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- [Gary] Today from "The Global Lane."

Ballots by mail.

The risky way of changinghow America votes.

- The Democrats are now askingpeople to trust their ballots

to these political operatives.

- "Fox & Friends" co-host,

author Brian Kilmeade onWashington corruption,

leadership, Sam Houston,and the Alamo avengers.

Skipping college and COVID-19.

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And criminalizing haircuts.

How many state troopers does it take

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Choosing the US president by mail

or casting your ballotfrom your smartphone.

What do you think of that?

Caifornia Governor Gavin Newsom

just signed an executive orderallowing registered voters

in the USA's most populousstate to vote by mail.

And he's ordered thatballots be sent to them

for the upcoming Novembergeneral election.

- Giving them the choice notto feel like they have to go

in to a concentrated, dense environment

where their health may be at risk,

but provide an additionalasset and additional resources

by way of voting by mail.

- And it's not just in California.

The push is on to bringvoting by mail to your state.

But what are the ramifications?

Well here to share somethoughts is Eric Eggers.

Mr. Eggers is the research director

of the Government Accountability Institute

and author of "Fraud: How the Left

"Plans to Steal the Next Election."

Hi, Eric.

It's good to see you again,

and I know you wrote recentlythat buried on page 643

of the Coronavirus Aid Reliefand Economic Security Act

is funding for states toconduct elections by mail.

Please explain because I think many people

thought those funds were to be used

only during the COVID-19shutdown emergency.

- Yeah, thanks, Gary.

It's very interesting how the Democrats

have attempted to use this global pandemic

and unprecedented crisisin our country's history

as an opportunity toreshape our election laws.

And I think all you need to do

is look at that firsteffort pushed by Democrats.

Luckily, it wasn't codifiedinto the final law,

but Democrats absolutely attempted

to not only mandatenational all-mail balloting,

but also legalize the collection of

that what we call ballot harvesting,

which is the third party solicitation

and collection of ballots.

If they had gotten their way,it would've been major changes

to the way America conducts elections.

But even though it hasn'tbeen national law yet,

many states, as you justnoted, are doing it,

starting with California.

- And a big part of mail-in balloting

is also, as you mentioned,third-party delivery.

Tell us about that and whywe should be concerned.

- So, ballot harvesting,it's been in the shadows

for a long time in American elections.

But California, ahead of 2018,

became the first stateto legalize the practice,

by which somebody can come to your door

and help you fill outa ballot request form

and then they can alsothen come to your door

and then collect the ballotafter you've received it

and filled it out and thenthey promise to deliver it

to a polling location or drop-off center.

It's interesting because, while California

has said the practice is legal,

many states actually say it's illegal.

You may remember the election in 2018

in which a US House race was not certified

because a Republican candidate was found

to have used that same practice.

In North Carolina, it's illegal.

In California, it's legal.

But I think the main concern,right, is the idea that...

You wouldn't trust someone,

you wouldn't just hand your wallet

and say, "Hey, take thisto the bank for me,"

but the Democrats are now asking people

to trust their ballots tothese political operatives.

- [Gary] Another push isto eventually allow people

to cast their ballots rightfrom their smartphones.

Now that seems reasonable, convenient.

So Eric, what's the riskto election integrity

with that voting method?

- Well it just depends on how effective

the states have been atdeveloping technology.

One of the things I realizedin the research for the book

is that America remainsa third-world country

when it comes to election technologies.

Some states like West Virginia

have successfully used aspectsof blockchain technology

to do pilot programs for mobile voting,

specifically for members ofthe military from overseas.

But I'd be very surprised to see states

be able to ramp up thetechnology so quickly.

We're a country that struggles

to even just use regularballot counting machines.

Many of those machines are decades old.

So to fundamentally shift the way

that we might be ableto do cell phone voting,

hey, I support anythingas long as you can do

the technology and do it safely,

but then, who's to say that the person

that owns the phone is theperson casting the ballot?

- There you go.

