Doug McKelway: Uncovering America's Hidden Crises | Allen Jackson Now

January 2, 2025 | 20:6

Veteran reporter Doug McKelway and host Allen Jackson delve into the shocking events unfolding in the country. From a terror attack in New Orleans to the impact of an open border policy, they navigate the complexities of trust, media integrity, and the need for truth in a divided nation. As they uncover hidden agendas and grapple with the consequences, they are determined to shed light on the pressing issues facing America and find a way to rebuild trust in its institutions.

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Allen Jackson NOW | Doug McKelway: Uncovering America's Hidden Crises | Allen Jackson Now | January 2, 2025
  • Well.
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  • Good evening, i'm alan jackson, and welcome to nashville.
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  • Right here in our studio, we get to welcome back
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  • The veteran reporter and anchor man, doug mcelroy.
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  • Doug and i first met when he was hosting
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  • Tv and centerpoint show, and i was his guest.
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  • Well, i have to say, there are still days
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  • Where i think it was better
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  • When he was the one asking the questions.
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  • Doug, you've been covering issues
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  • On a national level for a long time now,
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  • And we're always grateful for the insight that you bring.
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  • We've got a lot to discuss today.
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  • Thanks for coming
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  • Back to nashville.
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  • Oh, it's great to see you.
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  • I hope you had a great christmas.
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  • We had a great christmas. wonderful.
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  • You know, i was determined
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  • To begin this year with a focus on good news.
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  • In fact, i wrote a good news journal to share with friends
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  • And people in the congregation and beyond,
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  • Determined to celebrate the good things happening.
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  • When i woke up yesterday
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  • Morning to the news of a terror event in new orleans,
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  • I had a visceral response to the news reporting.
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  • The first thing i heard
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  • The fbi say was, this is not a terror event.
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  • Never mind the fact that there's an isis
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  • Flag on the back of the pickup truck.
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  • You know, i'm pretty certain that if the kkk had been spray
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  • Painted across the
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  • Tailgate of that truck, they wouldn't have begun
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  • By saying this isn't a racist event,
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  • Then i was reminded that in spite of the determination
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  • To find the good things happening around us,
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  • We have a breach of trust in our nation
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  • That has to be rebuilt.
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  • If we're going to find a better way forward,
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  • We're going to have to learn
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  • To trust
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  • Some institutions that are essential to our well-being.
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  • The fbi, i think, is a part of that.
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  • And i don't know what will come with the new administration
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  • And new leadership, but a part of what has to happen
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  • For us to get to a healthier places,
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  • We have to trust them again.
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  • You know, we still don't have the report on the shooting
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  • In butler, pennsylvania, when, president elect trump was shot.
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  • We don't really have an adequate explanation
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  • Of what happened in las vegas with that mass shooting.
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  • We had a shooting at a school in nashville
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  • Where there was a written manifesto
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  • That's never been released to the public,
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  • And the list goes on.
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  • So there is trust to be rebuilt.
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  • The legacy media, the people we trust to tell us the truth,
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  • They've spent the last 3 or 4 years
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  • Either underreporting or ignoring,
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  • Or try to convince us that the president's health
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  • Wasn't failing, no matter what we could see with our own eyes.
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  • Well, all of that seemed to bubble
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  • To the top in me yesterday
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  • When i heard the report that this is a terrorism.
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  • We don't know what the outcome will be.
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  • I'm sure it'll take days and weeks before
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  • All of that news comes to the forefront.
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  • But i want to begin this year.
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  • I'm still watching. i'm still listening.
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  • I'm still thinking.
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  • And from that, i pray we can begin to reconstruct
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  • Trust in these institutions
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  • That are essential to our well-being.
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  • We can't afford to be divided politically, folks.
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  • We have to have a confidence that we can tell one another
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  • The truth, even when we disagree on ideological issues.
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  • That's my prayer for this year,
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  • And i couldn't think of
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  • Anybody better than doug to help us start this.
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  • So we'll begin with the shock that took place in new orleans
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  • On new year's day.
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  • It was an inexplicable way to start a new year.
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  • An isis inspired former u.s.
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  • Military man used a truck to kill as many people as possible.
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  • 14 people plus the shooter died at this point.
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  • The second incident, a bomb filled tesla truck
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  • Exploding in front of a trump hotel in las vegas.
