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Charlie Kirk Today | Charlie Kirk: August 13, 2025 | Charlie Kirk Today | August 13, 2025

Brought to you in part by the
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International fellowship of christians and jews.
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We're going
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To get straight to a guest here.
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But many different things.
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And i love this idea of just doing things,
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Cleaning up our cities.
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Amongst many other topics that we are going to cover.
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The guest is oren mcintire.
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He's a serious thinker.
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Blaze, tv host and author of the total state
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So speaking of kind of the
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Structure and the form of government,
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Let's dive into some of the news of the day.
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President donald trump has announced that there's
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Going to be a federal takeover of washington, dc.
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We have long said that crime is a choice,
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That rampant crime and the kind of
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Degeneration of america's greatest cities
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Has been a conscious decision by our political leaders.
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Has there been a comparable example in history
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Or even in modern western times, of a great power
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Deciding to no longer be great?
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And your thoughts on the federalization of
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Washington, dc as president donald trump uses federal force
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To clean up our nation's capital?
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I think it's a constant feature of declining societies,
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Especially declining empires, that they lose the will
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To make the hard choices
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That decisions become increasingly difficult
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Because everyone wants
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To avoid accountability and responsibility.
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Laws get put into place just to protect the criminals,
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Because ultimately it's fear of the process
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Sets that people worry about,
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And not the fear of the actual crime.
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The people who are being victimized are put below
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The others.
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Their rights are less important than the rights
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Of the criminal.
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I think that what we're seeing
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With donald trump right now is the willingness to say no.
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Law and order is what matters.
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The safety of the american people is what matters.
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And we're not going to let
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A bunch of soft on crime laws and everybody else
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Who's trying to put all of these barriers
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Between us and keeping the people safe,
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We're going to start ignoring those.
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We have the authority to do so.
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The constitution grants congress
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The, ultimate legislative authority over washington, d.c.
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It was never supposed to be a its own city
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With its own political interests.
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And it certainly wasn't supposed to increase crime
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By putting these type of soft on crime policies in place.
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I think a lot of people have been waiting
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For moves like this from donald trump,
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And they're very encouraged
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To see him taking this kind of action.
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Of course, the the press is up in arms over all of it.
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And it's like, it's not that crime is hard to stop.
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It's that it's mildly unpleasant to stop.
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And we have decided that if some groups
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Will go to prison more often than others,
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Then it's just not worth having real loss.
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Yeah, that's true, but
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Yeah, police are in police.
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Oh i'm sorry. yeah.
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I just
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We see that reflected all over our society that ultimately
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What people are worried about more is offense
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Than actual safety.
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And so over and over again we see people choosing
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Not to offend certain groups, to placate certain politically
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Correct theories about how society works,
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As opposed to look at how society
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Is really working and taking action.
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And so a lot of people
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Will notice, for instance, that certain groups,
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Such as black americans, often commit higher crimes.
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But it is unfashionable to admit this, and noticing
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That more of these people would go to jail
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Should people be actually arrested.
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And the law enforce
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Means that we have to pull back
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On the actual crime enforcement.
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And i believe you've talked to steve saylor
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About this kind of impact that we see over again.
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It from
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Kind of the perceptions
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Our society has about how we should treat crime
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And this is ultimately damaging people.
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So once again, like you said, we know how to solve
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This problem. it's not that crime is a mystery.
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We know what works,
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But we simply
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Chose not to enforce it because ultimately, crime
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Is a policy choice.
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You can choose between actually
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Enforcing the law and keeping people safe,
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And having a free and equal society
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In which you understand that ultimately, some groups
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Who commit more crimes may end up in jail more often.
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Or you can play, you know, this, this game of obfuscating
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What's actually going
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On, being soft on these policies
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Ultimately hurting the very people
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Who are contributing to society.
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Just so you can please a bunch of people
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Who ultimately probably aren't voting, aren't contributing,
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Are being involved in the body politic anyway,
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You mentioned something such as disparate impact.
