Join Alan Jackson in his Nashville studio as he welcomes longtime Republican congressman Randy Weber, discussing America's energy independence and economic priorities.
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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: Energy Independence | Allen Jackson Now | May 20, 2025
- Well.
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- Good evening.
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- I'm alan jackson, and welcome to nashville.
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- I once saw a bumper sticker on the back of an 18
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- Wheeler that said, without trucks, america stops.
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- It's a good slogan,
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- Because even when products are delivered by planes, trains,
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- And even ships, eventually they end up on a truck.
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- Well, i'd like to add a second line.
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- Without america's oil, the planes,
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- The trains, the ships and the trucks, they all stop.
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- Well, for the last four years, america's energy policy has been
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- The great unknown.
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- There was the so-called green new deal,
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- A global climate agreement.
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- Subsidies for solar panels and electric cars.
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- Even though we have more oil
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- And natural gas that anywhere on earth.
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- Well, president trump
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- Made the point in his last term
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- That the us was energy independent,
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- But that didn't seem to matter to the democrats.
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- There was no america first during the biden years.
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- It was more like america.
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- Get in line with that.
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- I want to bring in our guest tonight,
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- The longtime republican congressman from texas,
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- Randy weber. welcome to our show, sir.
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- Thank you.
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- I appreciate being here.
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- You chair
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- The house subcommittee on energy,
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- And you sit
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- On the powerful house energy and commerce committee.
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- But coming from texas, you also sit
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- On some of the biggest oil and gas reserves in the world.
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- You recently said we need to fight for
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- An energy strategy that puts america first.
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- Not beijing, not brussels, not the radical green lobby.
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- In fact, you even introduced a bill
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- That would prohibit any oil
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- From our strategic petroleum reserve
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- From being sold to china.
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- I didn't even realize that some of our oil
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- Was going to china.
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- Can you tell us a little bit more about your plan?
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- Well, absolutely, allan, and it's great to be here.
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- I am on the upper gulf coast, on
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- My district 14 is the upper gulf coast of texas.
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- We have four counties
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- Starting in louisiana that other foreign countries.
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- And we go orange county, jefferson county,
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- Galveston county, southern half of brazoria county.
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- Allen.
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- We have seven ports.
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- We have more than any other member of congress.
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- Some have four. we have seven.
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- We produce 65% of the nation's jet fuel.
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- 80% of the nation's military grade fuel.
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- 20% of the nation's gasoline.
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- East of the rockies.
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- By the way, folks,
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- My seven ports does not include the port of houston.
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- If you throw the port of houston in there,
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- Which is north of galveston,
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- About 40 something miles up the ship channel.
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- Now it's 80% of the nation's, jet fuel.
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- It's still 80% of the nation's military grade you.
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- And it's about.
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- Oh, and we have the strategic petroleum reserve
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- In our district.
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- About 60% of that stay is in our district.
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- So for us, fuel is a big, big thing.
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- Three lng plants.
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- Energy is a huge thing.
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- So when we talk about not drawing down the
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- The strategic petroleum reserve and i say this time in chief
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- Allen, more than y'all bargained for when biden was in office.
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- You know, he's he drew it down, i guess, during election year
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- To get the price of gas down to help his campaign.
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- And i kept telling people in mark
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- My words, he's also going to start giving away free
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- College tuition lodging.
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- Well, of course he did that too in a campaign year.
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- But energy for us is huge.
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- Lng for us is huge.
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- Folks won't maybe know
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- The location, but beaumont, texas, the port of beaumont
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- Moves more military personnel and equipment
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- Out of this country than any other port.
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- Big on energy, big on our great military,
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- Great on energy strategies and big on americanism.
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- That's district 14.
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- We don't want the president giving away.
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- Of course,
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- Now that we have a real president in office,
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- You know, you'll see all these things come to pass.
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- He talked to the gop conference this morning.
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- I'm encouraged.
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- America is back at it again.
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- Amen.
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- Where your state has huge reserves of both oil
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- And natural gas.
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- The key components of a strong economy.
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- But we're clearly in a financial transition now as the tariffs
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- Get negotiated in the budget and the tax bill gets finalized.
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- The president went to the hill today to give a pep talk,
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- As he put it. i know you were a part of that.
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- Well, speaker mike johnson had some comments
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- On that current bill. listen to what he had to say.
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- This is the vehicle through
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- Which we will deliver on the mandate
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- That the american people gave us in the last election.
