Will Carless

We used to generally believe in facts and in the kind of the established knowledge.

And that's no longer the case.

I mean, a good portion of this country simply does not believe the things that the experts, the things that the government, the things that the large scientific and research institutions are telling them.

They just don't believe it.

They will only believe a version of things that is given to them that comes from outside of that.

And I don't know how we fix that.

And I want to encourage everyone to tune in tomorrow to hear my full interview with RFK Jr., which will be shared right here on this feed.

30 years ago, a van full of homemade explosives was detonated outside the Alfred P. Mara building, the federal building in Oklahoma City. 168 people died, including I believe it's 19 children who were in a preschool in the building. It was and remains the most deadly, the sort of most horrific act of domestic terrorism in the United States history.

30 years ago, a van full of homemade explosives was detonated outside the Alfred P. Mara building, the federal building in Oklahoma City. 168 people died, including I believe it's 19 children who were in a preschool in the building. It was and remains the most deadly, the sort of most horrific act of domestic terrorism in the United States history.

Sure. Sure. And I want to stress, I mean, look, an awful lot of people serve in the US military and everybody you talk to says, look, extremism is called extremism for a reason. It's extremely rare. And the vast, vast majority of service men and women don't have an extremist sort of thought in their minds.

Sure. Sure. And I want to stress, I mean, look, an awful lot of people serve in the US military and everybody you talk to says, look, extremism is called extremism for a reason. It's extremely rare. And the vast, vast majority of service men and women don't have an extremist sort of thought in their minds.

However, what the research has shown is that when you look at who commits violent extremism in this country and you look at their background, More often than not, they are likely to have a background in the U.S. military. And that as a factor is sort of more of a defining factor than things like race or political affiliation, things like that.

However, what the research has shown is that when you look at who commits violent extremism in this country and you look at their background, More often than not, they are likely to have a background in the U.S. military. And that as a factor is sort of more of a defining factor than things like race or political affiliation, things like that.

So that's how they've concluded that there is this kind of uncomfortable connection between military service and violent extremism.

So that's how they've concluded that there is this kind of uncomfortable connection between military service and violent extremism.

So in the wake of the January 6th insurrection, at which hundreds of people who were arrested turned out to have military backgrounds or indeed to have been serving in the military at the time, Then Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin launched a really significant campaign to try and basically root out extremism.

So in the wake of the January 6th insurrection, at which hundreds of people who were arrested turned out to have military backgrounds or indeed to have been serving in the military at the time, Then Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin launched a really significant campaign to try and basically root out extremism.

He set up a working group to study the question, and the working group came up with a number of different recommendations. I did a big investigation back in 2023. This was a couple of years after that effort had been launched. that found that basically only two of those recommendations had ever come to any fruition and that the others had pretty much fallen by the wayside.

He set up a working group to study the question, and the working group came up with a number of different recommendations. I did a big investigation back in 2023. This was a couple of years after that effort had been launched. that found that basically only two of those recommendations had ever come to any fruition and that the others had pretty much fallen by the wayside.

Now, we're a couple of years on from then, we have a new administration, we have a new Secretary of Defense, and