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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: March 4, 2025 | Allen Jackson Now | March 4, 2025

Well.
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Good evening, i'm alan jackson.
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Welcome back to nashville.
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We're glad to have you join us again.
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With so many outlets for news,
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We're doing something that's very different here.
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Something that's far more useful than a constant
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Flow of short, supposedly breaking news stories.
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We call that motion and pace over meaning or purpose.
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Well, our goal is different.
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If you're going to spend 30 minutes with us,
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We want you to hear information with depth and understanding
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From the experts who seen it from the inside,
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And all of it anchored in the truth
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And the hope that comes with knowing the truth.
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That's a biblical worldview.
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So with that, i want to get to the big issue tonight.
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America's place in the world.
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How we keep the peace.
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And what does it take to do that?
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To do so, the united states needs
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Not just the leadership, but the military equipment,
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So that no other country will challenge our standing.
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We can't afford to have a world war three.
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But i'm not so sure that china, russia, iran, north
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Korea and the global terrorist network agrees.
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Right now, they respect our strength
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Even if they don't admit it publicly.
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But they also continue to show
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Signs of wanting to challenge it.
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No one knows that better than captain chuck nash.
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He's a distinguished naval officer of 25 years,
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A career with 4300 flight hours, and get this
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965 successful landings on aircraft carriers.
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Welcome back. chuck.
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Nice to be back with you, pastor.
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Well, let's start with the war in ukraine.
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You've been making the point for years that eventually,
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Russia's advantage in manpower would give them the advantage,
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No matter what help we sent to ukraine.
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Is that why
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We're now at the point where president trump
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Has been able to put together a deal for peace?
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Zelensky is coming to the u.s.
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To sign the deal.
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Took more than one day as candidate trump
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Set out to do, but peace in one month
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Still seems pretty good, isn't it?
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It's absolutely astounding.
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But it it's it was destined to come to this.
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If you look at just the demographics,
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As you pointed out in your latest.
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Russia has more military age males
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Than the ukraine had military.
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It had males. period.
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And that's
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Before a significant percentage of the population fled
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When the war started.
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So, russia could just overpower and wait out and grind
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And grind away.
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And that's what the russians do.
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It's in their dna to suffer.
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And they're willing to take the casualties
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To to win.
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And they've proven that time and again.
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Look at stalingrad.
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Look at world war two.
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They just will endure. so.
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Ukraine was going to have to give up land.
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They're lucky they didn't get conquered, in toto.
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But that was just because of the corruption
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And the ineptitude of the russian leadership.
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When this thing kicked off.
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Well, i've heard voices expressing concern
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That putin is getting more than he should have,
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Especially given that he started the invasion.
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President trump believes that both sides have lost far
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Too many lives, and something had to be done
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To stop the bloodshed.
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Listen to how he sees it.
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My function is to get you out of the war.
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Get them out of the war. let them live.
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It's a bloody war. it's a horrible war.
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Thousands of people are being killed a week.
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And i would say russia.
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Maybe 700,000 people.
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I think ukraine, probably a similar number.
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And that's not talking about the towns
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And the cities that have been blown up.
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That's talking about soldiers.
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This has been a horrible, bloody mess.
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And we're going to get it solved.
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You know, it's hard to disagree with any of that.
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But do you think that
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President trump has sided more with the russians than ukraine?
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Sure.
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No, i think he's he's trying to,
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He's trying to go right down the middle.
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And by that, i mean it's going to extract a toll from ukraine.
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They're going to have to give up the crimea once and for all.
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They're going to have to give up
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Most of the land that the russians
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Have conquered in the donbas region,
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Because that is the one thing that want it more than anything,
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Which is that land bridge to the crimea.
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People keep talking about it because it is vitally important
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To russia.
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Now, what is going to also
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Be extracted is this rare earth mineral deal.
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Why? that is strategically important for ukraine.
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They're not just giving up access.
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And therefore wealth to the united states.
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Pay back 300 billion or so that we've invested in ukraine.
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But by having u.s.
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Interests in the northeastern part of ukraine,
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That's where those mines are, which is right up against
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Where the russians have taken, that donbas land.
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So what that does is it places u.s.
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Interests right against that where the new russian
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Conquered territory and thus provides a barrier.
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So it's not just about the money.
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There's a strategic goal involved in this.
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Going back to the fighting where mr.
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Zelenskyy's troops able to be effectively trained
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To use the advanced weapons that we gave them.
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I think for some of them, yes.
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But, old habits die hard.
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And they used a lot of rather exquisite weapons.
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In a manner that would be fit.
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More soviet type tactics.
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Russian tactics.
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But i don't
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Hold that against them. pastor, because when you consider
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That the united states is a maneuver warfare,
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Combined arms style of fighting, and they were involved
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In what was more akin to world war one trench fighting.
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So they were they're doing the best
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They could to survive under some horrific conditions,
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Undermanned armies getting them to them late
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And the russians just pouring bodies into the fight.
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So they had their work cut out for them, and it's amazing
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That they have survived as long as they have.
