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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: Energy Costs | Allen Jackson Now | September 24, 2025

Well, good evening and welcome to nashville.
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I'm allen jackson.
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Tides are turning in america after the death
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Of the christian martyr charlie kirk.
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This weekend,
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We saw powerful leaders of our nation proclaim
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The name of jesus and give him glory.
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Our vice president, jd vance,
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Said, as much as i love the lord,
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And as much as it was an important part of my life,
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I've talked more about jesus christ
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In the past two weeks
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That i have my entire time in public life.
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With this new hope on the horizon, should we expect
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To see that reflected economically as well?
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President trump seems to believe that this new tide
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Will continue to strengthen our nation and our economy.
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Listen to what he had to say
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At charlie kirk's memorial service.
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Now, just like
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Charlie and erica made turning point hot,
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We are looking at a country that has the chance to
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Attain a level like never before.
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Tariffs are making us rich again,
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Richer than anybody ever thought was possible.
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And the only one challenging them are people
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That hate our country,
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Or foreign countries that are paying a price
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Because they did the same thing to us for years.
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They took advantage of us.
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But we're we're making money.
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We're becoming richer and richer,
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And we're taking care of our people better and better.
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With that, i want to welcome back our guest
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Tonight, the chairman of annandale capital, george c.
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Thanks for joining us, george.
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Thank you allen great to be here as always.
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Let's go through the current state of the economy,
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Beginning with the lifeline of the economy,
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Oil and natural gas.
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A lot of it comes from texas, where you are.
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How much is a gallon of regular in dallas these days?
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Oh, it's so cheap.
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It's like 275 or something like that.
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And it's really interesting because i think that
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That a lot of people
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Around the rest of the country that don't really have oil
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And gas is a big business in their states,
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Think that there's no such thing as too low an oil price
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Or too low a natural gas price.
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But the reality is, this is one of the great,
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Business industries in our country right now.
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And when the price gets too low,
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You're going to have lots of layoffs
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And firings in the industry,
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And you're going to produce less of it.
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So we're a little below the price that we really need on
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Both these things to really make the industry still helpful.
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I think the sweet spot on oil and gas,
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Or oil prices in particular, is around 70 to $90
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A barrel, a natural gas, it's like 3 to 4 bucks.
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I'm worried about 270 on natural gas, and we're at about
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62 on oil, and that's a little bit low for the industry.
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So it's great for consumers, but we need to balance it out
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A little better going forward.
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Well the president is trying to squeeze vladimir
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Putin for continuing his efforts to take over ukraine.
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President trump has asked a number of foreign countries
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To stop buying oil from russia, to make money out of boot,
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Take money out of putin's ends that he uses for his military.
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Do we have enough oil here in the u.s.
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To sell to the countries that may shut off russia's pipeline?
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We don't.
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That's a good question.
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And we actually don't have enough, oil
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And gas production in our country to,
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Hit our supply and our demand needs, as our country.
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But the good news is, a lot of countries
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That are very favorably inclined to the us, including canada
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And mexico and several other big oil producing countries.
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Now guyana of all places, is producing an awful lot of oil
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Easily satisfy our supply needs, which means we can export
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Easily oil to the rest of the world.
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If we do that, i would say that that i would
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Deeply, appreciate if president trump would get
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A lot more aggressive with russia.
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I think it's way past time.
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And i think anybody who buys oil from
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The russians should have 100% u.s tariff slapped on them.
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I'm as you know,
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I'm not generally a big fan of tariffs,
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But when it's it's companies buying a rogue oil from russia
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While they kill hundreds and thousands of ukrainians.
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I'm all about slapping them with a giant tariff.
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I wish he get on with it. amen.
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President trump has complained more than once
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That the fed acted too late in cutting interest rates,
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But it does seem that the consensus is
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That they will drop another quarter point or more this year.
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The federal reserve governor, steven miron, thinks that things
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Are looking up.
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My economic outlook is pretty positive.
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I mean, i think the first half of the year
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Was not as strong as i would have hoped.
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But as i've said in other places,
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You know, i think a lot of it was due to uncertainty.
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We had uncertainty that we might have
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The biggest tax hike in history.
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We had uncertainty as we had a massive change in trade policy.
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That uncertainty is dissipated.
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George, do you agree with his outlook?
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Not particularly.
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I think that there's a lot of haze over the economy right now.
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I think that the fact the stock market
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Is trading at almost all time highs reflects the fact
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Our economy
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Has been incredibly resilient and continues
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To grow in the face of a whole lot of
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Of wind in their face in certain particular areas.
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But whether the fed, cuts fast enough to keep the economy going
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Or whether they have the ability to do that just today.
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Chairman green, chairman powell said
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That he thinks that inflation is still a threat
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And he's worried about the labor market.