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- You're going to have historic savings
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- For the american people,
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- Historic tax relief for american workers,
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- Historic investments and border security
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- At the same time that we're restoring american energy
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- Dominance and we're rebuilding to the defense industrial base,
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- And we're ensuring that programs like medicaid and snap
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- Are strengthened for the u.s.
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- Citizens who need and deserve them.
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- Well, the goal is a national agenda.
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- But of course, each member has local interest as well.
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- Do you think your party will find a way to a mutual goal?
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- I think they will.
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- The president was very amicable this morning.
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- He talked to a lot of people.
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- I called them out by name, said, look,
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- We're going to have to work together on this.
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- He talked about salt.
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- He talked about doing things that american he's done
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- That could have never been done.
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- I call him joe biden because i think he's obama's third term.
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- The president was very gracious.
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- He was very, very, numerous.
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- But he held the conference's attention in rapt attention
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- Because every point he made, allen was right on track.
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- America's back tariffs.
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- You know, i haven't read his book, the art of the deal.
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- Some of y'all may have,
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- But i understand he pushes that hard, as fast as he can,
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- To try to in negotiation that he's slowly can roll it
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- Back to something. he can live with folks.
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- That's what he's doing on behalf of america.
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- You're watching these things
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- When he goes and meeting with the saudis,
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- Talking with the chinese and all these things.
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- The green new deal is basically being done away with.
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- And when you talk about the paris
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- Climate accords
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- With, again,
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- Biden wanting to get us wrapped up by coal,
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- But not obama,
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- Deal with other countries telling us how we should
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- Be dealing with our energy.
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- No. america needs to be energy dominant in the world.
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- And texas,
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- My great district of 14, texas is a huge part of that.
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- There was an emphasis early on to cut as much wasteful
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- Spending as possible,
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- But i'm wondering if that same emphasis
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- Will continue
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- Even as elon musk steps back to run his big company.
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- What are you seeing?
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- Well, all of the talk that i hear is that it will
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- Continue.
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- We'll get the big, beautiful bill out, as we love to call it.
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- We'll get it passed.
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- Now, don't forget,
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- We had at the end of this fiscal year on september 30th,
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- We've got another budget.
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- We'll start
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- Dealing with some more spending that we'll start talking about.
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- But i think you're going to see this all come out.
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- You're going to see that it's not as bad as the democrats.
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- The are folks on the other side of the aisle
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- Want to indicate we're killing social security.
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- No we're not. we're killing medicaid.
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- No we're not.
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- You know, we're killing all this stuff. look,
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- I got involved in republican party politics
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- 83 when reagan ran for office.
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- I've been extremely active city council six years.
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- Four years in the texas house, now, 12 years in congress.
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- There was a saying when ronald reagan ran
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- For president allen, it was waste, fraud and abuse.
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- Many of your listeners will identify with that.
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- Viewers will identify with that.
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- I believe
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- The air we've been talking about
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- Waste, fraud and abuse for years.
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- We finally have a president in the office that is willing
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- To take that bull by the horns and do something about it,
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- Or what we're doing is dealing with waste.
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- We're not cutting medicaid.
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- It's about the waste, fraud, abuse and medicaid
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- We're getting rid of.
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- We're not cutting medicare again.
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- This is about waste, fraud and abuse.
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- So this president
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- Is so he is extremely focused on this.
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- I think the house is behind him 100%.
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- Hopefully the senate will be behind him.
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- I said reconciliation because it's a lower threshold,
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- And you're going to see good things happen
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- As more and more countries turn around
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- And come back to us for trade, because they realize
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- That they want to do business with america.
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- They've been taking advantage of us for way too long,
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- And president trump is doing something about it.
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- I'm very, very optimistic about it.
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- I mean, you mentioned president reagan.
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- I see his bust over your shoulder.
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- Well, it's good to have a bit of reagan
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- Like leadership back in washington.
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- Well, yes it is.
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- He was something special, i'll tell you.
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- Well, congressman weber, stay with us for another segment.
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- We've got a lot more questions for you.
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- Next up, we're going to talk about the deep split
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- Between the two parties.
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- Now, one
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- Trying to get things done
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- And the other working hard to stop anything
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- The president tries to accomplish. we'll be right back.
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- The president tries to accomplish. we'll be right back.
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- We're back now with texas republican randy weber.
