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Well.
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Good evening, i'm alan jackson, and welcome back to nashville.
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For all the discussion about what's going on in
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President trump's orbit.
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The other big story
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Right now is the end of his political opposition.
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It's far wider than the traditional democrat party.
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I'm talking about the far left
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Liberals, the radical socialists,
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And a considerable portion of the media.
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Looking back at it
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Now, it's easier to see the long downhill slide,
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The years of peddling so many issues
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That were of little concern to the american people
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And the media trying to promote trends
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That had little connection
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To the core of what made america the great country that it is.
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The examples have been everywhere.
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You know, we love our sports,
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But we didn't want to see our young girls
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Having to take second and third place
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Because they were forced to compete with the boys.
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Only god decides who's a boy and who's a girl.
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Democrats.
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So they could beef up the number of liberal voters
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If they just opened our borders and gave them free
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Housing and meals.
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But it didn't work.
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And now they're being sent home.
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Fentanyl was flowing into all corners of the country
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With marijuana being legalized.
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So in addition to drunk drivers,
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We now have a lot more reckless drivers threatening everyone
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On our streets than they treated our hard earned income.
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We all pay in taxes
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Like a big money tree for the rest of the world, even
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While our national debt rose to $36 trillion and counting.
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Well, the party's over.
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Even axios calls it the dark, deep hole for the left.
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So with us tonight is the senior politics editor at blaze news,
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Christopher bedford. welcome back christopher.
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Thanks for having me.
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Well, there is so much to talk about,
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But i'd like to start with the latest surprise, joe
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And jill biden offering to help raise money for their party.
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Do you have any idea why they're
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Trying to become relevant again
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After the voters sent them home with their ideas last november?
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You know,
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I think that the reason is that
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Joe biden is probably still popular one.
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Some people still like him.
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They're angrier about this at this stage of kamala
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Than they are at him.
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And of course, there's no one really offering
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Any leadership to the democratic party.
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And at the same time, there's a ton of money to be made.
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Republicans, actually, in a lot of different
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Races, have become rather complacent.
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You see republicans getting outraised 9
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To 1 and deep red districts
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Down in florida in special elections.
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You see the supreme court race in wisconsin
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Becoming going toward
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The danger zone for republicans, with elon
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Musk suddenly having to pop in to try to get some money.
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But then at the same time, jill biden,
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Joe biden wants to have a future in that party.
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I don't
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We don't know how long her husband's going to be around,
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But she's obviously more vibrant,
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More useful than he is.
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And she seems to play an outsized role
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In that white house.
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So she wants to stick around and use that power.
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I don't know how welcome she's going to be though.
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You've done some recent
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Reporting on the big split among democrats.
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You've called it a three way split.
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You know for most of us it's hard
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To make sense of what's going on.
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Even abc's jon karl couldn't keep bernie sanders in his seat
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When he asked about the rally he had with aoc.
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They ask about her future.
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Listen to how it went.
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Xandra is extraordinary.
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I am so impressed by her work in congress and her just.
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She inspires young people all over the country.
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Would you like to see her joining the senate?
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I right now we have, as i said, just a whole lot of people
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In the congress.
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Okay, jonathan. thanks. i got one more. i got one more.
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That's important. well, i ask you, okay.
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You know, you want to do nonsense to nonsense.
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No, i don't want to talk about inside the beltway stuff.
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I got 32,000 people.
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I was just asking you about aoc.
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Yeah, fine. but i don't want to talk about this.
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You know, i wasn't born inside the beltway,
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But i don't think 80 year old
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Bernie sanders has another run at the white house ahead of him.
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And i think his 35 year old friend,
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Alexandria ocasio-cortez.
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Maybe she's already had her moment.
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What do you think?
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Right now, she's one of the few progressives
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Who appears to be kind of playing her cards right.
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Like i said, i think the democrats are split
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Into those people who just want to play possum
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And let things cool down a little bit.
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Those people who are more pragmatic,
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Who are trying to tax to the right
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Or to the center on issues, at least on
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Their talking points, if not on their governance
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And on the progressives
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Who are finding that
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They're they don't have the numbers
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That they thought
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They had during the moral crusade
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They've launched over the last five years,
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But are still extremely committed, extremely dangerous.
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Completely and totally willing to attack their own party,
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To attack chuck schumer,
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To lash out at anyone
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Who they find insufficiently loyal
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To their dogma and their orthodoxy.