And all of us remember thosehanging chads, don't we?

Well two summers ago, at theDefcon Hackathon conference,

remember, an 11-year-old boy

managed to change election results

on an imitation Floridastate voting website.

That's an 11-year-old boydid that in 10 minutes,

so how easy is it to alterelection results electronically?

What do we need to do tosecure electronic votes?

- That's a great question

and I think it's one of the reasons

why so many people arepushing for paper ballots.

While the election databasesmay be vulnerable to hacking,

the only safeguard I thinkyou have against that

is to make sure you have averified paper ballot as a record

because, as far as I know,

11-year-old or other foreign actors

can't manipulate those yet.

- Some states now are doingaway with voter ID laws.

Right here in Virginia,Governor Ralph Northam

recently signed legislationrepealing the requirement

that voters actually show an ID

before casting their ballots.

I know the argument has always been

we need to make it easierfor people to vote,

voter ID laws disenfranchisepeople who don't have IDs.

What do you think about that?

- Yeah, there remains this tension

between voter accessibilityand voter security,

but the reality is this.

There's no evidencethat requiring voter ID

has infringed ordiminished the productivity

of minority voters.

In fact, many states, including Georgia,

saw increases in minority voting

after implementing voter ID.

And the sad fact is that voter ID

is one of the few safeguards that we have,

I think it's far from sufficient,

but it's one of the fewmechanisms that we have

to try to ensure that theperson that's casting the ballot

is actually the legalvoter on the voter rolls.

I mean, if you wantedto get on an airplane

or purchase an alcoholicbeverage or even, ironically,

attend the last DemocraticNational Convention,

you would've had toshow a driver's license.

So I find it a bit ironicthat many Democrats

don't feel like youshould have to show an ID

in order to cast a ballot,the most sacred act

in American democracy.

- Okay, I'm sure we'llbe hearing more from you

as we get closer to the general election.

Eric Eggers, research director

of the Government Accountability Institute

and author of "Fraud: How the Left Plans

"to Steal the Next Election."

Thanks for being with us, Eric.

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- Attorney GeneralWilliam Barr is under fire

for dismissing theDepartment of Justice case

against former LieutenantGeneral Michael Flynn.

Both former Attorney General Eric Holder

and former PresidentBarack Obama weighed in,

saying that Barr isdelegitimizing the DOJ.

Some Democrats are callingfor Barr to resign.

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Brian Kilmeade is also host ofthe Brian Kilmeade Radio Show

and author of a number ofbooks, including his latest,

now in paperback, "SamHouston & the Alamo Avengers."

Brian, it's good to talk with you,

and we'll get to your book in a moment,

but first, it seems that Washington

just thrives on scandals,

and especially during an election year.

And we've had Russiagate,Spygate, Ukrainegate,

now Obamagate.

You cover this every day.

What do you think is gonnahappen with all this?

Is it about to blow up in our faces,

resulting in moreinvestigations, indictments?

- Well let's see.

I want to see what the DIA has

in terms of the unmaskingof different Obama officials

of would-be Trump officials.

I mean is, not Eric Holder,

but Loretta Lynch was theattorney general at that point.

Was she doing it?

Was Sally Yates doing it?

Why did the president,Obama know about it?

They really believed that President Trump

had sold out to Vladimir Putin,

and if so, is the way you handle it

going from Michael Flynn,not dealing with it directly?

Hey, President Trump,President-Elect Trump,

we have all these reports.

Let's see if we can deal with it.

Well maybe you can justhelp me out with this.

Instead, they surreptitiously

have a Keystone Cops-likeapproach to this,

where Peter Strzok havingan affair with Lisa Page,

is talking to Michael Flynn,

telling Michael Flynn he'snot under investigation,

he actually is, they tape the whole thing,

he knows they're taping the whole thing,

nobody takes notes of the interviews.

It is unbelievable the series of events

to the point where things are turning,

I think, Trump's way.

