Television is filled with dysfunction, and the world is drowning in it. Negativity has saturated people of all ages, fed by competition to the bottom on social media. What if someone new came along with a fresh operating principle? A person who has travelled the world, seen the worst of it but deals strictly with how to move forward. An honest and inspiring leader who has lived the full Christian life as a pastor and uses his wisdom to inspire others. Meet Allen Jackson.
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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: May 20, 2025 | Allen Jackson Now | May 20, 2025
- Well.
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- Good evening.
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- I'm alan jackson, and welcome to nashville.
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- I once saw a bumper sticker on the back of an 18
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- Wheeler that said, without trucks, america stops.
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- It's a good slogan,
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- Because even when products are delivered by planes, trains,
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- And even ships, eventually they end up on a truck.
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- Well, i'd like to add a second line.
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- Without america's oil, the planes,
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- The trains, the ships and the trucks, they all stop.
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- Well, for the last four years, america's energy policy has been
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- The great unknown.
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- There was the so-called green new deal,
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- A global climate agreement.
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- Subsidies for solar panels and electric cars.
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- Even though we have more oil
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- And natural gas that anywhere on earth.
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- Well, president trump
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- Made the point in his last term
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- That the us was energy independent,
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- But that didn't seem to matter to the democrats.
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- There was no america first during the biden years.
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- It was more like america.
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- Get in line with that.
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- I want to bring in our guest tonight,
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- The longtime republican congressman from texas,
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- Randy weber. welcome to our show, sir.
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- Thank you.
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- I appreciate being here.
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- You chair
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- The house subcommittee on energy,
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- And you sit
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- On the powerful house energy and commerce committee.
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- But coming from texas, you also sit
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- On some of the biggest oil and gas reserves in the world.
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- You recently said we need to fight for
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- An energy strategy that puts america first.
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- Not beijing, not brussels, not the radical green lobby.
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- In fact, you even introduced a bill
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- That would prohibit any oil
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- From our strategic petroleum reserve
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- From being sold to china.
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- I didn't even realize that some of our oil
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- Was going to china.
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- Can you tell us a little bit more about your plan?
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- Well, absolutely, allan, and it's great to be here.
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- I am on the upper gulf coast, on
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- My district 14 is the upper gulf coast of texas.
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- We have four counties
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- Starting in louisiana that other foreign countries.
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- And we go orange county, jefferson county,
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- Galveston county, southern half of brazoria county.
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- Allen.
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- We have seven ports.
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- We have more than any other member of congress.
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- Some have four. we have seven.
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- We produce 65% of the nation's jet fuel.
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- 80% of the nation's military grade fuel.
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- 20% of the nation's gasoline.
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- East of the rockies.
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- By the way, folks,
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- My seven ports does not include the port of houston.
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- If you throw the port of houston in there,
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- Which is north of galveston,
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- About 40 something miles up the ship channel.
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- Now it's 80% of the nation's, jet fuel.
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- It's still 80% of the nation's military grade you.
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- And it's about.
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- Oh, and we have the strategic petroleum reserve
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- In our district.
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- About 60% of that stay is in our district.
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- So for us, fuel is a big, big thing.
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- Three lng plants.
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- Energy is a huge thing.
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- So when we talk about not drawing down the
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- The strategic petroleum reserve and i say this time in chief
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- Allen, more than y'all bargained for when biden was in office.
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- You know, he's he drew it down, i guess, during election year
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- To get the price of gas down to help his campaign.
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- And i kept telling people in mark
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- My words, he's also going to start giving away free
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- College tuition lodging.
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- Well, of course he did that too in a campaign year.
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- But energy for us is huge.
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- Lng for us is huge.
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- Folks won't maybe know
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- The location, but beaumont, texas, the port of beaumont
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- Moves more military personnel and equipment
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- Out of this country than any other port.
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- Big on energy, big on our great military,
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- Great on energy strategies and big on americanism.
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- That's district 14.
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- We don't want the president giving away.
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- Of course,
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- Now that we have a real president in office,
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- You know, you'll see all these things come to pass.
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- He talked to the gop conference this morning.
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- I'm encouraged.
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- America is back at it again.
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- Amen.
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- Where your state has huge reserves of both oil
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- And natural gas.
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- The key components of a strong economy.
