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Hey everyone, I'm Megan Kelly. Welcome to the Megan Kelly show. Today, Dr. Ben Carson,

one of my favorite people. I just love him. I love the way he sees America, the world,

how smart he is in diagnosing our problems and our solutions. And if you actually want

to hear some of his solutions, you can actually go. He's now working as the founder and chairman

of American Cornerstone Institute, which is, it's basically a conservative think tank

providing common sense solutions to our problems, right? They're centered around things that

are important to him, faith, liberty, community, and so on. So you can check that out, but he's

going to talk about where we are right now in this country, why we got here, some of

the motivations he sees behind some of the shifts that we're dealing with, you know, when

it comes to race, when it comes to education, when it comes to the media and so on. And

I think he's sort of consistent with his history as a pediatric neurosurgeon who's truly

world renowned. He's a great diagnostician. So you'll love this interview. He's good

old self and he's just a dear man. So Ben Carson in one minute, first this. I'd such

a pleasure to talk to you again. What's going on? How's everything? All kinds of things

are going on, you know, we've got the American Cornerstone Institute trying to get people

to look at the founding principles that really, there was no coincidence that we went from

a bunch of regtaic militiamen to the tentacle of the world record time. And, you know,

looking at some of the reasons that that happened and maybe also trying to get people to recognize

that we're not each other's enemies. And if we continue to act like we are, we're going

to destroy ourselves. Yeah, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. I agree about it too.

I thought about it a lot over the July 4th holidays. I know a lot of Americans did. And

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