Alen Jackson: January 7, 2025 | Allen Jackson Now

January 7, 2025 | S25:E107

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  • Well good evening, i'm alan jackson,
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  • And welcome to nashville.
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  • We're looking forward
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  • With hope as trump prepares to take office.
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  • But biden is leaving a questionable legacy.
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  • Now, i understand the messaging
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  • That we hear over and over from almost every media outlet
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  • Is that we are watching a peaceful transfer of power
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  • As they make disparaging remarks
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  • About what happened four years ago.
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  • But if you're watching and listening
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  • And paying much attention, this doesn't seem so peaceful to me.
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  • I've heard multiple commentaries and read more than one article
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  • Mocking the goal.
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  • They say, you know, the incoming
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  • President is working for world peace, energy independence.
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  • He wants to deport illegal immigrants.
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  • Well, he better get busy on his agenda.
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  • They are openly mocking things that would make
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  • Our nation stronger, healthier and better.
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  • Well, they pretend that what we're watching
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  • Isn't what they're describing.
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  • I mean, i woke up, as you did on new year's day
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  • To a terrorist attack on american soil.
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  • Again.
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  • A man drove a pickup truck at a high rate of speed
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  • Into a crowded city street in the middle of a holiday
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  • Celebration with an isis flag on the pickup truck.
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  • And then i heard an fbi
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  • Fbi agent say, this is not a terrorist attack.
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  • That's insulting.
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  • If you have any awareness
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  • Of what's happening in our world,
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  • I don't know that there's any other way to understand that.
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  • If he'd had kkk spray painted on the back of his truck
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  • And driven it
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  • Into the middle of a minority neighborhood, killing 14 people,
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  • We would have understand it to be racist and a hate crime.
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  • So we have a discontinuity between what we see
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  • And what we're being told.
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  • And we can't give in.
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  • We've got to be determined to find the truth
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  • With that.
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  • And more on the table today.
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  • We're going to welcome back somebody
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  • To help us get to some truth.
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  • He's the vice president of the government
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  • Accountability institute, and he's the co-host with peter
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  • Schweitzer of the very popular drill down podcast.
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  • Eric is drilling down on issues
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  • Is what you and your colleagues have been doing for years.
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  • And i have a few targets for drilling today.
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  • So let's get started with how president biden
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  • Is handling his final days in office.
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  • Trying to make things
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  • As difficult as possible, it seems, for mr.
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  • Trump.
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  • He just released prisoners from gitmo,
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  • Including at least one
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  • Who was a likely associate of osama bin laden.
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  • We found that out even while he was visiting the families
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  • Of the people killed by the isis convert in new orleans,
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  • Then that's on top of him trying to sell parts
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  • For the border wall, even as terrorists come walking in.
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  • That's not enough.
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  • Trump says he wants to make us energy independent again.
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  • So biden resurrects his green new deal
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  • And issues a sweeping ban on oil leases this week.
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  • Well, today, trump said it won't last.
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  • President biden's actions yesterday on offshore
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  • Drilling, banning offshore drilling,
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  • Will not stand.
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  • I will reverse it immediately.
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  • It will be done immediately.
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  • And we will drill, baby, drill.
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  • We're going to be drilling
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  • In a lot of other locations,
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  • And the energy costs are going to come way down.
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  • They'll be brought down to
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  • A very low level,
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  • And that's going to bring everything else down.
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  • You know, i remember hearing biden
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  • After he met with trump, saying,
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  • I assured trump of a peaceful and orderly transition.
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  • That's what the american people deserve.
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  • Well, eric, do you
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  • Think he even remember saying that?
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  • It's a great question.
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  • I think whatever that joe biden is capable of thinking about
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  • Or remembering today, at the top of the list is his legacy
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  • And its preservation and possible enhancement.
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  • Because right
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  • Now, in the eyes and minds of the democratic party,
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  • Joe biden is a failed man.
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  • He has embarrassed himself on the way out of office.
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  • Many people, regardless of their ideological affiliation,
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  • Singularly blame joe biden for the fact that donald trump
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  • Is about to become president of the united states.
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  • The one thing democrats seem to agree
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  • On, as we look back at
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  • What happened in kamala harris's failed 2024 campaign.
