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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: Trump Opposition | Allen Jackson Now | August 28, 2025

Good evening, and welcome to nashville.
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I'm alan jackson.
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It's been the most effective campaign slogan in modern times.
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Make america great again.
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Donald trump won two elections with it.
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And now the democrats are struggling
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To come up with an equally effective one.
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So far, they've got nothing.
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And if they base it on what they're doing these days,
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It might well be called if trump does it, we're against it.
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It seems that they can't cope with the fact that the president
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Has effectively strengthened the economy,
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Stopped the illegal traffic from coming into the country,
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And brought in much of the world to genuine peace.
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But when it comes to peace at home,
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Especially in our cities,
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The democrats say they want nothing to do with it,
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Despite the fact
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That washington had a murder every other day for years.
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Chicago has at least one every day.
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New york city and its subway system is a nightmare.
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Los angeles, baltimore they're much the same
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Where you don't want to be out alone, especially at night.
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President trump decided enough was enough,
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So he brought national guard troops to washington,
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And the crime has virtually stopped.
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More than 1000 bad guys have been arrested
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Already, and people are enjoying the outdoor restaurants again.
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It's a political victory as well.
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Polls show that eight out of ten people believe crime
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In the cities in america is a big problem.
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And that poll was taken before the tragic
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Shooting in minneapolis yesterday,
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Where young children
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Were praying at a mass during their first week of school.
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Two were killed. many more were injured.
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The crime rate in democratic run minneapolis, it's twice the
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National average.
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Or regardless, mayors and
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Governors of these big cities are resisting any help.
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Listen to some of what they've said.
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Do you believe that the streets of chicago would be safer
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If there were more
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Uniformed police officers on the streets of chicago?
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I believe the city of chicago, in cities across america,
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Would be safer
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If we actually had, you know, affordable housing.
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This dog and pony show of militarizing and saying
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That we're coming to clean up the city.
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Mr. president, do not come to chicago.
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You are neither wanted here nor needed here.
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Well, vice president jd vance was happy to respond
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To the chorus.
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Why are democrat governors angrier
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About federal law enforcement helping clean up their streets
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Than they are about the fact that those streets need
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To be cleaned up to begin with?
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It shows a real sickness in the head.
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And i agree with the united states.
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I think most democrats rank and file.
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Nobody likes crime.
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Republicans don't like crime.
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Democrats don't like crime.
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Independents don't like crime.
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Why are democratic governors doing everything in their power
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To make crime easier to do in their cities?
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Well, to answer that question, we brought back
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The co-founder of south and hill strategies, colin reid.
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Welcome back. colin.
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Hey, alan, thanks so much.
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It's great to be here.
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You know, from a pure safety point of view,
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It's absolutely clear that the democrats are wrong.
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And from a political point of view, it's beyond comprehension
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That they would fight the idea of fighting crime.
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Could it be as simple as if trump does it?
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We're just against it.
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Well, that's it in a nutshell.
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And it's too bad because some of these
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Commonsense measures he's implementing
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Are getting real results.
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And if you look at the state of the city
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That i'm sitting in right now, washington, d.c.
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In the last year alone, dc's
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Crime rate was much higher
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Than new york or la or any of these
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Other major cities comparably.
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And since he's taken the measures he's took,
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Which he has the ability to do so since washington, d.c.,
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Is a federal jurisdiction.
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Those numbers have moved in the right direction.
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I know even the democratic mayor,
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Muriel thousands of washington, d.c.,
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Was acknowledging some of that today.
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So this is not a partizan issue. the vice president's right.
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Everybody wants to feel safe in their communities.
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Everybody wants you to walk down the street in this city.
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There's no one who hasn't been touched
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By crime in some way or another. and
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When something isn't working, get to try something new.
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Unfortunately for the democratic party,
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Everything the president does,
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They're instinctively against, even if it's common sense.
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So it's their own loss.
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But voters are seeing through it, and it's part of the reason
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They're up the creek without a paddle
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In so many different ways.
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You know, the only consistent thing
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I see from the democrats each day is
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That they're on the wrong side of everything.
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They don't want to deport gang members who are here illegally.
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They fight lower interest rates.
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They're content with letting
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Foreign companies undermine our economy.
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And they'll say
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Just about anything to get a tv camera pointed at them.
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Is that consistent with what you see? it is.
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And if you watch that
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President's cabinet
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Breaking the other day, that cabinet meeting,
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Which was his fifth of the year, he's basically
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Done more in a year than joe biden did in four years.
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And it's so nice to have a president commander
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In chief out there again.
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But one of the things he kept talking about was common sense.
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And it's smart because common sense
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Cuts across political grounds.
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It cuts across ideological grounds.
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These are things that people want. they want secure borders.
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They want lower interest rates.
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They want safe cities. who can disagree with that?
