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I'm David Marcus, author of Charade: The COVID Lies That Crushed A Nation.

I'm David Marcus, author of Charade the COVID lives that crushed a nation.

This desensitization of murder attempts against political opponents is a danger that cannot be overstated.

I'm David Marcus, Fox News digital columnist and author of Charade, The COVID Lies That Crush the Nation.

My new book, Fear Itself, is released on July 23rd.

My new book, Fear Itself, Exposing the Left's Mind-Killing Agenda, is released on July 23rd.

Tammy Bruce with your Fox News commentary coming up...

I'm Tammy Bruce, this column originally appeared at amac.us, I'm a Fox News contributor and my new book is called Fear Itself

I'm Carol Roth with the one piece of Trump's legacy That haunts Biden

My latest is you will know nothing

I'm Carol Roth, best-selling author of You Alone Nothing.

J.D. will do a great job. I'm extremely excited about the pick of Senator Vance to be vice president. He will be a great ally with President Trump in pushing President Trump's policies and priorities.

J.D. Vance is the representative of the working class. He grew up in a very poor family in Appalachia. His grandmother raised him. His mother had a drug addiction problem. He has experienced in his lifetime on how he was raised with so many Americans, whether it's in the Ozarks where I come from, Appalachia, whether it's the Rust Belt. These are Americans that a lot of times feel like in Washington that they are viewed as flyover country. And he's going to be such a strong voice for them. And I think you'll see that tonight in his speech. So I'm extremely, extremely excited about Donald Trump, Donald Trump's selection of J.D. Vance.

J.D. Vance is the representative of the working class. He grew up in a very poor family in Appalachia. His grandmother raised him. His mother had a drug addiction problem.

Like all regular people I grew up with in the heartland, J.D. studied at Yale, had his career funded by Silicon Valley billionaires, and then wrote a bestseller trashing that community. Come on!

And that's what his book was about. And that's always been Donald Trump's bailiwick.

J.D. Vance does speak to sort of the sort of white working class.

I think, you know, Van circa 2016, when he was sort of a a new voice speaking for rural America and the sort of white working class and the sort of forgotten element of American society.

he had very high unfavorable ratings, only a 39% approval rating that's largely built off the image and the brand people had painted of him as being this America first nationalist cat lady hating Ivy League at one time, Hillbilly Elegy author

Plus, commentary from New York Post Columnist and author of Stolen Youth, Karol Markowicz.

The new book is called American Bolsheviks, the Persecution of Donald Trump and the Sovietization of America. And basically what I described there is, as you know, I was born and raised in Soviet Russia. And I've been here more than 30 years.

And I'm just simply horrified at the direction of where our country is going. Because with the censorship, with the persecution of the primary political opponent, the silencing of the conservative voices, religious voices, disarming the people by themselves, they're protecting with forcing the COVID vaccine. And it's totalitarianism.

And so that's what the book is about, is drawing parallels of how I was growing up in Soviet Russia and what's happening and how my children, American born children are growing up here. And if we don't stop this trend, this country will basically transform into a USSR 2.0.

And I don't want it. I love America. I want it to be America based on the principles founded by our founding fathers.

Our guest is Rebecca Koffler, a former defense intelligence agency officer, as well as a published author on the effect of the Ukrainian military making an incursion into Russia proper in its ongoing war.

You're also an author. Your forthcoming book due out soon, American Bolsheviks, the Persecution of Donald Trump and the Sovietization of America.

Yes, it's called American Bolsheviks, the persecution of Donald Trump and the Sovietization of America.

And now one is basically about what's going on in my adopted homeland. They came to America from Soviet Russia. And what I'm observing now is all the censorship and all the radicalization of the Democratic Party who is trying to establish total government control in this society.

It's giving me flashbacks back into Soviet Russia that I fled. And so it is warning Americans how the story ends.

And in truth, socialism has been trying many, many times in many, many places and every single time it failed and it only destroyed the country. And I wanted to warn my fellow Americans that voting for Democrats is basically signing America's death sentence.

I think this is the most dangerous anti-free speech period in our history. We've never seen an alliance like this of the government, corporations, media, and academia all allied against free speech.

The book actually talks about the characters and the cases that helped shape free speech in the United States.

One of the things that I discuss in The Indispensable Right is that we've gone through anti-free speech periods in this country.

We're at another election crossroad. And I think that the book has within it a well-based sense of optimism. The public remains opposed to censorship.

I think that puts it well. The interesting thing about the book is this book was 30 years in the making, and I didn't want to finish the book until I had a complete and comprehensive view of free speech, not just how we got to where we are and what we can do about it, but also why it is we're still struggling with free speech.