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  • Is that the reason why she failed
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  • Is that joe biden stayed in for far too long.
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  • And it's ironic,
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  • Alan, actually,
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  • You know,
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  • We talk about the peaceful transition of power,
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  • Which is obviously a reference
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  • To what happened on january 6th of 2021.
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  • But just a year ago, on january 6th, 2024,
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  • Joe biden held a campaign event and in the official white house
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  • Transcripts, the first thing it says is they include a line
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  • From a member of the audience saying, four more years.
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  • A year ago, that's what joe biden thought
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  • He was going to deliver for the democratic party.
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  • And instead, he failed catastrophically, partly
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  • Because of his own hubris and partly because of
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  • How poor his vice president
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  • Was capable of performing on a national scale.
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  • All that to say, democrats blame him.
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  • So the only thing joe biden can do
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  • To enhance his legacy in the time he has remaining
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  • Is try to go through
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  • Their wish list of woke goodies, which includes banning gitmo
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  • Or closing down gitmo, banning offshore oil drilling,
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  • And lots of other things
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  • That the
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  • Democratic consulting class
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  • Has been asking for for some time,
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  • Because they're not going to get it for the next four years
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  • Because joe biden failed so spectacularly.
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  • Well, as president carter's laid to rest this week,
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  • I'm reminded of how he handled the trouble
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  • His brother, billy carter, got in.
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  • Billy carter took $220,000 from the libyan government,
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  • But a senate investigation found that none of what he did
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  • Influence the carter white house policy decisions.
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  • Jimmy carter didn't pardon billy.
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  • President clinton did pardon his half brother roger,
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  • But only after he served a prison term.
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  • Same thing with president trump, who pardoned jared kushner's
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  • Father, but only after he had served his prison term.
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  • What more does this say to you about the breadth
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  • Of what joe biden is trying to hide?
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  • Yeah, alan, i know you know better than
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  • Most people that the grace and mercy that
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  • Jesus christ, our lord and savior, offers
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  • Is unprecedented and second to none.
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  • But if anyone's coming close, i think it's
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  • Joe biden with the pardon that he's offered hunter biden
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  • 11 years of essentially forgiveness
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  • For any sins, real or imagined, that he might have committed
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  • In that time frame, i think, is actually incredibly important,
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  • Because it starts the month after he gets back from china,
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  • And it continues up through december 1st of 2024.
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  • So it would encompass any business dealings
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  • That hunter biden had and this unprecedented
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  • Joint venture with the chinese government.
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  • But allen, to me, the thing that stands out
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  • Is what it could also encompass.
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  • Remember this, joe, we just talked about
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  • How joe biden failed by staying in the race too long.
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  • The key to that is joe biden did not want to get out
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  • Of the race.
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  • Somebody
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  • Somehow was able to force the most powerful man in the world
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  • To give up his reelection campaign against his will.
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  • And what we know
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  • Is that hunter biden
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  • In the biden business scheme was the bag man.
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  • So all that to say, joe biden's pardon would encompass
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  • And would include
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  • Any negotiations and any potential charges
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  • Of bribery or extortion or anything else
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  • That might have been lobbed
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  • Against hunter biden during this period
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  • In which there was potentially negotiations
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  • To get joe biden to drop out of the race.
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  • It is historically unprecedented.
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  • It is a national disgrace
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  • And scandal,
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  • And it is one of the reasons why i think
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  • Joe biden is trying to do whatever he can
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  • And give whomever he can, whatever they want,
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  • In an effort to restore his legacy
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  • In the mind of the democratic base he has coveted for so long.
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  • We'll have more with eric eggers in just a moment.
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  • If you want to send
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  • Your opinions, i'd love to hear from you.
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  • Please send them to comments at alan jackson now.com.
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  • I'll be right back.
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  • I'll be right back.
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  • One. we're back now with the vice president
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  • Of the government accountability office, eric eggers.
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  • One of the many things i like
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  • About what you and your colleagues do
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  • Is you dig into issues that no one else will touch,
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  • Such as the enormous expense of health care.
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  • You and seamus bruner recently reported
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  • That the reason health care is so expensive
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  • Is because of the government, not health care companies.
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  • Tell us what you found.
