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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: Foreign Policy Challenges | Allen Jackson Now | May 16, 2025
- Well.
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- Good evening.
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- I'm alan jackson, and welcome to nashville.
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- There's another book out now with inside
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- Knowledge of what was going on
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- At the white house during the biden years.
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- Reliable sources have said that, among other things,
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- There was an active discussion
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- About whether joe biden would eventually need a wheelchair
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- To get around, given how bad a shape he was in.
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- We contrast that
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- With what the new white house is discussing a new air force one
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- So that donald trump can get around faster, unassisted.
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- Listen to how the president put it during his saudi speech.
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- In less than four months, our new administration
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- Has achieved more than most other administration
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- Orders accomplish in four years or even eight years.
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- We've actually done, for the most part, more.
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- Well, he's certainly right about that.
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- So to help us process this rapid change,
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- We've invited back our friend from malibu,
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- The dean of pepperdine school of public policy, pete peterson.
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- As president, trump said, it's already
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- An impressive list of accomplishments.
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- And some people have said that by not winning reelection
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- In 2020,
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- Donald trump may have become an even more effective leader
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- This time around.
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- What do you think about that?
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- Yeah, i think that's a very valid argument.
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- And i'd say it really in two dimensions.
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- One is that over the course of the last four years,
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- In in that interim,
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- Now, president trump wasn't just waiting around.
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- He was, building up a, policy research and leadership
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- Organization with the america first policy institute.
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- He was certainly, developing a platform
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- And a playbook for how he would lead
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- Should he be elected, which obviously he was, last november.
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- But at the same time, i think americans
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- Got to see the alternative.
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- And obviously,
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- President biden and so much of what we're
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- Learning now or just about,
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- How challenged that presidency was,
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- I think has made americans even more appreciative
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- Of both the energy and vision that, president trump
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- Has returned and brought back to the white house.
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- Well, there was some beltway chatter
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- That trump was trying to set at the table for a third term,
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- Though he's since dismissed the idea.
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- But do you think he's rushing
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- Through things in his first two years
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- Because he's afraid that he might not have the house
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- And senate majorities in the second half of this term?
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- Or could it be that he wants to build
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- An even bigger margin in congress
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- For some ideas we may not have even heard of yet?
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- You know, alan, i think once again, you're absolutely right.
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- I do think that president trump understands
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- That he has a very unique two year window here with power
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- In both the house and senate, and he's not going to take
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- Any chances in losing one or the other chamber.
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- Next year with the, 2026 elections.
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- That being said, i'm sure he's also trying
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- To pile up the policy victories,
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- With a hope toward, maintaining and if not, just maintaining,
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- Even increasing the majorities in both the house and senate.
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- But he knows, at least for now, he's got that,
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- Very slim margin in, in congress.
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- Well, the president's been walking
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- This remarkable tightrope in the mideast,
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- Traveling first to saudi arabia and cutting his own deal
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- To have the last american hostage released.
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- Meeting with the new syrian leader
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- And negotiating with the houthis.
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- Saudi arabia and israel
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- Don't have any formal diplomatic relations,
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- But do you think that president
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- Trump will be able to continue to please both sides,
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- Beginning with netanyahu?
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- Well, for sure, allen, if there's a region of the world
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- Which is filled with tight ropes, it's the middle east.
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- And if there's somebody that can walk those tight ropes, it's,
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- President trump.
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- It has been an utterly historic trip to the middle east.
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- I would just point out,
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- Obviously, that visit to syria was historic.
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- President trump believes that by building relationships there,
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- He can actually create a possible relationship
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- Between syria and israel, where they would actually
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- Recognize israel.
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- I think that's really his motivation there.
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- But that first speech in saudi arabia,
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- In which he really did set a,
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- A post in the ground to say that american foreign policy
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- In the region will no longer be about nation building,
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- But relationship building business building
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- And, and friends supporting,
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- That that speech in the middle east,
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- In saudi arabia, i think will go down as really
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- One of the historic speeches given by a president
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- On foreign policy, in the last 50 years.
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- Well, the issue that seems to have been front and center in
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- The president's mind is the long running war in ukraine.
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- But both putin and zelensky seem pretty dug
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- In, even as the death cold troll keeps growing.
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- Do you think the president should do as he's threatened
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- And just withdraw from trying to solve that war?
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- I think, alan, that's exactly what putin wants.
