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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: Drug War | Allen Jackson Now | December 17, 2025

Good evening and welcome to nashville.
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I'm alan jackson.
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Several wars have been settled this year,
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But russia is still in ukraine, and small
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Groups of hamas are still making trouble in gaza.
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The pentagon
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Is pushing to stop the flow of drugs from venezuela.
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And then there's china going full steam ahead on building
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Weapons of war.
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So tonight, we've invited back former naval intelligence
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Officer and official of the bush administration, don bremer.
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Welcome back to the program, sir.
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Thank you very much.
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It is wonderful to be back.
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Well, let's start with venezuela.
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President trump is not speaking publicly about his strategy,
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Which is obviously the right way to handle tactical missions.
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But it does seem that what's going on
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Has the potential to be larger
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Than just taking down the drug runners.
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Listen to how the secretary of state describes it.
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What the president has authorized
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Is a counter drug mission in the region.
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The fact that maduro is upset about it tells you
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The drugs are coming out of venezuela.
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The maduro regime is not a legitimate government.
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What it is is a transshipment organization.
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It allows cocaine
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And other drugs that are produced in colombia
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To be traffic
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Through venezuelan territory
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And with the cooperation of elements of the regime,
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Are allowed to sail out on airplanes and leave venezuela
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On airplanes and ships headed towards the united states.
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What do you make of what's going on,
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Including the seizing of that big oil tanker?
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Well, you know, just as the secretary said,
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You know, as the small boats are basically being targeted
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And eliminated, you know,
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Like any other business, when you start disrupting
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One method of logistics, you're going to look for others.
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And like the secretary said,
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It's by ship and by sea and by land.
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So what they're doing, and i think
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One of the biggest reasons we see this oil tanker
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Is that if you can't if you're taking out the small boats,
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Then you're going to start looking for other opportunities.
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And i believe that's what this freighter was.
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Well, on the question of the taking out the high speed
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Drug boats in their couriers,
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There's pressure on the pentagon
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To release the video of the second hit.
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But i don't hear anyone asking for pictures.
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Of the 100,000 americans who die each year from drug overdoses.
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You know, we don't see them on the evening news.
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But don't
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You think
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Most americans are happy about shutting down the drug dealers?
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I think they are.
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And, you know,
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People are upset about what they call
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In the military world, a double tap.
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No one really got really upset when obama was doing
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A double taps, you know, in yemen and across the globe.
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And what we're not hearing,
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You know, the people who are complaining
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Are not our allies and partners in the caribbean.
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You know, where are they?
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They're not complaining because they see this for what it is.
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And if maduro was a legitimate
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President and a legitimate government,
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He would be happy as our normal president would be
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To take out the cancer of drugs from your country.
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We know he profits from this
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And he's going to find other allies.
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If not, like i said, if not by sea, by land.
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You know, i think we should look at our border.
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Makes it our border secure.
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Because that to me, where the next drugs
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Will come from in a larger volume.
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Look, i can't tell you a family in this country
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That hasn't been touched by illegal drugs.
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My own.
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It has been, you know, toxic on my own family.
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So any family that's been touched,
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You know, just a few weeks ago, we had more than ten students
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From providence, rhode island that were overdose in one night.
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I'd say, you know,
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Those targets, those drugs,
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Whether it's cocaine or fentanyl
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How much is russia involved in helping maduro?
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And what about cuba?
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How could they be helping?
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Well, you know, if you look around maduro,
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You're going to find cuban defense forces,
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Cubans, special agents.
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His entire security apparatus
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For his person and his family are all cuban.
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And i think that's why
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The secretary of state takes this so personal.
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Well, there was some frightening new data that just came out on
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Who got through
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To the united states when biden left the border open,
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18,000 terrorists and people working with the terrorist
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Are roaming the country.
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And yet we've all seen the protesters pushing back
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On the national guard and ice for trying to arrest them.
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Do you think we have enough manpower working on this
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And can we possibly get them all?
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Absolutely not.
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And that's sad to say.
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But what i always tell one to remember, you know,
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If you look back to that tragic day in 2001,
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It took less than a handful to kill more than 3000 americans.
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And to take down two buildings and to hit our pentagon.
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What do you think a number
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Like what we're seeing right now can do to this country?
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If you tell me that there are not people
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That have nefarious wishes against this country,
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And they're looking to do bad things,
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That i think you're living in a fantasy world.
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You know, i've read some recent polling that said the american
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Support for rounding those people up is cratering.
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Why do you think the americans are changing their opinions?
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Well, i think part of that is
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What we hear is what a lot of news outlets want us to hear.
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You know, in walking around d.c., there's
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There's always countless signs for, acting,
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Asking people to get involved in protest.
