so you're the last out of college, jesse. >> he didn't go to college. >> you didn't? >> no. >> last out of high school. >> i personally wouldn't do it. i would like to go to college like i did. it's a great plan, an ambitious plan. it will take the pressure off of the tuition costs that are sky rocketing. if you want to talk about homelessness, you have a mental health component. put them in the areas on the left coast, california and help clean these people up. the climate change thing is good. maybe pick up trash, get rid of everyone's straws. who knows. it's an ambitious plan. i don't think it will get to a million. it's good to have young people motivated -- >> i don't want busy bodies. you're talking about butsy bodies. >> listen, if people go around and pick up trash, that's not a bo body. >> hands off my straws. >> i at a store and i wanted a straw. they said no. i was like an idiot. okay. fine. i survived. >> the front of your shirt is okay. >> can i give you a tip? >> twizzler. >> use a twizzler. i don't mean to digr

he word that the court was confusing doctrines and should do more to take a libertarian aspect of this the distances separately to our application of the framework to all this. we will talked quickly on some business cases. if you are bringing some sort of claim, usually just sue. you have to be a direct purchaser. the app store is set up so that you purchased from apple but in fact, it is an agency issue. the application makers put the products on the apple shop. apple taking a 30 percent commission. apple 30 percent was a markup that was some sort of price fixing. apple was some sort of a monopolist. whether or not they should have been the application makers and whether or not this was a violation of the formula. this sort of agreed with apple. the supreme court somewhat surprisingly in an opinion by justice kevin will be somewhat the libertarians on this disagreed with apple. held that since it is a formal matter, it actually did not matter how the interim arrangement was structured. there was a very strong descent. the other conservatives. it is possible this may be ductwork by re

libertarians do not like the draft. because it was infringing on personal liberties. there were objective to military service. the years below market agent. that turned out to be a very persuasive group. we talk about the non-issues and that sort of thing. boxes of supplies. the military alliances. one of the things we did. people into vietnam. was to pull out troops and equipment. those units were depleted. the political components. definitely the war protest. ending the draft. an important part of that. >> to ask you a question? as richard said, the political mood. put off the antiwar. that he could capture it. certainly accepted the argument. a friedman. martin anderson. who became one of his chief counsel is. kept the issue of the summit. reminded him right after he was elected. pushed him into he announced he was going to do so. >> just a comment. so they can come up with the plane. it was too hard to do that. it's only had a deadline. the commission had to be finished. nixon was there. the political component was very strong. ending the draft. us to want to ask

there is a story that justin amash could run as libertarian in 2020. we got them.nt trump's chances of re-election. some are saying that anyway. we have details coming next. ♪ ♪ all right brad, once again i have revolutionized the songwriting process. oh, here we go. i know i can't play an instrument, but this... this is my forte. obviously, for auto insurance, we've got the wheel route. obviously. retirement, we're going with a long-term play. makes sense. pet insurance, wait, let me guess... flea flicker. yes! how'd you know? studying my playbook? yeah, actually. david: the big board is off its highs but still doing very well. 26,828. that is exactly, now, 828.67. that is exactly what the record close was. now, again, anything can happen between now and 4:00 p.m. when the market closes but for now, it looks like we may hit a record today. check the s&p, it hit an all-time high already. it is 2970.4. so, that is good. of course nasdaq doing spectacularly well today. at one point up almost 2%, it has come down from that. it is well over 1%. >>> now this, iran says

he far more associates himself with being a libertarian than in general.elong republican. that is now changing. he stated today i'm declaring my independence leaving the republican party and i'm asking for you to join me in rejecting the partisan rhetoric that divide and dehumanize us if we continue to take america for granted we will lose it. this is the next progression of what's happened the next couple of months. he tweeted out he the only republican to say this, after reading through the mueller report had met the threshold for an impeachable defense. obviously his battles with the president playing out on twitter as we speak, have played out over the course of the past couple of months. the reality is in justin amash's mind the republican party has clearly left him, and the president i think is a big part of that, jim. >> so what's next for him? he would have had a republican challenger in the republican primary. what happens for him next? >> look, it's a really big question. first on capitol hill it's likely he'll be stripped of his committee assign