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Do you think that what we've watched in
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Ukraine will continue to work going forward with u.s.
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Manpower, staying out of harm's way, but u.s.
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Advanced weapons being shared with our friends?
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Well, that's what we have to do.
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We have to ensure that this remains
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A stalemate for the negotiations to take place.
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If it looked like we were going to fall
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On the ukrainians, the russians would not sign the deal.
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But by saying backing
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The ukrainians to a stalemate and this strategic
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Move of the, interest in the,
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Minds in the northeast that will turn the deal
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And the russians will be happy to stop the bloodshed.
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The ukrainians have wiped out a generation.
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The russians have wiped out
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A significant part of their generation.
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And neither country can afford that.
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Demographically. they just can't.
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Especially the russians.
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You know, i've heard multiple voices
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Complaining about the possible end of the war.
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I don't understand is what's the motivation
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For wanting to continue the fighting?
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I don't get it.
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I mean, i really don't get it.
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If you're at least,
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Maybe looking at some kind of financial gain
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From this or, power, but it makes no sense at all
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Because it is just grinding up men.
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It's just grinding them up.
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And the civilian body count is horrific.
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So to continue this a day further than it has to
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Be is just a crime against humanity.
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Well, let's take a short break now.
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It's time for you to jump in with your thoughts,
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With an email that you can send to comments at.
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Alan jackson now.com.
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We'd love to hear what you have to say
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About ukraine, russia and what's next.
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I'll be right back.
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I'll be right back.
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We're back now with captain chuck nash,
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And we're talking about america's role in the world.
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President trump is working hard to bring a lasting peace
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To not just ukraine, but to israel as well.
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To do so as effectively as possible,
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Iran has to be stopped.
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That will likely include what was just
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Put out in a new report from the united nations,
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That iran now has enough enriched uranium for six nuclear
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Weapons, double the amount it had just 15 weeks ago.
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The president's national security
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Advisor has made clear
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That this is unacceptable to president trump.
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Listen to what he had to say.
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Iran can never have a nuclear weapon
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That not only would be existential for israel,
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I think it would be existential for the entire world,
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Because it could kick off and nuclear arms race
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In the middle east.
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President trump is absolutely serious,
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Deadly serious when he says iran can never have a nuke,
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And certainly not on president trump's watch.
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Do you think iran is trying to do this, to negotiate
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Some sort of deal with trump?
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Or do they realize that their leadership
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Will no longer exist if they continue
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Down this nuclear path they're on?
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Well, the last time we talked faster,
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I said it could go either way. one.
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Because they had lost hezbollah and they had lost hamas.
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And they were getting the houthis, taking all the heat
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That they had basically lost all of their surrogates.
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So now what is going to happen inside of iran?
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Are they going to look at this and say, we have no choice?
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We have to have a nuclear weapon because we are so vulnerable.
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Or are they going to say it's time to cut a deal
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With a guy who prides himself in making deals?
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So if you're going to the negotiating table,
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You have to have something that the other side wants.
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The other side.
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In our case, is going to want the total dismantlement
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Of their nuclear program, with on site inspectors
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Not like before, but real on site inspections.
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If that were to occur, there would be peace.
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And i think the iranians know that their economy
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Is in shambles.
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Inflation is running rampant.
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There's much, you know,
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Distrust of the leadership from the iranian people.
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So i think they could either way, this could go either way.
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They're either going to go for it, in which case
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They're they picked the wrong guy to do this
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With because trump will follow through.
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He doesn't make threats.
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He just states what he's going to do.
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And they're not going to be able to have a nuclear weapon.
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So if i were to put money on it,
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I would put $0.75 on the fact.
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What they're trying to do is they're trying to,
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Get something on the table that they can give away.
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They don't really want
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That would only bring them devastation
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And would remove the mullahs from power.
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And they're all about staying in power.
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The other $0.25 of that dollar would be their lunatics.
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So who knows.
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Well, let's move to greenland.
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The idea of doing something about
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The security value of greenland is still up in the air.
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Can you help us all understand why that part
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Of the globe matters to our country?
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It's the arctic.
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If you look up the north pole and you look at the countries
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That have access to that, it's russia.
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It's canada and norway.
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We have to have some
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Foothold up there, especially when you consider
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That ballistic missiles, where they do
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Come from, china or russia would come over the poles.
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So being up in greenland allows you to put sensors
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Up their radar installations much further up to the north,
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As well as stationed troops there in world war two.
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One of the critical areas
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And it stays critical to this day because of
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Of russia is the iceland uk gap,
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That area of ocean between iceland and the united kingdom,
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Where the russian submarines and ships would come through.
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Well, if the climate is warming
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And if the ice recedes, it hasn't that much yet.
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But if it does,
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Then greenland will become all the more important
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Than it is today.
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I'd like to ask the same thing about the panama canal.
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There's clearly an economic benefit
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To taking back
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Some of the control of the canal versus china running
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More than its fair share.
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But is there
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Also a security or military need to take back the canal?
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Absolutely.
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Because china owns the two facilities on either end,
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Both the pacific and the atlantic coast.
