Today, we pay tribute to the exceptional lives and extraordinary legacies of George Washington,

Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Teddy Roosevelt.

I am here as your President to proclaim before the country and before the world this monument

will never be desecrated. These heroes will never be defaced. Their legacy will never, ever be destroyed.

Their achievements will never be forgotten, and Mount Rushmore will stand forever as an eternal

tribute to our forefathers and to our freedom.

Their achievements will never be forgotten, and Mount Rushmore will forever stand as a testament

to those achievements. That's the 45th President of the United States at Mount Rushmore,

saluting those who helped found the only republic of its kind in the world, founded on the principle

of individual liberty, a function of us being made in the image of our creator. Is it truly

a legacy for the ages? Can it survive the assault of those who hate what the founding stands for?

We are joined today by a very special guest and expert on the founding, on natural law,

and natural rights. He is a professor at that superb institution, Hillsdale College.

His bio, we could spend the whole hour on the bio. He has taught at the University of Dallas,

residence scholar at the Heritage Foundation, visiting scholar at the Calamont,

mechanical college, fellow and a director at the Calamont Institute. Professor West, welcome

to America first. I'm glad you're doing it. Professor West, Tom West, we should begin with

the basic question, perhaps leveraging the clip from President Trump. Are the principles

that the founding fathers stood for, that they built into the fabric of the republic? Are they safe

at the present time? Will they stand the test of time or how concerned are you that there is a

concerted effort to dismantle those founding principles? Well, I think that there is such an

effort. So the answer is, they're not safe. There are some degrees still active and alive

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