Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Sean Hannity Show. I'm Greg Jarrett
Speaker 1: filling in for Sean. I'm a Fox News legal analyst.
Speaker 1: You can follow me on Twitter at greg Jarrett. Hope
Speaker 1: you read my legal columns and listen to my podcast
Speaker 1: The Brief on my website, the Greg Jarrett dot Com.
Speaker 1: You can also learn about my new book, The Trial
Speaker 1: of the Century. It's now available for pre order online.
Speaker 1: That famous trial helped form the legal bedrock on which
Speaker 1: our civil liberties depend today. Was a battleover science, faith,
Speaker 1: free speech, academic freedom, and the power of ideas that
Speaker 1: nobody should be told how to think. Legendary defense attorney
Speaker 1: Clarence Darrow's stunning takedown of William Jennings Brian was the
Speaker 1: most amazing courtroom confrontation in Anglo Saxon history, wrote The
Speaker 1: New York Times, the surprising outcome of the trial foreshadowed
Speaker 1: today's bitter culture wars. So I hope you'll read the book,
Speaker 1: The Trial of the Century, available now online. For those
Speaker 1: of you who have read my many columns about the
Speaker 1: Biden family corruption, it's encouraging that Congress is now finally
Speaker 1: finally investigating the volumes of evidence that appear to implicate
Speaker 1: President Joe Biden in his son's lucrative influence pedaling schemes,
Speaker 1: selling access and promises of potential influence to countries like China, Russia,
Speaker 1: Ukraine and other foreign nations. Despite a laptop with reams
Speaker 1: of incriminating evidence, no charges have ever been filed in
Speaker 1: a federal investigation that is now in its fifth year.
Speaker 1: Five years no charges, and that of course invites the
Speaker 1: inevitable question, is Joe Biden's Department of Justice protecting the President? Well,
Speaker 1: it sure looks like it. The FBI, after all, has
Speaker 1: had the laptop in its possession since December of twenty
Speaker 1: and nineteen. Whistle blowers that the bureau say top officials
Speaker 1: at the agency buried that's smoking gun evidence. And we
Speaker 1: know from the Twitter files that the FBI pressured, if
Speaker 1: not directed, the social media giant to censor and suppress
Speaker 1: the laptop story. For more, let's turn out of Peter Schweitzer,
Speaker 1: one of the best investigative journalists in the nation. He
Speaker 1: is the best selling author of several books, including Red Handed,
Speaker 1: the most recent Profiles in Corruption, Secret Empires, and Clinting Cash.
Speaker 1: My all time favorite is pocketar website and podcast is
Speaker 1: the drill Down. Peter great having you back with us.
Speaker 1: There is a terrific column and podcast on your website
Speaker 1: to drill Down. It's entitled did the Clintons inspire the Bidens?
Speaker 1: What's the answer to that question? I think they did.
Speaker 1: The answer is yes. You know, Greg, you and I
Speaker 1: both know, having followed corruption and cronyism in Washington, DC
Speaker 1: for a long time, everybody in Washington loves a business
Speaker 1: model that can allow them to get rich through public service.
Speaker 1: There are very few exceptions to that rule. And I
Speaker 1: think in this particular case, what the Clintons did was
Speaker 1: they globalized corruption. You know, we think about globalization with
Speaker 1: the economy, labor or all that kind of stuff. Corruption
Speaker 1: got globalized too. And it was really the Clinton's the
Speaker 1: first ones who said, you know, we're gonna cash in.
