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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: Campus Security | Allen Jackson Now | September 2, 2025

Well, good evening and welcome to nashville.
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I'm alan jackson.
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I'd like to start this evening with a question.
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Why do we hear the same debate in the wake of school shootings?
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And then very little ever gets done.
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The headlines fade, and the country's focus moves on
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To other things until the cycle begins again.
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Well, tonight
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We have a guest who's trying to do something about it.
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He's had real life experience
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Creating a safer place for people of all ages,
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Including in our schools, churches, shopping malls,
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Subway system, sporting events, and a whole lot more.
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I'll introduce him in a moment,
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But i want to begin with what's at the root of the problem.
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Now to mitt.
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To many of us, don't pay attention enough
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Attention, it seems to me, to where the answer really lies.
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It's not political, and it's certainly not coming
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From someone who struggled to tell the public the truth.
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It's spiritual, and it's rooted in the foundation of scripture.
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Joe biden's former spokesperson, jen psaki
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She may think it's okay
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To blow off the thoughts and prayers
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In the wake of the nightmare in minneapolis.
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It's not.
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Sadly for her,
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She doesn't realize that until we have a collective
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Transformation of the heart,
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We'll continue to have these troubles.
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Of course, we can do a lot around the edges.
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We can harness the best ideas.
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We can find the wherewithal to make the country a safer place.
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But all of that follows what we need to do first.
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So now let me introduce our guest tonight.
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He served in the new york city
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Police department when rudy giuliani was mayor.
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And the city was safe and clean.
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Well, he's now a national security analyst.
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John cardillo, welcome to our program.
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Very good to be with you, pastor.
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Thanks for the invite.
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Well, we're delighted to have the time with you.
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Let's start with something that worked
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That you were part of firsthand when mayor giuliani decided
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That he was going to clean up new york city
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And make it a great destination for everyone.
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What tools did he give you and what really worked?
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You know, and that's such a great question
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And such a great question.
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Open with
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And why it's so frustrating to those of us who work there
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Is because of the word you used, the tools he gave us.
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So the words you used,
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We know as you and i sit here having this conversation,
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Exactly what to do to make cities safer.
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And unfortunately,
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Left wing governor and ten blue cities won't do it.
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So the first thing that rudy giuliani did was we implemented
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Something called the broken windows strategy of policing.
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And it was a pretty simple concept.
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If you fix broken windows, if you take graffiti
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Off of buildings, if you start writing summonses
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And making misdemeanor arrests
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For those basic quality of life crimes, the city looks nicer.
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People have a renewed sense of pride in their neighborhoods,
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And that trickled down to a more permissive attitude
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Towards the police arresting for more serious crimes.
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We started to get more buy in from the communities,
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More help with regards to people giving us information
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On the bad guys committing the more violent crimes.
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It was so effective that people think back then
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We saw the difference in 6 or 7 months, a year or two years.
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Now we saw the difference in two weeks.
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Rudy giuliani was inaugurated in january of of 1994.
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David dinkins, the prior mayor, was much like the big city.
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Mayors today in chicago, in baltimore and d.c.,
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Turned a blind eye to crime, made everything about race.
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But when giuliani was inaugurated,
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The bad guys started to realize
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Very quickly things were different.
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And the other thing giuliani did, he was a brilliant u.s.
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Attorney.
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Prior to becoming mayor of new york
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In the new york city police department.
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We would get legal bulletins every day.
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And these ran the gamut from major policy initiatives
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To things we couldn't and could do on the street.
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Giuliani reviewed
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Those personally and wrote some of them.
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So we had one of the best
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Prosecutors in america now telling us,
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You can absolutely do this.
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It's constitutional, it's lawful,
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And it's a great tool in your toolbox.
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So when you combine all of those things,
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But most importantly, a proactive administration
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And district attorneys willing to prosecute.
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We had what we needed to make the city safer.
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So we know the roadmap.
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We know the blueprint.
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The frustration is the democrat mayors just won't
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Deploy these strategies.
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Well, isn't it true that while it took more money
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To put more police out on the streets and more money
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For the better cars and equipment,
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That that investment more than paid for itself
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By lighting up the city
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For people and businesses to feel safer?
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Absolutely.
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You know, i've always said on air,
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Whether i was hosting my own shows
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Or when i was doing that
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Or doing appearances on shows like yours.
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Commerce and public safety are mutually inclusive.
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You cannot have effective commerce,
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Effective tourism, effective retail, business to business
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Unless you have safe cities and safe communities.
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They go hand in hand.
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So absolutely, when you reduce crime,
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You stimulate the city's economy.
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You stimulate the city's tourism base.
