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Allen Jackson NOW | Alen Jackson: War Assessment | Allen Jackson Now | March 17, 2026

Good evening and welcome to nashville.
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I'm alan jackson.
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I heard a story recently
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About a local couple with two young children.
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They put up a swingset and they had their backyard
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Fenced in to keep their kids and their little beagle safe.
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All was well until a new neighbor moved in.
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They were folks from out of town and they didn't have any kids,
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But they did have two rottweilers.
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They insisted
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The dogs were fully trained, but every so often they would
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Chase down the squirrels
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And the rabbits and leave them lifeless in the garden.
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Well, the couple called their realtor
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And ask if there was anything they could do.
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Well, you could talk to the owners
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And see if they'll keep the dogs inside.
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Or you can move.
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But you need to understand that
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If those two rottweilers, they jump the fence well,
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Your kids and little snoopy, they'll be in some real danger.
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Well, i'm sharing
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The little neighborhood story
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Because it's an easy one to understand.
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Who amongst us wouldn't want to make sure that threats
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To our family need to be taken seriously?
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Well, that's so easy on the local level.
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Why wouldn't it be clear on a global level?
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Is it protecting our families?
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What president trump is trying to do?
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Iran's leaders
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Have been responsible for more terrorism
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Than any other country in the world.
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In the late 70s, iran captured several dozen american embassy
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Officials, and they held them hostage for 444 days.
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Since then, they've killed
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At least a thousand americans globally.
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They chant death to america like a broken record,
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And they've built thousands of missiles
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And weaponized drones,
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And they've been steadily
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Working to build nuclear weapons as well.
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So before their missiles come flying here,
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Doesn't it make sense to disconnect the fuze?
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Well, of course it does.
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Iran has long declared its intent.
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Their leaders
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Openly chant death to israel and death to america.
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That's not political rhetoric.
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That's a declaration of war.
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The uncomfortable reality for the people
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That want to allow the islamic regime to stay in power
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Is that iran's leaders don't want to stop killing.
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Perhaps these pseudo intellectuals
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Are seduced by the notion of peaceful islam,
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While completely ignoring the authoritarian, dictatorial,
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Brutal violence taking place against its own citizens.
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The islamic regime in iran is the biggest threat
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To its own people in just the last few months.
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Security forces have fired live ammunition
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In the protest crowds.
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They've murdered tens of thousands of citizens
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And tortured detainees in unspeakable ways.
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Hospitals have been ready to do a rest of the wounded.
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Children and teenagers have been killed.
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And when the world starts paying attention,
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The regime's response is simple shut down the internet.
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Cut off communication to the outside world.
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All of this.
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While some in
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Our mainstream media invite the very perpetrators
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Of these atrocities for interviews
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In an effort to push the narrative
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That trump unjustly started
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The war didn't give peace a chance
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Through negotiations with the regime.
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It's just absurd.
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Every time we think now, we can make peace with iran.
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It's a slippery slope.
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Peace loving nations
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Must remove the opportunity to kill from them.
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I had a meeting recently with an armenian
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Man that we've worked with for a long time,
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And a pastor from iran who was with him.
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These men were encouraged by our u.s.
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Israeli joint military action that's unfolding right now.
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Actually, they were elated about the
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Intervention that's taking place.
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Think about the population of iran for just a moment.
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The iranian people
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Who were 50 years old and younger,
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They have never lived with any freedom.
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All they've known are the ayatollahs.
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They've got no imagination of liberty or self-determination.
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At our church, we recently made this
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Little video where we showed children
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A phone book for the first time.
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They looked at it and understandably,
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They didn't have a clue what it was.
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They weren't
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Part of a generation that use the yellow pages.
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Well, most of the iranian people,
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They've never known what it was to have autonomy, any freedom,
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Real liberty.
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They've been under a cruel and oppressive regime.
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The iranian pastor i met with expressed tremendous hope,
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But he also had a lot of concern
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For what will emerge and what will come next.
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Iran is not a nation bound together by a singular thing.
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It's a collection of different tribes
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And people groups, and they were asking us to pray.
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There are hundreds of thousands of believers in iran.
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The men that i met with work
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With several pastors in the underground church there.