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And do you believe this idea of disparate impact
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That more black people
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Might go to jail if you're tough on crime?
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Is that one of the modern original sins
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As to why we have allowed the country to descend
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Into a more dangerous and at times,
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Third world unrecognizable environment?
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Oh, absolutely.
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And people have to understand that
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This is actually encoded into our law.
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The civil rights act originally was,
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Implemented with the idea
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That, of course, we wanted equal treatment
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For people of all races in the united states.
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But what quickly happened
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Is that the courts developed this doctrine
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Of disparate impact,
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And the idea that if
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There's ever any difference between group outcomes,
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Whether it be education or crime or anything else,
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That the only answer to that different, result is racism.
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It's de facto racism.
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Even if you didn't mean to be racist,
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It means that you are racist.
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And this doctrine impacts everything in our society.
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The, cheats gas station, lost a, lawsuit
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Against the federal government last year.
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They brought a civil rights lawsuit
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Against this gas station because it was excluding people
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From employment due to background checks
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And more often than not, background checks
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That exclude people were excluding more black
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And other minority members during the selection process.
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So even though
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It was just a background check for criminal activity
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Because it disproportionately
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Produced results that kept black americans
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From getting jobs there, they lost the lawsuit
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They were in violation of the civil rights act.
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And this attitude impacts
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Everything our policing, our schools.
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I used to be a public school teacher.
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I was in a majority
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Minority school, and in that school it was made
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Very clear that we could not discipline
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Or fail our students because they were minority
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Students, and disproportionately
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That would show that we were racist,
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Even though they were the majority of the student body.
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And it would simply make sense that more minority students
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Were going to be failed or expelled
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In that environment, it didn't matter.
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So this doesn't just affect crime in dc.
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This affects how your child is educated
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In the public school down the street.
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The civil rights act was a new founding,
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Where we decided to discard the us constitution
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And reconstitute the story of the mantra,
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The creed and the vision of america.
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And you even see this in republican circles as well.
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Well, they say, well, you know, the civil rights act
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Corrected a lot of the errors.
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The constitution, no, it didn't.
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The the civil rights act was a completely new creation.
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Of course, it was well intended by some.
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We've acknowledged that many times.
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But the civil rights act at its core was a new founding.
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It was the discard.
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What happened prior?
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The constitution says people of equal rights imagine
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Just treating people equally.
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The civil rights act does not treat people equally,
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Because the legal theory
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Under the civil rights act is disparate. impact.
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And so therefore, you can't arrest
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A bunch of criminals in dc because you might be
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Disproportionately arresting black men
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And that might be deemed as racist.
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Stay right there.
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It's right over israel's border.
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There are thousands of christians and druze
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Who are being targeted and killed.
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I'm going to close the door.
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Your vision.
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But for us, the fellowship cannot stand by and watch.
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We are sending aid in.
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Most of the world is oblivious to what's happened
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To thousands of people who have lost their lives.
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No food, no medicine.
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We're standing in the middle of america
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Who will be in the hands of jews and christians alike.
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I'm proud of the international fellowship of christians
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And jews to reach inside these most hostile territories
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And save human lives, wherever it's needed.
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We will continue to save lives of our brothers and sisters.
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We will continue to give hope.
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To learn more, please go to ifc.org.
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I'm terry hinshaw with 180 disaster relief
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Since 2013 and the moore tornado.
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We've been helping families in crisis.
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People who go through floods, fires,
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Hurricanes and all kinds of disasters
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With plans to lift the fallen
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In a world that's for the poor.
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Since the day after hurricane helene,
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We've had boots on the ground.
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It is so important
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Because there's
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So many families waiting right now
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That still don't even have power.
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They've lost all their furniture
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And they don't have the resources to rebuild
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Families finding shelter where there once was only pain.
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Our focus is to help people understand
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How much god loves and cares for them.
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That they would know that they're not alone.
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Go to the website at the bottom of your screen to give now.
