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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: Dangerous Rhetoric | Allen Jackson Now | December 15, 2025

Good evening and welcome to nashville.
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I'm alan jackson.
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There was a famous tv show that ran for almost 40 years.
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It was called truth or consequences.
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It was so popular that a town in new mexico changed its name
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From hot springs to truth or consequences,
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And it's still called that today.
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They have spaceport america there, hot springs,
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State parks and museums.
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The locals say it's quirky and a relaxing town.
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Now, i'm not really trying to be funny,
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But i wonder where their residents get their news
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Because the rest of the country is now suffering with the truth
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And the consequences
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Of some absolutely false
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Information about what's going on in the world these days.
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It's a byproduct of tds trump derangement syndrome.
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Tds is what reporters used to help drive business.
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And they have a willing partner among liberal politicians
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Who think they should change the direction of the country
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Back to what it was like under joe biden.
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Well, the question is,
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What are the consequences
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When so many people are deliberately misled?
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What does that do to our country when the truth gets buried
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In a daily dose of made up narratives?
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Well, for that, we've brought back
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Our contact who has a full time eye on the media.
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He's the president and executive editor of the daily signal.
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Rob, bluey, welcome back to the show, sir.
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Alan, it's good to be with you.
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And thanks for covering this back.
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I mean, 2025 has certainly had its ups
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And downs with the media landscape, that's for sure.
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Absolutely.
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You know, we're witnessing
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An increasing level of violence around the country,
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And it's exacerbated by the noise
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That's replaced the truth among people
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Who don't have any way to sort out real from fake.
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It's getting worse, it seems to me.
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Am i correct?
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Well, yes.
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And what we have seen consistently change over
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The course of the years is social media has become
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The dominant source.
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The majority of americans
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Now get their news from social media
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As opposed to traditional sources of news.
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And as you just indicated, sometimes it's hard for
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The american people to decipher what is true and what is fake.
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And particularly in the age of ai,
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When it's so easy for anybody to create content
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And manipulate content in a way
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That serves their agenda and not necessarily the truth.
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Yes, i think that everyone should have a more skeptical eye
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On everything that they're seeing.
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Well, two men were just arrested for posting threats
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About a high government official at homeland security.
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Hardly a week goes by without similar discoveries.
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There are laws against inciting lawlessness.
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It's not much of a leap to assume
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That the consequence of peddling
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Lies can have dangerous repercussions.
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What are you seeing?
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Well, yes.
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And we have seen obviously tragic consequences play out.
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Certainly this year,
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The assassination of charlie kirk in utah, the attempted
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Assassinations against president trump previously.
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And i could go on with, with numerous instances
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Where individuals have carried things
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To the extreme, in part because i think the information
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That they were being fed online, where they were radicalized,
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Based on the information that was shared,
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With communities that they belong to.
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And so it's something that i think we do need to be aware of.
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There is a responsibility that the news media has
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When it comes to reporting the truth.
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And too often there may be a kernel of truth
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In some of the things that they're reporting,
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But they slanted in a way that, as you indicated,
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It does reveal a certain case of trump derangement syndrome.
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And we can go back and look at numerous instances
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In a number of different news cycles over the course of 2025,
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Where the media carried this to an extreme,
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And there was certainly unfairness
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On the part of their behalf when it came to covering donald
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Trump versus what his predecessors had done.
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For instance,
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Let me take the situation in off the coast of venezuela,
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Where he's targeting these narco terrorists.
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Barack obama for years, spent, spent time using drones
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In the middle east to target individuals and,
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As part of his, anti-terror campaign.
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Where was the scrutiny
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And the questions from the news media back then?
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And so i think it just
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Goes to show the double standard that the media often employs.
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Well, the government
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Accountability institute has reported in great detail
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The links between the ice protesters
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And several organizations funded by george soros.
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But none of that is reported in the legacy liberal media.
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They prefer
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Showcasing stories like this that better fit their narrative.
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Listen to what they said.
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Our police officers will not coordinate with ice
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Or any federal agency around immigration law enforcement
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Work. why?
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Because we've seen the unconstitutionality of it.
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We've seen the chaotic nature that it creates.
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We know
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That it breaks apart families that make minneapolis better.
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And we want nothing to do with it.
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You know,
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I have no sense that the people of minnesota
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Are happy about the immigrants
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From somalia living off the taxes they pay
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Or putting up with the crime. do you?
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Well, and this particular story.
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Thank you for playing that clip, because
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I think it's revealing for for your viewers to see exactly
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What is playing out in some of these cities.
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There wasn't a time a long ago, too long ago, where you were,
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Regardless of whether you are republican, democrat
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Or whether you were, in the news media,
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Maybe you sided with the left or the right,
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Where you had a fundamental understanding of what
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It meant to be an american
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And certain responsibilities that came with that.
