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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: January 30, 2025 | Allen Jackson Now | January 30, 2025

Well good
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Evening, i'm alan jackson, and welcome back to nashville.
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There's no question that president trump is large
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And in charge in the white house.
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Just ask the president of columbia
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Who tried to push back on the migrant issue
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And then quickly folded his tent when mr.
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Trump upped the ante with the threat of big tariffs,
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Or asked the leadership in greenland
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If they really think they'll win,
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If they go up against the president.
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But i suspect it'll be a much bigger challenge
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If president trump tries to tangle with china.
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There are great challenges that need to be addressed.
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It's a long list.
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The significant increase in chinese trying to enter the u.s.
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Illegally.
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37,000 were apprehended in just one year.
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China is trying to undermine u.s.
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Technology with a claim
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Of launching an ai app for only $5 million.
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The chinese spies who were trying to suppress
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Pro-democracy chinese americans in the us.
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China is building
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More car plants in mexico to avoid tariffs again claiming
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That the cars were made in mexico.
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Several states
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Are now banning land ownership of chinese nationals,
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Especially near our u.s.
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Military bases.
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The considerable build up of the chinese military
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With their eye on taiwan and more of southeast asia.
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With all of that said,
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The new secretary of state, marco rubio,
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Had an initial phone conversation
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With china's foreign minister
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Just a few days after president trump was sworn in.
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Well, it's surely helpful that they talked.
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The reports and how it went suggests
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That each side simply stated previous us-china arguments.
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Rubio brought up the taiwan threat, and wang yi reportedly
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Tried to claim that taiwan
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Has been a part of china's territory since ancient times.
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Yeah.
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Which means it's our time to check in with our friend
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Gordon chang.
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There's no one who understands how the chinese work
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Better than gordon.
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Welcome back to our show, sir.
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Thank you so much, alan.
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Gordon, you have often said that the chinese are prepared
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To play the long game and will wait out mr.
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Trump or anyone who tries to push them around.
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Can you start by giving us your overview
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Of how the chinese
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President trump versus
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The rather easy past they seem to have with joe biden?
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I think beijing and jinping in particular, are apprehensive
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Because they know that there's a new sheriff in town,
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As they saw during trump's first term.
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They're not going to be able to push the united states around
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Like they did under biden,
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Where they had their way with the white house.
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So i think china is preparing for a very difficult four years.
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And i'm very happy that president trump is willing
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To give them that very difficult four years,
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Because we need to start defending ourselves
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Because the chinese believe during the biden years
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That they could do anything they want.
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And matter of fact, they tried to do
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Almost everything during those four year period.
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Well, it's reported that the chinese government
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Is prepared to take back
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Some of the chinese nationals who are here illegally.
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Some have been accused of working
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With mexican drug lords to set up fentanyl production.
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Others are here to spy.
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Should we believe their government
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When they say they'll take some of these bad guys back.
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They might take them back.
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They've done that in the past.
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But they're not going to take back
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The people that we should be sending.
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So, for instance, you know, we have seen
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Some of these migrants
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Come across under very suspicious circumstances.
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So, for instance, border patrol has seen packs
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Of chinese males all with the same kit.
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And that's an indication that they use our military
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Or they are
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Ministry of state security or there's some other officials.
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And they're here for no good.
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You know, many chinese
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Migrants are just desperate chinese.
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They wanted to escape the communist system
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And live in freedom.
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We don't want to send them back,
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But we certainly want to send the tens of thousands, perhaps,
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Of military personnel who have infiltrated into the us.
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Well, president trump is
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Furious with the fact that china has done
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Nothing to address the fentanyl problem.
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And as a result, he now has big plans
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For leveling the playing field with china.
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Listen to how he put it.
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We're talking about a,
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A tariff of 10%
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On china, based on the fact that they're
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Sending fentanyl to mexico and canada.
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Until i was president, china never paid
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Not $0.10 to the united states with me.
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They paid hundreds of $600 billion or so or more.
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More than that, even of tariffs.
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And if i didn't do that, you wouldn't have a steel
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Mill open.
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So it worked with china once,
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But could it work again?
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I think that it will.
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And the reason is that china right now
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Is in a desperate position.
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In 2018, when president trump first
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Imposed his section 301 tariffs on china,
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China was actually doing okay in terms of its economy.