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- But we're clearly in a financial transition now as the tariffs
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- Get negotiated in the budget and the tax bill gets finalized.
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- The president went to the hill today to give a pep talk,
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- As he put it. i know you were a part of that.
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- Well, speaker mike johnson had some comments
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- On that current bill. listen to what he had to say.
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- This is the vehicle through
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- Which we will deliver on the mandate
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- That the american people gave us in the last election.
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- You're going to have historic savings
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- For the american people,
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- Historic tax relief for american workers,
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- Historic investments and border security
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- At the same time that we're restoring american energy
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- Dominance and we're rebuilding to the defense industrial base,
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- And we're ensuring that programs like medicaid and snap
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- Are strengthened for the u.s.
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- Citizens who need and deserve them.
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- Well, the goal is a national agenda.
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- But of course, each member has local interest as well.
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- Do you think your party will find a way to a mutual goal?
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- I think they will.
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- The president was very amicable this morning.
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- He talked to a lot of people.
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- I called them out by name, said, look,
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- We're going to have to work together on this.
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- He talked about salt.
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- He talked about doing things that american he's done
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- That could have never been done.
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- I call him joe biden because i think he's obama's third term.
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- The president was very gracious.
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- He was very, very, numerous.
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- But he held the conference's attention in rapt attention
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- Because every point he made, allen was right on track.
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- America's back tariffs.
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- You know, i haven't read his book, the art of the deal.
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- Some of y'all may have,
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- But i understand he pushes that hard, as fast as he can,
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- To try to in negotiation that he's slowly can roll it
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- Back to something. he can live with folks.
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- That's what he's doing on behalf of america.
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- You're watching these things
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- When he goes and meeting with the saudis,
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- Talking with the chinese and all these things.
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- The green new deal is basically being done away with.
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- And when you talk about the paris
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- Climate accords
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- With, again,
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- Biden wanting to get us wrapped up by coal,
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- But not obama,
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- Deal with other countries telling us how we should
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- Be dealing with our energy.
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- No. america needs to be energy dominant in the world.
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- And texas,
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- My great district of 14, texas is a huge part of that.
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- There was an emphasis early on to cut as much wasteful
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- Spending as possible,
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- But i'm wondering if that same emphasis
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- Will continue
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- Even as elon musk steps back to run his big company.
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- What are you seeing?
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- Well, all of the talk that i hear is that it will
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- Continue.
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- We'll get the big, beautiful bill out, as we love to call it.
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- We'll get it passed.
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- Now, don't forget,
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- We had at the end of this fiscal year on september 30th,
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- We've got another budget.
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- We'll start
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- Dealing with some more spending that we'll start talking about.
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- But i think you're going to see this all come out.
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- You're going to see that it's not as bad as the democrats.
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- The are folks on the other side of the aisle
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- Want to indicate we're killing social security.
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- No we're not. we're killing medicaid.
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- No we're not.
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- You know, we're killing all this stuff. look,
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- I got involved in republican party politics
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- 83 when reagan ran for office.
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- I've been extremely active city council six years.
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- Four years in the texas house, now, 12 years in congress.
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- There was a saying when ronald reagan ran
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- For president allen, it was waste, fraud and abuse.
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- Many of your listeners will identify with that.
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- Viewers will identify with that.
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- I believe
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- The air we've been talking about
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- Waste, fraud and abuse for years.
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- We finally have a president in the office that is willing
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- To take that bull by the horns and do something about it,
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- Or what we're doing is dealing with waste.
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- We're not cutting medicaid.
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- It's about the waste, fraud, abuse and medicaid
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- We're getting rid of.
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- We're not cutting medicare again.
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- This is about waste, fraud and abuse.
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- So this president
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- Is so he is extremely focused on this.
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- I think the house is behind him 100%.
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- Hopefully the senate will be behind him.
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- I said reconciliation because it's a lower threshold,
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- And you're going to see good things happen
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- As more and more countries turn around
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- And come back to us for trade, because they realize
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- That they want to do business with america.
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- They've been taking advantage of us for way too long,
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- And president trump is doing something about it.
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- I'm very, very optimistic about it.
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- I mean, you mentioned president reagan.
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- I see his bust over your shoulder.
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- Well, it's good to have a bit of reagan
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- Like leadership back in washington.
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- Well, yes it is.
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- He was something special, i'll tell you.