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Unfortunately, a democratic party,
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Because of their obsession with being all things
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Anti-trump, our framing themselves as such.
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And it's doing a disservice to their voters,
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Frankly, in america, because our country benefits
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When there's two vibrant competing parties
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And right now they're engaged.
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And that's okay that democrats
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Will find their way back eventually.
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But in the meantime,
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If you just look at how far this country has come in
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Just one short year, it's amazing.
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Gas is at a relatively lower rate this year.
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Going into the holiday weekend than it was a year ago.
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And that's of course,
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Thanks to the president's energy first agenda.
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So there's so many things that are going right right now.
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And, it just it's amazing
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What happens with just a change
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Of administration and just a little more than seven months.
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If you measure this by the
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Numbers, there's an encouraging statistic
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By kristi noem that she's put out.
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Homeland security posted
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Job openings for hiring more ice agents
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And more than 130,000 people have applied already.
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Doesn't that say something about which side
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Of the crime issue many americans want to be on?
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It's curious, and it's amazing what happened to her last year.
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All this talk about the need to pass some sort of legislation.
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And that was kind of the democratic starting point.
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And then president trump came in,
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Signed system executive orders, just sets a new day in america.
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People who are coming here
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Across this border illegally don't
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We're going to make the border secure.
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And then illegal immigration crossings
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Gone down to zero from all time highs to zero.
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So it's just amazing
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What happens with a change of administration. and
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Look, the party that stands against common sense
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Inherently stands for extremism in the democratic party.
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They had their
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Their national meeting this week in minnesota,
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And they were talking
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About how they need to use words that people can understand.
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It's like if you guys had to have a convention to understand
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That people want to vote for normal human beings,
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Which they talk and sound like them,
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You get bigger problems and bigger fish to fry.
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Well, as usual, the liberal media is siding with
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The democrats.
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Here's a quote from the lead story on axios.
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Pay attention
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To the condescending tone
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From a place that says it's run by journalist.
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And i quote, president
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Trump is molding dc into his own personal epcot,
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A political theme park where troops keep the peace.
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The white house glitters like mar-a-lago
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And museums answer to maga.
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Do they have no other way of covering
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Washington without making fun of trump's every move?
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It's funny.
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I mean, people seem to look back at where washington, d.c.
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Was under the previous administration
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As four years and crime was spiraling out of control.
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It wasn't that long ago,
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And people in the city were being told
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If they wanted to become
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To avoid becoming victims of carjacking,
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That they should drive in the middle lane,
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Roll their windows up,
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Avoid slowing down at red lights and stop signs.
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And people just said, okay, i guess this is the way it is.
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You don't need to be. it shouldn't take, washington, d.c.
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Not only the capital of america is the capital of free world,
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And they should be the safest, cleanest,
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Most beautiful city for people to come visit, take
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In all our monuments, see all we have to offer.
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And until recently, it has,
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But you can't get a democrat to admit
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That there's
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Just so obsessed with being all things anti-trump,
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They won't even meet the obvious.
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Which crime is spiraled out of control?
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Now it's moving in the right direction.
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And look, this was a three day experiment
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With the national guard.
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So let's hope these things hold over time.
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But at least this president is coming in
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And trying something new
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And breaking away from the status quo,
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Which obviously, clearly, patently was not working
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Or calling. we need to take a short break.
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Can you stay with us for another segment?
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Of course.
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Well, in the meantime you can try pulling up aj now.com
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And look at what's there,
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Including a link to send me an email.
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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 with the co-founder
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Of south and hill strategies, collin reed.
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There's an interesting twist on how the white house
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Is reframing the recently passed budget bill.
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At a cabinet meeting, the president said he's
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Moving away from calling it the big beautiful bill
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To the working families tax cuts bill.
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Is that better positioning for the midterms?
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Well, the president's a master of branding
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And he knows what the best way to frame this.
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However you slice and dice it,
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Let's be clear this was a major accomplishment.
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It's in a number of really important things.
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Most most of all, it
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Helps people avoid a massive tax hike at the end of the year.
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It provided business tax cuts and a lot of certainty
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For america's small businesses.
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All of those are great.
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And all of those traditional
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Republican orthodoxy, and i'm glad he did it.
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But what was new and interesting and exciting about this bill
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Is it also included,
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Provisions for those who aren't always necessarily seen under
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The republican brella
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Until now, things like no tax and tips, no tax on overtime.
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These are provisions meant to help people believe
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That the republican party is party of the working people.
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It's not just the corporations
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And the and the and the big businesses.
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And, thankfully, the democratic party has become
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So hostile to businesses across the board
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That they're potentially on the verge
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Of electing
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An outright socialist, in new york city, which would
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Which would be a terrible sign for the world.
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But that shows where they are.
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The energy in the democratic party is on that socialism side.
