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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: January 24, 2025 | Allen Jackson Now | January 24, 2025

Good evening, i'm alan jackson, and welcome to nashville.
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President trump has started his second term,
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And he's done enough in one week to last a month.
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But ever since he lost to joe
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Biden four years ago, he's been getting ready for this moment.
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Not since ronald reagan took office
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Have republicans
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Been this fired up about the dawning of a new era.
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And when donald trump set up shop again
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In the oval office this week,
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He had the same special rug that he used in his first term
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Rolled back out in front of the desk.
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It's the sunburst patterned
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Rug that nancy reagan designed for president reagan.
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It's now sitting in the same spot
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Where reagan spoke often
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About his vision of a shining city up on a hill.
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This week, president trump
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Promised a new golden age of america.
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Well, our guest tonight has lived through both presidents
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And walked around that sunburst
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Patterned rug years ago when he advised ronald reagan.
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Jeffrey lord, welcome back to our show.
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Good to be here, my friend.
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Well, no sooner was mr.
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Trump sworn in than he began
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To dismantle what he believes
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Joe biden did to take this country on a downhill slide.
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78 executive orders were signed,
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Overturning all sorts of things
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The biden administration had put in place,
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Beginning with a repudiation of the progressives woke policies.
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Have you ever seen anything quite like this?
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Not that well.
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President reagan was pretty good with this kind of thing,
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But i think the thing that's
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So interesting about president trump,
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Only once before in american history,
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That would be with, grover cleveland,
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The mayor of buffalo turned governor of new york, turned
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President of the united states, who got elected,
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Then got defeated, then got reelected four years later.
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And when something like that happens, and it is, as they say,
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Obviously extremely rare when you come back
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The second time you've been there and done that,
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And particularly the importance, i think, with donald trump
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Was he didn't spend his life in a political career.
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He spent his life in business.
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So he had to learn the political ways,
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Not just of the presidency. but washington
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Said for the first time around, now he's got it.
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He's got it all down.
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And, he is very action oriented.
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Just,
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Individuals have written whole books
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About the need to take action when you're doing something.
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And, so here we are with all these executive orders
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And all sorts of things coming out that clearly were
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Well thought out ahead of time and ready for that
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Pen, or multiples of pens.
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And i had to laugh.
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He, he, he sits at one point,
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He was doing this on stage in front of all these thousands
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Of people, and they're loving and all this.
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And he'd signed it, and then he'd give the pen back.
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And then finally, towards the end,
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There's like a hint you could see on the desk.
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There's like, you know, five or 6 or 7 pens.
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Well, instinctively he gets up and starts throwing
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Them out in the audience,
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Which scrambles to to get them.
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I imagine they have
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His signature on this side and all that.
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And i thought, mr.
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President, you get it every time.
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Well, there was a very sensitive moment
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During the inaugural evening.
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The families of the hostages still being held in gaza
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Were introduced by steve wyckoff, a friend of mr.
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Trump's who had worked on their release.
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President trump, jd vance and the first ladies
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Greeted each other and greeted each of them.
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Listen to the president.
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They never stopped praying for you, and we're so glad
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That you're reunited with your friends and families,
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And god bless you all.
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And some of them are just saying, no, my son is gone,
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But please just bring home his body.
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Well, i've spent a lot of time in
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Israel and i have good friends there,
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So this issue's personal to me.
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When president trump
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Welcomed these families to stage,
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It seemed like more than a gesture.
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It was a reminder to the people of israel,
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Of our nation's friendship
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With them and president trump's commitment to that friendship.
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It was trump who moved the u.s.
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Embassy in israel to jerusalem in 2018.
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He formally recognized that city as the nation's capital.
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Jeffrey was powerful for the president to highlight
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All of this,
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Especially as we continue
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To pray for the release of those still being held hostage.
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What are your thoughts on
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All of that drama around israel in the middle east?
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Well, i think it's no accident that they were released,
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Once president trump was elected
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And was getting close to taking office.
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I mean, there he is saying that
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If they don't get this done, there will be all hell to pay.
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Where his words, i think. and,
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And he's he's right.
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And again, this reminded me of president reagan.
