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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: Immigration, The Economy and Trade Policy | Allen Jackson Now | May 7, 2025

Good evening.
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I'm alan jackson, and welcome to nashville.
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The two big pillars of the conservative
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Takeover of washington are immigration and the economy.
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By all accounts, very few people are illegally walking
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Into this country anymore
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Looking for a free bed, free food and a bus ticket
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To the city of their choice
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As they were during the biden years.
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But turning the economy around is a longer term project.
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And the president has acknowledged that,
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You know, during the biden
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Years, government spending occurred
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With very little mention of deficit spending.
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But turning the big ship of the national economy
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And federal government spending is going to take time.
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You can see what's going on and the mixed signals
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From the monthly government economic reports.
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The latest report on the gross domestic product showed
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The economy shrinking for the first time in two years.
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But there's
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Big growth in new jobs, more than the experts expected.
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All the talk of new tariffs at first seen
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Wall street numbers down.
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But as time went on, there was talk of several
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International negotiations underway.
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The market came back.
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President trump says the economy is in a transition stage.
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And even with all the progress of closing down the border,
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Arresting and deporting criminal gangs, there's run
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Into a wall of local judges who appear to be fueled
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By that same anti-trump sentiment
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That the democratic party is running on.
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With that, i want to bring back our friend
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And a political analyst, bob cusack.
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Welcome back. bob.
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Yeah, thanks for having me on.
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You know, i thought it was interesting,
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The timing that president trump put out that he was going
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To reopen the infamous alcatraz prison.
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It's been closed since 1963
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And used as a tourist attraction in san francisco bay.
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He said it will hold america's most ruthless
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And violent offenders,
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And we need the additional room
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In law and order administration.
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What do you think of his idea?
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Well, it's unique, alan.
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There's no doubt about it that trump
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Comes up with creative ideas,
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And he was asked repeatedly how he came up with it.
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And obviously it's an island.
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And as he mentioned, no one has escaped it.
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There were, multiple attempts, of escaping,
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But the fbi, figured out
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That anyone who did make it into the water
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Probably didn't survive.
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So, this is
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There are some obstacles, there's no doubt about it.
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As far as changing it to now. from what?
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It's a museum.
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And and turning it back into, a prison.
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And there are some cost concerns,
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So there are some barriers,
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But without a doubt, it got a lot of
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A lot of people's attention.
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You know, clint eastwood starred in escape from alcatraz
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And by coincidence,
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The president also announced a new tariff on foreign films,
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100% on films made outside the us.
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A lot of them are shot in europe, canada, cape town
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And other places where it's less expensive to hire crew.
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Would you agree that it seems to be part of president trump's
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Plan to level the playing field for american business?
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It's interesting because, you know, since the strikes that
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We had a little while back, writers and actors, the,
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The industry has really suffered.
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And really,
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The moviemaking industry has, has come to a grinding halt.
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It is basically a recession or depression for that industry.
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So, trump is trying to, boost it up
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And obviously ties everything to tariffs.
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It's unclear how that will work.
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But at the same time, it also, shines a spotlight
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On a lot of people
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In that industry who are not working, right now.
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And they want to go back to work.
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And he's he wants to do somethin
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Well, let's talk a bit more about the tariffs.
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You know, i think most people understand
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The goal is not letting the rest of the world
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Undermine the products we produce.
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But it's still something
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That most people won't see a return on anytime soon.
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The president says target number one is china.
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Listen to how he explains it.
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$5 billion a day.
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We're losing on trade.
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And, we were very tough with china.
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As you know, we put 145% tariff on.
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Nobody's ever heard of such a thing.
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And we've essentially, cut off,
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Trade relationships by putting that much of a tariff on.
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And that's okay. we've gone cold turkey.
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That means that we're not losing, you know,
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We lost $1 trillion to china, $1 trillion.
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That means we're not losing $1 trillion when we go cold turkey,
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Because we're not doing business with them right now.
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Well, eventually there will
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Be some sort of deal between the us and china.
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But in the meantime,
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We're hearing scare stories about how
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Businesses in the markets are looking for stability.
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Is there any good way
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To manage the messaging on all this change?
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Well, i think going after china is very popular.
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Both parties do, and especially in election years.
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And that's what that's what trump ran on.
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And we are seeing a bit of a showdown,
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A game of chicken between china and the united states.
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They they have not started to talk yet.
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There's been hints from the treasury secretary,
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But those talks are going to start soon. but they haven't.
