In the book "Uncharted: How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the Wildest Campaign in History," author Chris Whipple takes readers behind the scenes of the Biden White House. He reveals the delusion and denial that plagued Biden's inner circle, as they refused to acknowledge the president's deteriorating condition. From his struggling debate performance to his confusing statements, the book uncovers the attempts to keep Biden's troubles hidden and the impact it had on the campaign. With new details and previously unreported events, Whipple sheds light on the tumultuous journey that led to Trump's unexpected victory.
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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: Examining Biden's White House | Allen Jackson Now | April 28, 2025
- Good evening.
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- I'm alan jackson, and welcome to nashville.
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- When i think of how many trouble spots
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- There are around the world,
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- It's unsettling to consider what else might have happened
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- During the years of joe biden as president.
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- Especially as we begin to hear
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- What went on when the cameras were off.
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- But even with all the reporters in washington,
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- The white house staff managed
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- To keep much of the trouble out of sight until now.
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- A few years ago, reporter and author
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- Chris whipple wrote a book called the gatekeepers
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- About the very powerful white house chiefs of staff.
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- Well, he's back now with another inside account
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- Of what went on specifically in the biden white house.
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- It's called uncharted.
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- How trump
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- Beat biden, harris
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- And the odds in the wildest campaign in history.
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- Welcome to our show, chris.
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- Great to be with you.
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- Thanks for having me.
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- Chris, you have details that have never been reported before,
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- Even though the white house
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- Is filled with reporters and a lot of cameras,
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- Given that there are very few things
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- That ever remain secret these days
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- Must have been a very small circle of people
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- Who managed to keep president biden's troubles out of sight.
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- Is that some of what the chief of staff does?
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- Yeah, partly the white house chief of staff.
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- But in this case, you know, it's just a stunning story.
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- We all lived through it.
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- So we know it was the wildest campaign in history.
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- But behind closed doors,
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- It was stranger and wilder than you can imagine.
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- And the and the mystery sort of at the heart of the book
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- Is the extent to which biden's inner circle,
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- His closest advisers, really were in the lost
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- In this kind of fog of delusion and denial.
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- You know, they believe what they wanted to believe.
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- Some of them, in fact, rather than their lying eyes,
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- You know, from the outside, there seem to be so many times
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- When it looked as though the president
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- Was having real trouble,
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- Never mind some of his confusing statements.
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- Here's just a few examples.
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- Number.
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- The last guy when he was president,
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- He said, we're going to have we have retired.
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- We have, you know, every week we have infrastructure week
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- Or more years
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- Or more year or
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- More into the healer, into river community.
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- The healing, the healing,
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- The throwing me off to my granddaughter's birthday.
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- We are now we're going to watch a debate that never goes on.
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- But no one should make the american people question
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- Whether their government
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- Will make this sure that this is act a strike.
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- They'll be there.
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- We will. all of us.
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- Now, let me introduce you next.
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- Who's next?
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- Did the senior staff actually
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- Think it was okay for the president to appear
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- Like this while insisting that everything was okay?
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- No. in fact, i tell the story in, in uncharted,
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- Where there's a there's this amazing scene
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- Where a democratic operative who worked on the 2020 campaign
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- Came to interview for a job on the 2024 campaign.
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- And she's in the oval office with biden and his aides.
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- And the conversation takes to this unexpectedly
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- Candid turn when one of the aides said to her,
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- You know, back in 2020, we had the excuse of covid.
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- We could hide him in the basement.
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- What do we do now?
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- Well, you wrote another book a few years ago
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- About white house chiefs of staff.
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- And along the way, there have been some
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- Very influential first ladies as well.
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- Nancy reagan, hillary
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- Clinton, and further back, even eleanor roosevelt.
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- Was the biden team or term another example of that
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- First lady
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- Calling the shots to keep things as stable as possible?
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- Well, you know that as in many other white houses, the,
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- The first lady was
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- Perhaps joe biden's most influential adviser.
