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Charlie Kirk Today | Kent Ingle: January 12, 2025 | Charlie Kirk Today | January 12, 2026
- Brought to you in part by the
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- International fellowship of christians and jews.
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- We are now at the precipice
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- Of a very, very sticky, tricky situation.
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- And we talked about it
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- Yesterday on our talk crime show with jack posobiec.
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- But we are now seeing
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- Local jurisdictions threatening federal law enforcement.
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- Blake, give us the lowdown.
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- Well, so it's exactly what it is.
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- So we had the shooting in minneapolis
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- And we've seen them sort of build up to this.
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- There have been a few false starts
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- Because their rhetoric is like
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- They'll use aggressive rhetoric,
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- But they don't quite cross the line of taking action.
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- But, well,
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- If they keep doing as they keep delegitimizing ice,
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- They're calling them masked thugs.
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- They say they're kidnaping. stop! oh, no.
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- Yeah. gestapo.
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- They say that they are committing crimes.
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- And increasingly, the goal is to basically say
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- That ice is a criminal organization
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- And they will treat them as a criminal organization.
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- And i think what we're building up to is they want to
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- They want to engineer a constitutional crisis
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- Where they can just overtly defy
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- The enforcement of federal law, which is what ice does.
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- Ice is enforcing federal immigration law
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- By arresting and deporting people
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- Who are illegally in the country.
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- That's right. that is what they are doing.
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- And then it started with,
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- I've seen this play out over basically decades of my life
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- Because it was originally just, oh, that it causes harm
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- To communities.
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- If you arrest people or if you if you go to their church
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- Or if you do that,
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- If you arrest them in certain contexts,
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- Then they won't go to hospitals
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- Or they won't call the police for other crimes.
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- But increasingly, just the attitude
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- Is actually these people,
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- All everyone in the world has the right to be in america,
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- Especially if they're are foreign
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- Rapists, gangster, criminal, especially, and any attempt
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- To deport them or arrest them, they will not collaborate
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- With that. we already see that with the sanctuary city stuff.
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- They won't keep
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- Anyone locked up so that ice can, detain them.
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- And now they just say, well, actually, ice
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- Just can't detain them at all.
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- And we're we're getting closer to this.
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- I have the clip is we have
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- Them now just basically
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- Saying they're going to arrest ice agents.
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- Possibly.
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- And this is this clip is philadelphia sheriff rochelle
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- Bilal dia out of philadelphia.
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- And by the way, in this clip she's praising the d.a.
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- Who's a soros funded da, absolutely lawless
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- Head of this city.
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- It's incredible to see the extent to which these,
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- Municipalities have been radicalized.
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- It's a longer clip, but,
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- She says to ice, you don't want this smoke.
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- So she's like, talking like a thug.
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- Well, let's just show the clip.
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- She's behaving like one, and she is forcing,
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- As you said, a constitutional crisis.
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- 371 let know that law enforcement professionals,
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- Real ones, not the fake made up ice.
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- Probably trump's, new army to attack
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- Citizens of the united states.
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- Did you hear what i said?
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- No. law enforcement professional wears a mask.
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- Those that
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- Come to our communities wearing a mask to commit crime.
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- Thank god for our district attorney, larry krasner,
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- Who say he's going to lock him up.
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- And i'm saying now, we are not going to whisk you away
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- For them to hide your identity,
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- Because when you do it there, you're getting arrested there.
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- If any of them want to come in this city
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- And commit a crime, you will not be able to hide.
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- Nobody will whisked you off.
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- You don't want to smoke
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- Because we will bring it to you.
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- So she's basically threatening an armed standoff
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- With federal law enforcement that i mean, that is insane.
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- It is deranged and it is channeling
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- Larry krasner, who we haven't talked about as much lately.
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- But he was a big thing during peak biden, peak woke era.
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- He's one of the worst pro crime.
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- Da's purged his department of prosecutors.
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- He basically program.
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- Yeah. he broke his program. he stopped bail.
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- He's like, i'm not going to prosecute minor thefts.
