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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: November 21, 2024 | Allen Jackson Now | November 21, 2024
- One. well.
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- Good evening, i'm alan jackson.
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- Welcome to nashville.
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- It was just one election, but now it's a three ring,
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- Ongoing global event involving the business world.
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- The entire government and the vast new media.
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- The period between the election
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- And the inauguration is moving fast with the president elect's
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- Job appointments, government agencies bracing for budget cuts
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- And the opinion latest media
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- That's taking a big dive from the people
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- Who either no longer believe
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- What they're publishing or simply don't
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- Like what they've heard about the red wave.
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- Well, colin reed is a widely respected political strategist,
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- And he's the co-founder of south and hill strategies.
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- We've got a lot to talk about.
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- Welcome back. colin.
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- Hey, alan. it's great to be here. thanks for having me.
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- Well, let's begin with mr.
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- Trump's proposed staffing.
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- Most, but not all of his choices have been well received.
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- But his decision to nominate
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- Former congressman matt gates was not.
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- And today, gates withdrew his nomination.
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- Do you think that was the result of senate republicans
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- Telling the trump team that they didn't
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- Think he would get approved,
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- Or was the controversy around
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- The media leaks of the previous investigation of gates
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- That were published in the information in it
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- Enough for mr.
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- Trump to pull the plug?
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- Well, time will tell, ellen, one thing i would say
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- About the rapid pace of these picks is it has served
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- To instill a shock and awe type mentality around here.
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- And things are moving fast and furious.
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- And the former president is uncharacteristically
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- Out of the limelight for the most part,
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- And is just putting his team in place.
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- And it has the impact of taking up news cycles
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- And consuming a lot of the attention,
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- And really just focusing
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- The narrative on the change that's to come.
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- And 60 some ideas look as it relates to two former
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- Congressman gates, usually an incoming administration.
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- One of these picks goes down.
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- Who knows whether or not he saw the writing on the wall
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- And thought it'd be better to get out of the way now
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- So as to not become a distraction,
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- Not to drain precious capital from the former president.
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- Or maybe those meetings didn't go well.
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- Who knows?
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- A couple of things i think are true.
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- One, we have probably heard the last of matt gates.
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- He's someone who has the president's ear.
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- And,
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- I assume he's
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- Going to have another act
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- Play in his political career, whether that's
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- In the administration or elected office.
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- And two, all eyes now turn on to that.
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- Who's going to be the next attorney general picks
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- And who's going to join that cabinet?
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- Because,
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- It has been the focal point of so much controversy
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- And so much debate over the last four years.
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- Well, it's generally agreed that president elect trump
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- Will have two years to do what he wants,
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- Given the makeup of the house and the senate.
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- And we know that he likes to do more than one thing at a time.
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- Well, the border in the economy or on the top of the list.
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- Yet some democrats are already trying to
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- Hurt the economy.
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- It's hard to believe.
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- Where do you think they're coming from with this?
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- We've got so much to do, alan, in such a short amount of time
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- To do it.
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- And remember, in 2016, 2017, the first trump presidency,
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- He had both republicans
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- In both houses controlling both houses of congress then.
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- And frankly, there was a lot of wasted motion.
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- There was a lot of time.
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- The spent on things that weren't terribly valuable.
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- Of course there was the 2017 tax cuts and job acts.
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- That should be one of the top priorities
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- For the incoming congress and for the incoming administration.
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- They have indisputably helped the economy up and down.
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- Small business owners,
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- All the people that
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- President trump promised
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- To help their fortune on the campaign trail,
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- They're all watching anxiously for that.
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- And that should be something where there,
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- You know, hopefully should be some bipartisan support.
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- We shouldn't. it shouldn't.
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- It shouldn't be a partizan issue that we should keep
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- Taxes low, especially on
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- Some of these, these these these individual, exemptions
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- That are really helpful for small business owners.
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- So that's that's one thing
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- I think that's that's probably priority number one.
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- But if there's an issue where president elect
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- Trump is, is is most known for it's getting serious
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- About the border.
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- He's got tom homan in place.
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- Tom homans a force to be reckoned with.
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- He's putting the right team in place.
