Hi everybody, I'm Dennis Prager and this is my home, my fireside, my dog, my chat.

So it's the fireside chat. It's great to be with you every week. I have been traveling so much, but if I'm home one day,

I make sure that I have the fireside chat with you. It's very important to me.

And as I go through the airports of the world really, not just the U.S., I realize how many people watch and it just increases its importance to me.

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So I always have so much on my mind that I'd like to talk to you about when I open up these fireside chats and then take your questions.

And what, in discussing this with the folks who put the fireside chats together, we thought that it would be very important to deal with the issue of the accusation made often by folks on the left.

That people who are on the right or even in the center or even liberals exaggerate the threats that come from the left.

And again, not from liberals but from the left.

And I have a video of PragerU on the differences between liberalism and leftism.

I wish liberals knew this. We would solve all our problems in one fell swoop if liberals understood the threat that leftism is to liberal values, like free speech.

So I'll start with free speech. Oh, you're exaggerating. There's really no threat to free speech or it's only a threat to hate speech.

But of course, I just don't understand that people don't intellectually get.

If you forbid hate speech, then you're forbidding free speech because you declare speech. You don't agree with hate speech. And that ends it.

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