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- I mean, he really leaned on her to work to to kind of pierce
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- The bubble.
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- Every president is in a bubble.
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- He. jill would come home and and tell him, joe,
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- This is what people are really talking about.
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- But, you know, there was that stunning moment,
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- Right after that disastrous debate,
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- When they went back to the hotel and jill biden stood on stage
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- And said, you did a terrific job.
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- You answered every question.
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- You know, you did such a great job.
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- You answered every question.
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- So, look, the delusion wasn't confined to his aides.
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- I'm afraid.
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- Well, from the pressroom, we saw the white house regularly
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- Blaming the media for any reporting on biden's condition.
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- But is it
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- Possible that some senior staff, the spokeswoman among them,
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- Didn't really know the extent of the president's condition?
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- Well, what i found really stunning,
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- Again, was the extent of this delusion.
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- As i said before,
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- You know,
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- I'll give you a perfect example during the debate itself
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- That disastrous debate when joe biden looked
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- Completely lost and to to an unrelated
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- Question, said, you know, we finally beat medicare.
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- I thought he was having a stroke.
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- But anita dunn, a senior adviser, was
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- Who was watching the debate in real time.
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- She was watching a focus group but so-called dial group.
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- And because some of them turned their dials down later
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- In the debate, when trump was, saying things they didn't like,
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- She convinced herself that biden had won the debate.
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- I mean, you can't make this stuff up.
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- And the book is full of stories like that,
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- Where they should have known better.
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- We all knew.
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- I mean, 77% of the american people knew that he would.
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- Joe biden was too old to run for reelection.
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- But there's something about breathing
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- The air of the west wing that can really cloud your vision.
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- Well, chris, please stay for another segment.
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- There's a lot more to discuss,
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- That should guide us
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- All through the challenges of a fast moving new world.
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- Stay with us.
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- We'll be back in just a moment.
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- We'll be back in just a moment.
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- We're back with the author of a new book.
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- It's only been out two weeks,
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- And it's already a new york times bestseller.
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- It's titled uncharted.
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- How did trump beat biden, harris,
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- And the odds in the wildest election in history?
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- Chris, you had a big career in tv media.
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- Almost anyone who watches television news would have seen
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- How bad things were for biden when it came to his debate
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- With candidate trump.
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- Was that really the first time that some of the white house
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- Staff noticed that they had a big problem?
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- No, no, not at all.
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- And in fact, i've been in uncharted.
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- I tell the story of how you can't read it anywhere else.
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- Now, ron klain, who was biden's white house
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- Chief of staff for the first two years
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- And returned to to run the debate preparation.
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- He he gave me the hour by hour, minute by minute,
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- Lowdown on this preparation at camp david.
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- And he was startled by the president's condition,
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- Not just exhausted, but biden was out of it.
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- He was obsessed with foreign leaders.
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- He kept talking about how,
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- France's emmanuel macron and germany's
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- Olaf scholz thought he was doing such a great job.
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- I must be a great president.
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- At one point,
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- He's turned to clean and he said, i've got an idea.
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- I said, what's that?
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- He said, if i look perplexed while trump
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- Is talking during the debate, they'll think he's an idiot.
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- To which klein replied, sure.
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- If you look perplexed, people
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- Are just going to think you're perplexed.
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- And that's the problem we're having in this race.
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- So anyway, at one point, biden wandered off after the pool,
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- Walked out of aspen lodge.
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- The presidential cabin, sank
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- Into a lounge chair by the pool and fell sound asleep.
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- So they had seen biden in this condition?
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- It's kind of amazing that they went through with the debate,
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- And it was really a kind of hail mary they were hoping for.
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- You remember he had a strong performance
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- In the state of the union the year before.
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- They were hoping for that.
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- They sure didn't get it.
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- Well, democrats have been blaming biden
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- For not getting out of the race sooner
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- So that kamala harris
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- Would have had more time to make her case.
