that's why you joined the libertarian party. [applause] well, i stand with you in valuing personal liberty. and i promise you that when i'm president, i'm going to protect your right to speak freely. i'm going to protect your right to assemble peacefully. i will protect your freedom to worship. i will protect your right to keep and bear arms. [applause] i will protect your right to a trial before jury. i will protect your privacy against unreasonable searches and seizures. [applause] i will protect your private property and your right to operate a business. and that's not all. two of the most overlooked amendments in the bill of rights are the 9th and 10th. [applause] and those amendments say that just because we've listed all of those rights by name, doesn't mean that those are all the rights that you have. that any power they say, everything else a right, any power that is explicitly given to the federal government, remains with the individual or the states. and i will always protect those rights. [applause] as i mentioned bef

she invited me here to, i think, give a robust libertarian case for parents rights, which i will do. even though when it comes to practical policy on the ground, naomi and i often come out in pretty much the same place and you'll see this again and again, which is that first principles often take a rather wounding path to policy recommendations. well, yes, the world has changed on parental rights. yes, they are stronger than they used to be and i'm going to argue that that's a very good thing. when i was growing up home schooling was illegal most places. i'm not just talking they made it bureaucratically difficult they just didn't allow it at all. since roughly the 1980's, it has been legal as recently as 2008, a california appeals court said, well, maybe it has to be legal, but parents should not be allowed to do it unless they have someone with teacher credentials and judged by the state come in and do it for them and that was overturned. but it was fairly recently illegal and also, within living memory because i've talked to a lot of people, you could lose custody for your kids fo

do and just as frustrated with those abusing their power whether they are democrat, her quicken, libertarian, we must stand together as fellow americans who cherish peace and freedom cherishing in our republic. those in power in america today are leading this nation abraham lincoln for. if we do not act now, we will look back at this moment with regret. we will be able to say we had no warning. [cheering and applauding] save our country. ♪♪ thank . >> next, we hear from president-elect donald trump's pick for white house press secretary. she would be the youngest person ever to hold the job. she previously acted as spokeswoman for the trump campaign and super pac. she challenged chris pappas for new hampshire's first district congressional seat. chris pappas went on to win the race. take a look at their debate. >> this as a commitment 2022 spec i

is it because it reflects, is libertarian values? is it because he's got his tesla ponton, germany i'm going to get out of it. but i think a lot of party members and supporters of updates were not even know what to go with, terry, and is, but the new school in the sense that they are interested in the same distance towards the functioning institutions that are an essential part of a west and talk democracy because business about checks and balances. and we have seen that pop to least paid media because they're looking for the tools paid academia. gus, they're looking for the tools that they dislike institutions because they made that room for my hoover and the european union as one level of government is that helps to fix problems that the nation state is no longer capable to address. they came up with a restriction for a global business. people like, well one of her stuff platforms with the digital service act to fight for the values and principles that made the western talk. democracies work so you know, must, is attacking not only

so i grew up in kind of just like cyber libertarian culture. you, you kind of talk about and now are a of in some ways this. but i was thinking a little bit more about economic and kind of competitive respect. how do you respond to the idea that regulating might kind of slow down this innovation amid rising tensions especially between china and the us? you know sometimes another perceived threat to our democracy and kind of the security concerns there. you know, we have recent treasury rules regarding restricting foreign investment for silicon valley. we also have, you know, the fbi probing on capital right now for ip rights. and you also talk a lot about having a global coalition to kind of think about this tech governance. and do you think china would agree to this kind of tech governance? and if not, how do we maintain and innovation while regulating these sectors within u.s.? right. i'm going to make another maybe somewhat controversial statement here in washington, at least, where the perspective of uniting together between democrats and r

