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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: February 10, 2025 | Allen Jackson Now | February 10, 2025

Well good evening,
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I'm alan jackson, and welcome back to nashville.
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After just a few weeks in office, it's
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Already become clear that the democrat party
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Has no intention of working with president trump.
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When the democrats met recently, they had no idea
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What to do next.
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So they took their now familiar path
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Of trying to make everything trump's fault.
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But they couldn't dent trump.
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So now they're on a full scale march against elon musk.
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They didn't stop there.
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Now they're attacking pete hegseth,
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The new secretary of defense.
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Even as he flies with american troops
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To the southern border to protect our citizens.
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They say it's a hardship to require government employees
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To return to the office.
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More than 90% of them have been working from home.
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Years after the covid threat faded.
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They're marching in loud protest,
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Trying to block the spending freeze at u.s.
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Aid, the agency that spent your money to produce
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Transgender comic books for peru.
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There are so many examples.
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So let's move to our guest today.
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He's the chairman of the house committee on small business.
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Congressman roger williams, republican of texas.
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Welcome to our show, sir.
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Hey, pastor, it's great to be on your show.
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Thanks for having us.
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Well, we're delighted to have you here.
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I want to start
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With the president's idea of rehabilitate the gaza strip.
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The democrats jumped on this, insisting he's out of control.
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For real.
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Now he wants gaza, greenland and the panama canal.
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What?
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They failed to say is just how dangerous
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It would be to have anyone move back into
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What is now really a demolition site.
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It's not a livable place.
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There are 30,000 active mines.
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Buildings are falling down.
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There's no real way to move around.
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Imagine if he'd said that
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The palestinians should go back to gaza.
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And then they started getting killed
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By stepping on all the mines.
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I have a question.
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Should the president just ignore the noise and go forward?
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Absolutely.
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I mean, he's he's giving he's
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Thrown out an idea and that's a great idea.
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I mean, who's got a better idea?
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Have we heard a better idea from anybody else?
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I don't think so,
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But i'm not surprised it's coming out of him.
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A business guy developer.
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He sees options,
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But he's also talking about quality of life for people
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That have nothing to return to right now.
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Well, it seems similar to the panama canal discussion to me.
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Most of the media will not tell everyone
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That it's already in the hands of the chinese.
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Here's how that happened.
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A hong kong
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Based company has run the ports on both ends of the canal
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For decades,
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But that began when hong kong was still a british territory.
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China's got control over hong kong now,
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So they effectively decide who goes in
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And out of the panama canal and how much they'll pay.
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So, congressman williams, wouldn't
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It threaten american commerce and our safety
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If china really does control that canal in the future?
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Well, absolutely.
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I mean, it can stop us
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Moving ships and men, manpower, products and so forth.
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And as president trump has said, we didn't sell or give a jimmy
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Carter didn't give the canal to the chinese.
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We gave it to to the panamanians.
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And so it's not that way anymore.
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And we have every right to go in there and in and run it.
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And to the extent that we want to
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And make it fair again, it's just not fair.
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And now greenland is on the table.
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We've heard from experts who have experience
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In national security issues.
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And greenland
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Apparently does have potential to fall into the wrong hands.
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Russia's military expansion,
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Their interest in the arctic sea lanes
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Provides plenty of reason
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For the president to want to make sure
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We don't let it be taken over by putin.
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Is it the safety of the american people?
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The primary job of any president?
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Well, it is.
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Yes, it is, but it wasn't the last president we had.
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He was not concerned about that.
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This one is greenland again, is a natural.
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And everything you said from a security standpoint is true.
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It it helps keep america safe, i mean.
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And, you know, you talk to the people
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Who live there, they're not so there.
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There might like the fact that they can still
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Keep their sovereignty and have the united states
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Be a part of, of where they live.
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So look at all this is thinking out of the box.
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But you'd expect that from president trump.
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And we haven't heard from it
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From the up from that from biden's administration,
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Because they just didn't have the
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The smarts or the awareness of the want to
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To get america back on top again.
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And that's what the talk is all about now.
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And i think it's great.
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Well, so
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Many of us are focused on the success of the president
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Because his decisions often translate into a better country.
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But the democrats are still attacking
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Not just the plans, but the people
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Listen to the extremes that elizabeth warren went
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To in criticizing elon musk.
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And the building behind me.
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Elon musk is seizing power
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From the american people.
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Oh, we are here to fight back.
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We will speak out.
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We will rally.
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We will power a movement
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All across this country.
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You know, i suppose that's
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Coming from the fact that he did so much to help elect trump.
