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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: Process Breakdown | Allen Jackson Now | May 28, 2026

Well, good evening and welcome to nashville.
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I'm alan jackson.
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Tonight we're talking about a supreme court decision
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That cuts right to the heart
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Of how elections are conducted in america,
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And whether our political system is increasingly
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Being manipulated for partizan advantage.
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You know, for years, americans were told that the voting rights
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Act existed to stop discrimination.
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And in 1965, those protections were necessary.
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But 60 years later, something very different is happening.
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Instead of protecting equal access
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To voting in federal courts, and left wing activists
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Are now using the voting rights
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Act to engineer political outcomes by demanding
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Congressional districts be drawn primarily around race.
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The latest fight comes out of louisiana,
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Where the supreme court ruled
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Against an effort to force the state
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Into creating a second majority black congressional district.
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What's important here is this the leftist plaintiffs
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Presented no evidence of current racial discrimination.
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Instead, the argument leaned heavily
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On historical discrimination from the 1960s, conditions
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That existed before the voting rights act was even passed.
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Well, this is no longer about protecting voting rights.
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It's about engineering political outcomes.
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Shouldn't voters choose
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Politicians instead of politicians choosing voters?
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And if race becomes the central factor
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In drawing political maps,
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Are we really treating americans as individuals anymore?
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Well, this manipulation of congressional districts
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Based on race, it's just insulting.
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It was martin luther king who said, i have a dream
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That my four little children will one day live in a nation
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Where they will not be judged by the color of their skin,
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But by the content of their character.
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To assume that a person's skin color predetermine
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What their values will be and what party they must vote for.
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It's just absurd and a system that unfairly manipulates
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In order to fix elections before ballots are even cast.
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That's fraud. it's stealing.
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You know, our nation is suffering
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From a serious character deficit.
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We're seeing an alarming trend happening in major cities.
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New york city's socialist mayor zoran mamdani.
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He recently unveiled his plan to strip
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Properties from landlords that he deemed bad.
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Well, the socialist mayor told a cheering
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Crowd of leftists
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In brooklyn that when necessary, we will take aggressive
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Legal action to remove owners and to transfer ownership.
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And to quote here, responsible stewards,
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Including nonprofits or even the tenants themselves.
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As part of his new housing plan.
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He vowed to use city resources
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Taxpayer dollars to help remove owners.
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Never mind
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The small mom and pop owners who work hard
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At their regular jobs during the day.
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Manually work on their rental properties
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In the evenings
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And weekends, an investment that took years to save up for,
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And then a socialist, an environment
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That is growing in major cities.
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It's not uncommon to find squatters
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Who refuse to pay their rent, while the owner still pays
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For the expenses to have someone living rent free.
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On top of that, the owner feels trapped
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Because the city is more interested
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In protecting the rights
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Of the squatter who refuses to pay rent.
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His promise to seize the properties of landlords
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That he deems unworthy should concern every new yorker,
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And every citizen in cities where socialism is celebrated.
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History shows that socialist movements
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Are rarely about helping the poor.
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They are about seizing power.
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Marxist economic policies have repeatedly produced decline,
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Dependency and government control, and misery and tyranny.
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They follow soon after.
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In his inaugural address, mamdani, having won office
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On the democratic socialists of america ticket,
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Said what he thought of america.
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And he said, and i quote, we will replace the frigidity
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Of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.
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We are seeing his definition of collectivism play out.
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New york
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City is threatening to seize property and economic control.
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It is stealing.
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Currently, it's fashionable
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To imagine that the best opportunity
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Is to take from someone else.
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Entitlement breeds frustration and bitterness.
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At one time, envy was understood to be a sin.
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Now it seems envy has become a national pastime.
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And whatever happened to hard work?
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The value of an honest day's work.
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I would remind you that in genesis,
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When we're introduced to god,
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He worked six days and rested one.
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America is and has been the land of opportunity.
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Everyone doesn't necessarily succeed, but
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This is the land of unprecedented opportunities.
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And we're a nation in need of individuals
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With strong character.
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She character is the result
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Of adopting a set of biblical values
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And then disciplining ourselves to do difficult things.
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Director isn't something that you can purchase and put on.
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It is formed from the inside out.
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It's cultivating a work ethic.
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It's being willing to make sacrifices.
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So the people who follow us
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Will have opportunities that exceed the ones we have today.
