Hello everybody and thank you for tuning in to the Liberty Report.

With us today we have Daniel McAdams, our co-host.

Daniel, good to see you this morning.

Happy Monday, Dr. Paul. How are you today?

I'm doing well, thank you.

All right, good stuff.

We're going to start off with some controversy.

Can you believe that?

No, we never do that.

Controversial position. And we were looking for always our daily positive. We might have a week

daily positive, but time will tell. But we want to start off with something that gets to me

rather quickly because I'm concerned about this, not just for recent things going on, but for decades, and that is the move toward a police state.

And we have a lot of characteristics of a police state, but it didn't all happen the last week or so,

even though right now, and with the new administration, I think we're moving more rapidly

toward a police state, and that to me is very, very serious. And this has to do with how troops

are used to maintain order.

And the current administration, they don't like the Department of Defense,

they don't define defense, and they don't use the word peace.

What they use is war.

Department of War, I'm the Secretary of War.

And it looks like they're living up to the characteristics of that.

But, of course, there would be a different story because they're able to take some of these

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