David French

This is why you have a Congress.

This is why you have a process.

Yeah.

Yeah, I know.

I know.

But this is why you have it.

So we can have this discussion to hold them accountable for the American people to buy in.

This is a democracy.

And say what you want about George W. Bush.

He did that both times with Afghanistan and with Iraq, made the case, got the vote from Congress and acted under congressional authority.

That's a great question, because I think there's been a lot of attention on this sort of Epstein class as a sort of uniquely vile subset of people.

But if you look at scandals you've seen in churches, that's not the Epstein class.

In my journalistic career, I have covered some awful things that have happened to kids in religious settings, for example, that are, again, not the Epstein class.

There is a strain of depravity that runs through...

some subset of human beings, a strain of depravity that leads them to exploit and abuse vulnerable people.

And those people can be found at the highest levels and they can be found at the levels of society where people are struggling the most and everywhere in between.

And there's one also thing that I want to talk about

We need to have a real conversation in this country about the influence of pornography and what is happening, especially with the very early exposure that we're having, you know, the average age of exposure to pornography.

And sometimes it's not like the dirty pictures that were under somebody's dad's or uncle's bed, right?

It's stuff that's mind-blowingly awful.