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Well good evening, i'm alan jackson,
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And welcome to nashville.
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Not since 1992 as so much noise come from the nation's capital.
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Now, that was the year
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The washington redskins won the super bowl.
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It was the sound of a celebration.
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Of course,
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The city has rarely been known for its sports franchises.
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Now the noise is even louder.
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It's happy cheering by one side
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And outright fear from the other,
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As president trump suddenly has everyone standing up straight.
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The deep state is being exposed.
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There are no secrets anymore.
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Since president trump explains his vision
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Almost every day, it seems he knows what he wants
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To get done, and he knows he has less than four years to do it.
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Streamlining government where advice and consent
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No longer seems too relevant,
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It's easy to see the downfalls of the department of education.
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So much money was spent on poor policies and it's the students
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Who have suffered.
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What's fema doing?
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The people who got flooded out in their homes in north carolina
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Now have to read about $59 million
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Being spent on luxury hotels
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For illegal immigrants in new york city.
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And that's in one week.
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Well, who other than the insiders, knew
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That usaid spent millions promoting tourism in lebanon,
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Even as the state department was warning
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Not to travel there because of the terrorist or the u.s.
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Aid, financed the bad studies about the coronavirus
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At the wuhan lab.
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It's hard to trace because it was paid
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Through a pass through agency.
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Our tax dollars at work.
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Well, this is just the beginning of the doj's project
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Rooting out waste.
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If they find enough, maybe we'll even see our taxes
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Cut later this year.
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Imagine that.
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We'll go back to keeping what we've earned.
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Did you know that 20 to $30 is taken out of every $100
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You earn?
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Imagine a $100 bill in your hand,
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Taking 20 to $30 from each one and mailing it to washington
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Or to your state capitol.
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Every hundred dollars every single time you get paid.
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Well, long
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Before president trump brought elon musk aboard,
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There was an organization
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Called the government accountability institute.
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That's exactly where our next guest is from.
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And he spent his career accounting for the money.
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The vice president of gao, erik eggers.
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Welcome back to our show.
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Alan, it's great to be with you, as always.
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Well, tell me this before we get into any specific cases
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And without divulging any inside information
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On how you and peter schweitzer
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And seamus bruner get the exclusives that you uncover.
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But what do your instincts tell you about where to look
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For the waste
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And theft when there's so much spending every year?
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I think it spans as far as the eye can see.
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You know, alan, it's funny.
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Everything you just laid out reminds me
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Very much of that scene in the movie.
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Dave, when he brings in charles
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Grodin and they go over the budget
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And they're like, wait, we're spending this much to do this?
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This is like that on steroids.
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Except for it's even worse because it's an extra zero.
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And the money that you just mentioned from usaid is going
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Overseas, or more often, it's going to cultural programs
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That don't reflect the values
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Of the american people or the values
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The american people want to see reflected in their government.
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And that's one of the messages they made
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Very clear in november.
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We just did a podcast.
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We talked about you've got u.s.
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Senators defending $20 million, alan, to have sesame street
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Broadcast in iraq as if there's somehow iraqi
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Children are going to learn about hygiene and manners,
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From stuffed animals as opposed to isis.
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But this is a policy that the united states
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Government thinks makes sense.
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We're spending $2 million to promote lgbt
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Activism in guatemala, the military spending $2.3
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Million on a vr training program to teach our military,
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Teach men and women whose job it is
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To protect this country with guns and bullets,
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How to have hard conversations about die.
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So that's the kind of
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Ridiculous thing you would think was invented in hollywood.
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But unfortunately, it's all too real.
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Well, i've heard you and your associates
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Talk about how bulletproof your investigations are.
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Tell our viewers
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Why it is that you can stand by your reporting 100%,
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Especially while so much of the media
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Deals in opinion and generally less than truthful reporting.
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The media doesn't just deal with opinion
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And less than truthful reporting.
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They're dealing in hysteria.
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And that's one of the reasons why every time you see
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Donald trump do anything, he's done a lot.
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He said 38 executive actions in the first two weeks, only
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Joe biden and harry truman
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Had more than that in their first hundred days.
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So donald trump's on pace to outdo
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Both of those presidents potentially combined in
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The media is losing their mind every step of the way.
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But they can't attack our reporting
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Because it's based on facts.
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We dig through tax records, we're going through budgets,
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We're cross-referencing
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With phone records and mapping out relationships.
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And that's what we've always done.
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Alan, you mentioned usaid.