- And your colleagueat Fox News, Brit Hume,

recently said that Russiagate

was the worst journalistic fiasco

that he's seen in his 50-year career.

How likely are we to arrive of the truth,

or is this just election year politics

as usual that we're seeing?

- I think we're gonna find out the truth

because I think Rick Grenell is,

he goes for the jugular,and that's the truth.

And I think Attorney General Barr,

as you may have heard and seen,

he couldn't care a lotabout his approval ratings.

And we're in an electionyear and time's running out.

And they know, if theydon't get this thing done

and come to the conclusion now,

it very well could be buried forever

if Trump does not win reelection.

It will be.

- On the subject of leadership,

your latest book, "SamHouston & the Alamo Avengers."

Now I've read it, Brian.

It's excellent.

Very easy read.

And it's not just aboutHouston, but American heroes,

Davy Crockett, StephenAustin, Travis, Bowie, others.

Now these were great leaders,but as you point out,

they were flawed men.

You refer to them as second-chance men.

So tell us what you wantpeople to learn from them.

- Number one, they were resourceful.

Number one, they met the moment.

Number two, they weren't perfect.

That's probably number three.

Number three, they weren't perfect.

I mean, you had Sam Houston,he had a lot of courage,

but it had to becalculated, he was reckless.

He had to go over a series of things

that happened in his lifefrom his military training

to his early days when hewas wounded three times

to other mistakes he made.

He was a reckless guy.

William Barret Travis,who's running from something

in America that wasn't too good,

he was trying to starthis life all over again.

Jim Bowie had some bouts with the law

and many, many fights.

He was a fearless defender of America

and a war hero in his own right.

And Davy Crockett was a legend.

They wrote about him and his life.

He ended up writing his own biography.

He was bigger than life in his time.

The only person bigger, maybe,

was Andrew Jackson of his generation.

And they ended up dying fightingbrilliantly and valiantly

at the Alamo and because ofthat, people still visit,

they stream into SanAntonio, they have to go.

And it goes to show you,you don't win all the time,

but it's how you fight sometimes

that will define how you're remembered.

But I wanted to go past the Alamo.

I would say, outside Texas,you go, "What happened after?"

Oh, well, Texas got their freedom.

Well how?

And then you see Sam Houston,

the right man at the right time

to get a bunch of headstrong,revenge-minded Texans

to follow him and do this horrible thing

called retreat, the Runaway Scrape.

And then he knew he had onefight and that one fight,

win or lose, would be the onlyfight he had with Santa Ana,

the president and general of his men.

And he was able to shapethe battlefield in a way

that pulled off an unfathomable victory.

And what I added in the paperback

was him trying to keepTexas out of the Confederacy

when he was governor of Texas,

and when that didn't work, he left.

And when he left, Lincolnreached out to him

through a telegram and said, "Go back.

"I'll give you 50,000 troops.

"Just keep Texas out of this war."

And Sam Houston said, "No, unfortunately,

"the Confederacy will lose.

"Hundreds of thousands willdie, but I can't stop it."

And that's what I added to the paperback.

- Yeah, that was amazing.

I found that very interestingbecause I did not know that

and I'm a student of American history.

Brian, finally,- Yeah.

- on a personal note,you've gone from Washington

to Jefferson, Jackson, nowHouston, so what's next?

- My next project isgonna be, working title is

"The President and the Freedom Fighter,"

how Abraham Lincolnand Frederick Douglass,

unlikely friendship, won a war

and made America a more perfect union.

- Brian Kilmeade, "Fox &Friends" co-host, author,

and your latest book, now in paperback,

is "Sam Houston & the Alamo Avengers."

Brian, thanks for your time.

We appreciate it.

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I appreciate it.

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- Gap year?

Some new polls show that 10%of high school seniors say

they won't bother with attending college

or university because of the coronavirus.

And Campus Reform reportsone in six students say

they've changed plans forattend college full-time.

Well joining us to setus straight on this,

Campus Reform digitalreporter Eduardo Neret.

