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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: Radical Rhetoric | Allen Jackson Now | July 17, 2025

Good evening.
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I'm alan jackson, and welcome to nashville.
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When president trump began his first four years in washington,
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There were any number of republicans
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Who scoffed at the idea of this new york builder and former
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Tv host occupying the white house.
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But when he came back
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This past january, after facing every sort of legal
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And sometimes illegal hurdle known to politics.
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And after surviving two assassination attempts,
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And after riding into town on a 77 million votes
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And a republican house and senate, they all got on board.
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Both parties had created the swamp, and both sides knew
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That something needed to be done about it.
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They talked about draining the swamp.
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Way back in the early 1900s,
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The 1980s, when he was leaving california, president reagan
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Said he was going to washington to stop the over taxation,
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The overregulation and runaway inflation.
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Sounds familiar, doesn't it?
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So here we are, a couple of hundred days
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Into president trump's second term.
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And he's not just draining the swamp,
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He's leveling the global playing field
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To build a stronger america economy.
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He's lowering taxes and energy prices,
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Making the country safer,
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Ending the nuclear and terrorist threats from iran,
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And calling the chinese and russians out for trying
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To reduce america's influence around the world.
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So there may be some politicians who are shaken up
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By the pace of all the change,
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But no one has stepped up to try to claim they could do better.
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Which brings me to our guest today,
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The veteran political analyst
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And the news editor from washington.
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Bob cusack, welcome back bob.
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Hey, i don't.
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What an interesting time we are living in.
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You know, president trump knows that anything he does,
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The democrats will disagree with.
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And of course, gavin newsom is toward
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The top of that list, siding
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With people who were here illegally harvesting marijuana,
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All in a country
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That wants crime reduced
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And isn't looking for more public pot smoking.
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This is gavin newsom.
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Have any idea what the american people voted for last year?
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You know, i don't think so.
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I do think he's going to run for
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President in 2028, and he's certainly taking steps.
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He's going to have some company.
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But remember, newsom had to,
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He had to deal with a recall effort.
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And a lot of democrats in california are not fond of him.
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So, but he does have he does have a following nationally.
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Can he actually win the nomination?
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I don't know, but
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But the democratic party, really, as you mentioned,
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Got throttled, in 2024 and they learned their lesson.
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Have they changed? i don't see it. at least not yet.
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Well, outside of doing everything they can to oppose
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President trump,
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It seems the only consistent thing the democrats have
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Is how many of them are heading further to the left.
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You know, not just with a socialist
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New york mayoral candidate,
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But by listening to some of their other influential
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Listen to tim waltz talking about the white house
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Effort to get criminals off the streets.
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Donald trump's modern day gestapo.
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This capo is scooping folks up off the streets
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There in unmarked vans, wearing masks
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Being shipped off to foreign torture dungeons.
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No chance. command of defense.
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Not even a chance to kiss a loved one goodbye.
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Just grabbed up by mass agents.
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Shoved into those vans and disappeared.
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Do you think governor wallace would actually prefer
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Letting known criminals remain free?
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Or is he just playing to the cameras again?
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I mean, he may be playing to
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To the base because some people think,
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You know,
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He passed up a chance to run for the senate
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And that he may run for president.
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I don't think he has as much of a chance at all,
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To win the nomination.
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At the same time, it's weird for democrats to be going after,
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Trump on the border.
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There are other issues they could go after.
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Poll wise, but the border, he gets high marks.
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He has shut down the border.
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And a lot of centrist democrats, they agree with that.
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And they think that, joe biden and the border
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Was out of control.
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Former president
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Obama is giving more free advice to his party.
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He says democrats have to fight harder.
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The full quote is it's going to require
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A little bit less navel gazing
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And a little less whining and being in the fetal position.
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His words.
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And it's going to require democrats to just toughen up.
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But he said nothing about the violence
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That some democrats are taking part in.
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Bob, this reminds me of how his pre-election
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Comments fell pretty flat on black men
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When he was trying to get them to vote.
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Do you think he's actually stoking the violence now,
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And our party elders even paying much attention to him anymore?
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I just don't understand why.
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I mean, trump won
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And then he came
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To the white house saying i won because of common sense.
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And that resonated.
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He didn't say that in the first term.
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I think it resonated more in the second term.
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Why democrats can't go after violence.
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They can support what the protesters are saying.
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But violent protesters that should always be condemned.
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And i and barack obama, it's interesting to see like
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What kind of poll he has, in the party.