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In fact,
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I believe
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That what we're seeing happening geopolitically in iran
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Is symptomatic of a spiritual condition.
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What is desperately needed is spiritual change.
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The regime change is underway in iran, has emerged
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From the prayers of the church in that nation.
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There's been a spirit of enormous darkness
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And oppression. it's being removed.
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The islamic regime in iran has been the largest global exporter
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Of hatred, murder and violence.
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Awful things.
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You don't have to have great discernment
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To know that the spirit behind that is not the spirit of god.
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It'll take continued spiritual change
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For a better future in iran.
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And we as christ followers, we've got to be engaged
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In prayer on a daily basis, not just for the people of iran,
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But for our brave men and women serving in the military.
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I'm so grateful for our young men
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And women that put themselves in harm's way to benefit others.
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And even though many voices in the media
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Aren't supportive of their mission,
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The iranian people that i talked to, they are celebrating them.
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But real change must be initiated by people of faith.
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Don't get caught up in the doom loop with the voices that say,
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I don't like this decision,
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Or that decision, or this person or that person.
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Let's pray fervently
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And ask god that freedom come to the people of iran.
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Let liberty come.
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Let true spiritual freedom come.
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The corporate prayers of god's people.
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They can change the course of nations.
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Well, in a moment, we'll be joined by a former
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Marine helicopter pilot and a commander in the navy
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Who now serves in the us house of representatives.
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Representative rich mccormick is standing by.
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I'll be right back.
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I'll be right back.
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Well, as of today,
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Two more of iran's top leaders have been eliminated.
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Ali larijani,
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The face of the regime since ayatollah was taken out,
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As well as the head
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Of internal security who ran the revolutionary guard.
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That's the man responsible for thousands of deaths
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Of protesters who went up against the regime.
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It's not just the leadership.
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According to the centcom commander,
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Iran's ability
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To produce any more weapons is also being completely shut down.
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Listen to his response.
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It's one thing to defend by striking launchers
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And intercepting missiles and drones,
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But it's another thing to eliminate the wider
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Manufacturing apparatus behind them.
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And we are doing that today.
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With that, i want to welcome georgia republican
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Rich mccormick.
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He serves on
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Both the house armed services committee
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And the foreign affairs committee.
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And that's on top of his military service.
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Welcome to our show, congressman.
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Thanks.
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Good to be with you today.
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Tell us how you think this effort is going.
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Well, you know, it's interesting that i try to be very fair
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In the way i apply my criticisms and my encouragement.
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When biden was president and we had our ships,
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Naval ships fired upon, i said, sink their navy.
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When when we had drone was used against american troops
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And we actually lost three georgians
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A couple of years ago, i told one,
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Destroy their factories that are producing these drones.
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We should never put up with this kind of behavior.
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They've attacked us over 40 times
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Through their proxies, killed 220 marines in one day.
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In beirut, they've continually said
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That we are the great satan and they're going to riot.
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Rained down fire from from heaven upon us.
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They talking about
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The destruction of israel and our own country,
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And they're actively seeking nuclear arms out producing us
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With drones 100 to 1, basically.
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When you talk about cost to to production ratio,
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The time to act as well overdue.
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And i'm glad
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That president trump actually made a bold move to get rid of,
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A very bad adversary in their capabilities.
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They were going to be nothing but trouble in the future.
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They're getting better at technology and weapons delivery.
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Well, iran's leadership is in shambles,
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But the enriched uranium is still buried underground.
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And for now, at least, iran has been able
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To shut down traffic in the strait of hormuz.
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Some u.s. troops are on the way.
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So do you think the
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Current plans include fixing both of those issues?
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Absolutely.
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If you look at the strait of hormuz,
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They don't have a navy.
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Anything they put out in mines has to be through small boats.
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We can track. that said, there is a thing called satellite.
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It makes it very difficult to travel around
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Without being identified and destroyed.
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I'd hate to be one of those guys
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Told to get in a boat and go play some land mines
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Or some sea mines out there with a bunch of destroyers
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And a carrier group,
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And now a marine expeditionary unit on the way.
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That's a bad for anybody.
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That's a suicide mission.
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We will take more and more rains, of this area.
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We'll have more and more international cooperation.
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The gas prices will come down as a result
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When we open up those, those lanes.
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And you have 20% of the oil reserves going through there.