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Right now, though, the chinese economy is
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Not growing at the 5.0% base that they claimed for last year.
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It's probably somewhere around zero.
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And c jinping, it has only one plan to rescue
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A desperate situation, and that is to export more.
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And he can't replace the us market
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Because we're the biggest in the world.
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So right now,
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Xi jinping realizes that he's in a pretty weak position
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When it comes to negotiations and discussions
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With the trump administration.
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You know, i'm old enough to remember the soviet union,
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And i think the united states
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In general understood that the soviet union was a threat.
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I don't believe
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The general public understands that about china today.
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Why are we so slow to recognize
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The threat that china poses to our freedom and liberty?
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That's a great question.
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And there are a number of answers for it.
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There are some americans who have a direct interest
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In doing business with china,
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So they certainly aren't going to talk about a chinese threat.
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But also during the biden years,
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You know,
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The president
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In private discussions, he was actually quite candid
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About china,
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But he absolutely refused to have those discussions
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With the american people as a whole.
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And i think that was an
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Abrogation of his most important constitutional duty,
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Which is to protect the united states from foreign attack.
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So i would like to see, president trump
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Have those candid conversations with us because, you know,
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The chinese are preparing to go to war.
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They're preparing to kill americans.
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And we need to know that
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So that we can prepare to defend our society.
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And it's not just over there.
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It's over here, as you pointed out, with all of those migrants.
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Well, i think we have to help the people understand
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The difference between the chinese government
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And the chinese people.
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We can have compassion on one without embracing the communist
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Chinese government. am i right on that?
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Oh, absolutely.
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Because the biggest
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And the most immediate victims of the communist party of china
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Are the chinese people themselves.
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And that's why so many of them
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Have tried to leave their country,
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Because they realize that they have no future in china,
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And they don't want to live under a totalitarian system,
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The one that xi jinping
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Has been putting into place relentlessly.
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So yes, there is that difference.
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And when mike pompeo was secretary of state,
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He said that the one type of conversation
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That got his chinese interlocutors
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More upset than anything else was when pompeo
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Talked about talking to the chinese people directly.
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And so i think that's a real cue to how insecure the regime in
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Beijing is.
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Well, the us chinese
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Relationship is obviously a big piece of our future.
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So we'll be back with more from gordon chang in just a moment.
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Tell us what you think the u.s. should do.
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We'd love to hear your thoughts.
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You can send the comments at alan jackson now.com.
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You can send the comments at alan jackson now.com.
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We're back now with the country's best informed expert
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On china and its relationship with the u.s., gordon chang.
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He's also the author of a new book.
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Your new book is called plan red china's
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Project to destroy america,
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In which you describe the chinese leadership
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Actively working to undermine and destroy the united states.
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They're using a comprehensive strategy
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That hits every point of contact in our society.
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Why are they so intent on taking the united states down?
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There are a lot of
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Reasons, but one of them is the regime is insecure.
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It sees the united states as an existential threat,
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Not because of anything that we say or do,
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But because of who we are.
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They're worried about
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The inspirational impact of america's
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Values and form of governance on the chinese people.
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And so they don't feel that they'll be secure
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As long as the united states exists.
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The other reason is that c jinping has been promoting
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This idea of worldwide chinese rule, and he understands
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That the united states stands in the way of his ambitions.
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You know, we just don't want,
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Everyone in the world having to bow down
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To the chinese literally and figuratively.
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And they know the u.s.
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Won't permit that. so they've got to get rid of us.
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Well, there's one economic question that's making headlines
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Now, fresh news
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That china has been able to enter the
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Ai race by launching an app called deep seek
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At a fraction of the cost of its american competitors.
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Or at least that's what they're saying.
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China claims they developed it for only $5 million.
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In addition to hitting wall street hard,
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The app would be another one that collects data
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On american users for the chinese leadership.
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Where do you think this is all headed?
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Well, you know, this is another tiktok,
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But only worse because with ai
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They collect much more information.
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You know, it is true for all ai systems.
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They collect data.
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But china will do this and they'll use it
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For malicious purposes. blackmail.
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All the rest of it.
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So, yeah, we have to worry about, deep seek.
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No deep seek was very impressive.
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They were able to accomplish what?
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It takes us much longer.
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And much more money.
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But nonetheless, remember,
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We have
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Had so many revolutionary breakthroughs of kids in garages
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Being able to figure out what big companies couldn't.