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And now he's
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Getting one of his spaceships ready to rescue the astronauts.
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Those are the same people
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Who joe biden left stuck in space since last june.
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Shouldn't warren
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And her friends be thanking him instead of criticizing him?
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Well, of course, but that's just pitiful to watch
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And listen to that. going to go to the streets.
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There was an election november 5th.
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The people strongly voted for what president trump stands for.
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What he said he was going to do. we see him doing it now.
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It's amazing that they the rhetoric they put out.
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Can you imagine if the if the if the christian,
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If the christian community or that
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Or even the republican community put out that kind of rhetoric?
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It'd be unbelievable. but they're out of touch.
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They need to stay out of touch.
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And, they, they're going nowhere.
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And they're, of course, blaming him for everything.
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But that's why they have so much anger.
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Have you ever talked to one? they're so angry.
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The anger in their head is just unbelievable.
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But, you know, you talk about the astronauts.
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I mean, i think about those two people every single day.
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And i'm
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Glad that we're finally going to get up there
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And go get him a taste
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Of the private sector, i guess, to do it.
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But let's, let's go retrieve these astronauts,
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Bring them home.
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Absolutely.
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Well, let's take a break here so you can send us an email
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On this discussion.
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You can send your ideas
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For how to address some of these problems.
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You send them to comments at alan jackson now.com.
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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 republican congressman
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Roger williams from the great state of texas.
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He represents an area from austin nearly to fort worth.
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Well, a recent guest on our show said that he thought
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It was actually a good thing that trump lost four years ago,
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But one now
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Because the american people would not have had the respect
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And perhaps not even noticed how effective he is,
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Especially compared to biden and harris.
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No one wants to have to him to spend his last term
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Digging out of the hole we're in, but he may turn out
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To be a truly historic figure if this momentum keeps going.
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Do you think what he's doing is sustainable for four years?
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Oh, absolutely.
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I think the fact that we have him this
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These four years is great.
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I think a lot of it is a has been a godly thing.
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I mean, the fact that the assassination attempt failed.
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We get him back
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To be our president and take on issues
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That we haven't seen before in this country.
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And so i'm glad he's our president.
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Wished he was the last time.
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But like you say, last time wouldn't have been this time.
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And i think he's in the right pl
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Well, the
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White house is going full steam ahead
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On clearing out the criminal migrants.
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They've had quite a bit of success already.
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Tell us about the bill
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That you introduced to keep people in mexico.
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Well, first of all, let me say this.
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If you're here illegally, you're here illegally.
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That's the bottom line. and we're a land of law.
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We need to make sure the world knows
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That we just run better when we're lawful.
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So, i've got
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I've got i've got a bill called a stay in mexico, policy
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That would require that, these illegals,
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When we capture them, get their court dates.
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On the mexican side of the border,
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Not the american side.
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Biden had that option to work for,
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But he ignored it, and he gave court
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Orders, court dates to these illegals
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While they were already in america.
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And of course, you can imagine they never came back.
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And, so stay in mexico policy.
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The supreme court has ruled it's legal.
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Our bill just says that, you, give coordinate in mexico.
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You stay in mexico.
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Do you get your coordination,
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Your due diligence, and that will
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Keep a lot of people from coming over.
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The like
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The border patrol will tell you if this bill does become law,
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Which my which i think it will be, it will reduce 70%.
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Just that alone.
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70% of the illegal crossings will be, eliminated
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Just because of this bill. so i think it'll get signed.
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I'm excited about it. but stay in mexico policy.
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Watch it. we'll see what happens.
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Well, i do want to cover some of your responsibilities.
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You're the head of the house committee on small business.
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Nearly half the jobs in the u.s.
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Are in small businesses, you know.
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What sort of voice do you have with the new white house
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On changing things to grow this big part of our country?
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Well, we've got a great voice.
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I mean, president trump and i have often talked to
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We both have run
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Family businesses, still have family businesses.
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And, you know,
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Chairing the small business committee is perfect for me
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Because i'm a small business owner,
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Still have hundreds of people working as we speak today
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In texas.
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I'm one of the few people in congress
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Actually owns a business.
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So when we pass legislation,
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I feel it like the people on the receiving end,
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We're working really well with the white house.
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I believe, like the president doesn't need to cut taxes.
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We cut them even more.
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When you cut taxes, you create more taxpayers.
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When you cut taxes, you create more jobs and opportunity.
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We need to do that. we promise to do that.
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That's why we need to make sure that the tax cuts
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From 2016 become permanent by the end of this year.
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People need to get more money in their check,
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Because when they get more money, we know they don't say
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They spend
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And that creates more of an economy
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And that's just the way capitalism works.
