THEY WILL BE FORMALLY SENTENCED
IN AUGUST.
I AM ROBERT GRAY.
>> Laura: IT'S TIME NOW FOR
BIG CULTURAL STORIES OF THE DAY.
♪ ♪
FIRST UP, ALARMING NEW REPORTS
ABOUT EXPOSING HOW U.S. ADULTS
HAD MILLENNIALS TRULY FEEL ABOUT
BEING AMERICAN.
FOR MORE, WE WILL BE JOINED BY
FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR FOX NEWS
CONTRIBUTOR, "NEW YORK TIMES"
BEST-SELLING AUTHOR, RAYMOND
ARROYO.
FOURTH OF JULY,
INDEPENDENCE DAY, WE ARE A
PATRIOTIC PEOPLE, WE NOT?
>> NOT IF WE TALK TO GALLUP.
GALLUP ASKED, ARE YOU PROUD TO
BE AN AMERICAN?
IT WENT FROM 70% IN 2003, TO
ONLY 47% OF ADULTS SAYING THEY
>> Laura: LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT,
BABY.
>> CAMPUS REFORM SENT A CAMERA
CURE TO MY ALMA MATER, NYU, TO
ASK THEM IF THEY WERE PROUD TO
TODAY PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN?
>> OH, BOY.
>> I'M NOT PROUD.
>> >> AND ALL.
>> ARE YOU PROUD TO BE AN
AMERICAN?
>> DEFINITELY NOT.
>> NO, I'M NOT PART OF AMERICA.
>> I THINK WE NEED TO STOP
THINKING WE ARE THE BEST NATION
ON EARTH BECAUSE IT'S JUST A
>> THIS IS SYMPTOMATIC, THOUGH,
OF A CULTURE AT NYU.
IT'S TAUGHT GENERATION, OUR
HISTORY IS BAD, THE MEN AND
WOMEN WHO MADE THIS COUNTRY ARE
EVIL, THERE IS DARK SHADOWS THAT
EVIL, THERE IS DARK SHADOWS THAN
EVIL, THERE IS DARK SHADOWS THAE
EVIL, THERE IS DARK SHADOWS THA
EVIL, THERE IS DARK SHADOWS THAO
EVIL, THERE IS DARK SHADOWS THAB
EVIL, THERE IS DARK SHADOWS THA
EVIL, THERE IS DARK SHADOWS THAO
EVIL, THERE IS DARK SHADOWS THAS
EVIL, THERE IS DARK SHADOWS THAD
EVIL, THERE IS DARK SHADOWS THAR
EVIL, THERE IS DARK SHADOWS THAD
EVIL, THERE IS DARK SHADOWS THA
EVIL, THERE IS DARK SHADOWS THAN
EVIL, THERE IS DARK SHADOWS THAD
IT MEANS TO BE AN AMERICAN.
THIS IS CULTURAL FOLLOWED.
WHEN YOU TAKE STATUES DOWN, WITH
HISTORICAL FIGURES AWAY, WITHOUT
PUTTING THEM IN A PROPER
CONTEXT, THIS IS WHAT YOU GET.
>> Laura: THIS IS WHAT YOU GET
ON GENERATIONS OF PUBLIC
SCHOOLING, WHERE WE DON'T LEARN
CONSTITUTION, DECLARATION, IT IS
LIKE EVERY OTHER COUNTRY, EXCEPT
IT'S WORSE.
>> HOW DO WE TURN IT BACK TO
JULY 4TH?
>> Laura: HOW DO WE TURN OUT?
>> YOU FIND FAMILY EVENTS THAT
REINFORCE A SENSE OF PATRIOTISM.
I TELL PEOPLE, THE WORLD WAR II
MEMORIAL IN NEW ORLEANS, LOOK AT
THE COST OF THE SACRIFICE FOR
FREEDOM.
THEN PLAY SOMETHING LIKE 1776,
THE OLD MUSICAL.
INTRODUCING FAMILY TO THE
TENUOUS NATURE OF THIS
EXPERIMENT IN A REPUBLICAN
DEMOCRACY --
>> Laura: NARRATIVES.
SO GREAT!
>> WE PLAYED EVERY YEAR FOR THE
>> Laura: YOU KNOW WHAT THOSE
KIDS AT NYU NEED TO DO?
YOU NEED TO SPEND A LITTLE TIME
AT THE V.A. OR AT ARLINGTON
OR ANY OTHER NATIONAL CEMETERY.
SPENT SOME TIME WITH THE
VETERANS.
OR ACTIVE DUTY.
YOU CAN CRITICIZE DRUM, GO AT
IT.
BUT COME ON, THAT MAKES MY BLOOD
SCOTT PRUITT.
>> THIS IS MY SON, HE LOVES
ANIMALS.
HE WANTS CLEAN AIR, HE WANTS
CLEAN WATER.
>> THIS IS A SIXTH-GRADE
WAS READING UP A SCRIPT IN HER N
>> Laura: WASN'T SHE ON THAT
MSNBC SHOW, RAYMOND?
>> WE'LL PLAY IT WHILE WE TALK.
SHE APPEARED AND SHE HAD A
SAYS, "YOUR FOUNDING FATHERS
OWNED SLAVES."
NOW THIS EMBODIES, I THINK OF
THE SELF HATRED OF AMERICA.
MY ANCESTORS WERE IN SPAIN AND
ITALY, WHEN THE FOUNDING OF THIS
REPUBLIC HAPPENED.
IN A TIME WHEN WE ARE TOLD NOT
TO JUDGE ANYBODY, WE SHOULDN'T
JUDGE PEOPLE, I THINK JUDGING
THE FOUNDING FATHERS BY THEIR
SINS, AND SLAVERY WAS A DARK
SOON ON THE STAIN ON MY
COUNTRY, TO JUDGE THEM
EXCLUSIVELY --
>> Laura: JUST ON THAT.
THEY NEVER DID ANYTHING THAT CAN
AND MOUNT VERNON.
WE SHOULDN'T.
YOU LOOK AT PEOPLE AND TAKE THEM
FOR GOOD AND BAD AND YOU LEARN
FROM THEIR ERRORS, AND YOU TAKE
THE GO TO TRY TO PERPETUATE
THAT.
THAT IS WHAT AMERICA IS ABOUT
HOLDING THE BABY AND THE
NOTE CARD.
>> YOU NEED TO SHIELD.
THOUGHTS SHE HAD, THAT HER BABY
WANTS CLEAN WATER.
>> YOU NEED TO RETIRE AS EPA --
FIRST OF ALL, GET OUT OF TOWN.