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- I mean, i really do think that his goal is to have america
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- Removed from, these discussions and deliberations altogether.
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- And i think it's actually the opposite.
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- Take that, that president trump will have at least what i'm
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- I'm gathering.
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- He certainly has been playing,
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- Good cop, bad cop with both sides.
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- And, his first effort was really to get zelensky to the table.
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- He's managed to do that.
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- But with the continuing reticence of putin to engage
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- Seriously in these negotiations, i think there's going
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- To come a time when president trump will not not pull out.
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- He'll actually reengage with a higher level
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- Of financial sanctions, if not, further or deeper
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- Engagement, to force constructive peace negotiations.
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- You know, i'm curious, do you think president trump
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- Will be able to negotiate a deal with iran around
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- All these nuclear weapons that they seem
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- So determined to construct?
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- Well, i think that's a big part.
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- That's really the,
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- A major theme of this visit to the middle east.
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- There's no doubt that president trump believes
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- That you don't just negotiate directly with iran.
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- You negotiate with all of iran's proxies or relationships.
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- You bring them onto your side, you draw them away from iran,
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- And then you force iran's hand.
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- And, obviously, we'll see if that materializes.
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- But the engagement with folks in qatar and also in syria,
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- These are obviously states that have deep relationships
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- With iran.
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- I think that's really
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- The three dimensional chess that president trump is playing.
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- Well, peter, please stay for another segment.
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- When we come back, i want to ask you about
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- President trump's negotiation strategy
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- And his new gift from qatar.
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- We'll be right back.
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- We'll be right back.
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- We're back now with the dean of the public policy
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- At pepperdine in malibu, pete peterson.
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- You know, it's interesting to see
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- How the president approaches foreign policy issues.
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- Keeping in mind that he was the author of the art of the deal.
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- Now he seems to be committed to commerce, not chaos.
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- Well, wall street initially panicked
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- At the idea of negotiating tariffs.
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- President trump approached
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- Each country as another place to make a deal.
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- Pete, while some people want their politics
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- To be a little less unpredictable, it seems it's
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- President trump's attempt to break to china, so to speak,
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- That's actually making things happen, isn't it?
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- Well, you used a
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- Very poignant phrase there break the china.
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- Because actually china is the unspoken
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- Country in all of these negotiations.
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- We're not the only player on the global stage.
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- And it's evident that china has increasingly,
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- Been engaging in the middle east.
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- And so, really, president trump is playing against,
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- Really two levels of opponent.
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- One is for china
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- To make sure that the middle east
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- And the countries know that they can engage
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- Both in a business way, but also from a policy
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- And political way to deal directly with the united states.
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- And at the same time, as we were discussing before,
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- Making sure that, that iran is frozen out,
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- To make sure that relationships are being built around iran
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- To force their hand on these ongoing negotiations.
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- President trump was very clear about the fact
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- That iran will not get a nuclear weapon,
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- But he certainly understands
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- That can happen not only just by engaging directly with iran,
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- But also the other countries in that region.
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- Well, it seems that the tariffs on china
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- Were the easy part of this first round.
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- It's going to be the currency manipulation and the steep
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- Excise taxes and the stealing of our intellectual property.
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- It'll be a bigger challenge.
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- But china also holds a lot of our debt.
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- So there's pressure on both sides
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- To keep the relationship functioning.
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- Is it there?
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- Absolutely right.
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- Person i respect a lot.
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- Neil ferguson, who's an historian
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- At the hoover institution, has called this, cold war, too.
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- But even he allows there's
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- A significant difference between this,
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- If you will, cold war with china and the original
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- With the soviet union,
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- In that we are so much more deeply engaged with china
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- From a financial, economic and business standpoint
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- Than we ever were with the former soviet union.
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- And so, once again, there really does
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- Need to be this balancing understanding that america
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- Is so deeply vested.
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- There's been a lot of
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- Conversation about what we call on shoring businesses
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- Back to the united states
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- That are currently in china, but that's only one
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- The holding of debt, as you say, alan, is another,
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- Part of that relationship that all american negotiations
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- Need to be mindful of.
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- One of the deals that no
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- One ever imagined was reducing the price of prescription drugs.
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- We were paying not just for the drugs,
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- But for all the research and development, too.
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- Well, much of the world
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- Got those same drugs with lower prices.
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- Do you think that even the trump haters
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- Will eventually come around to seeing how he's helping them?
