In a divided America, tensions rise as the Democratic Party struggles to regain support while Republicans march forward with transparency. Threats, violence, and profanity-laced anger dominate the Democratic opposition, with half of left-leaning individuals justifying the assassination of President Trump and Elon Musk.
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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: State of the Country | Allen Jackson Now | May 1, 2025
- Well.
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- Good evening.
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- I'm alan jackson, and welcome to nashville.
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- America's two party system is being threatened.
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- Republicans are marching ahead with a fully transparent public
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- Facing agenda.
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- And the democratic party is polling at an all time low,
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- Using threats,
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- Violence and profanity laced anger to make its case.
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- Only 25% of the country now says that it approves
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- Of the democrats in congress.
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- And the numbers dropping.
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- So what's the opposition party doing to get back on its feet?
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- Well, it's not.
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- Instead, party
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- Officials from the top on down are literally sitting down
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- Protesting and singing songs
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- About how much they dislike the conservative agenda.
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- And they have nothing
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- Good to say about the fact that the country is more safe,
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- Or that trillions of dollars worth of investments
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- Are being made by companies
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- That want to build plants here and create new jobs,
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- Or that billions of dollars
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- Of government waste has been discovered and stopped.
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- But their pattern is easy to see.
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- Anything trump does is wrong.
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- Well, doug mcelwee has been through it all over the years.
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- You know him as a former news anchor and reporter.
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- He's joining us tonight from florida.
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- Doug, welcome back.
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- Good to see you.
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- I'm glad to be back.
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- Well, to illustrate just how low the progressive
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- Liberals have gone,
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- I want to start with a headline i read in the washington times,
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- Left wing assassination culture is on the rise.
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- Well, as you know,
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- It was written by your wife, reporter susan for riccio.
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- She pointed out a survey that showed that nearly
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- Half of the left leaning public could justify
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- The assassinations of president trump and elon musk.
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- Can you help us understand their perspective?
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- I'll try to.
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- You know, it's really interesting to me
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- What has happened.
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- In some respects, this is a new phenomenon
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- I think we're seeing in american politics.
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- Sure, there's been some cutthroat battles
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- Over the decades, but this reflects
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- Some, to my way of thinking, a kind of unhinged component
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- Of an opposition party that we have not seen,
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- At least in my lifetime.
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- Not that there have
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- Not been assassination attempts or assassination,
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- But it seems to me the widespread acceptance
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- Of this kind of phenomenon is something new.
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- And i just, quite by accident, came across a quote that i think
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- It was just yesterday,
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- And i, and i took a freeze frame of the quote.
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- It was from friedrich nietzsche, the german,
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- The 19th century german philosopher who who said this.
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- And i think it applies exactly
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- What's going on
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- With the democratic party and opposition to donald trump.
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- Quote,
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- There is a point in history of society
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- When it becomes so pathologically soft and tender
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- That, among other things, it sides even with those
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- Who harm it, it sides with criminals
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- And does this quite seriously and honestly.
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- Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and is certain
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- That imagining punishment or being supposed to punish hurts.
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- It arouses fear in it.
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- It is not enough to render him dangerous.
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- Why still punish?
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- Punishing itself is terrible with this question.
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- Herd morality.
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- The morality of timidity draws its ultimate consequence.
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- Now we're seeing this manifested
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- In the huge objection to the deportation of illegal
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- Immigrants in this country by the left.
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- There are
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- Certain individual cases which raise questions, i think.
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- But the larger question,
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- Did people enter this country illegally, and did
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- They break the law by entering the country illegally?
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- Does that constitute an offense?
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- And does it
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- Warrant or merit them being shipped
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- Back to the countries that they came from?
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- Well, i think most rational, logical
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- Thinking people would say, yes, it does work.
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- You know, a shipment out of this country.
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- But the left has become completely unhinged.
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- They're siding, in effect, with those who broke
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- The law by entering this country illegally.
