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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: Energy Dominance | Allen Jackson Now | April 23, 2026

Well, good evening and welcome to nashville.
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I'm alan jackson.
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Just like we turned on our kitchen faucet
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And water comes out.
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We never think twice about
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Whether there'll be
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Gas for our cars when we squeeze the nozzle at the pump.
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But that's not something
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We should always take for granted.
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When joe biden moved into the white house,
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One of the first things he did
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Was to shut down the keystone pipeline
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And all that oil from canada.
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Then he froze the permitting for u.s.
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Drilling. well, in terms of energy security,
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We were going backwards.
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But knowing that energy security and national security are one
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And the same.
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President trump campaigned on drill, baby drill.
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And not long after he returned to washington,
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The united states became energy independent.
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Not only that, but we were drilling so much
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That we've been selling
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The overflow to other countries that don't have any oil.
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Imagine where we'd be today with iran's oil
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Mostly stuck in their pipelines.
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Had we not had our own supply.
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Picture the ayatollah showing off his missiles,
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Threatening the rest of the world,
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And banking on
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Not just the billions of dollars that biden and obama gave him,
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But the money and weapons he's been getting from china.
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Well, that's not a pretty picture.
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Instead, what's left of iran's leadership is facing
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The strongest military on earth, and they now have zero
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Income from what had been a big time oil program.
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Iran has no energy security and a very crippled military.
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They've got no
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Funding for hamas, hezbollah and the houthis.
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And soon food and other shortages
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May well set off
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Millions of iran citizens to rise up and take over.
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We can only hope.
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Well, there's a
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Strategy that has been in play in our nation for decades.
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It's the ascendancy of globalism and the diminishment
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Of nationalism.
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If you want to promote the globalist worldview,
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The effect is you must diminish other allegiances.
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The obama administration pushed the iran nuclear deal,
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Lifting sanctions and reengaging iran diplomatically.
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Well, all it did was empower a regime tied to terrorism.
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Billions in sanctions
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Relief flowed back into the hands of the mullahs in iran.
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Obama also delivered more than $50 billion in cash
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To iran without congressional approval.
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He said it was not part of a treaty,
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And it didn't require congressional oversight.
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Well, in 2017, president obama gave $300 million
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To the palestinians
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For the construction of concrete production facilities.
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There are no production receipts,
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But it seems more than obvious that much of the concrete
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Found its way to tunnels for hamas terrorists,
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Not homes for citizens.
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We've seen the push for globalism
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And the diminishment of america play out
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With how the media and d.c.
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Influential framed the war in iran.
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When we attacked iran, it was clear
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That the radical islamic regime was equipped and intent
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On inflicting a tremendous amount of damage
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With their missiles, their drones,
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And their production facilities.
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They were not a paper tiger.
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They fully intended to use their capabilities
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To bring destruction on innocent lives,
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Including utilizing their terror proxies.
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There were people killed in lebanon
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Recently by ieds that hezbollah had planted.
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Hezbollah is as much a part of iran as the marines are a part
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Of the united states.
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They are recruited, supplied and commanded by iranians.
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When we say hezbollah,
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We're not talking about some separate people group.
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Hezbollah is the iranian militia.
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Hezbollah is under the authority of iran.
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So iran is killing people in lebanon.
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Well, they're trying to negotiate peace in pakistan.
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We cannot be fooled.
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Every time we think now we can make peace with iran.
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It's a slippery slope
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Because to have a legitimate peace deal,
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You must have people of integrity
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With which to negotiate.
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And iran simply doesn't meet that standard.
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Wherever islam is, the primary political influence.
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It is anything but tolerant.
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And it isn't peaceful.
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It's oppressive.
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Well, now we're in a global energy
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Crisis due to the events at the strait of hormuz.
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How did the world become so vulnerable so suddenly?
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Well, perhaps it wasn't so suddenly.
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Instead of nations making decisions
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Based on their own strength,
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They outsource those decisions to international agreements.
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It was president
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Obama who bypassed congress by formally committing the u.s.
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To the paris climate agreement.
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The paris agreement.
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It sounds good on paper.
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Reduce emissions, protect the planet.
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But at what cost?