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  • Yeah, i thought it was very, troubling in the wake
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  • Of the shooting of the
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  • Health care ceo that you had, united states senators,
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  • Including elizabeth warren and bernie sanders, lament
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  • This specific act of personal violence,
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  • But then offer some sort of contextual apology
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  • For the reason why people are so angry.
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  • And they talked about the rising cost of health care.
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  • And what we did is
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  • We looked into, well, hey, where is this money coming from?
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  • And we found that over half of all the revenue
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  • That actually goes to health care companies right
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  • Now, the money that they make actually comes
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  • From the united states government
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  • And is a direct result of the obamacare, law
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  • That happened in 2010.
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  • Alan,
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  • I don't know what your portfolio looks like
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  • And when the last time you checked it,
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  • But the s&p 500 index since 2010 is up 250%.
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  • Okay.
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  • The average health care stock weighted average is up
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  • Over 1,000% since obamacare was first passed in 2010.
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  • The point is, is that as much as the liberal senators say that
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  • Health care costs are rising
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  • And we need more government intervention,
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  • What our analysis found is actually
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  • The government intervention is part of the problem.
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  • This is government funded health care
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  • That's been enormously profitable
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  • For these health care companies,
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  • And it's come at the expense of the service
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  • And customer satisfaction of the american people
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  • And the expense of their tax dollars.
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  • Well, it's going to take some courage to say
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  • That the health care system is broken,
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  • But it is, and the people are suffering.
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  • So i pray your research reads leads to some real reforms
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  • And not just more political maneuvering.
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  • Do you have any hope of that?
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  • I'm always optimistic, allan, but as we like to say here
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  • At the government accountability institute,
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  • Big business and big government are actually business partners.
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  • And so what we try to do is say, listen, what
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  • What are some things that everyone
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  • Agrees are problems that should be fixed
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  • And how come they're not being solved?
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  • And the answer,
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  • Unfortunately, usually is because
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  • Too many people are making money off the status quo.
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  • And i think the health care industry is one of those systems
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  • Right now.
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  • Well, aside from just the financial cost
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  • Of health care, there's also an integrity issue at stake.
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  • If our health care system
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  • Is predominantly supported by government money,
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  • There's a tremendous temptation
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  • To manipulate the truth in order to keep the money.
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  • The pressure's too great.
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  • We saw that reality during the pandemic,
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  • And the president elect has a whole new team coming in.
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  • Beginning with robert f kennedy jr.
  • 00:10:55.848 --> 00:10:58.383
  • Bobby's not hesitant to take on
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  • Some of what's clearly not working.
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  • Listen to his reasoning.
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  • That they should not
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  • Have confidence in the people who are managing the pandemic.
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  • We have the worst record of any country in the world, so
  • 00:11:08.227 --> 00:11:11.363
  • We had 16% of the covid deaths in the united states of america.
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  • We only had 4.2% of the globe's population.
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  • So whatever we were doing in this country
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  • Was the worst of every country.
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  • So in order to do that, you say
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  • Clearing out the corruption in your terms,
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  • Would that mean clearing out the top level
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  • Federal service workers that are currently at the
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  • Fda and in some categories?
  • 00:11:32.918 --> 00:11:35.154
  • So what's your sense about whether kennedy can turn
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  • Things around, especially given the trump mandate?
  • 00:11:38.390 --> 00:11:41.894
  • I think he's already started.
  • 00:11:41.894 --> 00:11:42.961
  • I think the conversation is already changing.
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  • I've heard more people talk about red dye
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  • In the last couple weeks than i've ever heard in my life.
  • 00:11:46.732 --> 00:11:49.034
  • So i think people are at least starting
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  • To have an honest conversation about what food companies
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  • Are allowed to put into our food, and why and why
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  • They're not allowed to do that in other countries.
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  • And i think that's the beginning of just an acceptance
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  • That we are unhealthy on a global scale.
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  • And that needs to change.
  • 00:12:01.880 --> 00:12:04.750
  • Well, health care is just one area of government
  • 00:12:04.750 --> 00:12:06.618
  • Where it seems government is more
  • 00:12:06.618 --> 00:12:07.986
  • The problem than a source of solutions.
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  • I looked it up and found that there are more than 100,000
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  • Professions and trade associations in our country.