Speaker 1: Not so much by going to you know, Wall Street
Speaker 1: or big Tech, although we'll do some of that. We're
Speaker 1: going to cash in by going overseas to these corrupt
Speaker 1: political cultures places like Russia and China, and we're going
Speaker 1: to peddle our wares there and sell access there. That's
Speaker 1: what the Clintons did, and I believe that the Bidens
Speaker 1: were inspired by that. In fact, you see in the
Speaker 1: Laptop when Hunter Biden is talking about setting up the
Speaker 1: Biden Center at the University of Delaware, he actually compares
Speaker 1: it to the Clinton Global Initiatives, saying, we can do
Speaker 1: with this what the Clintons did with the CGI. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and in fact you go through it in great detail
Speaker 1: in as I mentioned my favorite book, Clinton Cash, how
Speaker 1: they the Clintons used their foundation, their Global Initiative really
Speaker 1: is a personal piggy bank, and in particular the tens
Speaker 1: of millions of dollars from Russia that flowed into their foundation. Yeah,
Speaker 1: really quite breathtaking, you know. Tell us a bit more
Speaker 1: about that, Yeah, I mean, you know, look, Hillary Clinton
Speaker 1: was Secretary of State the first term of the Obama administration,
Speaker 1: and that provided a real opportunity for the Clinton family
Speaker 1: to cash in. I mean, they were doing pretty well
Speaker 1: after Bill left the presidency and Hillary was in the Senate.
Speaker 1: But once she became Secretary of State, all these foreign
Speaker 1: entities wanted to curry favor with chief diplomat, and the
Speaker 1: perfect avenue was the so called charity, the Clinton Foundation.
Speaker 1: So they would make these charitable donations to the Clinton Foundation.
Speaker 1: The Clinton Foundation, of course, subsidized the lifestyle of the Clintons.
Speaker 1: It became sort of a dumping ground for their political operatives,
Speaker 1: and Russia was one of the main players, and it
Speaker 1: centered around really sensitive important issues like uranium. You and
Speaker 1: I discussed this on the air when this story first broke.
Speaker 1: Uranium won this uranium company that had roughly half of
Speaker 1: the Uranian assets in the United States. They also had
Speaker 1: some very very deep and rich uranium mines in Kazakhstan.
Speaker 1: Bill Clinton essentially got the Kazakh government to sell those
Speaker 1: uranium minds to a friend of his, a guy named
Speaker 1: Frank Justra, who then donated one hundred million dollars to
Speaker 1: the Clinton Foundation. And then Justra turned around and sold
Speaker 1: those minds and the minds in the United States to
Speaker 1: the Russian state owned uranium producer. So they were essentially
Speaker 1: doing the bidding of the Russian government itself. It's it's
Speaker 1: funny to meet Greg when you look at the demonization
Speaker 1: of Vladimir Putin today and by the way, in my mind,
Speaker 1: he has always deserved it. But you know, back in
Speaker 1: ten years ago, the Clintons were very much doing the
Speaker 1: bidding of Vladimir Putin. It wasn't just the money from
Speaker 1: uranium one. They also took in a lot of Russian
Speaker 1: money because of something called Skokovo, which was a Hillary
Speaker 1: Clinton initiative as Secretary of State to create a silicon
Speaker 1: valley in Russia. You know what could go wrong, And
Speaker 1: they cashed in there as well, and that enhanced the
Speaker 1: Russian military. So Russia was for the Clinton's sort of
Speaker 1: the the the golden calf, as it were for the Bidens.
Speaker 1: They looked at the other part of the world. They
Speaker 1: looked at Asia and particularly China as the place to
Speaker 1: cash in the most. Yeah. So you know, if I
Speaker 1: remember correctly, about one hundred million dollars in Russian money
Speaker 1: flows into the Clinton Foundation and their Global Initiative. Well,
Speaker 1: at the same time, you know, Hillary and Bill are
Speaker 1: greasing the sale of America's uranian to Russia, their their
Speaker 1: ownership of it. I mean, good lord, it's to me,
Speaker 1: it's the definition of corruption. Let me come back to
Speaker 1: something you said a moment ago. The Bidens followed the
Speaker 1: business model of the Clintons. In fact, i'll quote from
Speaker 1: your book Red Handed quote the Biden's father and son
Speaker 1: together apparently followed a business model offering access to the
Speaker 1: highest levels of powering Washington in exchange for big money
Speaker 1: international deals end of quote. And Peter. This is while
Speaker 1: the elder Biden was Vice President of the United States, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: And that's the key ingredient here, Greg. As you know,
Speaker 1: you know with the Clintons, Bill Clinton's speaking fees doubled
Speaker 1: or tripled overnight when his wife became Secretary of State
Speaker 1: in two thousand and nine. It's not because became more eloquent.