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Diligence, preparation and consistent effort.
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Will they lead to contentment in a job well done?
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The bible tells us that godliness with contentment
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Is of great worth, and having individuals with
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Integrity is essential to the well-being of our lives.
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Our families, our homes, our congregation, schools,
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Communities, ultimately, our entire nation.
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Character matters
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And our faith demands integrity.
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We cannot give away
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Our integrity and maintain our momentum with god.
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This determined to become a people of both truth
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And integrity.
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Well, in a moment, we're going to be joined
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By the senior legal fellow at advancing american freedom.
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Hans von spakovsky.
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I'll be right back.
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I'll be right back.
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We're joined tonight
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By the senior legal fellow at advancing american freedom.
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Hans von spakovsky, welcome to the show. hans
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Van allen, thanks for having me on.
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Well, it's always informative.
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You recently wrote about
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The redistricting case ruling in virginia,
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And you brought some clarity
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To that versus what kind of the media had been reporting.
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Can you help us understand that a bit better?
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Sure.
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You know, you had hakeem jeffries and others saying,
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Oh, this was just a partizan decision by maga judges,
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And that was just completely untrue.
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This was a straight out state constitutional,
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Legal decision based on the fact that,
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The virginia constitution has very straightforward,
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Easy to understand, rules if you want
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To amend the constitution.
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And that's what they were trying to do
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With the new redistricting plan.
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The legislature
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Has to pass the proposed amendment twice,
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And there has to be an intervening general election
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In between the legislature passing it twice.
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And the whole point of that is to give voters that tree
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That's in that intervening election,
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That they didn't like what the legislature did
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The first time they passed the amendment.
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They can vote against those legislators.
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Well, the problem here was that,
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When the general assembly passed
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The first time the constitutional amendment,
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We were already more than a month
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Into the general election because virginia has 45 days
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Of early voting.
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In fact, more than a million voters
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Had already cast their ballot more than 40% of the vote.
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And what the supreme court said was,
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You were in the
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Middle of an election when you passed this amendment.
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There was no intervening general election.
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Therefore it didn't follow the rules.
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Seems pretty straightforward.
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There's been so much conversation
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Around the supreme court's recent
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Ruling in louisiana versus calais.
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Missouri senator eric schmidt has weighed in with a comment.
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Listen to what he said.
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And essentially what the supreme court said is,
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As applied to these congressional districts,
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You can't draw a district, based on race.
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And so it kind of puts it right back to where
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It should have always
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Been, which is to prevent racial discrimination.
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When you put these maps together,
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You know, critics of the supreme court are saying
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That they gutted the voting rights act.
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Can you help us understand a bit better?
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Yeah, that is just not true.
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What they did is they actually, i think, return
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The voting rights act to its original purpose, which was,
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It banned racial discrimination in the voting context.
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And there were two key things to this decision.
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One was they said, look, if you're going to prove
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There's been a violation of the voting rights act,
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There's been intentional racial discrimination in the state.
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You have to do it based on current conditions.
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You can't use what happened in a state 50 or 100 years ago
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In this particular case,
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That the
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Challengers or racially said,
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Well, there was intentional racial discrimination going on
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In 1965 before the voting rights act was even passed.
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The other important thing the supreme court said is
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When judges are looking at these kind of, lawsuits,
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They've got to disengage politics from race.
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In other words, if a group
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Was about a particular way together because of their party
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Affiliation, because, for example, they're democrats,
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That's not racial discrimination.
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And courts were not doing that in this particular case.
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You had a judge telling louisiana
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They had to draw up a second black majority district,
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Because if they didn't, it was a violation of section
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Two of the voting rights act when there was no evidence
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That the state was discriminating in any way.
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So that meant drawing up that second district based on race.
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That, in fact, was the discrimination.
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Is there any historic precedent for redrawing
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All these voting districts in a nonsense this year?
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Yes. yeah.
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It doesn't happen that often.
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Usually states do it in the 2 or 3 years after the election.
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But remember, allen,
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We're one of the most mobile of western societies.
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People move here for
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Upwards of 40 and 50% of people move every year.
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So particularly states that are growing like florida and texas,
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They are some of the fastest growing states in the country.
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So doing redistricting that take into account
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Those changes in population actually makes perfect sense.
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Well, i know you have years of experience and election
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Integrity and election law.