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- All these other offenses.
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- He's a pro crime individual.
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- And suddenly he's saying, oh, i'm going to arrest ice agents.
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- Yeah, that's narco tyranny as well. right?
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- Where you where you're enforcing the law
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- Selectively against your your preferred targets.
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- You're refusing
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- To enforce a lot of the law if it's your preferred,
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- You know, people, groups, special groups,
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- Whether it's immigrants, minorities, whatever.
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- And so this is so we talked about this last night.
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- I think it's worth, reiterating
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- Because you're seeing the same thing and had him in
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- Hennepin county, in minnesota.
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- You're seeing it in portland, where we are looking
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- We are looking down the barrel of a standoff between state
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- Or local law enforcement and, federal law enforcement.
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- And so the trump administration now has to be zeroed
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- In, laser focused on
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- What do they do when this standoff occurs
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- And you have some thoughts. yeah.
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- So we talked about this last night that
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- The left is headed for this confrontation.
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- The left is they want this showdown over ice.
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- And we can see how we discussed this yesterday.
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- They were basically thrilled at what happened to renee.
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- Good. because that is their plan.
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- They engineered this.
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- They want these confrontations between ice and protesters
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- Because they
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- Want someone to get shot so they can condemn ice.
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- So what they want,
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- What these people are dying to have happen
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- Is they want to have
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- A confrontation between police and ice, where
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- There's some sort of conflict
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- And like a cop gets shot by ice,
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- That is what they want to have happen.
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- Yeah, i know, so and i actually think
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- They wanted renee good to be, killed.
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- But they know they they celebrate. yeah.
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- They did. yeah.
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- Because we said now she gets to be a martyr.
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- You got this white 37 year old woman
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- That was basically, citizen vigilante.
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- She was taking it upon herself
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- To get medal in the business of law enforcement,
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- Obstruct the ice operation that was going on.
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- Apparently she was doing it throughout the day.
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- She's obviously been trained.
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- She's obviously coordinating with other people.
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- And then she messed around.
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- That's what was causing unfortunate.
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- No, let's not say it.
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- I don't think she was a well, hey, i guess she actually.
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- Yeah, she was a vigilante or whatever.
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- But the point is, is that they.
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- Yeah.
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- As you said,
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- They wanted her to get shot, and now they want
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- Another situation to happen.
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- They want a cop to get shot or.
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- And this is the thing,
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- They want the administration to be so fearful of that
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- That they'll give up on enforcing the law.
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- And they can just say, oh, it's a dead letter.
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- We successfully beat them.
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- Well, and so the administration
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- Has to have a plan
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- To make sure neither of these things happen.
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- They have to do two things.
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- They well, they have to do one thing.
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- Above all,
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- They have to make sure that they assert ice's
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- Legitimate authority to enforce immigration law
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- In this country.
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- They cannot back off on that.
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- Now, if that means some lunatic in a blue city is going
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- To try to forcibly stop them, you can't let them stop you.
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- But i would also say you should make sure
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- That the left is the first one who uses force to try to.
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- If someone's going to shoot a gun,
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- It has to be the left first, frankly.
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- But you can push their cars out of the way,
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- You can shove them out of the way,
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- But make sure that they are
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- The ones who try to shoot somebody first.
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- I think this is genuinely important.
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- That is how you ultimately this is a test of wills.
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- This is a test of pr, and you have to make sure
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- That you win that battle.
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- This is possibly the most important test
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- This administration will face
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- The wounds from
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- October 7th didn't fade when the headlines did.
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- Behind me rises
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- A new rehabilitation home for israel's wounded soldiers.
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- One of many urgent projects israel needs right now.
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- Entire communities shattered.
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- Families displaced.
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- And each day,
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- The impact of the need grows even more overwhelming.
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- But the bible says it clearly.
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- The righteous will live by faith and by faith.
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- The fellowship is rolling up our sleeves
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- And stepping into this immense challenge.
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- Helping mothers who don't know where to begin again.