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- But even when she was covering up the president's condition,
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- Listen to how she put it.
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- We have a very bold
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- And vibrant president in joe biden.
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- I spend a lot of time with joe biden.
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- Be it in the oval office or the situation room.
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- And i can tell you,
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- This is someone who is tireless in terms
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- Of working on behalf of the american people,
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- The way that the president's demeanor in
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- That report was characterized.
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- Could not be more wrong on the facts
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- And clearly politically motivated.
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- Chris, she kept that facade up during her own campaign.
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- But i suppose at that point she really had no other choice.
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- So in fairness to kamala harris,
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- There really was a difference between joe biden,
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- The candidate, and joe biden behind closed doors.
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- This was not a case.
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- You know,
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- Karl rove has said that this was a gigantic conspiracy.
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- Quote, unquote.
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- The problem with that theory is that biden was able
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- To make decisions behind closed doors.
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- What he couldn't do was campaign.
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- That was that was clearly true.
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- So this was not woodrow wilson incapacitated
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- By a massive stroke, sitting in the corner
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- While edith, his wife, made his decisions for him.
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- There were times when he was perfectly lucid,
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- But as you know, there were plenty of times when he wasn't.
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- Were you right about the excitement
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- That developed when president biden decided not to run again?
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- Then harris hits the national stage.
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- At first, the money was pouring in
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- And the national media had a new story in its hands.
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- But she was in a difficult position
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- Of having to carve her own path
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- While not throwing joe biden under the bus.
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- She went on the view for a friendly interview.
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- But when she was asked
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- If there was anything she would have done differently
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- During their four years together,
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- She said nothing comes to mind.
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- Well, biden's job approval rating was very low,
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- But she compounded her problem
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- By saying that she had been
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- A part of most of the decisions that have had an impact.
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- Didn't she and her staff figure out ahead of time
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- How to handle that obvious question?
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- Yeah, it's an amazing story behind the scenes
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- Because she was prepared for that question.
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- Seven ways to sunday.
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- Everybody knew that question was coming, including harris.
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- And, when that soft ball came over the plate,
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- She just completely whiffed, as we all recall.
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- And the irony of this is that joe biden had actually,
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- Contrary to some other reporting that was out there.
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- I know for a fact, because i, i really had contacts
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- At the highest levels in the biden white house.
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- Biden had given her a green light.
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- He told her personally.
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- Look, i get it. you do what you have to do.
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- You're not going to hurt my feelings.
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- You can separate yourself if you need to.
- 00:11:32.683 --> 00:11:35.920
- You know, hubert humphrey did that back in 68,
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- Separating from lbj and vietnam, almost.
- 00:11:38.890 --> 00:11:42.059
- But richard nixon, you know, photo finish.
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- Maybe it would have helped her, but it was her only chance
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- In a change.
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- Election, in my view,
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- Was to get out there and say, look, you know,
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- We did a lot of things, but we blew it on inflation,
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- For example. here's what i'm going to do.
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- She never did that.
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- Well, things are
- 00:12:01.412 --> 00:12:02.613
- Pretty tricky for both she and the former president now.
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- He reportedly can't get any bookings
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- For his $300,000 speeches, and she's apparently considering
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- Whether to run again or to even run for a seat in california.
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- Do you have any idea of what's next for the two of them?
- 00:12:14.826 --> 00:12:18.362
- Well, what i can tell you is this i still talk to biden's
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- Inner circle, including one of his
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- Best friends who told me that the president is, quote,
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- B e and it ends with a t end quote,
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- Disappointed, angry with,
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- What his aides have been saying since he got out of the race.
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- And i think that, look, i wasn't
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- Biden gave that speech recently in chicago.
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- I thought it was a real mistake not to acknowledge
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- The elephant in the room, which is that a lot of people,
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- Particularly democrats, blame him for having left
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- Kamala harris, with too short a runway to have a chance.
