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Charlie Kirk Today | Megan Basham: January 20th, 2026 | Charlie Kirk Today | January 20, 2026

Brought to you in part by the
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International fellowship of christians and jews.
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I was horrified.
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Truly, truly disgusted,
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Actually, in what happened in minneapolis.
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And of course, what we're talking about
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Is what happened at cities church in minneapolis
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When don lemon tags along with a group of far
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Left agitators and i would say communists even.
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And we're finding we're bolsheviks.
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And this is what one of the things
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I want blake to explain to the audience is that
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I think increasingly the best
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Analogy for what's going on in minneapolis.
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But you've seen it in portland, you've seen it in la,
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You've seen it in all these cities,
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You've seen it in atlanta when they, you know, went
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After the the police training facility.
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You see it with this antifa front groups
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And these these street gangs,
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They are neo bolshevik bolsheviks.
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And one of the things that bolsheviks did is
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They targeted christian churches
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Every time, every time, every time.
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And so you that's the background here.
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So it's
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If you really just go into history,
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Probably one of the most defining features of radical
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Left political movements from the french revolution
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230 years ago on down into really the present
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Is they call it anti-clerical ism,
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Anti-religion, anti clergy, anti
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Anti churches, anti christianity.
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And so the bolsheviks are the most notorious one.
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They blew up when they seized power, they blew up churches,
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They would execute priests, they would execute nuns,
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They would they would humiliate them in a lot of ways.
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There's a fun history of the russian.
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Well, okay,
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Not a fun, a good history of the russian revolution.
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They would preface that by blake thinks all history is.
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Yes, yes, history is really i find historians rebel.
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But so for example, they would
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They would, you know, torture priests
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And then make them do mock debates with atheists
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Where they would admit that they were liars
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Or wrong about everything,
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Although sometimes the priests would not go along with it.
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There was a very the reason i said it was fun was this
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Priest was made to argue about whether god exists.
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And so the priest asked the guy,
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Where did reality come from if if not for god
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And the the the bolsheviks said,
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Reality and life evolved itself into existence.
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And the peasants who were watching
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Thought this was so stupid, they immediately voted
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The priest the winner, which was not the way
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History was supposed to go.
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But there's always this spectacular violence
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In countries that you're not even familiar with.
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Mexico 100 years ago had a revolution, huge
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Amount of violence against, religious and churches.
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Spain, 1930s.
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They had a civil war,
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Tremendous amounts of violence against priests.
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And they would they would execute nuns,
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They would rape nuns, they would loot these churches
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Of all of their, valuables
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And say that these are being
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Hoarded against the poor, when really a beautiful church
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Is one of the things that it's
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One of the most beautiful things
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That the poor have direct access to.
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That's, a church that has beautiful things
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Belongs to all the believers.
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It's not that it belongs to the church.
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And it's just a recurring thing that happens over and over
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And over again.
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And so it's not terribly surprising that in minneapolis,
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As we get left wing agitation against police,
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Against the public, against passers
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By, essentially, that this would also turn
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Into agitation against churches and against christians.
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And as i said online yesterday, this one was unarmed.
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But if they thought
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They could get away with doing it
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While armed or using violence, i think they would,
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Because they have for hundreds of years.
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Well, and this is what's so infuriating, i,
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I completely agree they would have
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They will absolutely do this if you are watching happening
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In real time, if you start piecing
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Some of these clips together, like jennifer welch, who's a
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Like a very awful, disgusting,
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Deplorable person, she is a nasty woman.
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And she she's, you know, you see increasingly
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That they are showing their hand that they want
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To imprison us, they want to prosecute us.
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And then you've got don lemon here
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Who thinks that this is somehow justified.
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This is his first amendment rights.
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He doesn't understand the law because
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Harmeet dhillon is now on record this morning
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Saying that this was 100% a violation of the face act,
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Which protects places of worship,
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Which protects people to, you know, be free to go and to pray
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So people are going to get charged.
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The only question is how many,
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How severe the charges are going to be and so forth.
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And this guy
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Is a washed up media anchor who got fired from cnn.
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He is cosplaying as a activist
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And he doesn't
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Know how to do it, and he thinks that he's somehow
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Protected from consequences because he's a journalist.