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  • The initial reports suggest that downtown new orleans
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  • Had the resources allocated to prevented such an attack.
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  • What do we know about the route of this kind of madness?
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  • Well, you know, on the on the isis front,
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  • I think i think it's really important to see how
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  • This new orleans event really fits into
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  • What their pattern was during their heyday
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  • When isis was
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  • Was most strong, before
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  • Donald trump took them out
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  • With a lot of missile strikes and things of that sort.
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  • But their process was to go for the weak and vulnerable.
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  • They use the internet to great effect
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  • To lure young, disaffected men into their ranks.
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  • Well, this wasn't a young man.
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  • He was a, you know, reasonably successful human being, had,
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  • Uneventful military career for the most part,
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  • Served in afghanistan for a while.
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  • Went into it work, went into financial services,
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  • Was making over six k, but he had two divorces,
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  • The last of which was,
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  • Extremely stressful for him, from what
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  • I've read initially here,
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  • To the point where he was broke,
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  • He was living in a mobile home, had,
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  • You know, chickens and goats and animals out in his backyard.
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  • He'd taken a very steep fall and looked at the world is,
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  • In my estimation, here is a hopeless place.
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  • There's no place for him at all.
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  • He chose, rather than turn to goodness to get out of that
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  • Dilemma, turned to evil to get out of that dilemma,
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  • What kind of connections?
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  • He had officially or formerly with isis?
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  • We simply don't know.
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  • But but to me, the the takeaway from that is
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  • That there are a lot
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  • Of organizations who are seeking out disaffected
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  • Young people who feel a sense of hopeless ness
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  • And lure them in to do more evil.
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  • That's, an age old dilemma, as you well know.
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  • And and so we got, we got to look out for isis
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  • Recruitment videos, things of this.
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  • We got to find out what this guy's history was with it.
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  • Or was he just a lone wolf
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  • Inspired by the kind of things that isis did?
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  • We know that there was an earlier attack in germany
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  • That may have been his inspiration for this.
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  • And there have been many others like that,
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  • And we've seen pleadings
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  • From various terrorist leaders as if you don't
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  • Have access to a gun or a weapon.
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  • Use what you have at hand, a rock or a car,
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  • In a car is is a vicious weapon.
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  • I've.
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  • I don't know if you've seen the actual video of that car
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  • Building up speed, but he was moving at a huge pace.
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  • You know, it's a really fast.
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  • And, you're going to
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  • Cause just terrible damage when when you have that access.
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  • You know,
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  • I know we don't want to create
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  • Hatred toward islam, and we shouldn't.
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  • Yeah, but don't we have to acknowledge
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  • That too many islamic leaders globally encourage
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  • This kind of destructive behavior and plant
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  • The seeds in the hearts of those that are receptive to it?
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  • I, i think there is a case to be made for that.
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  • A very strong case we made for that.
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  • And, again, i don't know what the way out is,
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  • But but i think in the case
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  • Of, of the fundamentalism of, of islam,
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  • That a strict interpretation of,
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  • You know, stoning people to death
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  • And things of that sort, has outgrown its usefulness.
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  • Can we say let's move on from there?
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  • And i think, i think hope lies with a lot of moderate muslims
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  • Who realize that there are certainly,
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  • Any number of them here in the united states.
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  • But at the same time,
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  • I understand that his house in texas was right in adjacent,
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  • To, a mosque.
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  • I'm very curious to see what kin
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  • What his neighbors knew about him,
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  • What his neighbors knew about the teachings of that mosque
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  • And who the imams were working there.
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  • I had, in my neighborhood in falls church, virginia,
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  • A, a mosque, not far away, which is where, one of the,
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  • The great imams of of isis preached
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  • And he instructed his disciples there to embark upon
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  • This islamic fundamentalism, carnage.
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  • And that's where many of the,
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  • Perpetrators of the nine, 11 hijackings worshiped.
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  • So, you know,
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  • It's really going to be incumbent
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  • Upon authorities in this country to keep a close eye
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  • On that kind of thing.
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  • I think in the case of the fbi,
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  • During the biden administration, there was,
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  • A misdirection where it was
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  • Completely politicized, as i suspect it may have been.
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  • I don't know,
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  • But it was to focus on, on white lone wolf terrorists,
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  • You know, the the hillbilly out in the woods with his rifle.