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America starts pulling back on fossil fuels.
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President barack obama rejected the keystone pipeline in 2015,
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Arguing it was not in the national interest.
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And then he tried to tie it to climate concerns.
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Europe went even further by shutting down nuclear plants,
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Restricting energy production, putting everything on renewables
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Before the infrastructure was ready.
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We've seen the push for globalism
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And the diminishment of america
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Play out in our schools and universities.
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They've highlighted the weaknesses
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Of the founders and historical weaknesses,
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Whether it was slavery or women's rights.
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Then they cherry pick which ones to highlight.
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The globalists try to create generations of americans
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Who don't love america, but they don't bring the same kind
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Of scrutiny to other places in the world like china.
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I don't think god is uniquely american,
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But god in his wisdom has planted me here.
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So i will unapologetically pray for our nation.
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We have an assignment
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To bring a biblical worldview forward in the public square.
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That's the gift
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Christians play in any culture where they find themselves
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As christ followers.
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Our influence should
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Bring an uplift to the behaviors in every place we are.
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That goes for any nation.
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I pray that by next easter, a biblical worldview
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Will be tolerated and celebrated in the streets of tehran.
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Still unclear what might ultimately happen with iran,
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But america's energy security.
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It's safe.
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We'll discuss that and the state of the overall economy
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In just a moment.
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When we're joined by george c,
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The chairman of annandale capital,
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Coming to us from dallas.
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I'll be right back.
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I'll be right back.
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You know, it's been
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Interesting to see that
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While much of iran's military was destroyed,
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Most of the fighting only stopped
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When their broken leadership saw their income drying up.
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No oil sales means no money coming in and no new weapons.
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China might be a good partner
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For them,
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But xi jinping isn't giving the weapons away for free.
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Well, joining us tonight to discuss
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All of this is the chairman of annandale capital, george c.
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Welcome back sir.
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Thank you alan.
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Always great to be here.
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Know it's been clear from the start
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That president trump is determined to shut down
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Any attempt by iran to build a nuclear weapon.
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But right now, the immediate weapon of choice is the oil.
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Iran has a lot of it, and they've been selling
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The majority of it to china
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And using that income
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To buy a very large stock of chinese weapons.
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Do you agree at this point
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In the battle,
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Our best move is to continue to choke off
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Iran's oil sales and to keep that embargo in place.
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You know, it's funny you say that.
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I wanted to do that day one.
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I wish they hadn't waited two months to do that.
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I thought that was the leverage we had over
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Iran, and i actually wanted to bomb
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All their infrastructure initially.
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And destroy it
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So that that to me, that that's the way
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You bring them to their knees and bring them to heel and,
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And get their nuclear materials and shut down the the threat.
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They've been to the middle east the entire world
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Once and for all, and we just haven't done that yet.
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So hopefully pretty soon we'll be able to accomplish that.
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But it's a long slog right now.
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It is.
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You know,
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I don't think most people were paying it much attention
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To the president's drill baby drill mantra
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When he was running for office,
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But it sure
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Looks like he
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Set the table quite effectively
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For wearing his other hat as commander in chief.
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Do you agree that by not being dependent on anyone
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And making us the biggest oil producer
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In the world,
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That he's put us in a position
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Of dominance for a war like this?
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Well, i'd love to give him credit for that,
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But i frankly don't think he deserves the credit for that.
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I think the texas oil
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And gas industry deserves the credit for that.
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They they revolutionized fracking by combining fracking
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With horizontal drilling.
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And if you look at new mexico, oklahoma
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And texas in particular,
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And if you at louisiana, a few other states as well.
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Oil production in the united states
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Has gone from 4 million barrels a day
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In 2005 to 14 million barrels a day today.
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So that's been a long process over 21 years.
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And i just tip my hat to the patriotic men
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And women of the oil
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And gas industry for
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Giving us that kind of leverage and that kind of advantage.
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And to your point,
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It gives president trump the not only of the bully pulpit,
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But a big stick to use in terms
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Of dealing with other countries.
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If you look at global power right now, the number one soft
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Power outside of a hot war in the world is is energy.
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And we've got more of it than any other country in the world.
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We should celebrate that. it's a big deal.
