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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: Leverage Politics | Allen Jackson Now | November 5, 2025

Good evening and welcome to nashville.
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I'm alan jackson.
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It's a very strange time in the nation's capital.
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By almost every measure, republicans
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Are taking care of the issues that americans want addressed.
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And the democrats,
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They're fighting them every step of the way.
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Fighting not just the president,
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But the republicans in congress, too.
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The country is more safe.
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And could anyone not think that's a good thing?
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Gas prices are still dropping.
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Interest rates are going down.
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Wars are being settled.
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American troops are safe.
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Foreign businesses are investing in the u.s.,
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And those plants will create new jobs here.
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And some big american businesses are being saved
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By putting in place equitable tariffs on those countries
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That have undermined the best of what we produce.
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Well, the list goes on.
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So why are the democrats pushing back
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On an american agenda that's bringing hope to so many people?
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And why have democrats shut down the government
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To try to spend more taxpayer money on health care
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Benefits for people who are here illegally, and for others
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Who want to extend the expensive covid level rates?
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It makes no sense.
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Well, before i introduce our guest, let me ask,
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Do you know anyone who wants to take 20, 30 or close to $40
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From every hundred
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They make and pay for someone else's health care,
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Especially for someone who is here illegally
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And not paying any tax of their own.
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Were you ever asked to vote and approve such a thing?
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Or are the democrats trying to use your money
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To buy themselves more votes in the next elections?
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It's a sad and dangerous game the democratic party is playing,
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And one that will not end well.
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Well, joining us tonight to discuss it
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All is republican congressman ralph norman of south carolina.
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Welcome back congressman.
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Well, glad to be with you, alan.
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My pleasure.
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You saw what the democrats had in mind already
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When you published a quote from the democrat catherine clark,
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Who said, and i quote of course there will be families
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That are going to suffer.
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But it is one of the few leverage times we have.
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So she admitted that people will suffer children
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To with no food stamp benefits to put dinner on their table,
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But they get the leverage now.
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Her words
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Have you spoken to any of your democratic colleagues
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About how wrong and how dangerous that is?
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You know, i really haven't.
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Because there's no use.
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You know, they're disconnected from reality.
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And they were serious.
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The word leverage, has no boundaries.
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And where they're starving women and children
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Through the whip program or through the snap program,
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They're in danger in 42 million people all across this country.
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And, simply, they do not care.
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They just don't.
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They're scared of
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The radical base has been taken over by marxist socialists.
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And, it's a scary time to see what's happened,
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All over this country.
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And, as one, we've got to protect
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Our freedoms here in south carolina to prevent
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What has happened in california, oregon, new york,
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And so many other states that you know, at one time were
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Booming, states that were vibrant,
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They had great beaches, they had great economies.
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Not so now with leadership.
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And it shows you the danger of liberal leadership.
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Well, you put up one of the smartest constitutional
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Amendment proposals ever seen in washington.
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An amendment
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That would force the congress to stop paying itself
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If there was a government shutdown, where
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Other government workers weren't getting paid.
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You said this, quote that i love.
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Only in washington do people think
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You deserve a paycheck for not doing your job,
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And then you got help from the of all places.
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Abc's the view.
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Listen to sara haines with bernie sanders.
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Right now, it's hard to imagine.
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It's incentivized.
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It's easier for the politicians in dc
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To go away from each other
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And say, we will win this way
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While people are losing their paychecks.
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If congress just said, we're not going
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To take our paychecks, do we figure this out?
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That would be a noble step in the right direction, i think.
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Not everybody can afford to do.
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Some young people day with kids.
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Either can the people that aren't getting paid, though.
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Did you ever think
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You'd have anyone from the view on your side?
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You know,
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No, i didn't, and to have the response that he gave
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Is really unfathomable.
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That that shows you the
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There is a missing link with them connecting
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And thinking that they're above basically above everybody else.
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They are the elite establishment.
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And, anything could be true if you were serving as i am
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In the u.s. congress.
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You know, you just wonder how these people,
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Have gotten to the place that they have
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That's doing so much damage to this country.
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And shutdown is just a
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Preview of coming attractions if they get by with it.
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And, i don't think bernie sanders realizes
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What he's saying that puts him above everybody else.
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And, saying that is it can happen to anybody else
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But members of congress, which is really unbelievable.
