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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: Influencer Scheme | Allen Jackson Now | September 8, 2025

Good evening and welcome to nashville.
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I'm alan jackson.
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I want to begin tonight by talking about the truth.
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Not my truth, as some are accustomed to saying these days,
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But the truth.
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Specifically truth in media.
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You know, i spend the majority of my time
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As pastor of world outreach church in tennessee.
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We focus a lot on aligning our lives, not with the cultures
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Saying around us,
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But with the truth we find in the bible.
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You can hear that theme reflected in my culture
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And christianity podcast, as well as on this show.
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So when i say that truth in media is hard
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To find, it's coming from a place of deep concern.
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There's so much deception and manipulation
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Taking place, it's alarming,
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And it's rooted in the dishonest stories
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That too much of the media publishes day after day.
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So with that, i wanna introduce the perfect guest for tonight,
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Someone who spent his career
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Publishing news that's 100% authentic.
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Bob cusack, welcome back to our show.
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Thanks, allen, so much for having me.
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You know, across the last few weeks,
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More evidence has emerged that adds to what
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I said at the start of the show.
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Wired magazine reports that a large group of liberal
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Social media influencers were getting paid up to $8,000
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A month
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To publish progressive messages to their online followers.
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And what they published all came from a central hub
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Where they were written, but they only got paid
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If they kept the play in secret, which it was until now.
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Bob, what was your reaction when you saw this?
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I don't that's a that's a big report.
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And it highlights, one of the many problems in media.
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Now, as you know, media is a lot of different things.
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It's not just cable news and newspapers or just online.
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It deals with podcasters and and activists.
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And that used to be a huge offense.
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If you were telling people something and not disclosing,
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That you were getting paid.
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So, it actually is harder for readers now and viewers,
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To, to assess. okay.
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I have to assess this, analyze it because,
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You can't trust anything now.
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And that's why
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I think the trusted media sources
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Are going to win in the long run.
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But you have a lot of derelicts out there who are really
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Not playing by the rules.
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Well, when you're in the newsroom
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Making decisions about what to cover,
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How do you sort through all this social media material
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And figure out what, if any, of it to drill down on?
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Well, and i think a lot of it is not having to take right away.
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So many people in media
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Have a take without looking at the facts.
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It's it's analyzing what's going on here.
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Because a lot of what happens in washington dc is complicated.
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And it's not just so simple
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And you can't trust what politicians are saying.
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A lot of times they're saying something,
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But they're thinking something else.
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So you do have to assess it.
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And honestly, sometimes you have to slow down.
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There's so much of a rush to
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To be first, but so many are first and wrong.
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And that's, that's what what i did throughout
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My career is telling people, hey, let's hit the brakes here.
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Let's analyze, the facts, and let's only report what we know.
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Let's not speculate.
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We can analyze, certainly, but let's not speculate.
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What is truth? let's look for truth.
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Well, you've worked for some really big brands,
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And yet
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Now just about anyone
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Can start promoting their own supposed news site.
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You come up with a name, you build a website,
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You start filling it with whatever you want.
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Real journalism and news based on truth and facts.
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It's not usually what they have in mind.
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So for people
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Who are looking for truth, what advice do you give them?
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Well, i think you have to judge different sources.
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And certainly some people, whether they're on youtube,
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There are some very talented people and responsible people.
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But, as you know, allen, a lot of journalism
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Today is is not about the news.
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It's about themselves, the people who are,
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Spouting the news or and usually the loudest voices.
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Unfortunately, get the most attention.
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So, i think that, readers and viewers
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And consumers overall, do have to assess.
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What am i going to listen to?
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Can i trust this source?
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Obviously, everyone has busy lives right now.
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But i think in order to relay
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Because what you hear in the news,
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You will relay to neighbors and friends,
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You want to make sure that's right. and a lot.
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There's a lot of wrong information out there,
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Including the use of i.
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You can't even believe what you see anymore.
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You know,
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It intrigues
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Me that when some story that's been followed for weeks
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And sometimes for months is proven to have been false,
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There's so little interest
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In coming back and acknowledging that.
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It's just kind of like we're going
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To live through the falsehood.
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How do we bring some correction to that?
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Yeah, i think that's that's part of the reason i own that,
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That, media ratings are at all time lows is that, listen,
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If you get things wrong and, when i was editor in chief
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And a reporter covering health care, the labor department
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And managing a newsroom, sometimes you get things wrong.
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And it's it's actually a strength to admit that.