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Now, particularly if you're an immigrant,
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Illegal immigrant to this country,
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Assimilation was kind of a given, right?
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You were going to be part of this great melting pot and, and,
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You know, aspire to live out the american dream and,
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And cherish the values that our country still holds dear.
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The bill of rights and the constitution
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And all those freedoms that we we enjoy.
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And that doesn't seem to be the case.
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Now you have immigrants who come to the country and,
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Abuse the laws.
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In the case of the somali community,
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Apparently steal taxpayer dollars and use them for,
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You know, devious purposes.
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So there's all sorts of issues that are at play.
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And what i find most frustrating
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When it comes to the media angle of this,
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We expect the news media to be the ones who are doing
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The investigative reporting, breaking the news,
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Holding the powerful accountable.
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It seems that they're only interested oftentimes in
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Holding one person accountable or one party accountable.
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And that happens to be donald trump
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Or those associated with him.
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Where is the scrutiny
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On some of the others who are responsible
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For some of this scandalous behavior?
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And that is an area where i think that the news media,
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If they really do want to recover in the perception
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That the american people have remembered
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Trust in the news media is at historic lows.
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Those are some of the steps that they can take
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To restore that credibility with their audience.
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That's an interesting point.
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Do you think they have
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Any real interest in recovering trust with the american people?
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It seems to me they talk down to the
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General population most of the time.
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Well, they do.
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Now, there have been periods
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Of time, i think, back to after president trump won in 2016.
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There was an effort.
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I don't know how sincere
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They were about it, where they said, wow,
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We really have lost touch with the american people.
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We have our elite bubbles in new york and los angeles
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And on the west coast and the east coast.
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We're going to actually send
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People out into american communities
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And help to better understand
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What issues are important to them,
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Why they voted for donald trump.
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I think it
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Lasted all of a few months, and then they grew tired of it
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And went back to their old ways of doing things.
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So no, i don't have a lot of hope
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That they're going to make changes or reforms.
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There are certain efforts.
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I mean, if you look at
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What's happened with paramount's acquisition of cbs,
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Bringing in somebody like barry weiss from the free press,
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To inject a little bit of change and maybe radical candor
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Into that organization.
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But and again, it remains to be seen as to
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Whether those effects
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Are short term in nature
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Or whether they'll have kind of long term
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Consequences and shift the direc
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How much of this
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Unbalanced so-called news is about driving business,
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And how much is because the writers and
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Producers are mostly liberal, or is it a combination of both?
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Oh, alan, i mean, i think a lot of it is about money.
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Sadly.
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I mean, these are for profit
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Corporations that oftentimes are looking
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At the bottom line and figuring out,
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How they can maximize their profits.
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And they know that controversy is often the thing that sells.
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Or the old saying in the news business, if it bleeds, it
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Leads.
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That's why you would see
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Those types of stories featured on the nightly news.
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And so there are historically has been a financial incentive
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To do the type of reporting and,
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And journalism that you often see.
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I think increasingly, though, what what has happened is
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And i attribute this primarily to the journalism schools
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At our country that are educating
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These next generation
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Of reporters and news anchors and producers
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And all the people who work in the news business.
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They are indoctrinated in college
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With a set of liberal ideas
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And come out more as activists than reporters.
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And that is a change that we've seen in the past.
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And so whereas in the past,
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You might have not even had somebody
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With a college degree
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Serving as a reporter for a newspaper today.
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That is just the basic expectation.
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And with that comes a certain set of biases.
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How long do you think these unbalanced outlets
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Can keep ignoring the truth and still stay in business?
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Well, there's
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Probably always going to be an audience for them.
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The interesting thing is,
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I think you will start to see some changes.
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Not only in terms of maybe the ownership, this,
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This debate over
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Who's going to want to own warner brothers, which obviously
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Would involve cnn,
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You know, is going to be an interesting one to watch.
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And whether or not there are broader reforms
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That might take place in the media landscape.
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I think that the other thing is, though,
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There are so many different places
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That journalists
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Who have an agenda can
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Go, look, just in the course of the past year,
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What has happened?
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Chuck todd,
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Who used to be the host of nbc's meet
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The press, is now running his own independent operation.
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So is don lemon from cnn.
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So is terry moran of abc.
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So these individuals who have made a name for themselves
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Now can take some of that audience
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That they may have cultivated as fans
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And communicate directly with them.
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And so i think that there probably always will be that,
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It's just a matter
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Of whether or not the broader american public
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Gives them the time and attention.
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Well, rob, we need to take a short break.
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Please standby for another segment.
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We'll be right back.
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We'll be right back.