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- And you can bet
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- You can bet your bottom dollar
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- That the border is going to get a lot of attention,
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- And it's going to need it, because,
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- Frankly, the numbers, under this current
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- Administration have just been appalling.
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- And there's been too many lives lost.
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- There's been so many countless tragic stories,
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- Across the board.
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- And, president elect knows it.
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- He knows the voters need him to do it.
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- And i would expect him to get to work on that posthaste.
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- Well, homeland security reports that the violent venezuelan
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- Gang known as trend agua, is building up a presence
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- Not just nationally, but in washington, d.c., as well.
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- On top of which, there are disturbing new figures
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- That show nearly a million and a half
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- Migrants have been ordered to be deported,
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- But only 13,000 are being held by authorities now.
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- One of them was the venezuelan gang member
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- Who was just convicted of killing lincoln riley,
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- Who will not see the light of day soon,
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- According to the judge who presided over the case.
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- But the judge also had a hopeful message for the family
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- And friends of lincoln riley
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- Right after he delivered the sentence.
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- Count one.
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- Malice murder a sentence you to life
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- Without the possibility of parole.
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- Count five.
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- Life in prison consecutive to count one
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- As many times as you
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- Reflect on the loss.
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- At some point, you start
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- Smiling about the memories and,
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- I'm hopeful that at some point that takes over
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- To a certain extent.
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- It was a deeply emotional moment that was broadcast nationwide.
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- Garland, you live in the washington area
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- Where that same gang is putting down roots now.
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- Is that getting people stirred up enough
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- To help force the eviction that trump supporters are
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- Is intending to conduct?
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- Well, gosh, it better, alan, because if it does,
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- And i don't know what will and the reason that lincoln
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- Riley story resonated the way it did
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- Is because it was just such a thing
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- To have someone go out running something that
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- So many people do every morning and just not come home
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- Because of a hate filled person
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- Who was in this country illegally.
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- The system had failed on so many different levels,
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- And it just spoke to the sense that things were amiss.
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- We have no control over who's coming into our country.
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- We don't know if it's violent criminals.
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- We have no way of keeping track of the people who are here.
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- And it was just something that hit home for so many people
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- And so many of the hearts broke for so many,
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- For the riley family.
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- And look, it's if you a country without borders
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- Is no country at all.
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- And it's something that president trump
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- Not just this campaign, but the last one.
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- It's one where he was out there on the stump.
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- It's where he connected with his voters
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- In such a powerful and impactful way. so now is the time.
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- Well, let's
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- Move to the potential cuts in government.
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- The trump team has appointed the woman who helped
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- Pick the new cabinet members.
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- She's linda mcmahon, the former head of the small business
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- Administration and co-founder of the wwe wrestling empire.
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- Mr. trump has appointed her to the one department
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- That they've spoken of shutting down
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- The department of education.
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- But her appointment there be a sign that it will be
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- Shut down since someone that close to mr.
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- Trump will be in charge.
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- Seems like she could handle any possible blowback.
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- Yeah, and she's got a stellar career
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- In the private sector,
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- An extremely accomplished person,
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- Someone who was an innovator and a change agent
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- In the first trump administration.
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- And look,
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- President trump was elected with a very clear, decisive
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- When he was elected to shake up the status quo.
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- He won the popular vote,
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- Something a republican presidential
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- Candidate hasn't done in two decades.
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- And he's got capital,
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- And he's got to figure out where to spend it.
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- If he wants to do that, he can.
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- It'll be a major undertaking.
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- And it's, but it's one that's certainly looking at
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- And that's, that goes across the board.
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- There's so much inefficiency, there's so much waste.
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- And that's why i think you're seeing things
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- Like what elon is doing at his,
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- Department of government efficiency agency
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- That's getting so much buzz right now
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- Because people are just looking at washington.
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- They're looking at the bloat,
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- They're looking at the bureaucracy.
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- They're looking at the just sky-high debt and deficit.
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- And they're thinking, this isn't how i run my family budget.
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- This isn't how i run my business.
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- Why are our elected leaders know better in some point,
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- The bills going to come due and we gotta get serious about it.
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- And we just know it's not going to happen from people
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- Who spent their career in elected office.