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China has vowed to, be tougher than the united states.
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As far as, waiting this out,
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They call this, tariff idea a lose lose situation.
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At the same time, they have manipulated their currency.
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Both parties,
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Say that in the united states, democrats, republicans, charles
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Charles schumer says this.
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So i think there had to be some type of reforms.
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And as you mentioned,
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Trump has to tell people to be somewhat patient.
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I think people will be patient.
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But going into the,
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Election year, there's going to have to be some results.
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And i expect there will be some results.
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We'll see some deals.
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I don't know if we'll get a deal with china by then.
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But certainly i think the talks will at least begin
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Because it doesn't make sense for either country, because our
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Our economies are so intertwined.
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Well, another early target of the tariffs was canada.
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And the new prime minister just met with president trump,
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Who said there would be no
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Change in the additional 25% tariffs on canadian goods,
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And that america doesn't want the cars built there, or
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A lot of other canadian products that the us already makes.
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For his part, the new canadian leader, mark carney, told mr.
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Trump that canada is not for sale.
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Well, it all look very cordial,
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But how do you think this new relationship
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Will play out over time?
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And it's going to be tense, there's no doubt about it.
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Trump is is again
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Spotlighting something that most americans
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Didn't think of, before he was elected, for the second
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Time is why is it that we have these trade deficits?
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Why can't we make them more even?
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And that's a rational argument.
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Now, as far as there has been some concerns,
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From wall street and certainly democrats
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Who were saying this is going to cause supply chain, issues.
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And some republicans are nervous that these tariffs,
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Could go on for, for a long time.
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But but trump's goal, as we all know, is the art of the deal.
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And he wants to get plenty of deals, with countries.
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And he's focusing on as the treasury secretary as scott best
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Focusing on the
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And the countries
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That we do a lot of trade with and have a trade deficit.
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So it can be more even trade,
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More fair trade as the administration says.
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Well, one bit of good news
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That hasn't received much attention is the $160
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Billion worth of savings that elon musk's team has found.
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That's the equivalent of a personal tax savings
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For each and every american taxpayer,
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But more than $1,000, if you add to that
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The new business investments of $7 trillion.
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That's a lot of factories and a lot of jobs
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Across the next few years.
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It's good news by any standard, but most of the media
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Has ignored it.
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Or both of those big
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Accomplishments, big news stories
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For anyone who cares about our economy.
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There's no doubt about it.
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With with record debt and deficits and a government
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That has both parties do agree on this become too bloated.
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I mean, remember i was bill clinton,
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30 years ago, said the era of small government,
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A big government is over.
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Well, you know, that wasn't quite right.
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Government has grown and grown and grown.
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Now, i think that number
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Is going to go up as far as savings.
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And the trump
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Administration is going to try to use some of those savings,
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And get congress to approve them formally
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So that they can help pay for, the extension of tax cuts.
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But there's no doubt about it that, as you said earlier,
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You know,
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No one is really talking about dealing with the deficit.
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Now, trump is not willing
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To tackle medicare and social security yet.
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And eventually somebody's going to have to tackle those
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Because they're headed for bankruptcy.
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But he's at least talking about it
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Where other presidents kind of ignored it.
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Well, let's take a short break.
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We'd like to have you share your thoughts with us.
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You can go to aj now.com a question, a comment
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Or even a good idea. it's all welcome here.
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Later in the show, i'll help explain how to best process
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What's going on
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In a way that follows the truth from scripture.
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That's a biblical worldview.
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I'll be back in just a moment.
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I'll be back in just a moment.
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We're back now
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With the veteran political analyst bob cusack.
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Let's talk about 2028 for a moment.
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You know, a
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Number of democrats
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Are already popping up in new hampshire
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Trying to see what kind of reception they might get.
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Several names are popping up,
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Including the governor of illinois, jb pritzker,
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Gavin newsom, aoc, the moderate ro khanna.
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Even kamala harris and hillary clinton's names have come up
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Among the chatter in class.
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Bernie sanders is leading the pack
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With his well known narrative about the president.
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Listen to what he's saying.
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We have a government
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Of the billionaire class by the billionaire class.
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And for the billionaire class,
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We are looking at an unprecedented attack
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On the foundations of american democracy.
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And under trump, a movement toward authoritarianism.
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Well, from what i saw in the polls,
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Americans want real change this time,
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Regardless of whatever income level they come from,
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Rather than just more finger pointing.
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What are you seeing?
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Yeah, i don't think finger pointing works.
