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Good evening.
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I'm alan jackson, and welcome to nashville.
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This is the week that we're supposed
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To get the first look at the new budget and tax bill.
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And there's a lot at stake.
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Our military needs to be strengthened.
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So do the systems that keep our airports running safely.
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And we need more money
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For border security and the deportations.
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President trump
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And the republicans in congress are doing a thorough job
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Cutting cost
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And getting some of what's owed back in the government account.
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Biden let college loans slide, but now those payments
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Have been ordered to resume $1.6 trillion worth u.s.
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Aid has been stopped from it's wasteful spending.
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Cuts are being looked
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At for the snap program, where fraud is rampant
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And there are plans in the works to keep taxes down
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So the economy can actually grow again.
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And all that's happening while the president's
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Negotiating dozens of new tariff deals.
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He made a partial deal with china
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Before heading off to saudi arabia,
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A rich country that's committed to
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Investing heavily in the u.s.
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So there's a lot on the agenda this week.
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And with that, i'm delighted to welcome back.
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North dakota republican senator kevin cramer.
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We're honored to have you back, senator.
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It's my pleasure.
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Thanks for the opportunity, as always.
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Well, it's
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Hard to know where to start, but let's begin
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With some of the tough decisions ahead.
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Our military is spread out
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Around the world, and we're spending big money
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Helping ukraine,
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Assisting israel and staying prepared for china and iran.
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Is the pentagon going to get what it needs to keep up?
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Yeah, that's a great question.
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And my answer is if i have anything
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To say about it, they will.
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And i think that's the view of pretty much
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All of the republicans in congress.
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In fact, i believe that will add to the president's budget,
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Which was sort of a, break even budget
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In realizing to your point that there's another $150
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Billion coming for budget reconciliation that that little,
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You know, privilege we have is having republicans in control,
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The house and the senate as well as the presidency.
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But that's 150
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Billion is a one time spending deal
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That helps jumpstart some programs.
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I think we need to raise the president's budget request
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Higher as well, because that's what future budgets
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Will be based on going forward.
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And and we've been taking basically
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A 40 year peace dividend,
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Here in the united states
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And underfunding our military
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When we should have been
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Maintaining our strength all along.
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We've sort of let, you know, our strength get old and,
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And a little bit fragile, if you will.
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And some of our older systems, particularly nuclear,
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Nuclear systems, but also our air, our airplanes and ships.
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So we need to catch up a little bit.
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We also, of course, need to insist
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That our allies around the world
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Step up a little bit more and realize,
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And of course, that our enemies
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Have been doing that for a long time.
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So i think they'll get what they need
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As much as anything they need.
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We need to project power, not just have it,
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We need to have it, but we also need to project it.
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And that's something that donald trump does very, very well.
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Well, there's some predictable pushback,
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I suppose, from democrats
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Who seem lost when it comes to trying
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To either compete with president trump
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Or come up with a platform of their own.
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Listen to this exchange between a democrat from texas
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And the treasury secretary.
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You're testing money is always about the tax cuts and cutting,
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Cutting costs,
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And it's always about tax cuts, and it's always about the rich.
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But nothing is ever said about poor
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Other than you're suggesting that you work yourself.
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No, no, no, no tax on tips, no tax on
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Social security, no tax on overtime.
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Senator, how do you handle democrats
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Who lie so easily and so publicly?
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Well, just ensure that they do it, easily and publicly,
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Because i don't think anybody's
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Fooled that watching that exchange,
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I think the answer from the secretary was perfect.
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And by the way, that doesn't
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Even recognize the fact that even under current law,
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What the top 1% of the earners in this country
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Pay nearly 50% of the taxes in this country.
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So it's unfair to suggest that somehow only the rich benefit
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From trump tax cuts, when the reality
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Is that
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The vast majority of people of benefit
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Have been really the middle class
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When it comes to
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To no tax on tips, no tax on social security benefits.
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And just think about overtime.
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My dad, i grew up the son of a rural electric lineman.
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My dad understood the value of overtime every day
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And weekends and holidays that it was time.
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Now it was double time.
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And then one day he said to us,
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I think i'm paying more in taxes
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Than i'm earning from overtime.
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That's a perverse incentive to put in a hard day's work now.
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It didn't prevent him from doing it, of course, but
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But i think people underestimate
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Just the value, the economic value of
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Of those policies, particularly on the middle class
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And frankly, the poor,
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The the poor workers, if you will, in many cases.