she invited me here to give an robust libertarian case for parents rights which i will do.ven though when it comes to practical policy on the ground, mail me and i very often, can pretty much the same place. you'll see this again and again which is the first principles often take a rather winding path to policy recommendations. yes, the world has changed parental rights. yes, they are stronger than they used to be. i'm going to argue that's a good thing. when i was growing up homeschooling was illegal in most places. i'm not talking made it bureaucratic difficult. it just didn't allow it at all. since roughly 1980s it is been legal as recently as 2008, a california appeals court said maybe it has to be legal but parents should not be elected unless they had someone with teacher credentials as judged by the the state, come in a dip for the that was overturned. but it was fairly recently. illegal. also within living memory because i've talked to a lot of people, you can lose custody for being gay. you can lose custody of the kids for a marijuana conviction. lots and lots of t

most tech guys are libertarians. what is it about the far right. these are his views ? >> i think you said it right there. giorgia meloni friendship which has developed over the last year, looks to be profitable for elon musk. is much as elon musk is this trolling, talk radio host of apolitical influencer, he is a businessman. there's always an angle and his rocket company spacex is trying to sign these big deals with various countries to offer satellite internet services. bloomberg reported earlier that there's one in the works. 1.5 million 1.5 billion, excuse me, potential deal with meloni. musk is trying to strike when the iron is hot. it is unclear whether the trump/ musk playbook will work in europe. >> he's throwing his weight around in britain and picked a fight with right wing reform party leader nigel who is a long time confidant of steve bannon and donald trump. what is going on there? >> i might disagree with max. meloni is in trouble because she's been working to get this starling contract for the government. neo- far right member who we think should take ov

she's really trying to move away from this idea of them being far-right and more being sort of libertarianservatives. when you look at their economic platform there is some credibility to that. they won very little regulation, cutting taxes, but when you look at the social and cultural side, you cannot really say they are libertarian. they want a stronger and more powerful police state and believe islam is incompatible with german society and in this way it's hard to make that sell in a party that has a lot of divisions that will only really be tested if they get closer to power because right now they can just stand from the sidelines. >> oliver crook joining us out of berlin. to a slightly different topic. , wall street top banks said to be giving their biggest increase since the pandemic. you watched the dealmaking process. that's part of the underpinning to executive expectations that they can add more bonuses. what details do we have? >> yes. a very important part of the industry and that keeps attention of many of the investors. we are seeing a big shift this year as the bonus season

i think they violate libertarian principles on their face but one of the other downsides of them is that they create within firms that are contractors sort of a larger hr apparatus set up to try to comply with affirmative action rules and this has down stream consequence that is can be very frustrating for other people who are working in american firms since basically every large company in the united states is a federal contractor to one extent or another, so it has a very frustrating down stream consequences for a lot of people. so affirmative action and federal hiring and contract is entirely created by executive order in the u.s. some people have made the argument that it's unlawful under the civil rights act but more importantly i think potentially being unlawful as it runs against our principles of individual liberty, limited governments, free markets. these executive orders should be amended to revoke affirmative action and i don't say amend or revoke those executive orders in total because the executive orders do also and other portions of the civil rights act which do not discri

if he is going to give the old guard, a libertarian guard the visas he has to be , even tougher on the other aspects, because the new voters he got are working-class voters who want action on their issues, and that includes shutting down the border, having a tight labor market, and real growing wages for the lower middle class and the middle class. you can't do that with a loose immigration policy. host: you mentioned obama in 2008 to 2010. are there other places where you see realignment possible that did not happen that was squandered? , guest: newt gingrich in 1994. bill clinton also ran has a uniter, not a divider. then pushed things his base wanted. most notably what was called clinton care at the time, which was that era's version of dramatic federal government expansion in health care. he also pushed increased taxes including energy tax that would , have hit everybody. and what happened was that republicans drew even and party alignment and in some polls past the democrats for the first time. even reagan hadn't been able to do that. and then gingrich takes him and immediately mo

