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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: December 10, 2024 | Allen Jackson Now | December 10, 2024
- Good evening, i'm alan jackson, and welcome to nashville.
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- It's said that time can heal.
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- And as we head into the season of christmas and a new year,
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- I've been wondering if the country is ready to heal
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- Just a bit
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- After such a long period of sharp edged political fights.
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- It was complicated by a lot of deep problems,
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- Several wars, financial stress at work and with families
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- Post-covid distrust and confusion.
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- Mixed messages from the media, some of it truthful, some of it
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- Deliberately driven simply to try to attract attention.
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- And there's more,
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- Such as parents who are disturbed
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- About what their children are doing on tiktok
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- And what china might be doing with those engagements.
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- Plus, the very public cases of sex changes
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- That allowed young men to play in women's sports.
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- It's not an easy thing to process or understand.
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- The flood of illegal immigrants who in some cases
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- Are trying to reunite with relatives already here,
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- And in other cases, those who've come with
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- A history of crime that they brought with them.
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- Well, obviously we didn't get to this point overnight,
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- And we're not going to turn things around in a month
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- Or even a year.
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- But tonight i want to explore
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- What the potential for improvement is.
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- So before we get to our special guest tonight,
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- I want to watch some of what i've seen post-election.
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- That could be signs of hope.
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- First, the president elect
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- Saying that he wants to work with democrats
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- On a plan to deal with the illegal immigrant families
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- So that some may stay in the u.s..
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- We have to do something about the dreamers,
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- Because these are people that have been brought here
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- At a very young age, and many of these are middle
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- Aged people now.
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- They don't even speak the language of their country.
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- And yes, we're going to do something about
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- What does that mean? what are you going to do?
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- I will work with the democrats on a plan.
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- Look at this as well.
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- That's the first lady, jill biden and her daughter
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- Talking with mr.
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- Trump at the reopening ceremony for notre dame in paris.
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- We don't know what they said,
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- But they certainly looked friendly enough.
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- Despite a rather rough and tumble campaign
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- And watch this
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- From the new owner of one of the country's
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- Most influential newspapers, the l.a.
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- Times doctor patrick soon-shiong, who is adding
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- A bias meter on news articles beginning in january.
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- We need to have all the voices
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- The right, the left and the moderate, the center.
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- It's going to be risky and difficult.
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- I'm going to take a lot of heat, which i'm really am.
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- Yeah, but, you know, i come from the position
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- That really it's important for all voices to be heard.
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- Well, he said that he thought his newspaper had
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- Become, quote, an echo chamber and not a trusted source.
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- So this is all where we're going to travel
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- Tonight, exploring the potential for change.
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- Change to a more judeo-christian worldview and trying to see
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- What the potential is for finding the common ground
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- That will lift us all to a better place.
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- Well, in a moment, we'll visit
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- With the very accomplished political advisor, joe trippi.
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- Settle into your most comfortable chair.
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- We'll get started in just a moment.
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- We'll get started in just a moment.
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- We're back now and joined by joe
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- Trippi, who's coming to us from the eastern shore of maryland.
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- Joe, it's nice to see you again.
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- Great to be with you. and.
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- I'm eager to listen to your thoughts on this season of hope.
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- At least we pray that it becomes a season of hope.
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- We're visiting with you today to see what you think
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- About the possibility of at least
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- Some part of the country coming together next year.
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- I realize that it can be hard to move forward
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- When so much time has been spent fighting the good fight.
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- But i want to see
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- If you disagree with something that tim walsh just said.
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- Let's listen.
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- It felt like at the rallies, at the
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- At the things i was going to the shops,
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- I was going in that the momentum was going our way.
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- And it obviously wasn't, wasn't at the end of the time.
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- So, yeah, i was a little surprised.
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- I really i thought we had a positive message
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- And i thought the country was ready for that.
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- Well, i look
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- I think it's going to take time.
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- Allen, i agree with you that,
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- Hopefully an era of, more civility,
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- More commonality of, people listening to each other,
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- Looking positively to the future together.
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- Not as us versus them.
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- But i think it will take time.
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- I see what you're what you said,
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- About, you know, some good signs from the president,
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- Elected,
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- He he wants to work with democrats.
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- But again,
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- The the proof will be in the pudding a little bit there.
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- I mean, i think there will be some people who will
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- Will want to see proof of that.
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- And, and again, the same i think, with,
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- With people who have concerns about,
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- Where democrats wanted to take the country.
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- You know, i think there's a lot of soul
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- Searching in the party right now.
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- About where the way forward is.
