Allen Jackson: December 19, 2024 | Allen Jackson Now

December 19, 2024 | S24:E1219

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  • Good evening.
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  • I'm alan jackson, and welcome to nashville.
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  • There's a currency in the nation's capital
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  • That's worth more than any amount of gold.
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  • And that currency is power.
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  • Well, donald trump's power account continues to grow.
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  • Walk the halls of the us capitol,
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  • And you can see it in full bloom.
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  • The president elect has some big plans
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  • For his return to washington.
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  • More than draining the swamp this time.
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  • It's full steam ahead to fix our nation.
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  • Now, even a few democrats
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  • Are agreeing with some of his choices.
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  • Bernie sanders says he likes what he's heard from mr.
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  • Trump's pick to run the department of health
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  • And human services.
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  • Robert f kennedy jr.
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  • So does john fetterman.
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  • And then there's the department of government efficiency dodge.
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  • It's emerging headed up by elon and vivek.
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  • Doge feels a little paradoxical to me.
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  • It's kind of like the department of dry water.
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  • But what's good
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  • Is that many congressmen agree
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  • We need to cut enormous government spending.
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  • Listen to democrat ro khanna.
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  • It should be
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  • Bipartisan to be against wasteful spending.
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  • Now, when you look at elon musk,
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  • He brilliantly disrupted lockheed
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  • Martin and boeing to help americans launch rockets
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  • Into space far cheaper and put satellites up there
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  • So he knows how to have more competition for the five primes.
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  • And i'd like to work with him and others
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  • To see how we can introduce that competition to lower the costs
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  • For the american public and the defense budget.
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  • Well, the question is, have things gotten so bad
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  • That enough members from both
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  • Parties are willing to set aside politics and follow truth?
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  • And some common sense?
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  • Well, in the meantime, other democrats
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  • Are already planning for the next election,
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  • And they're trying to figure out
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  • If they can change the way elections work
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  • So they have a better chance of winning.
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  • They want to eliminate the electoral college,
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  • Which was created by our founders,
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  • To make sure each state, including people in less
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  • Populated areas like farmers, ate a voice in the election.
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  • So between now and the inauguration,
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  • We're going to see a washington realignment like no other.
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  • Tracking it all is the trusted editor in chief for the hill,
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  • Bob cusack. welcome back, bob.
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  • Hey, alan.
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  • Great to be with you.
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  • Well, there's a lot to discuss,
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  • But let's start by telling us
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  • What you've already seen about the reception mr.
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  • Trump is getting from congress, and about this budget mess
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  • And the threats to close down the government.
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  • Feels like a broken record to me.
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  • It is.
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  • And, the spending in washington is like,
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  • Basically groundhog day.
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  • It's been since 1996, since they've actually done
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  • The appropriations process, the same way, one at a time.
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  • So they keep saying they're going to keep going
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  • Back to those good old days and they can't get there.
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  • And honestly, this bill, is not popular.
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  • It's not popular with, the trump orbit.
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  • Speaker johnson is scrambling to see what he can do next.
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  • But this is a bit of chaos in washington, right now.
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  • Well, let's talk a little more about the budget and the debt.
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  • $36 trillion in counting today.
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  • Musk and vivek, the doge twins, as they're referred to now,
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  • Are determined to cut $2 trillion in the first two years.
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  • What are they saying on the hill about their efforts?
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  • It's going to be very difficult.
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  • There's no doubt about it. at the same time.
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  • You mentioned the pentagon and audits and how it's failed
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  • Seven in a row.
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  • There's a real frustration with government efficiency.
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  • So some democrats actually like the idea, some democrats don't.
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  • Cutting $2 trillion is going to be extremely difficult.
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  • But at the same time,
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  • Trump does have a mandate,
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  • Especially after winning the popular vote.
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  • So we'll see where it goes.
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  • But listen,
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  • Any time
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  • You try to change anything in washington,
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  • It's going to be an uphill battle.
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  • But, ellen and baker are ready to take it on.
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  • Well, some democrats seem to feel
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  • They may never get back to the white house
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  • Unless they can change the electoral college.
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  • Is that even possible?
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  • Do they have a chance?
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  • They don't.
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  • It was interesting, alan.
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  • You know, down the stretch of the election,
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  • Maybe some democrats thought they were going to lose
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  • Because they were complaining, including
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  • Tim walz, the vp nominee of the electoral college.
