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Allen Jackson: Faith Awakeing | Allen Jackson Now

February 10, 2026 | 20:47

Pete Peterson joins Allen Jackson to discuss current events.

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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: Faith Awakeing | Allen Jackson Now | February 10, 2026

Good evening and welcome to nashville.
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I'm alan jackson.
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Well, mark the date may 17th
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To sunday, a day of prayer on the national mall.
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It's part of our country's 250th celebrations.
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Across the country, people of all different
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Faiths will participate in this encouraging time
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When more and more people are going to church
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And practicing their faith all seven days of the week.
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It's a heartening sign, especially among young people,
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When a third and nearly
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Half of the young people are going to church again.
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President trump has noticed.
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Listen to what he said at the prayer breakfast
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In a religion is back now
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Hotter than ever before, a bit after church.
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In the last 12 months, young americans attended church
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At nearly twice the rate as they did four years ago.
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Some churches are seeing a 30%, 50%, or even 70% increase
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In the number of converts and also the number of people
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Going to church every week.
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You know, he knows that
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From all corners of the globe,
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Evil is trying to take down our country.
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The attacks are just as strong from the inside as we witness
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The scope of the fraud and the lies to the outbreak
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Of illegal betting inside the sports world is stunning.
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Progressives promising things they know won't work, spreading
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Socialist policies that inevitably fail.
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And at the super bowl,
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The biggest sporting event in the world,
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A halftime show featuring
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A man who wears dresses and calls himself bad bunny.
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I don't think we'll see any bunnies at the day of prayer,
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But the president wants to make sure
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That as much of the country
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As possible has the door open for hope.
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You know, however, the solution to our society
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Is not going to come through political means primarily.
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God is our deliverer,
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And he's waiting for you and me to stand up.
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I think it's a pretty accurate description
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Of our current culture to say that we have cast off restraint.
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We don't want any limits.
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We don't want any moral boundaries. fact.
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We are deeply offended if anybody dares to suggest
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There's an almighty god or higher authority
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That could define for us the institution of marriage
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Or boundaries for how we should conduct ourselves.
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During the halftime show of the super bowl,
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A musical artist was given a platform to sing
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The biggest to the biggest audience.
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This year, it's estimated over 130 million viewers.
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And just the week prior,
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The same artist at the grammy awards said,
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Before i say thanks to god, i'm going to say ice out
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In reference to his anti ice views.
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Well, during a super bowl performance, he sang songs
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That if you translate the lyrics to english,
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You would find out that they were extremely inappropriate
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Not just for children, but for common sense adults.
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The truth is, this artist didn't force his way in.
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He was invited
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By the multi-billion dollar corporation, the nfl
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To perform on their premiere annual broadcast.
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Knowing full well that children across
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America would be watching.
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And then, after the super bowl,
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This artist was universally celebrated by the media,
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Who were effervescent with their praise.
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Some even saying that he won the super bowl was the culture.
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We have truly cast off restraint and sadly, the church share
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Some of the responsibility.
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We have tolerated some things
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That i don't believe should be tolerated.
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We don't have to be angry or belligerent or hate filled,
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But we need to acknowledge that there is objective truth
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And that everything isn't just subject to my opinion.
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My feeling or my perspective.
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There is truth that is true
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Whether i choose to believe it or not.
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For instance, the impact of too many calories
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On my physical body.
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It doesn't change if i say that i don't believe in fat
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Or the impact of gravity.
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That doesn't change if i deny it.
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We have a culture that wants to tell us that we determine
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What's true, that no one can define my truth.
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Well, that's simply an irrational statement.
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This subjective truth is manifesting
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In the violence carried out on the streets
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Of major cities against law enforcement
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By those who support criminal actors who are here illegally.
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It manifest when the narrative is pushed,
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That there are limitless numbers of genders
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That are determined by nothing more than personal feelings.
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The reality is, these things indicate a rise of darkness
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And a diminishment of the light of the church.
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And we as christ followers, we've got to turn up the light.
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The good news is god is moving.
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I'm grateful that in the super bowl,
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There were players and coaches
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Who boldly spoke about their worldview.
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The quarterback for the new england
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Patriots, drake maye, before the game.
