Lanny Davis joins Brian Nichols to reveal why he agrees with libertarians on government surveillance and why America's privacy crisis is happening right now.

This isn't a gotcha. Davis was Special Counsel to President Clinton, legal advisor to Michael Cohen, and the only Democrat George W. Bush put on the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board - the panel that watched the government's surveillance programs from the inside. The invitation came from Karl Rove himself.

So what makes a lifelong Democrat go straight to George Orwell's 1984? Flock cameras. License plate readers. Every car in America logged and shared between departments. Davis looked at all of it and said the quiet part out loud... "the bigger government is, the more I feel shared wisdom with libertarians."

His new book, Finding the Third Way, tackles the civility crisis head-on. He and Joe Lieberman once asked 535 members of Congress and 50 governors to sign a civility pledge - three signed. Davis names his own party's labeling problem, pulls a Harry Truman warning from 1948, and makes the case that Democrats and libertarians agree on more than either side admits.

And then Brian does the thing we do... the scorecard. Three things Lanny got right. Three where he lost me. One of them pointed straight at our own side. One standard.

CHAPTERS: 0:00 The Guest Nobody Expected 0:06 "Who Are You, Zelig?" 1:53 The Resignation That Wasn't 2:34 The Karl Rove Phone Call 5:31 Inside the Spy Room 7:21 The Guardrails Are Slipping 8:16 The Empty Oversight Board 10:00 Cameras on Every Corner 11:26 "Big Brother Is Watching You" 12:24 Only 3 Out of 585 Said Yes 15:32 The Socialist Label Trap 17:49 Truman's Warning to Democrats 20:38 Why Voters Snapped 24:14 "The Heck With Your Civility" 26:02 The Empathy Problem 29:52 Lanny's Curveball Close 33:11 The Scorecard

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