Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
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Justice Neil Gorsuch disputes the idea that America was founded as a white Christian nation. “I just don't see it that way,” says Gorsuch. “We have a First Amendment for crying out loud. No established religion.” Check out this special program this weekend on PBS, YouTube, and wherever you get your podcasts.
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover407,661 次观看 • 3 个月前
Colorado congressional nominee Melat Kiros for Congress, CO-1 says the lack of progressive vision for Israel and Palestine is leaving a "vacuum" for “people like Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens, who are raging antisemites and white supremacists and Christian nationalists.” “And that's going to require a lot of conversations, a lot of hard conversations.”
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover218,746 次观看 • 1 个月前
In his book, former Mueller prosecutor Andrew Weissmann (weissmann11 on Threads/Insta)🌻 recounts Paul Manafort meeting with a Putin ally over a proposed deal allowing Russia to take control of part of Ukraine with #Trump's implicit approval. "It was such a clear indication of what Vladimir Putin was trying to do."
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover2,954,016 次观看 • 3 年前
Former General Jim Mattis says that it’s “very unlikely” that this Iranian regime falls right now. “They've told the Iranian parents, don't let your sons and daughters demonstrate because we will shoot them. We will go after them. So no, they're not going to go away anywhere right now. I would not think that they're going to break.” Check out the interview on PBS, YouTube, and wherever you get your podcasts.
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover261,661 次观看 • 6 个月前
"There's absolutely no evidence," says David Becker of Elon Musk's claim that Democrats are "importing" migrants to vote illegally. Michigan Sec. of State Jocelyn Benson adds Musk is amplifying "unsourced or easily debunkable information" instead of listening to facts.
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover607,324 次观看 • 2 年前
In an interview from 2020, Bari Weiss told Margaret Hoover that the rise in antisemitic violence under President Trump was “of course not” an accident. “He is dismantling the moral guardrails that keep bigotry down,” said Weiss. “He has made things that were rightly a few years ago unsayable and unacceptable, sayable and acceptable. And that has led, I believe, to a domino effect culturally.”
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover213,949 次观看 • 9 个月前
The framers of the Constitution intended for the House of Representatives to regularly expand as the population grew, but that has not happened for over 100 years. “It's just a way to restore the logic of the system,” said Yuval Levin of American Enterprise Institute, who supports expanding the House by 150 members. “Growing the House is not a silver bullet, but it's part of a larger effort to help Congress help itself.”
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover80,069 次观看 • 5 个月前
.Danielle Crittenden Frum and David Frum's daughter Miranda–a former Firing Line staff member–died suddenly in 2024. In her new book, Crittenden grapples with her grief and remembers the daughter she lost. "She was very like her father. She was brilliant...One of her friends said that he had never met in real life a person who was so casually witty."
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover69,431 次观看 • 4 个月前
Democratic House candidate Melat Kiros for Congress, CO-1 has advocated for a one-state solution for Israelis and Palestinians. She acknowledges there are "valid" security concerns for Jews if they become a minority but argues "the concern doesn't justify allowing the status quo to continue." "We have a responsibility to defending our democratic values and holding our allies accountable."
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover31,446 次观看 • 1 个月前
Last year, New York City Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani said Indian Prime Minister Modi was a “war criminal” for his alleged role in the anti-Muslim protests in 2002 in Gujarat. Does Salman Rushdie agree? “If I had to say, I would say that I believe him to have been responsible for some of that violence,” Rushdie tells MargaretHoover. “I don't know whether that's a war criminal because there wasn't a war, but I think he has a very brutal side.”
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover11,853 次观看 • 22 天前
Justice Anthony Kennedy defended the Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision--which he authored--in an October interview, but he admitted it had unintended consequences. “They were unintended in the fact that we didn't want them to happen. But they were predictable. And this caused a problem," Kennedy said. "But we just couldn't find a place to draw the line.”
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover49,325 次观看 • 4 个月前
According to the The New York Times, Israeli leaders told the U.S. before the war that Iran was ripe for regime change and would be too weak to choke off the Strait of Hormuz. תמיר הימן | Tamir Hayman, former chief of the Israel Defense Forces intelligence unit, says that is not what intelligence showed. "We know about the Iranians, they are not bluffing. When they say something, they will execute."
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover41,695 次观看 • 3 个月前
Yuval Levin of American Enterprise Institute says by centralizing power, Newt Gingrich didn’t just reshape Congress—he weakened it, turning lawmakers into loyalists and the speaker akin to a prime minister. “The idea that the speaker should function as a kind of prime minister, that he should be able to wield Congress as a weapon against the president of the other party, ended up meaning that the rest of the members of Congress look to party leaders for direction.” “In many ways this would be James Madison's nightmare,” said Jeffrey Rosen, CEO emeritus of the National Constitution Center.
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover48,208 次观看 • 5 个月前
"Who's going to stop him?" Conservative Amanda Carpenter, co-author of Protect Democracy's "Authoritarian Playbook," warns the guardrails that constrained #DonaldTrump in his first term would be weakened or eliminated in a second. "This is the authoritarian endgame."
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover169,605 次观看 • 2 年前
When MargaretHoover confronts Bill O'Reilly about the sexual harassment claims that led to his firing at Fox News, he refuses to comment. "I'd be a fool to dredge that up." Asked about a law ending forced arbitration in similar cases, he says, "I don't care about any of that." O'Reilly calls Hoover a "virtue signaler" for her 2017 New York Times piece applauding his ouster from Fox and calling for a rejection of “sexist behavior” from conservative media personalities: "You know nothing about it." But Hoover, who was a regular guest on "The O'Reilly Factor" from 2007 to 2011, responds, "I know about the culture I experienced at Fox News." More from this exchange tonight on PBS premiering at 8:30 p.m.
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover137,547 次观看 • 2 年前
Colorado congressional candidate Melat Kiros for Congress, CO-1 endorses some of the DSA platform—but not all of it. “We really put the 'democracy' into democratic socialism,” says Kiros. “And our platform is one that is voted on in a democratic way through our members. And it's one where it is almost certain that not every single member actually agrees with the entirety of the platform.”
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover17,201 次观看 • 1 个月前
"I think we should take it seriously," #DonaldTrump's former Nat. Sec. Advisor H.R. McMaster says of his second-term threats, but he doesn't think Trump would mobilize the military against Americans. Why? "Because I think there are checks on presidential power," he says, noting the strength of institutions when stress tested on #January6th. But will those in power continue upholding institutions if Trump is elected? "The way the Americans account for it is by who they put into office."
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover118,565 次观看 • 1 年前
"The platinum coin is awesome," says financial journalist felix salmon. "It's so fun." He says "anything is better than default" but "no one" wants to mint a trillion-dollar coin to get out of the debt ceiling showdown. Plus, he contends inflation concerns are "nonsense." (1/2)
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover183,236 次观看 • 3 年前
.Governor Gretchen Whitmer tells MargaretHoover she hopes the next generation of Americans is better at "being a part of the solution" than hers. "It's my hope that younger generations understand the power of their generation, of their voices, of their ability to make this the country that they want it to be."
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover22,912 次观看 • 3 个月前