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Well, let's move to what the border czar needs
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To keep the peace here at home.
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An ice
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Detention center in new jersey was invaded by the local mayor,
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Who claimed that the prisoners were not being treated properly
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So that we've got a triple barreled enemy from within,
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The immigrants,
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The progressives and the liberal judges
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Who were pushing back on the president.
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What can be done to help tom homan?
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So a great, great question. and by the way,
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Great illustration, because here's the reality.
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Donald trump is president of the united states
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Today, largely over this one issue.
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And as he so profoundly said in his state
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Of the union address or his joint,
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His address before the joint session of congress,
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Everybody said
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We needed new policies in order to stop the, you know, the the
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Illegal immigration, coming into the country.
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And and the reality is, he said, what we really needed
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Was a new president. and he's right.
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He's rolled up the welcome mat.
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He's put some strong policies in place.
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He's acted on his own orders, of course, by by taking people
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Who are illegally here,
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Particularly criminals, illegal criminals or, and,
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You know, getting, getting them out of the country,
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Back out of the country, deporting them.
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And that has sent the signal to the marketplace of those
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That would invade the united states illegally
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Don't come here.
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And they've largely they've largely responded to that.
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But what we need to do for tom homan is provide more beds
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And more systems and services right at the border,
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So that no future president can ever say,
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Well, we'd like to process them quicker
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When they come across legally, if you will, or they come across
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And seek asylum.
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But we don't have the beds, we don't have the judges,
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We don't have the infrastructure.
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So we turn them into, you know, into the center of the country.
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We've got to find a balance there.
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So some policies matter.
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And and of course, i think we need to finish the wall.
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I think the wall as much as anything, sends
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The message further that you're not welcome here.
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If you come here illegally, if you come here legally,
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You're more than welcome. we'd love to work with you.
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We'd love to help you find a job in our,
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You know, in our country. that's looking for workers.
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We want you to be a contributor to our society.
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Oh, by the way, if you become american, be an american.
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We love your traditions. we love your culture.
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But at the same time, we have certain norms and certain,
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You know, rules and laws that we expect you to obey.
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We can do all of those things with, with the right resources,
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The right priorities, and, frankly, the right message.
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Well, senator, we need to take a short break.
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We'll be back with senator cramer in just a moment.
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We'll be back with senator cramer in just a moment.
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Well, we're back now
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With republican senator kevin cramer of north dakota.
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The president's push for new tariffs has certainly jumped
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To the top of the list for attention.
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And before he left for the middle east,
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President trump announced the china deal.
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Wall street hit a new post-election high.
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What are your constituents saying about leveling out
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Trade around the globe
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With some short term pain for the long term gains?
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Well, to be honest, my constituents love donald trump.
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He won north dakota with 66% of the votes.
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So they started out cheering him
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On, understanding that this was, in fact
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One of the things he ran on.
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This was a strategy that he's that he's presented
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Well before the election.
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So they were more than willing to give him the time
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And the space he needed to be successful,
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Because north dakota produces a lot of food, a lot
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More than we can consume, a lot more than gets consumed
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In the united states, quite honestly.
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And we produce a lot of energy.
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And the more people that can buy it,
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The more energy we can produce.
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That's that's to our benefit
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Economically as well as to our national security.
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So we like trade.
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It's really important to us.
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But leveling the playing field is also important.
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Fair trade is as important as free trade.
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We are free traders, but we also know
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The difference between the two.
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And so i think right now there's a sense of relief.
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There's no question.
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There's been a little
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Bit of anxiety about the tariffs and the trade
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Situation and some of the retaliation.
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But donald trump is always understood intuitively
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That when you're
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20% of the economy of the world, you have all of the leverage
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He's been using that leverage to get better deals.
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The early discussions with china have been very encouraging.
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His trip to the middle east,
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I think, is going to reap some great benefits.
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Let's not forget he already in his first term,
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Brought us the abraham accords.
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What an incredible gift that was.
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And i think he's
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Expanding on that even as as we speak, tonight. so,
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My, my constituents have always been
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Willing to give donald trump a little bit of room
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To, to navigate into, negotiate.
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Remember, he's spent the first hundred days trying to correct,
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You know, 100 years worth of injustices
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When it comes to international trade.
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And so, we're in his corner for sure.
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Will you surely have businesses back home that have struggled
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Trying to compete with cheap imports
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From china and elsewhere,
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But because there's so much anti everything trump bias
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In the media, the white house has been forced
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To explain why the tariffs will help.