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- It's going to take people who have actually, signed the,
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- The front of a paycheck, not just the back of one.
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- Well, we'll be back with more from collin reid.
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- He's our inside the beltway expert in just a moment.
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- Stay with us.
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- Stay with us.
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- We're back now with political strategist colin reed.
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- He's the co-founder of south and hill strategies.
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- Colin, it's well known that the legacy news
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- Media has been struggling to make a profit.
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- In fact, msnbc
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- Is now part of a cable spinoff
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- That the corporate owners are planning.
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- Cnn is cutting staff and salaries.
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- And from what we see
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- Publicly, the new york times and washington
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- Post are trying to find a new footing,
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- Something other than just beating up on trump.
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- Well, maybe they can take a cue from the los angeles times,
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- Which is openly acknowledge their left leaning tilt, and now
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- Has the newsroom scrambling to get closer to the truth.
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- Well, you've dealt with a lot of media over the years.
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- What do you see happening following the red wave?
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- There's a moment of accountability coming.
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- Alan, i think there's this recognition that at some point,
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- Some of the reporters that are just live
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- And breathe in new york city or washington, d.c.,
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- It's an echo chamber
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- Where they're just talking to themselves
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- And saying the same thing, and they're talking to people
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- Who already believe what they're saying.
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- So i think there's a recognition of that.
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- And i also think that this idea
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- That they can so openly put their fingers on the scale,
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- For or against one candidate, usually against a republican
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- Candidate, is
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- Is is something that's not sustainable
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- Because ultimately people
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- Just want to understand what's going on.
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- They have many choices.
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- In this digital age,
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- You get news from all different platforms, whether it's online
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- From twitter, you name it x, and people or if people don't
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- Like what they're getting, they can just move on.
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- It's a buyer's market.
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- And that's the realization that these
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- That these legacy media is going to have to realize,
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- Especially in this trump era,
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- Where he's found a way to so successfully go around them
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- And just create his own news, around the gatekeepers.
- 00:10:28.175 --> 00:10:33.580
- Well, for what it's worth, the co-host of msnbc's morning
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- Show have gone out of their way to try
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- To rebuild the relationship they used to have with mr.
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- Trump.
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- Even flying to florida to meet with him privately.
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- This is how they explained it the next day.
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- Now, we talked about a lot of issues, including abortion,
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- Mass deportation threats
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- And political retribution against political opponents
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- And media outlets.
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- We talked about that a good bit,
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- And it's going to come as no surprise to anybody who watches
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- This show,
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- Has watched it over the past year or over the past decade,
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- That we didn't see
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- Eye to eye on a lot of issues, and we told him so.
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- What we did agree on was to restart communications.
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- Colin, do you think they've had a change of heart
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- And will actually try to be fair,
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- Or is this just a business decision?
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- Well, and it's when you've labeled someone
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- On put someone on par with hitler,
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- It's tough to kind of have a change of heart.
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- That's not exactly changing a sweater or a pair of shoes.
- 00:11:31.271 --> 00:11:33.974
- And this is a problem that extends beyond just,
- 00:11:33.974 --> 00:11:36.710
- So many, trump opponents over the last
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- Eight years, frankly, have done so much to delegitimize him
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- And have done so much
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- To just put him on par with these outrageous people
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- That they're going to have a hard time
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- Convincing anyone that this is not about ratings.
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- And, look, god bless.
- 00:11:51.191 --> 00:11:52.359
- They if they get an interview out of it with the former
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- President, it'll be a ratings bonanza.
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- It'll probably be a win win for both parties.
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- And if that's the play here, i don't really begrudge him.
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- The people who are more upset are those who are on the left
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- And the meltdown that are people are just saying,
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- How could you go and give this guy credibility?
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- Look at you, the president,
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- He's a president elect, whether they like it or not.
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- And at some point, it's time to put,
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- The partizanship of the election down
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- And move forward to the business of governing the country.
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- And, and if you
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- If you don't like the guy
- 00:12:20.921 --> 00:12:21.955
- Giving him a shot because there's so much to do,
- 00:12:21.955 --> 00:12:23.924
- There's a short amount of time to do it.
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- And, he just won, a commanding victory.