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- And it's a new phenomenon,
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- I think, in this country that we've not seen.
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- And it sort of reflects to my way of thinking.
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- Hatred for hatred sake.
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- They despise donald trump.
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- So anything that's associated with donald trump becomes,
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- You know, evil incarnate,
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- Whether it's a guy who was was heralded by the left,
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- Elon musk for his electric cars, it was the great advancements
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- In rocketry, and neuroscience, all kinds of things
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- Now suddenly becomes a demon and we must destroy him
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- By reducing the stock value of his company, tesla,
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- By torching the cars that he makes.
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- Suddenly, one of the heroes of the left
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- Has become an enemy
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- Y simply because of his association with donald trump.
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- It's irrational, i think, alan, and i don't know what the way
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- Out of this is.
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- I don't think it's going to happen anytime soon.
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- I think we're in for three
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- And a half years of of this extreme
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- Divisiveness with no chances of it healing at this point.
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- You know, when it's not directly aimed at the president.
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- Destroying property is also become a lot more common.
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- Firebombing tesla dealerships, keying the cars.
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- Shoving strangers in front of subway car,
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- Shooting of a health care ceo,
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- Stealing and randomly breaking laws.
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- And now even a few judges taking the law into their own
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- Hands and helping violent gang members escape judgment.
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- The end of this is hard to see, but it doesn't look like
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- It's a good direction.
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- No, no.
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- And that's why i say i don't see any resolution to this.
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- While while trump is in office,
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- Because the irrational hatred of
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- Them is become so extreme that there is no way out of this.
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- That's, i think this this term trump
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- The arrangement system is, is a wonderful term
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- Because it's so aptly describes what's going on.
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- It is it is a kind of, an irrational derangement,
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- A hatred of a man.
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- And i and i understand where a lot of it comes from, at
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- Least in the sense that we know donald trump is a disruptor.
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- He's he can be very, very vulgar.
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- He's not a role model in the traditional sense for your kids.
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- But to to
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- To see him as,
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- A great disruptor, needed disruptor as many republicans
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- And certainly the maga folks are. yeah.
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- Is is lost on the left entirely.
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- And, there's there's no accepting any of the need
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- For a great disrupter in this country.
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- I think it's absolutely required
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- At this point in time, because i think,
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- The united states government has strayed so vastly
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- From what its original constitutional principles were.
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- That it's time for a great disrupter.
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- And we have all been over the past several decades.
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- I think the, the frog in the slowly boiling pot of water,
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- And we have now suddenly awakened
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- Under the tenure of donald trump to see
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- What is actually happening with the great expansion
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- Of the federal government and the great waste and fraud
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- In the federal government is huge. it's massive.
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- Last time i was on this program with you, we talked about that.
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- Some of the extreme examples that i remember talking about,
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- A friend of mine who is an editor
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- At one of the main federal agencies, a former journalist,
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- Who, whenever she writes a press release,
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- Has to be approved by 50 people.
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- 50 people.
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- That's one tiny little anecdote.
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- But multiply that by thousands and thousands
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- And thousands of times over, and you see what's going on
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- And what has become of our federal government.
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- The waste, fraud and abuse.
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- Abuse and the department offense pales in comparison
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- To anything we've seen.
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- It's mostly an inefficient bureaucracy.
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- It needs overhauling, as do so many of these agencies.
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- Well, there is some movement on the law and order side.
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- We're seeing tom homan and kristi noem track down and evict
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- Some migrant criminals and gang members.
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- And the attorney general is making things
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- Clear about the path ahead.
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- When she spoke about a big arrest
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- At a nightclub full of people who were here illegally,
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- It's a place that the biden white house chose to ignore.
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- Listen to her comments.
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- During the biden administration,
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- They received a 170 911 calls to that club alone.
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- That club, we were just watching 170 calls.
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- Wouldn't you think that would have been a red flag?
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- Would nothing happen?
