What You Need to Know is that our special American legal system is being torn to shreds before our eyes. We are locked in a battle between two sets of ideas: the founding of the United States and progressivism. At the heart of our founding ideals is the American legal system, providing liberty and justice for all Americans and the recognition that rights come from God, not man. America was founded as a bully-fighter, using due process to ensure people get a fair shot and won’t be shot down just because someone else is more powerful. Now, progressive bullies are ripping apart due process so the rest of us can’t stand up for ourselves.

Dr. Jeffrey E. Paul is a professor and most recently author of Winning America's Second Civil War: Progressivism's Authoritarian Threat, Where It Came from, and How to Defeat It. He joins Ed to discuss his book and how the progressive long march through the institutions came about, resulting in the total domination of academia by left-wing forces. This has displaced the authoritative view in the United States: the view of the American founders.

Wrap Up: The DC Bar is starting a trial next week against Jeff Clark for being a good lawyer, a smart lawyer, a lawyer who was an advocate for his client - President Donald Trump. I regret that there aren’t more lawyers saying out loud how wrong this is, what’s happening to Jeff Clark.