- 00:12:25.625 --> 00:12:31.431
- Well, finally, before
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- We go,
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- Do you have a sense of how the business
- 00:12:33.767 --> 00:12:35.135
- Community is responding?
- 00:12:35.135 --> 00:12:36.670
- Mr. trump seems determined to make things better
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- For american business.
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- And especially the small business community.
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- Lower taxes, better investment environment, fewer regulations.
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- What are you hearing about how he's being received?
- 00:12:46.246 --> 00:12:49.282
- Well, the biden administration
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- Was just chockablock with regulatory red tape
- 00:12:50.383 --> 00:12:54.120
- That was just smothering
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- So much innovation in this country,
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- Whether it was
- 00:12:56.890 --> 00:12:57.991
- Some of these lawsuits coming out of the doj or ftc,
- 00:12:57.991 --> 00:13:00.660
- Epa was just every, every, every which way you look.
- 00:13:00.660 --> 00:13:03.964
- They were trying to impede energy producers
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- Because they were trying to pursue an agenda.
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- And it's interesting,
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- People sometimes think that a lot of these really bad
- 00:13:10.203 --> 00:13:12.372
- Policies are passed by law, but frequently,
- 00:13:12.372 --> 00:13:15.408
- They're not they're just done
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- By these faceless agencies who pass rules, or issues
- 00:13:16.509 --> 00:13:20.580
- Issue sort of sweeping mandates that are never voted on,
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- But they become law and they have great,
- 00:13:24.217 --> 00:13:25.952
- Great detriment to america's job creators.
- 00:13:25.952 --> 00:13:28.421
- So the business community is excited.
- 00:13:28.421 --> 00:13:30.690
- They're open minded.
- 00:13:30.690 --> 00:13:31.791
- They're really watching elon, what's going to happen
- 00:13:31.791 --> 00:13:33.994
- With these tax cuts and jobs act, the tca.
- 00:13:33.994 --> 00:13:36.363
- Because without action, those all expire at the end of 2025.
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- And that's a gigantic tax
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- Hike for pretty much everybody in america.
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- And washington.
- 00:13:43.603 --> 00:13:44.838
- Dc's got this really bad habit of waiting until the last minute
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- Before they get anything done.
- 00:13:47.707 --> 00:13:48.808
- Let's hope they get off their case
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- And get something done sooner, because
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- That is what the business
- 00:13:51.578 --> 00:13:52.512
- Community really needs above all else,
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- To know that they have
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- A little bit of certainty, a little bit of stability
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- As they look ahead.
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- Carl, i want to ask one more question.
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- You've seen a few of these moments
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- Before when the party in power seems to have momentum.
- 00:14:04.190 --> 00:14:07.794
- Politicians being politicians,
- 00:14:08.395 --> 00:14:09.796
- They often choose individual choices
- 00:14:09.796 --> 00:14:11.464
- Rather than moving forward as a group.
- 00:14:11.464 --> 00:14:13.533
- That's true of both republicans and democrats.
- 00:14:13.533 --> 00:14:16.403
- With the house and senate leadership now in place,
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- Do you think they may find a way to course correct
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- On some or most of what's weakened
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- The economy and the safety of our country?
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- Well, this one feels you're right, alan, i've seen this.
- 00:14:25.111 --> 00:14:27.314
- I've been around the block a time or two,
- 00:14:27.314 --> 00:14:28.515
- But this one feels a little bit different
- 00:14:28.515 --> 00:14:29.983
- Because of just some of the cultural changes right now.
- 00:14:29.983 --> 00:14:32.652
- You see nfl players doing trump dances in the end zone.
- 00:14:32.652 --> 00:14:35.689
- You see trump building a coalition of people,
- 00:14:35.689 --> 00:14:37.857
- Frankly, that aren't just republicans or conservatives,
- 00:14:37.857 --> 00:14:39.793
- But he's got people like
- 00:14:39.793 --> 00:14:41.428
- Robert kennedy, a lifelong democrat, for better
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- Or worse, potentially bleeding the health and human services.
- 00:14:43.763 --> 00:14:46.967
- So there's there's something that's happening right now
- 00:14:46.967 --> 00:14:49.636
- That feels a little bit more like a seismic change
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- Than just the traditional
- 00:14:52.472 --> 00:14:54.174
- Changing of the guard every 4 or 8 years in this town.