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- The president has a fast moving agenda, and yet a number
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- Of things are on hold
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- Because some of the democrats and their liberal judge
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- Friends are using the courts to put up roadblocks,
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- Local judges preventing the president
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- From doing things nationally.
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- It's all backing up at the supreme court right now.
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- So what's the house doing to rein
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- In some of these local judges?
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- You know, i've been saying
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- For a long time, probably 20 or more years.
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- Of course, i'm not an attorney.
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- I was a small business owner in this company for 35 years.
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- My beautiful bride of almost 49 years, november the 6th.
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- She taught fourth grade for 27 years.
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- So we're working people just like y'all.
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- And i've watched this for a whole long time.
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- I will tell
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- You that the president is intent on getting as much done.
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- Those people who are trying to throw,
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- Throw a monkey wrench into our our into what we're doing,
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- The democrats, they're lying through their teeth.
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- They hate donald trump.
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- They went to what, you know, term as lost fair.
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- You're talking about law fair. they called it.
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- And i've been saying this for probably 20 years.
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- There's no way on god's green earth
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- That the founders of our constitution.
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- I'll take you to the, part of the constitution in a minute.
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- Intended for 900 federal judges or whatever
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- The number is across the country
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- To that to be on equal footing with the president.
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- United states, i've read the constitution.
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- Three equal but separate branches.
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- Right. judiciary. right.
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- You've got the legislature and you've got the executive branch.
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- The president.
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- They're co-equal three branches.
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- If you read article three of the constitution,
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- It literally says the founders wrote
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- The constitution said that congress can establish
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- There's the keyword inferior courts from time to time
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- As they may deem appropriate, but then it does also go on.
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- Ladies and gentlemen, say that we cannot get their salaries
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- While they're in an office, so to speak.
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- That's not to say we can't abolish the court,
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- But don't miss that the the writers of the constitution
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- Said congress can establish inferior courts.
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- It's been amazing to me how a judge in california
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- Or some liberal state, wherever, can say
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- To the president of the united states, thou shalt stop x.
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- The supreme court's not going to hear this, alan.
- 00:11:11.207 --> 00:11:14.110
- But what needs to happen is when those kinds of cases
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- Arise, that there's a question about the president's power
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- And the legality of doing something, that claim
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- That court case, if you will, has to go to supreme court.
- 00:11:22.619 --> 00:11:26.589
- That's the only growing,
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- Co-equal branch where they get where the president,
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- They should be able to hear that case.
- 00:11:29.826 --> 00:11:31.394
- That's my philosophy on it.
- 00:11:31.394 --> 00:11:34.497
- I'd like to
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- Ask about the former fbi director, james comey.
- 00:11:35.832 --> 00:11:38.568
- We've seen his instagram posting of the seashells arranged
- 00:11:38.568 --> 00:11:41.838
- As 8647, which translates into get rid of president trump.
- 00:11:41.838 --> 00:11:47.377
- Call me says he just happened to spotted on the beach.
- 00:11:47.377 --> 00:11:49.879
- That's his story.
- 00:11:49.879 --> 00:11:51.481
- When he sent it out
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- On his social media account, he said cool shell formation,
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- But only after he set off alarm bells among people
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- Who believed he was calling for another assassination attempt.
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- Yeah.
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- Claiming he was unaware of the violent connotation.
- 00:12:03.159 --> 00:12:06.696
- Well, his history suggests that he's hated president
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- Trump for a long time.
- 00:12:08.998 --> 00:12:10.733
- Listen to this exchange from seven years ago.
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- How strange is it for you to sit here
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- And compare the president to a mob boss?
- 00:12:15.605 --> 00:12:18.908
- Very strange.
- 00:12:18.908 --> 00:12:20.310
- And i don't do it lightly.
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- What i'm talking about is that leadership culture
- 00:12:21.711 --> 00:12:25.081
- Constantly comes back to me
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- When i think about my experience with the trump administration.
- 00:12:26.449 --> 00:12:29.652
- Well, the fbi is investigating this, and prosecutions
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- Are being considered.
- 00:12:32.856 --> 00:12:34.057
- What do you think should be done?
- 00:12:34.057 --> 00:12:36.092
- Well, i think prosecutions should be in order.
- 00:12:36.092 --> 00:12:37.861
- And i'll go all the way back to tell me before that.
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- You remember,
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- There are three people
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- In the history of this country have had classified the three
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- People who ran for president.
