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Allen Jackson: Defining Evil | Allen Jackson Now

January 1, 2026 | 21:37

Allen Jackson: Defining Evil | Allen Jackson Now
Bill O'Reilly joins Allen Jackson to discuss current events.
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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: Defining Evil | Allen Jackson Now | January 1, 2026
  • Good evening and welcome to nashville.
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  • I'm alan jackson.
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  • We have a special guest with us tonight.
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  • He's a veteran newsman who spent
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  • Nearly 50 years telling the truth
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  • In a world full of biased journalism.
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  • He was the original no spin anchorman.
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  • Bill o'reilly, welcome back to our show.
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  • Thanks for having me, alan.
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  • Appreciate it. merry christmas.
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  • We invited you on to discuss your new book,
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  • Which ties directly into these troubled times we're living in.
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  • It's called confronting evil
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  • Assessing the worst of the worst.
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  • And i can see even on the cover
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  • That you've got the ball inside.
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  • But first, let me ask you about the evil
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  • We just saw at brown university and on the australian beach
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  • With the attack on the jews
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  • Who were just celebrating hanukkah.
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  • The evil is spreading, isn't it?
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  • Yeah.
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  • I open,
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  • Confronting evil with the october 7th attack in israel.
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  • And i did that to
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  • Make it very vivid to people around the world.
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  • What exactly these terrorists, these hamas guys did,
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  • Which is in any different than what they did in bondi beach.
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  • But obviously the jihad is on the rise again.
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  • They're killing innocent people.
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  • At a greater number than we saw recently.
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  • So, my whole reason for writing confronting
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  • Evil was to say to people, you got to engage in this topic.
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  • You can't look away because it's easy to look away from evil.
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  • And when you do that, it gets worse and worse and worse.
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  • And that's
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  • Why we're seeing more this kind of stuff around the world.
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  • Because people are consumed with their own world.
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  • They create their own world
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  • On the internet, with the cell phone,
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  • With all of that, and they don't want
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  • To get out of that world out.
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  • And they don't want to acknowledge
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  • That maybe in my neighborhood,
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  • There's bad things happening, maybe in my own family,
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  • I'm just going to turn away from it
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  • Because i can got a lot of options.
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  • I can take me out of it.
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  • No, you know, a society that wants to deal with evil
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  • Has to recognize it and then take steps to mitigate it.
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  • And the united states now, some places do that
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  • And some places don't.
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  • Where i live in new york, they don't.
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  • They're letting violent criminals
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  • Right out on the street
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  • To commit more violence with no justification or not.
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  • And to me, i mean, i'm sitting there
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  • Going, what do you expect to happen?
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  • It's it's incomprehensible.
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  • You know, i was born in 1949, after world
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  • War two, when those values in america
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  • And nashville, where you are in new york city, where i am,
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  • They're everywhere.
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  • 90% of americans believe the same thing today.
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  • We are a divided country that about 50% of us
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  • Hate, literally hate the president.
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  • That does not bode well for public safety
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  • Or for tamping down evil.
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  • Well, you've said that the concept of evil is universal
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  • And ever present, pointing out that the book of genesis defines
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  • Evil when cain kills his brother abel out of jealousy.
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  • Tell us more of what you focus on in your new book.
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  • Okay, so i have that
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  • Portion in confronting evil
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  • Because that cain and abel story
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  • Was put in genesis for a reason.
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  • So the bible is interesting on a number of fronts.
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  • And if you look, it's not a history.
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  • When i wrote killing jesus, for example, about the
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  • Man's life, the nazarene, i don't use any biblical stuff.
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  • All right. that's religious.
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  • So i just use history.
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  • But in the bible, the parables
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  • That are there, the stories are there are there for a reason.
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  • And this was a signal at the very beginning
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  • Of the bible, alan, that
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  • He was always going to be there,
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  • Always going to be on a planet.
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  • And you and the good person have to deal with it.
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  • You have a responsibility to deal with it.
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  • If you don't,
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  • Bad things are going to happen.
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  • So i got 15 miscreants.