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You know, he said, give me give
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Zoran mamdani credit up in new york city.
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At least he's being honest
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About what he is and what he believes.
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So, hopefully the voters up there
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Paying attention and making a different choice.
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One of the most vocal democrats
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The past few years is california senator adam schiff.
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Schiff's facing a criminal referral
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For falsified bank documents and property records,
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All of which was done
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So he could get a more favorable loan on his house in maryland.
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But he's still full on attacking president trump.
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Listen to his most recent comments.
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The president is deeply unpopular,
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One of the most unpopular presidents in history.
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His agenda is unpopular.
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The big ugly bill that is cutting health care
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For millions to fund tax cut for tax cuts for rich people
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Is historically unpopular.
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So how much trouble do you think schiff is in for his deceitful
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Loans?
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You know, deeply unpopular
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Adam schiff and i take a look in the mirror.
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I mean, that guy has just been the face
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Of the unpopular democratic existence.
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I can't tell you how many years i thought it was
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Pretty telling that when stephen colbert announced
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The show was canceled.
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No coincidence.
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Adam schiff was the special guest that night.
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So, look,
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This is a guy who long ago
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Lost all credibility with most voters.
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He's seen as someone
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Who's just reflexively anti-trump on all things.
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And he's someone who people have long ago tuned out.
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And that's the that's part of the democratic problem
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Is they don't have anything they're for.
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They just have what they're against.
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And that's president trump.
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And again,
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When president trump sounds like a normal human being
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Trying to do things that most people agree
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With in the democratic party says we're against all of that.
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That's how you get these 8020 issues.
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As president trump likes to say, we're most americans with him.
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So, it's to their own detriment.
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Well, we've spoken to several guest about the confusion
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In the new york city mayor's race.
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The socialist candidate
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Is trying to create some new photo ops,
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But it seemed like it was a bust.
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Zoran mamdani was trying to show some strength,
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But to even lift 135 pounds, he needed help.
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Do you have any sense of the people
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Are catching on to his facade?
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Yeah.
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Talk about a symbolism of,
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Socialism or communism, whatever you want to call it.
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Just not working.
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Look, i i'll say this.
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I think we should not want all of us
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Americans should not want america as largest city,
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The epicenter of capitalism and free enterprise,
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To fall into the hands of an avowed socialist.
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We shouldn't.
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It sends a bad message
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Not only to our own innovators, but also to the world.
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That being said,
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New york city democrats outnumber republicans 6 to 1.
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If they can't get their act together,
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And with governor
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Cuomo and mayor adams
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Both having their own unique set of challenges,
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This is a problem for democrats own making.
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I hope they figure it out.
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I hope they find a way to not allow the city
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To fall into democratic hands.
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To mr.
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Mamdani, for all the credit
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He gets for running this inspiring campaign,
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The majority of voters still want somebody else.
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It's just those democrats, other
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Democrats running are so badly fractured
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And so badly just credited that he's just happens to be,
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The tallest lady grass in that race.
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So i hope common sense prevails.
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I hope mr. montana has become mayor.
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But ultimately, the end of the day,
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This is a problem the democrats are making.
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They need to fix it.
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Well, there's also the
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Fact that california has already tried
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Many of these socialist programs.
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And looking for california is now.
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Is there anything gavin newsom has done
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That would make him a worthy candidate
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For a presidential race?
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What we're going to find out,
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Because it's so clear
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That he's trying to look at so many of these bad ideas
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That have happened over the last four years
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Happening in california,
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And the results
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Speak for themselves
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To get the highest tax rate
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In the nation, the highest cost of living.
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Their energy prices are through the roof.
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We remember those attempts by governor
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Newsom to make everyone buy an electric car
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That they didn't want and couldn't afford.
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That wasn't just a suggestion, california.
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That was a mandate, until republicans in congress,
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Repealed it and president trump signed a repeal of that.
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And the reason that that matters, because
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Had governor newsom been able to take that,
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It was automatically going to,
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Export to 10 or 11 different states,
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Meaning a lot of people in parts of america
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Who had no idea it would be one day told
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They had to buy an electric car, whether they liked it or not.
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I say all that because this is california
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Had just been the epicenter of so many of these bad ideas,
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And we see what's happened.
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So look, governor newsom is going to run on his record.
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Good luck, because there's not a whole lot to run on.
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And california's blessed the such incredible
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Natural physical resources.
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They should be the it should be the best city.
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It's produced presidents from richard nixon to ronald reagan.
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But i don't think it's going to produce another one.
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And gavin newsom.
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Will be on governor newsom.
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Do you see any promising candidates for 2028?
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It's a great question, alan.
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I mean, look, i think the problem
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They face right now
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Is there's a couple of
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Places to watch right now in virginia and new jersey,
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Where there's two democratic candidates running
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That should they prevail under a normal year,
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They might be seen as potential beacons of hope for the future.