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And he said the stock market's overvalued.
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He's objectively correct.
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The stock market is overvalued,
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But it can stay overvalued a lot longer than you can
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Complain about it being overvalued.
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And it's a lot of fun actually when it goes up that much
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Because everybody does really well financially.
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But i think we're at an interesting
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Pivot point right now, and i think
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It's really hard to tell which way it's going to go.
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Do we go into some giant recession?
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I don't think so.
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But will we accelerate our growth
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Or will it slacken out a bit?
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I think they're about it's about a coin flip
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On which way we're going to go with that.
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Well, outside of russia,
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China seems to always be needling
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The president on economic matters, the tariffs,
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Their full court press on building up their military.
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But they did agree to a deal
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On selling most of tiktok to american owners.
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It's clearly a compliment to president trump
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And his strength in negotiating.
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But knowing their history, i wonder if china
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Will quietly start to produce a tik tok replacement.
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What do you think?
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I think china is by far the bigger threat to us
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Long term than russia, and i don't think
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We've quite figured out how to face them off yet.
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I think they used to care deeply about tariffs and trade
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With the us and keeping,
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At least on the surface, nominally friendly relations
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With the us.
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And i think they're big enough and strong enough now.
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They've rejected that.
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And i think chairman xi is actually
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A very formidable negotiating adversary to president trump.
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I think they're kind of in a deathmatch right now.
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And they both have kind of dug in a little bit.
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And i think that
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How this turns out,
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Somebody said the other day
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That whoever wins the technology race on ai and nuclear power,
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So these other things that are going to be the be
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The big energy, demand sources and supply sources in the future
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Will be the most dominant power 50 or 100 years from now.
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And i still think we're on the inside track to be that power.
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But the chinese are the most formidable opponent
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We've had in well over 100 years,
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And there would be taken very seriously.
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Some people are saying that that the us
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Military is is harry pursue with china or even fall behind.
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I think that's a bunch of baloney.
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I think the us military is still
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The strongest force in the world.
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Our economy is still the strongest economy in the world.
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The chinese economy is a house of cards
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Bundle by a ton of debt.
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But it's such a big country with so many resources
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And quite a bit of significant soft and hard power
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That we've got to face them off for decades to come.
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And it's going to be a really tough fight,
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Which we will win eventually.
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George, can you stay with us for another segment
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While we squeeze in a short break?
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If you're watching at home, you can open up an outrage
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Now.com, and send us an email with your thoughts on
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What you'd like to see in your local economy
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This fall, and what other things are looking up where you are.
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I'll be right back.
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I'll be right back.
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We're back now
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With the chairman of annandale capital, george c.
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There's recent news of a massive bust of a telecom network
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That some foreign nation was building
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Within a wide range around new york.
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The network had 100,000 sim cards
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And the power to send out 30 million text messages.
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If it had been fully activated.
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The initial information points to china,
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But it could have been russia, iran,
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North korea or some other anti-american ring,
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And it easily could have said wall street into a tailspin.
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What are your thoughts
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On these increasing attacks on our infrastructure?
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You know, i think, allen, that we've become
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Really complacent as a country.
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We've been number one so long
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And we're so affluent and our military so powerful
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That i don't think we think
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About threat assessments very much or swot analysis.
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As as harvard business school espoused years ago
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Strength, weakness, opportunity, threat.
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I think china north korea, russia, venezuela, cuba.
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I mean, you
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Go down
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The list of rogue nations, iran that are our adversaries are
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Very significant adversaries, and they wish us ill.
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They want us to lose power.
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They want us. they want to kill our citizens.
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They're at war with us, whether we like it or not.
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And this is a great example of that is probably china.
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They're probably the ones
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With the capability to do this, but it might be
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One of the other countries.
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And we are kind of on a soft power war footing.
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And what i put by
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What i mean by that is we're not in a
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Shooting war with any of these countries yet.
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Hopefully never.
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But we are on a soft power war system with them.
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Whether there's espionage, there's cyber attacks.
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It's a full on a sore
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From all these countries to the us every day.
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And i am very proud of the trump administration,
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Because i do think they take this extremely seriously,
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And they're on it, and they don't have
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A sense of humor about it.
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And we've been missing that for a long time.
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I think the first trump
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Administration, they were kind of
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Get their sea legs a little bit
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And trying to figure out what they wanted to do,
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Where they wanted to go.
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And they were trying to offset
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Eight years of obama and then four years of biden after that.
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But i think they know exactly what they're doing now.
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And this is one thing
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That they're dead serious about finding out and destroying
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When they can find. and this is a great example of that.
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Well, if the president called you this week
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And asked for your economic advice
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Specifically, what could he do between now and the midterms
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To ensure the republicans keep control of congress?