- 00:12:46.302 --> 00:12:47.737
- I'll say, in the last ten years, rather
- 00:12:47.737 --> 00:12:50.173
- Have had had classified documents.
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- Hillary clinton, who was never a president.
- 00:12:52.809 --> 00:12:55.245
- Right.
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- Joe biden, when he was vice president,
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- Had classified documents.
- 00:12:58.214 --> 00:13:00.016
- And then, of course, donald trump
- 00:13:00.016 --> 00:13:01.851
- As president had classified documents.
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- Three people who were ever present
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- In the last ten years
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- Had classified documents, but only one was prosecuted.
- 00:13:07.090 --> 00:13:10.560
- Wasn't there?
- 00:13:10.927 --> 00:13:12.095
- What does that tell you about this?
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- You remember one told me.
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- He went and looked over his team.
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- Did at hillary's computer that she had, that
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- Her team had destroyed with cell phones, with hammers,
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- And what they called
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- A bleach bin.
- 00:13:25.642 --> 00:13:26.943
- I think it is.
- 00:13:26.943 --> 00:13:28.311
- And he stood up and he literally said
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- This, alan, he said, we looked at that
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- Even though she had whatever it was, 107 certain documents.
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- And then some of them work
- 00:13:35.818 --> 00:13:36.953
- Were high level, some remained there,
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- Several lower, but i think there was like 17
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- That were high level.
- 00:13:40.623 --> 00:13:41.624
- I forget the exact number,
- 00:13:41.624 --> 00:13:43.092
- But anyway, he literally says, but no competent
- 00:13:43.092 --> 00:13:47.497
- Right attorney, no prosecutor would take this case.
- 00:13:47.497 --> 00:13:51.301
- And i'm like, you know, mr.
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- Comey, that's not your job.
- 00:13:52.969 --> 00:13:55.305
- You're the investigative arm.
- 00:13:55.305 --> 00:13:56.973
- You need to go out there and you need to look for evidence.
- 00:13:56.973 --> 00:13:58.975
- You're the police force in this case.
- 00:13:58.975 --> 00:14:00.944
- You turn that over.
- 00:14:00.944 --> 00:14:02.045
- You're not the judge in the jury.
- 00:14:02.045 --> 00:14:04.147
- You turn it over to the prosecutor.
- 00:14:04.147 --> 00:14:05.949
- You let that person and that legal process work out.
- 00:14:05.949 --> 00:14:09.819
- Although he.
- 00:14:09.819 --> 00:14:10.920
- He wasn't going to do that. why?
- 00:14:10.920 --> 00:14:12.588
- Because he hated trump from the beginning.
- 00:14:12.588 --> 00:14:15.525
- One last quick question.
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- I'd like to ask
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- If you have any comment about what
- 00:14:18.428 --> 00:14:19.662
- We've recently learned about former president biden.
- 00:14:19.662 --> 00:14:22.632
- This cancer diagnosis was unfortunate,
- 00:14:22.632 --> 00:14:25.601
- But it's also accelerated.
- 00:14:25.601 --> 00:14:27.036
- The other reports about
- 00:14:27.036 --> 00:14:28.104
- Who was actually
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- Running the white house during such a critical time.
- 00:14:29.205 --> 00:14:31.874
- Was america's safety at risk?
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- Who signed the orders he gave and how bad a shape was he in
- 00:14:33.509 --> 00:14:36.713
- While he was in the oval office and all this was going on?
- 00:14:36.713 --> 00:14:40.416
- How does that seem to you on the hill?
- 00:14:40.416 --> 00:14:43.119
- You know, it raises a whole lot of questions.
- 00:14:43.119 --> 00:14:44.787
- Of course they were right.
- 00:14:44.787 --> 00:14:46.489
- It came out, of course, a lot of the stuff
- 00:14:46.489 --> 00:14:48.057
- He was signing was done by an auto plant.
- 00:14:48.057 --> 00:14:52.095
- Again, i got involved.
- 00:14:52.562 --> 00:14:53.696
- And reagan running for reelection in 83.
- 00:14:53.696 --> 00:14:55.198
- I've been a very active republican precinct
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- Chair, election circuit election judge down in missouri county.
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- I, starting from 83 on,
- 00:15:00.036 --> 00:15:02.839
- I've never seen a presidential candidate
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- Get on the ballot without having to go through the primary.
- 00:15:06.576 --> 00:15:10.413
- I think the democrats pulled a fast one
- 00:15:10.413 --> 00:15:13.349
- On the american public.
