The Adult in the Room

Civil rights activist & defense attorney Harvey Silverglate returns to discuss the indictment of Trump from the perspective of his years defending civil rights from the overreach of the Department of Justice, the FBI, and the current President. Silverglate also gives a small update on the ongoing John Eastman case, and also gives his thoughts on the passing of Pentagon Papers author & whis...

100TH EPISODE! ----- In the summer of 2013, George Zimmerman went on trial in Florida for the alleged murder of teen Trayvon Martin, a key moment in the birth of the Black Lives Matter movement. But while many still believe Martin to be an innocent victim of a racist vigilante, the trial revealed another side of the story that the media ignored: a troubled youth who had been expelled for breaking...

What exactly is wrong with being a man? If some sectors of our modern culture were honest with their beliefs, they'd say "everything." In her new book, The Toxic War on Masculinity - How Christianity Reconciles the Sexes, Professor Nancy R. Pearcey explores and examines why secular society has come to regard traditional masculine qualities as evil, and why faith -- especially Christi...

The Article III Project's Mike Davis joins this breaking news update to discuss the indictments handed down today against former President Donald Trump in a Florida Federal Court! ***** MORE INFO VictoriaTaft.com Victoria Taft @ PJ Media

Jake Lang took part in the riot on the US Capitol grounds on January 6, 2021. Of that, there is no doubt. But now, over two and a half years later, Lang continues to languish in a federal penitentiary, awaiting trial at an unknown future date for his role in the fiasco, charged with an obscure crime that few have heard of. He claims he is being transferred repeatedly between facilities -- a techni...

Author & documentarian Vince Everett Ellison grew up the child of sharecroppers on a cotton plantation in Tennessee, but his father worked hard to build a successful businesses that brought his family out of poverty and squarely into the middle class. He sees now in Black Americans a worrying lack of that same initiative, and he suspects a number of factors are responsible: A lack of religious...

In school systems across the country, parents are fighting an uphill battle against local governments over the curriculum being delivered to their kids, from political indoctrination and activist training in-class to sexually-charged and age-inappropriate reading material. Our schools have become infested with violence and even sexual assault. Exceptional students have had recognition of their ach...

The US is suffering from a homelessness epidemic. In major cities across the nation, citizens and police are dealing with spikes in overdose, thefts, violent crime, and unsafe conditions. On this very special edition of The Adult in the Room, Victoria is joined by Kevin Dahlgren, an expert in the fields of homelessness and substance abuse and a community organizer for several advocacy groups who b...

Tim Graham of the Media Research Center's NewsBusters joins the program to talk about the night doom came to primetime on Fox: the shocking dismissal of their top-rated host, Tucker Carlson, in the aftermath of the Murdochs' massive settlement with Dominion over Fox's claims that the company's voting machines were rigged during the 2020 elections. Was Carlson scapegoated for the la...

Author & former federal prosecutor John D. O'Connor joins the program to look back on a crucial moment in the history of governmental corruption and law enforcement, the Watergate scandal. O'Connor befriended & represented Mark Felt, the FBI associate director better known as the legendary whistleblower "Deep Throat," a revelation that O'Connor helped to reveal throug...

Harvey A. Silverglate is a prominent civil rights and criminal defense attorney, a co-founder and board member of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression , a former litigation counsel for the Electronic Frontier Foundation , and an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute , so he knows a thing or two about freedom of speech and abuse of power. Today, he joins the program to discuss how th...

Journalist Asra Q. Nomani returns to the program to share her deeply personal story: a discussion of growing up as a first-generation American in a Muslim immigrant family from India and her first encounters with early extremism within her own extended family, the origins of Islamist extremism in the DC area, her friendship with murdered American journalist Daniel Pearl, her experience as a single...

Mike McCormick served as part of the While House Stenographers Office for over 20 years, serving as part of the team tasked with preserving for posterity the official remarks of the President & Vice President under six different administrations. Now an author and independent journalist with a unique perspective on the Oval Office, Mike has taken on a new project: sorting through the sordid mat...