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  • You got four on the cover.
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  • Hitler, mao,
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  • Ayatollah khomeini and putin
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  • And 11 more inside, you know,
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  • And we tell you how they got to a position
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  • To commit so much evil and what they did
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  • And how it ended and are all individual stories.
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  • And ayatollah khomeini is responsible
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  • For the jihad directly. putin is killing
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  • Women and children now, innocent civilians.
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  • So i want people to know
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  • That look, in your state, your city,
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  • You got a responsibility
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  • To vote for the people that are going to protect you,
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  • Not loons,
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  • Because all most of the people in my book, they,
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  • They were allowed to do their evil.
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  • They, the system said, okay, go ahead, adolf.
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  • Yeah. we want you to be our dictator.
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  • German people actually said that.
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  • Whoa.
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  • So there are lessons in
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  • Every single chapter of confronting evil.
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  • I thought it was an intriguing read.
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  • I enjoyed the chapter on the robber barons.
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  • I mean, you put jp morgan in the list with caligula
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  • And hitler.
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  • I had to smile when i was reading that.
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  • Well, the robber barons, i put that chapter in there
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  • To show that you can mitigate evil.
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  • Teddy roosevelt did it.
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  • The president went up against rockefeller and morgan
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  • And carnegie and all these men who amassed billions of dollars
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  • By exploiting workers, children
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  • Ten, 12 years old in those mines.
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  • And these guys were living as large as you could possibly
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  • Live.
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  • They didn't care if the mind caved in on the kid.
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  • Them put any money into safety.
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  • They didn't pay them anything.
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  • The workers now, they didn't have a machine gun.
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  • They weren't doing what
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  • They told starving his own people to death, but
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  • They were hurting millions of americans.
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  • These guys.
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  • And you, you go to new york now,
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  • Where's the big christmas tree in rockefeller center?
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  • Hey, he wasn't a good guy.
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  • Why? he's up.
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  • So that's why
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  • I think i'm the most successful nonfiction author in the world.
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  • Because i tell people stuff they don't know
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  • In a very entertaining, engaging way.
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  • It's hard to put the book down. that's that's our formula.
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  • Well, vladimir putin's in your book, and his war
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  • With ukraine is costing him 7000 russian lives each week.
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  • And that's not including the killing he's done to ukrainians.
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  • Tell us what you've uncovered about putin.
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  • Well, he doesn't care about that.
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  • He's a psychopath.
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  • Interesting story about putin.
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  • So, the first term of president trump,
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  • Putin didn't misbehave that that badly.
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  • Putin and trump had an understanding, okay,
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  • That putin wasn't going to do anything crazy.
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  • And then biden came in
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  • And putin just launched the war for no reason.
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  • No, russia doesn't need ukraine for anything, all right.
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  • But he's wanting to do it.
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  • So he did it when trump was running
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  • Again against harris, he told me he goes, look,
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  • When i get in there, you know, he'll stop.
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  • And i said, mr.
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  • President, i think you're dealing with a different guy
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  • Than you were the first time around.
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  • But maybe you're right.
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  • Maybe you get in and he'll knock it off.
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  • Didn't happen, as we all know.
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  • So on nine over 11,
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  • President trump went to yankee stadium.
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  • To honor the families.
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  • I got a call about 12 hours before the event.
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  • He wanted me to go with him, to meet him
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  • There at the stadium, and i said, sure,
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  • When a president calls you alan, you gotta go.
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  • Okay. got it.
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  • Clear your calendar. go.
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  • I said, oh, okay.
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  • I, i, i knew he wanted to talk about putin,
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  • So i went and, i brought a copy, of, confronting evil.
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  • It just came out came out september 9th.
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  • I was only on for two days, and i handed it to him
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  • And i said, look, i know you're busy.
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  • Might not have time to read a whole book,
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  • But reading a chapter on putin,
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  • Because he's a totally different guy, evil always gets worse.
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  • There's no rehab for it.
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  • Once you go down that road
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  • Of destroying other human beings, you can't come back.