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I actually traveled to haiti
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To investigate some potential usaid abuse back in 2014.
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It had to do with hillary clinton and bill clinton,
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Back when they were in charge of the rebuild of haiti.
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And what we found
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Is that hillary clinton's department of state used usaid
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To pay
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A guy
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Who ran a cell phone company
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That had a contract to do business in haiti.
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They gave him a chance to grow his cell phone business
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In haiti.
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At the same time,
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That guy was paying bill clinton big money to give speeches
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And donated money to the clinton foundation.
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So usaid is one of the things that we've helped report on
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For nearly a decade
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In terms of abuse of tax dollars and unfortunately,
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Not furthering american interests abroad.
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That's just what we consistently tried
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To do with the government accountability institute.
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Well, people are asking questions now.
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There's so much mismanagement has been disclosed.
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A big question is to what extent did the u.s.
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Actually help our enemy
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And the enemy of israel, iran and hamas?
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There's two very blatant examples
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That are kind of in the news now.
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Guy was the group that traced secretary of state
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Hillary clinton's approval of the sale of uranium
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Or uranium plant with the active ingredient in nuclear weapons.
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The plant was closed, but putin then helped kazakhstan
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Get their uranium into the hands of iran.
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If that wasn't bad enough, we've recently learned
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That president obama approved more than $300 million
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For a concrete plan for the palestinians.
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Much of gaza is made of concrete,
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Including the hundreds
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Of miles of tunnels that hamas built to hide from israel.
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So uranium for iran's nukes and concrete to hide the terrorist
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With all the reporters in this country, why
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Didn't that make the air?
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Unfortunately, and i think, you know, the answer is
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Because it doesn't fit the narrative
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That most mainstream media outlets
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Are trying to sell to the american people.
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And that's one of the reasons
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Programs like yours are so important.
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People need to hear the truth somewhere.
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We have consistently told people how the united states,
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Unfortunately, doesn't just aid our enemies,
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But oftentimes members
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The united states government, who should be defending
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The american people's interests, actually
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Make money on doing the opposite by betraying their interests.
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That's why the joe biden hunter biden
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Chinese business deal story was so important.
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You have hunter biden entering into $1.5 billion deal
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With the chinese communist party
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That they then use to buy up american companies with access
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To what's called dual use technology.
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That's technology
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That chinese military were very interested in
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Because it had potential application.
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You mentioned that hillary clinton, helping
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Facilitate the sale of uranium to vladimir putin.
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They didn't just help do that.
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The clintons made money off of that.
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That's why they were involved.
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$140 million went to their foundation from people
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That were involved in that transaction.
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So it's not just anti-american interests.
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It's unfortunately pro crony financial dealings.
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And that's what makes it even worse than it should be.
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Well, we'll be back with more from the vice president
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Of the government accountability institute, eric eggers,
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Right after this short break.
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Well, we're back now with one of the country's
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Great investigative reporters, eric eggers.
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President trump told bret baer that his next stops with elon
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Musk doge team is going to be the department of education,
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Then the pentagon.
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Where do you think he should go
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After that to find some of this tremendous waste?
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Yeah, i think that there's a lot of places he should go.
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And i think the department of education
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Is an excellent place to start.
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But i would caution
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President trump,
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You know, we've interviewed
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On our drill down podcast, somebody who has previously run
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The department of education in the state of florida,
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And he's a university president now.
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And he cautioned against shutting down
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The department of education for one very real reason,
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And that is that
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The states are basically in charge of education.
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If you eliminate any federal oversight.
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So there's a reason why states like california
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And new york and states with very liberal ideologies
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And very powerful teachers unions
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Might very much be okay with no federal oversight.
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So i think cutting waste and abuse
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In the department of education is a great idea.
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Doge, i think, recently identified
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Something like $900 million in grants
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To just essentially help cross-reference school
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Performance across states.
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As if an excel spreadsheet can't do that.
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So i think there's a lot of good ideas there.
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But the reality is that waste and abuse and too much
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Taxpayer dollar has flooded washington, d.c..
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I previously worked on an exposé that identified how wealthy
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Washington, d.c. had become.
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They actually lead the nation in wine consumption per capita.
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And of all the counties in this country,
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Six out of ten of the wealthiest counties in this country
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Surround washington, d.c.
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That's how much taxpayer money is there?
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Much of it not going for things
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That actually benefit the american people.
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So it's kind of like whack a mole man.
