Hey, everybody, welcome in. This is next up. I'm Mark Cowper, your host here. I'm the editor-in-chief of

Live Interactive Video Platform 2Way and your guide to everything next up. I'm really happy to have you

here. Great show, featured guests. Cabot Phillips. Cabot Phillips is a bright young man,

senior editor at the Daily Wire. He hosts their program Wired in Live. And he and I are going to talk about Iran, the midterms, and the vacuum created by the loss of Charlie Kirk, a topic. We talk about a lot here, but super important. And then Rob O'Neill will be here. He's a former C-L-Team-6 operator. He's the man who's credited

with killing Osama bin Laden. We're going to chalk talk a little bit on the conflict with Iran and what

the president's options there are looking forward to talking to them both and sharing those

conversations. But before that, my reported monologue on the failure of American cities over the last 40 or 50 years,

you know how many people in America live in cities or the metro areas of cities?

Like more than 75%.

We talk a lot about the heartland and about rural areas, and I'm not diminishing those super

important places, lovely places, great people.

But three quarters of us basically are relying on our urban areas for where we make our living,

how we spend our time, our recreation time, educating our kids, everything we do.

And our cities are a mess. Our cities are a mess.

And my view of this is, as an American, as someone who has a voice on National Town Square,

is I'm not interested in complaining about it anymore.

I'm interested in solving it.

I'm interested in making sure that kids in particular who grow up in cities, but also adults who live there, have the opportunity to have great lives.

Okay? And three things are true about our

cities, okay? They are a failure. Governance is a failure in our cities, number one. Number two,

with few exceptions, Democrats have run our major cities, and with few exceptions, those Democrats

have governed those cities, along with their city councils, with liberal

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