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And i think that that's probably going to happen again.
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You know, america's ai is not only going to be open ai.
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You know, sam altman's company, but it's also going to be kids
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Just doing this in their bedrooms,
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Figuring out
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How to create the world's best technology for next to nothing.
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The chinese just did it.
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Or at least they claim we could do it again.
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And i'm sure we will.
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You know, the
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Chinese government practices aggressive censorship.
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Don't we have to assume that
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If they push forward ai into the marketplace,
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It's going to reflect a very limited view of china,
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Or at least
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The chinese government's view of china and our world.
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Yeah, we don't have to speculate.
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You know, people have run searches on
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Deep sea, on sea, jumping, on tenement square.
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All sorts of other issues.
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And they've come back with answers, which you can guess,
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You know, so clearly, china's views as propagated through
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Ai are not going to be good for us.
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And that's one of reasons why i'm
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So optimistic about the us, because ultimately,
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Our ai systems are going to be much more open, much more free.
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And i think that that means people around the world
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Will want a freer system.
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They will not want something that has a lot of c
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Jinping thought in it, as they say in china.
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Yeah, freedom really
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Is more attractive than an authoritarian government.
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Thank god.
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Well, let's move to the new report on the origins of covid.
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Clearly, the new leadership of
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The cia is ready to disclose what is known for a while.
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Listen to the cia director, john ratcliffe.
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The cia has assessed that the most likely cause of this,
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Pandemic that has wrought so much devastation around
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The world was because of a lab related incident in wuhan.
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And so we'll continue to investigate.
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That moving forward.
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But i think it was important for the american people to see,
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An institution like the cia get off the sidelines and,
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And be truthful about what
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Our intelligence shows at the same time
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Of protecting us from adversaries like china
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If they caused or contributed to this.
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There are more than 7 million people who have died
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And covet is still spreading.
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In addition, there are millions
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More suffering long term effects.
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Many businesses were forced to close.
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Millions of our children
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Had their key learning years disrupted.
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Should we just assume that the chinese will never admit
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To the lab leak at the wuhan lab
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And apologize to the rest of the world?
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They will never admit
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To the lab leak in wuhan, and they will not apologize.
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That's just not jinping style.
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Clearly, what happened was a lab leak.
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That's almost all the evidence shows
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That there is almost no evidence for an idea of a zoo,
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Not a transfer.
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In other words, a natural transfer from a yunnan
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Province to, another mammal to, something in wuhan.
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And also,
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You know, it's not just the origins of this disease.
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The other thing is what the chinese did after
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This disease, got out into the chinese public.
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They deliberately spread this disease beyond their borders.
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For instance, they lied about transmissibility.
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They knew this was highly contagious,
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But they told the world it was not to lull
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Other countries into not taking precautions.
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So this is not just a question of origin.
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This is a question of what the chinese did after the outbreak.
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In watching all that unfold in real time,
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The w.h.o., the world health organization,
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Seemed to support any narrative that china put out.
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Do they control that organization?
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They certainly do.
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And we know it because in january
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Of 2020, the w.h.o.,
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Propagated china's narrative of non
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Transmissibility, even though senior doctors at the w.h.o.
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Knew this was a highly contagious disease.
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So the w.h.o.,
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Was a complicit part in this plan that china had.
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And as let's remember, as you said, there are 7 million
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People outside of china who died from this disease.
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They should have this disease,
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Should have never left central china.
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And by the way, that number includes 1.2 million americans.
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Now the number is is subject to dispute,
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But any number above zero is completely unacceptable.
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Amen.
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Gordon chang, it is always a great learning experience
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And we have you on our show. thank you. and please come back.
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I certainly will, ellen, and thank you so much.
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I really appreciate. it. we'll look forward to it.
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When i come back, i'll have some thoughts
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Of my own
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About what we can do about this constant pushing from china.
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And later, your emails.
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And later, your emails.
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And our experiences together from the last five years
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Have been very insightful,
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But they've also been very different
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Than any other time in my lifetime.
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At least we faced a pandemic like china.
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The country where it originated,
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Hid the facts
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From the world, denied it, did their best to cover it up,
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And they never suffered
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Any true consequences for the devastation
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They unleashed on the rest of the globe.
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Our church is on the heels of that were told to close,
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And we complied.
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Almost universally.