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  • They survive on the well-being of their members, whatever their
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  • Field agriculture, automotive, education and retail.
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  • 100,000 of them.
  • 00:12:23.769 --> 00:12:25.571
  • But you said recently that policy decisions are driven
  • 00:12:25.571 --> 00:12:28.173
  • Not by the public's needs,
  • 00:12:28.173 --> 00:12:29.942
  • By the interest of the lobbyists and donors.
  • 00:12:29.942 --> 00:12:32.477
  • This is the reality of politics today.
  • 00:12:32.477 --> 00:12:35.180
  • Why can't the goals of those groups
  • 00:12:35.180 --> 00:12:36.815
  • Work toward the betterment of america as a whole?
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  • Hey, alan, i think as you well know,
  • 00:12:41.553 --> 00:12:43.856
  • You know, the root of evil is the love of money.
  • 00:12:43.856 --> 00:12:46.692
  • And these trade associations are all making lots of it.
  • 00:12:46.692 --> 00:12:49.728
  • I mean, go back to the rfk jr conversation.
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  • One of the reasons why we might find it
  • 00:12:52.097 --> 00:12:53.799
  • Difficult to change some of the foods
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  • That we're allowed to eat
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  • And consume,
  • 00:12:57.302 --> 00:12:58.403
  • Even though there's maybe some evidence and suggest
  • 00:12:58.403 --> 00:12:59.538
  • They're unhealthy, is a lot of companies
  • 00:12:59.538 --> 00:13:01.306
  • Make a lot of money
  • 00:13:01.306 --> 00:13:02.407
  • Off of the status quo, and they make a lot of money off
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  • Of serving the certain types of foods
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  • Because they allow the foods to last longer,
  • 00:13:06.111 --> 00:13:08.313
  • And they're just better for the bottom lines
  • 00:13:08.313 --> 00:13:10.415
  • Of these companies, as opposed to the middle wastes
  • 00:13:10.415 --> 00:13:12.784
  • Of the american people.
  • 00:13:12.784 --> 00:13:14.019
  • So that's one of the things that we exist to try to do here
  • 00:13:14.019 --> 00:13:16.788
  • At the government accountability
  • 00:13:16.788 --> 00:13:17.789
  • Institute is try to show you who's
  • 00:13:17.789 --> 00:13:19.625
  • Making money off of the problems that plague our country.
  • 00:13:19.625 --> 00:13:22.561
  • Well, quick question before we have to go.
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  • What how much hope do you have that cash?
  • 00:13:25.864 --> 00:13:28.033
  • Patel can bring meaningful change to the fbi and restore
  • 00:13:28.033 --> 00:13:31.403
  • Trust to an institution that we need to be trustworthy.
  • 00:13:31.403 --> 00:13:34.840
  • So i'll try to keep this quick, allen.
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  • But you mentioned at the top of our segment
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  • That, the new orleans bombing, excuse me,
  • 00:13:39.144 --> 00:13:41.313
  • The new orleans attack and how it's an act of clear,
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  • Domestic terrorism as incited by, i think, islamic extremists.
  • 00:13:44.516 --> 00:13:48.220
  • What?
  • 00:13:48.453 --> 00:13:49.388
  • We just reported our most recent podcast.
  • 00:13:49.388 --> 00:13:51.356
  • You can find the drill
  • 00:13:51.356 --> 00:13:52.591
  • Down.com documents how we may have been able to prevent this
  • 00:13:52.591 --> 00:13:55.894
  • Had we not allocated resources and diverted them away
  • 00:13:55.894 --> 00:13:58.830
  • From fighting the truth that the the true threat
  • 00:13:58.830 --> 00:14:01.366
  • That faces our country.
  • 00:14:01.366 --> 00:14:02.668
  • And we actually devoted more resources
  • 00:14:02.668 --> 00:14:04.636
  • To fighting whites
  • 00:14:04.636 --> 00:14:05.704
  • Supremacy, that's something
  • 00:14:05.704 --> 00:14:06.772
  • The biden administration has consistently said
  • 00:14:06.772 --> 00:14:08.840
  • Is actually the gravest threat that faces our country.
