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Brought to you in part by the
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International fellowship of christians and jews.
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We are seeing in
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Real time the emergence
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Of a different type of presidency.
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There's ways to describe the trump presidency
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That are conventional.
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Oh, he's a disrupter.
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He's different.
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He's taking on all these different projects.
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What have i told you, though?
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One of the reasons why he is succeeding
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Is that he is an art and time abstraction president.
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President trump always feels like the luckiest man
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In the world.
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How many times have you heard that now?
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On july 13th in butler, pennsylvania,
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Turning his head to the right at that specific moment?
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Hard to disagree.
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Even six years ago, people were making memes
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About how often the press said
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The walls are closing in on donald trump,
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And since then, the walls have been closing a lot more.
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But how many times has it looked all over for trump,
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Whether it's his business empire
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Being taken away from him, the january 6th hit job
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Literally being shot on july 13th.
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The guy has dodged a bullet multiple, multiple times.
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He survived indictments in
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New york and georgia and florida and d.c..
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Remarkable fortitude, the likes of which
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That we have not seen in american politics.
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The russiagate conspiracy that tried to destroy him.
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He beat that, too.
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He overcome all of that.
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And just today, breaking out in new york, he survived.
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Letitia james is an attempt to bankrupt him
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With one of the flimsiest
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Fraud cases in memory.
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Today, a new york appeals court has thrown out
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A $465 million verdict.
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In that case, $465 million verdict.
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It was a political
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Hit job from start to finish and now it's failed.
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Now this actually gets back to one of donald trump's
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Greatest strengths.
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And i want to really zero in on this thing about how many
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People hate trump.
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Think about how badly
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They've wanted to destroy him and for so long,
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And how far they're willing to do it.
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Yet nothing they've done has ever been able to stick. why?
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Because president trump,
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In the best possible way, is a simple person.
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He follows the basic rules. he's followed all life.
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Just like he doesn't drink or smoke.
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Trump doesn't break any laws.
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Why would he do that?
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That's how they take you out.
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Trump is aggressive.
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He understands where the rules are,
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And he goes right up to the maximum place
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In the betterment for america, as any businessman would.
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By the way,
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If it's something like politics or media,
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He breaks all the rules,
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But he doesn't actually ever break the law.
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And that is very important.
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He's a simple guy like that.
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And in a city of actual criminals
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That short circuits people's brains, he's
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Surrounded by actual criminals and he does not break
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The law.
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Now, how does this all relate to the even bigger story today?
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President trump's big push
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To take control of over washington, d.c..
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Well, everybody, it is working.
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This should be the number one news story in the country.
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And for democrats
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In chicago, democrats in philadelphia, democrats
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In san francisco, democrats in portland and seattle,
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New york.
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The crime that you are experiencing in your city
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Is because you are choosing to have that crime.
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We said a week ago that this would be a crucial test.
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You could deploy troops to washington, d.c.,
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You could put tanks on the street
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And make a big show of law and order.
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But it has to work.
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You actually have to bring crime down.
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And now today, we have this for the first time in ages.
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D.c. has gone seven straight days without a murder.
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In august.
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This is killing season.
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This is where the blood flows through the streets.
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As enoch powell would say in the united kingdom.
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This is killing season.
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This is where gangs are settling scores.
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And those teenage youths
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Are going out for the first time in ages.
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Carjackings are down 83%.
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Robbery is down 46%.
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All violent crime is down 22% in one week.
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President donald trump has reversed
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America's most dangerous city, our nation's
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Capital, into a far more pleasant place.
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This is empirical data.
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So for all of the chattering, clamoring
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Left wingers out there, can you start to apologize?
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Can you start to have some contrition?
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This is now a test case.
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And for for brandon johnson and for karen bass.
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This shows
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That you could solve this, but you want the killing.
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There is no other explanation.
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How did this happen?
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What's the power of president trump being so straightforward?
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He's executing rules that are a lot
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Older than the present day conventional wisdom with dc.
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And part of this is also psychological warfare.