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You could put a blindfold on and throw a dart,
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And you'd find some money that probably deserves to be cut.
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Well, we've heard so many
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Examples of spending that seems just indefensible.
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Usaid and its transgender comic books for other countries.
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Things i would have never imagined.
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But the president has now made clear
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That where this is spending that would support our values,
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We'll do it.
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But it'll be under the trusted
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Leadership of the new secretary of state.
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Marco rubio. listen to what he said.
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We have to solve the fraud, waste, abuse, all the things
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That have gone into government.
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You take a look at the usaid, the kind of fraud in there,
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And you found a significant challenge.
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Well, we're talking about hundreds
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Of millions of dollars of money that's going to places
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Where it shouldn't be going, where
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If i read a list, you say, this is ridiculous,
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And now there's some good money and we can do that through
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Any one of a number.
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I think i'd rather give it to marco rubio
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Over at the state department.
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Let him take care of the few good ones.
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What percentage of that usaid budget
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Do you think represents
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The few good ones, as the president refers to them?
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It's not a lot, alan.
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I mean, i think that's the point.
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If the number of executives or,
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Excuse me, the number of examples
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Of waste, abuse and spending that run counter
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To american principles and values that have flooded
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The zone, so to speak, it's
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Because that's how prevalent they are.
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You know, marco rubio got his start in florida.
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He was the speaker of the house.
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And florida has a very lean budget.
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They don't run up any debt.
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And that's part of the state constitution.
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So he comes from a background of being fiscally responsible.
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So i agree with president trump.
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I trust secretary rubio to defend american values.
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You know, his first stop
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As secretary of state was in latin america,
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Where he visited the panama canal.
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He visited panama, and he told them
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That we would potentially record ownership of the panama canal.
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If they don't stop letting these chinese companies
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Run the canal, which is in contravention
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Of what the agreement was supposed to be.
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So it just shows you
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How fundamentally different the power dynamic is becoming.
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The united states
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Is leveraging the full weight
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And credit of what it means to be the most powerful nation
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In in the world, and the rest of the world is taking note.
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Well, let's turn the clock back for a moment.
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Gee, i uncovered millions of dollars
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That made its way to the biden family.
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There were so many examples
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Involving joe's brother jim, his son hunter, and others.
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Then, just before he left office,
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President biden signed off on a
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Multiple pardons, not just for jim and honor,
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But for his brother
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Frank, his sister valerie, her husband as well.
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Look, i'm not an investigator, but what does that tell you
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About the extent of how far and wide?
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Senator, vice president, and then president biden
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Used his influence to collect foreign money.
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Yeah, there was a supreme court ruling,
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I think, back in 1915,
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In which the supreme court chief justice held that
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If you accept a pardon,
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There's an implicit admission of guilt in that.
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And so i do think that there's clearly an admission
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That they are guilty of many things.
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You know, when joe biden first pardoned hunter,
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The media narrative was, oh, he's just a loving
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And concerned father,
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And anybody would do the same thing
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If they could protect their son.
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Well, joe biden is now a loving and protective brother.
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He's a loving and protective uncle.
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He's a loving and protective, you know, like brother in law.
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He's got a lot of relatives be taken care of.
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And i think the fact that
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These timelines have stretched back over a decade shows you
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Just how widespread the biden moneymaking scheme has been,
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How long it's been in operation,
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And the fact that it ran through december 1st of 2024
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For hunter biden
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And up until this year for the rest of the family.
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To me suggests that there's a possibility
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That when joe biden was forced to step out of the race
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For reelection,
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That his family may have been involved in some negotiations,
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And who knows what the bidens received in return for joe
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Biden stepping down.
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But to the extent that any laws
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May have been violated in that negotiation process,
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His family would now be covered from any prosecution for that.
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So i think it's very notable to see
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How many of his family members receive pardons
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And for the timeframe under whic
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One last question about the elon musk mission.
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Some democrats are trying
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To use the courts to stop the cost cutting.
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Will that just delay the effort, or can a judge actually
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Prevent the president from cutting these costs?
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Hey, let me quote the great legal scholar joe
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Biden when he wanted to forgive student loan debt.
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He said the courts may try to stop me,
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But i won't let them.
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So there's clear precedent for a president saying what he will
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And will not let the courts do.
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I think the trump administration has smart lawyers.
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The fact that they're taking all these executive action
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Is not an accident.
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And so, you know, i don't blame donald trump
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For not trusting the court system.