- 00:14:54.174 --> 00:14:56.676
- But look, this is incumbent on the president elect.
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- He worked really hard to earn the votes.
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- He did.
- 00:15:02.015 --> 00:15:03.049
- Now comes the really hard business of governing.
- 00:15:03.049 --> 00:15:04.684
- And whether he wants to do it,
- 00:15:04.684 --> 00:15:06.619
- Whether he can't do it up to him,
- 00:15:06.619 --> 00:15:08.421
- But he's got he's got the wind in his back right now.
- 00:15:08.421 --> 00:15:11.091
- He's got capital to spend.
- 00:15:11.091 --> 00:15:12.759
- And he's got, he's got, he's got all the things he needs
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- To, to execute the things he said he was going to do.
- 00:15:16.096 --> 00:15:20.867
- Well, colin reed is always a pleasure to have you join us.
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- Thanks for sharing.
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- What you know from inside the washington scene.
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- It's very helpful to those of us in the countryside and.
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- Grateful for the time.
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- Ellen, take care.
- 00:15:32.645 --> 00:15:35.682
- Well, in a moment i'll have some thoughts of my own
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- As we transition into an even more hopeful place.
- 00:15:38.151 --> 00:15:45.994
- As we transition into an even more hopeful place.
- 00:15:45.994 --> 00:15:49.664
- You know, our nation
- 00:15:50.132 --> 00:15:51.199
- Is the most unusual experiment in self-government.
- 00:15:51.199 --> 00:15:54.336
- The people we send to washington, d.c., are imagined
- 00:15:54.336 --> 00:15:56.938
- To be a representation of us, of our values, of our choices,
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- Of our dreams and our aspirations.
- 00:16:00.742 --> 00:16:03.311
- Well, this most recent election was a very
- 00:16:03.311 --> 00:16:06.114
- Loud repudiation of those who have had authority over us.
- 00:16:06.114 --> 00:16:09.785
- It seems to those of us who live in the hinterland.
- 00:16:09.785 --> 00:16:12.354
- And that would be me.
- 00:16:12.354 --> 00:16:13.655
- We're in flyover country, those places
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- That nobody seems to pay any attention to.
- 00:16:15.557 --> 00:16:17.659
- We're outside the beltway.
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- We're not included.
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- Typically, in the invitations
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- To the celebrated elite universities.
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- We stand beyond that.
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- Well, we still have a voice and it's been expressed.
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- But i think it's very important
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- That we maintain awareness of what's happening
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- And that we not just hand the baton
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- To newly elected officials
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- And imagine they will initiate change.
- 00:16:35.977 --> 00:16:38.280
- They're living in the midst of the swamp,
- 00:16:38.280 --> 00:16:40.015
- And there's tremendous
- 00:16:40.015 --> 00:16:41.049
- Gravitational pull to maintain the status quo.
- 00:16:41.049 --> 00:16:44.252
- I believe what we have said is we won't accept the values
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- That they've been pushing at us, that we want
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- To see a restoration of freedom of speech.
- 00:16:48.990 --> 00:16:51.593
- We won't tolerate censorship even if it's labeled
- 00:16:51.593 --> 00:16:54.663
- Misinformation or disinformation.
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- That we have the right to our opinion
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- And the right to express it.
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- I believe we said that we intend to defend our children,
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- That we will not abandon them
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- To people who say that their biological sex
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- Is irrelevant and they should be relabeled,
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- If they so choose,
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- That we won't tolerate pornographic, vile material
- 00:17:10.612 --> 00:17:13.615
- Being put in our children's libraries while we stay silent.
- 00:17:13.615 --> 00:17:17.319
- The arguments that are always pushed
- 00:17:17.319 --> 00:17:18.787
- Forward are really intended just to distract us.
- 00:17:18.787 --> 00:17:22.023
- They say we want to ban books.
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- We want no such thing.
- 00:17:24.392 --> 00:17:25.627
- We simply want age appropriate learning.
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- We want biological sex to be recognized again.