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We're going to bring in the tanks.
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We're going to bring in the marines.
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People mocked me when i said that last week,
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But i knew what i was saying.
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Why would i say something like that?
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Because criminals hate a bigger gun.
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That's all they understand.
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All criminals understand is force.
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They don't want social workers.
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They don't want some sort of conversation in the corner.
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They don't want to be persuaded.
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All they understand is. whoa!
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There's a tank in the street.
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Maybe i shouldn't go kill somebody.
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Criminals have very short term thinking.
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They're criminals.
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With the guard on the ground.
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Crime is on the decline.
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For the first time in a long time, d.c.
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Has gone seven days without a homicide.
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And that's not all.
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Carjackings are down 83%.
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Robberies are down 46%, car thefts down 21%.
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And overall violent crime is down 22%.
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President donald trump decided to do a bold
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And ballsy maneuver, and that is to take over d.c..
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Now, congress is going to have to extend
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His authorities here coming up, and they better.
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What are the democrats going to say?
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Oh, this is a racist takeover.
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I'm sorry, who's actually not being murdered right now?
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So less black people are being murdered,
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And they're going to say this is a racist takeover.
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And guess what?
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We all win as americans.
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If our cities, especially our nation's capital,
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Are not complete radical hell holes.
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The brilliance what president trump did here
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Is that it was a test case.
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It very well could have been a swing and a miss.
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It could have been a failure.
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Crime could have gone up, by the way.
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We could have saw the gangs resist this.
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But deep down, we knew what we learned when george h.w.
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Bush did.
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One of the most important
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Things in his presidency, i believe, in 1991,
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When he signed
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The insurrection act after the rodney king riots.
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And i remember i talked to somebody that was there.
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They said, charlie,
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All these gang bangers,
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They were firing pistols up in the sky.
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They were burning police cars.
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This is after the rodney king riots
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Envelop the country before i was alive.
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They said as soon as those tanks moved
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In their neighborhoods, we did one sweep.
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They all disappeared.
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They're all tough guys.
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Until the marines show up.
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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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To learn more, please go to ifc.org.
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Ayn rand
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Was wrong on a lot of stuff, especially metaphysics.
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But she was she was probably the most talented anti marxist
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Understanding the liberal mind author of the 20th century.
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I would put her up against anybody.
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Ayn rand said this leftists do not
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They do not want to own your fortune.
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They want you to lose it.
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They do not want you to succeed.
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They want you to fail.
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They do not want to live.
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They want you to die.
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They desire nothing.
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The left hates existence and they keep running,
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Each trying not to learn that the object of his hatred
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Is himself.
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They are the essence of evil.
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She wrote about the left.
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They,
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Those anti living objects who seek by devouring the world
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To fill the selfless zero of their soul.
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It is not your wealth that they're after.
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Theirs is a conspiracy against the mind,
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Which again means against life.
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And man, that is wealth, said miss rand.
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Well said.
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This is liberals in a nutshell.
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That explains mad gionee.
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That explains mamdani.
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They side with criminals.
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They side with parasites.
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A large chunk of the left
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Is really strongly
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Driven by resentment,
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And this inherently makes them against solving problems.
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Why would the left bring down crime rates?
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They side with criminals all the time.
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They want more criminals out of jail.
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They want fewer criminals arrested.
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Not because they think this will help america,
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But because they know it will make it worse.
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They are a parasitic force on the united states of america,
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And this dc thing is a perfect test case.
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I cannot tell you this dc thing now
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Allows us to deal in reality, not a murder for seven days.
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That is unheard of in washington dc in the
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Month of killing of august.
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There is this nihilistic
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Drive that is the life force to the left.
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Now we have a control case and now we have a template
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For president donald trump is the anti abstraction president.
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President donald trump
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Do not need another think tank from some
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Nonprofit on k street.
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By the way, you drive in dc,
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There's all these, you know, hundred million dollar
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Buildings of this institute and this foundation.
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Some of them are plenty nice people.
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President donald trump did not need another.