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You know, all of this
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Bickering about districts and how to do that.
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It's confusing to those of us that are just
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Sitting in the bleachers watching.
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With your experience, is there a more right way
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That all of this should be happening?
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Well, i think the biggest thing that ought to happen is states
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Ought to put in very strict rules.
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Saying that districts have to be compact.
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They have to be contiguous as much as possible.
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They shouldn't break up towns, cities, counties.
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They shouldn't
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Cross geographic barriers like rivers and mountains.
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And the most important thing comes out of this decision is
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When legislatures
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To ask for the population data, they're going to use,
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They should say, do not send us any racial data.
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We don't want it at all.
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Doing that will make sure that race
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Stays out of the redistricting process.
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Well, you mentioned people moving,
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And we are witnessing a pretty significant
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Migration of people across regions of our country.
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And it seems like one of the ways
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That the people that are losing population
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Are trying to backfill, that is with illegal immigrants.
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Certainly, that can't be a good idea
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To welcome those people to the voting rolls.
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Yeah.
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No, that's that's very true.
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In fact, i said after we have the 2030 census,
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So many folks have been, moving away
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From blue states like california or new york, high tax,
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Highly regulated states to the more red states, texas,
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Florida, that electoral college votes
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Are going to shift away from those states,
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To those red states, which is going to make the votes
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In those state even more important.
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That's one of the reasons, for example,
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Places like california have turned them, said,
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Sanctuary states.
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They want illegal aliens there because it helps pad
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Their numbers for the members of the us house that they have.
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Well, we need to take a short break.
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Can you stand by for another segment?
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I sure can.
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Well if you happen
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To have your phone in your hand try logging on to aj now.com.
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Send me an email.
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You can see in this animation how simple it is to do.
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I'll be right back.
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I'll be right back.
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We're back now
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With the senior legal fellow at advancing american freedom.
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Hans von spakovsky,
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I know you spent years warning about vulnerabilities
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In the election system.
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We're heading towards november and a very significant election
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For all of us.
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What are our greatest vulnerabilities?
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Well, probably the worst thing are,
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Unclear and inaccurate voter rolls, you know, right now,
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It's very easy, for example, for someone who's not a u.s.
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Citizen to register and to vote and to get away with it
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Because the vast majority of states
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Don't do anything to verify citizenship.
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In fact,
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Many of the blue age spaces like new york and california
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Fight any attempts to actually verify citizenship.
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While many states have passed voter id laws
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Which the american people support, again, you have some
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Of the biggest states
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In the country, like new york, california,
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That don't require any id of any kind of vote.
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So there are a lot of vulnerabilities still there.
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I will tell you, we are in much better shape
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Today than we were in 2020 because many states
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Actually passed reforms that have improved the situation.
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But there are still vulnerabilities,
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Particularly in a lot of the blue states.
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Well, as we look forward to
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The elections this year and then the 28 elections,
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What do you believe is absolutely essential
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To help restore confidence in our elections?
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Because it seems like we've lost a lot of trust.
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Yeah, we have.
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And one of the things that would actually help
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That is if we could get
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The senate to finally get the save act through.
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Remember, that's the bill that require proof of citizenship.
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When people register to vote and is stuck in the senate,
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It passed the house
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And doesn't look like it's going to get out.
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I think what a lot of states would be smart to do is to,
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Particularly red staters
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To pass their own state version of the save act.
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It would only,
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Fix part of the problem for their state elections.
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It wouldn't fix the problem for the federal elections.
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But fixing
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Part of the problem is better than not fixing it at all.
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You know, it seems increasingly to me
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That our nation is responding regionally
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To some of these problems that face us as a nation.
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Does that concern you at all?
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Yeah. it does.
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I mean,
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Look, there's a strength and not having the federal
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Government running our elections because unfortunately,
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That would mean that
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The party in control in washington might be able
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To manipulate the rules to ensure they stay in office.
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So, as you know, we have a system
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Where the states run the elections.
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The good thing
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A benefit about that is that the bad practices
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Of one state, california, probably being one of the worst
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In the country, are nationalized
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And other states can do things better.
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You know, florida, georgia, texas, all of them run
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Their elections much better than california does.
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So, you know, there are there are good things
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And bad things about the current system. we have.
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I think the best thing california does is weather,
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But that's hard to translate to the rest of us.