i mean when i left the military, i was a hard core republican that was a libertarian. like a lot of people in the military. but i was looking at like, i can't even calm documentaries, but these youtube videos like, uh, movies like guys you have better wake up and understand that there are people who are guiding your life and you don't even know what none of those studies stream is recognized. it's filled with the anti semitic troops in the theme of the movie without explicitly saying this stuff. jewish people are out there controlling the banks and the banks, the reasons why they go into course. so therefore, the jews responsible for my friends died, right? that's the connection that it's trying to make. the ultimate goal is to get everybody in this room and have all money beyond those chips and everything on those chips. and if anybody wants to protest what we do or violate what we want, we just didn't know if the chip i just absorbed this propaganda felt for it fell into it. you know, i was watching alex jones before anyone me would see. what's me now there openly la

most tech guys are truthfully libertarians. what is it about the far right? these are his views?p which has developed the last year looks to be profitable for elon musk. as much as elon musk is this trolling kind of talk radio host of a political influencer, he's a businessman. there's always an angle and musk's rocket company, spacex, is trying to sign these big deals with various countries to offer satellite internet services and bloomberg reported earlier this week there's one in the works, 1.5 billion euro potential deal with meloni. i think musk to some extent is trying to strike when the iron's hot. i think it's much less clear whether the kind of trump-musk playbook is going to work in europe. >> he is also throwing his weight around in britain. he even picked a fight with right wing reform party leader nigel fer aj who is a long time confidante. >> tommy robinson who again neonazi far right who he thinks should take over, he's not going to become prime minister. i don't think it's all about money. he may get this contract with italy. he's not backing a guy who is in jail.

i mean -- >> anyone is a libertarian, not really a normal republican, he is a libertarian and has always been true to those principles, but there are many deeply conservative members of the house who are supporting johnson who himself is a deeply conservative member, and yet the are other conservatives who say i am not voting for him because he made the mistake of passing a measure with democrats who voted for it. well, when you've got a narrow margin like this, you are going to be put in places where you have to sit down with the opposition, particularly if you have come as the republicans have come a substantial group of people who since the moment they came to congress, in some instances decades ago, have never voted for continuing resolution or debt ceiling increase. the reality is you have to get things done, and if part of your team says no way i'm ever voting for that kind of thing, you are going to have to do a deal with the other side. the question is are you going to have a leader who is a solid conservative, as mike johnson has been since the moment he took the oath of office

host: libertarianism then? guest: no. americans will a limited but active federal government that steps in to remove barriers that they cannot handle on their own. then they want it to get out of the way. this is the problem of both parties. americans want to what they have always wanted, a limited but effective government that removes barriers to them living dignified lives and then they want to get on with their life. when they get that, the divisions will cease to be as violent, cease to be as intense, and will go back. there will be sharp opinions and politics but they will not be divisive in the way today's are. i think we are moving in that direction. it may take us a while to get there. host: a bunch of callers have been waiting,. joseph in florida, republican. thanks for waiting. caller: thank you. i have one question. i am 80 years old. i have lived just about all that 100 years you have been talking about. i'm from the south. i was raised in the southern baptist belt. as i go through life i have seen a change dr

obviously, alice weidel is somebody who is kind of a soulmate in terms of his thinking, libertarian politicseological background. quite frankly, i think they also have one thing in common, they have both been in high finance communities. i think you just found somebody he has a lot of common denominators in. christian: some of the facts that put -- that she put out there are questionable and need to be fact checked, but things that you put out that resonated with voters are energy, the decision to close down nuclear energy when we are at a fuel crisis in europe, and the level of taxes in germany. that will resonate, will it not? >> the energy prices are higher. basic issues will be how they bring them down. on the tax issue, yes, germany is a high tax country. what i said before, basically, most voters will focus on three things. the economy, the immigration issue, how to get that under control, and about that anxiety of the war next-door in ukraine. the sophistication of talking about nuclear energy, wind, solar -- by the way, at the end of the conversation, how long will it take for mr. mu