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Oh, well, sir, here's a 55 page white paper on
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How you might say, well, i don't know.
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This is a waste of time running this role in the tanks.
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We don't need a white paper.
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We need marines.
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We need bombs in. ford out.
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We need b2 bombers flying over, putin said.
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We need john deere tractors, hard business numbers, criminal
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In cages and illegals getting tackled in the streets.
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You see, russell kirk wrote about this,
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One of my favorite authors, no relation.
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He wrote about this in the conservative mind.
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Russell kirk wrote, politics
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Is the art of the possible, not the pursuit of utopia.
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Russell kirk taught us that where the conservative movement
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Went wrong is they spent too much time in the clouds.
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And boy, is that true.
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If you listen to the dc conservative political elite,
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They're constantly talking about abstractions.
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I can talk about abstractions all the time.
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I think it's fun at
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Times to talk about the platonic ideal.
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We just spent times with doctor james shaw,
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And this is the problem.
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At its core of libertarianism is you get so consumed
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In the archetype, in the ideal, that you do not understand.
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Hey, but you have thought one thought too many.
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The great philosopher who said that sometimes
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You could be a victim of going one thought too many.
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And then trump's combined with action with praxis,
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Which is the ancient greek word for practice.
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And that is where republicans are kind of
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I don't quite understand this because they have been raised
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In a tradition.
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They have been raised in a culture,
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They have been raised in a conservative movement.
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That is so overwhelmingly committed to the abstract
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And the distant, while they ignore the immediate
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And the action oriented,
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The dc
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Machinery cares about nato.
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President donald trump is like, i care about dc.
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Yeah, nato is fine,
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But why don't europe fund nato and we fix dc?
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Trump is the anti ideologue president
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Trump was not a conservative philosopher.
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He was the first president
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To live like a real person,
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Suspicious of abstractions and loyal
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To reality.
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He did not bow to these idols of the global order,
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Expert consensus or institutional prestige.
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He asked the kirkman question not to.
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Charlie kirk question the russell kirkman question.
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Does the serve the american people or is it just a theory?
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Let me repeat it
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Every single time president donald trump makes a decision,
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He says.
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Is this a theory developed by some
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Think tank guy from yale, or does this actually
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Improve and better the american republic?
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Russell kirk famously said, ideology is just politics
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Gone mad.
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And trump said, enough with the madness
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And we see
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It now on full display.
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For all the people that have had their cars jacked
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For all the murders in dc, you can now know muriel bowser.
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They were choosing to allow it to happen.
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If you live in a major u.s.
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City and it's dirty and it's crime infested, it's
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Because your leaders are choosing for that to happen.
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Crime is a choice.
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Look at el salvador,
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And now it's time for us to scale it to all of america's
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Greatest cities.
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We have a control case of a week.
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Let's spread it out to a month.
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And then let's turn america's cities
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Into the safest in the western hemisphere.
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And i don't care if the democrats object.
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Alex marlowe joins us next.
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Over the years, i've been clear about this.
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I'm not just pro birth.
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I'm pro-life.
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And being pro-life means standing with mothers
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Not only before the baby is born, but long after.
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And then they stay with real practical help,
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Including financial support for up to two years after
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The baby is born.
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This is what true, christ centered compassion looks like,
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Not just for the baby, but for the mother too.
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Joining us now is a great
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Friend alex marlow, author of breaking the law.
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President trump says it's a must read.
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Alex, welcome to the program.
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We love to have you on at least once a week.
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Everyone should purchase the book breaking the law.
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Alex,
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I want to get to the new york
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Civil judgment because it connects to your book.
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But first,
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I want to get your analysis of what's happening in dc.
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Alex, how rare and unusual is it in the month of august
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To have a whole week without a single murder in dc?
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You lived in dc,
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You built a wonderful company in dc, breitbart news.
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We're seeing carjackings down. we're seeing crime.
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This is empirical, verifiable, third party controlled data.
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Alex marlowe, your thoughts?
