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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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Yesterday something really important happened.
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And all the headlines are focused
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On the optics and the esthetics
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And the visuals, which is fine, but it's deeper than that.
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Yesterday was the 80 year anniversary of victory day
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Or the essentially the founding
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Of the chinese communist party.
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The visuals were obviously impressive.
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Look, totalitarian countries, they do military parades
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Quite well.
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They're able to mobilize everything
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Without any of the media clamoring or yammering.
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And it was impressive.
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From the nuclear arsenal to their investments
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In the military,
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The chinese communist party wanted to put on full display
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For the rest of the world.
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And especially
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It really was all designed for an audience of one.
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The military parade was really designed for one person.
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And that person, of course, is president donald trump.
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The chinese were doing, as you can see, propaganda
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Of their bombers and of their aircraft.
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They're investing billions and billions of dollars
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In their military.
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Now, their military is still a fraction
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Of our entire military investment.
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It's still about 200 to $300 billion a year.
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However, you have to wonder,
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Even though they spend a fraction that we do,
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They probably don't have the bloat and the waste
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And the government contractors that we do.
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You have to wonder if they're able
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To spread that a little bit more than we do.
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We waste a ton of money on our military,
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A ton of money on lockheed martin and northrop grumman.
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However, i think there is definitely
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Still an admission from independent analysts
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That we have military
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Weaponry and technology that they still do not have.
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We pay soldiers a ton of money.
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They do not.
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They're able to draft anyone they want.
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They're a country of 770 million able bodied people
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And a country of well over a billion individuals.
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They have hypersonic missiles
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That we may be behind on some weapons.
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They might have hypersonic missiles that we don't have.
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By the way,
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I'm putting these visuals up on screen here
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Because we have focused on a lot of different topics
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Mass migration, the islamism rising in the west.
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But i think what yesterday should be a
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Reminder is a little bit of a
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Early fall wake up call.
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We already know that the chinese communist party
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Is a great threat to us, but me even saying that
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Is important.
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Let's ask the
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Very simple question what is china?
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Is china our friend?
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Are they a rival like joe biden called them?
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Are they an adversary?
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I think they're an enemy of the united states of america.
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I've said it once and i'll say it again
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They have internationalist ambitions.
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They want to expand their territory.
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Now, does that mean, i believe that we should
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Go to a kinetic conflict against them?
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Of course not.
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But we need to start treating them at the very least
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Like a serious rival.
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At the very least,
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The chinese communist party just threw an inside fastball.
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That was a brush back pitch yesterday.
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And not only did they have that,
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They brought vladimir putin, they brought kim jong un,
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They brought a lot of the other tyrannical autocrats
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From the region
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In a massive show of force.
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Oh, there's the vice president of china.
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I actually met that guy.
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Can we get we should get that picture.
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I met i, i
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There's one of the funniest story,
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I think i told the vice president of china story one,
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And i think i told them
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When i met him at the inauguration,
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I went up and asked for a picture.
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And then i think they tapped my phone.
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This is a much tougher rivalry than the cold war,
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And we just got to be honest about it.
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The soviet union was hobbled by a terrible, terrible economy.
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You see, the soviet union, they were pure ideologues.
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They really were.
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The soviet union had a council of actual marxists
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That refuse to ever embrace market principles.
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They were actual ideologues.
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The chinese economic model is a lot different.
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It's far more pragmatic.
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They're basically what works, what makes us rich.
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If we have to liberalize some areas, we will.
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But if we have to be totalitarian in other ways,
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We'll also do that.
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The chinese communist party's
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Economy is still not as big as ours.
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It's still not.
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The latest gdp numbers show the chinese communist
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Parties may be around 18 to $20 trillion.
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We're around 27 to $28 trillion.
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We owe a lot more money. by the way.
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Our national debt is way above the chinese communist party.
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National debt.
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President trump is rebuilding our military,
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But you have to wonder, for every $1 that we spend our
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And our military,
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I would just conjecture
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The chinese communist party is able
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To probably spend like $0.25.
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I bet they get way more bang
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For their buck on military spending than we do.
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And we can't always see this in terms of money.
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That's a very important thing.
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This is about who is going to win and own the 21st century.
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We need to see this in terms of real strength.
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Are we innovative or are we merit based?
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Are we entrepreneurial?
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Are we unified?
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Are we strong?
