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July 15, 2026 | 22:40

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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: Remembering Lindsey Graham | Allen Jackson Now | July 15, 2026

I. good evening, and welcome to nashville.
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I'm alan jackson.
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Well, the world doesn't seem to be getting any quieter.
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Russia's war against ukraine continues
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To reshape the balance of power in europe.
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Iran remains
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Defiant even after suffering significant military losses.
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The regime continues threatening new attacks against israel
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And the united states.
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Well, china is expanding its military,
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Economic and technological influence
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At a pace that has western leaders
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Increasingly concerned about the next decade.
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Well, at home,
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America's continue to be concerned
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With the security of our own communities,
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Our election
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Integrity and legislation like the saved america act.
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While asking fundamental questions
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About the future of the country itself,
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These aren't isolated headlines.
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They all point to a world becoming more uncertain
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And more dangerous.
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They also raise larger questions what should america's role be?
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How do we preserve peace without projecting weakness?
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And perhaps most importantly, who are the leaders willing
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To confront those questions before a crisis forces us to?
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Well, washington lost one of those influential voices.
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The sudden passing of senator lindsey
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Graham marks the passing of one of the republican party's
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Most influential national security leaders.
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For more than two decades,
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He helped shape debates over america's military,
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Our alliances, the threat posed by iran,
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Unwavering support for israel, russia's aggression in ukraine,
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And the growing challenge presented by china.
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President trump revealed that one of their final conversations
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Focused on election integrity and the save america act.
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Prime minister benjamin netanyahu remembered him
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As one of israel's greatest friends.
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His passing comes at a moment when many of the issues
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He spent a lifetime confronting are becoming even more urgent.
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Who will carry those conversations forward?
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Well, a few years ago, i
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Participated in charlie daniels memorial service.
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Charlie daniels pioneered the blending
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Of southern rock sounds with mainstream country music.
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Daniels had an amazing career.
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He was a master of the fiddle and guitar.
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He was inducted
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Into the prestigious country music hall of fame.
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Charlie was a friend of mine and a friend to our local church.
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In fact, charlie's song is the lead into this program.
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You're watching.
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When driving home from charlie's funeral, i said to my wife,
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Kathy, i wonder who will step into charlie's place.
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She. charlie was a strong voice, not just as a country music
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Artist, but a pro-america voice, a pro christian voice.
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Well, in the same way.
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Senator lindsey graham was an advocate
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For israel and the jewish people.
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He was an advocate for our military
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Who will now step in and be an advocate.
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It's also important
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To acknowledge that loss isn't just about next man up,
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As much as in the principle that there are those people
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Who fill a space,
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Who walk through time in such a manner
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That when they step into eternity,
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Those of us who are left, we have to raise our game.
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We have to learn to respond in a new way
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And walk in a different way.
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We must have an awareness that our freedoms
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Don't lie in an individual.
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They lie on a shared set of values
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And the
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Continuity of those values from generation to generation.
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They're given expression in different ways
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Because we have different
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Personalities and different strengths,
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But it's a shared set of values that has given us
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250 years of liberties and freedoms,
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And that responsibility to communicate
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Those values founded upon a biblical worldview.
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Ultimately, it comes to the church.
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I think the church in general, the christian community,
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Has lost sight of the value
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Of raising our voices in the public square.
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We think in terms of heaven and hell
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That we shouldn't
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Engage in culture because we think that's being political.
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But the communication of those values
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In a biblical worldview, from generation
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To generation, protects our liberties and freedoms.
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It's so much simpler to just do a bible study,
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Much simpler than it is to try and engage
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The world we live in with biblical truth.
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The spirit of god will move in dramatic ways,
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But we will have to decide
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Where to focus our attention and where to invest ourselves.
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You know, previously,
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Many of us understood that our assignment
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Was to get saved and to help other people be saved.
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That's laudable,
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But we really didn't process the assignment much beyond that
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Because our lives were quite stable.