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So on the small business committee, we're focused on,
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Working with ways and means on tax cuts.
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We're focused on regulations.
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A lot of people don't
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Realize it, but small business and main street
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Have been devastated by regulations put on by joe biden.
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The figures are $1.73 trillion worth of regulations
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Were put on main street america.
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Small business owners by biden and you convert that to man
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Hours is 220 million man hours to comply to the regulations.
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And most small businesses don't have enough money
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To hire a lawyer or accountant.
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And so they have to get smaller.
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They go out of business.
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So we're doing away with we're cutting regulation size.
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We the president's already doing that.
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We're going to cut taxes.
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And those two things
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Themselves are going to have main street america
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And allow people to invest and allow people to take some risk
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And get rewarded to start their own business,
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Which is the american dream.
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So i'm excited to be involved in this.
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President trump is
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Lockstep, lockstep with us as we are with him on that.
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We believe in the american people
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And the greatest asset that america has is not america.
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It's the american people, the american worker.
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Let's put them to work.
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Let's create an environment
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That everybody in the world wants to come to legally and
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Start a job, and maybe one day not even have to pay taxes.
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Sounds good to me.
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Does it help having a former businessman
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Be president
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When you're trying to get commonsense business policies
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Through the house.
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Well actually it's unbelievable because you can almost talk
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In sign language with business people
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When you talk about accelerated depreciation,
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When you talk about return on investment,
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When you talk about competition,
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You talk about risk and reward.
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You talk about 100% expensing.
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Business people get all this.
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He gets it all.
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In the past we've had people that
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Come from the private sector and they weren't sure
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What all this meant.
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But the fact of the matter, having a business
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Man business owner as president of the united states
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Is a huge asset to people like me
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That want to get a message out and get it
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Across of less government, lower taxes.
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But you've got a very razor thin margin, really,
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Of republicans in the house.
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Do you think you'll be able to work together
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To get the president's policies through?
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Well, i think so, and i hope so.
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The people of america voted president trump
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In on the very things he's doing right now.
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And for us to go against what the people
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Our districts have had to say, i think is wrong.
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But we have to we have to begin to get this done.
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And i think we have to get the tax cuts.
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We have to get the border, done asap,
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So people will truly realize something's happening.
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They're already seeing border crossings
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Have gone down drastically since we've sent troops down there.
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And since home has been in charge.
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And then we got to get taxes done.
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Because, when people notice
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Your check is bigger than it was before,
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It shows you right then that congress and the president
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Are doing exactly what they say they want to do.
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Well, before we finish, i want to get your reaction
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To a pivotal moment we saw at the white house
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Last week when president trump signed an executive order
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To protect women's sports.
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God bless you, mr.
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President.
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Thank you.
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Trump told him that gender ideology insanity is over.
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Congresswoman, it was a very common sense
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Response to this crushing issue for so many young women.
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I'm sure you agree.
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Totally agree.
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I've got two girls and two grand girls.
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And, but but here's the deal.
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Isn't it
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Amazing that in this great country
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That we've had to hold a press conference, we've had to lobby,
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We've had to argue, we've had to cajole,
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To try to remind people there's a difference
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Between a man and a woman,
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And that men shouldn't be playing against women in sports.
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That's pretty unbelievable right here in this country.
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But we had it. we we had it.
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We got legislation passed.
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He signed it. i think it's fantastic.
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And now we need to shut up
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And let's go play ball and enjoy the ball games.
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Makes sense to me.
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Well, congressman, texas and tennessee
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Have been working together for quite a long while.
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It's nice to have you on the program today.
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I hope you can be in our studio
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With us here in nashville sometime soon.
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Well, i'd love to do it.
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Nashville's a great city.
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And we look forward to coming in and having more conversation
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Any time. well, keep up the good work.
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There are many of us praying for you
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When we come back.
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We've got some hopeful thoughts of our own.
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We've got some hopeful thoughts of our own.
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I believe the election last november is the latest episode
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In the shaking that god is doing throughout the earth.
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There are things becoming clearer today
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That just weren't clear before.
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They were hidden in the midst of something.
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Well, i've had enough
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Birthdays and participated in enough elections to know
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That they sell them, change anything of real substance.
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Reminds me a lot of a globetrotters game.
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They just changed jerseys.
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And after the game, they split the game receipts.
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Well, that's not what's happening now.
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I got home the other night.
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I turned on the news, and i saw a u.s.
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President standing with the prime minister of israel.
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Now, i've seen that scenario many times before,
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Over the decades.