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You know, he
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When he got elected, one of the reasons was the 444
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Days that american hostages were being held hostage in the,
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Iranian american embassy and in tehran.
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And lo and behold, when ronald reagan literally
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Takes the oath of office,
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He puts his hand down, gives a speech, goes inside
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To the, congressional luncheon that they have for
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Every president on there,
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Once they've been inaugurated
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And somebody comes over to him and handsome, a note that. yep.
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Those, hostages were released and they were now
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In, outside of iranian airspace.
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And, they would be coming home soon.
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And i was thinking of that
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When i heard president trump that i thought, yeah,
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If if hamas,
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Is listening to anything, you're
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Listening to donald trump and they're,
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They don't want to see him on their doorstep.
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Well, i was a college student, and i remember the release
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Of those hostages.
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I pray we see the release of the rest of those hostages.
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Still being held.
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There was some criticism of president trump
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For signing so many executive orders,
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Rather than working through all of those issues
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In a process with congress.
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Do you agree that he's doing it
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Because he's not interested in dragging his feet
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And slowing these things down through all the shenanigan
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Shenanigans that capitol hill would bring?
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Well, as i say, he's very action oriented.
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And this second time around here,
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He knows that, it's a lot easier to get.
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I mean, there are certain things
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That you have to do with congress and legislation.
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I mean, and that's the norm,
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But it is also a norm for presidents
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To sign executive orders on.
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All sorts of modern presidents, in particular,
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Have availed himself of this kind of thing.
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So, i think he wanted to make sure.
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Plus, you know, one of the things
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I was talking about with somebody the other day,
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Just like
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Ronald reagan, he comes from a showbusiness
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Background and,
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You know, one of the classic rules
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Of being in movies or television, etc.
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Is don't tell me. show me.
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And if you noticed,
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You have the day when he signs one of these things in front of
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All these thousands of people.
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He then holds it up so you can see the signature there.
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He's about show, not tell.
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And so in this kind of situation,
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He wants to show people that he is back.
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He is in charge.
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And there was this stack of executive orders next to him
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Being handed to him
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One by one with an explanation of what it was.
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He signs, gives it back and on to the next one.
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And there's a reason for it, because
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The american people need to see that he's very much in charge.
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And the show is moving right away.
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And, they got the message.
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Well, it's a welcome change from the previous administration.
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There were certainly no tell, and there wasn't very much show.
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Well, let's take a short break.
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We'll be back with more from jeffrey lord in just a moment.
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We'll be back with more from jeffrey lord in just a moment.
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We're back now with the former reagan
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Administration adviser, jeffrey lord.
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Something trump does that president reagan did
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Is this he works hard to address the problems he sees,
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And then he honors the promises he makes.
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Might sound like common sense, but i think a lot of americans
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Have given up hope for politicians
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Because they say one thing and they do another.
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So my analysis seemed true to you.
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You've got more experience than i do.
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Yeah. oh, yeah.
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The key word that you just use is politician. and,
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That the similarity between ronald reagan and donald trump
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That where you start is neither of them had a political career.
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Ronald reagan had been an actor for first
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He was a radio broadcaster and then he went out
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To hollywood to do some broadcasting.
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This is back in the late 40s.
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And somebody saw him and thought,
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You know, hey, this is a good looking guy.
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And the next thing you know, he was starting to make movies.
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And then, what really helped him politically.
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General electric
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Came to him and asked him to be their spokesperson
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On the general electric hour on television,
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And he would introduce a play or,
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You know, that kind of thing.
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Sometimes he was in it, more often he just introduced it.
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But because it was general electric,
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They they constructed a situation
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Where they would send him out around the country.
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He went to, i think, something like 300 cities over time,
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In which he gave speeches and out of this developed
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What we on the staff would later call the speech.
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And it was all about freedom and and versus government and,
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Free, free market economics and all of this kind of thing.
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Well, this is by the time we got to 1964
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And barry goldwater asked him to to make a pitch for him
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For television. well, he does it.
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And the speech was such
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A success and had been made so often that instantly
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The election over people
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Wanted him to run for governor of california and,
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You know, the rest of the story.
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But, yeah.