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- I hope the way forward for both, for everybody,
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- Is to put the the side to, to the side,
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- And start trying to listen to each other and, and give,
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- Give some, room to try to find some common ground.
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- The one thing that i think has a lot to do with is so,
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- I mean, you would add to it a little bit about tick tock.
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- I really think the place that let's start
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- Where a lot of this started was online, on social media, where
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- People could anonymously
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- Call each other names and disrespect each other.
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- And so i hope people
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- I hope people pull back a little bit,
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- From those online
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- Tactics of, you know, chasing clicks by,
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- You know, who's the angriest voice out there?
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- And i think that's another place we all could,
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- Could work together to be more civil and
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- And try to hear what the other side is saying
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- Instead of yelling at each other right now.
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- Maybe the example needs to come from the top.
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- I was encouraged when i heard that mr.
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- Trump and president biden said after their meeting,
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- They seemed to be making the best of what was obviously
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- A pretty difficult moment for both of them.
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- Don't i think that's right.
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- I mean, i think when you're in your neighborhood,
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- You don't see the divide nearly as mean or,
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- You know, us versus them or tribal
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- As it seems to be
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- At the top, from elected officials and
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- Many of whom
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- Are, i think, spent a lot of time in the election
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- Season just trying to get attention,
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- More than trying to solve a problem.
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- And that's where i think i mean, i think people out there,
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- Regardless of your ideology of your,
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- You know, your political standing.
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- We need to communicate
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- To our elected officials that we want them
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- To find common ground and work together and solve the problems,
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- Not yell at each other and attack each other,
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- Because i do think it's fomented at the top
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- More than in your neighborhood or your town or in church or,
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- You know, at the civic center or any of those places.
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- We all go to the same, you know,
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- We we go to a baseball game or,
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- Or some, you know,
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- Or a little league,
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- Thing, and we, we, we hang out with our neighbors, and,
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- No one's looking at what party you're in, or they're screaming
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- Each other.
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- It happens in our politics.
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- And i think that does
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- I mean, i think it comes from two places, one at the top,
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- Our elected officials, and two, this sort of freedom
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- To say anything we want attack anybody we want online.
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- Because of the you not you know, i'm anonymous.
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- We don't have that town square,
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- Which i think we need to build places
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- Like this where you can talk,
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- Where we can just have a long conversation.
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- Instead of the quick bites that, you know,
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- I mean, sound bites on television
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- News or down to, like, nine seconds or something crazy.
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- And then you get on online and you're limited to
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- Four sentences on a tweet or a post.
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- And there's not a whole lot you can say that's nuanced.
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- It's all, you know, quick and anonymous,
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- And it's too easy for people to attack each other
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- Instead of having a, a thoughtful conversation.
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- Yeah, i agree, we need the media to help set
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- A narrative based in the truth, not trying to create division,
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- But to help us understand what's happening.
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- There are some small signs
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- That some of their habits might be changing,
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- Or that they're beginning
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- To take baby steps in a new direction.
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- I wonder if jeff bezos has been watching what elon musk
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- Did with twitter.
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- Bezos took a lot of heat for not having his washington
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- Post endorse a candidate this year.
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- He obviously doesn't need the money from the post,
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- But i wonder if he thinks
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- It might be better business to tack to the middle.
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- Just a bit.
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- I, i think
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- That there's a lot that could happen
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- On, you know, elon musk could learn a few things too.
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- I do think that the, the, the platform is,
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- You know, that allows anonymous attacks.
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- Is there aren't very many safe places online, right now.
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- I think where you can have a real simple conversation
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- And where the app itself isn't elevating
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- Sort of the divisive us them, kind of thing out there.
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- I think, look, the legacy media has been,
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- You know, in dire straits for quite a while.
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- I it's so fragmented now
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- That the washington post, the new york times,
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- The major networks don't have
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- Anywhere near the impact they used to have.
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- And i'm not sure they're going to find a way to do that.
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- Again, i think this comes from a cover.
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- They cover what our leaders say.
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- And so if if you have at the top
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- Just people literally holding press conferences
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- Or tweeting to get the most attention,
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- Or to curry favor with their particular tribe
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- Or flavor of their tribe.
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- The, the media is just
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- Now amplifying that, and it's really amplified online.
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- So i think part of this is, again, the rest of us
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- Making sure our elected leaders know we don't.
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- We don't want that.
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- What we want is for you to work together.
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- We won't always agree.
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- We don't always agree.
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- And alan, you and i
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- Will disagree on things, but,
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- But can we do it civilly?
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- Can we do it
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- By listening to each other and trying to find common ground?
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- If we can't find common ground, and there's only,
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- The only other option is kind of what we've seen, this
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- Polarization and, and literally nothing getting accomplished.