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We're back now
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With the founder of the daily signal, rob louis.
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Bobby kennedy has proved to be another punching bag
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For the dishonest media.
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You know,
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I would think that good health would be a bipartisan matter,
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Including how kennedy is trying to demonstrate
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Genuine transparency on these important issues.
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You know, currently, he's sharing the internal fda reports
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On the deaths of young people from covid.
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Seems to me any normal person would think it's the right thing
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To put out for people to read.
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Do you agree?
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Oh, absolutely.
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I mean,
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I think that the american people deserve the transparency
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And some of the things that that he's trying to do
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At the department of health and human services.
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I think there are a couple of issues here.
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I mean,
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We have seen
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In our own experience at the daily signal
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That there are powerful interests
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That would prefer that the truth not come out.
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And they have obviously, a financial stake in that.
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We also know that
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A lot of media companies
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Rely on pharmaceutical companies for advertising,
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And so maybe they have less of an incentive to do
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The investigative reporting or those types of stories
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Than when it comes to kennedy specifically.
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I think that he's made certain promises, both before
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He took the job as secretary and certainly as secretary,
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That he would make sure
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That he would try to get the truth out
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And get to the bottom
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Of some of these lingering questions
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That a lot of americans
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Have been asking for years, if not decades.
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And so this is an area
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Where i think the news media could come alongside
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Someone like secretary kennedy and serve to not only be
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A transparent source of information,
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But also ask some of those
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Tough questions that he's asking of his own
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Bureaucrats in the agency.
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What a wonderful idea to think about the media
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Cooperating with leadership to make america a better place.
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We can make that.
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I'll put that on our christmas list.
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Yes, it's a good idea.
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And healthier too. hopefully. yes.
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Well, another blank space in the legacy media
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Is the 100,000 deaths each year from illegal drugs.
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It's not reported,
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But there are any number of sympathetic stories
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On the colombian and venezuela fishermen,
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Who they said are afraid to go fishing too far out to sea.
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Given the u.s.
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Attacks on their drug boats, listen to this one
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Brand new explosive reporting today
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On how the pentagon is now struggling to deal
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With survivors of their boat strikes in the caribbean,
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A practice
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Which is already under intense scrutiny
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Because of the september 2nd strikes that killed
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Two survivors.
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Smith has a long history of defending actions
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That can be interpreted as war crimes,
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Or have been judged in military court to have been war crimes.
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Back when hegseth was a weekend
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Host at fox news during president trump's first term.
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He lobbied trump to pardon three u.s.
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Service members accused, convict
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Did you hear how the anchor calls
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The drug runners survivors?
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Shouldn't the news be on that?
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That the war on drugs is actually working
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And american lives are being saved?
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I would hope so.
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It's staggering.
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When you look at some of the numbers.
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Since 1999, over a million americans have died
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As a result of drug overdoses, a variety of drugs,
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Obviously fentanyl being one of the leading causes.
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And of course, president trump has decided to make this
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A priority of his administration,
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And rightly so,
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Because i think he's heard from some of the families
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Who have been personally affected by these tragic deaths.
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I just happened to be at the pentagon recently
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With secretary haig,
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That the daily signal is one of the new organizations,
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New media organizations, this credentialed by the pentagon.
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So we've had an opportunity to engage with him directly
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And some others who are involved
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In this particular operation in south america.
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And i commend them for what they're trying to do.
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And i'm really disheartened
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That the news media has decided to frame it
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In this particular context.
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You brought up secretary kennedy in your last question.
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I think that there's anyone even more hated
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By the news media than secretary kennedy.
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It's probably war secretary pete.
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I mean, they have been out to get him from the very moment
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That president trump nominated him for the job.
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And regardless of of what happens,
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Whether it's the successful strikes in iran,
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Look at how the news media
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Treated him in the aftermath of that.
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Despite the overwhelming success of that operation,
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You know, as an outsider, it seems to me
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That the media is determined to take down
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At least one of trump's cabinet members.
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So look that way from the inside.
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Oh, it certainly does.
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I mean, i think not a day goes
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By where it doesn't seem like that is part of the strategy
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On their part. but i have to say this.
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This administration, the second term seems to be much
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More stable, much more loyal to to donald trump.
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And i think he's learned some important lessons
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From that first term where there was some instability.
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Let's face it.
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I mean, the number of chief of staff that he had
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And susie wiles, i think it deserves
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A tremendous amount of credit
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For for bringing some structure and organization.
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And not only that, but making sure
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That the cabinet secretaries are disciplined
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And they're focused on the president's agenda
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And they're getting the job done.
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Well, there's another dangerous situation
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That the fake media is putting on the air.
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It's the scare tactics for people who are here
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Illegally, though not as criminals.