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- Guns, shootings and batteries.
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- Nothing happened.
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- So under donald trump, dea, fbi, u.s.
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- Marshals, atf, ice, everyone went in and together
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- There were 300 agents, all working hand in hand.
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- And that's what donald trump has done.
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- So while all of our agencies worked so well together.
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- Doug, they're making progress.
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- But it seems to me it's going to take perseverance
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- On all of our parts to get law and order back.
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- Isn't it?
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- Oh, it's going to take tremendous perseverance.
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- And and there's a limited window to achieve that.
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- We're not that far away from the midterm elections.
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- What is it, 18 months or so?
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- Traditionally, the opposition party wins seats
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- And there's virtually no seats or only a handful of seats
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- For republicans to lose in the house.
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- And, november, 18 months from now.
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- So when that happens, if, as expected,
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- The incumbent party, donald trump's party, loses the house
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- And and or the senate, then he's hamstrung, then he's,
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- You know, relegated to executive orders
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- And no major pieces of legislation.
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- That's a real danger.
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- The window is very short.
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- It explains, in large part why donald trump has,
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- Imposed upon,
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- Us and the media this flurry of executive
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- Orders and actions, which are basically nonstop
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- Since day one of the of his office.
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- He's got to get it done quickly.
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- Now, it may be overreach.
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- In fact, there was a there was a great,
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- Op ed in the wall street journal this morning.
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- I'll read a little bit of it,
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- Because i think it really hits home about the dilemma.
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- What's going on in washington right now,
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- What's going on with the trump administration?
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- And it says, quote,
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- A few years ago, temperamentally conservative americans
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- Wouldn't have countenanced the raucous methods of mr.
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- Trump.
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- He has many of the qualities our mothers warned us against
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- Self-absorption, vulgarity, braggadocio, lack of humility.
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- Yet in our current moment, he seems the only political
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- Figure with the fearless ness
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- And vigor needed to clear the blockages
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- To cut out the tumors and reset our national health.
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- Now then, it goes on to
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- Hit the key point, which i was just making here,
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- Says the trump era could end in flaming hubris and overreach.
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- From odysseus to napoleon, that's the way bold charges
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- Have always fallen over competence and prize
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- Pride causes fatal mistakes.
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- That's the juncture
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- That we are at right now in the united states.
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- I think, we are at this hinge point.
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- Certainly the
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- The key illustration of this is with the tariffs,
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- They are imposing economic
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- Hardship on the united states right now,
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- Even though we've got this 90 day pause
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- Simply because of uncertainty.
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- We are hearing a
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- Tremendous backlogs in european and asian ports.
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- Prices already going up.
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- People who are in the import
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- And export business in this country,
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- Are seeing their prices already rise.
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- Real consternation.
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- There is this trade war battle going to be won by the trump
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- Administration, or is he going to lose it?
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- No one can predict that at this point.
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- We've got the 90 day pause in effect right now.
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- When it ends, we don't know.
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- We saw the stock market
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- Initially take a tremendous dive.
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- It has recouped most of those losses.
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- But it's volatile right now.
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- And how this all shakes out we don't know. but it
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- It is in many respects a hail mary pass by donald trump.
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- If it works, he's going to be a hero.
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- If it fails, he's going to face the same,
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- The same results that odysseus to napoleon faces, that,
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- Depression op ed in the wall street
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- Journal suggested that i just read.
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- Well, doug, stay with us for another segment.
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- There's more to discuss.
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- And later i have some thoughts on
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- How this is all addressed from a biblical worldview.
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- There are reasons for hope,
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- Even with what we're all witnessing.
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- We'll be right back.
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- We'll be right back.
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- We're back now
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- With reporter a news anchor, doug mcelwee.
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- You know, it's
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- Not an election year, but the economy
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- Is still one of the top issues.
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- So there's a lot of buzz on capitol hill about the budget
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- And tax bill that's taking shape.