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And the person out there who's the most eloquent,
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Sadly, of that crew, who's got some youth left in them, is aoc.
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The other ones usually step in it.
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You've got other progressives out there over the weekend
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Talking about beating up
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An attack, physically attacking ted cruz
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And admitting that they've got no legislation
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And other
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Legislative accomplishments and none pending.
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And then you have aoc, who's tried to do that middle lane.
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And people are talking about her knocking off chuck schumer
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To become the senate majority leader.
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Chuck schumer
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Is taking a lot of heat for kind of doing things
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That a lot of other democrats have been doing.
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But unlike gavin newsom or josh shapiro,
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He has no future as a presidential candidate himself
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Or ambitions, as far as anyone knows.
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So democrats are feel
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Better about beating on him than they do on other people.
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And aoc could take the lead on that.
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Well, it looks like the democrats are focusing on
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Trying to find their version of president trump.
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But i think they're missing the point
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A bit by measuring personalities rather than issues.
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You know they lost on the issues last november
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And i haven't heard anything new from them since then.
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Have you
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Know that they've dropped the issues?
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I mean, for the last couple of years,
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If you said, hey, maine, we're not going to have boys
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Dominating women's sports anymore.
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You'd be called a bigot on the wrong side of history.
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You'd be compared to nazis and slavers and all of these
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Very few historical references that a lot of people on the left
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Actually know, and i know them poorly.
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But now instead, you hear responses like,
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Well, we're going to follow the law.
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We're going to try and hold this off on on the issues.
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When you've got the president
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Deporting violent gang members who are here illegally.
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But back to south america and central america,
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The response is not,
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These people have a right to be here,
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Which is what we would have heard two years ago.
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Instead, it's well, where were the airplanes
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When the judge gave the order? and why didn't you listen?
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What are the airspace jurisdictions?
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And the reason they're doing all this technicalities
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Is because they can't actually fight in these issues.
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They've been completely rejected by the american people,
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The democrats, by independents, by republicans
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Especially, are saying no more to this stuff.
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So they have to try and figure something out.
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But a party that loses the white house
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When they have it,
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After one term usually needs a massive reset.
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The problem is that you need a visionary leader
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To actually lead that reset,
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Because a lot of people's jobs, livelihoods really in the money
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They make depends on defending their little piece of turf.
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And that's why you're seeing the civil war breakdown
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Break out right now with no clear winners yet.
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Well christopher please stay with us for another segment.
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There's a lot to talk about.
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Absolutely.
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We'll be right back after this break.
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If you want to share your thoughts on our discussion
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You can send them to comments at alan jackson now.com.
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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 senior politics
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Editor at the blaze news, christopher bedford.
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Let's move to immigration. there's a report
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By investigative journalist john solomon.
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It says the judge who's
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Tried to block the trump deportations went on a junket
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To idaho,
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Where the sponsors and speakers were all very anti-trump,
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Especially on his immigration policy.
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That seems to tell us something.
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Now there's co-sponsors
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Gathering around bills in both the house and senate
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That would seriously limit the jurisdiction of judges.
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Well, judge boasberg is
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Was an obama appointee.
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Do you think congress will be able to limit his jurisdiction?
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I don't they don't have the votes, unfortunately.
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The house representatives, yes, maybe.
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But at the end of the day, you're going to need,
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I think, two thirds, either in the house
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Or the senate to push this through the majority or to slim.
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But it does send an important message,
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I think, the way that republicans
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Are probably going to have to look at this,
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And even this has difficulty getting through
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The hurdles of the senate and the filibuster
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Is legislation like senator mike lee's of utah, where they're
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Pushing for actual legislation to simply curtail
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What areas of enforcement these district judges have.
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Why can't a district judge actually dictate?
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White house national security policy
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That seems like a massive overreach.
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Seems like it's not in line with our founders,
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But it ends anyway because of those
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Because of that filibuster, which is important
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Because of the very razor thin majority
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You have in the house of representatives for republicans.
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This is going to be something
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Where they end up relying on the supreme court,
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Which earlier in the year i would have said
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Justice chief justice john roberts is pretty rock
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Solid on matters of executive privilege and executive power,
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But he is also someone who's more of a line walker
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In terms of trying to maintain the court's credibility.
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That's essential.
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The court has no army,
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No security really forces are not enough
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To defend the building, and essentially
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They don't have any real means of exerting power
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Like congress and the white house do.
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So they have to maintain that credibility.