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Every dollar makes a difference.
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Bringing hope in jesus name.
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Together we can turn devastation into restoration.
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One family at a time.
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One family at a time.
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Or in mcintyre continues
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Us or do you have a thought on
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The civil rights act being the new american founding
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And how modern america is largely
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Based on this idea of disparate impact?
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Critical theory that has grown into all of our institutions,
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Going back to the civil rights act.
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Yeah, it's absolutely wild what conservatives will allow
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Under the name of the civil rights act.
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Normally, we would recognize a program
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That basically had the legal right
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To go into every business, into every, school,
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Into every organization and demand
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How they organize themselves, who they can hire,
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How they can do business.
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We would recognize that is a soviet style
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Engineering program, a social engineering program
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From the top down.
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And yet we allow this because we've basically adopted
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The civil rights act as our second constitution.
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We like to think that ultimately,
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Whatever tradeoffs we're giving one of our freedom
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Are okay, because at the end of the day,
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They're bringing about a harmonious society.
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But of course, when the civil rights act was originally sold,
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The idea was this was a temporary measure.
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We had had an unfair, system that had targeted
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Black americans in a way that we found
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Ultimately morally reprehensible,
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And we needed to make big changes.
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But the funny thing about all government
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Programs is they never sunset.
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They never go away.
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And so
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Even though after decades
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And decades of having its thumb on the scales,
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We haven't
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Seen a vast improvement in the african-american
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Communities situation.
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In fact, in many ways, we've seen it
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Degrade due to the civil rights act.
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Despite that, we continue to say
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The only option is to pour more and more effort into this.
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And each time we're giving away different freedoms
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And giving the government a blank check to involve itself
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In all of our lives, think about the ways
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In which the civil rights act was abused
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With all of the trans and all the gender madness,
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The way that it can be used to pressure all of these
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Different organizations to take action.
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This is, again, a blank check on government,
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For government power that republicans
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Would never allow in any other situation
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But have embraced because they're so terrified
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Of being called racist.
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Because if you point out that this program has run its course
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And the government no longer needs this power,
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We're not going to go back to jim
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Crow tomorrow if it was repealed.
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And yet we continue to act as if it's necessary for we
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To have like a stasi like control
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Over race relations in the united states.
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Look, the
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Importance here is this is a big opportunity.
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If we can lower crime,
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This can be a test case for the rest of the country.
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What needs to happen for that to occur in washington, d.c.?
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Well, the big bold decision here is important.
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But like all leaders
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Who make big, bold decisions, donald trump has to deliver.
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We have to see a significant change
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In the safety in washington, d.c.
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Now he's putting, national guard troops on the ground.
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He's a federal regularizing control of the police.
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And if they can change the way that they do their job,
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If they can make their presence
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Known, if they can police communities
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That otherwise were off limits,
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If they can actually carry out their jobs,
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That's a huge deal.
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But also, of course, the prosecution is a big deal.
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The fact that we don't actually put people in jail,
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We don't give them appropriate
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Charges, we make sweetheart deals.
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These things also help to facilitate crime in the area.
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You're now basically own the safety in washington, d.c.,
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Which again, could be
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A huge political liability if you don't follow through,
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What can be a massive victory if you do so?
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Donald trump has taken a bold step here, and he's taken on
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Big responsibilities.
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That's what great leaders do.
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But great leaders also have to follow through.
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And so he can't get cold feet on this.
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Of course, he needs to make sure
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That he is using that power, using that authority
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To increase the safety in washington dc.
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And i haven't been there many times,
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But the few times that i have,
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Let me tell you, i really wish
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There would have been more police on the street.
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I think this is ultimately going to be a popular move.
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Hope so, and i would say that the
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The challenge in front of the trump
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Administration is going to be both a show of force, but
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Also tangibly being able to connect
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The show of force
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With a reduction in crime.
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And honestly, i don't think we should put up
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With these blue city hell holes. final thoughts?