Speaker 1: It's because foreign entities wanted to pay them to get access.
Speaker 1: It's the same thing with the Biden's Hunter Biden sets
Speaker 1: up an international finance firm called Rosemont in June of
Speaker 1: two thousand and nine. This is, you know what, five
Speaker 1: months after his father has sworn as Vice President of
Speaker 1: the United States. He had never done international business before.
Speaker 1: He couldn't have gotten a meeting because his father was
Speaker 1: simply a senator. But now that his father was vice
Speaker 1: president of the United States and Barack Obama gave Joe
Speaker 1: Biden the villet for policy towards China, policy towards Ukraine.
Speaker 1: Now suddenly these foreign entities wanted access, they wanted favor,
Speaker 1: they wanted favorable treatment. So what did they do. They
Speaker 1: went to the son who had set up this international
Speaker 1: financial business and said, we're happy to do deals with you.
Speaker 1: So Hunter Biden, who I don't think could have gotten
Speaker 1: really any meetings in China within a year of setting
Speaker 1: up his business, he's going to China and he's meeting
Speaker 1: with the equivalent of China's head of the Federal Reserve,
Speaker 1: the Treasury Secretary JP Morgan Goldman Sachs Ubs. He's meeting
Speaker 1: with eleven of the hop finance executives in China. Why
Speaker 1: because he's got some great, you know, investment scheme, because
Speaker 1: he's got some great expertise. No, because his father is
Speaker 1: now in charge of policy towards China. And that's how
Speaker 1: it works. And look, the Clintons and the Bidens absolutely
Speaker 1: know this. They know how the game is played. And
Speaker 1: one of the reasons that they run the money through
Speaker 1: a family member. In the case of the Clintons, when
Speaker 1: Hillary was Secretary of State, it went through her husband Bill.
Speaker 1: In the case of the Bidens, it's run through the
Speaker 1: son or the brother, James Biden. The reason they do
Speaker 1: that is it gives them some form of plausible deniability.
Speaker 1: But when you look at actually what's going on. It's
Speaker 1: very clear what's going on, and it's not fooling really anybody. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's corrupt influence, pedaling promises of access as well
Speaker 1: as potential influential decision making it would favor, for example, China.
Speaker 1: You know, US banks flagged a staggering a hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty suspicious activity reports stars is, they're known with a
Speaker 1: financial crimes unit at the Department of Treasury reflecting tens
Speaker 1: of millions of dollars paid in suspected illegal transactions. Right, So,
Speaker 1: Joe Biden suddenly becomes president United States and the Treasury
Speaker 1: Department under Biden will not do what they've always done,
Speaker 1: which is turn over those reports to Congress. Instead, they
Speaker 1: have refused so far to turn them over. What do
Speaker 1: you make of that? Yeah, it's remarkable, Greg. You know,
Speaker 1: what they're claiming is it would violate the banking secrecy laws.
Speaker 1: But of course there are numerous times in the past
Speaker 1: when Congress has requested for access to these sorts of
Speaker 1: financial records and has gotten them from our federal government.
Speaker 1: In this particular case, it's a cover up, pure and simple,
Speaker 1: And this is the sort of thing that leads to
Speaker 1: further and further legitimate concern and suspicion, I think even
Speaker 1: by supporters of Joe Biden. I saw a poll that
Speaker 1: was done I think by Trafalgar just a couple of
Speaker 1: days ago, showing that at least one third of Democrats
Speaker 1: believe that Joe Biden has a massive conflict of interest
Speaker 1: when it comes to China because of his family's business dealings.
Speaker 1: These are Democrats that probably are not listening to news
Speaker 1: outlets such as Yours or Fox where they're actually being
Speaker 1: exposed to the detailed information we're discussing. So it's very
Speaker 1: very clear to me that this is a cover up,
Speaker 1: and I think that it's going to be interesting to
Speaker 1: see where Democrats who don't want Joe Biden running for
Speaker 1: reelection because they think he's too old or they don't
Speaker 1: think he can win, where they are going to line
Speaker 1: up because we are setting up, i think, for a
Speaker 1: battle royale for access to this information. There's all kinds
Speaker 1: of things they can do to make sure that you know,
Speaker 1: nothing personally secretive that would violate the banking rules would
Speaker 1: be not disclosed. You can release the form, you can
Speaker 1: redact all sorts of things. They simply don't want the
Speaker 1: American people to know who and how much money the
Speaker 1: Biden family has received from China. I've got about a
Speaker 1: minute left, so let me ask you the ultimate question.