as an alternative to conservatives, libertarians to donald trump.mself has not totally ruled that out. >> given how many people are running on the other side, you know, nothing would surprise me, i guess. it seems like everyone wants to get in on that game but i can't speak to whether he actually would or not. i do just think the comments from mccarthy and others underscore this is donald trump's party and there isn't space in this party for trump critics. >> we've seen that play out in elections before, right? there have been anti-trump republicans like bob corker and jeff flake who have not even tried to stay in the race. but then you have someone like mark sanford who did loose his primary after being critical. >> before we go to break, it is not fourth of july without hot dogs. but the question that is being asked here, and i want you to really ponder this at home. is a hot dog a sandwich? well, the senate is weighing in. >> it's a sandwich. yeah. >> it's not a sandwich, it's a hot dog. >> it's a hot dog. you don't ask for a hot dog sandwich. wi

that's what libertarian votes are.ome from hillary clinton in the last race. and i think his votes this next time would come directly out of mr. trump's pocket. >> so you would like to see justin amash run as a third party? >> i would encourage mr. amash. i think that would be a good move for him and good move for the united states. as you know, i think mr. trump is a threat to our democratic institutions and the bill of rights. so the more votes that comes out of his pockets, the better i like it. >> there have been a handful of republicans who previously have flirted with run against the president. one of them is john kasich. every time i have him on i ask the same question, where are you in your process. in asking why he hasn't jumped into the race, his explanation is -- well, let me play it for you. listen to this. >> i look at the situation. if i can help this country, then i want to do it. but right now as i have said, i don't think there is a path. but that doesn't mean that tomorrow there won't be a path. so ag

justin amash is a famously independent sort of libertarian congressman has now left the republican party official. he filed as an interpret and sends a notice to republican leaders he's "withdrawing from the house republican conference immediately," forfeiting his seat on a key committee and basically giving up some power in exchange for trying to save his see the. a punctuation to where this all began, an amash the rare member of the republican party who read the mueller report and said hey, this is not:00. he made a call for impeachment hearings, a probe and now in his first interview since leaving the republican party he says all of this needs to be dealt with. >> when i was discussing impeachment, i had fellow colleagues and other republicans high level officials contacting me saying thank you for what you're doing. there are lots of republicans outs there saying these things privately but they're not saying it publicly. i think that's a problem for our country. >> the a problem of obviously fear in the face of the trump little era. amash says all of this has turned into kind of a pa

but as a libertarian it's my experience that this is the case with pretty much everyone.someone social media we also segregate an on-campus is too there is a strong degree of ideological self segregation. that i think is why it seems like we are all so angry now. we are all finding the worst from the other side and presenting it to our own side and trying to raise our own social standing within our own groups. this is a dangerous dynamic. i don't see the end of it. i don't know how we pull out of this. and third, the third dynamic i think is very similar on social media and college campuses is the presence of at least potential gatekeepers. i am just old enough to remember the pre-social media internet. it was great. there weren't any gatekeepers. yes there were nazis, yes there were environmental terrorists, yes there were all sorts of crazy abominable people out there, we all knew they existed and they worked on our blog and that was great.that was enough. that's all we needed to be happy. they were out there, we were here we were okay. but when there are gatekeepers su

justin as we all know was more of a libertarian. i too was a trump critic when i was in congress but i was also part of the governing wing of the party. i wouldn't say justin was there. he was a member of the freedom caucus. republicans are going to need to have a debate. amash is raising nfair issues. what is the republican party going to look like after donald trump. donald trump will be here a limited amount of time, four years or eight years. he's going to be gone. the question is does trumpism survive? we shouldn't be about banishing heretics, we should try to get people into the party. the problem with this party right now is that we've -- we're basically making it too sclus y exclusionary. we have to be about addition, not subtraction. throw justin amash out of the party. that doesn't help you build your coalition. >> he's throwing himself out of the party now, congressman. >> yeah, i guess he quit. >> he did. thank you so much. margaret, thank you as well. >>> former vice president joe biden will personally address the back-