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Are we aspiration? people
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Forget all the economic data right now.
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Yes, we have the incumbent advantage.
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Can we make stuff? it takes all.
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I mean, just for example,
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We're doing this construction project
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At turning point usa to install a gate
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And it is the most bureaucratic.
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It's taken literally like a year
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And a half to install a very simple gate.
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And i thought i turned to my team
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The other day outside of this whole victory day parade.
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I said in china, this would take like a week.
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In china, this would just take a week.
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You just wave a hand and you get it done.
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Now, in some ways it's bad.
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It would probably not be up to code or whatever,
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But china's
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They're able to source rare earth minerals,
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They're able to build new factories.
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They're able to roll out new robots.
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We increasingly have difficulty doing those things.
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Now. i'm not i'm not painting a humorous picture.
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There's a lot of advantages we have over
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The chinese communist party.
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But i got to be honest, when i, i went to a national forest
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National park over the weekend,
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Sedona, it's actually not park national forest
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And there was product sold by the us government.
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This drove me nuts.
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And this is not a criticism.
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President trump
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Inherited it from joe biden, but we got to fix it.
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The department of interior is selling
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Merchandise made in china.
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Our own us government is selling merchandise that
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Is made in china.
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We don't make stuff
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Anymore, but we should.
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In genesis
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12 three, god made a powerful promise
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To abraham, the father of the jewish people.
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I will bless those who bless you.
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The christian bible tells us
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That we have been grafted into god's family tree.
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The rich olive tree of israel,
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The very foundations of the christian faith,
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The bible and jesus, whom christians call
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The messiah, are deeply rooted in israel.
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Supporting israel aligns christians with god's
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Prophetic timeline.
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It demonstrates our willingness to be instruments of
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God's blessing, uplifting his chosen people,
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And it calls us to confront and heal
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The centuries old wounds of anti-semitism.
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The scripture says how good and how
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Pleasant it is when brethren dwell together.
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You can be part of this historic movement
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Of bringing light to our world.
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Learn more by going to ifc.
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J.org today.
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J.org today.
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In order for us to keep
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Talking about china, it's very important
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That all of you in the audience know the name and the book.
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First, francis fukuyama
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And the book the end of history and the last man.
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It was published in 1992.
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Remember the context of when this book was published?
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This book was published right after
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The fall of the soviet union.
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This was peak neoliberal arrogance.
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This was about the crescendo of the ruling class of the west
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That believed that
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This was the end of all human government,
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That liberal democracy had emerged as literally
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The final form of human government.
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The claim wasn't that history literally ends, but
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That the ideological evolution has reached its end point.
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No rival system at the time in 1992 seemed capable of
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Challenging liberal democracy in legitimacy or performance.
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We assumed the american way had won forever,
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And i was raised in this context.
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I was told by teachers, i was told by professionals.
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Charlie, the more that we trade with china,
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Soon they're going to be wearing levi jeans
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And having mcdonald's in tiananmen square,
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And they'll be listening on their ipods.
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And once they do that, they're going to embrace free speech.
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They're going to embrace
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American values, and they will radicalize
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And decouple from totalitarianism.
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This book, the end of history
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In the last man by francis fukuyama, without a doubt,
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Was one of the most important,
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Arrogant theses of the 1990s.
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It set the tone for the american ruling class.
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Because the wall had fallen, the enemy of the soviet
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Union collapsed.
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We did it without having to go to a kinetic war,
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And felt as if we did not just win a war, but we won an
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Ideological battle, and boy, did we get cocky.
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Our leaders assumed anybody who came to america from
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China will decide america's way is better than china's,
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And either
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Join our team or fight to make china be on our side.
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But if you really think about it, if you come here today
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From china, what are you likely to think?
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Our cities are filthy, they're murderous, they're dangerous.
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And as we have declined in virtue in our country,
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It's much harder to have liberty
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When you do not have virtue,
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When you do not have a virtuous people,
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When you do not have strong families,
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When you do not have people
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Going to church, liberty quickly becomes license.
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Bill clinton articulated this best.
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Bill clinton
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Celebrated the entrance of the chinese communist party
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Into the world trade organization.
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I want you to put up the b-roll again of the of the
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The chinese military. please.
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The chinese military with their tanks
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And their missiles rolling the streets.
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You guys paid for that?
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This is paid for by the u.s.
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Citizen.
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This is paid for by your beanie babies.
