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Allen Jackson: President Trump's Momentum | Allen Jackson Now

April 16, 2025 | 20:29

Alan Jackson hosts a news program in Nashville, focusing on the political landscape in America. He interviews Eric Eggers, the co-host of the Drill Down podcast and vice president of the Government Accountability Institute. They discuss President Trump's momentum, opposition from liberals, wasteful spending, immigration issues, and the need for accountability in government programs. They also touch on the strength of the two political parties and the importance of speaking the truth in turbulent times. The segment ends with Alan encouraging viewers to have hope and take a stand for their beliefs.

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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: President Trump's Momentum | Allen Jackson Now | April 16, 2025

Well.
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Good evening.
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I'm alan jackson, and welcome to nashville.
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We're going to begin tonight
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With a story called big momentum meets the stormy headwinds.
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Sounds like a movie,
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But this isn't some fictional narrative.
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It's the world we're living in now.
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Trump, 47, where the majority of the country has spoken
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And conservatives are leading again.
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Liberals and their progressive partners,
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They don't have enough power to stop the momentum,
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But they are doing whatever they can to slow things down.
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And there's 82 year old bernie sanders leading the pack,
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Making more noise about what he calls america's oligarchs
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While he travels
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Between the three homes he owns and the $3 million
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From his book deals that he's got in the bank.
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His last
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Book was called it's okay to be angry about capitalism.
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There you go.
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But bernie knows as well as anyone that conservatives
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Have the ball these days.
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After the blindside withdrawal
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From afghanistan that left 13 american soldiers dead
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After the bungled handling of the covid lockdowns,
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Then the enormous, wasteful
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Spending which was supposedly going to light up the economy.
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But much of
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It was stolen and sent to those who really didn't need it.
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The billions poured into ukraine and a half hearted effort
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To push back on putin.
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Chinese spy balloons getting a past as they flew over
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Our country,
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Photographing our military bases and buying up our land
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And letting thousands of young men
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From the chinese military walk right into our country to set up
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Fentanyl labs that have killed 87,000 americans last year.
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So here we are, three months into president trump, round two,
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And the opposition is left
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To only make noise playing to the cameras.
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Protesters
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Flying the flags of terror groups and liberal local judges
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Carving out potholes to try to slow the president down.
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Well, there's a better way.
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And with that, i want to bring in our guest tonight.
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He's a familiar face for our loyal viewers.
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He's the co-host of the drill down podcast,
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The vice
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President of the government accountability institute.
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Eric eggers, welcome back to our show, sir.
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Alan, it's
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Always a pleasure to be with you and your incredible audience.
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Well, president trump is pushing ahead on the promises
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He made during the campaign.
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And all the other side can do is try to get in his way
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And fill the airwaves with a lot of bluster.
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Chief among the targets these days is elon musk.
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Listen to the former vice presidential candidate who lost.
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I don't think we should be the party that demonizes someone
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Because they're able to afford something,
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Or they're able to work hard and got something.
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What we should
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Demonize is people like elon musk and those people that.
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Now that's different.
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Even the democratic strategist,
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Doug shane, admitted that the party has no new ideas
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And is running on, quote, opposition to the gop.
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Does tim walsh really think he has another chance at going
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To washington someday?
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He might.
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Because as i've learned and as you probably know,
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You know, self-delusion
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Isn't the worst thing in the world,
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But it is the road by which the worst things happen.
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And, you know, i listen to tim walz's interview
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With gavin newsom on gavin newsom's podcast.
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And i was actually shocked to see how tim walz
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Was still unable to connect with there, understand
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How people will disagree with him.
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And i think he just sort of
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Has a worldview that he sees them
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As somewhat less than and actually not
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Worth engaging with.
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That actually becomes quite clear
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In his interview with gavin newsom.
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So, no,
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I don't believe that tim walz has a chance
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To become the next nominee for president.
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And i think he represents the larger problem of
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The democrat party is facing right now.
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And i know we'll talk about bernie sanders later.
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But the reality is, is that there is no current leader
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For the democrat party.
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A poll recently that showed historic lows
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In terms of popular approval for the democratic party.
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So no one, when asked to say, who's the leader?
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Nobody got more than 9% of the vote.
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In fact, 30% said no one.
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And so it is currently a leaderless, rudderless ship,
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Which, as you noted, has no new ideas.
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And the reality is, is that donald trump's
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Ideas are generally being accepted
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As positive by the american people.
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So there's not a lot of space or there's no lane, so to speak,
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For democrats to run with.
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Well,
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Trump's momentum is building in a large part of the country.
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But one thing that some people
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Didn't anticipate is the law fair?
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The local judge is getting in the way of the trump agenda,
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Or at least trying to slow it down.