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  • Both parties have complained about this over
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  • The years at different times.
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  • But, the electoral college is is here to stay.
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  • There have been some efforts in various states, but is it
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  • Anywhere close to happening?
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  • Absolutely not.
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  • What about speaker johnson?
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  • Do you think his job is in question
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  • With this debate over the budget and the continuing resolution?
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  • Well, well, alan, it's like it's like a bad sports team.
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  • Like a football team that's struggling.
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  • Everybody says, let's get rid of the coach.
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  • Okay.
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  • Well, first of all, it's a very tough job, for speaker.
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  • But then you also have to decide,
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  • Well, who's going to replace him.
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  • And we went through three weeks.
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  • You know, last year, without a speaker.
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  • So when kevin mccarthy was ousted
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  • And then a lot of other people tried to become a speaker
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  • Until johnson finally became speaker.
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  • So johnson is in a bit of trouble,
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  • There is no doubt about it, because he has such a narrow
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  • Majority in the new congress.
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  • 1 or 2 people, who won't vote for him
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  • And the democrats are certainly not going to vote for him.
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  • This could be even more chaos
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  • In the beginning of january on that topic about.
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  • You know, i live a long way outside the beltway,
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  • So i don't pretend to understand.
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  • But when i start to look at
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  • What's in that cr, it's amazing to me.
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  • I mean, there's real money that's needed for the victims
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  • Of the hurricanes in the carolinas,
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  • But then there's also money in there
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  • For a new stadium for the commanders.
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  • You know, i'd like to expand the church.
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  • You think we could fund that in this cr as well?
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  • It just seems like a bizarre process to me.
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  • It's a it's a complete, bizarre process,
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  • And it honestly doesn't make
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  • For the greatest country in the world.
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  • How we make laws in this country is absurd.
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  • We and both sides do it.
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  • Republicans and democrats,
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  • When they're in the majority,
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  • They want to move bills so quickly that you can't
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  • Physically read them before you vote on them.
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  • And it's just a it's a terrible process.
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  • Both parties have also tried to revamp the process.
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  • Speaker johnson committed to a 72 hour
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  • Waiting period to review bills, but on some bills,
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  • Including this one that looks like it's already dead.
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  • That was going to be thrown out the window.
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  • So, this is something that need that we need some budget
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  • Reform and spending reform and reading the bill reform.
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  • Common sense.
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  • Well, let's take a short break and we come back.
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  • We'll talk about mr.
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  • Trump's nominees for his cabinet and beyond.
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  • More with bob cusack in just a moment.
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  • More with bob cusack in just a moment.
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  • Two one.
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  • We're back now with the hill's editor in chief, bob cusack.
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  • In record time, the president elect has put up several
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  • Dozen nominees for his top administration positions.
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  • One was withdrawn before it ever got to committee.
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  • And a few others have been targeted for deeper questioning.
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  • Robert f kennedy jr,
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  • Tulsi gabbard and pete hegseth among them.
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  • But we've also heard that the trump team
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  • Is keeping a close
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  • Watch on any republicans
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  • Who don't go along with the president elect's choices.
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  • What's at risk for those republicans?
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  • Well, a lot, their jobs.
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  • When trump, wades into congressional leadership
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  • Races, whether, john thune should replace mitch
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  • Mcconnell as majority leader or who the speaker should be,
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  • He has some sway, but not a ton of sway,
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  • Because those are popularity contest.
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  • Those are also allen secret ballots.
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  • But voting on bills is not a secret ballot.
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  • So, if you're not voting with trump, and he's
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  • Threatening you with a primary, you've got to be very concerned
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  • Because trump has followed through with that promise.
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  • And trump maga world
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  • Has gone after people who've crossed trump,
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  • Especially the people, who voted to impeach him.
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  • The first and second times.
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  • And they've largely been successful.
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  • So if you're not with trump, you could lose your job.
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  • And that gets republicans on the hill very nervous.
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  • We've had some technical difficulties
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  • Maintaining our signal,
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  • But we're going to continue this interview.
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  • We've just moved bob over to his telephone.
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  • Bob, your answers were so good. you broke the internet.
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  • Thank you.
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  • Alan. i appreciate
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  • I want to follow up the first time mr.
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  • Trump came to the white house.
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  • It felt like to me
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  • He had a lot of headwind from traditional republicans.
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  • This time, he's coming to the white house,
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  • And it seems to me he's really leading the party.