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This is paid for by your baseballs.
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This is paid for by your textile.
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Hey, that's paid for
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By your vitamin c and by your antibiotics.
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Bill clinton helped design this order,
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But this was all because of fukuyama's argument.
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This is very important.
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Fukuyama gave them the arrogance
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That if we
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Started trading with china, we would get super rich.
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The economic elite would then be able to have more capital,
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And then china would liberalize.
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And the whole world would live in liberal democratic harmony.
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That sounds so dumb when i say it today, now in 2025.
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But that's exactly the context of which all these decisions
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Were made.
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World trade organization, nafta, like up 393,
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Bringing china into the
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Wto is a win win decision.
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It will protect our prosperity disparity
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And it will promote the right kind of change in china.
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It is good for our farmers,
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For our manufacturers and for our investors.
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Encouraging china to play by international rules, i say
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Again, is an important step toward a safer, saner world.
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Now, instead of china changing, we've actually become
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More like china.
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Not in the good ways, by the way.
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Less free speech, more oligarchic governance
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And top an untouchable billionaire class.
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We became more like them.
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They did not adapt. they did not liberalize.
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They don't have free speech.
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You can't challenge the government.
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You can't own firearms.
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China is more totalitarian than they
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Were either in the 1990s.
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And this is where
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All the experts, again, which should
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Just be completely discounted.
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They're like, well, you can't have economic liberty
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Without personal liberty. oh yeah, you can.
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China's proven you can.
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You can own stuff and be hyper materialistic
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And have no other personal freedom.
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You can go to the mall and shop and do stuff
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And still not be able to go to church.
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The 1990s
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Francis fukuyama, end of history, bill
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Clinton the dot.com era.
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We won.
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And instead of entering the victory with humility,
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We also did the 1990 immigration act.
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We opened up our borders to the entire world.
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And now, in 2025, we are reckoning
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With the consequences of the cockiness
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Of the leaders of the 1990s.
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So much of what we are living through
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Is because of the arrogance
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And the pride of a ruling class in america
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That saw the wall fall in berlin
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And said, we won, baby.
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Bring in the foreigners, import the plastic, make us rich.
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It's the end of history.
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Turns out history is just getting started.
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We'll be right back.
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Senator mike lee from the wonderful state of utah.
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Senator lee, great to see you. senator.
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I am going to utah next week.
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A week from today
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At the wonderful utah valley state university.
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All are welcome.
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You guys can get your tickets at american comeback tour.com.
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Senator lee, this is already making a lot of headlines.
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People are very angry.
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They're calling for my cancellation.
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They think our permit should be pulled. what?
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This is a greater response than when i go to berkeley.
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Essentially.
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What is going on in the beautiful state of utah?
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Well, first of all, charlie, i want to thank you
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For the work that you're doing on campuses across the country
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And for your interest in visiting utah next week.
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Free speech.
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You shouldn't stop at the campus gates.
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If anything, we should have, a heightened
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Degree of attention
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And focus, a heightened degree of protectiveness around,
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Free speech on campuses, because the learning
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Environment necessarily requires open, honest
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Conversations where different viewpoints are examined.
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Our students, deserve open discussion and vigorous debate.
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And not just the same sanitize woke version that,
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So many college administrators and faculty members
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Seem to prefer and seem to demand exclusively, like
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Utahns believe in open debate and free exchange of ideas.
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What you're doing helps to ensure students
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Get that experience.
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Because if students can't
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Handle diverse ideas in college,
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How are they ever going to handle that in real life?
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So look, i, i, i, i hope and expect that
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Your visit to utah
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Will be productive, that you will be able to speak,
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That you're not going to exclude you.
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And i anticipate that once you're there,
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A lot of the naysayers, a lot of those people
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Trying to exclude
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You are going to
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See some real utility behind your visit there.
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Now, who knows why they
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Decide, to start these things, but each time they start them
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And then you show up and do what you do best,
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People were enlightened as a result of it,
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So thank you for doing that.
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Senator, i want to shift gears here
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To president trump's truth social.
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He said monday's court order in
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Utah is absolutely unconstitutional.
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How did such a wonderful republican state
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Like utah, which i won every election
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And end up with so many radical left judges?
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Senator, what is going on here?
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Please take some time and go into some detail
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And explain what's happening in the great state of utah.
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Yeah.