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The culture we lived in was stable.
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I think one of the changes that will characterize
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The church as we find our place in our stride in this season
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Is we're going to gain
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A heightened sense of our kingdom responsibilities.
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It's a good question
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For all of us to ask ourselves, what am i doing with my life?
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See, our legacy isn't about the toys we accumulate
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Or the assets that we hold.
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It's the impact of our lives.
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God created you and me for a unique purpose.
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Let's determined to seek the lord like we have never
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Done before.
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Well, in a moment, joining us will be u.s.
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Senator marsha blackburn.
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She represents my home state of tennessee.
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I'll be right back.
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I'll be right back.
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Tonight we're joined by senator marsha blackburn.
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Welcome to the show, senator.
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Always delighted to join you.
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Thank you so much.
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Well, it's our pleasure over the weekend.
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We lost a great man and a great senator, lindsey graham.
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I know you were also working on legislation together to help
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Clean up voter rolls and strengthen election integrity.
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How are you and the other senators remembering him today?
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Well, we have just sworn in his sister to take his seat.
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She is looking forward to finishing his work.
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And serving in his seat through the end of the year.
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And that is just so appropriate that she take that seat.
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You know, the story of lindsey graham and his sister, darlene
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Graham is really quite fascinating
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Because they grew up with their parents
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Having a bar in central south carolina.
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And darlene was,
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I think ten years, 12 years younger than lindsey.
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Well, the mother dies,
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And then shortly thereafter, their father dies.
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So, lindsey, is juggling college, and,
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Helping
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Care for his sister and rearing his sister.
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And then he joined the military, and he adopted her
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As her guardian so she could benefit.
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And from some of the military benefits that he had.
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Then he paid her way through college.
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So having her come in is, vitally important.
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I think also, alan, that what you see is
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How lindsey and darlene became people of such great faith.
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And lindsey periodically would say he was not a self-made man,
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That because people would try to say,
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Oh, you're you're self-made, you had a humble beginning and
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You've served in the military and you were a u.s.
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Senator.
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And he would say, no, it is family and faith
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And a lot of good people in south carolina that
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Really propped us up through very difficult times. and
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So we have remembered that
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As we have memorialized him today during our senate lunch
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And then with swearing in darlene on that seat.
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What a wonderful way to honor his service.
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I want to ask a question.
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President trump has made it clear
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That passing the save america act is a top priority for him.
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It's stalled a bit in the senate.
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Yeah.
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Americans have been pretty clear they want voter id
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And they want citizens to vote.
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What can you tell us about the possibility
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Of the save america act? making it through senate?
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Yes. and the house had one version of the save america
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Act to end the save america act, and the senate had several
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Other components added to it, ending transgender surgeries
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On minors,
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You know,
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Boys and girls sports and mail out ballots and
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A couple of other provisions.
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What we as the conservatives in the senate, we're call
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The steering committee.
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And i
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Sit on the executive committee for the steering committee,
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And is rick scott and mike lee and ted cruz
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And ron johnson and bernie marino and me.
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And what we are doing is looking
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At breaking this apart and passing it
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One piece at a time and putting on the floor.
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Just the part of that show of voter id,
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Which many states already do, and adopting that.
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So we're up next week.
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You're going to see us drill down
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And put a lot of focus
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On save america and try to get that passed.
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We also have a provision that lindsey graham and i
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Were working on is the election security partnership act.
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This would incentivize
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States for doing the right thing.
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It would provide a 10% plus up on their federal grants
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That are there for election security.
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Now, it would require
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States in order to get this plus up in money.
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They would have to check their voter rolls against
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The department of homeland security save system.
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And that is a database that has the name of
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Every person in the country who is a non-citizen.
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It would be people that have permanent resident status.
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Or maybe they're here on a work visa or a student visa,
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And include many of the known
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Illegal aliens that are here in the country.
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So if a state checks their voter rolls
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And then purges
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Those names of people that are on that voter roll
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Who are not citizens, they are going to get a plus up
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In their grants.