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We're going in reverse right now.
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It's absolutely horrible what's being done to these cities.
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But you live in florida now,
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And you've worked with parents who lost children
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In one of the deadliest school shootings in history,
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The one in parkland where 17 people were killed.
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So you've studied the
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Issues of how to keep the places we gather and more safe.
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Tell us what's worked at that level
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And what can be done to protect our children now?
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Yeah.
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So two of my very good friends are andy
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Pollack and ryan petty and both lost children,
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In the stoneman douglas shooting,
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The name of the school was marjory
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Stoneman douglas in parkland, florida.
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It's about 25 minutes northwest of downtown fort lauderdale.
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And, both of those guys
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Did something that drove the left nuts along.
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They came out in vehement defense of the second amendment.
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Their position was if there were more armed personnel
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In these schools, and we saw the just the absolutely abysmal
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Response by the broward county sheriff's office that day.
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And i can go on we can do a whole show on that.
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But but fortunately,
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They've purged those people and there's new leadership.
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But they understood that, you know, police are reactive.
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I don't care
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If it's the quickest police response time in the history
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Of the united states of america.
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Someone still needs to call 911.
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They still need to get basic information.
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The dispatchers from the caller.
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They still need to get that information
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To the police dispatcher, who then needs to get it
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To the responding patrol officers.
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That takes time.
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Armed trained personnel in schools takes no time at all.
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And you know,
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So many law enforcement officers retire and become teachers.
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But because of these archaic and i think ridiculous policies
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In many schools,
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They cannot be armed in the classroom,
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Not think about how ludicrous that is for a moment, pastor,
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Somebody serves 30 years in a police department.
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They retire,
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And a few days later they take a job as a teacher.
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They're no longer allowed to be armed.
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A week prior, they could have been responding
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Armed to stop a school shooter
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In the very school in which they're teaching.
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But once they hand
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Those retirement papers in, they can no longer do that.
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Many states have reserve and auxiliary police officers
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Who are armed.
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You wouldn't know the difference if you saw them on the street.
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They teach.
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I've got a very close friend here in florida.
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He's a college professor and a deputy.
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But when he's in the classroom, he cannot be armed.
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And i think that is ludicrous.
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So i think we need more first responders in schools.
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But let's also give those military veterans,
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Those law enforcement veterans taking those jobs in retirement,
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The ability to be armed.
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And they'll gladly go through
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Training every six months, every year.
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But now we have trained military
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And law enforcement people in the buildings
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Who can stop these active shooters in real time.
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Again, we know how to do it.
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It's just very frustrating that many won't.
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John, if you had these conversations with politicians,
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How do they respond all the time?
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Yeah, yeah,
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All the time. and so predictably,
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The conservative ones are on board.
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I had this conversation with governor
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Desantis here in florida and the attorney general, meyer,
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A good friend of mine, they get it.
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But unfortunately, we have democrats and we have
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Very, i'll say, squishy republicans in our legislature
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Who are still listening to the teachers unions,
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One of the most radically far left institutions in america.
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And we can't get enough
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Legislative buy in to implement these policies.
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Well, john, there's a lot more security
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Questions i'd like to ask.
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Can you stay with us for another segment?
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Sure.
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Well, during the break, you can take a moment
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And go over to aj now.com and see what's available.
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If you'd like to send me your feedback on what we're doing.
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There's an easy way to do it right there.
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We'll be back in just a moment.
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We'll be back in just a moment.
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We're back now with security analyst
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And former member of the nypd, john cardillo.
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You know, we've
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Reported on the global attacks on christians and jews,
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Most recently a brutal attack in africa
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Where 40 people were killed. you know, in that case,
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The media did show up in the aftermath.
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In minneapolis, the pastor where last week's attack took place
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Addressed what his congregation is witnessing now.
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And that's kind of the strange mystery
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That in the most intense darkness,
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The light somehow seems to shine even more brightly.
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I mean, we see that here.
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It's been shining from you.
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It's been shining from our neighbors.
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You know, we know that you're an expert in security,
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But you also grew up in a christian family.
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So i want to ask for your reaction to jen
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Psaki statement that enough with the thoughts and prayers.
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She said, you know,
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You've witnessed situations like this shooting.
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So you know far better than miss psaki.
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The prayers make a difference.
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Oh, absolutely they do.
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You know, pastor, i,
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Was in shootings myself as a police officer.
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I was unfortunately in new york city on 911
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And the universal cries were for clergy.
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You know, after the first responders came
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And after the wounded or killed or carried away in ambulances
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Or hearses,
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The survivors, their families, always asked for clergy.