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- Well, congressman weber, stay with us for another segment.
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- We've got a lot more questions for you.
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- Next up, we're going to talk about the deep split
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- Between the two parties.
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- Now, one
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- Trying to get things done
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- And the other working hard to stop anything
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- The president tries to accomplish. we'll be right back.
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- The president tries to accomplish. we'll be right back.
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- We're back now with texas republican randy weber.
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- The president has a fast moving agenda, and yet a number
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- Of things are on hold
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- Because some of the democrats and their liberal judge
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- Friends are using the courts to put up roadblocks,
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- Local judges preventing the president
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- From doing things nationally.
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- It's all backing up at the supreme court right now.
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- So what's the house doing to rein
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- In some of these local judges?
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- You know, i've been saying
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- For a long time, probably 20 or more years.
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- Of course, i'm not an attorney.
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- I was a small business owner in this company for 35 years.
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- My beautiful bride of almost 49 years, november the 6th.
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- She taught fourth grade for 27 years.
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- So we're working people just like y'all.
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- And i've watched this for a whole long time.
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- I will tell
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- You that the president is intent on getting as much done.
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- Those people who are trying to throw,
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- Throw a monkey wrench into our our into what we're doing,
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- The democrats, they're lying through their teeth.
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- They hate donald trump.
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- They went to what, you know, term as lost fair.
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- You're talking about law fair. they called it.
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- And i've been saying this for probably 20 years.
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- There's no way on god's green earth
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- That the founders of our constitution.
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- I'll take you to the, part of the constitution in a minute.
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- Intended for 900 federal judges or whatever
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- The number is across the country
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- To that to be on equal footing with the president.
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- United states, i've read the constitution.
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- Three equal but separate branches.
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- Right. judiciary. right.
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- You've got the legislature and you've got the executive branch.
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- The president.
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- They're co-equal three branches.
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- If you read article three of the constitution,
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- It literally says the founders wrote
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- The constitution said that congress can establish
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- There's the keyword inferior courts from time to time
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- As they may deem appropriate, but then it does also go on.
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- Ladies and gentlemen, say that we cannot get their salaries
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- While they're in an office, so to speak.
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- That's not to say we can't abolish the court,
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- But don't miss that the the writers of the constitution
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- Said congress can establish inferior courts.
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- It's been amazing to me how a judge in california
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- Or some liberal state, wherever, can say
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- To the president of the united states, thou shalt stop x.
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- The supreme court's not going to hear this, alan.
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- But what needs to happen is when those kinds of cases
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- Arise, that there's a question about the president's power
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- And the legality of doing something, that claim
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- That court case, if you will, has to go to supreme court.
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- That's the only growing,
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- Co-equal branch where they get where the president,
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- They should be able to hear that case.
- 00:11:29.826 --> 00:11:31.394
- That's my philosophy on it.
- 00:11:31.394 --> 00:11:34.497
- I'd like to
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- Ask about the former fbi director, james comey.
- 00:11:35.832 --> 00:11:38.568
- We've seen his instagram posting of the seashells arranged
- 00:11:38.568 --> 00:11:41.838
- As 8647, which translates into get rid of president trump.
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- Call me says he just happened to spotted on the beach.
- 00:11:47.377 --> 00:11:49.879
- That's his story.
- 00:11:49.879 --> 00:11:51.481
- When he sent it out
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- On his social media account, he said cool shell formation,
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- But only after he set off alarm bells among people
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- Who believed he was calling for another assassination attempt.
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- Yeah.
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- Claiming he was unaware of the violent connotation.
- 00:12:03.159 --> 00:12:06.696
- Well, his history suggests that he's hated president
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- Trump for a long time.
- 00:12:08.998 --> 00:12:10.733
- Listen to this exchange from seven years ago.
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- How strange is it for you to sit here
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- And compare the president to a mob boss?
- 00:12:15.605 --> 00:12:18.908
- Very strange.
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- And i don't do it lightly.
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- What i'm talking about is that leadership culture
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- Constantly comes back to me
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- When i think about my experience with the trump administration.
- 00:12:26.449 --> 00:12:29.652
- Well, the fbi is investigating this, and prosecutions
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- Are being considered.
- 00:12:32.856 --> 00:12:34.057
- What do you think should be done?
- 00:12:34.057 --> 00:12:36.092
- Well, i think prosecutions should be in order.