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  • And here's a stunning fact of all the 15 miscreants
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  • We have in that book, not one repented,
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  • Not even on their desk, that not one.
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  • And putin is in that category.
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  • He's a psychopath.
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  • No reason you can't reason with him.
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  • I, i'm hoping president trump can finally get
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  • Some kind of deal, but man, it is the toughest thing ever.
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  • I read a book by scott peck years ago,
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  • And he said the only
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  • Thing evil will yield to is a power greater than itself.
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  • I think with people like putin.
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  • What you're saying, that's the truth.
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  • There's two other faces on your book
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  • Cover hitler and mao, the worst of the worst.
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  • You say
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  • Young people throw hitler's name around these days
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  • With little knowledge of what he did.
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  • What are your top line thoughts about mao and hitler?
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  • Well, mao, was the biggest mass murderer ever on the planet.
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  • At least 20 million chinese.
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  • He killed his own people and his 1.5 billion chinese right now,
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  • And mao zedong.
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  • There's just no feelings for human beings at all.
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  • He starved his people to death because he was changing,
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  • Into a communist economy.
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  • And he wanted a mass. people live here.
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  • People lived there.
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  • And if they didn't cooperate, he cut off the food and you die.
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  • So he killed more.
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  • Hitler is more complicated than mao zedong.
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  • Because the german people basically said to him,
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  • Come on in,
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  • And we know you're going to do horrible things because he wrote
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  • A book called mein kampf and the 1920s.
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  • Hitler was a like trying to disguise anything,
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  • But he knew what he was doing was wrong.
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  • When they came up with the final solution,
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  • Which was the
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  • Extermination of jews, gypsies
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  • And a whole bunch of other people.
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  • Hitler did not go to that conference.
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  • He knew that was a war crime.
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  • He sent his minions to there
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  • To draw up the documents and how the concentration camps
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  • Are going to be built and assembled.
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  • He wouldn't go because he knew, and he wanted deniability,
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  • All right.
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  • But he was as evil as they come.
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  • Hitler,
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  • Me, you,
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  • You know, all these guys, you line them up, it's hard to even.
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  • All right.
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  • Who's worse and who, you know, it's like, whoa.
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  • But we keep getting them in our, civilization.
  • 00:11:17.134 --> 00:11:20.437
  • They keep popping up.
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  • And now when a real evil person pops up,
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  • We got to tamp it down fast.
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  • Or. bill, we need to take a short break.
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  • For those of you watching who want to jump in
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  • Send me an email.
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  • I'll be right back.
  • 00:11:48.006 --> 00:11:52.672
  • And we're back now with bill o'reilly,
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  • The author of 19 number one ranked books,
  • 00:11:55.809 --> 00:11:58.878
  • Including killing lincoln and killing kennedy,
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  • And more than 18 million copies of the series sold globally.
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  • His latest release is titled confronting evil.
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  • Now, one of the other big issues on the president's agenda
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  • Right now is trying to stop
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  • The illegal drugs from coming to our country.
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  • Some democrats are questioning whether u.s.
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  • Forces should be doing this,
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  • And even whether the president has the authority to do so.
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  • You said that the evil of narcotics is plain
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  • For all to see,
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  • And you chose the drug cartels for a chapter in your book.
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  • Can you tell us what you found?
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  • Yeah, we have two chapters.
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  • One guy in colombia, one guy in mexico.
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  • And the narcotics traffic
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  • Is, at the level of evil
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  • That i don't think civilization has ever seen before.
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  • Because it's not just one person who gets addicted to drugs.
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  • Or you can throw alcohol in there, too.
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  • But it's their families, their friends.
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  • It's the crimes they commit to support their habits
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  • Because they can't work.
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  • So they got to go out and steal or prostitute themselves
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  • Or do whatever they do to get the narcotics.
  • 00:13:01.241 --> 00:13:04.310
  • Now, the people who sell
  • 00:13:04.310 --> 00:13:05.745
  • The drugs are making billions and billions of dollars.
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  • And according to president trump,
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  • Undermining national security because it costs this country,
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  • $500 billion a year in crime
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  • Costs and interdiction costs and all that to regulate it.