  • 00:14:08.840 --> 00:14:11.243
  • They actually
  • 00:14:11.243 --> 00:14:12.311
  • They've created incentives for fbi agents to label
  • 00:14:12.311 --> 00:14:15.013
  • Certain crimes as instances of domestic
  • 00:14:15.013 --> 00:14:17.182
  • Extremism in the white supremacy category.
  • 00:14:17.182 --> 00:14:19.217
  • And it's been a massive problems of cash.
  • 00:14:19.217 --> 00:14:21.019
  • Patel can get our agents
  • 00:14:21.019 --> 00:14:22.454
  • Focus on the real threats facing our country,
  • 00:14:22.454 --> 00:14:24.489
  • That i'm quite optimistic that we're much safer.
  • 00:14:24.489 --> 00:14:28.093
  • Well, i pray your analysis is correct.
  • 00:14:28.894 --> 00:14:31.330
  • Eric, we want to have you back again soon.
  • 00:14:31.330 --> 00:14:33.932
  • We've got a lot more we want to talk about.
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  • We look forward to being back with you in a hurry.
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  • Get to nashville.
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  • Yes, sir.
  • 00:14:40.906 --> 00:14:41.873
  • You treated me very well last time i was there.
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  • And, i look forward to coming back.
  • 00:14:43.208 --> 00:14:46.078
  • Will do.
  • 00:14:46.078 --> 00:14:47.212
  • When i come back, some thoughts of my own
  • 00:14:47.212 --> 00:14:49.281
  • Aimed at a positive solution.
  • 00:14:49.281 --> 00:14:56.004
  • Aimed at a positive solution.
  • 00:14:56.004 --> 00:14:58.691
  • You know, it's
  • 00:14:59.025 --> 00:15:00.159
  • A very important season to be leading with our faith.
  • 00:15:00.159 --> 00:15:02.862
  • There's a transfer of power
  • 00:15:02.862 --> 00:15:04.097
  • Taking place in our national capital.
  • 00:15:04.097 --> 00:15:06.099
  • Nation's capital.
  • 00:15:06.099 --> 00:15:07.367
  • And it's a little bumpier than we would like that to be.
  • 00:15:07.367 --> 00:15:09.802
  • We've had a terrorist attack on our own soil
  • 00:15:09.802 --> 00:15:12.472
  • As a new year's gift.
  • 00:15:12.472 --> 00:15:14.207
  • A lot of confusion, a lot of turmoil.
  • 00:15:14.207 --> 00:15:17.210
  • Well, in the midst of those seasons,
  • 00:15:17.210 --> 00:15:19.212
  • There is tremendous strength and comfort in the word of god.
  • 00:15:19.212 --> 00:15:22.949
  • I want to share a verse four with you.
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  • It's from psalm 25 says, show me your ways, lord.
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  • Teach me your paths.
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  • Guide me in your truth and teach me.
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  • For you are god my savior, and my hope is in you all day long.
  • 00:15:31.624 --> 00:15:36.162
  • That verse gives us a
  • 00:15:36.662 --> 00:15:37.897
  • Pathway, no matter how confusing or tumultuous the season.
  • 00:15:37.897 --> 00:15:41.868
  • You and i have to be determined to be champions of the truth.
  • 00:15:41.868 --> 00:15:45.038
  • I know we want the media and the politicians
  • 00:15:45.038 --> 00:15:47.040
  • And the fbi to tell the truth,
  • 00:15:47.040 --> 00:15:48.908
  • But i don't have
  • 00:15:48.908 --> 00:15:50.043
  • Control over them ultimately, but i do over myself.
  • 00:15:50.043 --> 00:15:52.678
  • So here's a suggestion.
  • 00:15:52.678 --> 00:15:54.080
  • Let's decide that as individuals,
  • 00:15:54.080 --> 00:15:56.115
  • We're going to practice the truth in our lives
  • 00:15:56.115 --> 00:15:58.117
  • And how we do business in our homes.
  • 00:15:58.117 --> 00:16:00.119
  • We'll put it on, wear it, live with it,
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  • Even when it's uncomfortable.
  • 00:16:03.156 --> 00:16:05.291
  • Let's just simply decide to be a person who walks
  • 00:16:05.291 --> 00:16:07.760
  • Uprightly before god in truth and integrity.