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- Well, this again, is one of those many issues
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- That you're seeing trump go against type right in this.
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- I'm a little bit cautious about endorsing,
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- The plan that's been rolled out, because it sounds very much
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- Like price controls.
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- And we know from an economic standpoint that that can,
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- Impact, supply and new development.
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- At the same time, i think both republicans
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- And democrats acknowledge that there is something
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- Wrong with the fact that we pay as americans so much more
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- For the same pharmaceuticals as other countries do.
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- And so in that, i think one of the themes of trump's
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- Negotiations, and frankly, his politics,
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- Is what i would call a quest for fairness
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- And fairness is definitely an american value
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- That whether you're a republican or a democrat,
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- You want to see, a fair game, if you will.
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- And, this certainly strikes,
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- To that part of the american identity.
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- I've got a question about the media.
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- The president got the last american hostage released.
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- He's negotiated
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- Trillions of dollars worth of investments for the us.
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- He's settled a potential war between india and pakistan
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- In just one week.
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- And all the media wants to talk about is the gift from qatar.
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- The 13 year old, 747 for the us military to use
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- As air force one, while boeing
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- Finishes the replacement, that's still being built.
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- What's going on with this perspective in the media?
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- Well, you're absolutely right, ellen.
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- As we mentioned in the first segment,
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- I think this will go down as one of the truly historic
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- Presidential international visits.
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- Certainly the speeches, the relationships,
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- The deals made, it's hard to compare it to anything,
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- That we've seen in the last half a century.
- 00:12:35.747 --> 00:12:38.817
- And yet the media is not focusing on that
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- As much as they're focusing on the
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- Deal about a 747 and misrepresenting it.
- 00:12:45.490 --> 00:12:48.894
- Frankly, in a lot of, different ways, this was understood,
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- To be a, a gift, if you will, specifically
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- To the united states military, not to president trump.
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- And at the same time, i think it overshadows
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- So much of the important work
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- That's been done on behalf of the american people here.
- 00:13:08.247 --> 00:13:12.017
- Just in the last week.
- 00:13:12.017 --> 00:13:14.987
- Well, i've got one last question.
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- And it's not about national policy,
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- But we all watched the wildfires in southern california
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- And then heard the promises from the politicians
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- That they would facilitate building back.
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- How's that coming?
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- You know, allen, i appreciate you asking.
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- It's just not happening.
- 00:13:30.903 --> 00:13:32.704
- I mean, we're we're looking at less than a dozen permits
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- Issued here in the los angeles area in the last few months.
- 00:13:36.775 --> 00:13:41.313
- Pacific coast highway, which is that major highway between,
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- The campus here in malibu and los angeles, remains
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- Closed for months after the palisades fire.
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- And so, just from a standpoint of an everyday californian,
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- There remains a lot of disappointment
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- In the work of both the city government
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- As well as the california state government at the slow pace
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- Of recovery.
- 00:14:08.707 --> 00:14:10.509
- Well,
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- We'll begin to pray that something shakes up the process
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- And expedites the restoration of those people's lives.
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- Pete peterson,
- 00:14:18.016 --> 00:14:19.051
- It is always helpful to hear your perspectives.
- 00:14:19.051 --> 00:14:21.086
- You help us cut through the clutter
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- And understand what's happening.
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- Thank you for your time today.
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- Great to be with you all.
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- We're going to take a break,
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- And i'll be back with some perspectives
- 00:14:28.493 --> 00:14:30.329
- To help us navigate some of the confusion,
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- To find a stable place to stay in.
- 00:14:32.731 --> 00:14:41.006
- To find a stable place to stay in.
- 00:14:41.006 --> 00:14:45.243
- I want to submit to you that our nation is being looted.
- 00:14:46.311 --> 00:14:49.815
- Our wealth, our strength, our opportunities, our futures.
- 00:14:49.815 --> 00:14:53.151
- They're all being diminished on a daily basis.
- 00:14:53.151 --> 00:14:56.221
- Another example of the looting came to light when our president
- 00:14:56.221 --> 00:14:59.224
- Exposed the unfair practices by big pharma
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- To charge american citizens more for the same drugs
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- Than they charge citizens of other nations.
- 00:15:05.130 --> 00:15:07.399
- Why would that be acceptable?
- 00:15:07.399 --> 00:15:09.501
- Another example of the looting
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- Is the movement of manufacturing away from the us.
