Today on The News and Why It Matters, Donald Trump is escalating his call to investigate Joe Biden.

And the Joker, the movie The Joker, gets caught in the crossfire of woke culture.

God a lot coming up. It starts right now.

Welcome to The News and Why It Matters. I am Sarah Gonzalez. Today joined by Chad Prather,

Chad Prather, political cowboy Chad Prather.

Good to be here. Thank you for being here. We are joined by two people on their maiden voyage

on the show. Former South Carolina Senator Jim DeMont. Senator Jim DeMont. Wonderful to be with you.

Thank you for being here. We are honored. We are honored. And Rachel Bavard, now you guys co-wrote

a book that was just released last week. It's called Conservative Knowing What to Keep.

You got it. And it's available anywhere you get your books.

Can you give us just a quick brief synopsis of what the readers can expect?

Yeah, well everybody's trying to define what is conservative. What are conservatives?

The left likes to tell us where race is and bigots and hateful people.

And on the right, even I think they're trying to figure out what conservatives stand for.

So we really took the opportunity to update Russell Kirk's conservative mind and re-articulate it

for this modern moment. It's so needed at this point in time. Got a lot to get into today.

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