- 00:12:35.546 --> 00:12:37.982
- The goal is to bring spending down
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- While keeping the lower tax rates in place.
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- Listen to what speaker johnson had to say.
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- The reason it's
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- Going to be the biggest
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- Legislation, i think, in many decades of congress has passed
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- Is because not only are we going to give
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- Everybody a tax break, right,
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- They're not going to have the largest tax increase in u.s.
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- History at the end of this year.
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- It's going to help hardworking families.
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- It's going to be turbo fueled, turbo boost to the economy,
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- Because i think this will send a message of stability
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- To the markets, the bond market, the stock
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- Market, investors,
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- Job creators, entrepreneurs that they have their
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- Their tax rates permanent and solidified.
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- They know they can plan accordingly.
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- And that people have
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- More money in their pocket to spend on their own families
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- And their own needs and obligations.
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- You know, the speaker's margin is thin,
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- But do you think the big, beautiful bill,
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- As the president likes to call it, will get approved?
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- Hard to say.
- 00:13:28.799 --> 00:13:29.800
- Again, it's one of these great uncertainties,
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- This hinge point that we are at right now
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- And in american history.
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- It is
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- It is absolutely crucial for the trump
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- Agenda and for his success
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- As a president, that it does get passed.
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- But there are many, many obstacles,
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- Largely in the senate. and we'll see where that goes.
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- They're trying to do this under reconciliation,
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- Which requires just a simple majority.
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- So it certainly narrows the risk to some extent. but,
- 00:13:50.955 --> 00:13:55.126
- So much hinges on the trump administration's success
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- On this, this budget and the tax bill.
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- One thing for certain, i have seen that the,
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- Committee in the house has now approved of a major,
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- Increase in budgeting for the defense department,
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- Which is badly needed given the threats
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- That we are facing from china and other,
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- Economic adversaries and potential enemies.
- 00:14:15.980 --> 00:14:19.183
- The united states defense is in a sad, sad state right now.
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- We're seeing,
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- You know, increases in recruitment,
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- Which is a really good sign.
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- But these kind of big ticket items of, changing shipbuilding
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- And and building ships in the united states and,
- 00:14:31.228 --> 00:14:34.732
- More airplanes and very, very expensive.
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- And that take a long time to do.
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- So we'll see.
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- We'll see what happens with that.
- 00:14:41.772 --> 00:14:42.907
- But it's a long, drawn out process.
- 00:14:42.907 --> 00:14:46.010
- The tax cut is so important because, as you know, president
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- Trump has said,
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- Among other things,
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- That he hopes to reduce the tax burden
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- On americans, in part through these tariffs.
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- He says we may be able to get rid of a large share of our tax
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- In this country if the tariffs work. but,
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- There's no guarantee that the tariffs are going to work.
- 00:15:02.960 --> 00:15:05.296
- And here's my great concern about all this.
- 00:15:05.296 --> 00:15:07.031
- And it's all part of this piece of the puzzle.
- 00:15:07.031 --> 00:15:08.933
- All of these things sort of intertwine
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- About the future of the trump administration
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- And our tax burdens and our economic health.
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- And it is that in great china, they can't impose
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- Greater hardship on their populace
- 00:15:20.344 --> 00:15:22.313
- Than donald trump can do
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- In the united states,
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- Simply because china is a totalitarian country.
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- President xi can tell the chinese populace
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- And factory
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- Workers, okay,
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- You know how we're going to fight
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- This trade war with the united states.
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- We're going to make all workers,
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- Put in six and a half days of work now.
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- We're going to reduce your salary by 25%,
- 00:15:39.864 --> 00:15:42.566
- And we're going to reduce your lunch hour by 15 minutes.
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- That way, we'll win this trade battle.
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- Donald trump can't do that to the american citizen.