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  • Is that perspective correct?
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  • No, i absolutely i think it is.
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  • You know,
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  • When trump won the first time, he had a lot of resistance
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  • Within the republican party.
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  • Now he's driving the bus, especially on, on, on the border
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  • And the wall, which was not a top priority
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  • For congressional republicans, in trump's first term.
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  • And it frustrated trump.
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  • Now trump is is going to be doing border
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  • And immigration stuff right out of the gate. why?
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  • Because everyone is following him this time,
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  • Not fighting him.
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  • Not everyone was fighting him the first time around,
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  • But a lot of republicans were. there are very few of them now.
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  • Wow. well, let's move to tick tock.
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  • There's a bill in place that would ban tick tock.
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  • If it's not sold and turned over to management.
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  • That is arm's length from the chinese government.
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  • Republicans and some democrats, including
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  • Josh gottheimer from new jersey.
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  • Were very concerned that you have china
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  • Are our number one adversary or the government of china
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  • Along or others like iran or russia or north korea,
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  • Controlling information
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  • Into the united states of america
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  • And pushing false information out, especially to young people,
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  • When if you're under 30, this is the number one place
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  • You get your news from.
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  • What's the feeling on the hill about
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  • Whether this ban should happen?
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  • Well, it's interesting, it's split because you have
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  • The national security concerns.
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  • Alan, you've also got
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  • First amendment concerns, which are clashing.
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  • And, and, obviously the courts have been involved
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  • In this supreme court, tackling it as well.
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  • So, this is something that did pass congress.
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  • That was i wasn't sure it was going to pass congress. it did.
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  • But whether it actually happens remains to be seen.
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  • All right, well, tell us
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  • What's being planned to address immigration.
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  • The stories of crime, sex trafficking and gang
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  • Takeovers are multiplying.
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  • Is there anything in the works that offers hope?
  • 00:10:38.097 --> 00:10:41.433
  • Well, yeah, as far as that,
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  • You're going to see, donald trump when he's inaugurated
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  • Soon thereafter on day one, he's
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  • Going to have a slew of immigration executive actions.
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  • He wants to
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  • Speaking of the courts go after birthright citizenship, but,
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  • He and his border czar,
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  • Tom homan,
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  • Want to be very aggressive, certainly deporting
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  • Criminals who are in the country illegally.
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  • So that's going to be the first priority.
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  • There's but but while, immigration and border
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  • Legislation is tough to pass in, in congress,
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  • Trump could do a lot,
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  • Administratively through executive actions
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  • And through regulations or regulations,
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  • To deal with immigration.
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  • But that's going to be his top issue.
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  • I think taxes is going to be right behind it
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  • With the economy.
  • 00:11:29.248 --> 00:11:30.449
  • But immigration, is very, very important to donald trump.
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  • I've got a further question about priorities.
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  • Mr. trump wants to strengthen our military,
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  • Given the multiple threats in the middle east and china,
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  • Do you think he's going to get what he wants?
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  • I think he's going to get some of what he wants.
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  • But one of the tough issues
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  • When you win a campaign is you got to govern.
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  • And one of the issues that really neither party
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  • Has, has dealt with in recent years is the debt.
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  • So a lot of republicans want to pass
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  • An extension of the trump tax cuts.
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  • They want to increase defense spending.
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  • Makes sense, especially with the threats around the globe,
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  • Especially china and russia and north korea and iran.
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  • I mean, there's a long list.
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  • So i do think there will be a boost in defense
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  • Spending will be as big as some of the defense hawks want.
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  • Probably not.
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  • And i do think the republicans
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  • Are going to have to get some handle on the debt and deficit.
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  • At some point, some party or both parties probably,
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  • You know, that's the only way is probably going to get done,
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  • Are going to have to come together
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  • And deal with the insolvency of medicare,
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  • The insolvency of social security.
  • 00:12:36.515 --> 00:12:38.150
  • The both headed for bankruptcy, but, $36 trillion of debt that
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  • That's a lot of debt.
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  • You know, that would be a courageous leadership
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  • We haven't seen in washington, dc in a long time.
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  • Can you give us an idea
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  • Just of what a first step or two might look like?
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  • So we will recognize it when we see it?
  • 00:12:53.165 --> 00:12:55.834
  • Well, certainly cutting government
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  • And cutting government jobs is going to be a first step.
