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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: Lawfare | Allen Jackson Now | July 8, 2025

Well.
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Good evening.
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I'm alan jackson, and welcome to nashville.
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An interesting thing happened recently
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When i was looking around to see who covered what in the news.
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I thought i was reading an article
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From the new york times
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That was actually complimentary about president trump.
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So i went back and read it again,
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Assuming that it was some sort of an ai generated spoof.
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Well, it turns out it wasn't a fake.
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The old gray lady is the paper was a nickname many years ago.
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Chose to report something positive.
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Actually, a series of positive accomplishments
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About the president that they only know how to criticize.
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The headline said from court to congress to the to the mideast.
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Trump tallies his wins.
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There are serious questions about the wisdom
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And the durability of his policies.
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Now that's the typical time slang.
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But on his terms, they wrote,
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He can point to a string of accomplishments.
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You know, of course we understand how it works.
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They try to insist the paper is full of real journalism.
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But in these tough times for the legacy media,
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What they're looking for is clicks to stay afloat.
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Of course,
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They're not the only ones chasing clicks,
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But they remain one of the most prominent.
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Which brings us to a leader in this new class of successful
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Truth telling news sites.
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The editor in chief, alex marlow of the breitbart news.
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In addition to running the site,
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Alex has published a number of bestselling books.
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His latest could not have been better timed.
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It's called breaking the law,
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Which is exactly what the deep state
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Was doing to president trump
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Until the supreme court weighed in,
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Ruling that local judges cannot stop the president's agenda.
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Welcome back, alex
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Castro.
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Always nice to be with you.
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And thank you for the gracious introduction.
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Well, it is always insightful
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When you take a few minutes with us.
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Tell us the case you made for breaking the law.
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It's a fascinating new book and how you got
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The supreme court to weigh in just as the book was published.
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Congratulations on your timing.
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Yeah.
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Unbelievable timing.
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It was starting to seem like things
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Were coming together for me in that front.
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I've written a couple other books,
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But none of them have hit the news cycle
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At the specific moment that this one is.
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In terms of relevance,
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I don't know,
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I guess i had to use my crystal brain to kind of
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Come up with a good topic now, but it was a
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It really started when i started
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To dig deep over a year ago into the lawfare
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Against president trump, these various trials
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Against him in various cases, civil, criminal,
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And starting to understand that things were much
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More severe than the media was letting on a lot of it.
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You're right to cite the new york times,
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But the emphasis across government,
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Across the judicial branch, which joe biden never wanted
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To be impartial,
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And the biden government and these district courts
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And the civil courts and the judgeships
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And these law schools,
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All of them had
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Been inputs into this process that was now trying to
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End our democracy as we know it, by preventing the former
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President and leading candidate for one
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Of the major political parties, donald trump,
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From being able to be a free man on election day.
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They wanted him behind bars
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And they thought they could do it,
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And if not that, they're going to bankrupt him in the process.
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Try to wear out his will, whatever
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It took
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To make sure that we could not
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Let our democracy play out and elect him.
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And i thought that we were almost
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Whistling past the graveyard a little bit.
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This was an existential threat to our country,
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And we were treating it
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As if it was just business as usual in the news.
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It was anything but.
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And so i started dig into it and try to see what i could
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Uncover in terms of coordination across branches of government,
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In trying to see how far back
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These players were, were tracking to put trump in jail.
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I'm talking about the money, the infrastructure.
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I call it the superstructure.
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The george soros is the reed hoffman's, the mark alliances
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And whether or not
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They were influential over these individual cases.
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And of course, they were the role
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The biden government played.
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Merrick garland,
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The attorney general, his deputies,
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The roles each of these individuals played, and how
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Trump somehow was able to beat them all in a way,
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Is one of the greatest stories imaginable.
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And somehow it got even more intense when trump won
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With all these lawfare district courts
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That were trying to upend
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And act as though they had a veto power
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Over the executive branch of the us government.
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All this subverts the will of the people and our democracy,
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And it's time we start taking it seriously.
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One of the things that's been most noticeable
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Is how so many decision makers were able to get away
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With the type of activity that the local judges did,
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And no one seemed to report on it for what it was
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Until places like breitbart news came along.
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Then my right in that perspective,
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You felt like a voice crying in the wilderness to me.
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That's how i felt.
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I felt like
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I was taking crazy pills someday because you would think that.
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Are these the media was cheering on as these judges, like judge
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Boasberg, would go in single
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Handedly block a key provision of the trump agenda
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And they would act like, this is great news.
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It's terrible news.
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Just the suggestion that a district judge
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That is supposed to be confined to a district
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Would be able to have a veto over the executive
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Branch of the us government.