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And i, i would say don lemon, who
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Basically gloried in the fact
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That you've got to make people terrified,
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You got to traumatize people.
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That's what protest is all about. that's what he said.
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I hope you woke up this morning, don lemon terrified,
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In the knowledge that federal charges
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Are likely coming for you. let's show.
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Let's show the clips here.
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Which which order do you want to do it in?
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Well, i you know, i think we just started 220.
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Let's get it.
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Where he's outside with these protesters.
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Operation pull up is what he calls it. 220.
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They're in the middle of the church.
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Two in the
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Beginning of the civil service, the pastor was speaking, and,
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The king messed it up and sent peace.
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And then the protesters surrounded her.
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But this is a clandestine mission.
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I think they found
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Out one of according to them, this is according to,
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Operation pull up that one of the pastors here
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Is, a member.
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And so, you can hear the shouting,
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The bile, the vitriol,
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The the anger just spewing out of these people's mouths.
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And by the way,
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We're going to have meghan basham
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On the second half of this hour.
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And she's done research on some of these protesters.
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Many of them have been arrested for this before.
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And so now you got to ask yourself, well,
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If they're they're getting out
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And they're doing it again, then maybe they're not getting,
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You know, charged and in prison long enough.
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But this is this is crazy.
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So he starts talking to the pastor here,
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And the pastor at that did a beautiful job.
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226 it's unacceptable.
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It's shameful.
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It's shameful to have to interrupt
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A public gathering of christians in worship.
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But there are consequences.
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I have to take care of my flock.
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Listen, we live in a
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There's a constitution,
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The first amendment to freedom of speech
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And freedom to assemble and protest.
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We're here to worship.
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We're here to worship jesus,
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Because that's the hope of these cities.
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That's the hope of the world.
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I thought the passage of beautiful.
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It's actually a pretty insightful view of of the left
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Wing attitude that they always believe they have the right to
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Kind of do what they want.
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So we have the freedom,
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Freedom of assembly, freedom to protest
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By bursting into your church, the hecklers,
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Your event, the hecklers, veto.
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It's just like
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Whenever they would attack our events on campuses
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Even before the tragedy, just they would blame, you know,
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They would blame charlie, they would blame turning point.
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They would do a riot and they'll have to
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Come out and like, look what you made us do
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By assembling, right?
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There has never been
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A more entitled, pretentious, disgusting group
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Of protesters, agitators, agitators.
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You will never find one.
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The entitlement is truly through the roof
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And it's disgusting. we'll be back more, more.
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In just a few minutes. don't go anywhere.
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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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We're going to keep going through these clips
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Because they are legitimately disgusting.
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And by the way, i will say this.
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You know, we've heard that, you know, this axios piece
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That we're losing the polling battle on immigration.
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It's just too intense.
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I was texting with, mark halperin,
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Who we're going to get back on the show,
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And this joe rogan esque sentiment that all his agents.
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Well, they're getting doxed.
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Okay.
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Well, then you have don lemon
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Doing a gift for all of us, giving us a gift
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Because it's so disgusting.
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Let's go ahead and play.
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This is, this is this is an amazing.
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Don lemon's even acknowledging
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How traumatic this is for the parishioners.
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229 watch this guy here.
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Look how good this kid.
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And, you know, i'm smashing.
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It's uncomfortable and traumatic for the people here.
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But again, careful. it's very slippery right here.
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That's what protesting is about.
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And so that's what protesting about traumatizing little kids,
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Making parents that are at church
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Comfort their little kids.
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How disgusting.
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Absolutely disgusting.
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But this is the bolshevik revolution,
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And it's right here in front of us.
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It's right here in our home country.
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And they're going to come for christians
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Because they know christians
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Are the last firewall to freedom in this country.
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They know that christianity gives you true freedom
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To put the state in its rightful place,
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To not worship it, to not deify it,
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But to demand freedom that god gives us our freedoms.
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And meanwhile you just can't get over it.
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It's the difference between the left and the right here.
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It would never have
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Got to go to us to destroy it, to go into a church.
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And yeah, but here's the other thing.
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If this was a mosque, don lemon wouldn't have been
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Within 100ft of it.
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Also that he would have
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He would have absolutely understood that this
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That is a no go zone.