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Listen to their explanation.
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Please keep in mind
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That the united states trade deficit has ballooned,
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Over the past several years,
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Ending up at $1.2 trillion deficit in goods
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As of the end of last year,
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Which was an approximately 42% increased over,
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You know, a few years prior
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When there was an $850 billion trade deficit,
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At the beginning of the biden administration.
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And our view is that this is driven
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In large part by non reciprocal trade, among other things.
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And the result has been offshoring
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Of manufacturing and other negat
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Well, north dakota is certainly a long way from wall street,
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But does that help drive the point home?
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It does very well, quite honestly.
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And and in that particular clip, ambassador greer didn't
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Even talk about non-tariff barriers,
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Like the fact that china uses, in many cases, slave labor,
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Or at least near slave labor, in many cases,
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They meet none of
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The environmental commitments or environmental standards
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That our manufacturers, our producers,
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Even our energy companies themselves have to meet.
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That's those are tremendous disadvantages
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To cost around the world.
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People blame us.
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In fact, in many cases, americans ourselves blame us,
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Blame us for, high emissions of greenhouse
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Gases when in china they don't even think about such a thing.
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And so
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All of those are extra costs on top of
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The reciprocal trade issues that that ambassador greer
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Was talking about there.
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So not the in the middle of the north american continent
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Are pretty global thinkers
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Because we've been growing food for hungry world for so long,
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Because we've been producing energy
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For a growing economy in our nation
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And in our continent for so long.
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We've always sort of understood that, that,
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You know,
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That the weather in argentina and the price of cattle
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In australia matters,
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And that we need to be competitive
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In the global marketplace
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And that that requires relationships, that, but also
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Requires fair play.
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You know, i'm in nashville,
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North dakota is much closer to our canadian neighbors.
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Do you think there will be some healing
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With our relationships with our friends to the north?
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Yeah, that's a really great question.
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And i believe there will, because quite honestly,
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That the relationship,
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Just for example,
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North dakota borders manitoba and saskatchewan.
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I have more this this may surprise you,
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But i have more cell phone numbers
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Of canadian premiers than i do american governors.
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And that may say something about me, but
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But there are a lot of people in canada
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Who really view themselves in many respects
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As an extension of the united states.
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They don't. they want to be sovereign.
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They don't want to be the 51st state.
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Although they're a couple of provinces i would take gladly.
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But they do they do understand this relationship.
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But at the same time, as i've said many times
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To ambassador hillman, and she's a dear friend,
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I say, remember your 41 million people?
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We are literally 300 million.
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More than that, we have a $30 trillion economy.
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Canada has about a $1 trillion economy.
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It's probably best if you understand that
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A reciprocal trade relationship is beneficial,
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Not just in the united states, but especially to canada.
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They have a lot of things we need,
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And we want things like, you know, critical minerals and
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And potash,
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Which is, you know,
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Used for fertilizer and, and even the energy sector.
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I think that once we get back to, to a level playing field
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And i believe we will soon,
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I think the healing is happening as we speak
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And it will be fully healed soon.
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All right, sir, final question.
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Looking ahead,
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You were reelected with a whopping 66% of the vote,
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Not running again for another five years.
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There's obviously a lot of
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At stake now, and president trump is certainly making up
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For some lost time.
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Tell us what you see about republicans
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Holding the senate in the house next fall
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And keeping this mission on track.
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Well, that's a great question.
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A really important point. i feel really good about it.
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I'd like to see us.
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We have to get, you know, recruit
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Some really good candidates, the the the calendar, if you will.
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And the map looks pretty good
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For republicans for the most part.
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Now, there are many
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More republican senators up for reelection
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Than there are democrat senators.
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But there are a lot of democratic senators
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Not running for reelection, which is interesting.
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I think it tells you a little bit
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About how they see the future.
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I think once these trade deals start clicking one after another
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And you see the economy growing at a high level,
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And you are already seeing inflation at a very low level,
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The thing that everybody said wouldn't happen is happening.
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You're seeing inflation this week, april to april.
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You know, at the
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Lowest level since 2021, since february of 2021.
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So it's really kind of a i think amazing i think
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Is that good news continues to roll out.
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I think our candidates will do very well.
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I see i see all of our incumbents
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Winning, reelection, quite honestly,
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The house is a little bit more volatile.