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  • He wants to wreak damage.
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  • And i could never quite understand that
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  • Why that emphasis was put upon that,
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  • Because it's never really come to fruition.
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  • To my knowledge.
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  • I suspect the january 6th may have had a lot to do with that.
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  • But it seemed to me that it was misdirection, almost.
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  • And this latest attack, these two latest attacks,
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  • Are a reminder that, maybe something else is afoot.
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  • You know, i think there's
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  • We have had a focus, maybe in the wrong place.
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  • We've been angry at parents at school board meetings,
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  • Calling them domestic terrorists.
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  • So true.
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  • And ignoring people who are clearly
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  • Misguided and misled.
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  • One of the things i think we're looking for
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  • Is a repudiation of this from the islamic community.
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  • Right? right. i mean, i think so widespread.
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  • I think we'll see it.
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  • And when it comes
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  • To authority figures in this country and the fbi,
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  • I always like to point out in these cases,
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  • Because i know fbi agents whose meaning and heart
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  • And desire for good work is all in the right place.
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  • I hate to, you know, you know,
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  • Whitewash this whole thing with, with a paint, rather
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  • With a broad brush about the dysfunction of the fbi.
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  • Because i suspect there are a lot of field
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  • Agents and special agents out there
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  • Who want to see a change of leadership
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  • And and see this kind of misdirection and question
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  • Why is the bureau focusing on these kinds of things
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  • When we could be focused on, more pressing issues?
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  • Amen.
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  • We'll be back in just a moment.
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  • We've got a lot more to talk to doug about.
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  • In the meantime, if you want to get in on the conversation,
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  • You can send us your notes to comments at alan
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  • Jackson now.com. we'll be right back.
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  • Jackson now.com. we'll be right back.
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  • Welcome back.
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  • We're here with veteran reporter and newsman doug mcelwee.
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  • They tell me that bourbon street has reopened,
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  • And the playoff game tonight will go forward in new orleans.
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  • That is some good news today.
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  • We can use that.
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  • But, doug, let's move to the border.
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  • And the additional crime that's come with an open border.
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  • Despite his public commitment to make the transition to mr.
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  • Trump useful,
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  • It seems that joe biden is still trying
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  • To take shots at the incoming president,
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  • Despite the multiple episodes
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  • Of crime by those who are here illegally.
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  • And that's on top of the state budgets
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  • That are being drained of dwindling resources.
  • 00:10:22.215 --> 00:10:25.018
  • Mr. biden has even tried to sell pieces of the wall,
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  • But the judge seems to have stopped him for now.
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  • Do you really believe this is how president biden
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  • Wants to be remembered as an open border?
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  • That is welcome to all these people into the nation.
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  • I don't know if he wants to be remembered for that, or
  • 00:10:36.830 --> 00:10:39.099
  • If he doesn't remember what he's being remembered for,
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  • Or whether he's calling the shots.
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  • We simply don't know.
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  • I suspect it's the staff
  • 00:10:44.504 --> 00:10:46.372
  • Who are basically orchestrating all this stuff.
  • 00:10:46.372 --> 00:10:48.742
  • A lot of obama holdovers in the administration.
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  • That's my guess.
  • 00:10:53.379 --> 00:10:54.414
  • But i have no great insight into that,
  • 00:10:54.414 --> 00:10:56.182
  • Just based on what i've read.
  • 00:10:56.182 --> 00:10:58.084
  • But, it makes no sense.
  • 00:10:58.084 --> 00:11:00.587
  • It really does not. he has opened the door.
  • 00:11:00.587 --> 00:11:03.289
  • Joe biden has to any number of potential avenues
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  • For criminality or malfeasance on the part of,
  • 00:11:07.293 --> 00:11:10.630
  • People who are coming across that border.
  • 00:11:10.630 --> 00:11:12.799
  • For instance, not a lot of americans know
  • 00:11:12.799 --> 00:11:14.701
  • Because a lot of the media had never reported it,
  • 00:11:14.701 --> 00:11:16.469
  • That there are
  • 00:11:16.469 --> 00:11:17.570
  • Tens of thousands of chinese nationals
  • 00:11:17.570 --> 00:11:20.073
  • Who came across the southern border,
  • 00:11:20.073 --> 00:11:21.574
  • Tens of thousands of them.
  • 00:11:21.574 --> 00:11:23.510
  • What are they up to? who?
