And hi, everybody. Welcome back to the Bill Bennett show. Thoughtful conversation about

the news of the day, and we try to address the existential threats to America, and I think

there are some. Joining us today, Brian Kennedy and Joel Farcus. Brian Kennedy is president

of the American Strategy Group. He's also the chairman of the Committee on the Present

Danger China. Joel Farcus is the director of the American Strategy Group. I am a fellow

at the American Strategy Group in Washington, so a lot of American Strategy Group today,

convening of the group. First few things I'd like to discuss.

So Claude, what is your sense of the country? Make me feel better. I have a feeling the country

is about to come apart. Yeah, I guess it may depend on how you define

hope optimism. You know, if it's finding agreement somewhere, I don't know. You know, we've

been talking a lot, recently on the podcast about the whole gender identity thing. I think

that's probably the closest point of hope that we could find as far as agreement on anything,

you know, once we get to transgender sports. What's the agreement? Oh, I think that we're

going to get to the point where it's going to be just, I think we'll find agreement

in the fact that we can't have transgender athletes playing in sports with, you know,

transgender men with biological men or transgender women with biological women. I think that

might be the closest point of agreement. Have you seen the numbers? Excuse me, there are

majorities for what you're saying. They don't think transgender men should be able to compete

against women, but it's not 90, 10 or 80, 20. It's 65, 35. And I think that's because it's still,

as far as, you know, for the most part, in main stream, it's just, you know, League of Thompson

swimming and no one else is pretty much aware of anything else. I think if it becomes a big deal

and we see more cases, then I think you'll see the numbers go larger. You'll see at 80, 20, 85, 15.

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