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The one office we elect as a national government
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Is the president of the united states.
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Every other thing we vote for is either local or statewide.
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We don't vote for anything else
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Nationally other than the president.
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Our nation picked donald trump to be the leader.
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And for a district court judge that none of us had ever
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Heard of, unless, of course, we read that they block trump.
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For them to veto huge portions of the agenda
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Was, of course, unacceptable.
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And yet we were just treating it
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As if it was just one of those things.
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No, that has to stop and justice must be brought.
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There was another tool among the deep state
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Players in this particular case, one used by the former cia
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Director, john brennan,
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Who did everything he could to help advance the made
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Up russia collusion tale about candidate trump.
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Listen to how he pitched his tale to congress.
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I encountered,
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And i'm aware of information and intelligence that,
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Revealed contacts and interactions between
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Russian officials and u.s.
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Persons involved in the trump campaign.
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Frequently, individuals who go along that treasonous path
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Do not even realize they're along that path
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Until it gets to be a bit too late.
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You know?
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Of course, brennan's
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Media friends went along with it,
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So it quickly took on a life of its own.
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That is, until the truth came out
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That brennan made up his own narrative
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To try to end the trump campaign.
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Now he's facing possible perjury charges
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For unilaterally deciding
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To include the discredited steele dossier in his report.
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What kind of trouble is he really in?
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I'm hoping big trouble.
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You don't want to get john
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Ratcliffe's attention, and he's got it.
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I actually interviewed jim jordan,
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Who runs the house judiciary yesterday
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And asked what he thinks is going to happen.
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He said all options are on the table here, but
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It looks like we've got brennan in perjury, dead to rights.
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I mean, that's what it appears.
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I will caveat it for any attorneys watching.
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I don't want to get you in trouble, pastor.
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But it appears like we got the guy. and,
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What are the consequences?
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I don't know exactly, but perjury is a serious thing,
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Especially when it's done to subvert the u.s government.
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So, i don't know, as a non attorney,
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What are the limitations on where things can go,
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But certainly revealing
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To the public that this guy who is leading our cia
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And then doing the commentary in the media
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As if he was neutral,
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Was essentially an agent of chaos in this country?
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I think it's very worthwhile that we pursue this
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To the fullest extent we can to get justice
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For the people affected.
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Well, one more question before we take a short break.
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Trust of the old media continues to drop.
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So does viewership.
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There's liberalism so deeply in their bloodstream
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That they'll continue in this sinking ship
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Until they become entirely irrelevant.
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Yeah, i think so.
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I can't believe one thing we're tracking of breitbart,
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Where they've got a new superman movie
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Coming out, and we can't stop talking about
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How if you go woke, you go broke.
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While the new superman change the motto from truth, justice,
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And the american way
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To truth, justice and all those good things.
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And the director and the director's brother,
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Who's an actor in the movie,
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Were saying that you're a jerk if you don't like this movie,
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And this movie's all about immigration
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And how we've lost our sense of kindness
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To immigrants, and it's just all of this woke stuff.
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The thing hasn't even come out yet, you know,
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That's going to make the movie tank.
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We've seen this movie over and over again,
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Figuratively speaking.
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Whenever you say that stuff, no one goes your movie
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And they can't help themselves.
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I think there's a cognitive dissonance for the last pastor
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Where they believe all these things so deeply
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And they don't work.
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They don't play out the way they do in their brains,
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And they see themselves losing ground
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In every major demographic
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To more traditional, more conservative values.
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And they must be driving themselves crazy over it.
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And i think that explains
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A lot of their erratic behavior over the last six months.
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Well, i like let's take a short break now
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And please stay for another segment.
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I want to ask you about the new york mayor's race,
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Which is sadly a sign of the times from the democrats.
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We'll be right back.
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We'll be right back.
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We're back now with the editor in chief of breitbart news
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And the host of the alex marlow podcast,
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Just one of the democrats.
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We're heading to a stage of almost total irrelevance.
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Along comes a socialist democrat for new york.
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Mayor andrew cuomo assumed that he would get the nomination,
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But he lost to a guy by the name of zoran mamdani,
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And now he's got the backing
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Of one of the country's legacy liberals, bernie sanders.
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Listen to these comments.
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It was one of the great political victories
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In modern history, as ron ran a brilliant campaign at a time
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When families can't afford decent quality food.
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He's talking about
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Helping to create publicly funded grocery stores
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So that people kids,
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Can get food that's affordable, making busses free.
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He's giving people a positive agenda.
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A positive
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Agenda, none of which he can make good on.
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First, he tried producing rap music.
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Then he tried to get into a university
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By lying about his race,
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Saying he was black, african american and asian.
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Alex, it reminds me a bit of elizabeth
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Warren claiming that she's part american indian.