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- Standing with paralyzed heroes.
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- Fighting to take their first steps.
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- Building centers of healing for the wounded
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- And the traumatized.
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- Bringing food and comfort to elderly israelis
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- Who have no one else to care for them.
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- To see the life saving work of the fellowship.
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- Unfolding across israel right now.
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- Visit ifc's dawg.
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- Visit ifc's dawg.
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- Right
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- Now in studio, we have doctor kent engel, who has a book out
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- That came out in october, college without communism.
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- You can see it right here.
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- Let me move it over.
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- And if you can't probably see
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- It on your screen, but right up here,
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- It's actually got an endorsement for, charlie.
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- He sent it in on september 8th.
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- His endorsement, which is, two days obviously before
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- September 10th when we lost him.
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- So that that says something right there.
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- He says about the book, college education
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- Has become rotten to its core, but it doesn't have to be
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- Higher education be began as a christian endeavor.
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- And in college without communism.
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- Doctor kent engel and joshua lisak explain how we can undo
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- The damage and restore college as it is meant to be.
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- Well said to charlie there.
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- Yeah, we have the endorsement,
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- As well, zoomed in for you all if you want to see that.
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- And, so, doctor engel, welcome to the charlie
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- Kirk show. well. thank you. what a privilege to be here.
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- So thank you for your kind invitation.
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- So tell us about this book.
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- I mean, you obviously know something about this.
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- You're creating a, a network of universities and college
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- Campuses that partner with local churches, often,
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- That doesn't have communism in it, which is,
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- Has become a radical idea. right?
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- Absolutely. yeah.
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- Tell us. yeah.
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- Well, first of all, as a, as a, as a president
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- Who is on the the front lines of,
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- Having the privilege to invest in a generation
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- That we believe god is raising up
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- To make a difference in this world.
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- To come alongside their life.
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- The original intent of higher education
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- Is focused on spiritual and moral development.
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- When you get the chance to be able to pursue truth
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- And able to pursue character development
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- And shape virtuous leaders, all in the purpose
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- Of helping these students discover their divine design
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- The way god made them, the way god created them.
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- We're reminded in ephesians 210, you are a masterpiece
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- Created in christ
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- Jesus to do good things, which he prepared long ago.
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- Well, how long ago?
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- We know in psalm 139, before you took your first breath,
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- God was creating you and making you, in your mother's womb.
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- And you would be able to go on and we tell every student
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- That comes our way,
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- You're a solution to an issue, to a challenge
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- To a people group in this world.
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- And we get the privilege to pour education into your life.
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- So that you can be a good steward of that.
- 00:11:19.005 --> 00:11:21.608
- But what's sad is we see so many universities
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- And colleges and of course, as of late, we
- 00:11:24.844 --> 00:11:27.580
- We see that in a lot of the ivy
- 00:11:27.580 --> 00:11:29.282
- League colleges, but that have drifted from this
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- Original understanding of how education started.
- 00:11:32.218 --> 00:11:36.089
- It was all about formation, all about discipleship,
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- All about the integration of truth, faith and learning.
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- And they have drifted.
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- What they've done is
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- They've they've traded truth for ideology
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- And they've, traded wisdom for indoctrination
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- And for freedom of thought to, to, conformity.
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- And and so we need to create,
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- A new framework that helps us to make sure
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- That we get education back on track, doing the very thing
- 00:12:03.116 --> 00:12:06.886
- That we're supposed to do, provide stewardship
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- For these amazing students that god sends our way.
- 00:12:09.989 --> 00:12:13.259
- And we're delighted to do that.
- 00:12:13.259 --> 00:12:14.527
- And and not only do we get it back to its original purpose,
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- But here's the deal.
- 00:12:17.497 --> 00:12:18.364
- We also have to hit
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- The three most important issues in higher education today.
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- How are we providing great access?
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- How are we providing affordability
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- And how are we providing experiential education
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- So that actually what they're learning in the classroom,
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- They actually get to to do it
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- Right at the same time and get out into the workforce
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- And do things that will make a difference
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- And have an impact in their communities.