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- And instead people sort of being at each other's throats.
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- When,
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- When how's that going to solve
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- A single problem that we have out there,
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- Whether you think climate change is real or not?
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- I mean, how do we, you know, how do we
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- How are we going to address, the what's happening?
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- What we all see is happening out there.
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- And it's not just, i mean, on any issue, i think.
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- And i'm not trying to make this,
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- You know, about a specific issue,
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- But about how do you actually
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- Have a conversation like you and i are having
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- Where we may not leave the conversation agreeing,
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- But hopefully we made some people think out there
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- About what they might be able to do in their daily lives,
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- Reaching out to their their elected official
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- Being, you know, turning the temperature down,
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- And, and starting to learn to be civil again,
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- Because i think that and,
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- You know, citizenship is another thing.
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- I think that somehow got
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- Sort of eroded,
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- Over the last, you know, in this last a few years,
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- You know, to, to be citizens,
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- We have to want to be citizens with each other.
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- You know, you know, we are all you know,
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- And that sense of citizenship needs to be rebuilt as well,
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- I think. and.
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- You know, i would agree, i think citizenship and statesmanship,
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- You know, have leaders
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- Making decisions
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- For the betterment of our country, for all of us.
- 00:12:42.688 --> 00:12:45.557
- Somehow we've lost our way on a bit of that question.
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- Is it better for the party not in power to go forward
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- With a strategy
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- That deliberately is at odds with whatever trump wants to do?
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- Or do they use that to define the next race,
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- Or do you think we can find
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- A way where they can find some common ground?
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- If trump gives a little bit and maybe they give a little bit
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- That would be a future i think we would
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- All like to see, wouldn't we?
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- Yeah, i do think that that's possible,
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- But i think a lot of it will be,
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- I mean, look, donald trump has the presidency.
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- The republicans have the senate and the house.
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- And so the fact of the matter is, they can and and the,
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- You know, supreme court and other things,
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- The fact of the matter is they, you know, does he mean it
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- When he says he wants to work with democrats?
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- On the dreamers, for instance?
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- If so,
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- I think the way to get things done,
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- They could do things themselves. that's my point.
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- And so, i hope that there really is an effort,
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- To work on these problems by reaching out to democrats.
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- I think they'll find some democrats,
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- Not all of them, but there will be enough
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- In that senate in the house
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- To find some compromise and get things done.
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- If it's my way or the highway,
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- Which i think a lot of,
- 00:14:04.803 --> 00:14:07.039
- People fear, i think a lot of democrats fear that,
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- That that may be what trump does, if that happens then
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- And he does it, he's in total control here.
- 00:14:13.879 --> 00:14:17.049
- He can make this decision
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- Himself about which way things go.
- 00:14:18.183 --> 00:14:19.952
- I think we have a big impact on it.
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- It'll be interesting to see, which way that goes.
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- I'd like to see what you what you're talking about,
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- Trying to actually work together on the problems
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- And get things solved for the american people.
- 00:14:33.532 --> 00:14:38.036
- Well, joe trippi,
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- Thank you for sharing your time with us tonight.
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- Good to be with you on.
- 00:14:42.641 --> 00:14:45.177
- You know, there are many of us listening closely,
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- And i remain hopeful for this new year.
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- With god's help, it's going to be better
- 00:14:48.914 --> 00:14:51.616
- In the moments and thoughts of my own for you to think about.
- 00:14:51.616 --> 00:14:54.920
- We'll be right back.
- 00:14:54.920 --> 00:15:01.004
- We'll be right back.
- 00:15:01.004 --> 00:15:03.496
- And given our conversation tonight,
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- I want to share something more
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- With you from my role as a pastor,
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- Something to think about and hopefully even to act on.
- 00:15:09.635 --> 00:15:12.872
- You know,
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- I'm very grateful for everyone who has a position of authority
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- That will stand for a biblical worldview,
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- A judeo christian worldview,
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- And address the issues that need to be addressed in our nation.
- 00:15:19.746 --> 00:15:23.516
- But at the end of the day, the health
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- And vitality of our future
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- Has more to do with the health and vitality of the church
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- Than it does with politicians.
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- And when i say church, i don't mean the institution
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- Or the denomination or the building.
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- Those of us who are people of faith
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- Who have named jesus as lord, we're the church.
- 00:15:37.864 --> 00:15:40.566
- There's no mystical place where the church exists, folks.
- 00:15:40.566 --> 00:15:43.503
- It's you and me.
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- And if we want our nation to be different,
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- It's about our willingness to take our perspective
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- On biblical authority.