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You know,
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As you know, kristi noem has made clear
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That people who are here illegally
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Are welcome to get a free flight home, $1,000 in their pockets
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And instructions on how to apply for a real u.s.
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Citizenship in the years ahead.
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We don't hear much about that, but we do hear the scare stories
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That play into the narrative that democrats are for you.
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And republicans
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Are not that much surprise in that anymore, does it?
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It doesn't.
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I'm not particularly surprised
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By their approach to covering the illegal immigration story.
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We know that this is one of the issues that first propelled
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Donald trump to the white house back in 2016.
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It's one of the issues
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That animated his campaign in 2020 for the american people,
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Have seen the real life consequences
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Of illegal immigration on our country,
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Not only taking away american jobs,
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But the crime and the the chaos that has ensued
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In certain cities.
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And so i think that
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This administration, again,
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A promise they made to the american people,
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Which was crystal clear on the campaign trail,
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That they would not only allow for self-deportation,
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But if those chose, if those individuals
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Chose not to self-deport that they would figure out a way
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To remove them from the country.
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And that is exactly what they've gone about doing.
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And the news media,
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I think, consistently gets this wrong,
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And i think they are out of step with the american people.
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Because if you look at the
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Polling and what the american people
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Still want, despite all that negative attention,
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They're still on the side of president trump on this one.
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Well, rob louis, thank you for your time today.
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It is always helpful to hear your viewpoints.
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Alan, it was great to be with you.
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Next up, clear signs of hope.
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I'll be right back.
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I'll be right back.
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You know, it seems a bit bizarre.
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We're having a national debate about interrupting people
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Smuggling drugs into our country.
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The media and some elected leaders are actually unhappy
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Because we're stopping those illegal drugs from coming here.
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Hundreds of thousands of families have been devastated
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Because of overdoses with illegal drugs
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That were smuggled into our country over the years.
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And when that process is interrupted,
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People are completely losing their balance.
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And the legacy news media, they pick the topic.
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They're all too willing
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To join forces with elected officials
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Who oppose the current administration
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In order to propagate
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More fear and affect future election outcomes.
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They broadcast fear that ice will come
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Knocking on doors and drag away people who are here,
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Both legally and illegally.
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They broadcast fear that the administration
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Will continue to target drug boats,
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As if these high powered narco
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Vessels were simply fishing boats with innocent mariners.
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They broadcast fear that the economy is collapsing
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And that the current
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Administration has an affordability crisis.
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It comes as no surprise when the media is quick
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To discredit the fresh approaches made by our
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Administration and bobby kennedy toward better health care.
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You know, we can be angry.
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We can be angry at the media, angry at the politicians.
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We want them to be more truthful.
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We really don't have much influence over them.
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What we can choose
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Is that you and i can become people of the truth.
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Live the truth, choose the truth, tell the truth.
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If we will do that in our sphere of influence,
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I believe we might even see truth return
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To washington, d.c..
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And that would be a reason for hope.
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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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You can watch them at your leisure. makes them easy
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To share with a friend if you have a favorite.
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Velma from broken arrow, oklahoma.
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She's curious.
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What does alan
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Write down on his paper after every commercial segment?
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I can't tell you.
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It's a national secret.
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No. i usually make a note about the guest
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Or the segment that we just that preceded the break.
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In case i have to refer back to some of the questions
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Alice on facebook ask.
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I'm struggling with this.
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What does it look like to love your neighbor as yourself?
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Do everything to keep the peace.
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Not be judgmental, but stand up for truth.
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Alice.
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It sounds like your question was fashioned
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In one of our contemporary universities.
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I think a little clarity will help,
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You know, if we decide to love our neighbors as ourselves.
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When i think about myself, i want to know the truth.
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We need the truth in order to be healthy,
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Physically, emotionally, spiritually, in every way.
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And judgment doesn't mean criticism.
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Judgment is an evaluation of myself against a standard.
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And i think what we've rejected, or at least rebelled against,
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Is the notion that there is
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Any objective truth or any objective standard
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As christ followers, as people with a biblical worldview.
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Our standard for goodness, for godliness, for righteousness,
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Isn't subjective. to my opinion.
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It's given to me from the word of god.
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So judgment
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Is just an evaluation of how i'm doing against those standards
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That god has put out there for me.
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It's not criticism.
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It's an invitation and an opportunity
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For course correction
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So that i can live more fully in the blessings of god.
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If you'll use those qualifications,
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It gets a lot simpler to understand
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How to love your neighbor as yourself,
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To do everything, to keep the peace.
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And we don't. we're not judgmental.
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If you listen to the truth and follow it,
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Life does get simpler.
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Well, i'm alan jackson, and i pray
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You have a wonderful evening.
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