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Hey, it's unbelievable.
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What trump is doing is amazing in dc.
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And we just got word that apparently he's
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Going to be doing a ride along tonight.
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He's going to be out on patrol with dc, which is just
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With the dc police.
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This is the type of stuff
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That works as a leader that you get your hands dirty.
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You show people
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That you're willing to mix it up with the people
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And actually do things yourself.
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It's just such great optics.
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Just think about him serving the fries
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Up at mcdonald's, what that looks like.
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And he's doing that tonight.
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Just the fact that he's getting the word out, charlie,
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That there is a new sheriff in town, literally.
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And we're not going to tolerate crime.
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That in and of itself is a massive deterrent.
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He sees this.
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It's so obvious and yet the fools
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Who are running that city for so long
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Refused to do anything like that
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Because they don't want the crime statistics
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To go up, which inevitably it'll happen in the short term.
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And that'll be an admission
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That they've been wrong for so long.
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Trump sees through their games and he's cracking down.
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And i just applauded so much.
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What are you hearing from people on the ground in dc
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That have been in dc, lived in dc
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And that that know what dc used to be?
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In the end,
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The results that president trump is now delivering.
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So what i'm hearing more is from one of my
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From my left wing sources are trying
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To get the party to back off of the opposition to this,
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Because they're saying
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That this is so obvious and necessary
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And things are going to be so much better for people.
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Come to our capitol visitors who come through here of
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Foreign dignitaries and foreign tourists
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Who come here are going to notice this,
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And why the democrats insist
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On being, again, on the wrong side of an 8020 issue.
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They're deeply concerned that they couldn't
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Resist the impulse just to say trump is doing it.
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It must not only be wrong, charlie, it must be fascism.
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This isn't fascism.
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This is completely legal.
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And it's completely necessary
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If we're to be a society of law and order.
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So there is a light panic going on on the democrat side.
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Want to connect this to now the dc, the new york judgment.
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You have this great book, breaking the law.
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Remind everyone about this book.
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It's very important breaking the law.
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And we just got the news today that president donald trump
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Does not owe the new york, the city of new york,
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Or the state of new york, $465 million, an outrageous amount.
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The appeals court use the exact argument that
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I think that you also that you make and breaking the law.
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Please take some time here, alex.
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It's very important.
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Alex marlow, author of breaking the law.
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Thank you, charlie.
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And, by the way, the book made all the major
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Bestseller list, including the new york times,
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Which is really hard to do.
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And, your support
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And your audience's support is clearly a part of that.
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So thank you personally for that.
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Charlie, another down for you, charlie, as well.
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And the exact argument
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I make
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About this particular case is that
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This was a cruel and unusual punishment.
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It also reveals the politicization of the new
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York attorney general's office,
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Which is a clear violation of due process clauses
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That you find the fifth and sixth amendment.
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But this is an eighth amendment violation.
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You cannot have a victimless crime where trump
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Did not owe anyone one penny and uss him a $460
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Million fine that is accumulating interest.
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Now, he would go over $515 million.
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Tish james still has 175 million of his dollars
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Up on bond right now.
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I imagine that's going to get transferred back sometime soon.
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But i specifically said
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Eighth amendment cruel and unusual punishment.
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That's exactly the the argument
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That was put forth by this appeals court today,
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Why they're throwing this thing out.
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So it's very sweet.
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And it shows you that trump's
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Attorneys are also on point here.
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Whoever was handling the appeals,
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I think brought the exact right argument.
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And this bodes well.
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There will be more appeals.
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There'll be more things overturned.
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There'll be more investigations.
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James under investigation now.
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And the one part about my book,
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Which is very key that people will enjoy,
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Is that it is a it is a playbook.
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It is a primer.
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So you will be able to follow along as the things
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Get thrown out, as new indictments take place,
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As new investigations take place.
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Some of the stuff got very complicated.
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I think i've sorted out in a very clean way,
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So you'll be able to follow along with the news
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As we keep winning on behalf of president trump.
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With these cases.