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The problem they face is
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They're going to be sharing the ballot that mr.
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Mamdani in new york city.
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And he's the one who's going to take all the energy,
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The oxygen, the attention,
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And he's going to be the next sensation. so,
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It's uphill sledding.
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But in politics, nothing is ever as good or as bad as it seems.
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And both parties would be wise to take that to heart and,
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Not not not not get to boston, in the future
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And just worry about the here and now.
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Well, colin reed, thank you
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For your time and your wisdom today.
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Thank you all and have a great weekend.
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And i'd like to mention
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Colin is working on the senate campaign
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For another of our guest, scott brown.
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Hope to see you again soon with an update.
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Yes, sir. i hope so too.
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Well, coming up next, hope and how we find it.
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And later, your emails, the voices of the people.
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We got a lot of them ready.
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I'll be right back.
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I'll be right back.
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I believe it's important that we pray for the families
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Affected by this horrific act of evil perpetrated in minnesota.
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The children were in school
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Worshiping god when gunfire rang out.
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This level of evil is demonic, and our hearts are heavy
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When we see the tremendous suffering that emerges.
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The suffering comes in many ways, in many forms,
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And it's very seldom expected,
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And it's typically very unwelcome.
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But in the midst of that, i trust god to do something.
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We also need to pray for our schools.
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You know,
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We had taken our eyes off of our schools and universities,
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And one of the benefits that came out of the covid
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Tragedy was an awareness of our schools,
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Where we had largely just been unaware and asleep.
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We put schools on autopilot and kind of accepted
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The status quo.
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Then we heard the president of a teachers
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Union say that their opinion is more important than parents.
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No it's not.
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We need new leadership.
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If the leadership thinks that is true.
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I can't speak to all nations, but i can speak to the one
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Where god has planted us.
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Our nation needs a course correction.
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We can't deny the lord and deny his place in the public
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Square, his place in our schools and in our homes.
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And then imagine that we'll dwell in the peace and safety
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That god would bring.
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One of the most distressing parts to me after tragedies
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Like this is to hear people who mock prayer.
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Well, my response is, we're going to pray anyway.
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The corporate prayers of god's people can change the
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Course of nations.
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And if we'll pray, i assure you there's more reasons for hope
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Than despair.
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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 of your day with us.
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Just a reminder, if you ever miss a live episode,
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You can always go to aj now, dot com.
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The full archive of programs there.
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You can watch them at your leisure,
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Even share them with a friend.
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And thanks for your emails.
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They're always a highlight for us.
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Scott, from tennessee remarked,
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So encouraged to see the logo of cracker
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Barrel change back to the original after people spoke up.
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I wish we could get everyone to speak up
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Like that for one nation under god.
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Well, scott,
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It was encouraging as a fellow tennessee
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And we know cracker barrel started
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Just down the street from where i'm at.
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It was good to see the people respond.
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And for once, a corporate power structure paid attention.
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Larry from
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Mississippi commented on the samuel small episode
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Great show with businessman pastor from israel.
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I like his show on tv in.
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I think it's called reflections.
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I wish he would do more of those shows on tv in.
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Well, i agree larry, i think samuel has a
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An intriguing and unique perspective on what's happening
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In israel and beyond.
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And we all benefit when he takes the time to share it.
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R.k. from lawrenceburg, tennessee,
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Said how sad that families can't grieve the loss
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At the minneapolis catholic school shooting
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Without the democrats demanding gun control.
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Only minutes after praying for all those affected.
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Well, okay,
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I do think there's far
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Too many people
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Rushing to take political advantage of a tragedy.
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Not new behavior, but it doesn't make it any better.
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It's actually repulsive to watch,
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And prayer does make a difference
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No matter what jen psaki says.
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We're going to keep praying.
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Dennis from alabama,
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My wife and i see you on tv and every evening.
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Thank you for your bold and truthful broadcast.
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God bless your efforts.
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Well, thanks for watching.
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Maybe invite a friend.
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The more the merrier.
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And finally, sherry from tennessee said, can satan speak
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Words to us like the holy spirit that we can hear?
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Well, sherry, that's a good question.
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I do think that our minds are a battlefield,
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And we can have thoughts that oftentimes
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Are certainly not inspired by god.
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So, yeah,
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I have to believe that there are ungodly,
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Unholy spirits
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That have can influence our thoughts and our minds.
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It's important what we think about that.
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We have the self-discipline to not just let our emotions
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Drive our thoughts anywhere but we focus them
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In an intentional way.
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I think that's why reading the word of god
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Is such a powerful
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And helpful part of flourishing in this season of confusion.
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Well, as always, it's an honor
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To have a few minutes with you this day.
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I'm alan jackson and i pray you have a wonderful evening.
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