- [announcer] "firing line with margaret hoover" is made possible in part by robert granieri, vanessa and henry cornell, the fairweather foundation, peter and mary kalikow, cliff and laurel asness, and by the following. corporate funding is provided by stephens inc. - sviatlana tsikhanouskaya, katya snytsina, natalia kaliada. - i'm the easiest one. (interviewees laugh) - welcome to the three of you to "firing line." natalia, the belarus free theatre has used art to stand up against alexander lukashenko's dictatorship for 20 years now. we watched something just now here in this theater that was extraordinary, a play about katya snytsina, a former captain of the belarus women's basketball team who is also the star of the play. what were you hoping to accomplish with this performance? - we do many different shows for almost 20 years. and for 20 years we try to bring the value of one human life back to reality. recent years, especially after events of 2020 in belarus, when thousands of people went to the streets against the usurper of the country who occupied his own country, put into jai

>> firing line with margaret hoover is made possible in part by robert graneri, peter and mary calico. by the following. corporate funding is provided by stephens inc. >> speaker newt gingrich, welcome back to firing line. >> glad to be here. >> you have produced a new documentary for pbs entitled "journey to america" which extols the virtues of legal immigration. you have said about the issue that we need to have a reset in our conversations about legal immigration in this country. why is that? >> well, callista and decided to do it because her grandmother came through ellis island. it is important that we not confuse opposition to illegal immigration to immigration. we are a nation of immigrants. our most famous current richest man in the world elon musk is a south african who in many ways grew up in canada. came to the u.s. for higher education. has made america a dramatically wealthier and better country. and yet, he wasn't born as an american. but he is an american and that's part of the genius of the american system. we absorb talent from around the world. >> i want to ask you a

- [announcer] "firing line" with margaret hoover is made possible in part by: robert granieri, vanessa henry cornell, the fairweather foundation, peter and mary kalikow, cliff and laurel asness, and by the following. corporate funding is provided by stephens inc. - juan williams, welcome back to "firing line." - thank you, margaret. - on monday, donald trump will be inaugurated as the 47th president of the united states, on the same day that our country celebrates martin luther king day. if kamala harris hadn't won fewer votes than joe biden did in 2020 we would be instead inaugurating the first black woman president. these are two very different histories and narratives about america. what do you make of it? - well, i have just written a book called "new prize for these eyes." and the subtitle is the rise of america's second civil rights movement, margaret. and it speaks to this idea that you are talking about, that you can see one moment, we're about to see donald trump begin a second term. but we could be about to see the first black woman inaugurated as president. and what i'm spea

- [narrator] "firing line with margaret hoover" is made possible in part by robert granieri, vanessa and henry cornell, the fairweather foundation, peter and mary kalikow, and by the following. corporate funding is provided by stephens inc. - jonathan haidt, welcome to "firing line." - margaret, what a pleasure. - we've known each other for several years, and i have followed your work for many years. you are out with a brand-new book, "the anxious generation: "how the great rewiring of childhood "is causing an epidemic of mental illness." what is the great rewiring? - the great rewiring refers to a five-year period, an extraordinary five-year period, where the nature of life for adolescents changed radically, more than it ever has. in 2010, adolescents had flip phones. they had no, most did not have high-speed internet. they had, did not have unlimited data plans. they did not have instagram. they did not have front facing cameras. over the next five years, by 2015, most american teens have a smartphone with a front-facing camera, high-speed internet. they have an instagram account o

served in the department of justice under then-president obama, the host of pbs's firing line, margaret hoover and former republican congressman ken buck, also a former federal prosecutor under three administrations, democratic and republican. so appreciate having you all here, because putting context around this is so crucial to understand what really is abnormal and what people should be deeply concerned about. so, congressman jones, how troubling are these firings? >> well, they're. >> very troubling. in 1973, when richard nixon was president, they had the saturday night massacre. well, in 2025, we have the friday night massacre, in this case, the president of the united states firing 17 inspectors general, whose sole purpose is to root out corruption in various departments and agencies. i mean, this is something that trump said that he wanted to do when he said he wanted to drain the swamp. but it's critical to understand that these firings are a prerequisite to the authoritarianism that we want, that this president wants to implement. i mean, to have no one who's independent investigating