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You know, over the last several years,
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And especially under un, under president biden, people
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Learned how to make protesting a business a big business.
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You know, that
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Where there's corporate money that goes into these protests.
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So it kind of narrates and dictates
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The language that is here.
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And a lot of people
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Who don't pay attention to the rest of the world,
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They think that's what they're supposed to believe.
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You know, i
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A good quote that,
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Senator mcconnell once told me about washington
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Is, you know, welcome to 50mi█ surrounded by reality.
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And we have to remember that
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Sometimes the rest of the country
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And you get into the good heartland states,
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They really don't think about these things.
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They just think about what they see on tv.
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Well, don, we need to take a short break.
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Can you stay for another segment?
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Absolutely. would love to.
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We'll be right back.
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We'll be right back.
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We're back now
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With the chairman of the bramer group
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And the former naval intelligence
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Officer, don bremer.
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I'd like to ask about the latest from ukraine and putin.
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You know,
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It's come up on for years now since russia invaded ukraine,
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More than a decade since putin began
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His move on crimea in the donbas region.
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President trump
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Has put a lot of time into trying to get putin
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And zelensky to settle their differences,
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But he's now suggesting that things could get much worse
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If the fighting doesn't stop.
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Listen to what he said.
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I'd like to see the killing stopped.
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25,000 people died last month.
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Soldiers, mostly soldiers.
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But some people, also with bombs were dropped.
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But for the most part, 25,000 soldiers died last month.
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I would love to see it stop.
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Everybody keeps playing games like this.
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You'll end up
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In a third world war, and we don't want to see that happen.
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Do you think a third world war could happen?
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If this is just left to putin and zelensky, without the u.s.
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Trying to settle things?
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You know, world wars have started for a lot less.
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I hope that we don't get to that point.
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It's difficult and it's sad.
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And i like
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I like to hear the compassion that we hear
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In our president's voice when he talks about it,
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That he really does care about trying to save human life.
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I think for both putin and zelensky,
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They both have to learn what the word compromise really means
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And quit digging their heels in, because the only way to truly
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Find common ground
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Is to find out what you can both agree on and move forward.
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The u.s. is taking the right steps.
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You know,
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If you look at the original plan, it was a 28 point plan.
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Now we're about 19 points that both sides are starting to
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Agree on.
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But compromise takes both sides.
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And and, you know, zelensky
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Just seems where he doesn't want to give anything.
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And he just wants, wants and wants.
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That's what being a president.
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But it also realized that, you know,
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What is more important, your own ambitions
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Or the livelihood of your citizens.
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Well, it
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Seems to me we have some options for leverage with zelensky.
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Do we have any real leverage with putin?
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I think we do have options and leverage with putin.
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You know, you look at the sanctions,
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The oligarchs who are controlling,
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Who are losing a lot of money,
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They have lost a lot that have been frozen.
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And let's be honest, the oligarchs control putin.
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So as long as we're
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Putting sanctions or pressure on the oligarchs,
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They'll keep putting pressure on putin.
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Well, zelensky wants security guarantees
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Of the europeans seem prepared to give him.
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But putin was part of ukraine that no one wants to give him
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Outside of a buffer zone.
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Do you see any resolution to that?
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You know, i'd like to see that.
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You know that putin won't get, a little bit of something,
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But i think he's going to have to have something to take home.
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And reason for that
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Is there's been a lot of a lot of lives lost.
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You know, a lot of the treasure, a lot of the economy
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That russia has held
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Has, has been lost over this four year period.
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It you know, what he expected to be,
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You know, a quick one week campaign
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Has turned into four years.
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And he's had
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He has to have something to show about that or his own people.
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His own government will turn against him.
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So both sides are going to have to give a little bit.
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Putin may not get as much as he wants,
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But he's going to have to get something.
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Well, let's move to china.
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You know, it's anyone's
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Guess when the chinese will move on taiwan.
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But the general feeling is that they'll wait
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Until president trump leaves office.
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They've certainly been on
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A building binge of a lot of military equipment.
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What are you hearing?
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And do you think we'll have the strength
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To stop them when and if they move on?
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Taiwan?
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Well, you're right about one thing.
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I think that had the president not won last year,
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They would have already.
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They would already have been in taiwan.
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So what holds them now is the fact that
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President trump is in office and they are afraid of him.
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That should tell america a lot.
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We need to keep voting the way we voted last year
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When it comes to 2026,
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And we certainly need to keep voting that way again
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In the next four years when we have another election.
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Deterrence and strength are the biggest thing
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That helps this world and helps this country.
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You know, china has one thing that we don't have.