- 00:15:10.902 --> 00:15:14.272
- It's a plundering of our nation.
- 00:15:14.272 --> 00:15:15.741
- It started in an intentional way back in the 70s,
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- Moving manufacturing overseas, offshoring.
- 00:15:19.111 --> 00:15:22.247
- We don't make things anymore.
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- Listen to this list.
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- Converse shoes. gerber baby food.
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- Schwinn bicycles.
- 00:15:27.552 --> 00:15:28.720
- Craftsman tools under armor, sports clothing and shoes
- 00:15:28.720 --> 00:15:32.691
- York peppermint patties.
- 00:15:32.691 --> 00:15:34.426
- None of them are manufactured in the us.
- 00:15:34.426 --> 00:15:37.095
- Gerber baby food doesn't disclose its manufacturing
- 00:15:37.095 --> 00:15:39.765
- Sites. nestlé, the owner of gerber.
- 00:15:39.765 --> 00:15:41.967
- They just stated they have 418 factories in 86 countries,
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- But they don't make any of it here.
- 00:15:46.171 --> 00:15:47.773
- That's why i'm grateful for the bold ideas
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- That are being put forward by our current administration,
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- Like reciprocal tariffs
- 00:15:53.478 --> 00:15:55.047
- In an attempt to level the economic playing field
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- And bring revenue and jobs back to the united states.
- 00:15:57.616 --> 00:16:01.753
- Here's another example
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- Of the looting illegal immigration
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- At the expense of american taxpayers.
- 00:16:04.956 --> 00:16:07.959
- Illegal is the key word.
- 00:16:07.959 --> 00:16:10.028
- You and i would go to prison for making illegal withdrawals
- 00:16:10.028 --> 00:16:12.831
- From the bank. it's called stealing.
- 00:16:12.831 --> 00:16:15.667
- When people illegally come into our country
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- And consume our services of education, health care,
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- Our social services.
- 00:16:21.106 --> 00:16:22.674
- It overwhelms the systems for all of us.
- 00:16:22.674 --> 00:16:26.445
- I would submit to you that citizenship is a privilege.
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- It's not a right,
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- And that the church
- 00:16:30.115 --> 00:16:30.816
- Of all places, cannot
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- Afford to lose the distinction between legal and illegal.
- 00:16:32.117 --> 00:16:36.054
- We've used our military as a social dye experiment
- 00:16:36.054 --> 00:16:39.291
- For far too long.
- 00:16:39.291 --> 00:16:40.492
- Looting our nation, diminishing the ability of our fine men
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- And women
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- Who voluntarily raised
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- Their hands
- 00:16:45.063 --> 00:16:46.298
- To do the two things they're supposed to do in our military,
- 00:16:46.298 --> 00:16:48.834
- Defend our country and defeat our enemies.
- 00:16:48.834 --> 00:16:51.837
- Well, the looting of our nation is not a political issue.
- 00:16:51.837 --> 00:16:54.739
- And sadly, i think christians have hidden from the discussion,
- 00:16:54.739 --> 00:16:58.110
- We're going to have to have the courage to speak up
- 00:16:58.110 --> 00:16:59.978
- For a biblical worldview, or we'll stay silent in fear,
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- I hope not.
- 00:17:03.381 --> 00:17:04.850
- Psalm 118 verse six says, the lord is with me.
- 00:17:04.850 --> 00:17:07.319
- I will not be afraid.
- 00:17:07.319 --> 00:17:09.054
- What can mere mortals do to me?
- 00:17:09.054 --> 00:17:11.256
- Be courageous enough to speak the truth that we know?
- 00:17:11.256 --> 00:17:14.025
- We're in a season of great opportunity,
- 00:17:14.025 --> 00:17:16.128
- So let's make an impact.
- 00:17:16.128 --> 00:17:17.829
- And that is a reason for hope.
- 00:17:17.829 --> 00:17:20.265
- Well, we'll be back with your emails in just a moment.
- 00:17:20.265 --> 00:17:30.003
- Well, we'll be back with your emails in just a moment.
- 00:17:30.003 --> 00:17:35.081
- Well, finally, this evening,
- 00:17:35.681 --> 00:17:36.782
- I want to say thank you for joining us.
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- Maybe even ask a friend to watch your emails.
- 00:17:50.930 --> 00:17:54.133
- They're always a highlight, sandeep emailed.