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This this highlights also why it's so important to open
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That new refinery in texas for the light show.
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We always want to be self-reliant.
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The fact that we haven't,
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Enforced our own resources
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So that we never get in this situation as the united states,
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Is just highlight against.
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We've been so reactionary
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Instead of proactive and visionary.
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This is a it's actually a brilliant move long term for us.
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I know we're going to see a spike in the inflation and,
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Energy costs, but it will come back down in long term.
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It's going to be brilliant.
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Well, there have been some public concerns
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Between helping ukraine
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And now this, that our military has been seriously weakened.
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What's your sense of our readiness
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Now, especially with china
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Bulking up on their assets every month?
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Actually, we're getting better because we're ramping
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Up our ability to produce weaponry.
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We're modernizing.
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We're not relying on 155 rounds anymore with artillery pieces.
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We've learned, just like the russians have, what's effective?
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What's efficient?
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We're recreating the future.
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The the battle space.
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When when we talk about technologies, drone deliveries,
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You see that the big four are the only ones producing weapons.
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Now you have an annual now coming to the to the fray.
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And we're seeing a lot of other companies come up with
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Amazing new technologies delivering weapons
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Systems downrange.
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You never, never sleep on the american dream.
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And the ingenuity, the creativity.
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And, of course,
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The sheer ferocity, of the the input of of funds.
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I mean, think about we have $1 trillion budget
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Just for our military.
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That's the size of the the entire gdp
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Of a lot of countries.
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Especially once you get outside of the big five.
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I mean, we're killing it.
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We are still the big one on the block.
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And i think even china is, like, going,
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Wow, this is not a country we want to mess with.
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Well, one other quick question before we have to take a break.
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These new u.s.
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Drones, laser weapons and the other
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New fighting equipment the pentagon has.
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Have we seen the best of it, or what else might be out there
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That you're comfortable discussing publicly?
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That's a good question, right?
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I mean, i can only talk about what i, what i know,
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And of course, i actually avoid secret attacks.
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I have an idea.
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And once i have it confirmed, i can't talk about it.
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So it's better that i just talk about,
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From my perspective, what i know, what i observe.
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I will say that if you look at the future of technologies
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And even what's being,
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Shot overseas by ukraine, ukraine
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To get very good at anti-drone technology there,
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We actually can learn from them.
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Israel, the new technologies they've had in
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Detecting and countermeasures and,
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It's just amazing how many allies
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Are actually accelerating their war process as well.
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You can see nato actually stepping up,
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Committing to fiber. it used to be 2%.
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They were even reaching.
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Now the great majority are over 2%.
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You got some countries like corn that are actually higher gdp,
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Investment than we do.
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And they're taking this very seriously.
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It's good to have good allies and to work
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Synergistically in the future.
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And if we play this right, once again, think about this.
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In south america, chile is becoming more like us,
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Argentina. colombia has a really good shot.
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Venezuela obviously is changing.
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You're looking at central america
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Becoming more friendly and more, capitalistic.
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I think brazil has a really
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Good chance of going back to the bolsonaro family.
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Because i think lula has really been toxic
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To their environment.
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But look at the western hemisphere alone,
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Who is now isolated from venezuela and iran.
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You can see that regime flip in the next year.
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This is going to be
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Transformative to the future and to our prosperity.
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Ukraine.
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You mentioned top five country and resources internationally.
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That's $1 trillion investment.
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Coming back towards us on a small investment,
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Relatively speaking.
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And that will pay us for generations.
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Well, congressman mccormick, we need to take a short break.
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Can you stay with us for another segment?
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Of course.
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I'll be right back.
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I'll be right back.
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We're back now with congressman rich mccormick.
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He represents our neighbors to the south in georgia.
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Well, i'd like to turn from the war
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To another fight that you've addressed.
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It's the battle to have the best global ai infrastructure.
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I think it's a concern of both parties
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That we created a bandwidth to take advantage of what
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Ai is going to provide.
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You've been in a leadership position on this.
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So tell us where we are now, what's needed.
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And if china is ahead of us on this already.
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So i'll tell you what they have so far.
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And then i'll explain why we're actually doing
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A really good job of position ourselves into the future.
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Right now we have about 47% of all
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Ai developers are living in china right now.