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- But that 11th hour abdication by biden has angered
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- A lot of people. he's got to own that.
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- He really needs to acknowledge that.
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- As for harris, like, maybe she'll run for governor.
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- I predict
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- That there's no way she runs for president again.
- 00:13:13.584 --> 00:13:17.622
- You know, democrats never do get a second bite at the apple.
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- I mean, not since adlai stevenson in 1856.
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- Republicans. it's a different story.
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- But i don't say i wouldn't advise kamala harris to try.
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- Yeah.
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- Well, before we go, i want to let our viewers know
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- That you were the creator of a very popular show on abc.
- 00:13:35.439 --> 00:13:39.210
- What would you do?
- 00:13:39.210 --> 00:13:40.378
- Hosted by john quinones,
- 00:13:40.378 --> 00:13:42.580
- The biden situation looks like a case study on
- 00:13:42.580 --> 00:13:45.182
- What would you do for a future white house staff?
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- Do you think the lessons
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- Of what we know now will change
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- How something like this will be handled,
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- If it ever happens again?
- 00:13:53.524 --> 00:13:55.359
- I hope so.
- 00:13:55.359 --> 00:13:56.594
- Look, you know, i created that show with with john quinonez.
- 00:13:56.594 --> 00:13:59.363
- It's it's still going strong.
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- I was interested
- 00:14:01.499 --> 00:14:02.466
- In ethical dilemmas and and in a way,
- 00:14:02.466 --> 00:14:04.535
- This story
- 00:14:04.535 --> 00:14:05.770
- Is the ultimate ethical dilemma with the highest
- 00:14:05.770 --> 00:14:08.940
- Imaginable stakes.
- 00:14:08.940 --> 00:14:10.708
- I mean, the future of the idea of the country and the world.
- 00:14:10.708 --> 00:14:15.346
- And it it it really was a tragedy, in my view.
- 00:14:15.346 --> 00:14:18.149
- I mean,
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- I just think that there was a real abdication of leadership.
- 00:14:19.383 --> 00:14:23.054
- It began in the inner circle, in the inner circle
- 00:14:23.054 --> 00:14:26.123
- Around biden, throughout the democratic party.
- 00:14:26.123 --> 00:14:29.193
- Nobody ever sat joe biden down,
- 00:14:29.193 --> 00:14:32.296
- Looked him in the eye and said, mr.
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- President, are you sure about this?
- 00:14:35.199 --> 00:14:38.269
- Someone should have had that conversation with joe biden,
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- And he should have been out of the race a year or two earlier.
- 00:14:41.439 --> 00:14:44.075
- In my view.
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- Well, chris whipple, thank you for your time today
- 00:14:45.843 --> 00:14:48.279
- And for your honest reporting.
- 00:14:48.279 --> 00:14:50.181
- The book is called uncharted, and it's available
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- At your local bookstores.
- 00:14:52.750 --> 00:14:54.251
- If you'd like to support your local businesses,
- 00:14:54.251 --> 00:14:56.220
- And you can, of course, always order it online.
- 00:14:56.220 --> 00:14:59.824
- When we come back, a good dose of truth and hope.
- 00:14:59.824 --> 00:15:03.127
- It's all there and i'll have directions on where to find it.
- 00:15:03.127 --> 00:15:13.004
- It's all there and i'll have directions on where to find it.
- 00:15:13.004 --> 00:15:17.942
- You know, we are living through a season
- 00:15:18.776 --> 00:15:20.277
- Of some remarkable manipulation and deception.
- 00:15:20.277 --> 00:15:23.581
- During the last administration,
- 00:15:23.581 --> 00:15:25.082
- I saw a very well-informed people.
- 00:15:25.082 --> 00:15:26.817
- Very well educated people of great power and significance.
- 00:15:26.817 --> 00:15:30.388
- Look straight into a camera lens and say our border is secure.
- 00:15:30.388 --> 00:15:35.126
- Well, for years, we heard powerful voices say
- 00:15:35.126 --> 00:15:37.228
- President joe biden is as cogent and sharp as ever.