  • 00:11:23.510 --> 00:11:24.778
  • Why are they here? are they
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  • Going to become
  • 00:11:28.648 --> 00:11:29.849
  • University professors, or are they going to become spies?
  • 00:11:29.849 --> 00:11:33.253
  • Are they going to become terrorists?
  • 00:11:33.253 --> 00:11:35.155
  • We don't know.
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  • And, you know, this
  • 00:11:35.989 --> 00:11:37.457
  • This is not a, central and south american problem.
  • 00:11:37.457 --> 00:11:40.460
  • It's a worldwide problem.
  • 00:11:40.460 --> 00:11:41.661
  • People are coming to the united states.
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  • It's got to stop.
  • 00:11:43.329 --> 00:11:44.697
  • And i think donald trump will do it.
  • 00:11:44.697 --> 00:11:46.599
  • That said, it's not going to be easy for him to do this
  • 00:11:46.599 --> 00:11:49.602
  • Because the, the, much despise mainstream media.
  • 00:11:49.602 --> 00:11:54.174
  • And people
  • 00:11:54.174 --> 00:11:55.208
  • Are fleeing in droves from watching mainstream
  • 00:11:55.208 --> 00:11:56.709
  • Networks in the aftermath of the election.
  • 00:11:56.709 --> 00:11:58.311
  • Now is not dead yet.
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  • And i suspect that
  • 00:12:00.446 --> 00:12:02.582
  • One of the ways that they're going to resurrect
  • 00:12:02.582 --> 00:12:04.083
  • Themselves is
  • 00:12:04.083 --> 00:12:05.351
  • By intense coverage of this plan to deport illegal immigrants,
  • 00:12:05.351 --> 00:12:08.888
  • Because there's going to be a lot of opportunity for them
  • 00:12:08.888 --> 00:12:11.624
  • To find the grieving mother with their small child.
  • 00:12:11.624 --> 00:12:16.429
  • On the front page of the new york times
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  • And the washington post day after day
  • 00:12:18.431 --> 00:12:20.633
  • After, do all the network newscasts are going to feature
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  • Feature the crying children?
  • 00:12:23.336 --> 00:12:24.804
  • My daddy is being deported.
  • 00:12:24.804 --> 00:12:26.940
  • It's going to be.
  • 00:12:26.940 --> 00:12:28.041
  • They will tap into their
  • 00:12:28.041 --> 00:12:29.576
  • Emotive news coverage like nothing you've seen before.
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  • So be prepared for that.
  • 00:12:33.580 --> 00:12:35.315
  • I think it's one of the reasons
  • 00:12:35.315 --> 00:12:36.516
  • That the trump administration seems to be focusing
  • 00:12:36.516 --> 00:12:39.385
  • Pretty much exclusively at this point
  • 00:12:39.385 --> 00:12:41.721
  • On deporting criminals, those who are already in jail
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  • Or those who were on the lam from jail
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  • Or those who have some, criminal record in this country.
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  • I think that's where the focus is going to be.
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  • I've heard them say that
  • 00:12:53.233 --> 00:12:54.300
  • Trump himself
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  • Has been on camera saying that
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  • He doesn't want to break up families.
  • 00:12:56.569 --> 00:12:58.838
  • So these are these are good things because i think the
  • 00:12:58.838 --> 00:13:02.408
  • The political consequences, the
  • 00:13:02.408 --> 00:13:04.811
  • The media, consequences of of him embarking on a wholesale,
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  • Willy nilly deportation
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  • Might be very destructive to his presidency.
  • 00:13:15.021 --> 00:13:17.757
  • One thing that seems to be
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  • Very clear already
  • 00:13:19.192 --> 00:13:20.460
  • Is that the incoming borders are is going to get a lot of help.
  • 00:13:20.460 --> 00:13:23.196
  • Listen to what he's already saying.
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  • I have received
  • 00:13:26.699 --> 00:13:28.067
  • Hundreds of emails from retired border patrol agents,
  • 00:13:28.067 --> 00:13:31.471
  • Retired ice agents, retired police officers,
  • 00:13:31.471 --> 00:13:34.841
  • People who have just left the military
  • 00:13:34.841 --> 00:13:36.910
  • That are begging to come in and be a part of this.