So what does this mean forcolleges and universities,

especially, I'd say, the smaller ones

that may see a decline intuition revenues this year?

- Well it's devastating,

and it's devastating becauseit's not just one poll.

So since the coronavirus broke out,

a number of higher education research

and data firms have been doing surveys

and polling of students,and we've covered those

at the LeadershipInstitute's Campus Reform,

and like you said, we've shown about 10%

of high school students havesaid they have already made

alternative plans this upcoming fall

and will not attend four-year institutions

because of the virus.

Other numbers in that pollshow that colleges could face

up to a 20% decline inenrollment this fall.

And for a small school thatdoesn't have that many students,

you know, a small college hereand there around the country,

that could end up shuttingthem down permanently.

A lot of schools can't survive

if they face a 20% decline in enrollment,

so it's gonna be interestingto see how this plays out,

but like I said, could be devastating

for many schools around the country.

- Even larger universitiesmay have to lay off

some professors, I guess,if they're not tenured.

So what will it mean for students?

- Well, it's gonna be interesting.

Like you said, large universities as well,

a lot of them operate on asemester-to-semester budget.

Tuition surges their operational budget,

so they're gonna seesome hits from this too.

But basically, whatstudents are saying is,

they're now looking more critically

and thinking more criticallyabout higher education

than they ever have in the past.

So instead of thesefour-year institutions,

they're looking at non-degree programs,

they're looking at online education,

because a lot of the ones wehave spoken to have told us,

look, we did not sign upfor an online education.

We understand what the virus is doing.

It has hit us financially,and so if we're gonna go

into the fall faced with online learning,

we're gonna either take some time off,

we're gonna pursue something else

because we are not going to pay

tens of thousands of dollars a year

to learn from a computer.

- Well, on that, the online experience,

polls show that collegestudents don't really like that,

especially if they'dbeen on campus, I guess.

They like that interactionof college life,

you know, going to the football games,

debates, other things, all the activities,

so how do you get around that with online?

You can't do it.

- Absolutely, and there'ssome other aspects

of online learning that many of us

have forgotten about as well:

the ability to ask aquestion in the classroom,

to speak to teaching assistants,

to have those tutoring services

in and outside of the college campus.

And so when you remove thatfrom a lot of these students,

the students who've had the chance

to experience a college campus,

they say they'd rather put things on hold

instead of pursuing it.

And then when you talk to alot of the high school seniors

who, again, have faced thefinancial impact of the virus,

they don't want to sign up for that.

Look, an online education has its merits,

but it wasn't meant to replace

traditional in-person learning altogether.

Online learning is somethingthat could be efficient

and less expensive thana traditional degree,

but if these colleges and universities

are going to charge students the same rate

for an online degree as theywould an in-person education,

a lot of students aregonna say, "Count me out.

"This is not what I want andI'm not gonna sign up for it."

- And online, you can'tgo to the football games,

which I know, in my college experience,

enjoying the Big House on a Saturday,

fall Saturday afternoon,

was just a wonderfulexperience in college.

I know here on the CBNcampus, Regent University says

it will be holdingon-site classes this fall

and many other universitiessay they will do the same,

but do you still thinks some students

frightened by COVID-19 will stay home

or shift their experience to online?

- Again, we're gonna seesome students do that,

but I would say it's mostlyfor financial reasons

and to avoid the online learning.

In terms of being concerned for the virus,

there was initial concernfrom a lot of college students

we talked to, but asmore data has come out

showing that students are less of a risk

from getting seriouslyill or potentially, sadly,

even dying from the virus,a lot of college students

are ready to go back.

And this is why it's the perfect time

for schools like you mentioned

and other schools across the country

that are saying, "We wantto open in the fall,"

they have the time right now to do that.

There are creative waysthat schools can open up,

albeit not the same way as before,

but they can begin to putplans in place right now

so that, come August, someof these schools can open up.

- I guess they'd have tohave smaller classrooms

or lecture halls or somethingwhere they space them out.