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He had some missteps,
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Since he's left office as far as not wanting biden to run.
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And then he really didn't want harris to run.
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But what happened was democrats lost.
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Well, you know, it's no secret that politicians
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From both parties follow the polls.
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And every poll shows that the american people
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Want those who are here illegally,
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Especially the criminals and gang members,
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To be captured and evicted.
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Why can't the democrats see that and come up with a migration
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Agenda of their own?
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You know, it's interesting because democrats,
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As you alluded to before,
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They go after everything that trump wants to do,
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Whether it's the one big beautiful bill
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Or the border,
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They criticize him, but they don't have an agenda yet.
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What what where where do they stand?
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What would they do if they win back congress?
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I don't think they have a shot to win back the senate,
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But the house is up for grabs in the midterms.
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We don't know. they haven't articulated that.
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We really don't know who the face of the democratic party is.
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And you know,
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When you think back to obama, obama
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Was much tougher on the border than biden was.
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It was almost like night and day.
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And, and obviously trump has brought it to a whole new level.
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Well, bob, please stay with
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Us for another segment. it's a busy time
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And we appreciate your inside view of things.
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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 with our wise
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Man in washington, the veteran editor, bob cusack.
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You know, i know the people are getting
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Tired of hearing about biden books,
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But the former president
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Has finally responded to the auto pin issue.
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And it's well reported
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That biden's team used the auto pin on as many as 4000 people.
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And it now looks as though the chief of staff, jeff
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Zients, was the one
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Handling the approvals, the not elected chief of staff.
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Republicans want to get to the bottom of it,
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And congress is working on that now.
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Listen to how big a deal president trump thinks this is.
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The auto pen, i think, is maybe one of the biggest scandals
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That we've had.
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And 50 to 100 years.
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I guarantee you he knew nothing about what he was signing.
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I guarantee it.
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You know, the congressional investigation
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Has just gotten underway.
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But do you think some of these pardons may be overturned?
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It's a good question, and i think it's worth investigating.
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Now, the auto pen has been around a while,
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But the amount of times
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That biden used it and recently he spoke out publicly,
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A lot of democrats want biden just to go away and stop,
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Talking, whether that's, one, biden joe or hunter biden,
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Who also recently spoke out on why democrats lost the election.
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I do think this is going to be
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Interesting to see what they find.
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You have a lot of people who worked around biden
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Taking the fifth.
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So they're not talking about it.
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But i do think it's a valid investigation
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Of who was calling the shots
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In the white house, because there were
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I've heard from many sources.
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There were some good days for joe biden
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When he was at the white house, as far as his mental acuity.
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And there were a fair amount of bad days
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Where he did not recognize people.
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Well, senator rand paul has his,
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Specifically on overturning the pardon of anthony fauci.
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You know, the senator has never trusted
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What fauci said about his covid recommendations
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Or his gain of function experiments at the wuhan lab.
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Senator paul
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Got his medical degree at duke university, by the way.
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Do you think fauci may be vulnerable, especially if
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President biden didn't approve or sign the pardon?
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You know, it could.
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All these issues, you know, congress doesn't
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Decide at the white house, doesn't decide.
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It really goes down on the courts.
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And, of course, the supreme court is is the final say.
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And a lot of these things, it could end up there.
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This is an unusual situation.
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You know, fauci and, senator paul were never bowling buddies.
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They went at each other repeatedly,
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In congressional testimony back and forth.
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And i do think
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That a lot of these people who were working on covid,
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Who instantly dismissed, by the way,
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That covid could have originated from the lab.
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And i don't know why that became a partizan, argument.
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It was a distinct possibility.
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And now more and more experts think it did come from,
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The lab in china.
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Andrew cuomo isn't going away.
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Having lost his attempt
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At the democratic nomination for new york mayor.
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Now he wants to run as an independent.
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Well, i know you live in washington,
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But you grew up in new york.
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Cuomo can make a comeback and beat the socialist
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Zoran mamdani.
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At the same time, former new york republican governor
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George pataki.
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He thinks republican curtis sliwa has a chance.
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How do you see it at this point?
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This is a fascinating race.
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I mean, democrats obviously
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Well, at least in the middle, democrat centrist democrats,
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They don't really have anyone to turn to.
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I mean,
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They could turn to cuomo or or the sitting mayor now, adams,
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But they both have skeletons in their closet.
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They could vote, for the republican in the race,
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You know, but it's tough to win, as a republican.
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At the same time, if you're an independent
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Minded republican like, michael bloomberg,
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You can win who eventually became
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A, independent and then a democrat.