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Well, venezuela has a lot
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Of oil too, which turned out to be a bonus for the us.
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When president trump sent troops
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To capture their drug dealing president outside of the oil,
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The president was sickened at the number of u.s.
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Drug deaths as nicolas maduro was getting rich.
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Here's how the secretary of state explained it.
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It was also a place where you had a narco
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Trafficking regime that openly cooperated
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With the fark and the eln and other
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Drug trafficking organizations, using their national territory.
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It was an enormous strategic risk for the united states,
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Not halfway around the world, not in another continent,
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But in the hemisphere in which we all live.
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So we shut down the drug dealing and captured the oil instead.
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Oil that china is very interested in
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Seemed like a pretty smart move internationally.
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Am i correct
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That iran?
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Both are. actually,
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China is very dependent on outside sources of oil.
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So that's a big leverage point.
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The president is actively pursuing against china
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Our enemy. and let's be straight.
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They're not a competitor. they're an enemy at this point.
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And i know marco really, really well.
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The secretary of state i've known him for for 15 years.
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And he's spot on with all that.
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And give him credit, he's been pounding the table
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To deal with venezuela and cuba, both for many, many years.
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And i hope cuba's next.
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I mean, the misery in cuba and the poor,
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Cuban populace that have just suffered for decades now.
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Hopefully we can end that soon
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And give a breath of fresh air and freedom to the cubans
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Because they desperately need it. that's a very sad place.
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I know lots of
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Friends and acquaintances who've been there
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On missionary trips to try to bring christianity to cubans,
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And they don't have much hope, so they're ripe for the gospel.
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And i'm hopeful that the cubans will follow the venezuelans
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In short order in terms of having more freedom
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And more independence and more prosperity.
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I've been praying for weeks that next easter in tehran
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And havana, they'll be celebrating jesus in public.
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That's a very worthwhile prayer.
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I'm glad you're doing, and i'm going to join you in that.
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All right. we'll celebrate together.
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President trump took aim at china with
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For their fentanyl dumping here.
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China claims to have slowed down their drug exports.
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That's likely to come up
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When she and the president meet in person.
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What else?
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What other expectations do you have from that meeting?
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I have very few, to be honest.
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I think chairman xi is a dictator
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And a malevolent person on the global stage.
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I think he's been terrible for china
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And the chinese people, and he's very loath
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To give any kind of concessions to president trump.
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I wish him i wish president trump the best,
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And i hope he comes up with something.
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But we've been bringing up the fentanyl issue for years,
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And they haven't really done anything
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To stem the flood of fentanyl
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That comes in our country and kills our citizens.
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It's very disheartening.
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China is an evil place.
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Let's be straight and it desperately needs help.
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And the underground church desperately needs freedom.
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Yeah, we've seen those global map showing
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Dozens of oil tankers heading to the us,
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The ones that had been sailing toward the strait of hormuz
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But decided it's not worth the risk.
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My question is, do we have enough oil
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To satisfy everyone who wants to buy it?
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Not around the world.
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No, we don't produce that much, but we're very safe here.
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And we'll have plenty of oil right here.
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And, you know, i think people have been
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Wringing their hands over the price of oil.
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And to be quite frank, it's kind of silly.
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People forget so quickly.
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And you go back to 2008, and from 2000 to 2008,
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The price of oil went from $11 a barrel to $148 a barrel.
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And if you extrapolate through inflation, $148 barrel in 2008,
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You probably end up with about $250 a barrel
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Oil equivalent price today, and worried about 95 bucks.
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And the american economy can easily weather 70 to $100 oil.
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We people also forget it.
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From 2011 and 2015, the price of oil
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Rarely went under $100 a barrel, and the economy chugged along
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And did fine and didn't go into recession.
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So as long as we stay in this range, we're fine.
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It's once
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We get to 130, one 4150,
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You start to get in real trouble in the economy.
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So we don't want to go there.
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But the american oil and gas industry has gotten
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So much larger than it was 20 years ago
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That we actually benefit
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From oil prices from 70 to $100 a barrel instead of 5560.
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Well, george, we need to take a short break.
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Can you stay with us for another segment?