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They have the ability to control our workforce
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And the ability to take a civilian plant
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Or a civilian shipyard and turn it into a military one.
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We don't do that here because we have, you know,
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We have a defense industrial base
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And we have a shipyard.
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You know, one day in china, you can build a freighter,
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The next day you're building a battleship.
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It doesn't matter.
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They're, you know, you have to go to work there
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If you don't go to work, well, guess what?
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Your family doesn't eat.
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So there's a lot to be said for a communist countries.
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I think we do need to put a lot of pressure on our own people.
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And that means pressure by education, means pressure
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By incentives.
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You know, let's make a workforce
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That's suitable and sustainable here in the united states,
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Where we can build our own.
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We've done this before.
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We showed the world what we can do in the 1940s.
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And that's what i think america needs to learn how to do again.
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Well, i think americans are addicted to so much
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Of the affordable products that come to us from china.
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How do we help the american people understand
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The real threat that china poses to our freedoms and liberties?
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You know, i think that's a thought
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Process, alan, that's just going to take decades.
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You know, it took many years for us to get to where we are.
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You know,
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We indoctrinated generations of children to to understand that
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All these comforts in life don't come with a cost
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That you need, all these degrees
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That really don't mean anything because you have a phd.
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That's a marissa.
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Now we need to understand that trades are good,
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Skills are good, and that it's okay to work in industry.
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So we need we need to start in our education system.
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We need to start
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Teaching our children of why these things are important,
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And realize that there's a whole lot more important things
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In this world
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Than just comforts of life, because everything that we do
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That they do, we can do here, we can do it just as well.
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We've just got to work on our pricing structure.
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That's good.
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Well, before we run out of time, i want to ask about the war
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On christians, in this case, christians in africa.
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Nigeria is the latest example.
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And president
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Trump has told our president that he's prepared
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To move on the terrorists there if they're not stopped.
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Do you think
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The nigerian government
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Can or will clean things up before that happens?
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I think the nigerian has the want to.
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The problem is the nigerian government
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Does not have the resources.
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You know, they have a very small,
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Law enforcement capability and an even smaller military
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There where these attacks are taking place
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Or in very, very rural areas.
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And it's just really hard to control expanse of land
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That much.
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I think that they're going to need help.
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And i think we have the ability to to move forward and do that.
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You know, dawn, somalia's been a problem
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For a long time to a tremendous loss of life.
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Do you think there's any chance that we can sort that out?
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You know, we've tried
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For many years to help somalia, and the government
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There just could not help itself because only the people who
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Were rich or wealthy or well, got richer and fatter
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And not much went to the people abroad.
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I think there's a lot of special interest groups
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That got money that made money off that.
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And i think our government may need to support them a lot more.
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Well, don bremer, thank you for joining us again today,
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And i hope you have
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A wonderful christmas with your family and friends.
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Allen, to you and your family.
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A very happy christmas, and we look forward
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To seeing you and working with you in 2026.
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Absolutely. and in a moment, the bright
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Light of hope in a troubled world.
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I'll be right back.
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I'll be right back.
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You know, during this season, people are preparing
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Christmas programs, concerts and nativities.
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I know we are here.
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They're buying gifts, baking cookies,
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Putting trees in their homes and gathering for parties.
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It's busy.
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There's often a lot of pressure with this holiday,
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But don't get pulled into thinking that it's
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About the gifts on your list or what
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Christmas party you choose to attend.
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I mean, there's nothing wrong with those things.
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They're expressions and celebrations
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Of jesus arrival into time,
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And i think god loves it when his people have fun.
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But i want us to pray that in the midst of all the hustle
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And bustle and the decorations
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And our preferences and our lists, that jesus name
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Would be exalted above all.
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You know, we live in a troubled world,
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And we can't afford
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To hide behind our abundance and forget that.
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When the ukraine war first began for weeks,
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I was on zoom
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Calls on a regular basis with leaders
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In the christian community in ukraine.
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It was tragic to hear the stories,
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The civilian populations being targeted,
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The apartment buildings that were being
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Decimated by rocket fire.
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Well, unfortunately,
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It seems that bringing a swift and expeditious end to the war
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Isn't a top priority for the key leaders.
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We're approaching the four year anniversary of this
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Brutal conflict.
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It's as if human life is expendable.
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Just a number.
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Well, i'm thankful for the grown
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Up voices in our administration that are saying
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We have to bring a resolution.
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You know, we published a book some time ago called angels,
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Demons and you.
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So i guess my mind has been on a bit on that topic.
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There's a verse in hebrews that says we should be aware,
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Because sometimes
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We have entertained angels and didn't know it.
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I want to share an experience that i had here at the church
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A while back.