- 00:15:13.349 --> 00:15:15.051
- They helped joe up the hill.
- 00:15:15.051 --> 00:15:16.452
- Joe biden gathering the secret, if you will, at bay,
- 00:15:16.452 --> 00:15:19.455
- Whatever you want to say.
- 00:15:19.455 --> 00:15:20.656
- They knew all along with the plan was going to be
- 00:15:20.656 --> 00:15:23.793
- That they were thrust.
- 00:15:23.793 --> 00:15:24.894
- Kamala harris, i call her tommy harris because i think
- 00:15:24.894 --> 00:15:27.830
- She's too much like a communist in her ideology.
- 00:15:27.830 --> 00:15:31.100
- I think they knew all along and they pulled a fast,
- 00:15:31.100 --> 00:15:33.736
- Always heart goes out to president biden.
- 00:15:33.736 --> 00:15:36.439
- Nobody wants him any ill will.
- 00:15:36.439 --> 00:15:39.709
- In fact, we're commanded
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- In the bible to pray for those in authority over us.
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- But i think the democratic team around him pulled a fast one.
- 00:15:45.381 --> 00:15:49.719
- Well, congressman weber, we're rooting for you.
- 00:15:50.720 --> 00:15:53.122
- Please stay in touch in the months ahead.
- 00:15:53.122 --> 00:15:54.590
- We'd love to have you back on.
- 00:15:54.590 --> 00:15:56.259
- Thank you. alan, we appreciate what you all do.
- 00:15:56.259 --> 00:15:58.594
- Well, in a moment, i'll share some thoughts
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- Of my own reasons for hope.
- 00:16:00.196 --> 00:16:02.131
- As you've heard me say before.
- 00:16:02.131 --> 00:16:03.733
- I'll be right back.
- 00:16:03.733 --> 00:16:11.017
- I'll be right back.
- 00:16:11.017 --> 00:16:16.779
- You know, for too long,
- 00:16:17.280 --> 00:16:18.247
- The people of faith have been
- 00:16:18.247 --> 00:16:19.348
- Willing to retreat to quiet, private spiritual lives
- 00:16:19.348 --> 00:16:23.119
- And to disengage from public discourse.
- 00:16:23.119 --> 00:16:26.022
- Well, i believe that sort of a segmented approach to faith
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- Is misguided, both theologically and pragmatically.
- 00:16:29.192 --> 00:16:33.596
- It makes us more vulnerable.
- 00:16:33.596 --> 00:16:35.798
- We'll continue to forfeit freedom and liberty
- 00:16:35.798 --> 00:16:37.867
- If we allow ourselves to be intimidated and we stay silent.
- 00:16:37.867 --> 00:16:41.737
- There are some very practical outcomes of a diminished church.
- 00:16:41.737 --> 00:16:44.774
- You can see them all around us in our schools, our communities,
- 00:16:44.774 --> 00:16:47.543
- And our attitudes towards authority,
- 00:16:47.543 --> 00:16:49.645
- Personal expression and fulfillment.
- 00:16:49.645 --> 00:16:51.547
- They're given a higher priority than concepts like duty
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- And honor.
- 00:16:54.317 --> 00:16:55.551
- Truth, we're told frequently, is a very fluid concept
- 00:16:55.551 --> 00:16:59.055
- Because there's no authority to establish objective truth
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- When everyone is left
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- To make their own determinations of what is true.
- 00:17:03.493 --> 00:17:05.761
- We quickly find out
- 00:17:05.761 --> 00:17:06.996
- That we're living in the midst of the theater of the absurd.
- 00:17:06.996 --> 00:17:10.666
- We see spiritual forces of darkness expressed
- 00:17:10.666 --> 00:17:13.269
- With increasing boldness and frequency in very tangible ways.
- 00:17:13.269 --> 00:17:17.473
- Things like lawlessness.
- 00:17:17.473 --> 00:17:19.475
- We have a former director of the fbi in a very direct way,
- 00:17:19.475 --> 00:17:23.379
- Calling for elimination of political leaders.
- 00:17:23.379 --> 00:17:26.682
- The expressions of lawlessness from people of influence
- 00:17:26.682 --> 00:17:29.318
- Are stunning.
- 00:17:29.318 --> 00:17:30.786
- It's a manifestation
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- Of spiritual darkness because we've cast off authority.
- 00:17:31.988 --> 00:17:36.159
- There's a verse in proverbs 14 i'm reminded of.