- 00:15:37.228 --> 00:15:40.698
- The propaganda machine was working overtime.
- 00:15:40.698 --> 00:15:43.868
- Well, still
- 00:15:43.868 --> 00:15:45.002
- Today we have powerful voices, celebrities, influential
- 00:15:45.002 --> 00:15:47.371
- People calling evil good and good evil.
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- They put pornography in the libraries
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- Of our young children in schools.
- 00:15:52.209 --> 00:15:53.844
- And when we
- 00:15:53.844 --> 00:15:54.945
- Objected to the books, they say we're banning books.
- 00:15:54.945 --> 00:15:58.382
- We've seen the deterioration of trust in places
- 00:15:58.382 --> 00:16:00.951
- That i thought were cornerstones of trust
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- The fbi, places like the cdc.
- 00:16:03.621 --> 00:16:05.890
- It's unsettling.
- 00:16:05.890 --> 00:16:07.992
- You know, i grew up with a tremendous
- 00:16:07.992 --> 00:16:09.393
- Degree of reverence for the basic sciences.
- 00:16:09.393 --> 00:16:11.862
- I started my academic career that way.
- 00:16:11.862 --> 00:16:14.465
- But to see the health care community engaged in promoting
- 00:16:14.465 --> 00:16:16.967
- Gender reassignment or hormone therapies, it's bizarre.
- 00:16:16.967 --> 00:16:21.238
- It's bad science.
- 00:16:21.238 --> 00:16:23.240
- Why am i talking about this?
- 00:16:23.240 --> 00:16:25.276
- Because the church has to be the church.
- 00:16:25.276 --> 00:16:28.446
- We have to be a voice for truth in the present.
- 00:16:28.446 --> 00:16:31.782
- You know, the
- 00:16:32.149 --> 00:16:33.384
- Consistent message of scripture is that god expects his people
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- To speak the truth and to live it.
- 00:16:35.653 --> 00:16:38.022
- In zechariah eight, in verse 16, it says,
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- These are the things which you shall do.
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- Speak the truth to one another.
- 00:16:42.093 --> 00:16:43.828
- Judge with truth and judgment for peace at your gates.
- 00:16:43.828 --> 00:16:47.832
- See, when we speak, truth
- 00:16:48.399 --> 00:16:49.633
- And judge with truth is our standard.
- 00:16:49.633 --> 00:16:51.769
- Our lives are better in every way.
- 00:16:51.769 --> 00:16:54.405
- Love the truth.
- 00:16:54.772 --> 00:16:55.573
- Choose to speak the truth.
- 00:16:55.573 --> 00:16:56.807
- Set an example of truthfulness for your children.
- 00:16:56.807 --> 00:17:00.411
- Teach them that deception will lead to unhappiness,
- 00:17:00.411 --> 00:17:03.047
- But truthfulness will serve them well.
- 00:17:03.047 --> 00:17:05.516
- God wants us to be people of truth
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- Because he knows it's the best way to live.
- 00:17:07.151 --> 00:17:09.653
- God has given us a season of opportunity to make an impact
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- For the kingdom of god.
- 00:17:12.923 --> 00:17:14.592
- So let's have the courage to lead
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- With our faith, to speak the truth
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- Without fear of the consequences.
- 00:17:18.295 --> 00:17:20.097
- If we'll do that, i promise you.
- 00:17:20.097 --> 00:17:21.932
- There are more reasons for hope than despair when we return.
- 00:17:21.932 --> 00:17:25.870
- I'm going to read and respond to some of your emails.
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- I'm going to read and respond to some of your emails.
- 00:17:36.001 --> 00:17:40.785
- Thank you for taking the time to send your emails.
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- Our whole team looks forward
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- To reading your comments and perspectives.
- 00:17:45.390 --> 00:17:47.792
- Scott from wylie, texas said, i've been enjoying the new show.