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But but as you say, so many people
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And so many news organizations don't go back and assess,
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Hey, we got this wrong.
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We need to tell people we got it wrong.
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It's almost like sometimes, especially on television,
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If you get something wrong,
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Well, you know, there's no, page two corrections on television,
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But but everyone should admit when they made a mistake.
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And very few media outlets actually do that.
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And i think actually, that restores trust.
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It doesn't erode it.
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You know, the russian collusion hoax comes to mind.
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I mean, they awarded pulitzers for completely false reporting.
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It seems like maybe they should claw those back,
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But i don't think that's going to happen.
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I wouldn't hold your breath on that one.
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No, that's
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I mean, listen, you have to
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I think a lot of reporters just assumed the conclusion,
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And did some reporting along those lines.
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And we certainly certainly saw politicians really pushing
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The envelope on, what was what was going to come out.
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And then when it came out, you know, like, well,
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This is this is not this is not what we expected.
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This is a nothing burger.
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And it went on for years, as you know.
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And and that's why,
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Republicans on capitol hill, they want to investigate that
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And they want to investigate other things, like, joe biden
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And who was really running the white house,
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Certainly in his last year of office.
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You know,
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I saw recently that the new york times has added subscribers,
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But they admit they've done it
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By adding puzzles, games and other non-news features.
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Is that what the legacy media is turning into?
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Is their trust in their journalism goes down?
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I've been in media 30 years.
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I've never seen a legacy media be in such a troubled state.
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And it's partly certainly it's not mostly their own fault.
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Now there are some great people who work the new york times.
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There's some great people who work for a number,
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Of cable outlets that said,
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That's that's an indication that people
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They don't like what they're reading.
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So maybe they're coming to to play puzzles.
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But they're going to have to use gimmicks,
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Unless they're trusted. again.
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And honestly, i think 2024 was a bad year for democrats.
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It was a bad year for the media.
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Just like 2016 was.
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And i think there should be some kind of introspection.
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And look at look, let's look at the coverage and,
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And move forward. i don't see media improving.
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So i think legacy media,
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Is not going to be making a comeback anytime soon. wow.
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Well, bob, we need to take a short break,
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But please stay for another segment in a moment.
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We're going to go over the debate
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On how to address crime in our cities
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And how to deal with criminals that tom homan is rounding up.
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You don't want to miss it. we'll be back in a moment.
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You don't want to miss it. we'll be back in a moment.
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We're back now with a
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Veteran journalist and editor, bob cusack.
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Let's pick up on the big issues this fall and what effect they
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Might have on the all important midterm elections next fall.
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President trump is having a lot of success
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By sending the national guard to help clean up washington,
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Not just the trash and the mess
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That tarnished the city, but the crime
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Which made trips to downtown d.c.
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A pretty scary thought.
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You know, bob, i know the american people want
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These criminals off the streets.
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But for some reason, democratic leaders are pushing back.
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The governor of illinois is a prime example.
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Listen to his rationale.
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It's an attack on the american people
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By the president of the united states.
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Now, he may disagree with a state that didn't vote for him,
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But should he be sending troops in? no.
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You said he has other aims.
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What are the other aims?
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The other aims are that he'd like to stop
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The elections in 2026 or,
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Frankly, take
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Control of those elections.
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You know, it's pretty well known that pritzker
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Is trying to position himself for a presidential run.
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But i can't imagine
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Why anyone would try to run on a platform of crime is good.
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What do you think's going on with pritzker?
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Well, he certainly, i think, going to run for president 2028.
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He's going to have a lot of, company, on the democratic side.
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And that's the dilemma for democrats is that
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They're going to have to run so far left,
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That it's going to be very hard for whoever emerges,
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Out of that crowded field to, to win, a general election.
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So i think he's courting the base.
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But i do think democrats would be wise not to do that.
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Certainly.
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We saw joe biden in 2020.
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He was more in the middle compared to the rest.
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He certainly he turned left when he became president.
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But pritzker is playing to that base.
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And this is a winning issue for president trump.
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He knows it.
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And that's why he's hitting the gas on this.
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Whether it's dc or chicago.
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You look at the polls, people want to be safe.
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And certainly, democrats can't say dc is safe.
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And the national guard has has helped improve crime in dc.
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Well, let's talk about government
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Spending for a moment.
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President trump had a big win when an appeals court
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Finally approved his plan to reclaim billions of dollars
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That the biden epa tried to spend.
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One biden
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Epa official was caught in his final few weeks in office,
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Saying that they needed to quickly
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Toss the gold bars off the titanic before biden left.