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Now i have a habit at the end of every service
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To stand at the altar and pray for people.
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Well, i had an experience when a man came.
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If there was a line of people and he waited
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Patiently his turn and he stepped up in a quiet,
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Very unassuming way, he introduced himself.
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He just told me his first name said it was benjamin.
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He got a bit of an accent, but it wasn't heavy.
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And he simply said, pastor,
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We have to pray that the war in ukraine will end.
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The war has to end.
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He said, i'm a pastor there and will you pray with me?
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We stopped and we had a prayer and that was all he said,
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And he slipped away.
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The conversation was brief. it was unusual.
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He didn't tell me about a church.
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You didn't tell me about a group of pastors.
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He didn't
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Ask for some sort of interaction or intervention on our part.
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He just slipped away.
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He didn't hand me a business card that said, i'm an angel.
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But there were enough unique
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Characteristics around that interaction.
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That is, i thought about it after the fact.
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I thought that was more
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Than an informal interaction with people.
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At the end of a service.
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And i've been praying
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Since that day until this that the war on ukraine will end.
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I want to ask you if you'll join me in that prayer assignment.
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There are thousands of people losing their lives every day.
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There are millions of people that have been displaced.
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And our prayers will make a difference.
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Let's join together in praying that that war god will bring
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To a conclusion.
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I'll be right back
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With your emails.
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With your emails.
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Thank you for taking the time to send us your emails.
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We read every one of them.
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The viewer on youtube commented, one of my team members and i
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Are both committed christians.
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I gave you the green light to decorate our area of the office.
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The rest of the team loved it and all joined in.
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Now there's a competition on who can decorate their area
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The best with the ceo judging the best area.
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It's opened up
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For carols to be played and is bringing
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Jesus back into the workplace.
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We're able to openly discuss
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Our faith with each other while other staff are present.
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I am hoping to put a prayer box on my desk
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And let the word of god get around.
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That is awesome.
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You know,
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I think it's wonderful
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If we take advantage of the opportunities
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We have in the marketplace or our workplace.
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We could also do it in our our private lives,
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Our personal lives this time of the year.
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There's an openness in the lives of people.
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We don't send christmas cards the way we once did,
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But you can take christmas gifts,
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Something small or simple to your neighbors,
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To your friends, to people you know
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That have had a difficult year.
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Just take a word of hope.
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A note of hope.
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Let this christmas be sure your focus isn't
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Just about on you and your list and your family.
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Let's look beyond the walls of our lives
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And see if we can't bring a blessing to others.
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In the midst of this season.
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One of you were asked, how can we show thankfulness
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To president trump and his cabinet
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And all the great commonsense decisions he has made?
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Can america send thank you cards and would they be received?
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I think any way we can use our voice to express approval
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Or support or appreciation for the decisions
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That the administration is making is a good idea,
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Even if they don't make them
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All the way into the oval office, into the resolute desk,
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The people around the president will read them.
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And i'm pretty sure those messages get passed along
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As much as any president i remember in a long time.
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It seems to me that president trump
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Is paying attention to the attitudes of the people.
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Thank you is always welcome.
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Beth t
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From illinois said, i'm watching your show
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Now, and i wonder what we do
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About the muslim invasion of our country.
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Well, we've taken a first step.
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We have closed the border,
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And we're going back to some sort
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Of a regulated immigration
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Policy that will make all of us safer.
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I think the other thing we can do is to educate ourselves
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About islam.
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We've been rather naive.
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We've been told repeatedly that islam is peaceful,
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That we shouldn't believe our lying eyes,
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And yet we see multiple expressions month after month of
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Violence that has been fostered from islamic communities.
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Now i understand there are peaceful muslims,
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But they don't at the moment seem to have the authority
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To monitor those amongst them who are not in the nations.
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In the world where islam is
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The predominant social political force.
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Those are not tolerant places.
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We've got to be more aware. we don't have to be angry.
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We don't need to be belligerent.
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We certainly have to be violent.
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We've got to know the truth so that we can make
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Better choices for ourselves.
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Finally, beth
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Commented on a recent facebook post,
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I remember when i was young watching the news
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With my parents.
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It was so different back then,
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At least in terms of how the anchors presented
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The news they presented with such neutrality.
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That is a young person who didn't really know
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What was going on
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After watching what they presented,
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I had no idea of what they were talking about.
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Was a good thing or a bad thing.
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Well, the world's changed.
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We've got infotainment.
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They're leaving,
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Letting people like me on to talk about current events.
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God's moving in the earth.
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We'll keep our focus on him.
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There's more reasons for hope than despair.
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I promise.
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I'm alan jackson, and i pray you have a wonderful evening.
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