- 00:12:39.853 --> 00:12:41.554
- Yeah, a lot of people,
- 00:12:41.554 --> 00:12:42.689
- One of charlie's favorite things to say
- 00:12:42.689 --> 00:12:44.624
- Was that the root word of education means to lead forth.
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- To bring about something which is potentially present
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- In that student.
- 00:12:51.464 --> 00:12:52.632
- And so much of education has turned into a conversation.
- 00:12:52.632 --> 00:12:55.635
- What do you feel?
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- What do you think to put in to right or right
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- Or to like, figure out what they already think?
- 00:12:59.105 --> 00:13:01.140
- I mean, and really, you need to have leadership
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- Leading students towards something that is defined,
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- That is clear.
- 00:13:07.146 --> 00:13:08.481
- And i feel like so much of modern education has become
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- Aimless, you know, secular, rot, brain rot.
- 00:13:10.917 --> 00:13:14.988
- And, you know, i was looking it up
- 00:13:14.988 --> 00:13:17.190
- So of the ivies, you mentioned it.
- 00:13:17.190 --> 00:13:18.758
- Harvard, yale, dartmouth, congregationalist, puritan.
- 00:13:18.758 --> 00:13:21.761
- They were started as institutions,
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- By those denominations.
- 00:13:23.463 --> 00:13:24.797
- Princeton was presbyterian,
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- Congregationalist, brown, baptist and columbia anglican.
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- Penn and cornell were nonsectarian.
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- Yeah.
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- So that's a very penn thing to.
- 00:13:33.039 --> 00:13:34.807
- Yeah, but still deeply influenced
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- By protestant culture at the time.
- 00:13:36.276 --> 00:13:37.911
- Blake went to one of the ivy.
- 00:13:37.911 --> 00:13:39.312
- So we won't hold that against. yeah. what happened?
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- So give us some examples of
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- How you said you said college without communism,
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- How christians can reclaim truth and higher education.
- 00:13:46.386 --> 00:13:48.922
- Give us some examples of how communism has infiltrated
- 00:13:48.922 --> 00:13:52.158
- Higher education that maybe they're not aware of.
- 00:13:52.158 --> 00:13:54.027
- Maybe our audience would not be aware of.
- 00:13:54.027 --> 00:13:55.862
- Yeah, well, what they do is they they they
- 00:13:55.862 --> 00:13:58.498
- And i see it so often, i've seen so many students
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- From our local church and from our community
- 00:14:01.234 --> 00:14:03.803
- That have chosen to to go to a state college or,
- 00:14:03.803 --> 00:14:08.308
- To a private college that, doesn't focus
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- On the foundational issues.
- 00:14:11.144 --> 00:14:12.645
- And what happens is they're they're told truth is relative.
- 00:14:12.645 --> 00:14:16.716
- That faith is, you know, not,
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- Part of what we really believe shapes our lives.
- 00:14:20.553 --> 00:14:23.923
- They look at patriotism as naive and and then they
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- They look at this whole idea
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- That moral clarity is fluid and it's all opinion.
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- And that's what shaping these students
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- At these, these classes.
- 00:14:34.867 --> 00:14:36.102
- In fact, what's crazy to me is, is the president of harvard.
- 00:14:36.102 --> 00:14:40.273
- President garber just came out
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- Just a few days ago and said we were wrong.
- 00:14:42.075 --> 00:14:45.678
- We went, yeah, we went too far.
- 00:14:45.678 --> 00:14:47.680
- We should not have allowed faculty activism
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- In the classroom.
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- And for them to be in to form
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- Political thought that was more conformity of,
- 00:14:54.654 --> 00:14:57.657
- Rather than being able to reason together.
- 00:14:57.657 --> 00:15:01.094
- And that's what i loved about charlie,
- 00:15:01.094 --> 00:15:02.662
- And that's what we resonated in.