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And i think the democrats, jacob frey and,
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In minneapolis and jen psaki
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Not only offended most of america,
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But a major portion of their base.
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I was looking at the social
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Media chatter after those statements,
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And universally people were just telling them,
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Okay, that's a bridge too far.
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You've gone too far.
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I mean, i went to catholic school for 12 years.
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A lot of democrats, a lot of families.
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But those people are our staunch churchgoers.
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Every sunday and in prayer is a big part of their life.
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And i think what that statement by psaki and fry was, was
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It was reprehensible, quite candidly.
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We've just been through four tough years of the biden
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White house, letting gangs and criminals
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From across the globe wander freely in our country.
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Tom holm was doing a wonderful job,
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But he says it might
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Take ten years to get the country cleaned up.
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Is it that big a mess that we're dealing with?
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Yeah, it is, and it's simple math.
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And this is not an indictment of president trump or tom homan.
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Quite the contrary.
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They're doing a tremendous job with the resources at hand.
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But it's basic numbers.
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As you and i sit here, we've got about 750,000
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Law enforcement personnel in the united states of america
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Looking for about 22 million illegal aliens,
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And that's probably a conservative number.
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Now, that's 750,000 all in.
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Right?
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That means patrol officers
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Would never respond to another robbery.
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Dea would never interdict another kilo of cocaine.
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And what most americans don't know
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Is that right now, pretty much every federal agent
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Has what's called title eight authority.
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There now have the authority to conduct immigration exercises
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And immigration investigations or apprehensions.
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Every federal agent i have a friend who lives
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And my neighborhood is dea.
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Every other month
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He's detailed for 30 days to do only immigration.
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He steps away from his role as a drug enforcement
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Agent and steps into his role as immigration enforcement.
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So we're doing the best we can,
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But we just simply don't have enough law enforcement officers
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In this country.
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And it would be very difficult to hire more
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Because we have a robust law enforcement infrastructure.
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The democrats have let the
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Illegal alien problem get so out of hand
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That i tend to agree with time home,
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And it's going to be a multi-year process.
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Well, washington, d.c.
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Has certainly changed in a hurry
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With the national guard supplementing the police.
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Is that a model we should use for other cities?
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Even when the democratic mayors object?
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Yeah. excuse me.
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Absolutely. i mean, the proof is in the pudding.
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People are now walking around d.c.,
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Friends of mine from the media who, you know, with text,
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We be on text groups and they'd say, oh,
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I don't even walk out when it gets dusky in d.c.
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Now they're posting, walking around at night.
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Now it's one of the safest cities in america.
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And we know this.
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Back in new york city in the 90s,
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An increased law enforcement presence,
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Things like directed patrol where you have a high crime area
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And you just saturate that area with with police officers
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On foot posts like you see the national guard soldiers
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Standing there, they're they're they're a presence.
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And bad guys think twice.
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So i think that model should be replicated around the country.
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I mean, it's preposterous.
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The mayor of chicago says he doesn't need that help.
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Well, they had seven homicides and almost 55 people shot over
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Labor day weekend. so that model. absolutely. yes.
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I think it should be replicated throughout the nation.
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When your colleagues in the force have not had
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The support they need for years now, many have quit.
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But with law enforcement getting the respect
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Of the white house these days, could things
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Turn around to the point where more people
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Who care to keep our community safe will decide to join?
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I mean, i hope so,
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But again, it's going to be it's going to come down
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To the big city electeds the blue city.
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Electeds i mean, we have so many police
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Officers from cities like new york, chicago,
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Places in new jersey fleeing to florida
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Because the state of florida
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Gives them a $5,000 signing bonus
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If they take a law enforcement job here
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And they're treated much,
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Much better by the agencies
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And by the state and local government.
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So i truly hope they do.
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But it's going to be up
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To the electeds in those cities to cultivate the environment
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That all that, all attract high caliber,
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High caliber of person applying for those law enforcement jobs.
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Well, john, if i understand what you're saying,
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Crime and criminals haven't changed.
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It's a leadership issue.
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And when leadership has the will to do something about crime,
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It can be done and our cities can be safe again.
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100%.
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And it's like i said, pastor,
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It could be a two week to one month fix.
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This is not a heavy lift.
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We have the blueprint. we have the architecture.
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Well, john cardillo, thank you for your time today
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And for sharing your expertise with our viewers.
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Keep us posted.
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When you see something new, something encouraging
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We should know about.
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We'll do.
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Thanks very much. pleasure to be with you.
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In a moment, the hope that exists in all of us.
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I'll be right back.
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I'll be right back.
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You know, i don't think it's any secret
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That we're a nation in need of healing.