is he a libertarian.gine the fact i was able to disagree without attacking him personally or thinking he was some sort of traitor. we need to start looking beyond partisan labels because we are never going to be able to get anything done if we keep doing that. >> here, here, you are a jean yus. all right. police in portland, oregon call for a through prevent protesters from wearing masks after antifa attacked a conservative journalist. is this what is actually needed to avoid such violence in the future? we'll discuss. and energy. ♪ limu emu and doug. and energy. what do all these people have in common, limu? [ guttural grunt ] exactly. nothing! they're completely different people. that's why they make customized car insurance from liberty mutual. they'll only pay for what they need. yes, and they could save a ton. you've done it again, limu. [ limu grunts ] only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty, liberty, liberty, liberty ♪ >> kat: police chief in portland, oregon calling for no masks. antifa protesters a

he always had his libertarian.g said, i think what nancy pelosi is looking at on this is what is this doing for average americans. if you look at it, i don't think this moves the needle a bit which is why she has the strategy that she has that he learned through the health care debate, you can't do this all by yourself on something this big. i think this -- she looks at this in that political context and if it doesn't move the needle in small town america across the country, you're going to get the same nancy pelosi tomorrow and next week and the week thereafter which is we should be focused on doing some other things. >> go ahead. >> i was going to say, that is exactly right. and the democrats that i talk to who are not necessarily on the front page of newspapers every day but are in moderate districts or just rank and file members will say they want to get back to talking about health care, they want to talk about the issues that help them get elected in 2018. they don't want to talk about this any more. that cou

libertarians gentler sure to shoot out boy i'm sure they believe the french should be extended the fast is just a couple of 100 kilometers why stop millions of your kids later you get to meet me very very fear that actually could save all of the loss of jobs there sure are you good cheer in hungary is very safe place no need to log the door like in london and i'm on is not english city anymore. i love this place we try to keep this safe the fence is gold. just transit longer 175 kilometer length of the friends which would make a maximum of 2 people a day transit center are cruel and tiny space there is then the by. simply knowing that you are locked in for an unpredictable time. and unpredictable future is very stressful. but for some of the detainees this is the least of their worries. in august last year we've heard of the 1st cases where people were held in detention in the border transit. but the authorities have stopped giving the adults food. if someone is not the legal then obviously he or she or the father he should be taken care of themselves but keep in mind that if you or mys

last week took tv covered authors a that the libertarian conference in las vegas. up next founder and producer talks about the politics of the late author jack london. >> okay. let's start decided to have you here the call of the wild west t is what i call this from the rugged individualist were socialist, turned out to be both. so, jack london, the most popular writer of his time, even more popular than mark twain jack lemmon was an upcoming figure, really a phenomenal character. keith was an individualist but spoke out against individualism. he was the capitalists that railed against capitalists. he was a socialist who criticized the socialists. he was a racist who hated racism. so now you know jack london is. a very complex character. by the way we will have time for questions and answers. like many of you perhaps have been fascinated with the life and story of the most prolific novelist of the american wild west. there's probablthere is probablr eclectic writer. he lived as a minor, sailor, writer, one who experienced life in the west and alaska and the south s

campaign coordinator for roots action dot org and in washington we cross to our been for he is a libertarian party presidential candidate as well as author of pull out men modern life and mutiny origin of the cross.

campaign coordinator for roots action dot org and in washington we cross to our been for he is a libertarian party presidential candidate as well as author of pull out men modern life and mutiny are gentlemen cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate let me go to joe joe very broadly speaking speaking has political correctness just simply poisoned political discourse because what we've gotten down to is people only talking to people that agree with themselves and and what it's done is it is it's really completely corrupted any kind of debate i debate people all the time with different political views and i learn something and i enjoy it but i don't see that happen it's happening less and less where people of different views speak to each other because when they do their call they call the or interlocutor amoral. or go to some historical reference a nazi or.

contributors i see in andrew bass of each and there who's very much along my lines of sort of conservative libertarian on a lot of international issues i see parsi from georgetown with whom i agree on almost nothing but the whole idea i would think is to have people of various points of view coming together to discuss these issues and get people outside of their echo chambers that's wonderful e put don ok i'm going to start throwing some cold war or water on it here ok you have george soros in his relationship with the atlantic council a very you know that. is the mouthpiece of nato it's staunchly anti russian and if you look at the koch brothers they have been supporting this illegal who and venezuela i could go on and on ok and so i'm just happy i'm left but will drink by all of this because are they going to separate themselves from their business interests and and this is going to be an intellectual process i find that hard to believe go had done well the question is is this is 13 chick change or a tactical one and i'd argue clearly it's the latter their interests as you mentioned haven't really c