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Well, congressman, you
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Have openly supported the peace plan for the middle east,
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Telling your constituents that world peace
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Is achieved through strength, not weakness.
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Even now, steps are being taken to put together a
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Peacekeeping force to make sure that hamas doesn't resurface.
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Do you think the president
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Will be able to bring peace to ukraine as well?
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You know, actually i do.
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And i tell you, we owe the president a debt of gratitude
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For taking out the number one sponsor of terror, iran,
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The way he did versus the biden administration, which,
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The billions of dollars in cash that he paid them
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As a bribe to like us, which was not going to happen.
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But no, the president understands what he's doing.
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His words mean something which for, unlike
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The prior administration, would biden and really obama.
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But, yeah, i think it will.
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I think it's going to take some, you know, some work.
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Hamas has control gaza for a long time.
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And, but at the end of the day,
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Between the work that israel is doing and work that
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The aid that united states under donald trump will give,
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I think we'll have a,
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Have a difference, and i think he'll be successful with it.
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Well, putin has been trying to up
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The ante by talking more about his nuclear weapons.
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President trump has said that the united states
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Will need to resume nuclear testing
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Because of russia and china.
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This is certainly peace through strength.
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But at what point do you get
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Nervous about the nuclear escalation?
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Well, i'll tell you this.
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Under the biden administration, i was extremely nervous.
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You know, for years, we had an incompetent man
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That wasn't all there, other than he's also been.
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You know, i don't know who was running the country.
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What? biden.
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It was probably some of his,
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You know, the people that worked with him.
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But now i worry every day, but with with donald trump, he
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He just knows the world.
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He knows our enemies, and he knows how to deal with it.
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The, the, biden administration never cut the the did
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The sanctions
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That, president trump is doing, like, cut the hole all from,
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And it's it's a, it's a new day there.
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And, you've been to the middle east
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Many times, and it's a it's a powder keg,
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But i just feel a lot safer with what president trump's doing.
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Amen.
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Well, president trump
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Gets points for doing more each week
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Than some presidents do in a month or more.
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But i wonder if the voters are able to digest all the change
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And they'll remember what's gotten done
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When they vote in the midterms a year from now.
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I sure hope so.
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And i mean, i wish,
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I wish every american could have been,
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Who had been in the halls of congress
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When the president took the oval office.
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You could hear a pin drop.
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He laid out his agenda.
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And in 11 months, ten boxes, he's achieved the agenda.
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He started this country around like no one thought they could.
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But 77 million people put their their hope and their vote.
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And a man that's a captured everything.
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He said the promise to seize by these keeping.
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And so,
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You know, we got three more years and,
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You know, he'll do great things for
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For america and he'll keep us safe.
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And, i think the economy will show.
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And i think the american people ultimately appreciate
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What congressman norman, there's a lot more to talk about.
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Can you stay with us for another segment?
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They both happened to.
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We'll be right back in just a moment.
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We'll be right back in just a moment.
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And we're back now
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With south carolina congressman ralph norman.
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If president trump is effectively handling crime,
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Drugs, the economy, war and a lot more,
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What is it that the democrats are going
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To try to run on in the midterms next year,
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Or will they have to agree to work with trump on
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What most americans care about?
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Well,
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They're not intending to working with president trump.
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They, i know first year he's been in office,
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They blocked and voted against everything that he's put up.
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Big beautiful bill may have had one,
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Democrat come, come vote with him.
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But alan, don't just, it's, they hate trump mentality.
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And you can see it in the state of the union
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With the little little boy that had cancer.
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They would not stand up.
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They didn't stand up the whole time
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That, the president spoke, you know, applauded him.
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And, we're going to get it done without them.
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We've got a three seat majority.
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And so,
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We've we've
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He is such a leader
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Who lays out his plan and who works his plan
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Among the members that he's brought us together.
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And we'll do the same in spite
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Of the democrats and in spite of,
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Of their socialist beliefs.
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As it stands now.
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Well, you've made the case
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That the shutdown affects far more people
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Than those who work in government.
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Over 70% of the country's small businesses suffer
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When the government is shut down.
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Tell us more about the damage that's being caused right now.
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It's caused damage in the fact
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That our policemen are suffering our ice agents.
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If you look at the assaults,
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The threats against our ice agents who are protected
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Aboard it, it's up 8,000%.
