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Hey everyone, I'm Megan Kelly. Welcome to the Megan Kelly Show. Today we are going back

to the time of America's founding to focus on one of the most influential men in American

politics in American history, Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson was the third president of

the United States, author of the Declaration of Independence, and governor of Virginia. He

played a key role in executing a vision that shaped America as we know it today. Some

of us continue to live his values, whether we know it or not. While he led a very successful

life, there were plenty of pitfalls, and he, as a man, was far from perfect. Something

that the left is trying to use in the 21st century to cancel the American icon in an attempt

to erase him from history and to make him no more than the sum of his faults. Joining us

today is Humanity Scholar and author and host of the Thomas Jefferson Hour, Clay Jenkinson.

Welcome to the show, Clay. Thanks for being here. Megan, it's a delight to be here. You

are going to talk about this great man. Yeah, me too. So we're going to, I'll keep it

simple, and I'll just assume people know only the basics about him, and you can fill in

the rest of the story. I think most people know that he authored the Declaration of Independence.

And that you've got Monticello, which was his house. Some of us have seen it on our

tours and so on of America, but I don't know how much people know about Thomas Jefferson

behind that or beyond that. Now they're hearing every other day that he own slaves, and

he needs to be canceled. But you've spent your adult life devoted to letting people

understand his full legacy. And I know you believe very strongly that we must understand

what he stood for and his words and the meaning behind them because they really are built

into the foundation of where we live and how we live. Give us the broad overview before

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