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And so the what has surprised you the most?
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You've written this book breaking the law.
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You understand the whole law fair.
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What since writing the book, publishing the book,
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Theorizing about this very important argument,
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What has surprised you
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The most in the kind of genre of law fair
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Now that we're in august of 2025?
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But so let me answer in two ways.
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What surprised me the most about writing
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The book was the clear connection
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To the joe biden white house.
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Every single one of these cases had all six of them.
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I just james,
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For example, in the case we're talking about
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Today was making regular white house visits.
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And the fact that she was allowed to campaign
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For new york attorney general on the promise
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Of getting a political rival is clearly unconstitutional.
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And that was allowed and tolerated.
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And i can't believe that happened in our country.
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And we tolerated it.
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But since writing the book,
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I have a pleasant surprise for you guys.
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It feels like there's much more momentum.
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Whether it be the great people
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That they got at the department of justice,
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At the ed martins of the world,
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There seems to be much more of a hunger
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To investigate and hold people accountable.
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Since i closed
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Work on the book,
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Jack smith investigation to him was announced,
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And since the book was published,
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An investigation into tish james was announced.
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And then we got this great news today.
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So there does seem to be a renewed effort
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To actually try to get accountability.
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I'm a cynical
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The next guy, charlie, that none of these people
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Get held to account the way they should,
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But it does feel like there's a new energy in washington
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Now to finally do something about some of these bad guys
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Who are operating under another tier of justice.
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Exactly right.
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Someone in the audience sent
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An email freedom at charlie kirk.com.
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They want to step for they said charlie,
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One of these people going to be disbarred
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Or penalized for abusing their law licenses.
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I mean, is there anything that we can do?
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I mean, what they've put
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President trump through, is there any accountability
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For these savages, for these maniacs?
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What they have done to president donald trump?
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The test case is just games because she was so flagrant
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That, remember, she was tweeting out
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What trump owed each day just to
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To poke the bear some more, to gloat
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Because of the interest rates that were going up.
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By the way, i,
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Trump, should be making
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Money off of that 175 million that was up on bond.
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He could have invested that in gold, charlie.
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He would have had a return on that investment.
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Trump is owed interest.
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This these really important trump should be paid interest.
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And all the money he had put up on bond
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That was just sitting there for a year and a half.
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So he's going to collect on that.
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But tish james is the test case.
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She should absolutely be disbarred.
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She should probably go to prison.
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I'm not an attorney,
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So i don't know for sure, but that would be something
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That should be in the realm of possibilities.
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There's no way she should be allowed
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To practice law at all in this country after this.
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And the mortgage fraud stuff,
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Which is very legitimate that's going
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On, that she's also getting investigated for that.
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So she's the test case.
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If they get her, then
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A lot of dominoes could fall afterwards.
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Needs to go to jail.
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Tish james needs to go to jail.
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Alex marlow, breaking the law.
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Thank you so much. great work.
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Love to charlie, great additions
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And appreciate you as always.
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Friends just across israel's border inside syria.
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Entire christian and druze families have been slaughtered
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By islamic terrorists. it's shocking.
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It's heartbreaking.
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And the international fellowship of christians
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And jews
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Is there on the ground,
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Working hand in hand with israel and the idf to respond.
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The fellowship has rushed in over 1500 emergency food boxes.
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They've opened
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A brand new medical clinic in a village that had none.
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Truckloads of medical equipment
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And supplies went straight to hospitals
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Because the need is so desperate.
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This is our faith in action.
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Israel is stopping the terrorists.
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Now it's on us christians and jews to care
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For the survivors,
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To pray for the persecuted,
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And to stand with them against evil.
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I'm asking you to join me in
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Standing with the international
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Fellowship of christians and jews, right now called ifrc.
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Jorg that is ifrc. jorg.
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We could meet terror with compassion.
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We can be part of bringing food, medical help
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And hope to christian and druze communities in syria
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Who need it most.
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Charlie Kirk: August 22, 2025 | Charlie Kirk Today

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