- 00:15:47.772 --> 00:15:51.008
- A lot of american citizens that are
- 00:15:51.008 --> 00:15:52.576
- Our citizens are already hard pressed
- 00:15:52.576 --> 00:15:54.345
- From the inflation battles that we saw,
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- During the biden administration.
- 00:15:56.947 --> 00:15:58.349
- And they are in no mood for higher prices.
- 00:15:58.349 --> 00:16:00.985
- But that's what's happening right now.
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- The trump
- 00:16:03.320 --> 00:16:04.488
- Administration says that this is a temporary situation
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- While these battles are being fought,
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- And that prices will come down when we win this battle.
- 00:16:08.659 --> 00:16:11.328
- But winning that battle is going to be very,
- 00:16:11.328 --> 00:16:13.664
- Very difficult against a country like china,
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- Which, as i say, can impose hardship
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- To a greater degree on its own people
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- Than we can impose on our people in this country.
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- Well, thank you for spending time with us today, doug.
- 00:16:24.141 --> 00:16:26.510
- It's great to be able
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- To call on your experience when there's so much going on.
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- My pleasure. thank you.
- 00:16:30.981 --> 00:16:32.416
- I really appreciate it and great to see you.
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- In a moment, i'll share my thoughts on how to process
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- All these moving parts.
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- All these moving parts.
- 00:16:46.003 --> 00:16:50.536
- You know, i've heard it a lot since the election.
- 00:16:51.571 --> 00:16:54.073
- People have come up to me
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- And said that they were tired of politics,
- 00:16:55.141 --> 00:16:57.310
- Tired of the bickering and the back
- 00:16:57.310 --> 00:16:59.011
- And forth with family and friends, whomever.
- 00:16:59.011 --> 00:17:02.048
- They said to me, let the elected officials go fix the problem.
- 00:17:02.048 --> 00:17:05.084
- I want to go back to my life.
- 00:17:05.084 --> 00:17:06.819
- I want to stop paying attention.
- 00:17:06.819 --> 00:17:08.254
- It's somebody else's problem to fix.
- 00:17:08.254 --> 00:17:09.856
- Now let them go fix it.
- 00:17:09.856 --> 00:17:11.824
- Well, that thought process is deeply misguided.
- 00:17:11.824 --> 00:17:14.961
- We're living in a season where the truth is
- 00:17:14.961 --> 00:17:16.762
- Still not being celebrated.
- 00:17:16.762 --> 00:17:18.898
- We have the illinois state governor
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- Calling for mass disruption, even saying, and i quote,
- 00:17:20.366 --> 00:17:23.803
- Republicans cannot know a moment of peace, end quote.
- 00:17:23.803 --> 00:17:27.373
- When he made that statement,
- 00:17:27.373 --> 00:17:28.374
- He was upset about the administration
- 00:17:28.374 --> 00:17:30.476
- Following through on the campaign
- 00:17:30.476 --> 00:17:32.111
- Promise to make our streets safer
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- And deport violent people who were here illegally.
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- I believe we're going to
- 00:17:37.950 --> 00:17:38.851
- Have to endure to walk through and overcome
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- A season of confusion, a bit of chaos and disruption
- 00:17:42.455 --> 00:17:46.325
- Because the people that initiated this
- 00:17:46.325 --> 00:17:48.461
- Don't want to see the momentum of destruction disrupted.
- 00:17:48.461 --> 00:17:52.131
- The truth is, nobody in washington, dc
- 00:17:52.131 --> 00:17:54.367
- Is going to bring a lasting solution to our problems.
- 00:17:54.367 --> 00:17:57.537
- The future of our nation will depend
- 00:17:57.537 --> 00:17:59.172
- Upon the hearts of god's people, more than it will depend on
- 00:17:59.172 --> 00:18:02.275
- Political parties or economic policies.
- 00:18:02.275 --> 00:18:05.311
- Today marks the national day of prayer.
- 00:18:05.311 --> 00:18:07.480
- It's a u.s.