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Can they really flourish
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In the midst of this kind of deception?
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No, no, they're he's cosplaying.
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It's funny because he comes. he's an elite guy.
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He had parents who were professors.
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He's only been in the country for a few years.
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He was and wasn't born here.
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And one thing that is really striking to me is his teeth.
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You guys got all
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Got to check out his teeth, their toilet bowl white,
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And you don't get that color unless you've used
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Some real hardcore cosmetic dentistry.
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And they're not dull those out
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In socialist and communist countries.
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I mean, that is a product of pure capitalism.
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This guy is the biggest phony period.
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And i kind of love to see it.
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I think new york's been on a bad track.
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Governor cuomo is responsible for a lot of death.
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Was the nursing home policy for covid.
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So i wouldn't want him to be the mayor either.
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And this whole thing with government
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Grocery stores, pastor, you know where it comes from.
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He misread a budget item.
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He saw that there was all this money
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Getting allocated to the corporate grocery stores.
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And he thought, well, let's just reallocate
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To government grocery stores.
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He misread it. there isn't that much money.
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There's no way he could pull that off.
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And bernie sanders, who's proven to be a big dope
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He's just congratulating for.
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It's a terrible policy.
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He wants more housing projects.
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So how are those gone in this country?
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They end up looking
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More like the tv show the wire
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Than some sort of thriving community.
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It is.
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Capitalism is the best system that we can have.
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It's not great.
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It's imperfect.
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We've got huge wealth gaps in this country
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That i admire, people
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Who want to take on those issues in a serious way.
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But this is a deeply unserious and inauthentic charlatan.
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And if new york votes for him, then that's what they deserve.
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Well, you know, i'm old enough to remember the reports
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And the videos of the stores,
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The grocery stores in the former soviet union.
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Their shelves were not full and the people were hungry.
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Socialism is a failed experiment.
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We can't forget that, can we
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Know?
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And where do you think when you associate
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Government grocery stores with old soviet union,
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North korea, cuba,
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Not thriving places where people are dying to move
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In are beacons of freedom and hope?
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No, they're
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They're beacons of destitution and oligarchy, where you have
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This class of elite
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That are constantly lecturing and hectoring.
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The general public about how great they've got it
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When they're confiscating all their wealth.
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It's a terrible experiment, is never worked.
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And if new york
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Wants to have this flirtation, then i'm very curious
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To see how far they will take it,
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Because will they buy into this guy's clear shtick?
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He's completely inauthentic.
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Or will someone come around and point that out?
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That's all they got to do.
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Just point out this guy's a phony and i think you lose.
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Well, while we're out on the fringe of democratic politics.
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Do you want to comment on how aoc is being included
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In the short list of future democrats to keep an eye on?
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It makes perfect sense because she's got charisma
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And none of them actually have charisma.
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If you look at their party, it's run by all them.
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Popular people who are have haven't
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Had a real job in decades if they ever have one at all.
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You can add on to that.
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By the way, i don't think he ever had a real job.
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And she's got a way of being able to channel the youth
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And enthusiasm and energy that is to be taken seriously.
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The energy is be taken seriously,
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But i don't think that she's particularly authentic,
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And i don't think that she's got a slate of issues
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That are popular on a piecemeal basis.
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The reason why people would be excited about her
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Is because gavin newsom's
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In a terrible job leading the state of california.
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Pete buttigieg is a big nothing.
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Kamala harris is not a particularly bright person
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Or a skilled politician, as we learned.
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So who are they going to go to in there?
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Their bench is very thin on the republican side.
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Our bench is very deep.
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The 10th best republican right now
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Is leaps and bounds ahead of the most talented
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Political democrat at the moment.
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That is a big opportunity for us, pastor.
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So that's positive news in my view.
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Alex,
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There's there's
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Something of an unholy alliance
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Between some of the democratic leaders and the legacy media
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In their attempts to stir up violence against ice.
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And it seems to be gaining some traction.
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How do we walk this back to keep those people safe
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That are watching over our borders?
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Yeah, this is a huge portion of breaking the law.
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So thank you for for giving me a chance
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To suggest that the democrats do not care about law and order.
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This struck me when i was at berkeley.
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And there's a club are called by any means necessary, which is
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It was mostly about race based preferences
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And affirmative action jobs and stuff like that.
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But i always was struck by that phrase by any means necessary,
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Like violence, like shooting a guy in butler, pennsylvania.
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Any means necessary.
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That's how they feel about their politics.
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It's so important to them
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That they are willing to use violence.
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We saw a memo.
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The democrats are trying to get arrested.
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They're anticipating more violence against ice.
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They congratulate it on tiktok
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And some of these social media platforms.