- 00:15:50.309 --> 00:15:51.778
- Here's the awkward reality.
- 00:15:51.778 --> 00:15:53.246
- For decades now, our organized churches have been
- 00:15:53.246 --> 00:15:56.516
- Walking further and further away from biblical authority
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- And reinventing a perspective
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- On our world defined on our preferences,
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- Our taste, conventional wisdom, cultural norms,
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- Many, many things other than the authority of scripture we use.
- 00:16:07.560 --> 00:16:11.431
- The church will have to come back.
- 00:16:11.431 --> 00:16:12.932
- We'll have to submit to god.
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- We will have to yield ourselves to biblical authority,
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- And then have the courage
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- As christ followers, to lead with our faith into our culture.
- 00:16:20.006 --> 00:16:24.043
- In the places where we work and our neighborhoods.
- 00:16:24.043 --> 00:16:26.212
- The schools where our children are in attendance,
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- That's going to take courage and strength.
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- We're called to be salt and light.
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- We're not called to hide in the shadows
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- And just hope things get better. in first corinthians 16.
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- Just be on your guard.
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- Stand firm in the faith.
- 00:16:38.791 --> 00:16:39.992
- Be courageous and strong.
- 00:16:39.992 --> 00:16:42.361
- If we want stronger leadership in our elected offices,
- 00:16:42.361 --> 00:16:46.365
- We're going to have to start leading with our faith
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- Right where we are.
- 00:16:48.568 --> 00:16:50.503
- There are
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- People who are just a kind word or a small gesture.
- 00:16:51.904 --> 00:16:54.240
- You can change their existence.
- 00:16:54.240 --> 00:16:56.109
- This christmas season
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- Makes an enormous difference in their lives.
- 00:16:57.810 --> 00:17:00.513
- Take a poinsettia. write a christmas card.
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- You be the light.
- 00:17:02.882 --> 00:17:04.183
- Let's invite god into our places of work,
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- Our family gatherings, wherever we go.
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- Let's lead with our faith.
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- We do that.
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- We'll change our communities.
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- I'll be back in just a moment
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- With your emails.
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- With your emails.
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- Ronald franklin writes.
- 00:17:29.610 --> 00:17:30.711
- It was great to see your pinto on alan jackson.
- 00:17:30.711 --> 00:17:33.113
- Now he's a risk taker who shows his viewers
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- The real truth of israel's torment by hamas and hezbollah.
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- I watch his boots on the ground every time tv and broadcast it.
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- He cuts through the anti-semitic propaganda and delivers
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- The truth about iran's proxies.
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- Diabolical ring of fire around israel.
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- May god bless israel and bring peace to jerusalem.
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- Amen.
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- Agreed, ronald.
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- There was a breakthrough
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- Recently with assad's departure in syria.
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- It certainly creates a bit of a vacuum right now
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- In that nation, but one of the most brutal, violent
- 00:18:04.077 --> 00:18:07.347
- Dictators in the region is gone.
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- And it's certainly an important time
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- For god's people to be praying for the peace of jerusalem
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- And the peace of that region.
- 00:18:14.755 --> 00:18:16.657
- Israel's work in these last few months
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- Has brought some tremendous victories in the face of this
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- Horrific attack from hamas and hezbollah.
- 00:18:21.762 --> 00:18:25.165
- God's moving. it's exciting to see
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- Greg from spokane valley, washington says, hello,
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- Pastor allen,
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- As we have a national debt calculator always running.
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- We'll now need to implement a national savings
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- Calculator for the ilhan vivek running results
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- And also a national audience calculator
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- For the running tom homan results.
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- There are changes afoot in our nation.
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- New voices headed to washington, d.c..
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- I don't believe we have the luxury of
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- Sitting out our good intentions at home
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- And waiting for other people to be the solution.
- 00:18:56.663 --> 00:18:59.166
- We'll have to use our voices in the communities
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- Where we live to stand up for truth
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- And what we know to be right and wrong.
- 00:19:03.804 --> 00:19:05.639
- If we'll be a difference in our kitchen tables,
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- At our holiday tables, and with our friends.
- 00:19:08.108 --> 00:19:10.844
- Those changes will be reflected in washington, d.c..
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- God's moving. let's be a part.
- 00:19:13.814 --> 00:19:16.183
- And finally, tammy kellogg from idaho.
- 00:19:16.183 --> 00:19:18.685
- My husband started watching your sermons
- 00:19:18.685 --> 00:19:20.587
- On youtube up until he went to heaven on july the 20th.
- 00:19:20.587 --> 00:19:23.824
- They brought him and me closer to god.
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- Thank you.
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