Speaker 1: Is it a legitimate concern that Americans should be worried
Speaker 1: about that Joe Biden is compromised when it comes to China,
Speaker 1: that he has essentially jeopardized America's national security. Just look
Speaker 1: at the discussions we have in Washington all the time
Speaker 1: about campaign contributions by big tech, or big oil, or
Speaker 1: by Wall Street. Those are legitimate debates. In this case,
Speaker 1: we're not talking about tens of millions of dollars going
Speaker 1: into campaigns. We're talking about tens of millions of dollars
Speaker 1: going into the pockets of the first family of the
Speaker 1: United States. So by any measure, any measure, it is
Speaker 1: absolutely a legitimate concern and one that I believe is
Speaker 1: the central issue that we're facing as a republic today. Well,
Speaker 1: I hope the Judiciary Committee as well as the Oversight
Speaker 1: Committee in the House get to the bottom of it.
Speaker 1: Peter Schweitzer one of the best investigative journalists, best selling
Speaker 1: author of several books, his most recent Red Handed. Check
Speaker 1: out his website and podcast. The drill down, Peter, thanks
Speaker 1: for being with us. Thanks Greg for having me. We're
Speaker 1: gonna take a quick break. I'm Greg Jarrett filling in
Speaker 1: for Sean on the Sean Hannity Show. We'll be right
Speaker 1: back and Welcome back to the Sean Hannity Show. I'm
Speaker 1: Greg Jarrett filling in for Sean. You can follow me
Speaker 1: on Twitter at greg Jarrett. Read my legal columns, listen
Speaker 1: to my podcast The Brief on my website, the Greg
Speaker 1: Jarrett dot Com. You can also learn about my new book,
Speaker 1: The Trial of the Century of available for pre order online.
Speaker 1: I wrote it with Don Yeager, terrific writer who dug
Speaker 1: deep into the history of the case. Don was kind
Speaker 1: enough to join us in the first hour. He's going
Speaker 1: to rejoin us in just a moment, so be sure
Speaker 1: is stay tuned for that our further discussion on The
Speaker 1: Trial of the Century. You can get it preorder it online.
Speaker 1: This is the Sean Hannity Show. I'm Greg Jarrett filling
Speaker 1: in for Sean. We'll be right back. Welcome back to
Speaker 1: the Sean Hannity Show. I'm Greg Jarrett filling in for Sean.
Speaker 1: You can follow me on Twitter at Greg Jarrett. You
Speaker 1: can read my legal columns and other articles on my website,
Speaker 1: the Greg Jarrett dot Com. Listen to my podcast The Brief.
Speaker 1: In a couple hours ago, I was talking to my
Speaker 1: co author of my new book, Trial of the Century,
Speaker 1: which you can pre order right now online at all
Speaker 1: usual online website. It's Amazon, Barnes and Noble. It's about
Speaker 1: the Scope's Monkey trial, the Trial of the Century in
Speaker 1: my judgment, because it's set the bedrock principles for free speech,
Speaker 1: academic freedom, intellectual enlightenment, and the power of ideas. These
Speaker 1: are cherished principles upon which our civil liberties depend. Today.
Speaker 1: We cherish these principles and the work of the greatest
Speaker 1: trial lawyer who ever lived, Clarence Darrow. We owe great
Speaker 1: gratitude and credit, certainly my hero in my lifetime and
Speaker 1: joining me once again to talk about it as my coauthor,
Speaker 1: Don Jeger, New York Times bestselling author, a longtime associate
Speaker 1: editor at Sports Illustrated, a popular public speaker, and done.