The book does actually deal with some of the attacks on the Supreme Court. And the reason the subtitle is Free Speech in an Age of Rage is this isn't our first age of rage. We've gone through various periods where our anger and our fears have led us to attack each other and often attack free speech.

And the problem has often been what I call rage rhetoric in the book, that this country was born in rage. That's what the Boston Tea Party was.

But the problem is we've always struggled with how to deal with rage rhetoric, particularly when it becomes state rage, when the government responds by cracking down on free speech. So the book looks at the personalities and the periods that shaped our views of free speech and tries to answer why we're still grappling with free speech, why we have still this difficult time in dealing with things like rage rhetoric.

And the reason it took so long is I didn't want to finish the book until I could answer that question. And ultimately, I did. One of the conclusions I made is that at the beginning of our republic, we had a short period of clarity as to what free speech really means.

And that was embodied in the First Amendment, that many of the framers believe that free speech was a natural right. It did not come from the government. It came from God. It came from being human, that you need free speech to be fully human.

I always tell people go get the book millionaire next door. It is a book that explains how people that made millions went broke and people that made 50,000 a year, uh, became millionaires just because of how they treated their money and saving their money.

I always tell people go get the book millionaire next door. It is a book that explains how people that made millions went broke and people that made 50,000 a year, uh, became millionaires just because of how they treated their money and saving their money.

Hunter Biden in his own book talked about, you know, going and dealing drugs at the 7-11 or purchasing drugs at that local 7-11.

And there's no actual proof that he was, you know, buying drugs at that 7-11.

They believed that he was essentially doing a drug deal because Hunter said so in his book.

And so it's really prosecution is really driving home this picture of Hunter Biden, which, quite frankly, he paints himself publicly in the book that he wrote.

In his new book, Bill of Obligations, former diplomat Richard Haass addresses America's growing political divide and how we can move beyond that to become better citizens.

You write in this book about our obligations to each other and to our own country, but also to our governments, our government's obligations to us.

And my argument is that's necessary. Indeed, what Lincoln and others have talked about, the unfinished work of America, is to square these rights with reality.

So I'm not anti-rights in any way, obviously, but I do think that we've lost this notion of obligations.

It's a timely conversation for July 4th.

Again, there's some variation for political reasons, but that's the larger message. The idea that plus or minus only half of Americans are feeling proud, and I think that's a reflection.

It's a perfect segue into talking about your book, The Bill of Obligations, which is a timely conversation for July 4th. You write in this book about our obligations to each other and to our own country, but also to our government's obligations to us.

Absolutely. Don't get me wrong. Rights are central to any democracy, particularly this one. As you correctly say, rights were central, first of all, to the fact we became independent.

My argument is that's necessary. Indeed, what Lincoln and others talked about, the unfinished work of America, is to square these rights with reality. That remains a goal.

My point is that we need to, yes, keep our rights, even expand them. But we also need to introduce, as you said, this notion of obligations--the two of us to one another, and both of us to the country, to government.

Judge Dan Stidham served as Jesse's defense attorney and joins me with a look at his new book, "A Harvest of Innocence," available now on Apple, Spotify and foxnewspodcasts.com.

In his new book, The Pursuit of Happiness, how classical writers on virtue inspired the lives of the founders and defined America, explores the lives of some of our most influential founders including Benjamin Franklin, George Washington and Alexander Hamilton.

And what those words, The Pursuit of Happiness, actually meant to them.

I feel intimidated by your book, to be honest.

I didn't know that these documents were the foundation of the founding either.

And it's my job to know.

It's absolutely central and the basic idea of the takeaway is that happiness is self-mastery, self-improvement, character improvement, being your best self so that you can use your talents to the best of your ability and serve others.

I just noticed that both Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson had offered for their definition of happiness a quotation from a book by Cicero I'd never heard of called The Tusculin Disputations that said, without virtue, happiness cannot be.

In the book, The Pursuit of Happiness, the reader has given a deeper look at the profiles of Washington, Hamilton, Franklin, and more. It explores what The Pursuit of Happiness actually meant to each of these gentlemen and what impact this crucial phrase had on our system of democracy.

And then I found this amazing reading list that Thomas Jefferson would send out to kids who were going to law school and wanted to know how to be an educated person.

It had on it Cicero and these other works of classical Greek and Roman moral philosophy that I'd never read before.

As I write in my book, "What's Killing America? Inside the Radical Left's Tragic Destruction of Our Cities," the result was an unmitigated disaster.

As police departments were defunded, the nationwide murder rate surged 30% in 2020, making it the largest single year increase in over a century.

