Hi guys, I'm Liz Wheeler. Welcome to an emergency episode of the Liz Wheeler show.

So it turns out that I'm not very good at taking vacations.

I'm on vacation right now. My husband and I and our child, we went to San Diego to relax for a couple days about a week.

And some things happen while we're on vacation and here I find myself working.

However, this is why I do what I do because I love doing it so much that I'm bad at vacations.

You might notice that I'm a little short of breath right now. That is because I just literally, while I didn't run up the stairs, I took an elevator, but I ran to the elevator.

Up here, we are at the Reagan Center in Santa Barbara, California. I just got off stage moments ago at the Young Americas Foundation High School conference.

Huge thank you, by the way. They were such an incredible group of students. And I love the Young Americas Foundation. I love talking at these conferences because when I look out and I don't mean to sound like an old person here, but when I look out at all of the students and they're usually about 15 years younger than me, 15, 16, 17 years younger than me, the high schoolers at least.

I look out and I don't just see like nerds, I mean, they are nerds just like I'm a nerd. I don't just see political nerds who want to have a couple days away from their parents. These are truly the people who will be the next leaders of our country.

Like the students sitting in this room tonight, they're probably going to be in Congress when when we're middle aged.

They're going to be in charge of businesses, facing the woke corporate stuff that we're facing. They're going to be the ones raising kids and fighting back.

And it's, I always come away as you can tell, very energized and very encouraged because these students care.

They care about our country, they care about learning the intricacies of what we're facing. And again, Governor Walker in the Young Americas Foundation just throw incredible events.

I am honored to be part of so many of them. And you might notice that I'm not sitting in my studio. Obviously, I'm in Santa Barbara, California in the Reagan Center.

But walking into this room that we're in.

I don't want to sound sacrilegious, but I feel like a reverence because I'm sitting. What is this 10 feet away from Ronald Reagan's cheap?

His personal effects and the impact that he had on history is enshrined here.

And you like, I feel that walking in like I feel a quiet and a humility and like the enormity of the history that has been preserved right here.

It is just so different, I think, to tangibly see like just an object of Jeep that he drove when he was president or a saddle that he put on his horse.

It's absolutely incredible. And again, I'm really grateful that the Young Americas Foundation has given me the privilege to sit in this room.

There's also a little bit of irony that I'm sitting amongst Ronald Reagan's things when what I want to talk to you about has to do with a law that Ronald Reagan actually signed into law as president.

And before we get into all of that, something else happened today.

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