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Yes, sir. will do.
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And if you want to share your thoughts
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And our discussion,
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You can log on to aj now.com and send me an email.
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You can see how easy that is.
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I'll be right back.
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We're back now with george c.
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He's the chairman of annandale capital.
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J.d. vance has been put in charge
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Of stopping the stealing of government funds.
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In other words, the money we pay in our taxes.
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The white house estimates that the national fraud
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Could be as much as $1 trillion a year.
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Should be the focus of every state,
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Not just california and minnesota.
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Can you imagine being able to pay down the $39 trillion
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Debt, $1 trillion a year each year?
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That's an amazing thought. is it really that much for george?
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There's so much fraud.
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Who knows how much there really is. we'll never find out.
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And unfortunately for us, we don't have to be the ones
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In charge
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Of finding every little cockroach
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Underneath the table, because there's a lot of them.
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But it's great.
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They're finally cleaning that up,
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And i hope the vice president can put a scalp
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On the wall from that and have a big success there,
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Because he's had a rough go of it lately, whether it's,
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Not negotiating with the iranians
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Successfully in pakistan or it's trying to prop up
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Viktor orban in hungary, unsuccessfully.
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He's had kind of a rough run.
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So i hope this is a big success for him.
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Amen.
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Well, there's
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Another case of stealing, but there's a lot more to it.
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The fbi announced the results of a stunning investigation,
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Not just about stealing, but of stoking racial hatred.
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The southern poverty law center has been charged
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With 11 counts of wire and bank fraud for paying sources
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To drive racial hatred, rather than working to stop it.
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It's much like the fireman who lights the match.
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They used taxpayer money
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And donations to drive their sick agenda.
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Listening to acting attorney general
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Todd blanch, as he described it,
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After
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Splc paid members of these extremist groups,
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It created work product that reported on these activities
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That the members participated in or contributed to.
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And to that end,
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It was doing the exact opposite of what it's told.
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Its donors it was doing,
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Not dismantling extremism, but funding it
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Even worse.
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The investigation
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Has been going on for years,
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But was stopped during the biden's term.
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Any come on comment on that debacle?
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George?
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These guys have been malevolent actors on the american
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Landscape for decades now, and i'm so glad
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They're being brought to heel and exposed
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For whatever hateful, biased, toxic organization they are.
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And this is one thing i just love about the president
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And his administration.
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There's some things i don't like,
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But this one in particular, he goes after the bad actors.
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He is not shy about
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Bringing to heel
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These bad actors who take advantage
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Of the government and government funding and everything else.
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And it's about time.
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So i salute him and i salute everybody bringing them to heel.
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They need to be.
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Well, there's another big
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Issue out there this time is the fbi director, kash patel.
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He's been ramping up his public statements
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About the 2020 election
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And to what extent fraudulent voting was a part of it.
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He says that the fbi investigators
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Now have the evidence to prove that 2020 was indeed rigged.
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Would you like to comment on that, too?
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While the investigation is continuing?
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I'm one of the concerns out there in the country
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That i think
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We need to move on, that talking about an election
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Six years ago is not healthy for america.
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I want to move on.
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I don't think we have to rehash that election,
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But i think we should put every safeguard
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And we know how to in place
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That the ones going forward are fair, and u.s.
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Citizens are the ones who get the vote.
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Does that make sense?
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The the american people deserve nothing less.
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I 100% agree with that.
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And i also think that anybody who opposes voter id
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Legislation is crazy.
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I mean, there's no valid reason why
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You shouldn't have to produce something that shows
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You are who you are when you go in
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And exercise the great privilege of voting.
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And one of the things i'm most grateful
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To this administration for is
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They're at least giving us
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The idea that we should celebrate our nation again
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In this 250th anniversary.
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There's all these different expressions of that.
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What are you planning for this year to celebrate america?
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Well, it's thank you for asking that question.
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I'm also elated by that and elated
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By the renewed sense of patriotism.
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And you don't hear people running down the founding
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Fathers anymore
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And nit picking them from 200 plus years in the future.