  • 00:16:07.760 --> 00:16:11.264
  • If we'll do that, it'll make a big difference.
  • 00:16:11.264 --> 00:16:14.033
  • I want to give you an invitation for the beginning of the year,
  • 00:16:14.033 --> 00:16:16.135
  • Something i've never done before.
  • 00:16:16.135 --> 00:16:17.904
  • I want to ask you to join me in reading through the gospels.
  • 00:16:17.904 --> 00:16:21.174
  • That's the first four books of the new testament.
  • 00:16:21.174 --> 00:16:24.143
  • You're familiar with a lot of the characters, mary and joseph.
  • 00:16:24.143 --> 00:16:27.180
  • Some of you may know zechariah and elizabeth.
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  • You'll know
  • 00:16:29.649 --> 00:16:30.817
  • Some of the towns in the places jerusalem and bethlehem.
  • 00:16:30.817 --> 00:16:33.519
  • Nazareth.
  • 00:16:33.820 --> 00:16:34.987
  • Perhaps it's the story of jesus journey through time.
  • 00:16:34.987 --> 00:16:38.624
  • You can read all four gospels in 61 days.
  • 00:16:39.492 --> 00:16:42.495
  • If you'll commit about a 10
  • 00:16:42.495 --> 00:16:43.429
  • Or 15 minute window of time each day.
  • 00:16:43.429 --> 00:16:46.232
  • I'm inviting people
  • 00:16:46.232 --> 00:16:47.233
  • All over the country, everywhere i go, everybody
  • 00:16:47.233 --> 00:16:49.368
  • I talk to, to join me
  • 00:16:49.368 --> 00:16:51.070
  • As we begin this year in reading through the gospels.
  • 00:16:51.070 --> 00:16:53.906
  • We'll have them done before we get to easter.
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  • Here's what i know
  • 00:16:56.242 --> 00:16:57.710
  • That if we will take that time before the lord opened his word
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  • And read it,
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  • It will bring the blessing of god to our lives, our homes,
  • 00:17:02.181 --> 00:17:05.418
  • And our nations.
  • 00:17:05.418 --> 00:17:06.853
  • If we'll do that, there's more reasons for hope than despair.
  • 00:17:06.853 --> 00:17:10.790
  • I promise we'll stay with us when we return.
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  • We're going to turn the mic to your emails.
  • 00:17:14.660 --> 00:17:22.009
  • We're going to turn the mic to your emails.
  • 00:17:22.009 --> 00:17:24.505
  • Thank you for taking the time
  • 00:17:25.139 --> 00:17:26.573
  • To send us your emails, your questions,
  • 00:17:26.573 --> 00:17:28.775
  • Your perspectives, your thoughts.
  • 00:17:28.775 --> 00:17:30.344
  • They're an important part of our planning for the program.
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  • Kevin from missouri ask.
  • 00:17:33.680 --> 00:17:35.048
  • I heard you discuss doge on one of your programs.
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  • That's the department of government efficiency.
  • 00:17:37.918 --> 00:17:40.154
  • From your perspective,
  • 00:17:40.154 --> 00:17:41.321
  • Can you unpack what this department
  • 00:17:41.321 --> 00:17:42.723
  • Will do to help our government processes?
  • 00:17:42.723 --> 00:17:44.825
  • Well, i'm not sure i'm that good of a profit.
  • 00:17:45.759 --> 00:17:47.594
  • I do have some imagination that vivek and elon musk
  • 00:17:47.594 --> 00:17:51.732
  • Are going to look at our government and try to identify
  • 00:17:51.732 --> 00:17:55.269
  • The worst practices, the places where the waste
  • 00:17:55.269 --> 00:17:58.038
  • Is so egregious, and the abuse of the money
  • 00:17:58.038 --> 00:18:01.208
  • That we entrust our government to do work on our behalf
  • 00:18:01.208 --> 00:18:05.145
  • Is so misrepresented that they can highlight it.
  • 00:18:05.145 --> 00:18:08.682
  • Ultimately, i think the changes will
  • 00:18:08.682 --> 00:18:10.450
  • Have to come down to congress.
  • 00:18:10.450 --> 00:18:12.085
  • They control the purse strings.