  • 00:12:57.769 --> 00:13:00.572
  • Now, budget wise, it's not going to add up to a lot
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  • When you're talking about $36 trillion, of the nation's debt.
  • 00:13:03.008 --> 00:13:07.446
  • That said, i do think that you can make cuts,
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  • To the executive branch.
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  • That can be meaningful.
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  • But when you're talking long term, alan,
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  • You've got to deal with the big spenders.
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  • And what are the big spenders?
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  • Medicare, which is very popular.
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  • Social security, very popular defense spending.
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  • Very popular.
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  • But you're going to have to reform those programs
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  • And make them more efficient.
  • 00:13:29.067 --> 00:13:30.702
  • Now, a lot of a lot of times
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  • You can get out of debt
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  • By growing, but i think it's going to have
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  • To be a combination of growth and reforms passed by congress,
  • 00:13:35.574 --> 00:13:39.344
  • A courageous congress that we have not seen in many years.
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  • Well, i pray they find the courage
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  • To do the right thing for all of us.
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  • Bob cusack,
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  • I hope you get to have some family time over christmas
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  • Week. and i want to thank you
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  • For carving out the time with us today.
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  • Thanks, alan. happy holidays.
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  • Have a great christmas.
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  • Merry christmas to you.
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  • And in a moment, i'll have a few thoughts
  • 00:14:00.165 --> 00:14:01.867
  • From a biblical perspective to help us process all this change.
  • 00:14:01.867 --> 00:14:05.704
  • And later, your emails reacting to the show.
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  • Stay with us.
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  • Stay with us.
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  • We never.
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  • Whenever we have a conversation with those people
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  • Who live and work in washington, d.c.,
  • 00:14:20.654 --> 00:14:22.990
  • We get a very consistent message that d.c.
  • 00:14:22.990 --> 00:14:25.759
  • Is very difficult environment in which to introduce change.
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  • They resist it, they fight it.
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  • They they'll do anything in their power
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  • To maintain the status quo.
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  • But as much as i
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  • Want to get agitated about those political politicians
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  • That have been there
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  • For decades, the reality i live in church world.
  • 00:14:40.374 --> 00:14:42.977
  • We don't like change.
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  • We want to sit in the same seat, park in the same spot, read
  • 00:14:44.778 --> 00:14:48.282
  • The same translation,
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  • Maintain the same routine in our worship calendar.
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  • We don't want anything to change.
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  • So i think
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  • Before we can imagine, there's going to be significant sweeping
  • 00:14:56.323 --> 00:14:58.892
  • Change and reform in those that are providing leadership
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  • To our nation.
  • 00:15:01.929 --> 00:15:03.163
  • We're going to have to have
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  • The imagination that we can be individuals
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  • Who can process change. we've got to be different.
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  • I know that's not comfortable.
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  • We'd rather point our fingers at somebody else
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  • And say, you be different.
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  • But i believe with all of my heart,
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  • God is looking at his people,
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  • His covenant people, the people of faith, the christ followers.
  • 00:15:17.378 --> 00:15:20.748
  • Right now, in this season, on the heels of this election
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  • And asking us if we're willing to be different.
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  • It's christmas time.
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  • Christmas is about change.
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  • The incarnation god sent his son,
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  • He said when the time was just right, god sent his son
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  • To reconcile
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  • All humanity to himself, to take down the dividing wall
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  • Between jew and gentile.
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  • All the things that have separated us,
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  • All the boundaries that we put in place,
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  • All of the places
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  • Where we've established pride
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  • And certainty that we were better than someone else.
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  • Now we stand under the lordship of jesus.
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  • So as we walk towards this christmas, i want to invite you
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  • To begin to quietly say to the lord,
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  • I'm willing to be different.
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  • What places in my life would you like to initiate change?
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  • What habits can i lay aside?
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  • What habits can i put in place?
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  • What change will you bring to me if we'll do that?
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  • I believe with all of my heart
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  • We'll see changes on a national level
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  • That will bring a better future
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  • For our children and our grandchildren.
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  • And with that, there's more reasons for hope than despair.
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  • I'll be back with your emails in just a moment.
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  • Stay with us.
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  • Stay with us.
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  • Thank you for taking the time
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  • To send us your emails, your thoughts and perspectives.
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  • They're important to us.
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  • Diane from massachusetts.
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  • I work as a school psychologist.
  • 00:16:43.162 --> 00:16:44.997
  • We have lgbtq plus month and afterschool groups,
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  • As well as many of the offensive books
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  • You've seen in libraries across the country.