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And, you know, we've got some blue states
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That have legislative chambers that are more conservative.
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They're more red or purple,
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And they always are looking for a way to get more money.
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So we think incentivizing them for doing the right thing
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Is important.
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And of course, our provision for no non-citizen
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Having to prove your citizenship in order to vote.
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So that is how we're moving forward with it,
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Showing that voter id
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And then incentivizing states to remove
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Those that are not citizens, that are found to be on
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Their voter rolls, and then making certain that
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When people register to vote, they prove their citizenship.
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So it's
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About an 8020 issue that americans
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Want citizens to vote in, to have id for that
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Out of the centers that oppose that, justify that position.
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It is just beyond me.
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You know, i'm a an original co-sponsor of the save act,
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And it is beyond me that i can oppose this.
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This is an issue of fairness.
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It's an issue of integrity.
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Only citizens should vote in our elections.
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You can't go waltzing into
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Mexico and canada and vote in their elections.
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You can't go into another country and register to vote.
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So this is something that should be complete
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Agreement by members
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Of both parties.
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Amen.
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Well, senator, we need to take a short break.
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Can you stay with us for another segment?
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Absolutely. thank you.
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And for those of you watching, if you got a phone nearby,
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You can log on to aj now.com. send me an email.
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We'd love to hear your thoughts on this topic.
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We'll be right back.
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You. do you?
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You. do you?
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Well, we're back
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Now with senator marsha blackburn from tennessee.
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The supreme court recently ruled on birthright citizenship.
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Many are suggesting it was a wrong ruling.
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In justice kavanaugh's partial dissent, he indicated
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There might be a partial roadmap for congress to legislate.
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Some exceptions.
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Can you tell us anything
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About what's being discussed in congress to maybe resolve that?
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Oh, alan, i certainly can.
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I have had for the last two congresses,
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This congress and the one before.
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I've had the birthright citizen birthright tourism ban act.
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Now, what this would do is amend the immigration
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And nationality act to ban
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These birthright tourism companies.
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And that practice, it would make it inadmissible
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To apply for a visa coming into the country to give birth.
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And it also would make coming here to do that
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And immediately deportable offense.
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So we are tightening up that immigration and nationality act.
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When that was written decades ago, nobody ever thought
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About somebody coming here to have a baby.
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And interestingly enough,
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The two countries that have people
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Coming in giving birth and then exiting the country,
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The two countries that use this birthright tourism,
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Most china is number one, and russia is number two,
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And it is about 33,000 babies
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A year that are born through this birthright.
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Tourism concept.
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And knowing this, the chinese communist party,
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These members and wealthy chinese are sending
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Their wives here to give birth so that those children are u.s.
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Citizens.
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And the same thing is happening with the russian oligarchs.
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They are choosing to send their women here
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And give birth and then return to russia
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With all of the paperwork necessary
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To have those citizenship papers and be able to prove that.
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Well, what you the comments you made, i think is so important.
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What i understand is
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The children are born here, so they qualify for citizenship,
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But they leave almost immediately.
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That's right.
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Children are reared not with american values,
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Not with american worldview,
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But really as agents for those nations.
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That's right.
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That is accurate.
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That is right.
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And that's why it's so important to end this practice.
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Like i said, china is number one.
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And alan, as you know, the chinese communist
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Party has what they called the 100 year marathon.
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They think by 2050
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They're going to have control of the united states.
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I continue to say we have to realize they want
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To dominate our children, our colleges, our cities.
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They want to dominate when it comes to our cars.
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They want their electric vehicles in here.
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They want to dominate.
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When it comes to our cropland.
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They're trying to buy farm land.
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They're trying to invest, whether it's pork or cattle.
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They're trying to buy our meat processors.
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They continue to try to buy
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Our businesses and buy our land.
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And this is something
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That we have to stop, and we have to stop them
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From utilizing this birthright tourism.