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Secretary of state marco rubio has stated
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That the war powers act is 100% unconstitutional.
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He's not unique with that position.
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He claims that it has infringed
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On the president's constitutional powers.
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This is your arena.
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Can you help us understand those thoughts?
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Yeah.
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Look, the way i look like rubio is is correct about that.
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That's the same position presidents have taken since
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It was passed by both democrat and republican presidents.
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And i think they are correct.
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The president has almost plenary powers,
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In the foreign policy area.
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He's the commander in chief.
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The one thing congress can do,
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When armed forces of the united states are in hostile
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Situations abroad,
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The one power they have is the power of the purse.
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You know, the the the war powers resolution
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Can't force the president to withdraw troops from abroad.
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What they can do, what congress can do is
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They just agree with the president is doing
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Is to not appropriate funding for,
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A particular type of conflict or armed conflict.
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That's the power congress has.
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The war powers resolution is not that.
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Well, there's been
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Consistent reports as of up until today
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That the president is close to a ceasefire with iran.
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But there's been some
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Aspects of that that he has been reluctant to embrace.
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Can you help us understand his comments
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A little bit better?
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What is it that we're waiting for?
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Well, look, the the chief reason for what
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The president initiated in iran was to prevent them from,
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Achieving what they've been working on
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For years, which is being able to build nuclear bombs
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And to mount them on missile.
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You know, with the missile technology
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They have, they could reach not only,
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All parts of the middle east, including israel,
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But also europe, where our nato allies are.
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And, i think part of the problem is, and suring that,
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All of the uranium,
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For example, that they've already,
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Is found
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And turned over and that their capabilities
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For producing more are completely destroyed.
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And i don't think they've gotten an agreement like that yet
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From the iranians.
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That's the chief objective of the this war prevent them
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From acquiring nuclear weapons.
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Weapons.
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Thank you for your time today.
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You brought some clarity to some confusing issues.
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We appreciate your thoughtful insights.
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Joe, thanks for having me.
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In a moment, we'll be back with your emails.
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A viewer on youtube commented thank you pastor.
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It's sad that americans memories are so short
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And that it's used against us all.
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If there is a problem,
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Our media, others say nothing or they tell us
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Just enough to support their wants.
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Thank you for being our country's conscience.
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God is moving in the world.
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May god bless our nation. thank you pastor.
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You know, it seems to me that far too many of us are
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Just kind of quietly trying not to notice.
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Perhaps it's better to just describe us as a sleep.
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Sleep is a natural part of our life rhythm.
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It's important.
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But when you're asleep, you're unaware.
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You're unconcerned. you're uninvolved,
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And you have to wake up and face the day.
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I believe we arrived at a point in the unfolding story
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Of this nation and our civilization,
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That we have to wake up and face the truth.
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God will help us, but we've got to be willing to engage.
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David from washington wrote.
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In 1990, the u.s.
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Military rescued the country of kuwait
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When iraq invaded and occupied them.
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We lost american lives in that operation.
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Today, we host over 30,000 military personnel at three
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Bases.
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Kuwait continues to purchase aircraft from airbus,
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A french company, rather than boeing, an american company.
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What's wrong with this picture?
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Well, i suppose we could call it good business.
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Or we could call it a lack of gratitude.
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You could choose.
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But helping
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Someone does not always result in them
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Responding with expressions of gratitude.
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We've all had that experience, i suspect
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Judy bay in california, said pastor, the gentleman
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Who suggested a bumper sticker that reads, america, bless god.
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If you guys print them, i'll purchase them.
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We still have your jesus large sticker on our truck.
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Well, good for you, judy.
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We've got the america bless god
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Bumper sticker under consideration.
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And finally, roman from colorado.
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You were right on the money.
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Our representatives in washington,
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Unfortunately, don't understand repentance or contrition.
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They're so enraptured by corruption
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And hopelessly lost, nothing will change.
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Pride comes before destruction.
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But they're not proud.
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Or, but they are not proud
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Or honest people, and they're already lost.
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Well, there is an opportunity for the gospel,
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The good news of jesus, folks,
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Politics are going to fix our problem.
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We've got to have the courage to talk about jesus.
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He's changed my life.
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I suspect he's changed yours.
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If we'll share that good news, there is hope for our futures.
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God's moving in the earth.
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Let's keep our eyes on that.
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God bless you and have a good evening.
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