American Thought Leaders - The Epoch Times

"I have five investigators now. They're good. They do a lot of really good work, but five to do oversight investigations on a federal government that spends almost $7 trillion and employs a couple million people? It's literally a joke.” Sen. Ron Johnson is a ranking member of the homeland security committee’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations and will chair the subcommittee in the new Congress. He says Congress has allowed its oversight authority to atrophy. “Yeah, we've got to fund the government. But then once we funded it, we need to take a look at what we funded, what we passed. Did it actually work?" 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S1221SenRonJohnson

"What President Trump really needs to appoint or nominate is a Secretary of Information Extraction,” says Sen. Ron Johnson. Trump’s appointees may face a tough battle when it comes to restoring transparency, says Sen. Johnson. Johnson would know. He’s fought for documents as chair of the homeland security committee’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. He’ll be chair of this powerful subcommittee again in the upcoming Congress. 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S1221SenRonJohnson

“Whether it’s ISIS, al-Qaeda, whether it’s North Korea, whether it’s Russia, whether it’s Iran, these are all absolutely, eminently manageable. … There is only one peer competitor we have which has the will and the capacity to displace us,” says Sebastian Gorka, who was recently named deputy assistant to Trump and senior director for counterterrorism. “China is sui generis in a category all by itself,” Gorka says. 🔴 WATCH FULL on @AmThoughtLeader: https://ept.ms/S1219SebastianGorka

“It’s a genius move.” Sebastian Gorka on Trump inviting Xi Jinping to his inauguration: “You're inviting the dictator of the world's largest communist nation to show how peaceful transition of power looks…This is how the will of the people is exercised." “On top of that…this is a message that American leadership is back. Recognize it or not—at your peril. The old sheriff is back.” 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S1219SebastianGorka

“That’s sheer lunacy.” To believe the new rebel leader of Syria—who has ties to al Qaeda and ISIS—will be a moderate is naive and ridiculous, says Sebastian Gorka. “There's never been a jihadi leader…who suddenly becomes a moderate." Gorka has been tapped to be senior director for counterterrorism. Join us tonight for a deep dive into Trump’s counterterrorism strategy. 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S1219SebastianGorka

“Trump, in 2019, signed an executive order that clearly articulated and mandated that institutions, especially institutions that receive federal funding, cannot discriminate based on certain criteria, including national origin. ... Harvard cannot defend the fact that for three weeks, Jewish students were being followed and intimidated and bullied on their way to class by encampment leaders who were living in tents on campus calling for an Intifada and calling for the destruction the Jewish state from the river to the sea. They followed us to class, and Harvard knew about it, and they chose to do nothing about it. And that's why we'll win.” -Shabbos Kestenbaum 🔴 WATCH FULL on @AmThoughtLeader: https://ept.ms/S1203ShabbosKestenbaum

"We found an extraordinary amount of military-use technologies were being shipped into Hong Kong…and often were being just turned around & shipped to Russia, often to sanctioned companies. …We're seeing arms, and we're seeing Iranian oil being sold through Hong Kong." Hong Kong, once a celebrated global financial center, has now become an essential node for authoritarian regimes in Russia, Iran, and North Korea to evade sanctions, says Mark Clifford, former editor-in-chief of the South China Morning Post and now President of the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation. 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S1217MarkClifford

"45 Hong Kong democrats were sentenced to a total of almost 250 years in prison…More than 1900 political prisoners have been convicted and been jailed in the last five years.” Mark Clifford, the former editor-in-chief of the South China Morning Post, has witnessed Hong Kong’s transformation firsthand since the late 1980s. He’s the author of “Today Hong Kong, Tomorrow the World” and most recently “The Troublemaker: How Jimmy Lai Became a Billionaire, Hong Kong's Greatest Dissident, and China's Most Feared Critic.” 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S1217MarkClifford

"A major piece in schools is taking kids and thinking, ‘Well, they're kids, and so we better give them kids stuff’…But what happens is: we insulate them so much with childlike things they have no sense of taste. And if they have no sense of taste, then it's quite possible they're going to lose their reverence for tasteful things later on. So we have to give that to them now." "Socrates says the goal of education is to teach kids to identify what is beautiful. And so we have to give them beautiful things…If you recognize beauty, you can recognize what's good. Those are highly correlated in the classical world, especially in the Socratic sense." - Michael Fitzgerald, principal of Northern Schoolhouse 🔴 WATCH FULL on @AmThoughtLeader: https://ept.ms/S1130MichaelFitzgerald

"Under the Trump executive order on combating antisemitism, the agency sent a strong signal that institutions can't use double standards and that they need to address discrimination against Jewish students the same as discrimination against other sorts of groups," says former Assistant U.S. Secretary of Education for Civil Rights Kenneth L. Marcus. The Office of Civil Rights is an agency within the Department of Education that affects and protects students and families around the country. Join us for an inside look, as part of our series on the U.S. presidential transition period. 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S1214kenMarcus