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Do you agree that the american people can see through it
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And are going to continue to back the president,
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Even while we have to wait for the supreme court
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Or congress to weigh in on these issues.
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So not only do i agree that this is a less than ideal
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Way to run a country,
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The supreme court has started to agree.
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And you've seen amy coney barrett
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Finally switch over and start to support,
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You know, laws that will block the ability
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Of these lower court judges to stop some executive orders
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Or other legislation from being passed.
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But not only do the judge, amy coney barrett, agree
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With it, judge elena kagan has said that she does not think
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That an injunction from a lower federal court justice should be
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Able to replace policy, from the executive branch.
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And so this has been something this is the one thing that
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The democrats have had.
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And they've been able to lean on
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From an opposition standpoint, sort of this obstructionist
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Judiciary.
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But i think i think you'll see a response from congress.
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And i think ultimately,
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You'll see a response from the supreme court
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As they've started to signal tha
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I mean,
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It took a few weeks, but the high court
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Did eventually weigh in on the case of mahmud khalil,
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The 34 year old student
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Who lied on his visa for him to get here,
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But still managed to become a focal point
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For college protesters
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Looking for something to do rather than study.
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Do you have any idea how many more kills are out there?
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I think the problem is that we don't.
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And, you know, we've had this open border policy.
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Now, obviously, mr.
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Khalil didn't come across the border that way.
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But when you have just this open door policy
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That anybody can come in, regardless of their background
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Or their ideology, then it shouldn't be surprising.
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I know we spoke previously about some of the terror attacks
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That hope
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That happened around that during the turn of the new year.
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You know,
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You don't know who's in this country
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And what they mean to do because the biden administration
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Has been too concerned with political correctness
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As opposed to national security.
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That's one of the
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Many different ways
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That the trump administration is governing.
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It's been a sea change of not only putting america first,
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But americans first.
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And so i think that's one reason
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Why a majority of people voted for donald trump.
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And the fact that mr.
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Khalil has been sent packing is more evidence of the fact
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There's a lot more work to do.
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Well, there have been reports and good evidence as well,
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That hamas has a program by which people like khalil
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Are paid to work on campuses across this country
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Pretending to be students,
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That they're only there to stir up
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Support for terrorists in the middle east.
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That's on top of the full time terrorist who tom homans tried
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To chase down these days.
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Coleman's had a lot of success
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Already, but how big a problem do you think we have nationwide?
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So we've done reporting previously on these
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College groups or just these protest groups
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That appear to astroturf protests on college campuses.
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And you can link their funding actually back
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To other nonprofits that receive funding from groups
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Linked to the ccp.
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So i do think it's a problem.
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I think, you know, we live in this information war age
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Where it's
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Actually less important from a college
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Protest standpoint, what happens on the campuses
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As what happens to the videos of the protests on campus
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And how widely circulated they are on social media?
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It's one reason why donald trump
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Has tried to make tiktok no longer be owned by china.
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It's one reason why it's so important
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That elon musk
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Has purchased twitter,
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Because we have to have
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Ownership of the airwaves,
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Not just from traditional broadcasts,
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But on the internet and social media.
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And so, you know, you can't trust what's on tiktok.
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But a lot of these protests,
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I think, are designed to get in circulation in that way.
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Well, eric, please stay with us for another segment.
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And then later in the program i'll be sharing some thoughts on
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How we can see the issues
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Of our day through the lens of the bible.
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It'll help give us clarity on what's true and where
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To place our hope.
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To place our hope.
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Well, we're back now with the vice president
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Of the government accountability institute, eric eggers.
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Most of washington has been in turmoil
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Since elon musk came to town, promising to cut $1 trillion
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From the budget.
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It's been a truly eye opening to hear
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Where some of the money is being spent.
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Senator kennedy always has a colorful way
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To describe the ways of washington.
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Listen to what he had to say.
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A lot of this money that we're spending,
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Things that you're spending money on are just money sucks.
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We'd be better off
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Spending this money on on scratch tickets and blackjack.
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And we will never get prices down
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And control inflation until we regulate the economy.
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So goods and services will cost less until we
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Design a
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Tax code that looks like somebody designed it on purpose.
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And until we control spending.
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Eric, you've spoken about how the washington business
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Model has been upended.
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Can you tell us more about that?
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Yeah, i think it's important by the way, to consider,
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I mean, everything that senator kennedy said,
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It makes totally common sense.
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But consider what other ideas
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And policies have been suggested before.
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And we've been told to just accept it
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Like, oh, that's a great idea.
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Barack obama's
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Economic policy was, we're going to take coal miners
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And tell them to get
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Out of the mines
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And learn to code, because we were going
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To make coal a thing of the past.
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And everybody was like, oh, that's a great idea.
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Of course, it sounds brilliant.
