My co-host couldn't make it today, so it's just me.

A well-known talk show host went on TV this week and said the answer to school shootings is putting more armed people inside schools. More guards. More former cops like me.

I want to ask one question about that. What happened to this country that our children can't go to a classroom, or a movie theater, or a mall at Christmas, without armed people standing there?

That's not an answer. That's a band-aid. And I'll tell you what I think the real problem is, because it isn't the gun.

I also get into something I've been meaning to say for weeks. We need age limits on elected office. Nobody gets out alive, and we've got people dying in their nineties while still holding a seat.

And I open with something that surprised me. I don't agree with Bernie Sanders on much, but he's right about AI.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• Why putting more armed guards in schools misses the actual problem
• What I had to do five separate times just to carry a gun for work
• The one rule that would fix more than any new law we could pass

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Tennessee tried to execute a woman twice last week. Both attempts failed. She'd been sitting on death row for thirty two years.

Tom and I spent a long time on that one, and I'll be honest with you — I've never been a proponent of the death penalty and I'm not fully comfortable with where I ended up. But Tom made a point I can't argue with. He says the standard for a capital case shouldn't be beyond a reasonable doubt. It should be beyond any doubt whatsoever. If it's on film, if there are eyewitnesses, if the DNA has you coming and going, there's no doubt.

I also tell you about some people I've known. Ghislaine Maxwell, socially, in New York. O.J. Simpson, I worked for him. Monica Lewinsky was my client during her book tour, and nobody stood up for that girl.

What I took from all of it is that people have two lives, a public one and a private one, and you have to judge both separately.

In this episode:

• What Tom would replace reasonable doubt with, and why
• Why sentencing guidelines are legislated, which means they can be changed
• Four knife attacks in a month, and what that says about the gun argument

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Tom Fuentes joined me late today. I started without him, which means you get about twenty five minutes of me on my own first, and then the two of us for the rest of it.

The part I'd point you to is the Kennedy conversation. Tom ran the FBI's organized crime program and he's been working on this a long time. He walks through the Bay of Pigs, and why the CIA never forgave Kennedy for refusing to send in the Air Force. Then the back channel the Kennedy brothers opened directly to Khrushchev, and what happened inside the agency when they found out about it.

He also tells me something about Lyndon Johnson I didn't know, and I've been reading about this my whole life.

Before that I get into Mexico and the cartels, and why we'll go after Venezuela but not the people actually running a country on our border.

We get into New York, and the two words that won that election.

And we come back to where we always come back to, which is what any of this leaves for our young people.

In this episode:

• Why Tom thinks the assassination was set in motion before 1963
• What Johnson rescinded the day after Dallas
• The question I keep asking about Mexico that nobody answers

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