y. It's called an atmospheric river, and it's coming hard. It looks like the drought in California is going to get a little relief until the forest fires.

Last night on Gutfeld, how many of you saw Russell Brand on Gutfeld? That was a lot of fun. Probably my favorite Gutfeld episode so far. I love the fact that Gutfeld is a number one show so he can get the best guests. Now he had Vivek Ramaswamy on the other day and Russell Brand, and that's so much fun watching all these people come into a, let's say, an unstructured, sort of chaotic, funny environment. Everybody has to be in a different character. Then it's really fun to watch.

One of the things Russell Brand has said, I don't think he said it on Gutfeld last night but he said it somewhere else, he said the thing they fear most is people with different political perspectives coming together. I guess today would be the uni-party, you know, the people in power. That does feel right, doesn't it? It does feel right because if people who were on opposite sides of things came together, you get a lot done.

There's some system, I forget what country it was, where most of the government decisions are by referendum, even the big federal ones. Does anybody remember what system that is? Is it the Swiss? The Swiss. There might be other systems like that as well. But doesn't that make more sense to you? Because we have this weird situation in America where there are issues that are overwhelmingly popular, let's say 60 to 40. That's pretty overwhelming. And if 60 percent of the public wants something and they understand it well enough to know what they're asking for, it doesn't make any sense that that has to go through Congress. We should just vote on it. Like, okay, 60 percent of you want that, let's do it.

Now I can imagine that maybe you don't go with the referendum if it's close, because then maybe you want your experts in Congress to tell you what you missed or something. But if it's 60-40 and we understand the issue, I think we ought to just do an end run around Congress. I don't know any way to fix this system that's constitutional. Amendment, probably so impractical.

All right, here's your media lesson in how to interpret, or actually spot, fake news. So you may have seen the clip of Representative Goldman who is talking to Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger, I think at a congressional event. And he said, quote, "Even with Twitter you cannot find evidence of any direct government censorship of any lawful speech. And why I say lawful, I mean non-criminal speech." Did you catch the weasel word? I'll read it again. Remember, there's only one word in the whole sentence that's the weasel word that changes its meaning. Okay, you found it. "Direct." The