The Megyn Kelly Show | Victor Davis Hanson Megyn Kelly is joined by Victor Davis Hanson, author of "The Counterrevolution," to discuss Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn spotted in the third row at Barack Obama's library opening, Ayers and Dohrn's background as founders of the Weather Underground, known for bombing federal buildings, Megyn's past interview showing the real side of Ayers', and more.
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The speaker discusses the presence of Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn at the opening of Barack Obama's presidential library. The segment highlights Ayers' history as a founder of the Weather Underground, a militant group that bombed federal buildings in the 1970s, arguing that Obama's association with such radicals contradicts his public image as a moderate.
That leads me to who was at Barack Obama's presidential library opening.
But we've been covering this and I didn't see this news until today.
In the third row, Bill Ayers and his wife, Bernadine Dorn, they showed up
at Barack Obama's library opening. This is the terrorist that is being referenced
when people say Barack Obama used to pal around with terrorists.
Bernadine Dorn and Bill Ayers, who are partners, who were founders of the Weather Underground
back in the 1970s, which was bombing federal buildings. For those of you who are
young and don't know about this, I'm just going to give you a clip from a
documentary on the Weather Underground. And it's got a young Bill Ayers in it.
Okay, here it is. Check it out. Terry, more than probably anyone else,
represented the view that it was too late for any kind of reconciliation inside this country.
And that the best that we could do was to bring about a catastrophic
series of actions. They had decided to set off the bomb at a non-commissioned officer's
dance at Fort Dix. The idea being that there are no innocent in this war of aggression.
What we wanted to do here was deliver the most horrific hit
that the United States government had ever suffered on its territory.
So that man, one day when I was at Fox News, would stroll in 2014 and give me an interview.
Bill Ayers, it was like one of the craziest moments of my life, Victor. We got him to Fox
News. He came to the belly of the beast. We'd been ripping on him nonstop when Barack Obama
had run for president. Barack won anyway, and he agreed to do an interview with me. It was insane.
And my assistant Abigail Finan said, somebody said, what'd you do today? She said, I babysat
a terrorist in the basement of the Fox News building because we didn't want him to flee.
We didn't want him to realize, wait, what am I doing here? This is a bad idea.
So he came on the show. It was a very challenging interview, but very fascinating.
And here's just a little bit of it, okay? Just we caught a quick sound bite. Watch it.
How many bombings are you responsible for?
Weather Underground, I think took credit for just slightly over 20.
Like me personally, I've never talked about it and never will.
Let me just tell you what I hear when I hear that. I hear you saying,
you sound like, with respect, Osama bin Laden. While Underground, you stole,
you lied, you hid, right? Any disagreement?
He stole.
Onward, yes.
Okay, he did. You wrote about it in your book.
We stole IDs.
You stole purses. You stole wallets.
Yeah.
Stole money.
Some.
You ripped off dead babies' identities.
Right.
And yet, the violence continued. Just because you went Underground,
didn't mean the violence stopped.
What violence?
March 1st, 1971, you bombed the U.S. Capitol. May 19th, 1972, you bombed the Pentagon. January 29th,
1975, you bombed the State Department. That's what I mean by violence.
What would it take to make you bomb this country again?
I can't completely say no. I would never, ever rise up in opposition
in a very militant and serious way. I can't say I wouldn't. I doubt it.
That's who went to Barack Obama's library opening in the third row. He wound up teaching
at the University of Illinois. His wife, who was just as involved as he was in the
Weather Underground, teaching at Northwestern Law School, Victor. Third row. Everything we've
said about Barack Obama was true. He's as radical as they come. He just presents as this moderate,
avuncular kind of guy.
Yeah, he does. And he says in his, I mean, it was reported he wrote, if he did write the whole
thing, his memoir in Bill Ayer's house. He said that. And then what was even crazier was at that
speech, I thought to myself, here they were, he has four mansions at the Chicago Mansion,
I think it's almost worth two million, Colorama, Hawaii, Martha's Vineyard. There were 70 to 100
million. And what are they going to say? And the first thing, one of the first thing is he had to
give us a little spin on the Declaration of Independence, that we were flawed. And I thought,
you know anything?
Still bitter.
Yeah, he didn't understand anything that that had been a big discussion that Jefferson said,
all men are created equal, and we're going to try to mention slavery, even though he was a slave
owner. And five Southerners, five of the 13 colonies were, you know, slave owners, not that
it was de facto outlawed, although there was some in the North. But they all said, if we don't,
if we try to eliminate slavery right now, we won't have a union, the British will win because
they'll pick us off one by one. And we're going to have to deal with this issue. But let's just be
united for now. And that was always an issue, always, every year, they fought about it. And
finally, 700,000. But all the context is gone. He didn't mention any of that. And then when Michelle
got in, she said he was dazzling, brilliant. And she listed three things, his Nobel Prize.
And then she said, Obamacare, and then all of the unity. And I thought, that's all a lie. What are
you going to have in that 750 million dollar flak tower? What are you going to have inside?
Where are going, you know, the accomplishments or the legislation? I can't think of any other than
he tore us apart. He wasn't, he wasn't divisive at the beginning. Yes, but the middle, the beer,
divisive at the end and post presidency.
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