a libertarian from kentucky. but it is really tentative to see who is going to be the no votes that we expect in the first round and obviously of course, this will take as many rounds as possible until they choose a speaker, otherwise as a lot of democrats and republicans and told me, this could be a really chaotic time for the house should they not have a speaker. we have seen that before. we saw that take place at just a year ago when they booted kevin mccarthy a speaker. a lot of lawmakers, on both sides hoping that does not happen again. >> this is a time when they are able to make request for him, whether it be certain bills that they want from the floor, whether it be certain measures they would like to see and that package they are hoping to pass which is in the first 100 days through a process called budget reconciliation that would include tax measures, inflation. so they have the ear of the far right conservatives and that is why they're taking time to meet with him to discuss what it takes for them to

massie is a libertarian, likes going to the beat of his own drum. norman has been there for i think almost eight years, elected in a special election in 2017. again, no real significant record. self is a freshman -- excuse me, a sophomore member to be. always interesting to me i suspect norman and self are the ones that pat fallon was alluding to as he was optimistic about. self and fallon come from the same part of texas and represent part of the same republican county north of dallas, colleton county, the former -- o represented part of that county. we are talking 1.4% of republican caucus saying we are in charge and we are going to in essence be voting with the democrats and keep this situation from being resolved, and that is not how a team wo works. >> bret: there is a bunch of people wandering outside the chamber right now, karl. some people are grabbing some food. some people are with their families. it seems like these discussions are happening in the cloakroom just off the floor now. it is representative-elect self and norman w who are part

they first made maga succeed and the techno-libertarian billionaires like muscat are at the center ofhe new administration. my mother used to say, if it ain't about you, don't get in it, but we are all watching this play out and to be clear, i'm watching, but this is something that is going to test this movement, if you will. >> i disagree, simone. that 55-year-old woman in pennsylvania is not watching this conversation on twitter. she's not. she is still excited. the people who voted for donald trump are still excited. what is happening with this visa conversation, it is an online elite conversation. it is not a conversation that is affecting most of the men and women who voted for donald trump. do i think it's bad? of course it is. does it reveal a conflict of the republican party, of course. do i think it reveals some of the racism of a certain class of people like vivek ramaswamy, of course it does. but will that ultimately impact how congress behaves? i don't know what the security card elon musk has, right now they are just two guys talking like influencers online. until we see

when you understand crypto currency, not as a new technology or the symbol of some online libertarianement, but as an industry life with speculators looking to cash in on donald trump's second term. whether trump understands crypto beyond the basic notion it's a good way to win votes and get rich off the backs of his supporters, is not clear. but the alliance between trump and the crypto constituency makes sense philosophically. trump is corrupt and he loves money. joining me now is the author of that piece, who is a staff writer at the atlantic. this piece in particular was helpful for me. i'm sure many other people who read it, understand the handshake between maga and crypto. can you elaborate on the antiinstitutional bent that unites these subgroups of people and why there is so much kinship in these two worlds? >> there's a lot of synergy here. and a lot of it is probably cynical, right? as i wrote in the piece. crypto seems like a technology that was in some ways built for the way donald trump likes to conduct business, right? is what off the books and you know, sort of nakedly

as a libertarian and free-market guy, big is not necessarily bad.s prices are reduced and consumer is getting a cheap er product is not bad and government shouldn't intervene. i don't like government talking with big tech and saying, we want you to take down this person's opinion on coved and vacses, that is censorship and google can do what they want on their own, government should not be meeting with them with fbi and others to coerce them to restrict speech. that is wrong, that is against first amendment and i have a bill that would stop it. >> steve: senator rand paul, thank you for starting your day with "fox and friends." it is 5:30 on the west coast. you see oceanfront homes burning to the ground, we'll tell you the latest on the wildfires that are historic in nature. made in america. that's something that still means a lot to us here at red land cotton. it all starts right here in this red dirt in northwest alabama. our family works extremely hard to bring you the best bed linens and bath towels in the world. we're proud to say that 100% of