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Donald trump is suggesting, like, common sense things
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That, no,
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We want to bring manufacturing back to the united states.
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We want to create more jobs for the american middle class.
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You know that, as you've heard treasury secretary percent say,
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More americans than ever took trips to europe last year.
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But more americans than ever also had to go to food pantries.
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The economy has been working at two tiers.
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It's been great for the upper class.
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88% of stocks are owned by the top 10% of the country,
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But the bottom 50% own nothing.
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And so you've got to do stuff about it.
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And that includes lowering
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Interest rates low and interest rates
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Where people that have mortgages, car payments,
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You've got to cut spending.
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We've got to get our debt under control.
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And so when you hear the programs
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That we're spending money on and everybody
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Says, why in the world we do that?
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Donald trump is one of the few people
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That has the courage to say,
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You're right, we should stop doing it.
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So thank goodness for elon musk and his team of data scientists
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That are going in finding the waste.
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I mean, pete
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Hegseth, the defense secretary, just signed something
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That eliminated $5 billion from defense spending.
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Remember, the pentagon
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Has hundreds of millions of dollars
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Worth of assets that they can't even locate.
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So the fact they're able to get the unwieldy pentagon
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Budget under control shows you
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How effective the trump administration has been.
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You know, we're in the middle
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Of a full court press on the economy
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With tariff negotiations and cutting government agencies.
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Inflation is slowing.
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Employment is growing.
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Plus the massive fraud at the federal and state level.
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The gao estimates the fraud is more than $500 billion a year.
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Remember, president reagan trying
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To cut the fraud in food stamps?
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But now we're told one out of
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Every eight people in this country gets them.
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You know, the church where i serve collects tons
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And tons of food each year for local food banks.
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I'm all for helping to feed those who need it.
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People who fallen on hard times.
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That's important.
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And it's biblical to help your neighbor.
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But it doesn't seem possible that one out of
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Every eight of us is going hungry.
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Eric.
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That's 40 million people
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Just on this one government assistance program.
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Is that really where we are?
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Alan, we could do a whole special
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On the food assistance program
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And what you can get with it and what you can't.
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The fact that you can buy soda with it,
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I think, remains a national disgrace,
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Because we also struggle with an obesity epidemic
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In this country, which i think is unfortunately
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Also one of the great sins we struggle with as a nation.
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But, you know, there's a lot of fraud.
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And this actually speaks to how significant the cultural
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And tonal shift has been because of donald trump and elon musk.
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They're actually encouraging people
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To go in and find the waste and the fraud, the welfare program.
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Alan has historically done the opposite.
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They have rewarded states because remember this
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All money comes from the federal government,
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And then it gets administered through the states
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To the consumer via these ebt debit cards.
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And the states that report the lowest error
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Rate actually get rewards from the federal government.
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That doesn't mean their error rate is actually the lowest.
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It just means they're saying it is,
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Which means there's
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Billions of dollars
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In unreported uncaught waste, fraud and abuse.
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And the people that benefit from the program,
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Not just the people who are buying the food,
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But the stores that sell the food,
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The companies who are selling the food to the consumer.
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They don't actually care
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If it's a legitimate transaction or not.
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They're making money either way.
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So the fact that we now, as a country,
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As an administration, are incentivizing people
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To uncover and report waste and fraud
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Is a massive step forward in the program.
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The welfare program is just one example of the programs
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That have been neglected for years,
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And the fraud has only grown as a result of it.
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Well, before you go,
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I'd like to get your thoughts on the present
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And future strength of our two parties.
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By looking and listening to the cheering at two public
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Appearances, president trump at a ufc fight event.
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47th.
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President of the united states of america.
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Flanked by wrestling ceo dana white and others donald j.
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Trump.
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Listen to that.
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Welcome versus the rally with joan baez
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And her little group of protesters.
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I ain't gonna let no white grandma
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Turn me around
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By walking you punk.
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Talking, marching mamas.
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Bernie sanders was also there, and he tried to claim
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That 30,000 people came out to hear him.
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The truth was that they were already there
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For the coachella festival with the real musicians.
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Eric, are these pictures worth at least a thousand words.
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At least now.
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Allen.
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One of the
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My favorite things about you and your program is i do know
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You try to find things that can bring people together.
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Here's what i will say.
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I think, ironically, that if bernie sanders
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Is emerging as a leader of the democratic party,
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He actually has more in common
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With the current leadership of the republican party
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Than other democrats, because he at
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Least has fought against this global status quo
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That has rewarded the elite at the expense of so many.
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That's actually almost exactly
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What donald trump's economic policy is.
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So i think, you know, at our best, we're a country
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Who has policies that most people can agree with,
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And only the corrupt political class
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That's benefiting off the status quo tries to push back.