Speaker 1: Thanks for sticking around for another half hour to talk
Speaker 1: about the Trial of the Century. You know, one of
Speaker 1: the things that people get to read about in the
Speaker 1: book is the incredible tense courtroom scenes which I mentioned earlier,
Speaker 1: The New York Times described as the greatest courtroom confrontation
Speaker 1: in Anglo Saxon history. But you can also see the
Speaker 1: photographs of it because they were maintained. This is, you know,
Speaker 1: almost a hundred years ago in the archives in Tennessee
Speaker 1: at Brian College, which is in Dayton, Tennessee, and you know,
Speaker 1: just across from the courthouse somewhat. You can see it
Speaker 1: from the top floor of the courthouse. And I put
Speaker 1: together forty photographs of the trial game permission, and you know,
Speaker 1: I go in there and I spent I don't know,
Speaker 1: ten or twelve hours. You have to wear white cotton
Speaker 1: gloves to handle these old, fragile photographs. And I used
Speaker 1: this huge high resolution scanner to copy and download the
Speaker 1: incredible photographs. And let's talk about what they show, because
Speaker 1: don you know, it was a circus like atmosphere at
Speaker 1: that trial outside the courthouse enterout the town, complete with
Speaker 1: a trained chimpanzee named Joe Mendy, which was sort of
Speaker 1: a nod to the mistaken impression that man evolved from
Speaker 1: eight So talk about the circus at the trial of
Speaker 1: the century, you know, Greg, One of the things that
Speaker 1: really stood out as as we had a chance to
Speaker 1: experience the town and to to walk through that courthouse.
Speaker 1: Was that you know, at the time, the court room
Speaker 1: where that case was tried was actually the largest courtroom
Speaker 1: in all of Tennessee. It was UH and and yet
Speaker 1: it was filled to its to its complete capacity, standing
Speaker 1: room only. People from around the country, journalist from around
Speaker 1: the world came to be part of this event. It was,
Speaker 1: you know, ironically the city of Dayton arranged this trial.
Speaker 1: They they they actually sought out the teacher John Scopes
Speaker 1: to see if they could find someone who might have
Speaker 1: violated the recently passed law there in Tennessee, because they
Speaker 1: wanted the opportunity to to showcase their community. And it
Speaker 1: turned into it was as for many many years, it
Speaker 1: was quite an embarrassment of black eye for for for
Speaker 1: the for the community. But but yes, I mean one
Speaker 1: of the things that that stood out to me was
Speaker 1: that it was the first trial ever UH broadcast live
Speaker 1: on radio. Every every minute of the trial, including all
Speaker 1: of the UH, the the actions of the judge and
Speaker 1: and the and the UH the individual lawyers were broadcast
Speaker 1: on WGN. UH first trial broadcasts from from beginning to
Speaker 1: end on America An American Radio Network. So in many
Speaker 1: ways it was the court TV version of what you
Speaker 1: might have experienced in some of your work. So yes,
Speaker 1: constantly it was. It was It was seen all over
Speaker 1: as something that everyone in the country was paying attention to,
Speaker 1: front page of every newspaper. You know, I covered the O. J.
Speaker 1: Simpson trial, which everybody compared to a circus. Frankly, it
Speaker 1: paled in comparison to what unfolded in nineteen twenty five
Speaker 1: in Dayton, Tennessee. But similar to court TV, in which cameras,
Speaker 1: you know, we're in the courtroom for the Simpson trial.
