Hello, everybody, and thank you for tuning into the Liberty Report with us today as Chris Rosini,

our co-host. Chris, good to see you. Great to be with you again, Dr. Paul. Wonderful, wonderful.

Well, we're going to talk about a little bit of history all the way back to when somebody

crossed this little stream called the Rubicon and the big things changed. And that, of course,

was a major point in history. A republic was destroyed, and a dictatorship was taken over,

and certainly the Roman Empire changed after that. But I want to sort of allude to that happening

here in America. Did it happen? Is it happening? And when did it happen? And that is, have we really

crossed the American Rubicon? Are we no longer a republic? Are we a dictatorship? Are we in the

process of it? And what events brought this on? Because I think there's a large majority

of the American people would agree with me that we don't live with a republic. There are some

that are glad of that because there are authoritarianists, and this republic is always interfering

with the authoritarianists. So there'll be those groups, but there'll be others.

There may be some honesty on the left. The authoritarianists might say that we don't have a

republic anymore. There were progressives that believed in civil liberties, and they had an

anti-war sentiment, and that worked into the position of what our republic was all about.

But it's sort of up for a discussion, but I think the majority of Americans, if they had the answer

the question, do you think the American republic is alive and well? And I think it'd be probably

every bit as bad as the number. We say, you know, are we better off in America now than we were

year or two ago? And are we in good shape? And the American people, the one thing is that large

majority, they don't believe the government. So I would say that the problems over there,

precisely the day it happened is a debate. But I have a date that I've used in talking about

this issue as being a big date because I was emotionally, personally, close to, and that was on

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