- 00:15:02.662 --> 00:15:04.397
- And charlie, had the privilege to visit
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- With charlie on our campus,
- 00:15:06.966 --> 00:15:08.368
- Our traditional campus there in lakeland,
- 00:15:08.368 --> 00:15:10.970
- About three years ago.
- 00:15:10.970 --> 00:15:12.405
- And we talked about these very issues.
- 00:15:12.405 --> 00:15:15.241
- And i love that he understood his divine design.
- 00:15:15.241 --> 00:15:20.179
- He understood what god called him to do,
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- To come alongside this next generation
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- To help form them so they could live out truth.
- 00:15:25.084 --> 00:15:29.188
- They could live out what it means
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- To have a call of god upon their lives,
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- To make a difference in this world, and to get education,
- 00:15:33.626 --> 00:15:36.329
- And that would simply be become stewardship for their life.
- 00:15:36.329 --> 00:15:40.233
- And and i love how he chose
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- The greatest place to do that, the university. why?
- 00:15:42.635 --> 00:15:45.805
- Because that's the place where they are forming character.
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- They are pursuing truth.
- 00:15:49.509 --> 00:15:51.010
- You have the ability to dialog and reason together
- 00:15:51.010 --> 00:15:55.348
- And talk about thoughtful engagement
- 00:15:55.348 --> 00:15:58.418
- That will hopefully give you the the tools
- 00:15:58.418 --> 00:16:01.888
- That will connect you to truth and and of course, truth.
- 00:16:01.888 --> 00:16:05.758
- Education is connecting to truth
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- That we understand is a person and that's jesus christ.
- 00:16:07.727 --> 00:16:11.697
- Jesus said, i'm the way, the truth, and the life.
- 00:16:11.697 --> 00:16:15.568
- And if you abide in my word and we know the word is christ,
- 00:16:15.568 --> 00:16:19.205
- Because first john chapter one talks about the word
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- Became flesh, lived among us, full of truth.
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- And so if we can connect students to truth
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- And declare that truth in their lives,
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- They're going to be able to live lives of purpose
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- And lives that fulfill destiny that god has for them
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- And to make a difference in these communities.
- 00:16:38.257 --> 00:16:40.026
- That's why we're also about going into communities,
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- Nationwide.
- 00:16:42.795 --> 00:16:43.963
- We also know that students
- 00:16:43.963 --> 00:16:45.465
- Can't necessarily come to our traditional campus,
- 00:16:45.465 --> 00:16:48.201
- But why can't we go to them and help shape their lives
- 00:16:48.201 --> 00:16:51.504
- With truth and character development and formation
- 00:16:51.504 --> 00:16:55.074
- And all the things that are important
- 00:16:55.074 --> 00:16:56.375
- To be a good steward of god's call upon your life.
- 00:16:56.375 --> 00:17:04.016
- Where are
- 00:17:04.317 --> 00:17:05.585
- The tears from the pain.
- 00:17:05.585 --> 00:17:07.920
- The life that she lived.
- 00:17:07.920 --> 00:17:10.056
- She's a survivor of auschwitz.
- 00:17:10.056 --> 00:17:13.493
- The years that they would just beat her ears.
- 00:17:13.493 --> 00:17:16.262
- That she didn't have food and felt hungry.
- 00:17:16.262 --> 00:17:19.565
- And our answer is love.
- 00:17:20.066 --> 00:17:23.302
- Before, with a gift of only $25.
- 00:17:23.302 --> 00:17:26.506
- You'll deliver a life saving food box into the hands
- 00:17:26.506 --> 00:17:29.675
- Of an elderly jew in need.
- 00:17:29.675 --> 00:17:32.411
- I wasn't only saying people have a heart.
- 00:17:32.411 --> 00:17:35.414
- There are good people today.
- 00:17:35.414 --> 00:17:37.216
- Call, scan or go online now.
- 00:17:37.216 --> 00:17:39.986
- And the international
- 00:17:39.986 --> 00:17:41.120
- Fellowship of christians
- 00:17:41.120 --> 00:17:42.388
- And jews will rush your food box today saudi arabia.