Speaker 1: There were cameras in nineteen twenty five in the courtroom
Speaker 1: in Dayton, Tennessee, for the trial of the Century the
Speaker 1: name of our book. And they would fly these newsreel
Speaker 1: footage every day to Chicago. There was always a plane
Speaker 1: that was waiting on the outskirts of town in Dayton, Tennessee,
Speaker 1: at a small airstrip, and they would fly newsreel to Chicago,
Speaker 1: where it would then be distributed across the nation in
Speaker 1: movie theaters, which was how people would get their their
Speaker 1: news through these newsreel news shorts as they were known,
Speaker 1: and they could watch some of what was unfolding inside
Speaker 1: the courtroom. There's still some newsreel footage available. I found
Speaker 1: it on YouTube. You know, it's not pretty stuff, but
Speaker 1: you know, by today's standards, but it still exists. This
Speaker 1: trial really impacted almost everybody who was involved in it,
Speaker 1: In particular the defendant John Scopes. Now Scopes was arrested
Speaker 1: and charged with a crime of teaching evolution under this
Speaker 1: new statute that Tennessee had passed. But other states were
Speaker 1: doing the same thing. They were also banning books that
Speaker 1: gave instruction textbooks on evolution in other states. Scopes life
Speaker 1: was in so many ways, wasn't it done ruined by
Speaker 1: by this case? But without question, one of a chunk
Speaker 1: of our book is dedicated to UH to kind of
Speaker 1: the retelling of what happened to John Scope's afterward. I mean,
Speaker 1: he he disappeared in many ways. He um, he became
Speaker 1: an alcoholic, he lost relationship with his own family and children,
Speaker 1: moved you know, to UH to Central America. He there
Speaker 1: were there were so many places where where his life
Speaker 1: went in in a direction he was not anticipating, because
Speaker 1: so many people were bothered by the idea that he
Speaker 1: was um, that that he had put himself in this place.
Speaker 1: He was clearly a bad person. And what it, what
Speaker 1: it did, and even some of those who tried to
Speaker 1: chronicle it, he wouldn't allow others to talk about it.
Speaker 1: Um he was he was, as you said, crushed by
Speaker 1: by the moment. I mean, it was really a sad
Speaker 1: epitaph to a law and this was a guy who
Speaker 1: was very bright and he I think he wanted to
Speaker 1: be a lawyer. But you know, he almost enrolled I
Speaker 1: think it was a university in Kentucky law school, and
Speaker 1: that he realized that his fame or infamy was haunting him,
Speaker 1: and you know, that's a great word, realized that he
Speaker 1: could never be a lawyer, especially in the shadow of
Speaker 1: his famous trava a journey Clarence Darrell. What a great
Speaker 1: what a great description of it. Haunt was would be
Speaker 1: the word that you would have to look for if
Speaker 1: you're trying to understand what happened to him next and
Speaker 1: over the remaining the course of his life. Late in
Speaker 1: his life, he tried to to regain some of that fame.
Speaker 1: Actually signed up and was part of game shows and
Speaker 1: a couple of other things where he tried to use
Speaker 1: what little fame was left to help him recover some
Speaker 1: of his lost finances. But yeah, I mean it was
Speaker 1: the promising career of a young teacher. Um was never
Speaker 1: the same. Let's talk about the journalist who had more
Speaker 1: influence on this trial across America than anybody in his day.
Speaker 1: He was the most famous journalist in America, Hl Mencin,
Speaker 1: who was this gifted writer and a very intelligent, thoughtful person,
Speaker 1: but with a very acerbic pen or typewriter. And you know,
Speaker 1: he took direct aim at William Jennings Bryan, whom he mocked,
Speaker 1: ridiculed and demeaned, and everybody across America read Mencon's column
Speaker 1: during the trial. Yeah, one of the one of the
Speaker 1: great ironies though that it stood out to both of
Speaker 1: us as we were kind of digging into this, because yes,
Speaker 1: Mancin became quite fair amos over time and even more
Speaker 1: famous during that trial. But while he was there covering it,
Speaker 1: he had made a decision when he realized that the
Speaker 1: that that Clarence Darrow was not going to get to
Speaker 1: put on his expert witnesses, he made the decision to
Speaker 1: go back to Baltimore, to leave Dayton because he he thought, wow,
Speaker 1: this is this is over and so he actually missed
Speaker 1: and was not there for the peace of the trial
Speaker 1: when William Jennings Bryan actually took the stand. He wasn't
Speaker 1: there for the very for maybe the most significant piece
Speaker 1: of the entire event. Um, you know, you know today