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The translation being, we better spend as
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Much of the money as possible while they still had the chance,
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Much of it going to outside friends.
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Do you think the president will ultimately get credit
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From voters for saving their tax dollars?
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I think so.
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I mean, the, you know, bill clinton,
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When he was president, said the era of, big government is over.
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Well, that didn't, age well, but that was a very different
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Democratic party.
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I mean, when you and we just talked about crime,
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You know, we're talking about 1700 arrests in dc.
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Democrats actually tried to be the party of anti-crime,
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With joe biden having a crime bill in the 1990s.
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And bill clinton, when you're talking about the,
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Big government, and certainly our debt is a major issue.
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Allen's going to have to be dealt with one way or the other.
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Now, this is a small percentage,
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Very small of the overall budget.
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But i do think people realize
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You have to be straight with them.
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The budget deficit and debt is out of control and
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It needs to be reined in.
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You know, when the dead discussion comes up,
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It always seems to lead back to entitlement programs.
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Is any politician going
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To have the will or the courage to deal with that?
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I think this is the number one issue
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Right now that that people don't talk about.
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And i think it's a great question.
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They're not going to be dealing with entitlements,
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Over the next year.
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But eventually, medicare is headed for bankruptcy.
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So is social security.
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We cannot continue to to rack up trillions in debt.
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We're at 37 trillion now.
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So at some point, and unfortunately,
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They're going to wait until the last second,
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But that's not going to be too far off because,
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Things are not getting better
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And they're going to have to face reality.
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Or the us, as many politicians have said,
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Could become
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The new greece of years ago, which basically
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Went into bankruptcy, at some point, proud,
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Politicians who are responsible.
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You're going to have to tackle this problem.
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Responsible politicians.
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That sounds like a fantasy.
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We should explore in more detail.
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Fingers crossed.
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Yeah, well,
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Before we run out of time, i've got one more question
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About the news business.
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Budgets have indeed
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Resulted in fewer reporters being assigned overseas.
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Yeah.
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Much of the most important news is what's happening
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In asia, europe, africa, the middle east, even south america.
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Do you think there will ever be an appetite
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By any legitimate news organizat
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I hope so, allan, because,
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You know, we talk a lot about domestic policy,
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In this country, but foreign policy,
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There are some major challenges ahead.
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Obviously, we have, the war in gaza.
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We have ukraine, russia, we also have member
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China is is likely intelligence officials
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Say to to invade taiwan.
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So president trump's biggest challenges
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Are actually on the foreign policy front.
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And it's important to be there.
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But as you mentioned,
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Budgets are very tight right now and they've been pulling back.
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But i do think that if you give
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Responsible international coverage, that's fair.
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People are going to read it.
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While we've open the international discussion.
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Do you think trump's going to be effective in getting putin
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And ukraine to some sort of a peace deal?
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I think so, but i don't think it's going to happen,
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Over the next month,
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You dealing with putin, who is very untrustworthy?
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I do think there's going
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To be pressure in congress to pass a russia sanctions bill
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That's going to be very intense.
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But, you know,
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If you look around the world, russia is getting closer,
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With china, and china is getting closer with north korea.
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That's that's basically an axis against the united states.
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So this is a big deal on one one worth watching.
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Well, you mentioned china.
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Do you think trump
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Is going to ultimately put those big tariffs on to china?
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Yeah i do because his goal on tariffs is multifaceted.
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It deals with immigration and deals.
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But he struck deals on
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With a number of countries including mexico.
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But he's got to get a deal with china.
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That's going to be that whether this, succeeds or fails,
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It's going to be tough.
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China is not an easy negotiator.
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But as you know, alan, trump's a tough negotiator as well.
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Yeah, he doesn't seem to be someone you want to threaten.
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No, no.
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And that's part of his leadership style.
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Is that if you push him, they're going to push back.
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And you've seen, u.s.
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Foreign policy that has been very aggressive,
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Especially compared to to former president biden's.
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You know,
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We're all aggressive compared to former president biden's
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Bob cusack.
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It is always a treat to hear your thoughts and compare notes.
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Stay in touch and we'll see you again soon.
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Thanks, alan.
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In a moment, there is hope, even when we talk
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About the american media.
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I'll be back with that in just a moment.
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I'll be back with that in just a moment.
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We live in a time of confusion, manipulation, too often.
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Deception.
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You know, over the recent labor day holiday weekend in chicago,
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There were at least 58 people shot across 37
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Separate shootings, resulting in eight fatalities.