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A lot of those people, we trained in our universities.
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We train usually about a quarter million
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Chinese students in our advanced educational system per year.
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That could go up to 600,000 if we're not careful.
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Those are going to be our competitors.
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They don't stay here in the united states.
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They go back and compete against us.
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They are 50% of all ai patents.
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That sounds very scary.
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But where the rubber meets the road,
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There's a really good book
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Called chip wars that explains that is not just the technology,
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But it's the applications, the processing
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To being able to build these small microprocessors,
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The advanced ai chips.
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We rule the world when it comes to that.
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We're very good at that.
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Most has done it at tsmc in taiwan.
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That's why that's really strategically important.
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Another 10% is done samsung in korea.
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But we've done a really good job
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Position ourselves with controlling
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The ability produces advanced chips.
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They're about two generations behind us right now.
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They also don't
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Have the production capability,
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Which is a fraction of what we can do.
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But the problem is we have an energy bottleneck.
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And in the united states, we have not done a good job
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Of preparing for the future because of this idea
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Of carbon colonization of our,
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Environment, which is false narrative.
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It's absolutely alarmist.
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And even people like bill gates have backed off of that.
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A lot of the, the more sage and scientific minds
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Have said, oh, yeah, we're
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We're just really overreacting to a narrative.
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It's not scientific.
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There's a really good book called, unsettled by koonin.
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Kogo and and, he's a democrat physicist
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Who was on obama's climate change control panel
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That talked about how they're not using science
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To warp the future.
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But if we don't get this energy
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Picture right, we will fall way behind.
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We need more nuclear reactors.
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Modular reactors.
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We need to open up a clean coal, everything on deck
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Because we fall behind on this will fall behind on everything.
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Ai is the most transformative technology of our lifetime,
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And if we don't get it right, we will lose this race.
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Well, i spoke earlier of how the president is doing
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Everything possible to keep us safe,
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Not just from iran's threats,
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But from the terrorist in this country.
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There was so many democrats
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Challenging everything the president tries to do.
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They've now put us at great risk.
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Listen to how senator ron johnson put it
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When he was asked about the holdup
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In funding the department of homeland security.
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It's unconscionable what democrats are doing,
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Where we obviously have a heightened threat level here
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Because of what's happening in iran.
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The fact that they let in ten,
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It probably somewhere around 10 million
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People fled this country illegally.
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We have no idea who these people are.
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They're iranian sleeper cells.
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Now, it was a strategic blunder from my standpoint
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For republicans
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Not to insist that we fund dhs
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When we were funding other democrat priorities.
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Now democrats want to do the same thing.
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They want to fund their priorities in dhs budget
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And not fund, cbp and ice, the agencies.
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We need to keep our borders secure.
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What's been more than a month,
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And there's still no visible progress.
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Is there something we're missing?
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I'm not missing the long, lines at the airport,
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That's for sure.
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Pretty soon, this coast guard not getting paid.
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And tsa agents are going to continue
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To find other jobs because they don't like this,
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Especially when they're weaponizing it
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Every single year.
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This is going to come to a head for sure.
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We have some bills that basically say
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They can't do that anymore.
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I don't think anybody wants
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To see the military or the coast guard or anything
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That's going to keep us safe as americans, defunded
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As a weapon, especially during times of war.
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This is ridiculous.
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I need
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I need to indicate continue to put pressure on them
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By making them both over and over again.
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Hey, i dare you vote against funding tsa.
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Vote against the coast guard.
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Let's do it every single week.
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Don't give it time for them to go home
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And actually take a break. don't let them travel.
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Make them pay the price
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That all the other americans are paying.
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Make them vote.
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Make them hear from their constituents.
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Hear from americans.
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Make them come to the board.
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Highlight this over and over and over again.
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Make this a talk of him.
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Please, mr. kent, make this happen.
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Well, tsa says they may have to start
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Shutting down some airports soon.
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Does the democratic leaders really think
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Putting americans in danger and slowing down
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Travel is going to help them in the midterms this fall?
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They think their leverage is in the immigration policy.
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I think they missed the mark.
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I get it why some people would think
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We've gone overboard on immigration.
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And i get some of those extreme cases.
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But by and large, the majority of people
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Want to see that southern border shut down.