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And calling trump names doesn't work.
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We've seen that for the last ten years.
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And and obviously trump is now president for the second time.
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Listen,
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Allen, i've, i've covered the democratic party,
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The republican party.
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I've never seen the democratic party so bleak,
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In my 30 years in washington.
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They don't know where they're going.
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The rudderless.
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We don't know what they stand for.
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And as far as who's going to be the next nominee,
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Certainly not going to be, harris.
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There's no doubt about it.
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I don't think she'll even try to run.
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But i don't see a another barack obama in the wings.
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At least not yet.
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And even back then, democrats would come up
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With, in 2006, they had six policy ideas
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And helped them win back congress.
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And then barack obama got elected.
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Democrats are not doing anything like that now.
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So a lot of voters are just wondering what they stand for.
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And really, no one can remember what harris was proposing.
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And part of the reason trump won is that he gave tangible
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Ideas like, no taxes on tips, no taxes on social security
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And overtime.
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People remember that was all about the economy.
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That's why trump won.
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Well, an interesting thing is happening
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On the republican side.
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President trump has made clear that he's not interested in
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Serving beyond his second term, but he's not endorsed jd vance.
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And he recently brought up marco rubio's name.
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He's the current secretary of state.
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What do you think's going on there?
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It's a great question.
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I've always been
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Kind of intrigued by marco rubio's comeback in the world,
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But without a doubt, jd vance is a very, very powerful
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Vice president,
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And i think one of the most powerful vice presidents
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We're going to see in our lifetime.
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And i think he will be the heir apparent.
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Now, i think trump, he doesn't want to yield the spotlight.
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It's only been 100 plus days.
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So, but at the same time, vance has a lot of allies
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In the administration, and trump likes him and respects him.
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And i don't see any tension.
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That happened between, mike pence
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And trump happening between vance and the president.
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Well, one thing about this
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President, he prides himself on
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Coming through with the things he's promised,
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Including no tax on tips, no tax on social security.
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Do you think that the savings from the doge team
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Will be enough to make up for the new tax breaks,
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As congress tries to get the big budget
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In tax bill over the finish line?
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They're going to have to make
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Some very difficult decisions because they don't have,
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If you look at the pot of money that's been
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Approved by congress and what trump wants to do
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Extend the tax cuts as well as have these new,
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Tax cut ideas, i don't think he can get everything he wants.
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That said,
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Even if and i do think at some point
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I think it will be a tough slog to get them
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The tax cuts renewed.
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But i think by the end of the year,
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Certainly they're going to get that done.
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And whatever they don't get done,
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They can also say, well, well, we need to pick that up in 2026
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And have another, tax cut bill.
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You know, grover norquist, who's anti-tax
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Activist, loves when every year there's a tax cut.
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So i think that they'll bring it into an election year.
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Anything they don't get done of the campaign promises in 2025,
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They're going to pursue in 2026.
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Well, i've got one more question.
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There's a rumor bouncing around.
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It's significant in dc that the washington football team
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Want to go back to their former name.
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Do you think the republicans and democrats
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Are going to agree on that change?
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I don't think so.
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I think,
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They've got a new stadium deal that has to be approved.
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And there's a lot of politics about the name, of it.
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At the same time,
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There's a lot more excitement in washington,
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Now that they've changed, owners.
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And now they're going to get potentially,
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If it's approved,
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A new stadium as well as the nfl draft
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Coming in a couple of years that would be on the
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On the mall in washington.
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So that's pretty exciting.
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But i still think even though a lot of people
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Don't like the name commanders,
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I think that that name is going to stick for a bit.
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All right.
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Well, bob cusack, thanks for your time today
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And for helping us sort out all these moving parts.
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We'll see you again soon. thanks, allen.
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In a moment, some thoughts of my own
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And what scripture's got to say about times like these.
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There is a path and there's hope behind it.
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I'll be right back.
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I'll be right back.
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We're living in a time
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When observable truth is often denied in the public square.
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It was like the sun coming up in the east
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And there's some talking head with lots of letters
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At the end of their name saying,
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Oh, actually, it comes up in the south.
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It's disorienting.
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You know,
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The previous administration said our border was secure
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And the legacy media happily
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Passed along that narrative, which they knew to be false.
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Millions came through our open border.
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We don't know who came in. we don't know where they are.
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We don't know when to whom they were attached.
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Well, now the current administration,
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By simply enforcing the existing laws of our land, has reduced
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Illegal border crossings by 95% compared to just a year ago.