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As you said, they have the baby.
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They returned home.
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They are reared and educated in china.
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Then they can come here whenever they want for whatever
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Purpose, because they have that citizenship paper.
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Our citizenship is not for sale, man.
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Well, acting attorney general todd blanch will be with the
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Senate judiciary this week for his confirmation hearings.
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What do you think of the work he's been doing
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And what how do you expect those hearings to go?
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Todd blanch is a good man.
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We know
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The democrats are going to try to turn this into a circus.
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They have already talked about trying to turn the hearing
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Into a circus.
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But, you know, one of the things that i know,
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The american people are growing weary of things
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That are just clickbait or inaccurate reports
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Or this one sided questioning of members
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Trying to get that 32nd clickbait
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So they can put it online and raise money off of it.
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And i think that you're going to see
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Todd blanch do a stellar job in his hearing.
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He is focused.
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He is a good attorney.
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He is doing a great job for the united states.
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I look forward to seeing him move out of judiciary committee
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With the nomination of the committee,
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And move to the floor for a confirmation vote.
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The iranians
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Started attacking ships
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In the strait of hormuz again, which is listen to a comment
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That the late senator graham made.
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And then i have a question.
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Yeah, these people want to master religion,
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Not a master race.
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They want to dominate the world religiously.
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That's what they're all about.
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They export terrorism in the name of religion
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To the american people. wake up.
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Understand what we're fighting.
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The ayatollah is not normal.
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These are not normal people.
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Stand with israel
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Until the cease fire has ended.
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And president trump has put the blockade back in effect.
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Is there any resolution to this
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That doesn't require our military to enforce it?
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We've not been able to find one.
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President trump has been incredibly patient with iran.
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He has given them every opportunity
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To stop enriching uranium.
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He is giving
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Them every opportunity to open the strait of hormuz.
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And he has been resolute in standing with israel,
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Which is vitally important for us to do.
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And of course, senator graham's comments
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There were spot on because this is a nation.
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Radical islam, they are exporting their terror
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And they are doing it in the name of their religion.
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And we have to realize that and be clear eyed about that.
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And the president indeed is.
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So the way to protect us, to keep them
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From having a nuclear weapon, which they were very close
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To getting.
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The thing to do is to go back to bombing
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And to remove the irgc
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And to remove
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Some of these mines that are there in the strait of hormuz,
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And to just say to them,
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You are not going to control the strait.
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You are not going to be able to extract tolls.
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And looking at car island, where iraq
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Has their oil refineries and,
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Their oil depots, oil and gas depots,
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If we have to bomb them and take them out, then
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That is what we're going to do to make certain
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They do not have the money to fund terrorist activity.
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Iran is the world's largest state sponsor of terrorism.
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Senator graham was right.
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These are not normal people.
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These are people that
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With that leadership of iran.
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And that's what i'm speaking of.
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They the fact that they are funding.
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They're taking their dollars and they do one of two things.
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They either enrich uranium or they fund terrorism.
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They are the largest funder of hezbollah,
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Hamas, the houthis,
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The irgc, the yemeni fighters.
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Iran is who is giving them
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About $100 million a year
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To go fund terrorist activity.
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They are paying them.
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They are providing weapons.
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They're providing drones.
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This is how these terrorist organizations are standing up.
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So removing that ability
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Of iran
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To be able to sell their oil
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On the marketplace, to continue the bombing,
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To make certain that they have to remove that enriched uranium,
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To make certain that they have to open the strait of hormuz.
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President trump is correct in his assessment
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Of this situation.
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And in choosing to move forward
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With activity against iran.
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Well, senator, i thank you for your time today.
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We appreciate your leadership and the insight you bring.
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Oh, thank you so much.
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It's always a pleasure to join you and to see you.
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Thank you alan.
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Thank you.
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I'll be back in just a moment.
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Thank you for spending a few moments of your day with us.
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God is moving in the earth.
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Let's join him.
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Good night, and god bless.
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