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He said god gave him success this season in order to shine
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A light and get others to follow jesus christ.
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The offensive coordinator of the seattle seahawks, clint
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Kubiak, he said, our identity is not in our job.
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Our identity is in jesus christ.
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In fact, for christmas,
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The same coach gave a copy of the bible
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To every player and coach on his team,
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And now he's gotten a promotion.
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He was officially made the head coach of the las vegas raiders.
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Think about it a moment.
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A christian head coach in sin city.
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Sounds like god is moving to me.
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Well, in every generation i believe
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God recruits, volunteers.
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Throughout history, the spirit of god recruits
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Men and women to stand on his behalf
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And to use their influence
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For the purposes of god in their generation.
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What i'd like to do now
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Is just issue a bit of a recruitment call.
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I'd like to invite you to purposefully lead
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With your faith
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On behalf of the kingdom of god in this generation.
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There's a lot to go over,
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As we consider the past year of change,
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And quite a lot coming up as well.
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We have a president who's determined to
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Make this country as prosperous and safe as it has ever been.
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In a moment, i'll be joined by the distinguished dean
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Of pepperdine school of public policy, pete peterson.
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I'll be right back.
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I'll be right back.
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Signs of hope against the world.
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Infected with evil.
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Well, to discuss where we are and where we're headed.
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We've invited back the dean of the school of public policy
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At pepperdine in malibu, pete peterson.
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Welcome back, sir.
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Great to be back with you, alan.
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Isn't it nice to see our president
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Organizing a national day of prayer
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As a part of the 250th celebrations,
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As he put it in his own big way.
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Religion is hotter than ever before.
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Of course, it's a smart political move,
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But i think he's genuinely
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Turning to his faith
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More than ever since the assassination attempts
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And how they shook his children and wife.
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Where do you think it's coming from?
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Well, i think you're right.
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Certainly the reports that i've seen certainly,
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Bear that out, that the assassination attempts
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Have really made him
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Think about the bigger picture, so to speak.
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And in some ways, in we think about,
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President reagan, the assassination attempt on him.
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He was very forthcoming about the fact that,
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After he survived that government gunman's bullet,
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That it made him think about what god was calling him
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To do, through his presidency,
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Through ended up being, two terms there back in the 80s.
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So those brushes with death, as we know from friends
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And others,
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Really caused people to think about the first principles,
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The most important things.
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And obviously, our faith in god and jesus, specifically,
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Are called to mind during those moments.
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Well, as for the current dysfunction,
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On the one hand, i'm delighted
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To see this massive fraud stealing from the taxpayers
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Getting unearthed and prosecuted.
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But it's also shocking to see the scale of it
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Now in your home state.
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Over $8 billion of fraud involving 111,000 cases.
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I'm trying to imagine how much we'd all save in taxes
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Were it not for the fraud.
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Now that money could be used to pay down the national debt.
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Wouldn't that be some real progress on all of our parts?
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I couldn't agree more, alan.
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And certainly this,
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Deeper focus that the trump administration is placing
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On, fraud is bringing a lot of,
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Really disturbing stories to light.
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You mentioned here in california we had an instance,
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Of even greater scale going back a few years ago
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During covid, where our employment commission
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Was seen as losing over $20 billion.
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That apparently was erroneously paid out in covid payments,
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So that the stories were beginning to see,
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I think are unfortunately just the tip of the iceberg.
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We hear of federal programs, certainly coming out of covid,
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Where, over $1 trillion was spent out.
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We have to assume that a, a percentage of those funds
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Were spent erroneously and fraudulently.
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But it is the government's responsibility and all
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Of us as citizens,
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To make
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Sure that our tax dollars are spent wisely
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And for the purposes that we've intended them for.
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We've also seen the reports about the los angeles mayor,
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Who was caught trying to soften the report
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On how she wasn't ready for the fires.
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She openly lied to the president
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About how quickly
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She would dedicate herself to helping these families rebuild.
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So now you sent lee zeldin out to kick start the rebuilding.
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What should be doing the past year
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That was more important than helping those families?
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You know, it's hard to think of anything
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The mayor could be doing.
