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Allen Jackson NOW | Alen Jackson: January 7, 2025 | Allen Jackson Now | January 7, 2025
- 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.
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- 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
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- 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?
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Well, health care is just one area of government
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- Where it seems government is more
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- 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
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- Not by the public's needs,
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- 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
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- Work toward the betterment of america as a whole?
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- Hey, alan, i think as you well know,
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- You know, the root of evil is the love of money.
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- 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
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- Difficult to change some of the foods
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- That we're allowed to eat
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- And consume,
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- Even though there's maybe some evidence and suggest
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- They're unhealthy, is a lot of companies
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- Make a lot of money
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- 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,
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- And they're just better for the bottom lines
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- Of these companies, as opposed to the middle wastes
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- 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
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- At the government accountability
- 00:13:16.788 --> 00:13:17.789
- Institute is try to show you who's
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- 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
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- Trust to an institution that we need to be trustworthy.
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- 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.
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- What?
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- We just reported our most recent podcast.
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- You can find the drill
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- Down.com documents how we may have been able to prevent this
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- Had we not allocated resources and diverted them away
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- From fighting the truth that the the true threat
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- That faces our country.
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- And we actually devoted more resources
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- To fighting whites
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- Supremacy, that's something
- 00:14:05.704 --> 00:14:06.772
- The biden administration has consistently said
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- Is actually the gravest threat that faces our country.
- 00:14:08.840 --> 00:14:11.243
- They actually
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- They've created incentives for fbi agents to label
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- Certain crimes as instances of domestic
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- 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
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- Focus on the real threats facing our country,
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- 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.
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- 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.
- 00:14:33.932 --> 00:14:36.168
- 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
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- Aimed at a positive solution.
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- 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
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- Taking place in our national capital.
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- 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.
- 00:15:27.520 --> 00:15:29.288
- 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
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- And the fbi to tell the truth,
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- 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,
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- We're going to practice the truth in our lives
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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.
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- You can read all four gospels in 61 days.
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- If you'll commit about a 10
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- Or 15 minute window of time each day.
- 00:16:43.429 --> 00:16:46.232
- I'm inviting people
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- All over the country, everywhere i go, everybody
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- I talk to, to join me
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- As we begin this year in reading through the gospels.
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- 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,
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- And our nations.
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- If we'll do that, there's more reasons for hope than despair.
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- I promise we'll stay with us when we return.
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- We're going to turn the mic to your emails.
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- We're going to turn the mic to your emails.
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- Thank you for taking the time
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- 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,
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- Can you unpack what this department
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- Will do to help our government processes?
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- 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
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- Are going to look at our government and try to identify
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- 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
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- 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,
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- 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
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- If we feel like the government is being held accountable
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- In some realistic way, and i'm praying
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- 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
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- From a biblical worldview that helps me
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- That may have been involved with osama
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- 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
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- 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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