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Truthfully, i wasn't paying that much attention.
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But then president trump looked at the camera, and he said that
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Everything done over the last 70 years has failed.
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He said gaza is decimated.
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There are thousands of landmines
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And it's not a safe place for people.
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And all of that is truly accurate.
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Then he said, i have a solution.
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And he proposed taking the gaza area
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And turning it into a productive zone for the entire region,
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Creating jobs and opportunities for all the people.
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Now, i don't know if the idea will happen or not,
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But i also have never heard an idea like that before.
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In my opinion,
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President trump's statement about gaza and the u.s.
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Being involved to help make it a peaceful
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And productive place for the people to live and work.
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It's the most logical resolution
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I've heard in a long time for that part of the world.
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Well, i have a question for you.
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If the new administration can usher in fresh ideas,
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Can we, as the people of god, be open to the new things
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God wants to do in our lives?
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Jesus gave us a reference point.
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It's luke five.
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You probably know the passage.
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It talks about pouring new wine into old wineskins.
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It says if you do that, the new wine will burst.
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The skins and the wine will run out.
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The new wine has to be poured into new wineskins.
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And i'm sure you know the equation.
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When grape juice ferments, co2 is released.
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If it's an old wineskin, there's no elasticity.
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It'll rupture. you'll lose the wine.
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You have to pour the new wine into a new wineskin
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So it can find new limits and new boundaries.
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Well, we're in a season of great change.
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We can't allow it just to be political change.
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We have to allow the
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Spirit of god to bring change to our lives.
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Are we willing to allow that
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Or will we forfeit the opportunity
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And allow the privileges that we could pick up to be spilled?
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I pray not.
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It's time to allow the spirit of god
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To lead us into a season of change,
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Not just the politicians.
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When we return, i'm going to read some of your emails.
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When we return, i'm going to read some of your emails.
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Thank you for taking the time to send us your emails.
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Your thoughts
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And opinions are an important part of our show prep.
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William and veronica from georgia wrote the book
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Shepherds for sale by megan basham is a real eye opener.
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She would make an excellent guest for the show.
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Keep up the good work.
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If you expand the length of the show
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And move on to the saturday evening slot,
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We have a suggestion for the name.
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Call it saturday night in america with alan jackson.
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Your show is uplifting and a real blessing.
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We've had megan on.
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We'll see if we can get her back on set.
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And i agree,
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The book is a powerful message when we all need to be aware of.
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As to the expansion for an hour show and even saturday night
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We're having the discussion, we need two things.
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We'll need permission from the network
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And then the funding to be available with those.
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Here we go.
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Leslie from north carolina wrote.
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Where can i get a list of
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Some of the questionable spending by usa
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That has been identified by those so far?
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Well, leslie, i went and asked rabbi google yesterday
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For a list and he gave me quite an extensive report.
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I suspect you can find it that way pretty quickly.
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Carol emailed.
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I'm almost 89,
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And i wanted you to know that
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I took you up on your request to read the four gospels.
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Well, i got that done, and now i'm into acts.
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I had read the bible clear through years ago,
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So it was refreshing to read it all again.
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I catch your evening show
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Each evening and occasionally catch you sunday mornings.
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I just wanted to tell you god bless you and keep doing what
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You're doing.
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Well, carol, thank you.
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And you keep reading.
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When you get done with acts, the story just gets better.
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Reading the bible changes our hearts.
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And through that, it changes our lives.
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It is a worthwhile investment of time and energy.
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Then joe from arkansas wrote,
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I was so encouraged when i saw the president sign
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The order to keep men out of women's sports.
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But then i was sad that it took an order to hold up
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Something so basic.
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How did we come this far?
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Well, joe, i spent my adult life in the church,
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So i'll give you my opinion.
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I think it's a massive failure
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On behalf of the people of faith.
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To be completely candid, i'm grateful that president trump
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Had the courage to sign the initiative.
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But i was a bit embarrassed that we had to have
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A president of the united states do that, a political figure.
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I believe that message in that moral
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Authority needs to come from the church.
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We have been frightened,
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If not just complete cowards, for far too long.
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We've got to bring
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Our biblical worldview back into the public square.
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It'll make a better world for our children and grandchildren,
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And it'll make our churches healthier as well.
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If you miss a broadcast, i just want to remind you,
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You can go to youtube.
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They're posted there every evening
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So you can watch them at your leisure on your timetable.
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And if you haven't yet,
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Take a moment to send your emails
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To comments at alan jackson now.com.
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Your feedback and questions do a lot to shape our show.
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Well, i'm alan jackson.
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You have a wonderful evening.
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