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We lost sight of a fundamental component of the people of god,
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And that is in the face of great suffering.
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Our assignment that god is god's people
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Is to serve the suffering, not to hide in our homes.
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Our schools were closed for many months,
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Then our children were mask.
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We know a bit about the outcomes now.
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It's begrudgingly
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Kind of leaked into the public square
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That there are significant learning deficits
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That we're still struggling to overcome.
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Then there were all these random instructions that were issued
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As if they were rooted firmly in scientific fact.
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Cover your face, even if it's with a bandana.
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Hey folks, a bandana didn't stop a virus
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Stay six feet away from one another.
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We called it social distancing.
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It's another random number we put up plexiglass
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Because plexiglass is the great destroyer of viruses.
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I'm sure you've got your own list.
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Well, i want to remind you of a biblical character.
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I suspect you know him.
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He was a prophet in ancient israel.
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His name was elijah.
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He lived in a time of great division in the land of israel,
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And he called the people to account.
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He said, how long will you waver between two opinions?
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If the lord is god, serve him.
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If the canaanite fertility or gods are gods, serve them well.
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I would submit to you that we're at a
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Point of decision in our nation.
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Are we going to honor god as people of faith?
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Or will we submit to the voices around us and yield
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To a secular culture?
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I pray that we choose to honor god.
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If we'll do that, i assure you there's more reasons for hope
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Than for despair.
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We'll be back in just a moment with your emails.
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We'll be back in just a moment with your emails.
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Thank you for taking the time to send us your emails.
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Your thoughts and opinions are an important part
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Of our preparation for each program.
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Caleb, from tennessee wrote.
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This was the second election
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I've been old enough to participate in this election.
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I've been far more aware and invested in the process.
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Although i may only be 23, i believe that my generation
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Is showing signs of embracing a more biblical worldview.
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When they did a toast, everyone else had a glass
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Of champagne and mr.
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Trump toasted with a diet coke.
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That really spoke to me
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That we don't have
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To compromise ourselves to fit in with everyone else.
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It's okay to be outside the crowd.
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Kayla, that's a great observation.
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I would suggest that on most occasions
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It's probably healthier to be outside the crowd.
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Being a christ follower has always been a minority position.
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Jesus described it in terms of a narrow
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Gate and a small road, and few enter into his kingdom.
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The alternative was a broad road
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Where the majority of the people travel,
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And he said it leads to destruction.
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I'll take the narrow gate and the road less traveled any day.
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Kevin from smyrna, georgia wrote i love your show.
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The only problem is
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It goes off too fast trying to push it to one hour.
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Try pushing it to one hour.
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I bet you could get more viewers.
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I wanted to let you know that
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I watch alan jackson ministries as well.
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God talks to me through it. way to go.
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Keep it up.
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Well, kevin, there's some discussion
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About expanding the program.
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Governor huckabee took that assignment in israel
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And left us all alone on the air, so to speak.
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There's two things to pray about.
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One is
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We need the network to cooperate,
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And then we would need the funding to be provided.
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If those things happen, you'll see in our
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Dixie email.
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First of all, thank you for your great program.
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It's so needed.
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I live in oregon, which is extremely liberal.
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Abortion pills are sold over the counter to anyone.
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We're overrun with drugs and crime as a sanctuary state,
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Yet our leaders are opposing kicking out the illegal
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Alien criminals who are causing so much of it.
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Whatever happened to common sense?
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Well, dixie, i've got good news.
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It seems like common sense is rolled back into washington,
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But that was only made possible because common sense prevailed
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Across the heartland of america,
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And millions and millions of people
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Went to the ballot boxes and raised their hands
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And said, we need a change of direction now.
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We're going to have to keep up our courage
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And continue to use our voices and share our opinions
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So that the people in washington
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Can recognize we're standing with them.
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If we'll do that, i believe we'll see a good outcome.
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I hope you watch the show every day.
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If you ever miss it,
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You can go to the youtube channel and find the program.
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Some of you sent a message
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And said you were having trouble finding it,
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So we've given you a bit of a shortcut.
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If you just go to alan jackson.com backslash
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Now, it'll take you directly to the archives of every alan
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Jackson now program.
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You can watch them at your leisure.
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That will help all of us.
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Well, from all of us here in nashville.
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Thank you for joining us tonight.
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And i pray you have a wonderful evening.
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