Author, journalist and former Texas Department of Public Safety analyst Todd Bensman of the Center for Immigration Studies has a great deal of experience observing and analyzing the unique and sometimes harrowing world that exists along our southern border. In his newest book, Overrun: How Joe Biden Unleashed the Greatest Border Crisis in U.S. History , he takes readers through the what, why, and...

The riots at the Capitol on January 6, 2021 will forever be a controversial, embarrassing, and disturbing mark on American politics and a sign of the disintegration of civility between both sides of the aisle. But are the right people being held responsible for the mayhem that day? Darren Beattie of Revolver. News joins the program to discuss Ray Epps, an individual many believe to be directly res...

Author and journalist Stella Morabito's new book, The Weaponization of Loneliness: How Tyrants Stoke Our Fear of Isolation to Silence, Divide, and Conquer examines the various ways governments, corporations, peer groups and educational institutions use our natural fear of separation and isolation from others to enforce conformity and submission to authority. She joins this episode to talk about th...

This past December, Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology -- a STEAM-centric magnet high school in Fairfax County, Virginia -- made waves after it was revealed that students who had been recognized by the National Merit Scholar program as Commended Students and Semifinalists had not been notified of the awards, costing them precious opportunities for early college admission, sc...

In the first segment of this episode of The Adult in the Room, the Article III Project's Mike Davis joins for a brief update on the classified documents found inside Joe Biden's various properties, why they differ from the similar situation with former President Trump. Then, in our second segment, J. Christian Adams of the Public Interest Legal Foundation and the US Commission on Civil Rights join...

Twitter majority owner and CEO Elon Musk, working with some of the web's most respected independent journalists, has released a flood of new information with regards to the company's internal content moderation policies, revealing for the first time the true extent of employee efforts to suppress speech it deemed inappropriate to the platform. Special guests John D. Trudel & retired Major Gene...

Pastor Anatoly Kaluzhny  returns as winter settles over eastern Europe. Russia's strike on Ukraine, which they predicted would last weeks at the most, has now dragged on for over 10 months. Thousands of lives have been lost or irrevocably changed on both sides of the line and Russia is allegedly so desperate for troops that they are press-ganging random civilians. Questions have arisen in the...

The state of Oregon has passed one of the most onerous, convoluted & infringing collections of anti-gun laws of this generation, and nearly everyone -- from libertarians to socialists and every possible coordinate of reason in-between -- is furious. Kevin Starrett of the Oregon Firearms Federation and Bill Kirk from Washington Gun Law join the program today to talk about just how bad this hodg...

Chris Queen & J. Christian Adams join Victoria for a special look at the aftermath of the 2022 midterms, in which the anticipated "red tsunami" failed to materialize. But not all is lost for Republicans, as the midterms also served as the coming-out party for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, whose obliteration of former Governor Charlie Crist and the dominance of his endorsed candidates have dra...

Attorney Ron Coleman has a stellar reputation for defending intellectual property and free speech through his New York-area firm. Now, he's taking on the collusion between big tech and the US government, a partnership that he believes has enabled civil liberty violations by the feds under the protection of a private umbrella. He also gives his thoughts on Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter, and why h...

J. Christian Adams is the President and General Counsel of the Public Interest Legal Foundation, a contributor to the Federalist Society, and a former member of the Department of Justice. Today, he joins Victoria to talk about the ramifications of both previous and upcoming elections -- how elections represent our American values, why he believes early and mail-in voting is problematic for electio...

Journalist, author, speaker & strategist Erica Sandberg is best known for giving sound and practical financial guidance to readers & viewers. But more than a personal finance expert, she's a resident of San Francisco. She has seen for herself the escalating issues with the city's homeless population, especially in its Tenderloin neighborhood, which has rapidly devolved into a modern skid r...