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But i do think there's so much fear,
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New york
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Going so far left, that cuomo has a shot.
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I think if you're going to pick one,
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And i do think it's smart for cuomo to say, hey, guys,
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If, whether that's adams or if we don't have it,
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If you're behind me, then you get out.
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And if i'm
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Behind you in the polls, i'll get out
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Because they're going to have to consolidate,
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In order, to win this race.
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But listen, democrats win in new york most of the time.
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But i do think this could be a lockhart.
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But with such an overwhelming liberal majority
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In the city. in practical terms,
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What's it take to get an independent mayor?
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You know, i think it's what's gonna take a lot of money,
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That's for sure.
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And mandy, i mean, they people just are, are really afraid of.
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And republicans for the country want him to lose
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And would rather have, someone else, one of the three win.
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But at the same time, politically,
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If he does win, well, then he is the face
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Of the democratic party, at least,
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For a short amount of time.
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And that helps republicans, being that he is a socialist
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And, there's just a lot of money going to to cuomo.
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Adams, i think less so. so watch cuomo.
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Cuomo also has to it has to, campaign better.
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He kind of wanted to glide to the nomination.
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He didn't do a lot of interviews,
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Who didn't
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Do a lot of interviews in 2020 for harris,
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Who didn't do a lot of interviews in 2016.
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Hillary clinton,
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You can't be cautious and win such a a big, prize.
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And being the mayor of new york is a big prize.
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So, i think cuomo has learned from that,
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And i think he's going to be a better campaigner.
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He knows how to campaign. he knows how to win.
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This could be a very close race.
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Well, before we run out of time,
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Let's look ahead to the midterms.
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You know, obviously the margins are close,
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But there's
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A history of the losing party rebounding at the halfway mark
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And without a policy strategy of any sort.
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I'm wondering how the democrats
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Could rebound by the end of next year.
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Is it just too early to tell
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If the democrats can regain the house or senate?
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I think the senate's going to be out of reach.
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If you look at the map, allen, it's
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Just not friendly for democrats.
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There are a lot of,
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Republicans who are in safe seats
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And democrats have had a number of retirements in purple seats.
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So, republicans
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Could actually add to their majority in the senate.
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The house is a different story.
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The house, the margin is very close, as you mentioned.
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Usually in midterms, the opposing party wins.
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I do think the democrats
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Would be wise to come up with some agenda
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If they continue to just go after trump
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And say he's a fascist and call him names.
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I don't think they're going to win the midterms.
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I think they've got to have a certain policy.
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A platform like they did in
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2006 when george w bush was flailing in his second term.
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They had a policy agenda.
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They put it out right before the election.
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They won the house and senate.
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Right now, democrats don't know where to go. why?
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What's different between now and 2006 back then?
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Well, the democratic party, a lot of them want to go left.
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So if you have a policy agenda,
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A lot of the democrats are split.
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They want to go left and others say no, that's
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They don't want to do the aoc policy agenda,
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The bernie sanders policies agenda.
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So there's the rub right there.
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It's a very difficult situation for democrats.
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But i've never seen a,
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The democrats be in such disarray as they are right now.
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Well, i've got one more question.
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Trump's pace
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And what he's accomplished in a couple
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Hundred days is really unprecedented.
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Do you think he has enough things still on his to do list
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That he can maintain this pace for the foreseeable future?
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He's got a lot of energy, allen.
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As you know, i've i've interviewed him.
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He loves he loves to be interviewed.
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He he thinks of ideas all the time.
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He he acts like an executive producer.
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He's like, okay, here's the show today.
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Here's the here's the policy thing today.
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I do think he and he knows that he could, lose the house
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Or senate.
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More likely the house, as i just mentioned.
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So he wants to take advantage of these two years,
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Where he's got full control.
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And i do think you're going to see some more interesting
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And and listen,
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Whenever you think of donald trump, he has a creative mind.
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He thinks of things we haven't thought of, like greenland.
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And when you look into the greenland issue,
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It is a national security issue.
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A lot of people scoff at it.
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But yes, i do think donald trump
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Is going to be hitting the gas, until the midterms.
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There's no doubt about it.
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Greenland and the gulf of america.
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What do we see next?
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Bob cusack, thank you for your inside
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Knowledge of the washington scene.
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It's a fast moving scene these days.
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We'll have you back real soon for an update.
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Thanks, allen.
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Appreciate it.
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In a moment.