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You just
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It came from his
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Political success in no small part came about because
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He was not a career politician.
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And i think that's true with donald trump.
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Well, you and i are old enough to remember a couple
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Of generations of political officials experience matters.
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But trump was smart enough
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To choose a very young vice president.
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J.d. vance is 40 years
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Old, and his cabinet choices are full of younger people.
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I know it's early to predict,
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But do you think he's going to be able
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To create the next group
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Of conservative leaders to shape the future of america?
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Yeah, i have always said that as any presidents responsible
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Is to encourage and bring along the next generation of leaders
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And the one that, this reminds me of in particular in,
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1952, general dwight dwight eisenhower,
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Who was getting up there and age gets nominated by republicans,
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And he turns to 39 year old senator from california,
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Richard nixon, and gets him elected vice president.
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And then we know the rest of the story.
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He becomes the presidential nominee
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In 1960, loses
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In a close election, comes back eight years later.
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And, you know, we know the rest.
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He had a very long and very influential career
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Based on being nominated for president at 39.
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Well guess what?
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J.d. vance was 39 when he was picked,
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And i have to believe he will be around for a good long while.
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And as the heir to,
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President trump and as the leader of the future
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Republican party, he'll not that he won't have competition.
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Surely he will.
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But, he starts out ahead of the game.
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I think
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I've tried to keep this time with you on our future
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And the very hopeful feeling many people have,
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But i want to ask your opinion about the family pardons
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That joe biden gave his family
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When he was down to just 15 minutes left in office.
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Listen to this.
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I was a little bit surprised that he did it
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Because it makes him look guilty.
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I mean, he's going to have to live with it.
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Now, with that being said,
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It's, unbelievable precedent it creates for a president.
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But the president is unbelievable.
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Now, maybe every president that leaves office,
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They're going to pardon every person they ever met.
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Do you think he's trying to hide what's really behind
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All the money that he, hunter and brother jim took from china?
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Oh, i think that's absolutely what this is all about.
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One of the things that i think is going to be an ongoing story,
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Even though he is out
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And maybe especially because he's out of office now,
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Is what what some people are, are,
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With raised eyebrow calling the biden crime family.
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But the whole the whole business of hunter and and,
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Running around and getting money from foreign governments
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To give to the 10% to the big guy
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Is one of these, notes that this is a pretty big deal.
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And i think,
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The very fact that there's so many biden family members
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That got the pardon says, yeah, there was something to hide.
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And i'm not a lawyer, but as i understand it,
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While they've gotten a pardon that specifically,
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Does not remove the right to be summoned by congress
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In an investigation and have to testify in front of congress.
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And i think, down the road, i think, you know, congressman
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Comer and maybe jim jordan and others
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Are going to make that a reality.
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And and then we'll start to have a real idea
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Of what's behind all of this in the biden family.
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I mean,
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You just don't have any work for a united states senator.
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You earn, what, 100, $200,000, something like that.
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You don't get to be a millionaire.
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I happen to work for senator john heinz of the heinz
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Ketchup family.
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He already had about 600 million in the bank
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Before he ever ran for public office as a congressman.
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Joe biden is no john heinz.
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Joe biden, is in this situation
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Because he's parlayed his office into all of this money.
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And therein lies the problem.
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And it could be a legal problem for some of his family.
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So that's why he did what he did.
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Well, jeffrey, lord, thank you for helping us
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Set the table for this new administration.
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I pray that reagan's vision of a shining city
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On a hill captures the heart of america once again.
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Exactly.
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Good to be with you all.
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In a moment, some hopeful words that i'll share about our role.
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Your role in this golden age of america.
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You. reminded of what
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President john kennedy said at his inaugural address,
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He said, and so, my fellow americans, ask
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Not what your country can do for you,
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But ask what you could do for your country.
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But he was a politician trying to inspire his country.
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But those inaugural words
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Have some spiritual parallels for us today, too often,
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It seems to me that we make a tremendous amount
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Of spiritual effort trying to convince god to do what we want.
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We want a promotion, a bigger house,
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A more cooperative spouse.
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It's a long list of stuff.
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How about we take a different approach?