The next time Democrats want to celebrate a Biden administration official for dunking on Fox News on Fox News, it would behoove them to have a grasp on the facts, not left-wing talking points better suited to the left-wing echo chamber that is MSNBC.

I'm Jason Rantz, author of "What's Killing America? Inside the Radical Left's Tragic Destruction of Our Cities."

I know these people I could write the script for how the next several weeks or months will unfold in my new book what's killing America inside the radical lefts tragic destruction of our cities I detail my experiences infiltrating and Tifa

It was tough at first. I don't want to say he almost gave up. But in the early hours of his recovery after Achilles surgery, his personal trainer who moved in with him, Aaron Alexander, told me there were some dark nights and moments where Aaron didn't know if he could ever play again.

He wasn't even sure if the New York Jets wanted him back. He felt like he had let the entire market down, millions of people.

And he got through that. He fought through it. And towards the end of last season, he actually wanted to play and told his trainer that if the Jets win on December 17th at Miami, I'm playing Christmas Eve against Washington.

Not as disappointed as the 49ers will be that they did not draft me.

This guy was handed nothing. He made a Hall of Fame career just by the singular force of his will.

It was tough at first. I don't want to say he almost gave up, but in the early hours of his recovery after Achilles surgery, his personal trainer who moved in with him, Aaron Alexander told me there were some grim dark nights and moments where Aaron didn't know if he could ever play again.

He wasn't even sure if the New York Jets wanted him back. He felt like he had let the entire market down, millions of people and he got through that.

He fought through it and I do think he's got a couple of good seasons left in him. I don't know about MVP level.

One theme throughout your book when you go through the Aaron Rodgers story is overcoming other people's doubts about his ability to lead a team and be successful from high school through college.

100% Dave and he still has a chip on his shoulder, which is now a boulder.

The title of the podcast, which was hard for me to write, was the end of a Jewish golden age, meaning we've, we Jews have thrived in America.

I just noticed that both Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson had offered for their definition of happiness a quotation from a book by Cicero I'd never heard of called The Tusculent Disputations that said without virtue happiness cannot be.

You know it's so incredible how central it was this was Cicero's manual on grief and how to deal with great tragedy and his daughter Tulia had just died he'd just been exiled from Roman politics.

it's one of the stories that I tell At War with Ourselves is how hard it is to affect big changes in the area of foreign policy and national security.

there are three types of people who serve, I think, in any administration, right? The first type of person is somebody who's maybe served across their career in the State Department or an intelligence official or a military officer, and they recognize that hey, it's not their job to make policy. It's the elected president's job to make policy. And what your job is is to get that president best advice and multiple options.

So I think that you don't want that second or third group of people to be serving in the White House because hey, nobody elected them. And not only are they not serving the elected president well, they're actually undermining the Constitution in the United States because in our country sovereignty lies with the people and the people elected the president, not the National Security Advisor, members of the cabinet, like the Secretary of State or Defense.

if you could go back to the December 2017 national security strategy of the United States the President Trump signed, approved every part of it and it's a document that is hard to take exception to today it really lays out what our priorities were then and what they should be now it emphasized the need to pursue peace through strength

And one of the themes in the book is that there are three types of people who serve, I think, in any administration, right? The first type of person is somebody who's maybe served across their career in the State Department or an intelligence official or a military officer, and they recognize that hey, it's not their job to make policy. It's the elected president's job to make policy. And what your job is is to get that president best advice and multiple options.

There's a second group of people though who are not there to help the president make his or her own decisions. They're actually there to manipulate decisions consistent with their agenda.

And then a third group of people, I think we saw this in the Trump administration, but in other administrations too, they define their role as saving the country and the world from the president.

Her book about overcoming struggles and learning lessons along the way is called God Calls Us to Do Hard Things.

It's out now in paperback.

Well, Senator, it was great to talk to you on the book now out in paperback. God Calls Us to Do Hard Things. Lessons from the Alabama winegrass from Katie Boyd Britt, United States Senator.

Her book, God Calls Us to Do Hard Things, lessons from the Alabama winegrass came out last year, now in paperback.

And that's a story that I open the book with, because still this very day, I am I have such a grateful heart about that experience.

And in the book, I talk about, you know, my daughter, you know, weeks later, saying to me, you know, mama, where did Jesus go?

But ultimately, you know, and I talk about it in the book. She's like, no, mommy, he was here and he went bye bye. And I want him to come back, tell him to come back.

Well, Senator, it was great to talk to you on the book now out in paperback. God Calls Us to Do Hard Things. Lessons from the Alabama winegrass from Katie Boyd-Britt,

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