- 00:17:36.159 --> 00:17:38.394
- It says that righteousness exalts a nation,
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- But sin is a disgrace to any people.
- 00:17:40.930 --> 00:17:44.033
- If we as christ followers will stand for righteousness,
- 00:17:44.033 --> 00:17:47.737
- We will enable god
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- To bring exaltation within the places
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- Where we have authority
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- In our homes and our communities.
- 00:17:52.241 --> 00:17:54.310
- We'll see human dignity increase.
- 00:17:54.310 --> 00:17:55.912
- We'll see principles like freedom and truth.
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- Justice and hope truly regain momentum.
- 00:17:57.847 --> 00:18:01.250
- Now that is a reason for hope.
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- The moment your emails, stay tuned.
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- The moment your emails, stay tuned.
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- A quick reminder to visit aj now.com.
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- 00:18:30.280 --> 00:18:33.383
- Now it's time for some of your emails.
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- A viewer commented on the youtube episode
- 00:18:35.152 --> 00:18:37.287
- With pete peterson.
- 00:18:37.287 --> 00:18:39.022
- I've gotten into the practice of reading labels on foods.
- 00:18:39.022 --> 00:18:41.625
- It's shocking and concerning
- 00:18:41.625 --> 00:18:42.993
- How little is manufactured in the u.s.
- 00:18:42.993 --> 00:18:45.395
- We have no idea what we're really consuming.
- 00:18:45.395 --> 00:18:47.598
- God bless you both.
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- Well, i agree we've been woefully ignorant,
- 00:18:49.666 --> 00:18:51.668
- But i think we are waking up a bit
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- And it will have good consequences for many of us.
- 00:18:53.570 --> 00:18:56.840
- Marilee, from decatur, alabama, said pastor allen,
- 00:18:57.841 --> 00:19:00.711
- I hear rumors of giving $5,000 for new babies.
- 00:19:00.711 --> 00:19:03.880
- That's preposterous.
- 00:19:03.880 --> 00:19:05.582
- Why not give this incentive
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- To couples wanting to adopt a baby slated for abortion?
- 00:19:06.783 --> 00:19:10.420
- Well, i agree, there's some suggestions out there
- 00:19:11.388 --> 00:19:13.323
- That seem a bit odd to me as well.
- 00:19:13.323 --> 00:19:14.925
- I trust it's a negotiating and negotiating tactic,
- 00:19:14.925 --> 00:19:18.295
- And it will be scaled back to something more reasonable.
- 00:19:18.295 --> 00:19:21.198
- I tell you what i am going advocate for,
- 00:19:21.198 --> 00:19:22.966
- And that's for every voice in the public square.
- 00:19:22.966 --> 00:19:25.135
- That's an advocate for life.
- 00:19:25.135 --> 00:19:26.937
- For too long, i think we've been a culture
- 00:19:26.937 --> 00:19:28.739
- That celebrated death,
- 00:19:28.739 --> 00:19:30.507
- And i'm grateful for every voice that helps us change that.
- 00:19:30.507 --> 00:19:34.044
- John from california said,
- 00:19:34.044 --> 00:19:35.245
- Do you agree with birthright citizenship?
- 00:19:35.245 --> 00:19:38.915
- Well, not in the way it's been advocated for in recent years.
- 00:19:38.915 --> 00:19:42.119
- I think it's really been an expanded concept.
- 00:19:42.119 --> 00:19:45.322
- It doesn't reflect what's best for our nation.
- 00:19:45.322 --> 00:19:47.858
- Citizenship is a privilege.
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- And until we treat it that way and we respect it and celebrate
- 00:19:49.326 --> 00:19:53.196
- The things that come with that,
- 00:19:53.196 --> 00:19:54.898
- We'll continue to cheapen it and give it away for nothing.
- 00:19:54.898 --> 00:19:57.401
- And i think that's very destructive.
- 00:19:57.401 --> 00:19:58.835
- And we're giving away our children's futures.
- 00:19:58.835 --> 00:20:00.904
- We need more wisdom.
- 00:20:00.904 --> 00:20:02.806
- Well, i appreciate your e-mails.
- 00:20:03.440 --> 00:20:04.541
- Your thoughts are important to us.
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- And i especially want to thank you for watching tonight.
- 00:20:06.209 --> 00:20:09.313
- I'm alan jackson, and i hope to see you tomorrow.
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- Good night.
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