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What would you tell him? you know, it's funny.
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It's funny.
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Allen i think people underestimate
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How powerful the bully pulpit is.
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And i think one reason the stock market's been doing so well
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And the economy continues to perform
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Better than that, frankly, i expected it to
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Is because the president
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Is such a tremendous cheerleader for the u.s.
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Economy.
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And i feel like he almost,
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Used the bully pulpit as as old teddy
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Roosevelt used to do very effectively
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To try to browbeat the market into continuing to go up
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And browbeat the economy, to continue to perform well,
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Even though there were quite a bit of headwinds to
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To both earlier in the year.
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And i think he's been highly successful at that.
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So i think maintaining a positive image,
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Positive rhetoric about the economy and how great
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The american consumer, american business,
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American trade, we're the number one power in the world.
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The more he beats
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The bully pulpit with that and encourages americans.
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I think that's infectious.
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And i think he'll make people continue to be optimistic
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And will continue to see our economy grow.
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I think it's an even more remarkable accomplishment
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With the headwinds
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Of all the anti-trump voices that are so prevalent.
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He still makes us feel good
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About what's happening in our country. it's amazing to watch.
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Yeah.
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And to your point about the charlie kirk funeral,
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It was interesting because, yes, he is a martyr, unfortunately.
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But he was a warrior while he was alive,
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And i think he did himself as a warrior that's gone home.
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And i had a friend call up and say his funeral
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Was going to cost 10 or $15 million,
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Which sounds kind of ridiculous, but when you think about
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How many people were there
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And what a witness for the gospel that was,
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And what an encouragement to have talk of grace
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And forgiveness and how important faith and
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And family are, and country
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And and step above all the negativity
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And the tragedy and horror of his death.
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These kind of encouraging things kind of build our country up
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And give this euphoria of optimism
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That we really need to take the next step up as a country.
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It reminds me
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A little bit of ronald reagan's second term, when everybody was
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So optimistic.
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I think there's the chance we can have some more of that.
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Wow. well, the democratic party has made a big push in texas,
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Particularly by trying to fill the stay
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With migrants who they assumed would vote for democrats.
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What are you seeing on the ground where you are?
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Have the democrats been able to increase their numbers
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In and around texas, whether it's illegally or illegally?
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You know, it's it's
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It's it's boomeranged on them and booby trapped on them both.
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And this is not widely known, but they had taken
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For granted the hispanic vote for many years.
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They used to vote roughly 7030 for democrats.
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President bush was the only one who broke even with him.
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He got about a 5050 vote count with hispanics, but
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Legal hispanics who immigrated here
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Through the legal system appropriately and weren't
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Illegal immigrants came here the right way.
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They resent all this
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Illegal immigration because it's a
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Threat to their jobs and their families.
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So they've gone from 70, 30 democrat
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To roughly 5050 at this point,
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Some some counties, and completely flipped to
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To the republicans from the democrats,
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Which is an astounding change.
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And then beyond
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That, it's not widely known that there has been a major effort
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The last four cycles after ted cruz
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Barely squeaked by to reelection
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In 2018 over, robert francis o'rourke,
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Karl rove has spearheaded a statewide effort
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To register conservative faith based voters.
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And in the last four cycles, we've we've,
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We've registered about
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Another 1 million new voters in texas that are conservatives.
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And many of people of faith.
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And then there's a giant get the get the vote out
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Effort to get them to the polls.
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And you look at the 2020 election
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And the president won the state,
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Even though he lost the election by about six points,
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Which was the tightest margin in a long time.
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And now, only four years later, he won the state by around 12,
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13, 14 points.
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I don't remember the exact number,
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But roughly double what he got only four years before.
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And that's a direct product of registering
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A whole lot more conservative voters.
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So we brought a lot more trump, conservative,
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Patriotic texans, to vote than the democrats had by a mile.
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And that's created a gap that they just can't overcome.
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Their, their, their desire
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To make texas purple or blue is just pipe dream.
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It's not going to happen.
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So, george, you've been deeply involved
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In republican politics for years.
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Tell us your thoughts on the loss of charlie kirk
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And how this will affect the republican party moving forward.
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Well,
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It's it's i say i address that with some humility
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And some reflection
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Because i don't want
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To step away from the tragedy of having such an
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Outstanding young man and husband and father
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Taken away from us
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In such a horrible way at such an early point life.
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But it's a funny thing that, you know,
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Whether it's the john f kennedy assassination or reagan
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Getting shot or now this
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Or president trump getting shot a year and a half ago,
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I think people tend to rally around the flagpole
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When these kind of things happen and give kind of a, a,
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A shout out to the rest of the country to rally around
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The patriotic cause of, of supporting america
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And endorsing america.
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And i think a lot of good is going to come from this.
