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Ep. 315: Most Americans Would Fail Our Citizenship Test

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4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

A new study reveals Americans know little about their own history, and our own Jarrett Stepman joins us to discuss the implications--and how to fix it. Plus: Sen. Rand Paul warns that when it comes to our political climate, the worst may be yet to come.We also cover these stories:--Hurricane Michael made landfall in Florida Wednesday, with winds of 155 miles per hour. President Trump said his message to those in Florida was “God bless you all.”--Trump went on full attack against Sen. Bernie Sanders’ “Medicare for All” plan, saying it would gut Medicare and would “outlaw private health care plans, taking away freedom to choose plans while letting anyone cross our border.”--First lady Melania Trump spoke about the #Metoo movement in a new interview.--Anthony Weiner, the former New York congressman, will be released from prison early on account of “good conduct,” according to the Bureau of Prisons.The Daily Signal podcast is available on Ricochet, iTunes, SoundCloud, Google Play, or Stitcher. All of our podcasts can be found at DailySignal.com/podcasts. If you like what you hear, please leave a review. You can also leave us a message at 202-608-6205 or write us at letters@dailysignal.com. Enjoy the show! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Thursday, October 11th.

0:07.0

I'm Kate Trinko.

0:09.0

And I'm Daniel Davis.

0:10.0

Well, you know something's off in America when socialism gets high marks for

0:14.5

millennials, comedians call for ending the Senate and public officials launch

0:18.6

tax on the Electoral College. More and more of our political tradition is coming under attack.

0:24.4

Derek Stepman of the Daily Signal says a lot of it stems back to education.

0:28.6

We'll sit down with him and talk about what's gone wrong in American classrooms.

0:33.0

Plus, Senator Ray and Paul warns that when it comes to our political climate,

0:36.8

the worst may be yet to come.

0:38.5

We'll discuss.

0:39.7

But first we'll cover a few of the top headlines.

0:56.6

Hurricane Michael made landfall in Florida Wednesday with winds of an insane 155 miles per hour. Prior to landfall, 375,000 in Florida were told to evacuate. President Trump spoke about it Wednesday

1:04.5

saying his message to those in Florida was quote God bless you all. He also

1:09.6

discussed visiting the state soon. But I would like to be seeing what's going on.

1:14.0

We want to get down there as soon as possible.

1:16.0

At the same time, I don't want to go down where we're interfering with the people,

1:20.0

first responders, the FEMA people. I want them to focus on the storm

1:24.3

not me so we'll probably look to Sunday or Monday to go down and meet with the

1:30.2

governors meet with everybody and do what we have to do like we did in North Carolina

1:33.9

South Carolina where that worked out really well.

1:37.0

President Trump is already on the hunt for a new UN ambassador, this on the heels of

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