- 00:17:42.388 --> 00:17:46.259
- This is a holy moment.
- 00:17:46.259 --> 00:17:48.027
- What you're doing is not simply being kind.
- 00:17:48.027 --> 00:17:51.430
- You are prophetically stepping into the scriptures
- 00:17:51.430 --> 00:17:55.268
- And being part of their redemption and our own.
- 00:17:55.268 --> 00:17:58.771
- Please call, scan or go online now.
- 00:17:58.771 --> 00:18:03.008
- Please call, scan or go online now.
- 00:18:03.008 --> 00:18:07.544
- Anyways, back to the issue at hand.
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- You were just telling me a story about your visit.
- 00:18:11.047 --> 00:18:13.716
- Well, post-communist romania.
- 00:18:13.716 --> 00:18:16.252
- Yeah, romania.
- 00:18:16.252 --> 00:18:17.287
- And tell us about how that impacted
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- The writing of this book. yeah.
- 00:18:20.857 --> 00:18:22.125
- Well, yeah, this this book.
- 00:18:22.125 --> 00:18:24.260
- I share the story of why i'm so passionate about this issue.
- 00:18:24.260 --> 00:18:28.097
- My wife and i
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- Had the privilege, in the early 90s
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- To, right after ceausescu government had fallen.
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- So they were reeling from the effects of the devastation
- 00:18:34.370 --> 00:18:38.241
- Of communism in the nation of romania.
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- And we had the privilege
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- To go there to adopt, three of our three children.
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- And and i remember going there and i was just shocked
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- At what i saw.
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- I saw a nation that was, impoverished
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- And and oppressed and spiritually bankrupt.
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- And we went to all these orphanages around the country
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- And thousands upon thousands of of children there.
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- And, several of these orphanages,
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- We would walk in room after room
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- And there would be 30, 40 babies
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- Lying on a cold floor, underfed, uncared for.
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- And what was wild is, is the eeriness of it
- 00:19:17.380 --> 00:19:21.050
- Being silent.
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- You would think with all of those babies
- 00:19:22.885 --> 00:19:24.621
- There'd be crying and all that, but.
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- And you would look and there would be
- 00:19:25.888 --> 00:19:27.357
- This distant stare, even at that infant,
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- Because there was a lack of love and care.
- 00:19:30.426 --> 00:19:32.629
- And i'll tell you, it's not because the parents
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- Who abandoned them didn't love them.
- 00:19:34.964 --> 00:19:37.133
- They couldn't afford them.
- 00:19:37.133 --> 00:19:39.369
- Because, of course, communism comes in rooted in marxism.
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- And you had socialism comes in promising,
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- You know, opportunity and equality.
- 00:19:45.475 --> 00:19:48.811
- But what happens is the state takes control
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- And you're left with control and you're left with,
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- An impoverished state,
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- Stripped away from the very freedom
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- That allows you to flourish and have hope.
- 00:20:00.189 --> 00:20:02.759
- And, and we were able to, we talk about this,
- 00:20:02.759 --> 00:20:06.529
- All the time with our three children.
- 00:20:06.529 --> 00:20:09.032
- You know, we had the privilege to rescue them and bring them
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- To america, and our home become their home.
- 00:20:11.934 --> 00:20:16.239
- And what a privilege it has been to, come alongside them
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- And helping them to fulfill what god, designed them to be.
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- Yeah, well, and it sounds like you're
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- You're children have gone on to do pretty good things, too.
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- Yes. yeah.
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- Well, we'll leave that for another conversation i did.
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- Quick, quickly.
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- Here. we've got two minutes left here.
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- You say in
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- Chapter three you ask the question,
- 00:20:35.958 --> 00:20:37.126
- What happens when conservative students
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- Get a liberal education?
- 00:20:38.494 --> 00:20:39.629
- This was a massive question that charlie confronted.
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- What? what do you explain in your book?
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- Yeah. well, here's what happens.