  • 00:13:36.910 --> 00:13:39.212
  • So we got to really see what is the money available,
  • 00:13:39.212 --> 00:13:42.382
  • What can we buy as resources through to arrest as many people
  • 00:13:42.382 --> 00:13:45.652
  • As it can buy based on priority?
  • 00:13:45.652 --> 00:13:48.755
  • This seems to be a far cry different
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  • From our previous borders.
  • 00:13:51.491 --> 00:13:54.327
  • You know, i think we're both waiting
  • 00:13:54.327 --> 00:13:55.561
  • To see
  • 00:13:55.561 --> 00:13:56.429
  • How the american public will respond,
  • 00:13:56.429 --> 00:13:57.697
  • But it does seem hopeful that we at least close the border.
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  • I'm not sure who you refer to as the borders.
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  • Unless it was a kamala harris. i guess that's.
  • 00:14:02.001 --> 00:14:04.604
  • That's your time to.
  • 00:14:04.604 --> 00:14:06.639
  • But everybody involved with, immigration
  • 00:14:06.639 --> 00:14:09.842
  • And illegal immigration and the biden
  • 00:14:09.842 --> 00:14:12.078
  • Administration was at fault for this is disastrous.
  • 00:14:12.078 --> 00:14:14.781
  • It was a disastrous night.
  • 00:14:14.781 --> 00:14:16.182
  • I was looking at some numbers of the number of people
  • 00:14:16.182 --> 00:14:17.917
  • Who have crossed the border,
  • 00:14:17.917 --> 00:14:19.052
  • Compared to the great migrations to the united states
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  • In the early part of the 20th century and
  • 00:14:21.621 --> 00:14:23.756
  • And earlier in the in the 19th century,
  • 00:14:23.756 --> 00:14:26.025
  • The great irish migration, a drop in the bucket
  • 00:14:26.025 --> 00:14:29.762
  • Compared to the number of people
  • 00:14:29.762 --> 00:14:31.597
  • Who have crossed the border
  • 00:14:31.597 --> 00:14:32.432
  • Illegally, and all those people from
  • 00:14:32.432 --> 00:14:33.866
  • Ireland and the other from italy, from from from eastern
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  • And western europe.
  • 00:14:37.837 --> 00:14:39.472
  • Came here legally at ellis island,
  • 00:14:39.472 --> 00:14:42.542
  • As opposed to what we're seeing today.
  • 00:14:42.542 --> 00:14:44.644
  • So at least that was legal.
  • 00:14:44.644 --> 00:14:46.446
  • And what we're seeing today completely dwarfs the numbers
  • 00:14:46.446 --> 00:14:49.716
  • Of the early 20th century.
  • 00:14:49.716 --> 00:14:51.150
  • Did it does.
  • 00:14:51.150 --> 00:14:52.585
  • Well, here's something that seems pretty new to me.
  • 00:14:52.585 --> 00:14:54.454
  • The liberal media has actually begun
  • 00:14:54.454 --> 00:14:56.422
  • To accept some blame for not doing enough
  • 00:14:56.422 --> 00:14:58.858
  • Real reporting about president biden's health.
  • 00:14:58.858 --> 00:15:01.627
  • You know, whether they hit it,
  • 00:15:02.228 --> 00:15:03.629
  • They didn't recognize it for whatever reason.
  • 00:15:03.629 --> 00:15:05.765
  • Do you think they're going to continue to
  • 00:15:05.765 --> 00:15:08.468
  • Build some integrity with the american public?
  • 00:15:08.468 --> 00:15:10.136
  • Again, as i,
  • 00:15:10.136 --> 00:15:11.270
  • As i alluded to earlier, they're losing ratings, right.
  • 00:15:11.270 --> 00:15:16.142
  • Right and left, the numbers have dropped
  • 00:15:16.142 --> 00:15:18.745
  • Precipitously since the election.
  • 00:15:18.745 --> 00:15:20.146
  • Now, some of that is to be expected
  • 00:15:20.146 --> 00:15:21.447
  • Because the election is over.
  • 00:15:21.447 --> 00:15:23.049
  • People were watching that intensely.
  • 00:15:23.049 --> 00:15:24.584
  • They want to see what the latest is.
  • 00:15:24.584 --> 00:15:25.918
  • And in the horse race coverage that all the networks did.
  • 00:15:25.918 --> 00:15:29.055
  • But but there's something more afoot here.