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They want criminals out of america.
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They want people who are stealing money.
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By the billions upon billions of dollars out of this country.
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And even that includes people, by the way,
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Who come here illegally, who are stealing money.
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You break the laws, you pay the price.
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It's a ridiculous statement to think that anybody else,
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Other than the french.
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Thanks against that policy.
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Well, finally, before we run out of time,
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I haven't yet mentioned that on top of all your other work.
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You're also a doctor.
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So i'd like to ask
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If you're pleased that the nation's health
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Is finally getting some real attention,
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Given the president's support of bobby kennedy
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And a lot of what he's working on.
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I think self-determination is really important as need.
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Our doctor.
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A lot of things that i was criticized for during covid era.
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The things i was censored for during covid.
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I tried to be right scientifically.
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It's time to give back medicine to doctors and their patients.
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To allow people to self-determined
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To to allow people to actually have evidence that
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That's not just one sided.
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Everybody's like, oh, kenny,
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He he doesn't believe in vaccinations.
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He doesn't believe in this or that.
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No, he's
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Actually just trying to get a well-rounded approach
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To medicine that allows people to live healthier lifestyles.
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It's not based on a drug and a stick,
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And that you're not vaccinated
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For everything that you'll never be exposed to
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And have hyper immune responses.
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This is actually having balanced
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Science rather than one side of science.
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Once again, just like the climate controlled change kooks,
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Who don't want to hear the reality,
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They just want to hear what their itching ears want to hear.
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And we're tired of it. we want real discussions.
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We want people to have,
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Discussions with their health care provider.
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That's very healthy.
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We got a long ways to go in health care, though.
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The most expensive thing in america, by far.
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Well, congressman
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Mccormick, thank you for joining us today.
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It's absolutely my pleasure.
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God bless you.
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God bless the united states.
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And semper fidelis. amen.
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Stop by our studio here in nashville
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On your way to georgia some time.
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We'll do this again on set.
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I appreciate you. thanks so much.
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When we come back, your emails,
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I'll answer as many as i can before the clock runs out.
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I'll be right back.
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I'll be right back.
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Thank you for taking the time
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To send your emails, your thoughts and questions.
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They're always a highlight.
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Jerry s emailed from florida.
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All of your programs are great.
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The one last night with jonathan
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Gilliam had information and possibly
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A good future protocol for police work at night.
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All 53 votes against funding for dhs must be from individuals
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Who are totally ignorant of radical muslim sleeper cells
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Present amongst us, resulting from open borders.
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Well, i don't think ignorance in congress is a new thing,
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But it's tragic when we see them making selfish choices
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That make the public at greater risk.
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We got to pray that changes
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And make some choices that are better.
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Esther beatty from arkansas wrote in i saw that
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The university students are against the iran war.
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Does that mean that while they live in freedom,
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They want the kids in iran to continue living in tyranny?
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Well, it could mean that i also think
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It means our propaganda centers that are masquerading
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As universities are still functioning too well.
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We've got to bring some changes to education.
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I see some beginnings of that.
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Let's pray that the momentum of that continues to grow.
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And then kima from decatur, georgia.
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I enjoy watching your show every day.
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I especially like the way you keep talk.
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You talk about telling the truth.
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I feel the need to point out something
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That is not exactly true,
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And that is the way
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Everyone keeps referring to our country as a democracy.
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The truth is that democracies mob rule in our country
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Is actually a representative republic.
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As i watch news coverage of a protest of something,
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I heard a reporter say, this is what democracy looks like.
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Well, they're correct
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Because they are showing us what mob rule looks like.
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Jim, it's a great observation.
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Our founders had the wisdom
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To put a system in, to be sure that every person's vote
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Would matter, and we still benefit from that.
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I pray we have the courage to do the work
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That's necessary to maintain our republic.
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We will see.
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Just a reminder if you ever miss a live episode,
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You can always go to aj now.com.
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There's a full archive of the programs there.
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You can watch them at your leisure.
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You can share them with the friend.
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The more you do, the more the watch.
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Better for everybody.
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Thank you for spending a few moments with us
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And i pray you have a good evening.
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Alen Jackson: War Assessment | Allen Jackson Now

March 17, 2026 | 22:12

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