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- And i'll go all the way back to tell me before that.
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- You remember,
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- There are three people
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- In the history of this country have had classified the three
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- People who ran for president.
- 00:12:46.302 --> 00:12:47.737
- I'll say, in the last ten years, rather
- 00:12:47.737 --> 00:12:50.173
- Have had had classified documents.
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- Hillary clinton, who was never a president.
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- Right.
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- Joe biden, when he was vice president,
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- Had classified documents.
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- And then, of course, donald trump
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- As president had classified documents.
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- Three people who were ever present
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- In the last ten years
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- Had classified documents, but only one was prosecuted.
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- Wasn't there?
- 00:13:10.927 --> 00:13:12.095
- What does that tell you about this?
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- You remember one told me.
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- He went and looked over his team.
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- Did at hillary's computer that she had, that
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- Her team had destroyed with cell phones, with hammers,
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- And what they called
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- A bleach bin.
- 00:13:25.642 --> 00:13:26.943
- I think it is.
- 00:13:26.943 --> 00:13:28.311
- And he stood up and he literally said
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- This, alan, he said, we looked at that
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- Even though she had whatever it was, 107 certain documents.
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- And then some of them work
- 00:13:35.818 --> 00:13:36.953
- Were high level, some remained there,
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- Several lower, but i think there was like 17
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- That were high level.
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- I forget the exact number,
- 00:13:41.624 --> 00:13:43.092
- But anyway, he literally says, but no competent
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- Right attorney, no prosecutor would take this case.
- 00:13:47.497 --> 00:13:51.301
- And i'm like, you know, mr.
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- Comey, that's not your job.
- 00:13:52.969 --> 00:13:55.305
- You're the investigative arm.
- 00:13:55.305 --> 00:13:56.973
- You need to go out there and you need to look for evidence.
- 00:13:56.973 --> 00:13:58.975
- You're the police force in this case.
- 00:13:58.975 --> 00:14:00.944
- You turn that over.
- 00:14:00.944 --> 00:14:02.045
- You're not the judge in the jury.
- 00:14:02.045 --> 00:14:04.147
- You turn it over to the prosecutor.
- 00:14:04.147 --> 00:14:05.949
- You let that person and that legal process work out.
- 00:14:05.949 --> 00:14:09.819
- Although he.
- 00:14:09.819 --> 00:14:10.920
- He wasn't going to do that. why?
- 00:14:10.920 --> 00:14:12.588
- Because he hated trump from the beginning.
- 00:14:12.588 --> 00:14:15.525
- One last quick question.
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- I'd like to ask
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- If you have any comment about what
- 00:14:18.428 --> 00:14:19.662
- We've recently learned about former president biden.
- 00:14:19.662 --> 00:14:22.632
- This cancer diagnosis was unfortunate,
- 00:14:22.632 --> 00:14:25.601
- But it's also accelerated.
- 00:14:25.601 --> 00:14:27.036
- The other reports about
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- Who was actually
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- Running the white house during such a critical time.
- 00:14:29.205 --> 00:14:31.874
- Was america's safety at risk?
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- Who signed the orders he gave and how bad a shape was he in
- 00:14:33.509 --> 00:14:36.713
- While he was in the oval office and all this was going on?
- 00:14:36.713 --> 00:14:40.416
- How does that seem to you on the hill?
- 00:14:40.416 --> 00:14:43.119
- You know, it raises a whole lot of questions.
- 00:14:43.119 --> 00:14:44.787
- Of course they were right.
- 00:14:44.787 --> 00:14:46.489
- It came out, of course, a lot of the stuff
- 00:14:46.489 --> 00:14:48.057
- He was signing was done by an auto plant.
- 00:14:48.057 --> 00:14:52.095
- Again, i got involved.
- 00:14:52.562 --> 00:14:53.696
- And reagan running for reelection in 83.
- 00:14:53.696 --> 00:14:55.198
- I've been a very active republican precinct
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- Chair, election circuit election judge down in missouri county.
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- I, starting from 83 on,
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- I've never seen a presidential candidate
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- Get on the ballot without having to go through the primary.
- 00:15:06.576 --> 00:15:10.413
- I think the democrats pulled a fast one
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- On the american public.
- 00:15:13.349 --> 00:15:15.051
- They helped joe up the hill.
