Welcome to the dispatch, I'm Jamie Weinstein. My guest today is a controversial one.

Bill Airs, the co-founder of the Weather Underground, a 1970s terror group who you may be familiar with because he courted controversy during the

2008 presidential campaign or I guess controversy surrounded him during that

campaign because it was reported that he hosted a during that

then candidate Barack Obama attended,

and there was a lot of associations of how closely he was tied to Bill Airs, but

Bill Airs himself is a author and former professor of education at the University of Illinois

in Chicago and a radical some would say a terrorist or a

former terrorist this episode is a as I mentioned a controversial one it is the third conversation that I've had

with Bill Airs in podcast form.

Two of the previous ones on my former podcast,

The Jamie Weinstein Show, which I encourage you to listen to.

I first met Bill Airs at a dinner that Tucker Carlson arranged.

He purchased a charity auction back in 2012, I want to say.

Bill Airs was fundraising for some cause in Chicago and on

a lark Tucker purchased it and invited five other people to join him at this dinner.

It included Tucker, Andrew Brightbart, the writer Matt Labash, Tucker's

brother Buckley, me and a contest winner. We all ended up eating with Bill Ares and his wife and

several others in Chicago.

I kept up the relationship through these conversations.

I will hesitate to say that some of you may like this conversation, some of you may not.

The point of it was trying to get an understanding of the

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