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It's designed differently.
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But i think if donald trump is doing well,
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If the senate republicans win big, i see just more house
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Members coming along.
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And i think that'd be good for all of us,
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Because i'd
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Love to have another two years of of, this progress, you know,
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Happening in this second two years of the trump term.
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Well, senator cramer, we're honored to have you here again.
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And you're welcome back anytime.
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It's always my pleasure.
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So, so much, so much so that i hope you know, that,
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I watch you every day and just really appreciate this show.
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And more importantly,
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Quite honestly, your ministry,
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It touches my heart and i'm grateful to you.
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You're very kind. thank you.
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When we come back,
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I'll share some thoughts of my own
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About going from the dysfunctional last four years
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To a much more productive time ahead.
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The journey is not just the
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Responsibility of our elected leaders.
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I'll be right back.
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I'll be right back.
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We are living through a
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Season of unprecedented manipulation and deception.
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But it isn't just a recent phenomena.
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During the last administration,
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I saw a very
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Well-informed people, very well educated people of great power
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And significance
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Look straight into a camera lens and say our border is secure.
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Then they would tell us that
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President joe biden is as cogent and as sharp as ever,
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Even though we could see for ourselves
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That that wasn't the case.
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We've seen the deterioration of trust in places
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That i thought were cornerstone of trust.
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During the lead up to the 2016 election, the fbi claimed
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That the trump campaign had ties to russian collusion.
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The fbi went to a foreign intelligence surveillance
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Court to get warrants to spy on the trump campaign,
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Even though they knew
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They had falsified documents in order to secure
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That court permission.
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Then we saw congressmen and senators
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Stand in front of cameras on a daily basis and say,
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This man is a russian agent.
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Well, the russian collusion hoax was
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Then echoed in the evening news every day, even though
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It was finally proven to be a totally false narrative.
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Well, here we are today.
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And the accusations not founded on truth.
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They continue.
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And there's a common theme
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Underlining these accusatory voices.
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It's fear.
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Fear that tariffs will wipe away our savings and investments.
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Fear that ice will come
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Knocking on doors and drag away people who are here legally.
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Well, i would suggest to you that deception, lies
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And a refusal to acknowledge the truth
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Is a spiritual conflict more than it is a political one.
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And we better wake up as christ followers.
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We have to be alert,
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Watchful, and stand in the truth that we know.
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I pray that we be awakened to this season, that we wouldn't
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Just watch, mutter, and complain,
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But that we would take our place
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In the public square and speak the truth that we know
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When we accept truth, when we love truth,
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When we promote truth,
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It results in trust instead of doubt
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And the desired behaviors that are associated with trust
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To follow.
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We'll do that.
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There's more reasons for hope than despair.
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A promise in a moment.
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Stay tuned. we're going to read your emails.
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Stay tuned. we're going to read your emails.
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Thank you for taking the time to send us your emails.
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We always look forward to reading your thoughts.
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Deborah in california wrote, i'm so glad that you're offering
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The news through a biblical perspective
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And plain, simple truths, rather than divisive
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Republican versus democrat.
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I hope this platform will bridge
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The divide and be pleasing to god.
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Deborah, i'm in agreement.
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We want to be pleasing to the lord and the rest of it.
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It'll find its place.
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Bob from texas said, we love the interview
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With doug mcelwee from someone who spent over 40 years
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In the broadcasting industry.
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News used to try to inform people about what is happening
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Today.
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The major news outlets are primarily spewing propaganda.
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They don't much care about the facts or the truth.
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Just what they've decided to be the truth.
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Well, you're
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Right, bob. sometimes i grieve
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The deterioration of that legacy media.
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But then i have to acknowledge it's created opportunities
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For some of the rest of us to step into the breach.
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I trust somewhere in the midst of that,
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God is moving and he will bring some good outcomes.
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Finally, nancy, on the youtube episode
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She watched with barry mcguire, she said, i'm in a car family
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And i know of mcguire's
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Wonderful products, but this is the first time
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I've learned of barry and his love of god.
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What a wonderful, joy filled person.
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I agree,
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The love of god should and does fill our lives with joy.
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Thanks for the video and the wonderful message.
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Well, i think barry was an encouragement to all of us.
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He has an irrepressible joy and hope for what's ahead.
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And he's had enough experience to speak to those matters.
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Just a reminder if you miss an episode live,
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You can go to aj now.com.
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May 13, 2025 | S25:E513

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