I don't know how they'regonna handle that,

but that's up to them, I guess.

What are the chances then, Eduardo,

that some students may just say,

"Look, I'm gonna foregocollege indefinitely,"

and if they do, what's that gonna mean

for their future and our nation's future?

- Again, I think we're gonnasee a high chance of that,

and as we've been saying some time now

at Campus Reform is that the coronavirus

could upend highereducation as we know it.

We could see some changesthat are permanent here

because of the virus, andthen can be good and bad.

So a lot of these students may choose

to jump into the workforce,pursue trade schools,

pursue non-degree programsas opposed to enrolling

in a four-year institution.

And if they come from difficultfinancial backgrounds,

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Alternatively, we may seeschools react to the virus

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we've been charging too much.

Students aren't interestedin that anymore.

Maybe we need to offer different programs

and maybe we need tooffer other incentives

to attract students to campus.

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about the situation,but it's going to force

everyone in the equation, from students

to these colleges and universities

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- The COVID-19 virus is still spreading,

so are states re-opening too soon?

The virus is still a threatto the health of our people

and our hearts go out to thosewho've lost their loved ones.

But the cure to the pandemiccannot cause greater hardship

than the virus itself.

The American economy is tanking,

unemployment is at record highs,

and healthy people are being punished

and prevented from earning a living.

People like 77-year-old Owosso,Michigan barber Karl Manke.

He's been cutting hairat his shop for 60 years.

Now on May 4th, Mankere-opened for business

in defiance of Governor GretchenWhitmer's lockdown order.

- You know, I had gone sixweeks without a paycheck,

with no money coming in.

I've always worked.

I've never looked for handouts.

I don't even know what they are.

I had somebody call me and say,

"Well why didn't you get on food stamps?"

You know, I don't want food stamps.

I want to work.

- Ruh-Roh, George, here comes the law.

So how many state troopers does it take

to serve a 77-year-oldMichigander a citation?

I count six here.

No ill will.

Manke knows the trooperswere just doing their job,

but really, Governor Whitmer

and State Attorney General Nessel?

You're going to criminalize cutting hair?

Manke says he's taken allthe necessary precautions

to protect his customers from COVID-19,

masks, six-feetdistancing, hand sanitizer,

but Governor Whitmer isn't satisfied.

"The Hill" reported herresponse in a Twitter video.

- I expect people to follow the law.

These executive ordersare not a suggestion,

they're not optional,they're not helpful hints.

- Governor Whitmer, yousay you expect Michiganders

to follow the law, but executive orders

are not actually law.

Only the legislative branch of government

can make and pass laws.

The Michigan statelegislature did not pass

or approve your restrictive orders.

In all fairness to Governor Whitmer,

she did allow some workersto return to their jobs

on May 7th, mostly those working outdoors.

Now she's expected to liftsome other restrictions

later this month.

But what about barbers like Manke?

Not yet.

His work is still considered illegal.

But a judge did deny the state's request

that a restraining orderbe issued against Manke.

His shop can remain open,

at least until a court hearing is held.

And Manke is unlikely to be arrested.

Apparently, Whitmer and Nesselhave learned some lessons

about bad publicity from Texas

and the case of Shelley Luther.

She was sent to jail

for prematurely openingher Dallas hair salon.

Remember that?

Pandemic or not, forcingManke's barber shop

or Luther's salon to remain closed

is an unconstitutionaltaking of their property.

It deprives them of using

and adding value to theirbusiness, their property,

and harms their ability to earn a living.

It seems that cases like these

have lawsuit written allover them, don't you think?

Folks, at some point, protectingsociety from the virus

must be up to individuals, not government,

and that means we have the responsibility

to do the right thing toprotect ourselves and others

by following social distancing guidelines.

Government can and shouldonly do so much to protect us.

So as America begins tore-open for business,

let's look to God's protection.

Let's not forget the Golden Rule

as told to us by Jesus inthe book of Matthew 7:12,

"Do unto others as you wouldhave them do unto you."

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