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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: April 11, 2025 | Allen Jackson Now | April 11, 2025

Good evening.
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I'm alan jackson, and welcome to nashville.
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It's hard to imagine that with all the massive global media
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That any sort of secret can be kept anymore,
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Everything seems to leak out
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Most often from the inside of our government.
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Yet we've all just lived through a period
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When our last president was barely functioning.
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And we're only now hearing the evidence.
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Now, looking back, those types of presidential weaknesses
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Didn't come out for many years, but the media was much smaller
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Then, and reporters weren't so focused on personal attacks.
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Franklin roosevelt
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Had a significant physical disability,
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Paralyzed from the waist down from polio,
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But it was almost entirely hidden from the american people.
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John f kennedy had multiple health conditions
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Addison's disease, chronic back pain.
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He wore a back brace. colitis.
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He was on painkillers, steroids and antibiotics.
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But again, it was carefully concealed from the public.
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Ronald reagan had his share as well.
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We all saw when he was shot in the chest,
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Puncturing his long, just missing his heart.
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He had a malignant polyp removed from his colon,
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Plus prostate surgery, skin cancers.
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But it was years after leaving office
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Before he addressed his alzheimer's.
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The media was
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Becoming slightly more intrusive by then, but
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By 2020, i would have thought there'd be no secrets.
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It wasn't until two new books came out before we learned
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The extent of joe biden's condition.
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It's frightening to think of what else could have happened
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During his four years in the white house.
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Iran with its nuclear program,
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Hamas in gaza, terrorist in the us from the open border.
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Russia, china, north korea as well.
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Another covid outbreak was certainly a possibility.
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The 20 million people, including terrorist,
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All wandered into our country.
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The national debt went up to $36 trillion.
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Now that it's public, biden's own staff is admitting
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That he often slept on the job,
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That he needed colored tape on the ground
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To follow directions, and certainly didn't sign
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A lot of what he supposedly agreed to.
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Using the auto signature to move forward,
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The most important job in the world.
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The man with his finger
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On the nuclear button running the most
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Important country in the world.
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And he was out of it by any standard.
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Admittedly, i thought that could never
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Happen in this day and age, but it did.
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Well, joining us again tonight, the co-founder
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Of south and hill strategies, colin reed.
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Welcome back sir.
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Alan, it's great to be here.
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Thank you for having me.
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Well, colin, for all the physical trouble
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That roosevelt, kennedy and reagan had,
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Even with what we know now of their history,
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Their ailments were physical, not mental.
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Do you agree that we were lucky to make it through
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Without things
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Getting even worse than they did in the biden years?
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Oh, absolutely.
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And it's not as though
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Those four years were a walk in the park either.
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There was a lot of challenging things.
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When you look back
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Over the course of time that you wonder, all that
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Makes a little bit more sense.
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I mean, the withdrawal in afghanistan
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Is the immediate thing that comes to mind.
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And what a catastrophe that was.
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And all the broken promises along the way.
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The biden administration assuring us
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That inflation would be transitory.
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The border was secure, gas prices were low.
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Up and down we go.
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But look, here's the issue that i see, alan.
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We all saw everybody saw during that debate last june
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That there was the president and chief, the man
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With his finger on the button, the one capable of starting
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Nuclear war, was not capable of forming a sentence
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Or a coherent thought that was truly terrifying.
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And when we look back on it in time, it
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Wasn't, though, as though president biden stepped aside.
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He didn't do the right thing.
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He didn't say, i can't do this. i got to go.
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He was pushed aside.
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He was from marched out of the oval office.
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For all intents and purposes, by his own party.
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And he left his party up the creek without a paddle.
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And we saw what happened with vice president
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Kamala harris becoming the nominee just 100 days out.
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We saw the ineptitude that she demonstrated in that campaign.
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And they have yet to recover from that.
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And they shouldn't because at no point, alan, at no point
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Throughout this entire debacle has any significant
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Democratic members stood up and said, you know what?
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We were wrong.
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We lied. that was wrong.
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We're sorry.
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We recognize it. it's time to move on.
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America is a forgiving nation,
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But you got to be willing to take that
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First step and say, i'm sorry
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Before people will move on from it.
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So all along, the biden staff had a tight lid on
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What was going on
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Until the party panicked after a debate with trump.
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But with the
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Thought of losing power, they put up his vice president.
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It wasn't even close to ready.
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Now you live and work around washington.
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Did you or your colleagues have any idea
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How much was being concealed in real time?
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Well, it was kind of an open joke,
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To be honest, amongst some reporters
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That president biden
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Had good days and bad days and you think, okay, well,
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The most important person in the world
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Should be having good days and bad days.
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They should have only good days.
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And the other thing i remember, because i was here
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For the debate, happened in late june.