sense when you understand crypto currency not as a new technology or the symbol of some online libertarian but an industry rife with specklators. whether trump understands crypto beyond the basic notion that it is a good way to win votes and get rich off the backs of his most fanatical supporters is not clear. but the alliance between trump and the crypto constituency makes sense philosophically. trump is corrupt. and he loves money. joining me now is the author of that piece. charlie, i'm such a fan of your writing and this piece in particular was very helpful for me and i'm sure many ore people who read it to understand the handshake between maga and crypto. can you elaborate on the the antiinstitutional bent and why there is so much kinship between these two worlds? >> there's a lot of synergy here. crypto seems like a technology built for the way donald trump likes to conduct business. off the books. and sort of nakedly financial. like greed is good in the crypto world. but it is an anti-institutional technology. that's the way it was created. to take the middleman out. take away the b

maybe we should put him in the context of huber libertarian.you kill those it is fine. i felt at the end of that interview which i did listen to twice i felt i was the buccaneers, green bay and i can't even tell you how many different teams i felt like. >> i was looking for a space to ask you how you feel about your eagles manhandling denver and i guess this is it. >> there was no green bay player left on the field after what we did today. >> i have denver in my head. >> as a bills fan as you know i was excited by the. it will be quite a matchup of course allen versus jackson coming up next weekend with the two mvp candidates. go bills. >> true. >> he is proving such a gentleman. >> he is amazing. >> i did bring it up. i brought it up. >> we mentioned the mark zuckerberg interview and the other when they are talking about is jamie diamond on cbs talking about a host of issues regarding optimism around the economy and the role he believes that terrorists -- tariffs they are away to be used. >> it is unfair competition, security editions and any

cheryl: i think it's interesting that bernie sanders who really truly is a libertarian, so he's an independentis saying that there's got to be some fiscal sanity in washington which is something that gop leadership writes about on foxnews.com. >> absolutely. i think it goes to show how bad the last four years have been to where people are waking up and saying we have to get our economy back on track. we no know that trump did it fr years ago, prior. and it's time to deliver now for the american people and that's what democrats -- this is what's fascinating about trump. he's bringing in people from all walks of life. democrats, political outsiders and that's exactly what it will take to get this country back on the right track and democrats are waking up to this every single day. cheryl: we're still getting day in from the holidays but the amount of debt that americans added onto in december, again, and most -- the average credit card is 20%. i understand why sanders is bringing this up as an issue. >> americans are paying off christmas 2023 debt. that's the issue. this could be a rift in the r

>> greg: she is libertarian and pregnant which means she craves small government and giant pickles.ougher than the rock and smarter than spock. near times best seller, median and of the way world champion, tyrus! [cheering and applause] >> greg: charli, i'm a bit torn. shouldn't we be happy and grateful that zuckerberg saw the light? or should we still hold discussed for him for basically helping to get biden elected and putting all that money and to getting that guy in instead of trump? what say you, puppy haired master? >> total discussed. i mean i think it is great and everything that he pretends to be coming around. but if you look back at the last eight years, everything he has done has been in some sort of response to donald trump. the reason they put the fact-checkers in in the first place was in response to trump. in response to trump running for reelection, he dumps $500 million to get out the vote for democrats. and then of course trump wins again and then he has to admit that the fact-checkers were never about fact-checking. the entire thing was about censorship and about

between people across various actors the republican party the home of the libertarian my grandpa andhen someone like ted ndcruz and susan collins an everyone in between. if you get enough people of your coalition is broad enough to become a majority and when election what it means i believe in limited government and i believe in free enterprise not i just believe in these things that makes us more prosperous and free but i also believe those portables are the .compass but you still need a roadmap the roadmap is the law whether laws and policies and they have to be relevant to the 21st century for the times in which we live. so as a criticism of my party would say a lot of what we've done said and been for has become almost stale and sclerotic it's largely built on ideas from the 80s and 90s i grew up in the 80s i went to school in the 90s but the 80s and 90s are long gone and looked nothing like today. i think of the 21st century this question is not just free enterprise or still believe the prosperity from free enterprise does not distribute the ladies used to be where if the econom