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Yet the news cycle is dominated by dubious anti-trump protest
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Over his immigration policy,
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With no mention of the tremendous win for all americans
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Of a secure border.
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The truth is being denied in the public square.
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The doj's experiment is cutting waste and fraud and exposing
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The looting of america.
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But according to the legacy
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Media, the doj's is an attack against americans.
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Well, consider this before doj's efforts,
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90% of federal employees had not been working
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Full time from the office that taxpayers were paying for.
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That's absurd.
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Those are jobs that have been deemed significant enough
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That the government established them.
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Yet many federal workers
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Didn't have enough respect
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For what they were doing to go into the office.
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Those are our tax dollars being wasted.
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You know, we've used our military
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As a social dye experiment, providing medical treatments
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To alter a servicemembers biological sex.
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Folks,
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If you're not paying attention, that's looting our nation.
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How did we end up in this place
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Where the truth of a judeo-christian worldview
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That's been
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At the core of our nation's history is being denied?
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Don't let the politicians or the political class, or whomever
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You consider to be the power broker.
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The looting of our nation isn't a political issue.
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Sadly, i think christians have been hidden from the discussion.
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We haven't had the courage to step into the arena
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And talk about it, to express our perspectives.
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We said idly by and see the territory we have to change.
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We have to speak up for the truth.
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Zechariah 816 says, these are the things which you shall do.
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Speak to the truth to one another.
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Judge with truth and judgment for peace at your gates.
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If we will lead with our faith, if we will refuse to capitulate
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When there's pressure,
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If we'll be more concerned with pleasing god
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Than pleasing the people around us.
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I believe we can see the greatest move
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Of the spirit of god in our lifetime.
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I'll be back with your emails in just a moment.
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I'll be back with your emails in just a moment.
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Thank you for taking the time to send us your emails.
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Your thoughts and perspectives are always important.
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Just a quick reminder.
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You can always go to aj now.com.
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If you miss a program
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And you can see them all listed there,
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So you don't ever have to miss one.
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You can also sign up for our newsletter
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And we will keep you apprized of what's happening,
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Not just with the program, but the larger ministry.
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Carolyn kay from augusta, georgia, wrote angels, demons
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And use the most astounding book describing
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The book of revelation i've ever read.
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I have always been in awe of the book,
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But this book revealed to me how true it is.
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It's exactly what i've always thought,
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But was afraid to voice my own opinion.
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I wish i could share 100 copies of it, but we'll share the two.
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I now have.
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So thankful i have found you on tv and well,
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Carolyn, the secrets one life at a time.
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So you share those books and we'll see what god will do.
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Neil christiansen
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Emailed, the united states
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Spends billions of dollars in foreign countries.
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Why not spend some of the taxpayers
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Money right here in the usa to accomplish two goals
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One bring manufacturing and products back to the u.s.
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And second, to give help, hope,
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And a paycheck to people in our country who need it.
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Well, neil, i think help is on the way.
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Our president
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And those working with him
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Are working diligently to return manufacturing to our nation.
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It's going to take a bit of patience,
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But i think it'll be worth the effort and the sacrifice.
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Ronald g from new smyrna beach wrote
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I wish the show was longer.
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Well, ronald, some days i agree with you.
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We need two things to happen.
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We need the the network to agree.
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That's a good idea.
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Then we need the resources to make it happen.
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If you pray, we'll pray.
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Finally, vicki from arkansas.
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My question
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Is, where can i find reliable, truthful daily news sources?
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Could you mention a few?
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I can mention a few. vicki.
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We've got the trifecta every evening.
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Back to back to back starts with charlie kirk
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And then this strange character, alan jackson,
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Followed by eric steckel back.
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If you take those three,
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You'll get a good start on what's happened today
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And all of it in it with a christian worldview.
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And that really does matter.
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Well, finally, i'd like to say that with your help, we're
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Getting more and more people watching our show each week.
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Truth and hope it cuts through all the noise.
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I can see it in the emails that we receive.
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Those are who you write, telling us
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How grateful you are to have found a place
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Where you can trust what you hear.
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You know, the world is certainly challenging enough to navigate
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When you have to navigate what's real and what's fake,
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It's even more complicated.
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So let's keep going.
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I'd like you to ask a friend or a neighbor to watch as well.
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Spread the word and we'll do our best to spread the truth.
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Thank you for watching tonight.
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I'm alan jackson.
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And i hope to see you again tomorrow. good night.
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