  • 00:15:29.956 --> 00:15:32.058
  • People have lost trust in that institution,
  • 00:15:32.058 --> 00:15:34.794
  • The mainstream media.
  • 00:15:34.794 --> 00:15:36.562
  • And,
  • 00:15:36.562 --> 00:15:38.297
  • I know a lot of reporters
  • 00:15:38.297 --> 00:15:39.732
  • Who are licking their wounds right now.
  • 00:15:39.732 --> 00:15:42.101
  • Cheryl atkinson, the former cbs news reporter,
  • 00:15:42.101 --> 00:15:45.505
  • Has compiled a list of the major hoaxes and and mistakes
  • 00:15:45.505 --> 00:15:50.443
  • And misstatements that mainstream media partook
  • 00:15:50.443 --> 00:15:53.813
  • In over the past four years.
  • 00:15:53.813 --> 00:15:55.114
  • And i think the latest number she had was about 151.
  • 00:15:55.114 --> 00:15:58.684
  • I don't want begin to go through them all,
  • 00:15:58.684 --> 00:16:00.653
  • But we all you know what they are.
  • 00:16:00.653 --> 00:16:02.655
  • I know what they are.
  • 00:16:02.655 --> 00:16:03.723
  • And most of your viewers know what they are
  • 00:16:03.723 --> 00:16:06.392
  • And simply don't trust them anymore.
  • 00:16:06.392 --> 00:16:08.961
  • I can't pick up the new york times and read it
  • 00:16:08.961 --> 00:16:11.164
  • And take it at face value.
  • 00:16:11.164 --> 00:16:12.532
  • I look at it just to say, okay, what's wrong with this?
  • 00:16:12.532 --> 00:16:15.935
  • Or or the lead is buried 15 paragraphs down.
  • 00:16:15.935 --> 00:16:19.072
  • They finally,
  • 00:16:19.072 --> 00:16:20.306
  • They finally cut to the chase at 16 paragraphs down before
  • 00:16:20.306 --> 00:16:22.942
  • Setting their woke agenda all the way down line.
  • 00:16:22.942 --> 00:16:25.845
  • So they've got a lot to do if they want to,
  • 00:16:25.845 --> 00:16:29.315
  • Resurrect themselves.
  • 00:16:29.315 --> 00:16:30.883
  • You know, elon musk, on the other hand,
  • 00:16:30.883 --> 00:16:32.819
  • Says they're all dead. they'll never recover.
  • 00:16:32.819 --> 00:16:35.088
  • That the new way to go is x.
  • 00:16:35.088 --> 00:16:37.290
  • And as much as i admire elon tremendously, i think he's
  • 00:16:37.290 --> 00:16:40.126
  • He's he's the thomas edison of the 21st century.
  • 00:16:40.126 --> 00:16:43.329
  • He's also a good salesman.
  • 00:16:43.329 --> 00:16:45.565
  • And he paid $40 billion for x.
  • 00:16:45.565 --> 00:16:47.567
  • So, you know, he's got to
  • 00:16:47.567 --> 00:16:49.735
  • He wants to earn that money back to some degree.
  • 00:16:49.735 --> 00:16:52.205
  • Not that that's all that much money for him, but,
  • 00:16:52.205 --> 00:16:54.807
  • So because when you go to x, for example,
  • 00:16:55.641 --> 00:16:58.377
  • You have to,
  • 00:16:58.377 --> 00:16:59.378
  • There's a lot of chaff that you got to separate
  • 00:16:59.378 --> 00:17:02.148
  • From the wheat.
  • 00:17:02.148 --> 00:17:03.082
  • And i find that very, very frustrating.
  • 00:17:03.082 --> 00:17:05.284
  • So that's not the final solution here in terms of trusted,
  • 00:17:05.284 --> 00:17:09.388
  • Media sources.
  • 00:17:09.722 --> 00:17:11.023
  • Because there's just too much misinformation and all that.
  • 00:17:11.023 --> 00:17:15.595
  • You have to really sort through it all
  • 00:17:15.595 --> 00:17:17.430
  • To find the nuggets of truth.
  • 00:17:17.430 --> 00:17:18.931
  • That said, x is, the place where news breaks.