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But will he actually surrender
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To the left on this really important issue
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Just to maintain that credibility? now, i'm less sure.
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Well, tom homan, the border czar, had some words
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About the wide use of lawfare, the same thing
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President trump was up against in the campaign.
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Homan says the judge's order defies logic.
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Listen to how he explained
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What he's doing to protect the american people.
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We got some radical judge who makes the decision,
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You know, that just defies logic.
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I mean, who in their right mind, whether you're a judge or not,
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What's known public today, a recognized terrorist
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Organization, say here by the maduro regime
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To create havoc, to unsettle the united states
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Through the use of fentanyl to kill thousands of americans.
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You think the judge would be acting differently
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If these criminals lived in his neighborhood
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Or hung around outside his office?
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Yes, absolutely.
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This is always a classic case.
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Going back decades in american law of judges
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Living in tony suburbs, making decisions
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That impact people who they don't know
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And have never met and will never meet.
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And it's a sad thing.
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And this is this kind of also goes back
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To what we were talking about earlier in the program,
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The left's lack of cohesion and lack of a vision
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In the path forward.
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We end up looking at the people who they're fighting for.
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They're really mean looking.
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Illegal alien gang bangers.
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They're not.
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They're what they ought to be.
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Try to do is make a young child who's been deported or sad
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Mother who's been deported, the symbol of their resistance.
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But instead, these guys who literally wear the tattooed
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Marks of their guilt on their bodies
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Are the ones who are trying to make that symbol.
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Or you look over at the brown university doctor
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Who, they tried to make a cause celebre for a little while.
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Who turned out to have been visiting lebanon
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To go to the funeral of a hezbollah leader
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And had pictures in their phone
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Of ayatollah khomeini and the martyrs of hamas.
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These are not very good heroes left to pick.
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They may get some of the progressives excited,
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But they're not the kind of
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Thing that's ever going to bring back
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Working class voters and independent voters
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They need for the future of the democratic party.
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Well, the issues are already being appealed
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At a higher level.
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And one of the judges on that panel showed her hand
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Saying that the u.s.
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Offered better treatment
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To the nazis than to the venezuelan migrants.
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Or argument was that the nazis were giving hearings
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And the migrants were not offered
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A similar chance to contest their deportation.
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What does that tell us about her perspective?
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It's just so out of whack and it's so classic.
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There's there's a huge section of washington, d.c.,
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In particular.
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And, a lot of the liberals really fall into this
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That really has a cursory understanding of world war
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Two history and a cursory understanding of the civil war.
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Not a very good one.
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And they they seem to try and fit
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Every single aspect of their things
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That stand against them and the things that they stand
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For into these narratives,
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That they have these cartoonish narratives,
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And it leads them astray a great deal of time.
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You're not winning.
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Just a general rule of trying to convince people in the public.
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When you compare your enemies to hitler
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And you compare your friends to nazis,
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You're not winning any arguments.
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Well, elon musk is a top target these days.
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Protesters are not just burning his cars.
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They're even shot at
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And left some incendiary devices at his dealerships.
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If that's not enough, there's also a judge
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Trying to stop musk
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From what he's doing to cut wasteful government spending.
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Why are so many democrats fighting something
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That most of the country has already said they want?
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Because this was a big tool that they use usaid
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And other aspects of this.
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This is their this is their church.
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It's their sacred place.
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And it's also the turns out it's the backbone of their power.
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All these left wing groups that get money
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Through these organizations, whether they're green groups,
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Are in part funded by you, the taxpayer and everyone here
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Who's watching.
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It's kind of amazing.
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You see, greenpeace, which has been one of the most
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Destructive groups for american jobs and
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Energy security for decades, and one of the best
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Known ones, just lost a massive, massive lawsuit.
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It could get appealed.
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But if they lose, then greenpeace may be going under.
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But then you learn, then the waning days
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Of the biden administration.
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They use this sprawling
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Executive to give $2 billion to one new green energy group
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That had no track record and $1 billion to another.
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That's $1 billion.
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And then two, these organizations pop up.
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And it's not because your neighbor susie,
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With the flag out front, is sending them checks.
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It's because the government is filtering this money through.
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So they need that juggernaut behind them.
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They need the voters in northern virginia.
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They need the control.
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They need the system.
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They need their way of governing
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No matter who's been elected office.
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So they'll fight tooth and nail to keep that in there.
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Well, quick question before we go
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Even if the supreme court comes down
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On the side of president trump,
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Time's passing and the election momentum could dissipate.