"We shouldn't be saying, 'let's be harder on one side than the other.' We should be saying, 'let's find the truth. Let's follow the evidence where it goes. Let's make sure that everyone has appropriate protections of their rights and let things proceed as they may. In a sense, this is about law and order. It's about making sure that the innocent are protected, that the guilty are punished, and those who have been victimized are finding justice through the system." - Kenneth L. Marcus on protecting civil rights in schools 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S1214kenMarcus

“The first thing that has to happen is policies have to be reversed from the Biden administration and new ones put in place right away to sew up the border - to make it so that people will not want to cross it illegally because they'll be detained and deported…They need to shut down the parole programs that we were just talking about. The CBP One program has to end on the first day - no more after that. And the flights program has to end on the first day as well.” - @tbensman 🔴 WATCH FULL on @AmThoughtLeader:https://ept.ms/S1121ToddBensman

"Western civilization is in real trouble, and we've lost the mechanisms of transmission, you might say, of the very fundamental principles and institutions of our civilization. And it's high time we did everything we could to get them back,” says Ralston College President Stephen Blackwood. 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S1212StephenBlackwood

"Universities are far too much under the sway of a kind of ideological nihilism or neo-Marxism, which denies the existence of higher-order goods…truth, beauty, goodness, love, redemption, justice, this whole range of metaphysical realities…[that] give human life meaning." “What that produces downstream is all kinds of corrosive and toxic effects: ugliness in architecture, partisan rancor and alienation in our political and civic life, a failure to tell the truth in journalism…" - Ralston College President Stephen Blackwood 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S1212StephenBlackwood

"The World Bank wants to own this [pandemic] fund. They want the money channeled through the World Bank - of course they do. And they want to grow, & they want to keep their staff employed, & they want their epistemic authority. And the WHO is vying for it too, but no donor trusts the WHO. So, they'll trust the World Bank because they feel like they have more control of it. And all of them are trying to move in the space so quickly to capture what they can get. And I was surprised by that, because that's political. That's not necessarily public health." - David Bell and Garrett Brown 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S1210DavidGarrett

"The way these things are being modeled, and then the way that the evidence is being presented, makes the existential threat seem immediate, increasing and more severe. And yet, the data and the evidence that they cite say something opposite, which looks like a misrepresentation or an underrepresentation of what the true condition is that we're trying to address." - Garrett Brown and David Bell 🔴 PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S1210DavidGarrett

A watchdog report found that ICE is unable to account for more than 32,000 unaccompanied children who failed to appear for court hearings. Another 291,000 simply did not receive notices at all. How many of these children have fallen victim to traffickers? Join me for this special LIVE crossover episode with NTD’s International Roundtable program, hosted by Cindy Drukier. The two of us will be sitting down with Tara Rodas, Aaron Stevenson, and Mary Flynn O’Neill - three individuals who have been at the forefront of exposing child trafficking and demanding policy change. 🔴LIVE SHOW 9:30AM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S1210TraffickingLIVE

There is an unprecedented child trafficking crisis in America today. Large numbers of migrant children are being released by the HHS to sponsors that are not thoroughly vetted, including individuals associated with dangerous criminal organizations like MS-13 and the 18th Street gang. On this special LIVE episode, we dive into the child trafficking crisis with whistleblowers Tara Rodas and Aaron Stevenson and America Future’s Mary Flynn O’Neill. How many children have fallen victim and what can the incoming Trump administration do to end this crisis? 🔴LIVE - TUES. DEC 10 - 9:30am ET on EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S1210TraffickingLIVE

"In California, we privilege anosognosia in the law. We make it legal to use drugs, legal to traffic drugs, legal to steal to support your habit, and you're allowed to lie down on the street and shoot wherever you want. And we'll give you the needles and the heroin. And I just talked to a kid who was about 3 years off the street. He said every single helper that he met on the street that was giving him his needles and his heroin would pat him on the back and go, 'You're just a victim of capitalism. If we get communism in here, this will all go away.’” - Dr. Drew Pinsky 👉PREMIERE 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S1207DrDrewPinsky

"A member of the school board came in & said, 'We're going to lock the schools down.' And I said, 'Why? Why are you doing that?...Did an infectious disease doctor come in & say you've got to do this?' 'No, it's just the right thing to do.' I knew then there was big trouble. …There are some of us that can't get over COVID - not the virus - the way our country dealt with COVID. Just mind boggling. I felt like my world changed in March, 2020. I can't believe what happened." Dr. Drew Pinsky on lockdowns & mandates. 🔴 PREMIERE 12/7, 9PM ET on @EpochTV: https://ept.ms/S1207DrDrewPinsky