- 00:17:54.133 --> 00:17:56.802
- Paula white, spoke about the white house
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- Faith office
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- Having representatives from many religions.
- 00:17:59.772 --> 00:18:02.041
- She specifically mentioned
- 00:18:02.041 --> 00:18:03.442
- Muslim, buddhist, sikh, as well as christian and jewish.
- 00:18:03.442 --> 00:18:07.213
- I was completely unaware that this office would represent
- 00:18:07.213 --> 00:18:09.849
- A wide range of religions, not just respecting religious
- 00:18:09.849 --> 00:18:13.152
- Freedoms, but promoting religious pluralism.
- 00:18:13.152 --> 00:18:16.289
- I believe many christians were under the impression
- 00:18:16.289 --> 00:18:18.291
- That this faith office was christian in nature.
- 00:18:18.291 --> 00:18:21.093
- I've been hearing the praises
- 00:18:21.093 --> 00:18:22.328
- Of this office from christian leaders.
- 00:18:22.328 --> 00:18:24.397
- Please help me understand this.
- 00:18:24.397 --> 00:18:26.299
- It's a good question, sandi.
- 00:18:26.299 --> 00:18:28.234
- You know, we have never been a uniquely christian nation.
- 00:18:28.234 --> 00:18:31.871
- We've been a christian nation with a christian heritage.
- 00:18:31.871 --> 00:18:34.607
- Whether it was our legal system,
- 00:18:34.607 --> 00:18:36.475
- Our founding documents, our educational system,
- 00:18:36.475 --> 00:18:39.078
- They were all based upon a biblical worldview.
- 00:18:39.078 --> 00:18:41.847
- But from that judeo christian or biblical worldview came
- 00:18:41.847 --> 00:18:45.151
- The idea of tolerance
- 00:18:45.151 --> 00:18:46.319
- That respected expressions of many faiths.
- 00:18:46.319 --> 00:18:48.888
- Again, not a uniquely christian nation, but a nation
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- With a clearly christian orientation.
- 00:18:51.924 --> 00:18:55.127
- And i believe the current white
- 00:18:55.127 --> 00:18:56.629
- House faith office is attempting to represent that.
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- What we've
- 00:18:59.799 --> 00:19:01.033
- Been watching for several years now is a steady encroachment
- 00:19:01.033 --> 00:19:03.903
- Upon christianity's freedom
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- To be expressed in the public square.
- 00:19:05.571 --> 00:19:07.573
- You could talk about
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- The faith of egypt in our children's classrooms,
- 00:19:08.641 --> 00:19:11.310
- But not the christian faith that was wrong.
- 00:19:11.310 --> 00:19:13.746
- And i think it's changing.
- 00:19:13.746 --> 00:19:16.182
- Jared pete emailed.
- 00:19:16.649 --> 00:19:17.817
- Thank you, pastor, for doing what you do.
- 00:19:17.817 --> 00:19:19.552
- Thank god for trump and everything he's doing.
- 00:19:19.552 --> 00:19:22.121
- But until someone changes or defines in god
- 00:19:22.121 --> 00:19:24.790
- We trust to in jesus we trust, this nation won't last.
- 00:19:24.790 --> 00:19:29.528
- Right now we're a nation of numerous gods and beliefs.
- 00:19:29.528 --> 00:19:32.565
- What we have here is a failure to communicate.
- 00:19:32.565 --> 00:19:35.568
- Well, jared, i agree, but it's not a political failure
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- To communicate.
- 00:19:38.204 --> 00:19:39.338
- It's a failure of the churches to communicate.
- 00:19:39.338 --> 00:19:42.008
- That's our assignment for the pulpits of our nation
- 00:19:42.008 --> 00:19:44.877
- And the people who gather in our churches
- 00:19:44.877 --> 00:19:47.113
- To take our biblical worldview, our advocacy
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- For jesus of nazareth as lord christ and king,
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- And make that a greater part of the fabric of the communities
- 00:19:52.451 --> 00:19:55.421
- Where we live.
- 00:19:55.421 --> 00:19:56.656
- For far too long, we've hidden in our churches
- 00:19:56.656 --> 00:19:58.624
- And had worship services
- 00:19:58.624 --> 00:20:00.059
- And then left the building and lived like the secular culture.
- 00:20:00.059 --> 00:20:03.596
- We've been wrong, and we have to change.
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- I want to thank you for watching tonight.
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- I'm alan jackson, and you have a good evening.
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