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Some rays of hope ahead and some advice for getting there.
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I'll be right back.
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I'll be right back.
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We are seeing spiritual forces
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Of darkness expressed with increasing boldness
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And frequency in very tangible ways.
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Things like lawlessness, like the violence carried out
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On the streets of major cities against law enforcement by those
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Who support criminal actors who are here illegally.
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They burn the american flag,
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They attack law enforcement, they curse america.
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Or perhaps they were emboldened by the words of the vice
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Presidential pick in the last election, tim waltz,
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As he put the lives of ice staff in danger
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By blatantly associating them with nazi germany.
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These brave men and women of ice were simply enforcing the laws
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That already existed
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In order to keep our streets and our communities safer.
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Biden's use of the auto pit is under investigation.
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The auto pit has traditionally
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Been used by previous administrations
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When responding to the thousands of letters
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They receive per week at the white house,
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Often from children who write to the president.
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However, joe biden handed the power of the presidency
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To an auto pen controlled by unelected staffers.
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It's a fair question to ask
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Who was actually making the decisions.
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Yet legacy media calls the auto powered investigation
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Absurd and dangerous
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When everyone is left to make their own determinations
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Of what is true.
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We quickly find out
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That we're living in the midst of the theater of the absurd.
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We're living in a time
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When observable truth is often denied in the public square.
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I'm told that when banks train their employees
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To recognize a counterfeit bill, they don't train them on
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Every possible way counterfeit currency might look and feel.
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They teach you to be so familiar with the real thing
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That when you pick up a counterfeit bill,
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You'll immediately recognize the difference.
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Well,
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One of the ways to avoid deception is to know the truth.
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As christ followers,
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Let's make that our goal regarding the truth of god.
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Colossians two eight says this.
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See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow
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And deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition
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And the elementary
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Spiritual forces of this world, rather than on christ.
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As christ followers,
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We have to be vigilant so that deception doesn't
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Destroy those we love and what we hold dear.
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Let's become so familiar with god's word that the principles
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We find there will immediately recognize
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Anything that's hollow and deceptive.
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Let's pray that god will help us to recognize love
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And yield to his truth. we'll do that.
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More reasons from hope than despair.
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A promise.
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We'll be right back with your emails.
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We'll be right back with your emails.
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Thank you for spending a few minutes with us this evening.
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If you ever missed the live broadcast, just a reminder.
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You can go to aj now.com.
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There's a full archive there of all the programs you can.
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There's even a link.
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You can send us an email with your comments.
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Your emails are always a highlight for me in the program.
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Michelle from louisville, kentucky commented
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I'm so pleased with school choice for our students.
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However, there's a lack of decent education,
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But plenty of indoctrination occurring.
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Michelle, you're right,
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Especially at the university level,
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It seems our schools have become indoctrination centers.
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The good news is that is being increasingly exposed.
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And when the truth comes into the public square,
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We have an opportunity to make changes.
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We need to invest some effort in the transformation
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Of our academic institutions.
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A viewer on youtube commented,
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I hope that by the time a child gets to college
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That they have learned to think and reason for themselves
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And have had a chance to know jesus, our lord and savior.
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Most parents have to send their child to public schools,
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But our government has sadly failed all of our children.
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They have failed
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Not only in basic education, but in basic values.
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Praying that we can once more bring god back to our schools.
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Well, i agree with you.
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I think one of the things we lost
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Sight of is that education is about values.
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There's no such thing as value free education.
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They just pushed our biblical worldview
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And christian values out of public education,
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And replaced it with a whole set of values
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That have very little to do
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With the biblical or judeo-christian worldview.
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That is not all right.
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And i'm ashamed
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That we co-operated with it for as many decades as we have.
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But covid seemed to have pulled back the curtain.
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There's an awakening,
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Taking place,
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And i believe our educational system will benefit from that.
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If we have the courage to hold the system accountable
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And let our biblical worldview
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Become once again a part of our education.
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It was that way for almost 200 years in this nation,
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And it needs to be that way for another 200.
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The youtube spectator noted.
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Thank you, pastor allen.
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There's so much going on in the world, it's hard to keep up.
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Thanks for helping to keep us informed.
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It is difficult to keep up.
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We started this program
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So that there would at least be an alternative
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To some of the things we hear,
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And there would be a biblical worldview.
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In light of current
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Events, your participation, your viewership, your emails,
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They make the difference and help us stay on the air.
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I'm alan jackson, thank you for spending a few minutes
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With us and have a wonderful evening.
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