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- We want the values of the heartland of america
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- To be reflected by those who we've given power
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- To make policy decisions to lead us, and we will not relent.
- 00:17:35.904 --> 00:17:40.442
- I'm grateful that god has awakened
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- Us, but i want to encourage you not to
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- Step back into the shadows and be quiet.
- 00:17:44.079 --> 00:17:46.448
- We'll have to stand with our faith
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- And courage and determination
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- To see the changes that we desire be implemented.
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- If we do that, i promise you there's more reasons for hope
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- Than despair.
- 00:17:56.424 --> 00:17:57.959
- When we return.
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- I'm going to read some of your emails.
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- I'm going to read some of your emails.
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- Thank you for taking the time
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- To share your thoughts and opinions with us.
- 00:18:10.206 --> 00:18:12.208
- Your emails matter.
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- John from florida writes, our cousins, we don't often
- 00:18:13.743 --> 00:18:16.512
- See are getting together with us for thanksgiving this year.
- 00:18:16.512 --> 00:18:19.615
- I learned that one of the teenagers
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- Is now dating the same sex.
- 00:18:20.883 --> 00:18:22.752
- How do i lead with my faith around the table
- 00:18:22.752 --> 00:18:24.687
- When i disagree with that lifestyle?
- 00:18:24.687 --> 00:18:27.290
- Well, so and that's the challenge.
- 00:18:27.290 --> 00:18:28.457
- That is a part of most families in the holiday season.
- 00:18:28.457 --> 00:18:31.794
- We are diverse groups of folks,
- 00:18:31.794 --> 00:18:33.529
- And we seldom agree universally on anything,
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- Even about what our favorite side dish
- 00:18:36.832 --> 00:18:38.634
- For thanksgiving or christmas might be.
- 00:18:38.634 --> 00:18:41.070
- When you recognize you've got a diversity of opinions,
- 00:18:41.070 --> 00:18:43.506
- We could treat one another with love and respect and dignity.
- 00:18:43.506 --> 00:18:46.709
- And then we would imagine that the other people
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- At the table would treat our values
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- With that same love and respect and dignity.
- 00:18:49.979 --> 00:18:53.149
- We can survive disagreement.
- 00:18:53.149 --> 00:18:55.318
- We won't survive censorship.
- 00:18:55.318 --> 00:18:57.420
- So don't go to the meal angry.
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- Don't go condemning.
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- If you have expressed
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- A biblical worldview in the past,
- 00:19:02.491 --> 00:19:03.859
- I'm pretty confident
- 00:19:03.859 --> 00:19:04.894
- The people around the table know your opinion.
- 00:19:04.894 --> 00:19:07.063
- Now we find a way forward while we wait
- 00:19:07.063 --> 00:19:09.165
- To see the spirit of god move in our lives to initiate change.
- 00:19:09.165 --> 00:19:13.035
- And finally, from
- 00:19:13.469 --> 00:19:14.170
- Janine in utah, she said,
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- Our son was exposed to an inappropriate book.
- 00:19:15.371 --> 00:19:17.940
- How do we make sure he's not scarred in any way
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- After seeing or reading this book?
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- Well, ginny,
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- I don't know how old your son is,
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- But i assure you, the children are exposed
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- To many things that are inappropriate.
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- And gratefully,
- 00:19:28.284 --> 00:19:29.518
- One exposure does not typically result in a permanent scar.
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- Help them understand why it's not appropriate.
- 00:19:33.222 --> 00:19:35.157
- Point them towards something that's better
- 00:19:35.157 --> 00:19:37.293
- And then move forward. god brings healing.
- 00:19:37.293 --> 00:19:39.762
- He designed us to heal physically.
- 00:19:39.762 --> 00:19:41.831
- He's also designed us to heal emotionally.
- 00:19:41.831 --> 00:19:45.134
- Well, if you haven't yet, take a moment
- 00:19:45.134 --> 00:19:46.836
- To send your email to comments at alan jackson now.com.
- 00:19:46.836 --> 00:19:50.606
- Your feedback and questions.
- 00:19:50.606 --> 00:19:52.275
- They do so much to shape our show.
- 00:19:52.275 --> 00:19:54.610
- I'm alan jackson.
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- You have a wonderful evening.
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