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And with that, in a time of war,
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They could sabotage that and shut down the canal.
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And if you look at the size of the united states navy,
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We tend to play away games.
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We don't play home games and haven't
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Since the revolutionary war, maybe the war of 1812,
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But the away game
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Would be with china or with russia, with iran.
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For that to happen, we have our fleet spread all over the world
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Covering multiple oceans.
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We need that canal to get ships back and forth between
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The atlantic in the pacific as quickly as possible.
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All of our ships are designed to make it through that canal.
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That's part. of.
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Maritime design.
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You make sure that you can get through that canal.
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So it's vitally important.
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We cannot have a potential adversary controlling
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A passage through that vital, that vital network.
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Well, one last short question.
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Greenland in the panama canal never came up in the campaign,
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And i don't recall any other
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President discussing their importance.
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So i'd like to ask, what else is there out there
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That we should concern ourselves with? now?
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Well, that's trying to get inside
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The head of the master negotiator,
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Who happens to be sitting at 1600 pennsylvania avenue,
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And he's got enough balls in the air.
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His adversaries are focused and all those balls in the air.
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And in the meantime, he's getting his agenda accomplished.
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So who knows?
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Greenland came out of nowhere, and all it did was send
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His political adversaries into a tizzy.
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And that's right where he wants them.
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Captain ash, we need your wisdom.
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And we are grateful for your time.
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My pleasure.
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Thank you. sir.
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One last quick question.
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Do you ever miss landing those jets on the aircraft carriers?
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Not at night.
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Thanks for your time today.
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You know, moments and thoughts of my own on these important
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Issues of national security.
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Issues of national security.
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Where that war first began.
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For weeks,
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I was on zoom
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Calls on a regular basis with leaders
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In the christian community in ukraine.
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It was tragic to hear the stories
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Of the civilian populations being targeted,
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The apartment buildings that were being decimated
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By rocket fire.
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We bought vans.
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We said food and clothing.
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We were doing whatever we could do to provide
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Support and resources
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For the people that were trapped in that horrific conflict.
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Over the years, i saw political leaders
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Posing like they were rock stars, american leaders flying
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To ukraine to have their pictures taken with zelensky.
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It looked more like they were posing
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For the cover of rolling stone,
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And they were concerned about the civilians
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And the people who were suffering.
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So horribly.
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Well, i'm thankful for the grown up voices that are now saying,
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We have to bring a resolution to the conflict here in america.
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We aren't facing the same type
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Of conflict that they face in ukraine.
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You might not see a war zone with you in your community,
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But make no mistake about it, spiritual warfare is in
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Every home, business, school, and church building,
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And they're just as real as the physical ones we see overseas.
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We see their carnage every day.
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The violence that leads to many news reports,
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The social engineering being forced upon children,
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The degradation of things that were meant to be entertainment.
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We must remember that as christ followers,
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We are called to make a difference.
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God is sending us
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Into the culture to bring about meaningful change.
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It was jesus words.
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John 2021.
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He says, as the father has sent me, so i'm sending you.
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When you have opportunities to share the biblical values
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That you hold dear, talk about your hope in jesus.
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Remember this.
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He hasn't since you onto the battlefield, unarmed.
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You're coming in the powerful name of the lord
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And you're filled with his spirit.
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If we remember that, i promise there's more reasons for hope
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Than despair.
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Well, that's my message for tonight.
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And after a short break, we'll start looking at your messages.
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We've got mail.
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We've got mail.
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Everyone on our team looks forward to your emails.
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Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts with us.
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Cathy, from lake havasu city, arizona said allen,
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I can't tell you how meaningful it is
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To have seen those two young super bowl quarterbacks
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Openly express their joy in following jesus.
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Thank you for bringing these comments to a population
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That may not watch the sports programing.
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God bless you.
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I couldn't agree more, cathy.
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I thought they were remarkably courageous.
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They took their faith to work and their office
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Isn't a place where faith has been particularly welcome.
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If they can have the courage to do that
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On one of the largest stages in the world.
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Surely we can take our faith with us
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Beyond the confines of the churches
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Where we gather to worship. we have to.
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And then lee from ohio
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Said, you have helped me
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Realize i need to step out of my comfort zone
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To be more assertive with my beliefs.
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Thank you.
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I agree, lee, i think the real issue in
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That is understanding where we're comfortable.
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I want to become so comfortable with talking about my faith
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And the authority of scripture in the place
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I've given to that in my life,
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That that's as normal as talking about
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The sports teams
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That i prefer to support, or my favorite foods,
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Or the restaurants i like to visit.
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When that becomes second nature, there's not an uncomfortable
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Place at all.
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It's just normal to have those conversations about our faith.
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We've been coached inappropriately
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That our faith belongs in a worship service
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When there is spiritual music,
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And then there's some reading of the scripture.
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The truth is, our faith is most important
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When we leave the church building,
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When we're conducting our lives in our normal routines.
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Let's create a whole new comfort zone
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And bring our faith back into the public square.
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March 4, 2025 | S25:E304

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