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President biden got out 3 or 4 sundays later.
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There was a period of time that passed from the debate
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To when he got out.
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And during that time, he was doing
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Everything he could to cling to power.
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And the interesting things that we've learned
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From some of these books, if they're to be believed,
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Are that during that time period,
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Both joe biden and barack obama agreed on one thing.
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They agreed that kamala harris would not be the next president
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Because she couldn't be trump.
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Where they disagreed was president biden
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Thought he could remain commander in chief barack obama.
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If you believe this, reporting didn't.
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And it remains to be seen
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If they were going to have some sort of open primary,
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If they were going to have a spirited contest.
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Of course, at that point in time,
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President trump had shown up the republican party nomination.
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He was getting shot in a field in pennsylvania
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And surviving an assassination attempt of time.
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So the two parties were just moving in opposite directions.
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But had it been a little bit of a different.
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First of all, had the debate that we,
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President biden, occurred in september or october
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When presidential debates first start
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Usually occur as opposed to june,
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They wouldn't have any choice.
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They would have nominated president biden already
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And he would be unable to replace him.
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So when you look back at it,
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When we look back at this period in time, that decision
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By the biden campaign to have that debate so early on,
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It sealed his fate and for the good of the country,
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Thank goodness,
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Because otherwise, you know, who knows
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What would have happened in terms of,
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His ability to to continue to, to run.
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Well,
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Now, the democratic party searching for someone new there.
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No one seems to be ready to take the lead.
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No new policy ideas have emerged
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Other than to push back on trump.
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Former president obama says progressives
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Need to sacrifice and to pay a price.
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Listen to how he put it.
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It has been easy during most of our lifetimes,
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To say you are a progressive or say
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You are for social justice, or say you're for
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Free speech
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And not have to pay a price for it.
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And now we're at one of those moments where, you know what?
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It's it's not enough just to say you're for something.
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You may actually have to
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Do something and possibly sacrifice.
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So he did something similar during the campaign,
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Lecturing black men to get out and vote.
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And i'm even hearing some democrats
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Saying that he's in no position to tell others to pay a price
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When he's getting half $1 million for a speech.
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And he owns several homes from hawaii to martha's vineyard,
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$30 million worth of real estate.
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Should he be lecturing the rest of us?
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Well, this is the guy who ran on the campaign
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Slogan of yes, we can promise and bring us all together.
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And during his presidency,
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The country only drifted further apart.
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There are two extreme camps where they're at right now.
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But look, the fact that former president obama or former
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President, vice president harris,
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When they go out there and make news,
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It becomes such a sensation
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That everybody's talking about
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It speaks to the complete
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Lack of talent, the complete empty bench
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On the democratic side.
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And yet no one has been able to stand up and fill that void.
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You know, bernie sanders is out there.
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He's almost 90 years old, practically.
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He's the one who generates headlines.
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It's all voices from yesteryear.
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No one has been able to pick up the mantle
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And offer a compelling vision forward.
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And the thing is, the democratic party
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Is going to have to learn the republican party.
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We took our medicine a few years ago during the obama years.
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You have to be for something.
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It's not good enough just to be against everything,
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Because the american people are willing
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To give the person in charge the benefit of the doubt.
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For the most part, at least, they're trying to do something.
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Maybe everyone doesn't agree with it.
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Maybe big parts of the country think it's the wrong thing.
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But when you have a decision between something and nothing,
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The american public is going to look for something,
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Especially when the challenges
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We face in this period are so uncertain.
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And it calls for decisive leadership
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And just being the reflexive opposition
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That we see right now to this white house
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And everything president trump is going to do.
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The american public is looking for a little bit
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More than that from the opposition party.
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Well, colin, please stay with us for another segment.
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Later in the program,
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I'll share some thoughts on how we can see issues like these
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Through a biblical perspective.
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The truth that doesn't change.
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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 a political veteran
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And the co-founder of south and hill strategies, collin reed.
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Let's talk about the full court
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Press by president trump to strengthen our economy,
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Cutting billions of dollars of waste, keeping taxes low,
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Bringing business investments, and trying to level
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The global economic playing field.
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Just this week, dodge found 9700 people
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Whose birth dates are for another 15 years,
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And they were all claiming unemployment benefits.
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Already 69 million stolen dollars.
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But the savings successes have been drowned out
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By the financial markets reaction to the tariffs.
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Do you think he was moved to delay and focus mainly on china?
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Is the right way to go forward for now?
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Look, alan, you alluded to this in your intro here
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That the trump economic agenda is more than just just tariffs.
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And he's already done a lot to accomplish
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In just a very short amount of time, not even 100 days.