- 00:17:47.792 --> 00:17:50.762
- Great to have programs with a biblical worldview.
- 00:17:50.762 --> 00:17:53.598
- I've also enjoyed for quite some time
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- Your teachings on tv and youtube.
- 00:17:55.233 --> 00:17:57.636
- How about a flat consumption tax?
- 00:17:57.636 --> 00:17:59.871
- Everyone would pay as they go and no more tax returns.
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- The irs would only need to accept the funds
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- Along with a sales report and taxes collected.
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- Sounds like an interesting idea, scott.
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- Simple. and the irs.
- 00:18:11.416 --> 00:18:13.518
- That's a paradox.
- 00:18:13.518 --> 00:18:16.288
- Nancy commented on the youtube episode with ned ryan.
- 00:18:16.288 --> 00:18:20.091
- I really enjoyed listening to your guest, ned ryan,
- 00:18:20.091 --> 00:18:22.527
- As he gave clear and to the point
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- Answers to issues we are facing today.
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- Having clear cut answers
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- About how president trump is moving this nation
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- Forward with those tariffs and all the budget cuts.
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- Please keep praying for our nation,
- 00:18:33.171 --> 00:18:34.773
- Our president and his team.
- 00:18:34.773 --> 00:18:36.441
- By one great hope at this time is for our nation to return
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- Once more to be one nation under god.
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- Well, nancy, i will join you in those prayers.
- 00:18:42.948 --> 00:18:45.150
- I think the the objective is that we could make choices
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- In such a way so that god could bless america again.
- 00:18:48.453 --> 00:18:52.257
- And finally, linda from texas.
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- Thank you for addressing what is happening in the world
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- Today from a biblical perspective.
- 00:18:57.028 --> 00:18:59.130
- I emailed my pastor to ask if we could have
- 00:18:59.130 --> 00:19:01.132
- A special prayer for israel after the october attack.
- 00:19:01.132 --> 00:19:04.369
- He didn't reply and there was no prayer.
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- I tried a second time
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- After the attack on israel by the missiles.
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- Again, no reply and no prayer.
- 00:19:09.808 --> 00:19:12.244
- I've since learned that he doesn't view israel
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- As significant in the world.
- 00:19:14.045 --> 00:19:15.947
- I believe he's preaching replacement theology.
- 00:19:15.947 --> 00:19:18.917
- Your ministries have filled the hole in my heart.
- 00:19:18.917 --> 00:19:22.387
- Well, i can assure you, linda, whether your pastor recognizes
- 00:19:22.387 --> 00:19:25.290
- Israel is significant in the world or not.
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- God does.
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- It's in the opening pages of scripture,
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- And it continues right through the end
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- In the book of revelation.
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- You keep praying for the peace of jerusalem.
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- Finally, i'd like to say that with your help, we're
- 00:19:36.568 --> 00:19:39.037
- Getting more and more people watching our show each week.
- 00:19:39.037 --> 00:19:42.340
- Truth and hope cuts through all the noise.
- 00:19:42.340 --> 00:19:44.943
- I can see it in the emails we receive.
- 00:19:44.943 --> 00:19:46.978
- Those of who you write, telling us
- 00:19:46.978 --> 00:19:48.513
- How grateful you are to have found a place
- 00:19:48.513 --> 00:19:50.749
- Where you can trust what you hear.
- 00:19:50.749 --> 00:19:52.917
- The world is certainly challenging enough to navigate
- 00:19:52.917 --> 00:19:56.054
- If you also have to navigate what's real and what's fake.
- 00:19:56.054 --> 00:19:59.224
- So let's keep going.
- 00:19:59.224 --> 00:20:00.425
- I'd like you to ask a friend or a neighbor to watch as well.
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- Spread the word.
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- We'll spread the truth.
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- Thank you for watching tonight.
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- I'm alan jackson, and i hope to see you again tomorrow.
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- Good night.
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