Welcome back to the Dirt Show. I'm broadcasting again from Israel from

Tel Aviv tomorrow. I go to Jerusalem. Israel is one of the most fascinating

countries on the face of the earth. Whatever you may think of, particular

government, particular leaders, it's an incredibly fascinating place. The

high technology here is beyond belief and I've met with some of the leaders of

high technology and some of the military leaders and I'm really learning and

an enormous amount. Obviously I can't learn everything. There are a lot of

secrets but even when I'm learning it just makes this into an amazing place. I

think Israel in 75 years of its existence has provided more useful things to

humanity than any country that's first 75 years. I'm not comparing it

obviously to the United States but to countries in their first 75 years. So here I

am really enjoying myself and meeting lots of friends and lots of leaders but

let's go back to the United States. So I read this morning's Times in the

headline was Oath Keeper's leader convicted of sedition in landmark January 6k.

So you know as a constitutional scholar and a historian of the early days of the

American experience, when you hear the word sedition, sedition. The first thing

you think about is the notorious alien and sedition acts. You know those were

the acts enacted during the Adams administration which punished people

through them in jail for exercising their free speech. It was enacted

less than 10 years after the First Amendment was enacted. It was supported by

George Washington, Alexander Hamilton and John Adams. It was opposed by Thomas

Jefferson. It was opposed by Madison and when Jefferson became president it

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