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In response, the city's mayor turned down
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President trump's offer
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Of sending federal troops to help restore law and order.
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And then he blamed the violence on a lack of affordable housing
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And gun ownership freedoms found in neighboring states.
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The governor of illinois, meanwhile, responded to trump
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By saying that the president's offer
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Is part of a plan to, and i quote,
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Stop elections in 2026 and take control of those elections.
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This is the same governor who a few months ago
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Called for mass disruption on the streets, even saying,
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And i quote again, republicans cannot know a moment of peace.
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When he made that statement,
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He was upset about the administration
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Following through on the campaign promise
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To deport violent people who were here illegally.
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The legacy media continues to give an abundance of air
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Time to devices like these, without a single
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Follow up question
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Or an investigation into the legitimacy of their assertions.
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Meanwhile, the citizens of our major cities continue to suffer.
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How has common sense become so uncommon?
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How is it that the theater of the absurd seems
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To have replaced conventional wisdom?
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Now, this is the question that i'm asked most often
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Without any question.
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Pastor, what can we do?
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Well, in this disorienting time when truth is publicly denied
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Or mocked?
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We need god's wisdom and insight.
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More than ever,
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We need to be equipped with the understanding
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That comes from knowing god's word
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And applying its truth to our lives in our present culture.
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We can't just be students of biblical history.
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We have to bring that truth to bear in our lives now.
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Each of us must determined to become a person of truth.
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Speak the truth. you start at your kitchen table.
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Bring the truth to your home.
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And then take the truth to your friends,
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Your coworkers, and your community.
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We do that.
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It'll foster hope in a brand new way.
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We'll be right back with your emails.
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We'll be right back with your emails.
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Thank you for
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Investing a few minutes of your day in our program.
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It's always an honor to spend some time with you.
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If you missed an episode, you can always go to aj.
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Now, dot com.
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There's a full archive there.
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You can watch them at your leisure,
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Maybe even share them with a friend.
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I'm especially grateful
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Your emails are always a highlight.
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Katherine, from tennessee, wrote as a parent, wanting my child
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To have a good education without thinking of danger.
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I was relieved to see our county installed metal detectors
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In all the schools over the weekend.
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Praying for a safe school year over all the kids.
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Well, we can all join together in that prayer.
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At the end of the day, only god will keep us safe.
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Then i know there's some knuckleheads
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That mocked us for praying. let's keep praying anyway.
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Francisco dy
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From new york city commented, you're doing a great job.
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Thanks for saying what most pastors
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Don't have the courage to say.
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I got friends in new york city that is a god. doug
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Christopher from turtle creek, pennsylvania, remarked.
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Your recent comment on prayer was spot on.
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Were it not for prayer, i would have never overcome
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A 15 year opioid addiction
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Or the enormous peaks and valleys
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During my professional advertising and pr career.
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Keep fighting the good faith.
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Well, christopher, thank you for the reminder.
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You know, god does not recruit perfect people.
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God recruits willing people, people willing to follow him
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And willing to change.
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You know, my experience from my own personal journey
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And the people that i have done life with
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Is that our god to deliver.
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He restores us.
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For too long we have been satisfied
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With kind of a dry religious experience.
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I'm not interested in that.
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I believe god's people are people who understand
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The power of god to deliver us, to write a new future for us.
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It didn't just do it in antiquity.
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He's doing it today.
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God's moving in the earth, and i want to be a part of that.
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Thanks for your reminder,
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Lupe from california ask,
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Where could i get the information
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To read the bible with you within a year?
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But also, thank you for standing for truth
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And being my inspiration to walk beside you and many others
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Who are willing to stand for truth in this world.
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God bless you.
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Well, hoopa, you can get that at alan jackson ministries app.
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You can download it to your phone.
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We'll even read the bible to you
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If you don't have the time to read it.
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About 15 minutes a day.
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We'll redo the whole bible in the course of a year.
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It will change your faith
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More than any other single thing i know.
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Lauren jones emailed.
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I've been listening to the audio bible
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For quite some time while doing housework.
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I often find myself speaking the scripture
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Along with the narrator.
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I'm thankful that we sang a lot of scripture songs
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When i came to the lord in january of 1971.
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When i hear the verse, it plays in my head.
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Yeah, i got some verses in my head too,
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And some of them are even godly, which is a really good thing.
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Again, thank you for spending a few minutes with us today.
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I'm alan jackson, that i pray you have a wonderful evening.
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