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- I've seen these these students, these good,
- 00:20:46.903 --> 00:20:50.540
- Strong conservative students that go to a place like this
- 00:20:50.540 --> 00:20:54.043
- And and after just a short period of time, their faith,
- 00:20:54.043 --> 00:20:58.514
- They start questioning their faith.
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- They start questioning their
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- Values that, you know, they were raised in their home
- 00:21:01.484 --> 00:21:04.687
- And and again, it's because of this intentional design
- 00:21:04.687 --> 00:21:09.325
- To, to, to to lead them off the path of truth.
- 00:21:09.325 --> 00:21:13.262
- The truth is just a relative thing, and that, your,
- 00:21:13.262 --> 00:21:17.633
- Your faith is really outdated and you should question that.
- 00:21:17.633 --> 00:21:22.271
- And so they get this indoctrination
- 00:21:22.271 --> 00:21:24.407
- And it starts to lead them away.
- 00:21:24.407 --> 00:21:26.509
- And they, they want they want to give up,
- 00:21:26.509 --> 00:21:29.312
- When what we get to do at a faith
- 00:21:29.312 --> 00:21:31.881
- Based university is quite the opposite of that.
- 00:21:31.881 --> 00:21:34.584
- We get to help them really get in tune with truth
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- And reality and character and and morality and all the things
- 00:21:38.020 --> 00:21:41.290
- That are important to live a life that will give them joy,
- 00:21:41.290 --> 00:21:44.193
- That will give them peace, that will give them that sense
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- That i am significant in what god designed me
- 00:21:46.596 --> 00:21:50.299
- To do and accomplish. and that's what's so great.
- 00:21:50.299 --> 00:21:52.969
- And i look at these, these universities that
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- That have come in and this hasn't been by accident.
- 00:21:55.638 --> 00:21:58.808
- They they have
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- Realized that the way you shape the world, the way you shape
- 00:22:00.042 --> 00:22:03.179
- A nation is by starting in the classroom.
- 00:22:03.179 --> 00:22:06.282
- If you can shape the student, they will go out and shape
- 00:22:06.282 --> 00:22:10.153
- The culture.
- 00:22:10.153 --> 00:22:11.320
- And that's why this issue is so important that we make
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- Sure we're getting a hold of these amazing students,
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- Letting them know that god has a plan
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- And a purpose for their life,
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- And we can provide that educational stewardship.
- 00:22:20.830 --> 00:22:22.999
- Well said.
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- Doctor kent engel, college without communism,
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- With an endorsement from charlie kirk.
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- It's an honor to have you here. thank you for coming.
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- God bless you.
- 00:22:32.375 --> 00:22:35.178
- As this year draws to an end,
- 00:22:35.812 --> 00:22:37.280
- I'd like to express my
- 00:22:37.280 --> 00:22:38.648
- Heartfelt gratitude to our partners, the fellowship
- 00:22:38.648 --> 00:22:41.651
- Of christians and jews.
- 00:22:41.651 --> 00:22:43.186
- And i'd like to say thank you to our audience
- 00:22:43.186 --> 00:22:45.621
- Who have supported them in prayer, with finances
- 00:22:45.621 --> 00:22:47.857
- And standing strong for the people of israel.
- 00:22:47.857 --> 00:22:49.959
- The fellowship is one of america's
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- Most beloved
- 00:22:51.427 --> 00:22:52.562
- Organizations, spanning more than 40 years of ministry,
- 00:22:52.562 --> 00:22:54.997
- Providing tangible help
- 00:22:54.997 --> 00:22:56.566
- And comfort to the people of israel
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- In the ukraine and across the former soviet union.
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- This holiday season and every day of the year,
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- The fellowship is called to serve
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- The elderly jewish people,
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- Many of whom are holocaust survivors who are now
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- Living in the shadow of past wars, poverty and loneliness.
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- During this christmas time, join me and fulfill
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- The prophet isaiah as cry to comfort.
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- Comfort my people, says your god.
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- To find out how. visit ifg.
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- Org. that's if c.j. dawg.
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