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  • And then we got 100 or 200,000 overdose deaths.
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  • And that's underreported because a lot of the health
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  • People die from heart related,
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  • Stuff that's brought on by narcotics addiction.
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  • So i think it's a national security issue.
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  • And i think
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  • That we waited far too long to confront these cartels.
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  • We know they are where they are.
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  • And if the governments of mexico or venezuela, columbia aren't
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  • Going to deal with them, we should,
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  • Because it's national security
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  • And trump has the authority to do it.
  • 00:13:54.193 --> 00:13:56.729
  • So that's what we're seeing playing out.
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  • And democrats are going to oppose everything he does.
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  • When you ask a democratic politician, okay,
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  • If you're not going to go after the cartels,
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  • You're not going to go after the source.
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  • How are you going to solve it?
  • 00:14:07.473 --> 00:14:09.442
  • And they go, oh, rehab.
  • 00:14:09.442 --> 00:14:11.277
  • Well, you rehab doesn't work unless you want to be rehab.
  • 00:14:11.277 --> 00:14:15.014
  • And every study in the world says most drug addicts
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  • And alcoholics don't want to get off.
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  • They like what they're doing.
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  • So that's where we are.
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  • And i'm appealing to, fair minded americans
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  • Who want their children protected and public safety
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  • To support a very, very stringent
  • 00:14:30.830 --> 00:14:34.534
  • Campaign against the drug merchants.
  • 00:14:34.534 --> 00:14:38.404
  • Well, let's get to some of the other current issues.
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  • You've worked in new york for many years,
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  • And now there's a socialist,
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  • Some say a communist taking over as mayor soon.
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  • How could that happen in such an important city
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  • In our democratic capitalist country?
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  • Ignorance.
  • 00:14:53.753 --> 00:14:55.054
  • People who vote for him don't really care to know about him.
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  • In addition to being a communist, he's an anti-semite.
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  • And his, background of, you know, his father,
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  • Who teaches at columbia, which i do.
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  • I don't know him personally, but i know the background.
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  • I mean, he's an army.
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  • He has no use for jews not going to protect him.
  • 00:15:12.772 --> 00:15:15.308
  • So you're voting for a guy who, who's counter
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  • To all american economic beliefs and has an animus toward
  • 00:15:20.213 --> 00:15:25.585
  • Jewish people, a very,
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  • Significant minority in new york,
  • 00:15:31.891 --> 00:15:33.860
  • Half of new york voters who are jewish voted for.
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  • Many have.
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  • How could that happen?
  • 00:15:39.465 --> 00:15:41.401
  • Because they don't know anything.
  • 00:15:41.401 --> 00:15:44.037
  • And ideology trumps on for a lot of them.
  • 00:15:44.037 --> 00:15:46.939
  • You know, even anti-semitism.
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  • I don't know how it could happen, but it happened.
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  • Well, it's almost
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  • Frightening to imagine the future there.
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  • If you stay with us for one more segment.
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  • We're going to take a short break.
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  • We'll be right back with bill o'reilly.
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  • We'll be right back with bill o'reilly.
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  • Bill, one more question before we run out of time
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  • And you to
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  • The next election is the renewed focus on affordability.
  • 00:16:17.739 --> 00:16:20.942
  • The economy was suffering badly when trump took office
  • 00:16:20.942 --> 00:16:23.478
  • Again, and he's doing everything possible to turn it around.
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  • He's lowering taxes, tariffs on countries
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  • That are taking advantage of us,
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  • And cuts to the bloated government spending.
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  • What are you recommending to him?
  • 00:16:32.921 --> 00:16:36.157
  • Well,
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  • And he has asked me.
  • 00:16:38.059 --> 00:16:39.360
  • I don't recommend anything unless he, yes,
  • 00:16:39.360 --> 00:16:42.864
  • But it's a tight, very tight.
  • 00:16:42.864 --> 00:16:45.500
  • Americans are not a patient people.