for federal legislation, banning abortion like johnson's life begins at conception, versus those libertarian corporate ceos whose employees are freaking about about the antiabortion laws across the country. you can see things beginning to come apart at the seams for them. >> i don't underestimate them because they did win the election and they do have the majority but the key thing here to me tactically is whether democrats stay unified because if they do and they negotiated to hocking jeffries, the democrats will have a ton of leverage, that is the big if. thank you for your time tonight. coming up, just days before his inauguration, donald trump has a date in front of a new york judge, what to expect when the incoming president is sentenced possibly for his hush money conviction, next. conviction, next and a grandmother of two. about five years ago, i was working full time, i had an awful lot of things to take care of. i needed all the help i could get. i saw the commercials for prevagen. i started taking it. and it helped! i was better able to take care of all those little details. people

there is a bunch of issues like that including abortions where there are still some libertarians who go near it but the theocratic majority within maga, led by mike johnson, say that life begins at conception. so they have been trying to ban it nationally, and we expect that to come back and hopefully, we'll be able to pull over some of the lingering pro-choice republicans. >> jon: right. is that more a question of, because when you don't control -- in the house especially -- the house especially is kind of a zero-sum game. the senate rules are sort of so antiquated and bizarre and you need 60 for this and three quarters for this -- the house really is, even if you have one other member, you control all of who gets called before congress, you get to control the witnesses, you get to control the legislation. does that make it harder for democrats, even on a purely logistical, mechanical way? >> yeah, it does. because over on the senate side, they've got the filibuster, so each senator theoretically can throw a monkey wrench into the whole thing, whereas we've got our rules committee,

the hearing, he understand that it's not about being a republican or democrat or independent or libertarian, white, black, it doesn't matter, it's about serving the nation you love and he's done that with honor and distinction and president trump, president-elect trump has called upon him to do that once again and you can see by the war fighters behind him today and also the war fighters that are supporting his nomination that they want somebody with dust on their boots to lead them and i think that's exactly what pete hegseth is going to do if confirmed. >> trace: and bill, you look at what kevin corke was reporting, that the senator who was very much on the fence, now she's like you know what, i think he's the right man, which kind of improves is odds. >> i think it shows how different this term is for trump in 2016, the party is more divided -- was more divided. now you see the party is really the party of president trump. even those on the edge can't withstand the pressure. they will get run over by the trump train if they stand in the way. >> trace: you come back to california and want

to participate in something which is imperfect versus don't know, living off the grid, being a libertariani don't know if those are real possible choices choices, doing things where, you know, one of the things that that a lot of like maybe a lot of people ask you when they read this book was like oh cool, you could go back and give your 16 year old self some advice would you say and every time people ask me that i was like oh man like, if you i hope that you made it to the book and you get bored, but you made the end of the book i am like a fully grown -- person with multiple children and i'm like, i just won't say anything that's so uncomfortable. what am i going to say? and i think it's because there is not advice to to that culture. you can only just encounter it. and try to figure out from this column what are all the possible options i have for how to disrupt this moment. um. so for me personally, i don't know that there is a way out of living in our world as it is right now. and i hope everybody is going to vote. and it's so -- that we only have -- options. that's terrible we do not

and for all of his recent comments and actions to appeal to a more libertarian conservative audience, past efforts and actions in the other direction. from years ago. tim sweeney posted on x friday after years of pretending to be democrat, the tech leaders of now pretending to be republicans. beware of the scummy monopoly campaign he said. at the games, the company behind fortnite has been vocal against big tech dominance but mostly lined with meta and zuckerberg fighting the good -- google and apple app store ecosystems. maybe the most important question is, is president-elect trump buying zuckerberg's makeover? that is unclear but at a press conference last week, trump was asked whether meta's policy changes are a direct response to the threats he has made against zuckerberg and he replied , probably. even though it seems like zuckerberg's audience is not necessarily buying it, hook, line and sinker. >> it is not just the tech community watching this. advertisers also have to digest meadows lease and shift and for more on the implications for the market let's bring in mark douglas,