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Whether it's
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A deregulatory agenda overall
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To loosen some of this red tape that is just strangling
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Mom and pop shops across this country,
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The stuff that he's done on energy
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And the ability
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To really unleash american energy
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Independence and eat a lot of really bad policies
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To unwind from the biden presidency,
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Or whether it's getting tough on china
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And the need to ensure that they're playing
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By the same rules.
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Everybody else's tariffs got all the attention this week,
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And it was a it was obviously a fundamental reset.
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The president was attempting to implement.
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But i think in president trump's mind,
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He didn't get elected to do small incremental things.
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He got elected saying he was going to do big things
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To really fundamentally reshape this country.
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President trump for 40 plus years has been talking
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About the need for tariffs.
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He views it as a way to bring back
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American manufacturing jobs, to make us safer at home,
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To make us less reliant and hostile foreign actors.
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And now we're seeing that play out,
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With the tariffs that he's implemented
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On the communist chinese party.
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But the idea that a guy
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Who enjoyed great success in the private sector,
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Who ran based on his career as a successful businessman,
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Was going to stand by and let the american
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Economy careen into a recession.
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It just never made any sense.
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So the trump presidency, the trump
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Economic agenda, is more than just just tariffs.
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Tariffs are one part of the equation.
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But any way you slice and dice it, we're in better shape
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Than they were a couple of months ago
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Because of the totality of all the things he's doing.
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Well, i'd like to ask about the border.
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Trump has made a lot of progress rounding up some of the worst
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Gang members, tom homan and kristi noem.
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We're working 24 over seven at that.
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Both are making the case
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That without a border, we don't have a country.
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Listen to what they're saying.
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During one of my trips down to the border
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When i was still serving as governor,
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I remember one of our border patrol
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Officers and agents saying to me, listen,
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There's just no consequences for crossing our border
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And without consequences.
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There is no enforcement and there is no law.
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The law doesn't matter.
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And that impacted me in such a way that
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It affects every way that i do this job today.
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There has to be consequences for breaking our laws.
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You know, i don't think the president expects to get all
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20 million people who walked in during the biden years.
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But do you think he'll get bipartisan credit
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For making the country safer and slowing down the drug trade?
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95%, alan. 95%.
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That's a decrease
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In illegal border crossings from one year ago
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Under president biden to where we're at right now.
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And president trump and if you remember a year ago,
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When democratic politicians
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Or candidates would get asked about the border,
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They would always talk about
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Some sort of senate bill they needed to pass
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And where it was, it just sounded very insider.
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Turns out you don't need a new piece of legislation.
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You just need a new person in charge
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With a new vision and a new set of priorities.
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And it turns out that if, as president biden was doing,
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Your messages come on in,
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We're going to give you free resources.
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We're not going to punish you for breaking our laws
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And entering our country illegally.
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That isn't is an incentive and a magnet.
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President trump
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Has sent the exact opposite message,
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And the numbers speak for themselves.
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So will he get bipartisan credit?
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President trump was right when he said
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The state of the union that there's
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Nothing he could do that would earn the support,
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The praise, the democratic party.
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That's how hardened that's how dug in.
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That's how reflexively opposed they are to him.
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But he should.
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And promises made. promises kept on the border.
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It was one of.
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It was one of his key campaign
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For promises going back all the way to 2015.
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And it's one that he's can say credibly that he's achieved
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In less than 100 days into a second term.
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Well, the border in the economy
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Were the two big issues in the election.
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The president is aware that he's going to need
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To hold on to the house and the senate
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To keep moving his agenda forward,
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Especially given how tight the margins are now.
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The tv talking
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Heads are jacking up their ratings
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By taking shots at him every day.
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But if he makes the country safer
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And he makes the economy stronger.
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Isn't that the way to a midterm victory?
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Despite the noise we're hearing now,
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I know the midterms are still 18 months away,
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But that case is being made right now, isn't it?
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Yeah.
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Focusing like a laser on those who can
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Campaign promises and immigration.
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So that's that's that's box checked.
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Now he's got to figure out how to bring prices down.
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He's got to remember how to bring that pain
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Because inflation soared under the biden years.
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And president trump's right.
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It's not going to come down immediately overnight.
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But he needs to make sure that he shows tangible progress
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Over the next few few months and years.
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So you can point to the fact that prices did come down,
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Because that's what people will vote on.
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His energy agenda is a big part of that.
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Energy drives everything in this economy.
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When gas prices are high, everything is high.
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And really getting at that root cause and unleashing
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That american dominance, that's going to do a lot
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To tackle the root cause of inflation.
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And president trump knows that the team around him knows that.
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And they've already made great strides,
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With some of their executive orders,
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Undoing a lot of the mess and the malaise of the biden years.
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Well, colin reid, we really appreciate your insider's view.