  • 00:18:12.085 --> 00:18:13.687
  • There will be some limits to what the president can do
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  • With the executive orders,
  • 00:18:15.622 --> 00:18:17.191
  • But turning the light on to those abuses and poor practices
  • 00:18:17.191 --> 00:18:21.261
  • Is a very important first step.
  • 00:18:21.261 --> 00:18:24.131
  • But here's the awkward reality
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  • We all want the budget to be tightened and our
  • 00:18:26.200 --> 00:18:28.502
  • Our spending
  • 00:18:28.502 --> 00:18:29.703
  • To be restricted somewhat, but we don't want it to impact us.
  • 00:18:29.703 --> 00:18:33.106
  • And ultimately,
  • 00:18:33.473 --> 00:18:34.374
  • If we're going to make sweeping changes,
  • 00:18:34.374 --> 00:18:35.943
  • We're going to have to be willing to change this too.
  • 00:18:35.943 --> 00:18:38.212
  • But i think we'll do that
  • 00:18:38.212 --> 00:18:39.580
  • If we feel like the government is being held accountable
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  • In some realistic way, and i'm praying
  • 00:18:41.949 --> 00:18:43.684
  • That they're effective with that
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  • Penny drop.
  • 00:18:46.720 --> 00:18:47.521
  • Thank you for presenting the truth
  • 00:18:47.521 --> 00:18:48.722
  • From a biblical worldview that helps me
  • 00:18:48.722 --> 00:18:50.324
  • Navigate through the complex legacy media lies
  • 00:18:50.324 --> 00:18:54.328
  • I'm not sure i can trust.
  • 00:18:54.328 --> 00:18:55.362
  • Biden's last minute executive orders.
  • 00:18:55.362 --> 00:18:57.497
  • Could you explain what these orders mean?
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  • Thank you so much
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  • For your common sense, biblical perspective.
  • 00:19:00.567 --> 00:19:03.337
  • Well, i can tell you what's most obvious to me is president
  • 00:19:03.337 --> 00:19:05.672
  • Biden is not the one that's writing those orders.
  • 00:19:05.672 --> 00:19:08.976
  • We've heard him speak now.
  • 00:19:08.976 --> 00:19:10.210
  • We've seen him on the debate stage
  • 00:19:10.210 --> 00:19:11.979
  • And some of the legal complexities
  • 00:19:11.979 --> 00:19:13.413
  • That are part of these last minute executive orders.
  • 00:19:13.413 --> 00:19:16.149
  • I'm quite confident he's not the originator of
  • 00:19:16.149 --> 00:19:18.952
  • And unfortunately, we don't know who in the shadows is banning
  • 00:19:18.952 --> 00:19:22.956
  • Oil and gas drilling on hundreds of millions of acres
  • 00:19:22.956 --> 00:19:26.760
  • And using laws to make it
  • 00:19:26.760 --> 00:19:28.195
  • Almost all very difficult, at least to undo that.
  • 00:19:28.195 --> 00:19:31.331
  • There's a subterfuge in that that does not look like
  • 00:19:31.331 --> 00:19:33.734
  • A peaceful transfer of power.
  • 00:19:33.734 --> 00:19:35.602
  • It's an intentional attempt to thwart
  • 00:19:35.602 --> 00:19:37.271
  • Not only what trump has said he would do,
  • 00:19:37.271 --> 00:19:39.373
  • But what the american people elected him to do.
  • 00:19:39.373 --> 00:19:42.576
  • Releasing prisoners from gitmo, prisoners
  • 00:19:42.576 --> 00:19:45.946
  • That may have been involved with osama
  • 00:19:45.946 --> 00:19:47.648
  • Bin laden, and some of the heinous things he perpetrated,
  • 00:19:47.648 --> 00:19:52.452
  • Canceling the death penalty for people,
  • 00:19:53.320 --> 00:19:55.555
  • Some of
  • 00:19:55.555 --> 00:19:56.723
  • The most violent criminals in american jails and prisons.
  • 00:19:56.723 --> 00:19:59.526
  • It's a it's an unsettling list of executive orders.
  • 00:19:59.526 --> 00:20:02.696
  • We need to be praying and paying attention.
  • 00:20:02.696 --> 00:20:05.565
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