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In our current
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Perspective up here, it's
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Nice that we're celebrating all that again,
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And i'm going to celebrate it in the old republic of texas,
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In southwestern colorado, which is now
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Part of southwestern colorado with my family,
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I've got invited to go to the opening
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Of the teddy roosevelt museum in north dakota.
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I'd love to do that,
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But my family's all going to be in colorado,
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So i'm going to be where my family is.
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What are you going to do, alan?
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Well, this weekend we've got some of your good
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Local people from dallas, wallbuilders the barton's.
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All those guys are great.
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They're here reminding all of us in tennessee
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About the christian heritage of our nation,
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That we really do have a christian heritage.
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And we're not going to let
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The academics take that away from us.
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Yeah, david barton is a fine man,
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And he spoke to my legacy group several times years ago.
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So give him a big howdy for me.
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I'll do that.
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I should have paid
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More attention in school when i listened to david.
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George c, thank you for sharing all your wisdom with us again
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Today.
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It's extremely valuable for our viewers
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To hear what you know from the inside.
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We'll see you again soon.
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You bet. thanks, ellen.
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When i come back, your emails.
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We'll be right back.
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We'll be right back.
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Thank you for joining us today.
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Ruth from california wrote.
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Thank you for having gordon chang on to tell us what china
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Is doing to hurt our country with the war in iran.
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Keep up having all these people
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Who can tell us what is going on with this war.
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The news affiliates still are telling us the truth.
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No, ruth, unfortunately they're not.
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When you pray for china, i think one of the prayers
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Is to pray for the chinese people.
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You have to.
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We have to make a distinction
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Between an authoritarian, dictatorial government
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That belittles the people and harvest organs
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And the people of china who suffer under that tyranny.
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We can have compassion on the people,
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But i don't think we should have
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The compassion on that wicked government.
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John jay from texas said pastor jackson,
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Last week i received a call
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Asking my opinion of artificial intelligence.
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When i asked him if they were
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Calling about chuck schumer, they hung up.
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Well, john, i'm not sure i'm supposed to laugh,
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But good work.
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Brenda from west virginia, could you explain?
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John 653 and 54,
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In a way that a ten year old could understand, please?
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Thank you so much.
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For those of you who don't have john 653 and four memorized,
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Jesus declares, very truly, i tell you,
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Unless you eat the flesh of the son of man
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And drink his blood, you have no life in you.
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Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal
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Life, and i will raise them up at the last day.
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Okay, the targets are ten year old.
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I do not think jesus was encouraging
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Cannibalistic behavior by his disciples,
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But i do believe he was trying to draw a distinction.
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They were.
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He had fed the multitude
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With a very limited amount of food, a boy's lunch
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And you can draw a crowd if you will provide free food.
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And i think he's reminding his audience
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That the commitment to be
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A christ follower is far greater than just having bread for a
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Meal that you didn't pay for.
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That's
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A good start, no matter what age you are.
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Colleen from north carolina.
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I'm a seventh grade math teacher.
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Demonstrated it in an idiom
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By counting out marbles to equal my number of students,
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And place two identical empty coffee tins on my table.
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I said this handful of marbles represent students in my class,
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And i placed the marbles into one tin.
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Then i filled the second tin with the rest of the marbles.
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Then i shook both tins.
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I wrote on the blackboard.
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Empty vessels make the most noise.
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Well, the handful of disruptive students
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Were not happy with this analogy,
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But it did hit home with the positive impact that adjusted
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Attention and studious, respectful attitudes emerged.
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I thought about the item
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When you played the video of the democratic female
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Making much loud noise and shouting emptiness.
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That's all democrats seem to do is make loud noise.
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Well, colleen, i like your object lesson
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For your class.
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Maybe we should take some boxes of marbles
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To the halls of congress in washington and shake them.
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It seems to me you'd make
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A whole lot more sense than what i see
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So often on the evening sound bites.
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We need people who will lead
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With the best interest of our nation in mind,
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And not just playing to their base
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And trying to gain power for their own personal agendas.
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For that, we have to pray.
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We have to have a hard change in the heartland,
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And then we'll see washington change.
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Thank you for spending a few minutes of your day with me.
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God bless you and good night.
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Allen Jackson: Energy Dominance | Allen Jackson Now

April 23, 2026 | 22:31

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