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Remember, these guys brought four
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Different charges against him.
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And he seems to prevailed in the legal system in all of them.
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So at the end of the day,
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I think he's reflecting what the american people voted for.
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So i expect him to prevail on this issue as well.
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Well, eric eggers, thank you for coming back on tonight.
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It's always a learning experience
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To hear what you and the guy are up to.
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Alan, it's always my pleasure to be with you
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And your audience.
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And god bless you and the work you continue to do
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By telling the american people the truth. thank you.
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Thank you.
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When we come back, some thoughts of my own.
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When we come back, some thoughts of my own.
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I believe the election last november
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Was another episode of shaking in our nation.
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Things that have been hidden, corruption
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And improprieties in our government.
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They're being exposed on a daily basis,
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And i believe that's a good thing.
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I admire what those is doing and what eric eggers
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And the government accountability institute
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Have been doing.
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Accountability has been lacking in d.c..
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We have said a string of leaders to washington, d.c.
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For a long time now, over the course of many years.
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Many of them, when they got those
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Appointments, spent decades in washington
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Without any other jobs or means of employment.
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Yet somehow they find themselves to have accumulated
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Tremendous resources and personal wealth.
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Now, i'm not really opposed to that.
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But the fact is that
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The organizations they lead
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Are supposed to be leading our nation.
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Yet these leaders have steered us beyond bankruptcy.
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Our country
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Is teetering on the point of total financial collapse.
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What we're doing is unsustainable.
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And now politicians
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And bureaucrats lecture us that we should pay more.
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That there's more deserved.
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Well, in any other arena,
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If you are earning obscene amounts of money while
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Destroying and dismantling the organization you're leading,
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You wouldn't be celebrated as a wonderful leader.
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You'd be ridiculed, mocked, and replaced.
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We wouldn't bless it.
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That we've watched that happen during our lifetime,
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And we've just kept doing it over and over.
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Well, i'm grateful
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That the haze
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Is beginning to clear and the smoke is beginning to lift.
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We needed to look at what was happening in our nation
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With a different perspective and a different set of views.
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Now, unfortunately, in this part is awkward.
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The church is equally guilty.
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We've done our best to keep the haze running,
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And we're going to have
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The courage to tell the truth now.
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That begins at our kitchen
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Tables, at our holiday tables, and our friends networks.
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If we will begin to be advocates for the truth,
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I believe we will find it sustainable.
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Even in washington, d.c..
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And if we do that, i promise there's more reason for hope
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Than despair.
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Be back with your emails in just a moment.
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Be back with your emails in just a moment.
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Thank you for your emails.
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We always look forward to reading them.
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Dave from bridgeville, pennsylvania, said, i'm
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Encouraged by all of president trump's executive orders,
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But they can be undone as easily as they were done.
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Republicans need to learn from the democrats
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And unite and pass legislation to keep the orders in place
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While they can.
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Well, dave, i agree.
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Those presidential orders,
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Those executive orders are pretty fragile things from one
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From one administration to the next.
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I think even more importantly, we have to have
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A change of heart on main street in america
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So that when we elect persons, whether they're republican
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Or democrat, our values reflect a biblical worldview that
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Extends beyond executive orders and beyond administrations.
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That's a heavy lift, but it starts in our lives
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With our voices and our influence.
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It's worthwhile.
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Lady emailed.
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The biggest problem facing our nation today is ungodliness.
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Or, as i usually say, doing what is right in our own eyes.
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We're living as in the days of judges.
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When i read
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All the money the usa
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Gave to foreign countries in the proposed projects.
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I was angry that some bureaucrat authorized those expenditures.
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It is unsettling to see
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How sloppy we've been with the money.
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The suspicion is that when the dollars have been handed out
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So indiscriminately,
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That they're flowing in a lot of different directions.
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It's great to turn the light on, and perhaps we'll
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Bring some fiscal responsibility back to washington.
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Finally, sandra jeans writes,
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I'd like to know your opinion about trump's claim that china
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I product, deep seat
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May have the capability to track our web data
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And should be banned in the us.
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I hear you when you tell us to put our trust in god,
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And that's what i pray about every day.
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I just hope that all the people who lead our nation
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Are always making trusting in the lord their priority.
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Well, it starts with us.
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If we'll do that, then god will respond him.
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I have confidence in.
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Make sure you send your emails to comments at alan jackson com.
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From all of us here in nashville.
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Thank you for joining us tonight and have a wonderful evening.
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