Speaker 1: you get fired for going home early and missing the
Speaker 1: most pivotal part of the of the Trial of the Century. Again,
Speaker 1: my guest is John don Yeger. Is is my co
Speaker 1: author of The Trial of the Century. You can order
Speaker 1: it online. Pre order it now. It's an important book,
Speaker 1: I think, And you know, in the book, I talked
Speaker 1: so much about how I admired and respected Clarence Darrow
Speaker 1: his principles. He was known as the Attorney for the damned,
Speaker 1: but he was also flawed. We opened one of the
Speaker 1: chapters where Darrow shows up at the door of his
Speaker 1: one time girlfriend. He is drunk, he is got a gun,
Speaker 1: he lays it on the table and announces he's going
Speaker 1: to kill himself. We've only got about a minute or
Speaker 1: so left. But he was not a perfect person. But
Speaker 1: I identified with that because I'm not. Nobody is. We're
Speaker 1: all afflicted with human frailty, and Darrow was certainly among us. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, Greg, I don't want to spoil it, but
Speaker 1: I will tell you that maybe my favorite part of
Speaker 1: the entire book is where at the end you take
Speaker 1: you take the reins of the of the writing machine
Speaker 1: that we had to talk about why you saw this
Speaker 1: as such an important, such an important cultural event, and
Speaker 1: how it plays into many of the things we are
Speaker 1: thinking about today. I hope readers make sure that as
Speaker 1: they as they dig into this book, that they absolutely
Speaker 1: listen in to your words there at the end. It
Speaker 1: was really powerful. Well, you know, there's another battlefront that
Speaker 1: has risen an education, not unlike the Trial of the Century.
Speaker 1: There's vocal conflict that is so fierce over a different
Speaker 1: kind of academic freedom, the teaching of a doctrine known
Speaker 1: as critical race theory. And I, you know, I don't
Speaker 1: shy away from it. In the epilogue, and I give
Speaker 1: an analysis of what Darrow would do today in the
Speaker 1: face of critical race theory. And I think it will
Speaker 1: surprise people who are expecting me to take a particular
Speaker 1: point of view, but I try to be as fair
Speaker 1: as I possibly can. I talk about the good and
Speaker 1: the bad, because the problem with CRT are the disparate
Speaker 1: definitions of it and the use of it in various
Speaker 1: classroom settings. There is the more benign appropriate history approach,
Speaker 1: but there are other approaches that are less benign, and
Speaker 1: states have reacted to it. I recount how Oklahoma has
Speaker 1: enacted as statute that restricts lessons on race and gender,
Speaker 1: and the ACLU once again has stepped in, ensued, and
Speaker 1: the case still penning. Regardless of its outcome. This is
Speaker 1: a case that could go all the way to the
Speaker 1: United States Supreme Court. So today's version of the Trial
Speaker 1: of the Century is not creationism versus evolution, but critical
Speaker 1: race theory and under what circumstances it is appropriate or
Speaker 1: inappropriate for it to be taught in America's public schools.
Speaker 1: Don Jeger, thanks for sticking around for another half hour
Speaker 1: discussion on our book, which comes out very soon but
Speaker 1: can be pre ordered now online. It's called The Trial
Speaker 1: of the Century. Great, Don Jeger, thanks very much for
Speaker 1: taking the time. Thanks for having me friend. I'm Greg
Speaker 1: Jared's sitting in for Shawn Hannity on the Sean Hannity
Speaker 1: Radio Show. We're going to take a quick break. We'll
Speaker 1: be right back with Moore and welcome back to the
Speaker 1: Sean Hannity Show on Greg Jared filling in for Sean.
Speaker 1: It's been a pleasure over the last three hours, particularly
Speaker 1: talking to my co author Don Jeger. He and I
Speaker 1: have written the book, The Trial of the Century. It's
Speaker 1: available now for pre order online. Just go to Amazon
Speaker 1: dot com, Barnes and Noble dot com, any other online site.
Speaker 1: The book comes out shortly, but you can pre order
Speaker 1: it right now. Trial of the Century. It is, I think,
Speaker 1: a gripping history of the great legal battle between renowned
Speaker 1: attorney Clarence Darrow and three time presidential candidate William Jennings
Speaker 1: Bryan in the famous Scopes Monkey trial, Evolution versus Creationism,
Speaker 1: and the outcome set the bedrock principles for academic freedom,
Speaker 1: free speech, intellectual enlightenment, and the power of ideas, all
Speaker 1: cherished rights and principles that we enjoy today. Again. That's
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