  • 00:16:45.500 --> 00:16:47.969
  • And, he's getting gas prices down.
  • 00:16:47.969 --> 00:16:52.240
  • There are two real problems for the trump
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  • Administration and republican party.
  • 00:16:55.844 --> 00:16:58.079
  • Number one is insurance costs, the killing
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  • Of working people, car, home health.
  • 00:17:00.949 --> 00:17:03.985
  • Got to get that under control.
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  • Got to be new legislation.
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  • Have to. and the other is, food.
  • 00:17:07.355 --> 00:17:10.859
  • Now a lot of food stuffs are coming down.
  • 00:17:10.859 --> 00:17:13.461
  • And i tell my audience, look,
  • 00:17:13.461 --> 00:17:14.863
  • If you're going to buy steak, don't complain about it
  • 00:17:14.863 --> 00:17:17.298
  • Because you got chicken, you got fish,
  • 00:17:17.298 --> 00:17:18.900
  • You got other options that are a lot less expensive,
  • 00:17:18.900 --> 00:17:21.936
  • But a lot of people want what they want.
  • 00:17:22.804 --> 00:17:25.640
  • So he's got to concentrate on the grocery store
  • 00:17:25.640 --> 00:17:28.576
  • And the insurance stuff.
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  • If you make some progress by summer,
  • 00:17:30.612 --> 00:17:32.914
  • Republican party could hold the house and the senate.
  • 00:17:33.915 --> 00:17:37.085
  • If he doesn't,
  • 00:17:37.085 --> 00:17:38.620
  • They're going to lose.
  • 00:17:38.620 --> 00:17:39.454
  • Just like they lost the republicans
  • 00:17:39.454 --> 00:17:41.890
  • In trump's first term.
  • 00:17:41.890 --> 00:17:43.825
  • In the midterms, they've lost 41 seats in the house.
  • 00:17:43.825 --> 00:17:46.895
  • Said i could absolutely happen again.
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  • So some urgency here for the trump administration.
  • 00:17:48.630 --> 00:17:51.900
  • Well, then if he loses the house,
  • 00:17:52.667 --> 00:17:53.902
  • We'll start impeachment roulette again, won't we?
  • 00:17:53.902 --> 00:17:57.071
  • It won't be that.
  • 00:17:57.071 --> 00:17:58.072
  • It's just he won't get anything done at all.
  • 00:17:58.072 --> 00:18:00.141
  • It just it'll really hurt his legacy.
  • 00:18:00.141 --> 00:18:03.678
  • Bill, you used to end your show with the word of the day.
  • 00:18:04.812 --> 00:18:07.982
  • There were plenty of them that i've never heard before.
  • 00:18:07.982 --> 00:18:10.385
  • It was fun to learn.
  • 00:18:10.385 --> 00:18:11.920
  • Well, i want to end with two words tonight.
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  • Thank you. and truth matters.
  • 00:18:14.489 --> 00:18:17.525
  • They don't make them like you anymore.
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  • Or even if you come down here to nashville.
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  • Thank you for taking a few moments with us.
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  • I like to get down in nashville.
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  • I've been there in a while
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  • And i appreciate you having me on allen.
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  • It's always great to talk with you. enjoy the season.
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  • You know, moment there is hope.
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  • The truth cuts through everything.
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  • I appreciate bill o'reilly reminding us that we,
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  • Each one, have to be truth tellers
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  • In our own homes, with our own families and friends.
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  • We can't outsource the truth, get outsourced to politicians.
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  • We can't even outsource it to pastors.
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  • We have to choose to be people of the truth.
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  • It was a good reminder.
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  • Don't imagine that the politicians
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  • Control all the power.
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  • You and i, being people of integrity, living for the truth.
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  • We can make changes at our kitchen table.
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  • And if we do that with enough frequency,
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  • We'll change the culture in which we live.
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  • I believe we have to shape the culture
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  • And not be shaped by it.
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  • With god's help, i believe we can watch that happen.
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  • I'm alan jackson.
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  • I thank you for spending a few moments of your day with us,
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  • And i pray you have a blessed evening.
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