- 00:15:15.051 --> 00:15:16.452
- Joe biden gathering the secret, if you will, at bay,
- 00:15:16.452 --> 00:15:19.455
- Whatever you want to say.
- 00:15:19.455 --> 00:15:20.656
- They knew all along with the plan was going to be
- 00:15:20.656 --> 00:15:23.793
- That they were thrust.
- 00:15:23.793 --> 00:15:24.894
- Kamala harris, i call her tommy harris because i think
- 00:15:24.894 --> 00:15:27.830
- She's too much like a communist in her ideology.
- 00:15:27.830 --> 00:15:31.100
- I think they knew all along and they pulled a fast,
- 00:15:31.100 --> 00:15:33.736
- Always heart goes out to president biden.
- 00:15:33.736 --> 00:15:36.439
- Nobody wants him any ill will.
- 00:15:36.439 --> 00:15:39.709
- In fact, we're commanded
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- In the bible to pray for those in authority over us.
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- But i think the democratic team around him pulled a fast one.
- 00:15:45.381 --> 00:15:49.719
- Well, congressman weber, we're rooting for you.
- 00:15:50.720 --> 00:15:53.122
- Please stay in touch in the months ahead.
- 00:15:53.122 --> 00:15:54.590
- We'd love to have you back on.
- 00:15:54.590 --> 00:15:56.259
- Thank you. alan, we appreciate what you all do.
- 00:15:56.259 --> 00:15:58.594
- Well, in a moment, i'll share some thoughts
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- Of my own reasons for hope.
- 00:16:00.196 --> 00:16:02.131
- As you've heard me say before.
- 00:16:02.131 --> 00:16:03.733
- I'll be right back.
- 00:16:03.733 --> 00:16:11.017
- I'll be right back.
- 00:16:11.017 --> 00:16:16.779
- You know, for too long,
- 00:16:17.280 --> 00:16:18.247
- The people of faith have been
- 00:16:18.247 --> 00:16:19.348
- Willing to retreat to quiet, private spiritual lives
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- And to disengage from public discourse.
- 00:16:23.119 --> 00:16:26.022
- Well, i believe that sort of a segmented approach to faith
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- Is misguided, both theologically and pragmatically.
- 00:16:29.192 --> 00:16:33.596
- It makes us more vulnerable.
- 00:16:33.596 --> 00:16:35.798
- We'll continue to forfeit freedom and liberty
- 00:16:35.798 --> 00:16:37.867
- If we allow ourselves to be intimidated and we stay silent.
- 00:16:37.867 --> 00:16:41.737
- There are some very practical outcomes of a diminished church.
- 00:16:41.737 --> 00:16:44.774
- You can see them all around us in our schools, our communities,
- 00:16:44.774 --> 00:16:47.543
- And our attitudes towards authority,
- 00:16:47.543 --> 00:16:49.645
- Personal expression and fulfillment.
- 00:16:49.645 --> 00:16:51.547
- They're given a higher priority than concepts like duty
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- And honor.
- 00:16:54.317 --> 00:16:55.551
- Truth, we're told frequently, is a very fluid concept
- 00:16:55.551 --> 00:16:59.055
- Because there's no authority to establish objective truth
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- When everyone is left
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- To make their own determinations of what is true.
- 00:17:03.493 --> 00:17:05.761
- We quickly find out
- 00:17:05.761 --> 00:17:06.996
- That we're living in the midst of the theater of the absurd.
- 00:17:06.996 --> 00:17:10.666
- We see spiritual forces of darkness expressed
- 00:17:10.666 --> 00:17:13.269
- With increasing boldness and frequency in very tangible ways.
- 00:17:13.269 --> 00:17:17.473
- Things like lawlessness.
- 00:17:17.473 --> 00:17:19.475
- We have a former director of the fbi in a very direct way,
- 00:17:19.475 --> 00:17:23.379
- Calling for elimination of political leaders.
- 00:17:23.379 --> 00:17:26.682
- The expressions of lawlessness from people of influence
- 00:17:26.682 --> 00:17:29.318
- Are stunning.
- 00:17:29.318 --> 00:17:30.786
- It's a manifestation
- 00:17:30.786 --> 00:17:31.988
- Of spiritual darkness because we've cast off authority.
- 00:17:31.988 --> 00:17:36.159
- There's a verse in proverbs 14 i'm reminded of.