  • 00:17:18.931 --> 00:17:23.936
  • Now, if you really want to find breaking news, it's not the
  • 00:17:23.936 --> 00:17:27.240
  • The wire services, it's not the associated press,
  • 00:17:27.240 --> 00:17:29.742
  • Which is veered leftward.
  • 00:17:29.742 --> 00:17:31.244
  • It is x because you just you put it in the search function
  • 00:17:31.244 --> 00:17:35.448
  • And what you're interested in,
  • 00:17:35.448 --> 00:17:37.116
  • And you will find something
  • 00:17:37.116 --> 00:17:38.384
  • Very legitimate there and fresh and new.
  • 00:17:38.384 --> 00:17:40.586
  • So so that's its real benefit.
  • 00:17:40.586 --> 00:17:42.889
  • I'm also really encouraged by the fact that you see a lot
  • 00:17:42.889 --> 00:17:46.559
  • Of independent news organizations
  • 00:17:46.559 --> 00:17:47.860
  • Arising from the detritus of mainstream media
  • 00:17:47.860 --> 00:17:50.963
  • Like substack, is a wonderful thing.
  • 00:17:50.963 --> 00:17:53.799
  • It may not be your perfect political alignment,
  • 00:17:53.799 --> 00:17:57.870
  • But you'll find that there, and you'll find, you know,
  • 00:17:57.870 --> 00:18:01.741
  • Contrary points of view, lengthy news articles
  • 00:18:01.741 --> 00:18:05.444
  • That will allow you to be really well informed in
  • 00:18:05.444 --> 00:18:08.581
  • A, in a neutral kind of a way.
  • 00:18:08.581 --> 00:18:10.082
  • And so where you're getting both perspectives
  • 00:18:10.082 --> 00:18:11.817
  • And you're not getting the spin
  • 00:18:11.817 --> 00:18:13.619
  • That we see in mainstream media, but this is fascinating to me
  • 00:18:13.619 --> 00:18:17.890
  • What's happened to mainstream media.
  • 00:18:17.890 --> 00:18:19.392
  • I don't know where it went wrong.
  • 00:18:19.392 --> 00:18:21.260
  • It was a gradual process,
  • 00:18:21.260 --> 00:18:23.296
  • But in many respects it is completely broken.
  • 00:18:23.296 --> 00:18:25.965
  • And trump's election is the potential
  • 00:18:25.965 --> 00:18:29.135
  • For a great realignment.
  • 00:18:29.135 --> 00:18:30.670
  • I pray you're a prophet.
  • 00:18:30.670 --> 00:18:32.371
  • We've got a 30 minute show, but there's a lot
  • 00:18:32.371 --> 00:18:33.773
  • We want to talk about.
  • 00:18:33.773 --> 00:18:34.974
  • Doug, can you stay around for another show? absolutely.
  • 00:18:34.974 --> 00:18:36.943
  • Thank you for being back in nashville. sure. okay.
  • 00:18:36.943 --> 00:18:39.845
  • Well, in a moment, i'll be back
  • 00:18:40.479 --> 00:18:41.781
  • With some thoughts of my own to share.
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  • We'll be right back.
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  • We'll be right back.
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  • 00:18:54.927 --> 00:18:58.564
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  • 00:18:59.198 --> 00:19:00.633
  • I had an idea that perhaps you'd be interested
  • 00:19:00.633 --> 00:19:02.435
  • In doing a series like pbs ad, but with a biblical focus.
  • 00:19:02.435 --> 00:19:06.806
  • Steve allen hosted the show
  • 00:19:06.806 --> 00:19:08.074
  • Back in 1977, called meeting of the minds,
  • 00:19:08.074 --> 00:19:11.143
  • Where he had a panel of historical figures.
  • 00:19:11.143 --> 00:19:13.145
  • It was very interesting and quite educational.
  • 00:19:13.145 --> 00:19:15.615
  • Like i said, just a thought.
  • 00:19:15.615 --> 00:19:17.783
  • Well, bill, i appreciate your thought.
  • 00:19:17.783 --> 00:19:19.485
  • Makes me smile.
  • 00:19:19.485 --> 00:19:20.586
  • The thought of me on pbs that would be a god of it.
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  • In the 21st century.
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  • We've had several suggestions for programing and new programs.
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  • We'll keep you posted.
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  • Will be back to talk about current events
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  • And what's happening in our nation for now.
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  • Good night from nashville.
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  • God bless.
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