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Mcintyre, what do you have to say
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To people that say that we should forget
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The blue cities and retreat away from them?
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Look, ultimately,
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I think there is some level of self sorting
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That is occurring in the united states.
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I live in florida, where a lot of people fled
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During the covid madness because they wanted to live
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In a state that was sane and wouldn't
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Steal their freedoms due to this biomedical tyranny.
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But at the same time, we have to recognize that blue
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Cities are some of our most important
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Cultural and economic production spots
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In the united states.
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And the real problem with blue cities is that they're run by
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The democrats and obviously are soft on the populations
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That might be creating crime there.
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And so something that has to change ultimately,
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Is that these guys can't be allowed
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To continue these policies that are destroying
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Some of our most important cities and states.
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Now, trump has already talked about the possibility
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Of expanding this program beyond washington, d.c.
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That has a whole
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Nother mess of legal categories that you have to deal with.
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Obviously, the president has far more
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Direct power over washington, dc due to the constitutional
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Set up there.
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However, if you see big success here in washington, dc,
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I think a lot of people might start asking questions like,
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Why are we doing the chicago?
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Why are we doing this in new york?
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Why are we allowing this crime when we know how to fix it?
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It can be a template for the rest of the nation are in.
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Mcintyre, thank you so much.
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I want to play a couple pieces of tape
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All around this story of dc crime.
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And i want to play just some of the reaction first.
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It's very interesting
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Msnbc is trying their best
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To make this all about a racial issue.
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But there was a shocking response from the mayor
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Of washington, dc, muriel bowser, who is herself.
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She's a race marxist,
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But she knows that donald trump holds the cards.
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She muriel bowser, she's playing this one
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A little bit smarter than most.
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She knows that open defiance and battling with
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Trump will only further cede her control of the city.
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You could also probably make an argument that she's sick
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Of seeing these poor,
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Young, innocent black kids get caught in the crossfire.
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You could make an argument that she actually wants to see
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Washington, d.c. cleaned up.
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She knows not to antagonize trump.
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I know nothing about muriel bowser.
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I think she's a failed mayor of washington, dc,
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And i think that's all we need to say about that.
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But listen carefully.
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This is the msnbc host.
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They wanted to turn this into a racial issue.
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They wanted to go racial politics 2.0
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And interestingly enough, muriel bowser,
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The mayor of dc, didn't take the bait.
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Play cut to 66.
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They one of the things that we have seen over and over
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From the president, from his team, you know,
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Stephen miller saying it's like baghdad and ethiopia.
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He they seem to hold their harshest criticism
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Sometimes for cities that are majority black and brown.
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Do you see that and what do you think that means?
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I think that,
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I have been dealing
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Kind of with this issue for a number of years.
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It's kind of easy fodder on the campaign trail.
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But now we're talking about governing.
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And, my job is to focus on
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Making sure our city, is running,
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Is running well, and people enjoy a great quality of life.
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And i just have to say thank you to npr, fbi, atf,
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Who always work cooperatively with us,
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And we expect that they will again,
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Eugene daniels is not 2020 anymore.
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The moments over, man.
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You just got to ask the straight facts.
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You could tell the whole
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Wind up of eugene daniels there as well.
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Can't you tell that he's only going
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After black and brown communities?
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Respectfully, eugene daniels, respectfully,
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Donald trump is going after
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In any way you want to call it, dangerous communities
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That happen to sometimes be black and brown.
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Donald trump does not look at black
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Or brown, asian or white.
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He looks at the color red,
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The amount of blood that is being spilled in these cities.
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That is the only color that donald trump cares about.
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How much blood is pouring through the streets
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Of washington, dc unnecessarily
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In an unacceptable way.
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And it's just amazing to me that the dc mayor, muriel
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Bowser, again, i don't trust her
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As far as i could throw her, but it's very interesting that
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She didn't want to force this into a racial argument.
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She's getting good coaching.
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Is she being prudent?
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Is she exhausted with the racial conversation?