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I hope you'll stay in touch.
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Thanks so much.
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I'd love to come back.
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Well, in a moment, some hopeful thoughts to help
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All of us move forward.
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All of us move forward.
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Fear is being broadcast
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Over the airwaves by the legacy news media.
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You pick the topic.
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The common thread is fear
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Terrorist for the nations of the world. nations
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Which have taken advantage of the american people.
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But according to the legacy media,
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It'll wipe out your retirement savings.
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The doge experiment is cutting waste and fraud
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And exposing the looting of america.
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Far too many have had their snouts
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In the trough, gaining wealth
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On the back of hard working people whom they despise.
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But according to the legacy
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Media, doge is an attack against americans,
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Whipping people into a frenzy, urging them to resist,
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Even if it means vandalizing teslas.
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The deportation of those who are here
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Illegally due to an open border policy
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That allowed millions to come in.
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I applaud the efforts to secure the border
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And to remove those who are here illegally.
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I would submit to you that citizenship is a privilege.
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It's not a right,
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And that the church of all places,
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Cannot afford
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To lose the distinction between legal and illegal.
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Don't be shamed
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Into giving away
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Your children's future to those who engaged in illegal choices
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And then demand benefits.
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It's not kindness.
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I would encourage you to not be deceived by the rhetoric.
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As christ followers,
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We'll have to have the courage
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To speak up for a biblical worldview.
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Or will we stay silent in fear?
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When covid happened,
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We learned that we can be
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Controlled by fear because of a virus.
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But i believe the only reason that was possible is because
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Long ago, we as believers began cowering in fear.
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Fear of being chastised by those
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Who were more politically correct.
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Fear of being penalized at work.
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Penalized socially or economically.
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You see,
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Fear is a tyrant, and there's no end
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To the sacrifices that fear will demand.
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We cannot submit.
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Begin to treat fear like the interloper it is.
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Speak to fear from a place of authority.
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Not your authority, but the kingdom authority.
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Let's decide to be obedient to the truth of god.
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I promise he's with you if we'll do that.
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There are more reasons for hope than despair.
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Every day
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We come back, we're going to read some of your emails.
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We come back, we're going to read some of your emails.
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Thank you for taking the time to send us
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Your emails, your thoughts and opinions.
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We always look forward to reading them.
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Patricia via email.
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Hello pastor, one of my favorite stories
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Girl growing up was the emperor's new clothes.
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These past few years in particular
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Have shown the truth of this children's story,
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But i found many people aren't familiar with it.
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You've mentioned it a couple of times on your show,
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And i wonder how many viewers might be scratching their heads.
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Not sure what you're referring to.
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I wonder if you could explain the story
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And then relate it to our current times.
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Well, i can try.
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Patricia.
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It was a short story by hans christian andersen
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Describing an emperor, and he had a tailor who was a fraud.
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He wanted a new suit of clothing
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For a parade or a presentation that was going to be made.
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And the tailor, who was a fraud,
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Didn't give him a new suit of clothes.
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He brought something that was completely invisible
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And told him it was the most beautiful thing he'd ever worn.
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So the emperor appeared in public with no clothes on,
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And everybody wanting the favor of the emperor
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Said they agreed.
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It was the most beautiful outfit he'd ever worn,
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Except for a small boy
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Who said the emperor is not wearing any clothes.
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And when the boy stated the obvious truth,
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It spread throughout the entire audience.
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We've been living with
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An emperor with no clothes, and it's time for all of us
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To begin to tell the truth.
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And i think it has to begin with the churches.
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Then finally, ed from dallas
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Commented on the ned ryan episode.
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He said, your show on 317
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About entitlements with guest ned ryan.
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I feel that many entitlement
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Programs should be renamed charities.
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Does an entitlement imply something that is earned?
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Well, i agree, we've got some confusing language.
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We are not entitled to charity.
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Charity is an expression of benevolence
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On behalf of the giver,
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And we've created large segments of our population
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That feel like
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They're entitled to resources that they didn't earn.
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That's wrong. that's stealing.
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And we have been promoting the wrong idea.
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It's time to make some changes from the ground up.
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It's a good comment.
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We are building a community of people in pursuit of the truth.
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And in this time in our nation, we need as many
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People as possible.
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So i have a request.
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Please tell a friend to join us live at 7 p.m.
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Eastern, 6 p.m.
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Central, or you can watch later in the evening on youtube,
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Especially those of you on the west coast.
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You may not be home from work in time for our live broadcast.
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Well, thank you for helping us spread the word.
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Truth matters.
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And when more people recognize the truth,
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Tell the truth and celebrate the truth, our hope will spread.
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I'm alan jackson, thank you for watching
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And please send us your thoughts by email.
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You have a good evening.
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