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And i think
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Turning point has lost its chief spokesman and cheerleader.
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But i think it might come back even stronger than before,
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Because it's going to encourage a lot of young people to,
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Look into charlie kirk and look into the organization
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And flip them to conservative voting patterns.
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And i think the democrats,
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Especially the far left aoc, this new mayoral candidate
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In new york,
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Young people are looking at that and going,
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I that's just way too out there for me.
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And the only other option they've got is to vote
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Republican. and i think you're going to see a lot of that
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With george c.
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Thank you for joining us tonight.
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I hope we can have you back again soon.
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You bet. allen thanks a lot.
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When i come back, something i could accurately predict,
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Hoped at last.
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Even more so if you listen closely, i'll be right back.
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Even more so if you listen closely, i'll be right back.
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Because some funds are saying
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Times will get tougher and the economy will get worse.
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Some are saying the administration
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Is leading us down a path of conflict.
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The tariff confrontation with china, additional tariffs
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On countries that do business with russia.
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Decisions counter decisions.
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Well, our grocery prices go up.
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Well, everything costs more.
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It can be unsettling,
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But i don't believe conflict is a bad thing.
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In fact,
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I believe peace and conflict can actually survive together.
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I don't believe they're mutually exclusive.
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But even in this season of uncertainty, we can't lose
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Sight of the fact that god is moving in the earth,
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But he isn't moving in the ways that i would have expected.
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Look at what took place at charlie kirk's memorial service.
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It was a season of tremendous grief, and yet we saw political
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Leaders, industry titans, media influencers, pastors,
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Over 100,000 people
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Both inside and outside a stadium in arizona.
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And they came to honor the life and legacy of charlie kirk.
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The memorial service quickly turned into a worship
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Service, with the name of jesus lifted up throughout the day.
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Rod mccoy, charlie kirk's pastor who was at our recent culture
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And christianity conference,
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Presented the gospel to millions
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Who watched the service worldwide.
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Even secretary of state marco
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Rubio ended his remarks
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With a short sermon on the redemptive work of christ.
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Charlie kirk's memorial service turned into one of the biggest
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Evangelistic moments in history.
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Only god can take a tragedy, take something
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That the enemy meant for evil, and turn it into good.
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That we may grieve, charlie.
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But if you watch that memorial service,
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I want to suggest to you that god can take the things
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In our own personal lives that feel tragic,
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Unwanted, uninvited, and make us feel desperate.
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And he, through
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His power, can bring hope to the midst of our lives.
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We need to hold that belief and encourage one another.
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If we do that, hope will grow.
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We'll be right back with your emails.
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We'll be right back with your emails.
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Thank you for taking the time to send your emails.
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They are always a highlight for us.
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Pat jackson questioned.
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I'm so confused about others going
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Scorched earth against israel
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Since charlie kirk was assassinated.
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Is their prime minister a good guy or not?
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Is this administration in america
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Supporting israel as we should?
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Can we separate supporting israel
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From supporting israel's government?
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I need spiritual understanding.
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Well, pat, those are good questions.
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You know, the israeli political scene is as divided
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As the one here in america.
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So the opinion on their prime
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Minister will depend upon who you ask.
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And depending on where in the world
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You ask the question.
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You know,
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I don't believe we have a biblical obligation
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To support the government of israel.
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I believe we have a biblical obligation
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To support the jewish people and the idea of a jewish state.
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I think the scripture
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Clearly tells us that god promised that land
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To the descendants of abraham, isaac, and jacob forever.
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And i believe we are obligated to the jewish people.
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The book of romans tells us that without them
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We would have no scripture.
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We would have had no prophets. we wouldn't have known the law.
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We would have no messiah.
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In short, we would have no story.
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So while we owe a debt to the jewish people
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That i believe we're responsible to pray for,
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The peace of jerusalem, of the inhabitants of the land,
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Doesn't mean we have to support everything
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Their government does. we need some wisdom.
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Lauralee in texas wrote.
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Thank you
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For bringing the persecution of african christians to light.
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It's been going on for years.
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In our first year as missionaries
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In nigeria in 1965,
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We witnessed the killings of christians on the street
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In front of our house as part of area wide riots.
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Shining
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Light in the darkness is a good first step in exposing evil.
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Well, laura lee, you're right.
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There has been much suffering
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Of the body of christ throughout the earth,
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Particularly in many of the african nations.
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They deserve our prayers, our efforts on their behalf.
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You know, we live a pretty isolated life here in america.
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We tend to worship at the altar of comfort and convenience.
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Most of our brothers and sisters
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Throughout the world wouldn't even understand that.
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We need to pray for them,
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Those who are suffering in so many places in the world.
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Thank you for spending a few minutes with us today.
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I'm allen jackson and i pray you have a wonderful evening.
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