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Is that part of the strategy?
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Yes. and that is one part
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Of the democratic strategy that is effective.
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They've lost the street theater
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Because they've lost the charisma of the cause.
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Chuck schumer is no barack obama, for example.
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But the legal stuff actually slows things down.
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You've got a four year presidency with hopefully
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Two for the republicans,
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Someone in the wings like jd vance
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Who could go on for another eight years.
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But there's still a very limited amount of time to turn around.
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The biggest government that the united states
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Has ever had, and to fundamentally change it
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And to make an impact
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On the ground for the voters who you promise
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You're going to make an impact on the ground for.
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So these deportations are a step in the right
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Direction, for example.
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But they're a drop in the bucket for the millions and millions
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And millions of people here illegally.
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Well, christopher bedford, thank you for coming on today.
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Thank you for having me.
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Good luck keeping up with it all.
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We'd love to see you again soon.
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See you then.
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When we come back, i'll have some thoughts of my own.
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And later, your emails.
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Lots of fresh ideas were in our inbox.
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Lots of fresh ideas were in our inbox.
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And there were so many outlets for news.
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We're trying to do something very different here.
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Our goal is different.
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If you're going to spend
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30 minutes with us, we want you to hear information
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With depth and understanding and all of it
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Anchored in truth, biblical truth.
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Well, much of a legacy media is using their platform
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To manipulate information, to push an agenda.
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Instead of celebrating that our borders more secure
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And that violent criminals are here
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Illegally have been removed.
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Legacy media is applauding judges who have stopped
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The duly elected president
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From carrying out the will of the voter.
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It's disorienting.
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So being anchored in truth is vital,
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Because we are walking through
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A season of change and unprecedented discontinuity.
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Let's take a big picture view.
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For hundreds
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And thousands of years, the life skills of a grandfather
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Were more than adequate for his grandson
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To flourish in our world.
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You could take a skill, a trade,
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A means of earning a livelihood,
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And a grandfather could pass
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That down to his son and his grandson
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And would expect everything to go well.
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Well, we live in a very different world today.
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My grandfather's first job required him
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To have a team of horses, and he had to bring the team.
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I doubt very many people today
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Watching this would even know how to harness a team of horses.
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Well, there's another example of the change.
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I have access to more information
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On my telephone right now than i had in most of
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The libraries i visited when i was attending university.
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The rate of change brings tremendous discontinuity.
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There's a lack of connection with our past.
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So how do we establish true north?
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Well, it seems like
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It's an oversimplification, but i don't believe it is.
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Read your bible daily.
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Systematically spend time with that authority of scripture,
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And it will help you navigate a world of tremendous change
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If we do that.
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There's more reasons for hope than despair.
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I promise i'll be back with your emails in just a moment.
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Stay with us.
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Stay with us.
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Thank you for taking the time to send us your emails,
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Your thoughts and perspectives. opinions.
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They're important.
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Thomas, from arizona asks.
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Since rfk has been appointed, more and more of my coworkers
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Are mocking any questioning of vaccines.
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I'm not
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Personally against vaccines, but i do support asking questions.
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Will you help me navigate how to talk with my coworkers?
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Well, thomas is not a simple conversation these days
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Because civil discourse is almost been set aside
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And we have a lot of partizan screaming.
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It seems like.
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But, you know,
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The foundation of science is investigation and war.
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Tragically, one of the outcomes of the covid
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Debacle wasn't just a virus from wuhan.
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We lost trust in the cdc and the nih
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And so
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Many of these organizations
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That had supposedly been science based,
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And we saw them
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Be highly politicized and become very manipulative.
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Take the jab or lose your job.
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And there weren't any judges intervening then.
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So i think the questioning of process is appropriate.
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And asking for the
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Science to support directives is essential for our health.
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We can't just check out any longer and take the advice
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We're handed.
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Questions are not an aggressive attack on anybody.
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They're a desire to understand.
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I keep asking my questions.
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And finally, larry and kim from the great state
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Of south carolina,
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They wrote in my husband and i watched the alan jackson
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Ministries and alan jackson now almost daily,
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Since we came across your programs,
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They've been a refreshing challenge
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To get off the pews and work to connect
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Christianity and culture and share the good news.
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The discussion of current events
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From a biblical perspective is much needed and appreciated.
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It gives us hope and encouragement
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And unity in the body of christ.
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Let us know how
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Take a moment
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