  • 00:16:50.736 --> 00:16:53.139
  • I've tried to start an after school without school
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  • Funding group for christians
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  • And have been shot down in my efforts.
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  • I've been told that all groups must be thoroughly inclusive
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  • And cannot teach any bible readings
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  • Or christian principles.
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  • Please have your readers pray for me as i'm still trying,
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  • As i feel their civil rights are being violated.
  • 00:17:08.221 --> 00:17:10.890
  • And there are many students interested in such a gathering.
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  • Thank you again for all you do, pastor jackson.
  • 00:17:13.559 --> 00:17:16.429
  • Well, diane, i want to thank you for your efforts.
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  • I believe it's an absolute necessity that we take our faith
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  • Back to school.
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  • We've been quiet and polite and withdrawn
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  • From the public arena when one person
  • 00:17:26.305 --> 00:17:28.374
  • Raised their hands and said they didn't agree.
  • 00:17:28.374 --> 00:17:30.776
  • And yet, we see in almost every place we look,
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  • A worldview and agenda being pushed
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  • By corporate america, by government america,
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  • By academic america.
  • 00:17:38.417 --> 00:17:40.386
  • We've got to take our faith back.
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  • Well, so, diane, you keep up with your efforts.
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  • I believe we will see a change coming.
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  • God is moving in the earth.
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  • And i believe if we
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  • Have the courage to stand up
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  • For our biblical worldview and share those principles,
  • 00:17:50.663 --> 00:17:53.299
  • We don't have to be angry or belligerent.
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  • We certainly don't need to be violent.
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  • But we're going to have to be determined and persevere.
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  • God will meet us.
  • 00:17:59.238 --> 00:18:01.274
  • Jeffrey in arlington, texas, he said,
  • 00:18:02.074 --> 00:18:04.310
  • How do you get out of debt? i'm concerned
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  • That this is causing separation in my marriage.
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  • What does the bible say and what is your opinion?
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  • Well,
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  • Too much debt will bring separation
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  • In almost any relationship.
  • 00:18:16.622 --> 00:18:18.858
  • Your marriage isn't unique.
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  • None of us can withstand that.
  • 00:18:20.593 --> 00:18:22.395
  • The bible tells us that the borrower is servant
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  • To the lender.
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  • And it encourages us to minimize our exposure to debt.
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  • That takes a commitment, a plan.
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  • It's not just an accident.
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  • I live in nashville.
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  • That's the dave ramsey country.
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  • If you don't have a better beginning point than that, ask
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  • Rabbi google.
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  • Dave ramsey will give you the baby
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  • Steps to walk out from under debt.
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  • It makes a lot of difference.
  • 00:18:45.484 --> 00:18:47.887
  • Then maryland and nebraska
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  • Said, i want to thank you for your program
  • 00:18:50.156 --> 00:18:51.691
  • And the bold stands you've taken for god's truth.
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  • I pray that all your ministry
  • 00:18:54.293 --> 00:18:55.461
  • And your team's efforts will be protected,
  • 00:18:55.461 --> 00:18:57.029
  • Strengthened, and multiplied in the days ahead.
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  • God give you all a peaceful christmas and a 2025.
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  • You're helping me know god better, and i'm grateful.
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  • Merry christmas.
  • 00:19:05.104 --> 00:19:06.672
  • Well, maryland. thank you.
  • 00:19:06.672 --> 00:19:08.374
  • This wonderful time of the year,
  • 00:19:08.374 --> 00:19:09.742
  • We get to celebrate the entry of god into time.
  • 00:19:09.742 --> 00:19:13.279
  • We're reminded that god intends to write a better story for us.
  • 00:19:13.279 --> 00:19:17.450
  • One of my favorite promises in scripture
  • 00:19:17.450 --> 00:19:19.252
  • Is that he says he's the author and the completer of our story.
  • 00:19:19.252 --> 00:19:22.888
  • He has that license.
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  • That author has to keep rewriting the ending
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  • Until he gets it just right.
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  • I believe you'll do it for me.
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  • And i believe you'll do it for any one of you.
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  • It's christmas time. we've all got something to celebrate.
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  • Well, if you haven't yet, take a moment
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  • To send your email to comments at alan jackson now.com.
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  • Your feedback and questions.
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  • They do so much to shape our show.
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  • I'm alan jackson.
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  • You have a wonderful evening.
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