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So utah, the electoral system is under attack by democrats
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And including their leftist allies in the utah courts.
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About seven years ago,
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There was, an effort, for
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Which utah voters passed a law through a ballot initiative
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Creating a legislative redistricting commission. now,
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In the years that followed, the utah
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Legislature, subsequently amended that law,
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Which it has the power to do
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Under the utah constitution.
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In other words, you can make a law, either
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Through the legislature or through a ballot initiative.
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Power somewhat rarely used, but when it is used, it
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It runs on a parallel
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Track with laws made by the legislature.
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And so the legislature, can subsequently amend
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Or even repeal a law that was previously made
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Under our state constitution through a ballot initiative.
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But utah courts are now invalidating,
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The legislatures amendments
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To that earlier ballot initiative
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And to utah's existing congressional district maps,
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Even though nothing in the utah constitution compels
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Or even allows that result.
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And even though, one provision in particular, article
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Nine of the utah constitution, actually requires
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Legislative districts, including
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Congressional districts, to be drawn by the legislature,
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Not by some, nameless, faceless,
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Commission,
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Consisting of people who was well-educated
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And well intentioned as they might be.
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Have never been elected by anybody
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And don't serve accountable to the voters of utah.
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So it now appears that utah's likely to be bound by,
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A process involving congressional district
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Maps being drawn up
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By the legislature, but by this outside commission.
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And although the legislature
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Still has final authority to approve any such maps,
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Under the court order that came out last week,
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That maps a, one way or another have to be,
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More or less drawn by the commission,
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Even though that constitution belongs to the legislature.
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Look, decision, while being heralded by the left
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Because they like it, because it's a victory,
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Is they're cheap points. they're scoring.
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This will make the process of drawing legislative districts
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In utah less accountable to the voters, not more,
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Because that's what happens when you take that
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Constitutional responsibility away from elected lawmakers
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And you give it to someone else.
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It will also result in maps that are far more generous
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To democrats.
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And i think that's the whole point,
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Is that they hope to pick up at least one seat,
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Maybe two for democrats in utah as a result of this.
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So it's kind of a judicial takeover
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Of the political process,
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One that's designed by leftists to advance
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The electoral prospects of the democratic party in utah.
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And it's yet another example
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Of how these independent commissions are so often used
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By the left to give an unfair, unearned advantage
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To democrats in red states, one that they could never
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Otherwise secure through the electoral process.
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This is part of a broader redistricting fight
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In california and texas.
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Let me ask this why is utah seemingly
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Having this democrat appeasing moderate streak?
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Let's just talk more broadly about utah.
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Your cost the two conservative senator lee
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And one of the best, if not the best in the nation.
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And you have an amazing track record
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And you're so good
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To your constituents and you represent your voters.
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Why is it that in utah,
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Which is supposed to be the solidly red state,
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Why give any ground at all whatsoever?
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What are the influences that are seeping into utah
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That seem to be changing the politic?
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There?
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Perhaps first and foremost, i think we've gotten
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A little complacent with the fact
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That we've had these
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Republican majorities in both houses of our legislature and,
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The governor's office
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And so many of our other prominent
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Elected positions in the state.
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The fact that we've had those under,
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The republican banner for as many decades as we have
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Has perhaps, caused, many in the state
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To not be aware of
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What's going on because you have to dig into
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Some of these details to see what's going on.
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When something like this happens,
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Then you add to that, charlie, what happens in a state
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Like mine, a republican state, consistently republican state
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That has no conservative media to speak
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Of, you know, we've got a, a handful here.
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Are there
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We've got a, a handful of of
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Great, people on the radio, for example.
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But as far as our print media and our mainstream
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Broadcast media, tv and radio within the state,
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We have no significant large scale, conservative
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Or even right of center, media.
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Within utah, it's a pretty mismatched state
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In terms of the political views of a constituency,
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The citizenry of utah and the, disparity
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Between that and the news media establishment.
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That doesn't help.
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But but here, again, just with the apathy problem
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Or the lack of awareness problem,
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The more people talk about this, more
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We can draw attention to it.
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I think we can remedy some of that defect.
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And i think what you're doing
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With your visit to utah next week, which i applaud,
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Helps to shed light on these things
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And helps to raise awareness of what's actually happening.
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Thank you so much, senator lee. see you soon.
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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
00:23:23.454 --> 00:23:26.090
Who need it most.
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