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All of this is just guessing.
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But you saw in that clip,
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Which i found to be just fascinating,
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The media was getting ready, going back in a muscle memory,
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And muriel bowser apparently has gone back on
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That a little bit.
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And when
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You have a city like washington, dc
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That is more dangerous than mexico city, bogota
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More dangerous than new delhi, and substantially
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You had to take a step back and say,
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We are a failed,
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We are in a failed direction.
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If we're allowing this to continue like a 327
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Muriel bowser back patting, back pedaling a little bit.
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We don't we don't i don't think i speak for all americans.
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We don't believe or believe it's legal to use the american
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Military against american citizens on american soil.
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Look like she's just hedging all over the place.
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No one is talking about marines firing
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Upon american citizens.
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What we're talking about is a show of force
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Of military support to work with police to stop this
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Unacceptable crime spree in not just our nation's cities.
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We'll get to chicago and we'll get to la
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That's coming in our nation's capital.
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And i mentioned this yesterday, one of the things i love
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Most about president trump is his soft spot for symbols.
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Symbols matter a lot.
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So reason why i wear a crucifix i wear a crucifix
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Because this symbol represents my salvation.
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Symbols are really important to society.
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And the left, you understand?
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They have been intentional at tearing down our symbols,
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Tearing down our statues, torching our churches.
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The border, by the way, is a massive symbol.
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Either you have a border or you do not.
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When it was open
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And now that it's closed, it's a symbol of sovereignty,
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Of order,
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Of national rigidity,
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Of the continuity, of a shared
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American experience.
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And president trump,
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Rightly, by the way, feels embarrassed
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When he does these, you know, beautiful state visits.
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The head of jordan, the head of croatia,
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The head of bulgaria, the head of france, emmanuel macron.
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And they have to drive through washington, d.c.
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And they see what we see.
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The symbol of a
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Target getting looted in minneapolis was so powerful,
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It boosted the murder rate by 30% nationwide overnight.
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If we can crush crime in dc and make the city
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Clean, beautiful and safe, that will matter nationwide.
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And of course, here is the spin from dana bash.
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Dana, i want to i want to challenge you something.
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Dana.
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Let's play cut 330 and then i'm going to have
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A challenge for dana bash live here on air play cut. 330.
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The most violent moment in recent history in dc
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Was january 6th,
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And it was an attack on the united states capitol by
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A lot of people who were doing it
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In the name of donald trump.
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And it included the people who were hurt, included
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Members of law enforcement.
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The only person to die on january 6th
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Was law enforcement that killed ashli babbitt.
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Secondly,
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And most importantly,
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Dana bash,
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If you want to engage in the trivialization
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Of dc crime, as i said prior, dana bash,
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Go and put a gopro on.
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By the way, you want to go be popular.
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You want to go be well known.
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You want to be have notoriety.
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Go walk the streets of washington
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Dc at night unaccompanied.
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Dana bash if it's so smart, it's so.
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If you're so smart, it's so safe.
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Go walk the navy yard at 11 p.m..
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Every day brings a new headline
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Questioning israel's right to defend herself.
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But behind the politics is simple truth.
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Israel security
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Is possibly the most complex anywhere in the world.
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On october 7th, we saw just how much depends
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On the brave men
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And women who are ready to act when every second counts.
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Israel's first responders are the heroes
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Who run towards danger, not away from it.
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And even now, nearly two years later,
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Israel is still under fire daily
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With rocket attacks, border threats and acts of terror.
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You can provide lifesaving emergency gear
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That helps you keep them ready and protected.
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Armored security vehicles, trauma kits.
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Mobile bomb shelters. flak jackets.
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Your support delivers
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To help directly where it's needed most.
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I fully support the fellowship.
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It's one of a kind ministry that has my full support.
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Go to ifk jorg right now and stand with israel's heroes
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While they stand in the line of fire.
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Charlie Kirk: August 13, 2025 | Charlie Kirk Today

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