- 00:17:36.159 --> 00:17:38.394
- It says that righteousness exalts a nation,
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- But sin is a disgrace to any people.
- 00:17:40.930 --> 00:17:44.033
- If we as christ followers will stand for righteousness,
- 00:17:44.033 --> 00:17:47.737
- We will enable god
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- To bring exaltation within the places
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- Where we have authority
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- In our homes and our communities.
- 00:17:52.241 --> 00:17:54.310
- We'll see human dignity increase.
- 00:17:54.310 --> 00:17:55.912
- We'll see principles like freedom and truth.
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- Justice and hope truly regain momentum.
- 00:17:57.847 --> 00:18:01.250
- Now that is a reason for hope.
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- The moment your emails, stay tuned.
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- The moment your emails, stay tuned.
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- A quick reminder to visit aj now.com.
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- 00:18:30.280 --> 00:18:33.383
- Now it's time for some of your emails.
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- A viewer commented on the youtube episode
- 00:18:35.152 --> 00:18:37.287
- With pete peterson.
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- I've gotten into the practice of reading labels on foods.
- 00:18:39.022 --> 00:18:41.625
- It's shocking and concerning
- 00:18:41.625 --> 00:18:42.993
- How little is manufactured in the u.s.
- 00:18:42.993 --> 00:18:45.395
- We have no idea what we're really consuming.
- 00:18:45.395 --> 00:18:47.598
- God bless you both.
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- Well, i agree we've been woefully ignorant,
- 00:18:49.666 --> 00:18:51.668
- But i think we are waking up a bit
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- And it will have good consequences for many of us.
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- Marilee, from decatur, alabama, said pastor allen,
- 00:18:57.841 --> 00:19:00.711
- I hear rumors of giving $5,000 for new babies.
- 00:19:00.711 --> 00:19:03.880
- That's preposterous.
- 00:19:03.880 --> 00:19:05.582
- Why not give this incentive
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- To couples wanting to adopt a baby slated for abortion?
- 00:19:06.783 --> 00:19:10.420
- Well, i agree, there's some suggestions out there
- 00:19:11.388 --> 00:19:13.323
- That seem a bit odd to me as well.
- 00:19:13.323 --> 00:19:14.925
- I trust it's a negotiating and negotiating tactic,
- 00:19:14.925 --> 00:19:18.295
- And it will be scaled back to something more reasonable.
- 00:19:18.295 --> 00:19:21.198
- I tell you what i am going advocate for,
- 00:19:21.198 --> 00:19:22.966
- And that's for every voice in the public square.
- 00:19:22.966 --> 00:19:25.135
- That's an advocate for life.
- 00:19:25.135 --> 00:19:26.937
- For too long, i think we've been a culture
- 00:19:26.937 --> 00:19:28.739
- That celebrated death,
- 00:19:28.739 --> 00:19:30.507
- And i'm grateful for every voice that helps us change that.
- 00:19:30.507 --> 00:19:34.044
- John from california said,
- 00:19:34.044 --> 00:19:35.245
- Do you agree with birthright citizenship?
- 00:19:35.245 --> 00:19:38.915
- Well, not in the way it's been advocated for in recent years.
- 00:19:38.915 --> 00:19:42.119
- I think it's really been an expanded concept.
- 00:19:42.119 --> 00:19:45.322
- It doesn't reflect what's best for our nation.
- 00:19:45.322 --> 00:19:47.858
- Citizenship is a privilege.
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- And until we treat it that way and we respect it and celebrate
- 00:19:49.326 --> 00:19:53.196
- The things that come with that,
- 00:19:53.196 --> 00:19:54.898
- We'll continue to cheapen it and give it away for nothing.
- 00:19:54.898 --> 00:19:57.401
- And i think that's very destructive.
- 00:19:57.401 --> 00:19:58.835
- And we're giving away our children's futures.
- 00:19:58.835 --> 00:20:00.904
- We need more wisdom.
- 00:20:00.904 --> 00:20:02.806
- Well, i appreciate your e-mails.
- 00:20:03.440 --> 00:20:04.541
- Your thoughts are important to us.
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- And i especially want to thank you for watching tonight.
- 00:20:06.209 --> 00:20:09.313
- I'm alan jackson, and i hope to see you tomorrow.
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- Good night.
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