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And i have to say as,
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Maybe one of the few republicans still remaining in this state,
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That it's it's been a real,
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Blessing to have a presidential administration
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That has not forgotten about california.
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Certainly we're not seeing engagement
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On the part of elected officials,
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Whether it's the mayor or, frankly, the governor.
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Governor newsom,
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In, responding to the fires in the rebuilding process.
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It's it's really taken a very long time.
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We just actually here at the policy
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School did a research study on all,
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The challenges that homebuilders,
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Homeowners are facing as they seek to rebuild
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From those horrific fires of over a year ago.
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But at least we're finding some accountability
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Being brought by the administration,
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Whether it's in the form of lee zeldin.
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We've seen,
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Senators and congressmen and women coming out here.
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Also to tell the story and continue to put a spotlight
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On the true failures that we've seen
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By this administration in the mayor's office
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In los angeles, but also in the governor's mansion as well.
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Well, thank goodness president trump is a fighter.
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He's working 20 hours a day
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Trying to fix years of bad decisions.
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Now he's even putting faith leaders front and center.
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Listen to how he put it.
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Now, religious leaders are respected as much or more
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As any leader of any type, anywhere in the world.
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Religious leaders are respected again,
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And that's the way we have to have it.
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Do you think public policy
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Of the type you oversee at pepperdine
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Would be helped by taking the president's suggestions?
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I sure do.
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We're actually one of the only graduate
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Policy schools that a christian university and and in that
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We take that intersection of faith and politics
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Or faith and public policy very seriously.
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But we also understand that governments cannot
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Be the only source of,
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Citizen engagement
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Or volunteering or participation.
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And in that the churches,
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Certainly our synagogues and mosques,
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Our faith communities here in this country are so important
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Not only to engage directly
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Through volunteering and participating
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In provision of services, but also in the shaping
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Of, moral citizens as well.
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So i very much hope that that is indeed the case.
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We've got so much more to discuss.
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Can you stand by for another segment?
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Absolutely.
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I'll be right back.
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I'll be right back.
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We're back now with the dean of pepperdine, pete peterson.
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Tom bevan from real clear politics was on recently,
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And he made the point
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That even with the growth of a somewhat balanced media,
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The day's agenda still begins with the legacy media's
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Choice of stories.
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So much so that the center right
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Is still reacting to what they decide.
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Do you think that will change at some point in our future?
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I really hope so.
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You know, allen, the texans have a great saying that,
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If you see a turtle on a fence post, chances are didn't
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Get there by itself.
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And i think in the same way, americans are wising up
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To the fact that the stories that they see on the headlines
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Or in the news or are chosen, people are making
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Specific decisions about what to cover and what not to cover.
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We just talked about
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The problems that we're seeing here
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In southern california, in los angeles, around the fires.
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For many months.
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Those stories
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Just basically left the headlines,
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And it took a visit, in this case by lee zeldin
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From the administration and other,
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You know, staff and personnel from the administration to
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To bring attention back again and to bring media attention
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Back again.
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I do think that through this administration,
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That americans are
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Getting, to be better consumers of media.
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And in that i think that certainly
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Is an important part of being informed,
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And, and participatory citizens.
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You know, it seems that the country,
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As a whole really doesn't trust the national media.
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They do trust local media, but the advertising money
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That keeps the locals in business
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Is being swallowed up by youtube and tiktok and social media.
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We're honest journalists.
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They're pretty hard to find.
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How big a problem is it
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That truth is buried in social clickbait?
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I think it is a real problem.
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And you put your finger on really the
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The sphere in which we're seeing this really played out.
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And that is at the local level.
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We have seen a dramatic drop in local news organizations,
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Which in many ways, had been the least partizan,
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The least ideologically captured,
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Level of journalism.
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And in that, as that morphs into these other,
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Social media platforms, we're seeing a loss of coverage.
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Again, i don't want to belabor this experience of the
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The local level here in los angeles.
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But again, i have to say that we're
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We could really do with some more balanced
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Coverage of what's happening in los angeles, in california.
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The new york post
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Actually just made the decision to launch something called the
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California post.
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So we're bringing some more
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Balanced state and local coverage here.