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But the way that happens, it begins in our hearts
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As we turn our hearts to the lord and we choose him.
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Then we see those expressions of his power,
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His mercy, and his alignment coming into our lives,
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Which then gets reflected in broader ways
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Into our communities, our states,
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And ultimately into our nation.
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It is not fundamentally a political change we need.
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It's a hard change,
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And i believe that
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The prayers of god's people can change the destiny of a life
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Of a family, even impact a nation.
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Now, some of us get a little tense when we get asked,
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Do you believe in prayer or medicine?
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My answer is always the same yes.
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Do you believe in prayer or taking steps
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To protect ourselves from physical threats? yes.
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You see, it's not an either or proposition.
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But if we fail to invite god in, we forfeit
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Whatever he might do.
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Every morning there's a group who meets at our church to pray.
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I can write a book about all the things
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That they have seen accomplished through their time in prayer.
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People who've lived lives far from
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God have come to meaningful relationships of faith.
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People have had families restored.
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They've seen physical healings.
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Desperate situations have been resolved.
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Projects and programs in our church.
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We get good outcomes because they're always covered
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In the prayers of people in this community.
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They take prayer as seriously as anyone i've ever known
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Because they know it works.
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The early believers knew the power of prayer, too,
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Even though the rulers at that time
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Had tried to shut them down.
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They prayed for god to act and he did.
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I want to suggest that prayer
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Become a regular part of your day.
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I hope you'll learn to pray with all the resolve
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Of a warrior walking onto a battlefield.
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I hope you value prayer in a new way as a fragrant
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Offering to the lord.
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And when the lord answers your prayers,
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Take time to say thank you.
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We all appreciate that
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And it'll bring good things to your life.
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If we'll pray more reasons for hope than despair.
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Promise.
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We'll be right back with your emails.
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We'll be right back with your emails.
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Thank you for spending a few minutes of your day with us.
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If you ever miss an episode live,
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You can always go to aj now, dot com.
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There's a full archive there.
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You can watch them at your leisure.
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Easy to share with a friend.
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The more the merrier.
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Thanks for your emails are always a highlight.
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Kristen commented on the episode with george. see?
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Always good to hear.
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Was good news for my fellow texan george c.
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Greatly appreciate george's economic wise counsel.
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He explains it concisely
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And creates a calmness for those of us without an mba.
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Well, kristen, tennessee and texas
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Have been working together for a long time.
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I agree, i appreciate george's help.
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Kristen in pennsylvania emailed.
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Wow, what an informative program with congressional
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Representative davidson from ohio.
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Kudos to you for being so well-informed,
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But the info revealed tonight is mind boggling.
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Please keep these topics in the front of the public's eyes.
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Thank you for your research team.
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Lots of revelatory information in tonight's episode.
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Well, kristen, i discovered something.
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I don't have to be clever.
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I just need smart friends and the team here at aj now.
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A lot smarter than i am.
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J.w. nelson from colorado remarked,
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You're a great example for the rest of us
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Of what it means to be bold outside of the church walls.
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Looking at you, some of your messages
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When truth is so hard to come by in our current culture.
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I'm reminded of the great author c.s.
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Lewis for an excerpt from mere christianity.
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If it's truth you seek, in the end you may find comfort.
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However, if it's comfort you seek, in the end
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You'll find neither comfort or truth.
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Only soft soap. wishful thinking.
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I believe jesus came to testify to the truth.
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Well, j.w., i agree with you.
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It's time for us to choose the truth.
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You know,
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The truth is being presented in the public square
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In a way that we haven't seen for decades.
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Now we have to care enough
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To pay attention and choose to believe it,
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And then act upon that truth.
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The point of truth being revealed is able
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To enable us to change our behaviors.
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It's not just snack food
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That we can watch and then go on our merry way.
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We're in a season
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Where an opportunity for change is being presented to us.
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I pray we'll accept it.
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Laura
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And jay wrote in i started with you in mid-january.
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In matthew,
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I finished the new testament and old testament,
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And i am back in matthew and continuing. wow.
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If you haven't joined us in our bible reading plan,
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Let me give you a personal invitation.
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You just go to the apps or the websites.
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There's daily portions with about a 15 minute
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Investment of time every day.
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We can read through the entire bible in a year.
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You'll get to know something of the character of god,
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What god is doing in the earth,
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How to understand and interpret what is happening.
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You won't understand everything you read.
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I don't understand everything i read or hear in the news,
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But i keep reading and watching. i want to learn.
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Join us in reading your bible and change your life.
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Well, again, thank you for spending some time with us.
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I'm alan jackson and you have a wonderful evening.
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