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So, you know, bernie sanders is no saint,
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But i do think if he was honest with himself,
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He'd find there's
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More about donald trump's brand of economic populism
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That he agrees with, and he doesn't.
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Well, eric eggers, thank you for joining us again.
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I hope our viewers will listen to your drilled down podcast.
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It is genuinely exclusive material.
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Hey, i hope so too. thank you so much, alan.
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It's always great to be with you and your terrific audience.
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We'll have you back again soon.
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In a moment. some reasons for hope.
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And it starts by looking at what's true.
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I'll be right back.
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I'll be right back.
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We've had some significant
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Spring storms here in middle tennessee for full confession.
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The darker the skies get, the more frantic
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The news anchor and meteorologist become on tv.
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The more i want to go outside
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With a chair and just sit and watch.
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So i like storms.
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And in this season,
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We're living through a different
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Kind of storm across our nation.
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It's a truth storm.
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It's unsettling. it's shaking things.
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The storm brings adrenaline, but it also brings some anxiety.
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Here are some ways the truth.
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Storm is shaking things.
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I had no idea that anti-semitism was flourishing at our most
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Celebrated college campuses.
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If i hadn't seen that with my own eyes in recent months,
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I would never have imagined it was possible.
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Here's another truth storm
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The stunning levels of fraud, waste and greed,
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Along with the complicity of the media
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And the silence of the leaders who have been in place
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A long time while this was taking place.
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It's difficult to process.
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You can't steal that much money,
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And the people in town with you not know anything about it.
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It's just not possible.
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We elect people and we send them to
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Leadership roles in our nation.
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They go as ordinary citizens with ordinary incomes,
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And they serve for a short season of time,
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And suddenly they become fabulously wealthy.
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It's happened so frequently
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That we've considered that to be normal.
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It's not normal.
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The absurdity of it truly feels like a storm.
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You just want to go sit in the basement,
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Turn the lights out.
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But i don't believe we as christ
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Followers really have that option.
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We can't sit this out.
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We must have the courage to speak the truth,
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Not just about what's happening in our culture,
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But also the courage to speak about our lord.
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Now, listen, i understand there's some risk involved
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When you choose to take a stand.
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It takes courage to acknowledge jesus and express
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The biblical worldview, especially when you know
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People who disagree with you are present.
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However, we're the conscience of the culture.
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We're the people of faith.
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And if judgment comes on our nation,
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It won't come because of the pagans.
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It will come because of a political party.
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Judgment will come because the people of faith stayed silent.
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This is our time in the arena.
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There's tremendous potential for change.
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It's time for us as christians to confront the culture
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And stand up for a biblical worldview, if we'll do that.
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There's more reasons for hope than despair.
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I promise
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When we return, i'm going to read some of your emails.
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When we return, i'm going to read some of your emails.
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Thank you for taking the time to share your opinions with us.
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We always look forward to reading your emails
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And hearing your perspectives.
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Tim and vicky be emailed tbn has it going on.
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Charlie, you stack what an honest line up.
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My wife and i tune in every weekday
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Night for all three shows.
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We deeply appreciate the honesty and content of all three.
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We're thankful.
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You know, one of the exciting things we're witnessing across
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Our country is god opening new doors for the truth be told,
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They're even welcoming
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Fresh faces into the white house briefing room.
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Now, that took not only a new president.
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I think that took an act of god.
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The truth is breaking free.
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It's a good day.
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Jack in virginia wrote
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I watch your show and your ministries
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Almost daily,
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And i want to thank you for all your inspiration
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And the truth you spread to your audience.
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My question
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What is your opinion on the fact
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That everyone is so mad at ellen for finding all the waste,
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But no one is being held accountable?
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To me this is theft of the taxpayer's money.
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Whoever is getting all this money
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And shouldn't
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We be pressing charges on the people getting the money?
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Thank you for being who you are.
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God bless you.
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Well, jack, i agree.
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Ultimately, there has to be some
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Accountability for the fraud and the waste and the theft.
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For the moment, i'm willing to say
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We're taking it one step at a time.
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I think it's important
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That we use our voices to affirm what's happening.
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There's a lot of dissenting voices and a lot of complaints.
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We can't just be silent observers.
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We've got to express an opinion
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So the momentum can be sustained.
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If you miss our program, i want to remind you
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You can see it.
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We posted to youtube every evening,
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And if you want to send us a comment
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You can just go to aj now.com.
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We've simplified the process to make it easier for you.
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Our goal is to build a community of trust.
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We'd love to have as many people as possible involved.
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So please tell your friends to join us.
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Every person you invite grows the audience
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Gives us more momentum.
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That's it for tonight from nashville.
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God bless you and we'll see you soon.
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Allen Jackson: President Trump's Momentum | Allen Jackson Now

April 16, 2025 | 20:29

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