- 00:18:07.480 --> 00:18:08.648
- Observance held annually on the first thursday of may,
- 00:18:08.648 --> 00:18:11.517
- Encouraging americans to pray for the nation and its leaders.
- 00:18:11.517 --> 00:18:15.655
- Communities across the country are holding prayer
- 00:18:15.655 --> 00:18:17.723
- Gatherings at churches, city halls and schools.
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- I promise you, those prayers give us a greater
- 00:18:20.826 --> 00:18:23.930
- Promise of hope than any threat we see on the horizon.
- 00:18:23.930 --> 00:18:27.867
- God does make a difference.
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- When we come back, we're going to be
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- Reading some of your emails.
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- Reading some of your emails.
- 00:18:39.008 --> 00:18:42.950
- Thank you for taking the time to send your emails.
- 00:18:43.984 --> 00:18:46.053
- I always look forward
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- To reading your thoughts and perspectives.
- 00:18:46.987 --> 00:18:49.356
- Anthony from indiana wrote, i appreciate
- 00:18:49.356 --> 00:18:51.692
- The biblical views on your show.
- 00:18:51.692 --> 00:18:53.427
- I was wondering if you could
- 00:18:53.427 --> 00:18:54.528
- Speak to the scripture reference in leviticus 1933,
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- And tell us what the differences between an alien is described
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- In the scripture, and an illegal or undocumented trespasser
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- That we are dealing with now in america.
- 00:19:04.838 --> 00:19:06.807
- Anthony, it's a really good question,
- 00:19:06.807 --> 00:19:08.842
- And i think the answer is pretty straightforward.
- 00:19:08.842 --> 00:19:10.644
- I believe the coaching being given from scripture
- 00:19:10.644 --> 00:19:12.813
- Helps us refer to an individual that we find amongst us
- 00:19:12.813 --> 00:19:16.083
- That maybe is different from us or isn't like us,
- 00:19:16.083 --> 00:19:18.752
- And we're told to treat them with respect and dignity.
- 00:19:18.752 --> 00:19:21.321
- There's a very different perspective in scripture
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- When there is mass migrations of people,
- 00:19:23.390 --> 00:19:26.660
- When there are invading groups of people who are coming
- 00:19:26.660 --> 00:19:29.463
- To plunder the land multiple times, god raised up
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- Judges to lead armies to expel those people.
- 00:19:32.633 --> 00:19:36.236
- It's not a time for compassion.
- 00:19:36.870 --> 00:19:38.739
- It's a time to protect the integrity of our nation.
- 00:19:38.739 --> 00:19:42.276
- Well, finally, tonight,
- 00:19:42.776 --> 00:19:43.744
- I'd like to say that with your help, we're
- 00:19:43.744 --> 00:19:45.545
- Getting more and more people watching our show each week.
- 00:19:45.545 --> 00:19:48.682
- Truth and hope they cut through all the noise.
- 00:19:48.682 --> 00:19:51.184
- I can see it in the emails we receive.
- 00:19:51.184 --> 00:19:53.253
- Those of you who write telling us
- 00:19:53.253 --> 00:19:54.655
- How grateful you are to have found a place
- 00:19:54.655 --> 00:19:57.057
- Where you can trust what you hear.
- 00:19:57.057 --> 00:19:58.925
- The world is certainly challenging enough to navigate.
- 00:19:58.925 --> 00:20:02.095
- If you also have to navigate what's real
- 00:20:02.095 --> 00:20:04.097
- And what's fake, it's a lot more difficult.
- 00:20:04.097 --> 00:20:06.600
- So let's keep going.
- 00:20:06.600 --> 00:20:07.801
- I'd like you to ask a friend or a neighbor to watch as well.
- 00:20:07.801 --> 00:20:11.705
- Spread the word and then we'll spread the truth.
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- Thank you for watching tonight.
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- I'm alan jackson, and i hope to see you tomorrow.
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- Good night.
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