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You know, our first responders, the whole, the the the
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The fabric of this country has been affected by a shutdown.
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That should not have happened.
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To spend 1.5 trillion more money
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To for illegals is just not right.
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It's unfair.
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And democrats still are willing to do anything.
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And crony capitalism, alan is taking over the
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The powers that be
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Have put people in office to get our tax dollars.
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And it's spending money we don't have.
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The interest alone is what is approaching
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$2 billion a year, which is more than our military.
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Allocations that we've had to keep this country safe.
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But, i don't know how the shutdown will last.
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I think that the republicans are united.
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We're not going to give in if we give it now
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And basically pay a ransom,
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It will be a preview of coming attractions
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That we just not willing to do that
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With a split between traditional democrats
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Like chuck schumer
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And the new breed aoc and her new, very left
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Leaning socialist communist friend from new york city,
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The democrats seem permanently splintered.
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That hasn't stopped kamala harris
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From suggesting that she's considering another run.
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Listen to her reasoning.
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I am not done.
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I have lived my entire career
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A life of service, and it's in my bones.
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I do believe that when you fight, you win.
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But sometimes the fight takes a while.
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Now i'll reserve comment on that for now,
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But do you see anyone who could lead them in 2028? and
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Absolutely not.
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Kamala harris has lived a life of disservice.
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Her work style, it makes no sense on the campaign trail.
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And now i can't imagine anyone reading a book.
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Gavin newsom
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Has got a track record of train wreck in california,
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Which is what was once a great state that is now,
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You know, a cesspool for crime, for drugs, for,
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Government overreach.
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And now there's nobody in the, in the,
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The in the near future who i know can take over.
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And i will not have people on the house floor.
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Democrats say
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They're just scared to do anything
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They may believe differently, but they're scared because
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They'll, you know, they'll risk losing their seat.
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But, you know, this country is worth more than keeping a seat.
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I work hard to defeat those
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Who are doing what the democrats are doing at every level.
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You got some democrats that are wavering as well.
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But you know, where we're, it's a different time in history,
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And freedom has never been free. you got to fight for it.
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And hopefully we'll we'll we're up to the challenge.
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But seems to me
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We have to return to the notion of statesmen
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Who make the best decisions for the country.
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They're not professional politicians. am i wrong
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Now? you're right.
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And we need more charlie kirks.
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And people like you who will speak up,
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Who have a voice and we'll use it.
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You know, god doesn't call the most well prepared.
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He calls those who are willing.
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And then he he prepares us.
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And it's going to take people at every level
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Getting involved in government.
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And, you know, it's a it's a bloodsport.
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But that's why we, we get we are entering politics
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To correct what's happened in so many cities
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All across this country.
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And, i think we hopefully will meet the challenge
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Well, before we run out of time, i want to ask you about
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The president's warning to the president of nigeria.
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Christians are being wiped out, killed during services,
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And no one has been coming to their defense.
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President trump said
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Their government must do something
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To protect these people immediately,
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Or he's going
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To send our military in to eliminate the terrorist.
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Would you support the use of u.s.
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Forces for a brief intervention?
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Absolutely.
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What this president has done,
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To protect america, we're sending in the troops,
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He'll do in foreign countries and,
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You know, david beasley, who's head of the world
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Food bank, showed pictures of the country
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He travel where christians
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And innocent people are just getting slaughtered,
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Men, women and children.
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And it's barbaric, is evil.
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And, this president understands that.
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And he'll put the resources and the, those who will,
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Will take all the challenge firsthand as he's doing here.
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So, absolutely,
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We've got some legislation now, but it's fell in that aisle.
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And i'm just glad the president is
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Is doing what he's doing as a as he has the whole year
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He's been in office.
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He's, he loves america and he loves freedom.
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Well, congressman norman, it is a great pleasure
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To have you on.
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I wish more people inside the
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Beltway would follow your lead if you come back again soon.
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Thank you so much.
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And i appreciate what you're doing.
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Well, in a moment.
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Hope remains. and i'll tell you why.
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When we come back.
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When we come back.
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Because president trump has
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Shined a spotlight on the plight of christians in nigeria.
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The global community is starting
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To wake up to what's happening there.
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Open doors, an organization that raises awareness
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Of christian persecution around the world.