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The book of romans,
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The apostle paul wrote, be devoted to one another in love.
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Honor one another above yourselves.
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Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor
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Serving the lord.
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Let's pray that god would give wisdom to our leaders
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Who are making decisions on our behalf.
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May our leaders not make decisions
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That oppose the purposes of god,
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That will make all of our lives better.
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But then we have to pick up paul's admonition for ourselves
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Be devoted to other people.
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Honor them above ourselves.
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Serve the lord with the best of our efforts.
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That changes our prayers, our attitude, and our engagement
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With all of those people around us.
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We begin to ask not what god and his people can do for us,
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But we ask god what we can do for him and his people.
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Understands a shift in perspective,
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But it's also a tremendous shift in rewards.
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Ask god how we can be a brighter light for him
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And our workplace.
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Ask him to help our, us
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And our home become a kingdom outpost in our neighborhoods.
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Ask god for wisdom to be better parents.
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To be better influences for the people we work with.
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If we'll do that, it changes everything.
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I want to give you an invitation
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That i've been extending for some time now.
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Join me in reading through the gospels
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As we begin this year.
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Matthew, mark, luke and john, about 15 minutes a day.
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We'll move through all of those books in about 60 days.
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It'll be a great beginning to the year,
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And it invites the blessing of god on you, your home,
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And our nation.
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If we'll do that, there's more reasons for hope than despair.
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I promise i'll be back with your emails.
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Just a moment.
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Just a moment.
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I want to personally thank you
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For taking the time to send us your emails.
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The whole team enjoys reading them
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And it helps us plan our shows for the future.
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John in cincinnati writes
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Good show and we're very blessed to have it on the air.
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Maybe you can
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Take in our timeslot when huckabee leaves soon.
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Well, first of all, we be praying for the governor.
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That's a big change to move to jerusalem.
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I know it's an honor, but it's disruptive.
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And the our show, it's in discussion,
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But god will have to move some things around
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And provide the resources for that to happen.
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You pray and we'll keep working on the possibilities.
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Ruth in apple valley, california.
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Pastor allen, i watch your new show every day.
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It's so good for telling us what's happening in the world.
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We need to hear the information you're telling us.
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I'm trying to do what i can to tell about
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Jesus to my family, friends, neighbors.
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But it isn't easy.
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It's.
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You give such good advice on how we can do that.
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Can you give us the advice again?
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Well, i think so.
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It really starts at our kitchen table
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With our family and the people that we're sharing life with.
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And it extends to our holiday table
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With those extended people
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We gather to celebrate holidays with.
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And finally it reaches into our friends group.
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We take our faith with us wherever we go.
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If we all take that approach, i believe we can
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Change our nation
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Even more quickly than the politicians in washington, d.c..
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And finally, vicki from arkansas says,
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Thank you so much for the show i recorded.
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So i'll always have it, but when i get busy,
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So i'll always have it when i get busy.
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What can we do about perverted
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Tv shows that advertise on wholesome tv channels?
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It's changing channels.
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Our only option.
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It seems like
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There should be something more we can do to effect that change.
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If i cancel my tv, then i lose you and ozzy.
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Well, vicki, it's a it's an appropriate question.
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At the end of the day, i'm an advocate for free speech,
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Which means that you can say
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Things that i don't always agree with.
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And you can say,
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I'm on platforms where i wasn't always expected to be.
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We put our programing sometimes on platforms
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Where people weren't expecting a christian worldview
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Or a judeo christian worldview, and i think it's important
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To have that privilege.
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So i think we have to be able to overcome
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The things we don't like and celebrate the things we do.
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That's part of the genius of the nation
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Where we live and the freedoms that we want to protect.
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So don't be upset by what you don't like.
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Celebrate the good that we have access to,
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And if you miss the show,
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You can go to our youtube channel and see every episode
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Of alan jackson.
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Now it's available for you at your leisure.
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If you'll subscribe to that youtube channel,
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The new program posted, and it'll help us
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Gain momentum to share the message more broadly.
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That'll be a blessing to all of us.
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Well, if you haven't yet, take a moment.
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Send your emails to comments at alan jackson now.com.
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I'm alan jackson. you have a wonderful evening.
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