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But at the same time, across the country,
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We are seeing a real drop in the number of local news
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Organizations bringing attention to important and local issues
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Where the news dysfunction is driving our political leaders
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As well.
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Many of them will do almost anything to be seen on camera.
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Doesn't it
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Sometimes feel like the cameras are driving the policies?
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I think you're right, alan.
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I do think that that's happening.
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People, politicians are seeing,
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Cameras and see an opportunity to make their case
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And get what we call earned media and the business media
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That they don't have to pay for in that.
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You know, one wonders, you know, which is the
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Which is the dog wagging the tail.
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Are the politicians,
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Driving the news stories, or are the media
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Bringing attention to news stories?
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I think what's so great about
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Your program, alan, is that you cast a very wide net
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For the kinds of stories that you're covering,
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And certainly bringing that lens of,
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Faith and first principles to,
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How we think about the news and how we can be better
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Consumers of the news is really so important.
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Well, i always feel like we
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Learn a lot when we hear about the students there.
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What are the students at pepperdine majoring in
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And where do they see their future?
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Well, as a graduate policy programs,
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Our kids are going in a few different directions.
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Certainly some will go at the local level.
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We have kids
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That will go work in in city governments, for example.
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But we're also sending a number
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Of students into washington, d.c., as well.
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D.c. is our second largest alumni chapter.
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So we have students going into federal agencies,
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Intel, national security agencies,
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The whole think tank world that's in dc as well.
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We have students that are going into into that space as well.
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So, you know that old phrase,
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Think global, act local.
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We have kids really going in both of those, those directions.
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One last quick question is
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The general tone of the students hopeful?
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Are they looking at the future with the sense of anticipation?
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Yeah,
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It really is the thing that i,
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Have to say that i'm uniquely prepared for,
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People who say just how terrible everything is in our politics
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Because i meet students every day that, really have hope
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For the future and their role in helping,
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To shape the future, albeit,
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Recommitting to america's founding principles,
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Whether it's at the local level, or at the national level.
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So, i'm always inspired by by our kids.
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Well, pete peterson, thank you for your words of wisdom
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And your leadership, as always.
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Thanks so much, allen.
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In a moment,
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Your emails and other comments about the news of the day.
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I'll be right back.
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I'll be right back.
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Thank you for sharing your thoughts and opinions with us.
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Your emails are always a highlight.
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Jared from florida commented, i keep hearing from government
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That preachers need to stand up for what's right.
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They are especially on tv and around my area.
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We need government and teachers
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To stand up for what's biblically right.
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We've been taught that it's pushing beliefs.
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Know if someone's moves into your castle,
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They change for you or they get kicked out.
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You're the king of that castle, not them.
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Treat the nation as a castle.
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This is not hard, people.
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Thank you. alan.
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Well, gerard, i've never thought about the nation as a castle,
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But i'm very much aware that my boss has a kingdom
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And that everybody's welcome into that kingdom.
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The doorway is centered in a person
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By the name of jesus of nazareth.
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But there's a warning label at the door
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To enter the kingdom.
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We have to understand that
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The king establishes the boundaries in that kingdom,
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And it's not really determined by my opinion.
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It's changed my life, and i believe
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It would change anybody that's listening.
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That's better than a castle in our nation.
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It's a kingdom ahead of us.
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John kay from pennsylvania said peter schweitzer's
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Investigatory work is fascinating and eye opening.
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What he uncovered
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Is nothing less than a dire threat to our democracy.
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President trump, vice president vance and other republicans
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Need to continue to highlight
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These socialist, communist evil strategies.
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We need to continue to get the word out
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And pray for our democracy.
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Thanks for all you're doing for the cause of christ in america.
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Well thanks, john.
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You know, the whole discussion around socialism
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And communism is shouldn't be difficult.
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Those systems have been tried.
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The outcomes are clear.
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They brought unthinkable human suffering
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And impoverishment to whole nations of people.
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We got to pay attention,
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Wake up and use our voices if we will do that.
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I promise there's hope for the future.
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Thank you for spending a few minutes of your day with us.
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I'm alan jackson. you have a good evening.
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Allen Jackson: Faith Awakeing | Allen Jackson Now

February 10, 2026 | 20:47

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