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You see normal people
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Calling for violence against people
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Who are just trying to enforce our laws.
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They have a deep ghoulish ness to the internal workings,
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The democrat party.
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We saw it with these floods over the weekend,
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So many people rushing to their computers
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In their phones
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To tell you how they wanted to blame donald trump.
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They were relishing in the death of christian children.
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All because of why?
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Because they thought they could use it
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For their political gains.
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There is a deep demonic tendency that dwells
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Within a lot of the hearts of people on the left,
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And it's something to be feared and to be taken seriously.
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We have to defeat these people.
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Now, it's uncomfortable to hear some of the comments
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About the tragedies in texas.
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To blame those on politicians or political choices
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Is beyond absurd. it's unthinkable. we can't accept it.
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That's right.
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Well, alex, thank you for your book
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And keep up the great work.
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Remember, if you haven't yet got a copy,
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The new book is called breaking the law.
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You can order it anywhere, and i hope you will.
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We'll certainly have alex back again soon.
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In a moment, a note on the tragedy.
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The extraordinary tragedy in central texas.
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The extraordinary tragedy in central texas.
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And i want to speak to the disaster in texas,
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The once in a century flooding
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That has taken the lives of more than 100 people,
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Including many young people from a christian camp.
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We're hearing so many stories coming from that area.
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It feels personal to me.
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The hill country of texas is beautiful.
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And for several summers, i would visit that area of texas
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And help some friends that had ranches there.
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I was just there to do chores and whatever
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I could to add a little manual labor to the cause.
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But watching these stories of tragedy
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Come from that beautiful part of the state of texas.
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It's really been overwhelming,
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Particularly to know that there are children
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In the center of that story.
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There are so many emotions that come.
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We hear of the heroic efforts of those
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That are working on the rescue teams,
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Working around the clock and through the night, doing
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Everything they can to find any survivors, to comfort families.
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The response of the leaders of texas in extraordinary ways,
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Even from washington, the support they needed.
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It seems that it has been truly a unified effort,
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Which is not always normal in these circumstances.
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And then you've got the lunatic fringe.
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We hear the voices of people
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Trying to blame it on political choices.
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You know, i'm grateful to see us work together,
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And there's something unifying
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That comes out of these tragic circumstances.
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But i want to offer a suggestion before we go.
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I want to pray for all those families involved.
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But i want to make a suggestion.
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Let's decide not just to be unified by tragedies.
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You know,
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I believe we have much to be thankful for as a people.
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We have challenges and we will continue
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To have natural disasters.
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They're a part of our journey under the sun.
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But we are a blessed people.
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We have food to eat, we have shelter.
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We have clothing, we have resources.
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In the midst of natural disasters,
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We could do better practicing our gratitude, being grateful.
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We're so polarized, we're so quick to complain
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And to criticize
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And to try to blame our circumstances
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On someone else, and to proclaim our entitlement to something
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That we forfeit the joy of so many of our days.
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And we're watching the images
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Of these families struck
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By tragedies, parents pulling up to camps
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Where they left their children a few days earlier,
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And there's nobody to jump in the back of the suv.
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It's really personal to us.
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We do a series of summer camps here in our own congregation,
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And i've watched hundreds and hundreds of children
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Head off to camp,
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Some on our own campus, and the parents come,
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And the excitement and enthusiasm.
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I can't imagine the tragedy of losing one child.
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I want to pray for those families.
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I want to ask you to join me in that,
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In the midst of the tragedy.
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Let's begin to quietly say thank you to god.
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He's blessed our lives,
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And for the most part, we've been ungrateful.
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Let's pray.
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Father, i thank you
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That even in the midst of tragedy that you've promised,
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You're close to the brokenhearted.
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I pray for your intervention for each of these families
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That have suffered loss.
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I pray that you'll bring comfort for those that are exhausted.
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Bring strength.
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And, lord, in the midst of this,
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May we step together as a people
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To make a better future for all of us
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And understand that we are one nation under god,
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Indivisible, with liberty and freedom for all.
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In jesus name, amen.
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I'll be back in just a moment with a closing thought.
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I'll be back in just a moment with a closing thought.
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You know, i want to thank you for spending
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A few minutes with us this evening.
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We face tragedies as a nation, and i'm certain
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That we will face more in the future.
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But our faith and standing together
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In a confidence in the living god
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That gives us a pathway forward, even in those seasons.
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And we have broken hearts.
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Do you ever happen to miss an episode?
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You can go to aj now.com.
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There's an archive there with all of the programs.
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Makes them easy to share with a friend.
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That helps us all.
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Again, thank you for sharing
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A few minutes with us this evening.
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I'm alan jackson and i pray you have a wonderful night.
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