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They recently stated that nigeria
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Is the most violent place in the world
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For followers of jesus.
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Several islamic militant groups, including boko haram
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And the regional arm of the islamic state,
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Have built up a major presence in nigeria,
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Particularly in the muslim majority north of the country.
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These islamic terror groups have explicitly
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And repeatedly declared christians as targets.
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Victims of reported open doors that when slaughtering
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The terrorist yell we will destroy all christians.
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Kidnaped believers were told by their captors
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That they could end their
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Suffering if they would just simply proclaimed to be muslim.
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Radical islamist violence is spreading across
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Many nations in africa.
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There's been a brutal war in
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Sudan for a long time, and it's been ramped up of late.
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The reality is christians are the most persecuted
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Religious group in the world,
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And it's inconvenient for us to talk about it.
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We have a very limited imagination of what
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That kind of persecution would be like.
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Their lives are in jeopardy.
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It's not uncommon for them to have to leave their homes
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And never go back.
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They face a completely different set of challenges
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Than we're accustomed to as christ followers.
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We have to be willing to pray for them.
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I believe that if we don't use our voices, use our freedom
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And our liberty to stand up for those who don't have that,
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Then we'll forfeit ours.
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It's way too easy for us to be co-opted by comfort
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And convenience.
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I'm not opposed to those things,
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But i refuse to worship them as my life goal was determined
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To do difficult things, do uncomfortable things.
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Let's do
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Things that cause strain for the sake of the kingdom of god.
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I believe the prayers of god's people can change the destiny
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Of a life, of a family, and even a nation.
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We'll be right back
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With your emails.
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With your emails.
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Later this month, we'll be doing a show
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Where we answer all of your questions.
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If there's something
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You've been wanting to ask, now would be a great opportunity
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To write in.
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You just go to aj now.com and send me your emails.
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We'll look forward to reading them on the air.
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Charlene from california wrote you have been
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Talking about families in the kitchen table.
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We need a simple book of what can happen at the kitchen table,
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Maybe pictures of the hall where the table is
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And the saying on the walls, i only wish i could see it all.
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I'm a great grandma
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And i have three kids after school,
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Always a meal at our kitchen table.
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Love your messages. thank you.
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Well, charlotte, you ask and we have a solution.
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We just put together a book, lead with faith at christmas,
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And it's designed to do exactly what you described.
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It's a devotional for 25 days.
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Simple little devotions to go through the christmas season.
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There's even some activities that you can do
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With children or families, even some christmas recipes.
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You can get the book if you just go to allen jackson.com.
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It'll help
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Turn those kitchen tables into ministry opportunities
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And help bring god back front and center in our homes.
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That's worthwhile.
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Ron, from booneville, mississippi,
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Said pastor john hammond took a presentation
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About pornography in public schools.
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Gave me a flashback to omaha, nebraska in the 1980s.
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I volunteered to serve on a committee
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To review of books that were being considered
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For inclusion in public school libraries.
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None of them were pornographic or obscene per se,
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But some were morally questionable.
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When i voiced my concerns, i was either ignored
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Or told that no one else saw the problem.
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I saw
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The term biblical worldview that hadn't been coined yet,
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But i'm confident
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That was what my protest, why my protest went nowhere.
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Sadly, i got tired of being refuted
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And dropped out of the committee.
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Warren, thank you for using your voice,
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And perhaps it's time for us to begin to speak up again.
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With the new determination, it's important
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That we participate in the public discussion.
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Judy, be from california.
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So you always say to find a local church.
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Well, i did at least a half a dozen times,
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And the pastor either left
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Or most of what they preached wasn't quite biblical.
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God, thankfully led me to you.
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I do get fellowship, but it's at the bowling alley.
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Bless you pastor, and your entire staff.
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Well, judy, let me make a suggestion.
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We live stream every service
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During your television on sunday morning.
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Join the live stream from here in murfreesboro.
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Invite a few friends into your home
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And you've got a ready made church
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Service in the comfort and convenience of your own home.
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We don't have to have a formal building.
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We need god's truth.
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A few people to agree with us,
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And the courage to say yes to the lord.
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If we'll do that, i promise there's reason for hope.
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Thank you for spending a few minutes with us,
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And i pray you have a good evening.
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Allen Jackson: Leverage Politics | Allen Jackson Now

November 5, 2025 | 22:2

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