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Not not in that sense.
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But he
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Would have absolutely respected the fact
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That when there's worshipers there,
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You don't interrupt that.
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But he doesn't not give that same type of,
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Space or respect to christian worshipers.
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And that tells you everything. because here's the thing.
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He knows that christianity is is a religion of peace.
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He knows that those people in
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They're going to act respectfully.
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He knows that after charlie was assassinated,
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That we held vigils and we we lit candles
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And we did a memorial in peace.
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We didn't burn down cities.
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He knows that we're not
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We're not going to act like complete idiots.
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And so he takes advantage of that,
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And he goes and walks in there like some
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Washed up over the hill,
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Burnout from cnn.
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And i just i'm just so disgusted by this story.
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Let's keep going.
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He then talks to what blake would say is the most sinister
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Of probably of all the forces in the state of minneapolis
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Or minnesota.
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And that's attorney general keith ellison.
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So he goes and does this church raid
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It? traumatizes little kids, and then he talks
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To the the top cop in the state of minnesota about it.
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228 i just want to be clear, the state has every right
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To investigate this matter and prosecute this matter.
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The state has every right.
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And, you know, as a prosecutor,
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I'm not really allowed to make conclusive statements
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Before the investigation is completed.
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But i do want to make it clear that there is absolutely no
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Legal barrier to the state taking action in this matter.
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The first point here he makes
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Is that they're going to try and prosecute
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The ice age that was that was involved ice agents,
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Anybody that they they deemed to be
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A criminal, which i would love to see their definition of it.
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And then he asked about the church.
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Yeah. what's a that's a rolling stones line.
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Every cop is a criminal and all the center saints.
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Yeah. well, exactly. that's it.
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We we do live in upside down bizarro world now.
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And then he asks about the church.
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230 you heard what some of the folks said in there.
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You know that this is, they shouldn't be there.
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And, you know, they shouldn't be uncomfortable.
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And this is our house and whatever.
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That's what protesting is about,
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Is to make people uncomfortable.
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You may not like it, but,
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I mean, if they went into a church, you know, any church.
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Yeah. so now he's trying to walk it back.
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By the way, protesting is about making people uncomfortable.
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That sounds like what ilhan omar, aoc say.
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They bolshevik.
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It's actually so sinister because no,
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Like a big point of protest is to just show
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That a lot of people support a cause.
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That's the point of you turn out a million people
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On the national mall.
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That's the point of you turn out at
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A city council meeting at your state legislature.
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You show a lot of people believe this.
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The point of these when you make people uncomfortable.
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The point of this is to subvert the normal political process
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Using fear.
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And so you have to say, okay, you should actually
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Give us what we want because you're worried
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The next time we'll shoot you, you're worried the next time
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We'll burn down your church.
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Don't you're worried we'll do something illegal.
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There was a church that was just shot up
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In minneapolis
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By a left wing loony for left wing loony reasons.
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This is a wild clip of crazy good paul.
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I want to give credit to western lensman for this.
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This was december 2025.
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It's not even a month ago.
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This is tim walz
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Saying that our side doesn't go in raid churches.
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We don't we don't do that.
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235 so i would fully expect and we are preparing for,
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An influx of more agents,
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More of the very visible public
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Theatrics of the raids of the harassments. and,
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You got faith leaders here.
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I would not put it past
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This administration to target midnight mass services
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Amongst folks going to worship, because that's who they are.
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No tim walz, that's who you are.
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That's what your side is doing.
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You desecrate churches because you're entitled,
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Because you're ignorant and you're ill informed
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And you refuse to cooperate with law law enforcement.
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These are routine law enforcement operations
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Enforcing immigration law is not an option.
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You have two options in this country
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Either cooperate, cooperate with ice,
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And you don't have these raids,
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Or you don't cooperate with ice.
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And you do get the raids.
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There's not an option
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Where you just get to ignore immigration law.
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That's not the way this works.
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We're gonna be right back with megan basham.
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Where are
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The tears from the pain.
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The life that she lived.
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She's a survivor of auschwitz.
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The years that they would just beat her ears.
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That she didn't have food and felt hungry.
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And our answer is love.
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Before, with a gift of only $25.
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You'll deliver a life saving food box into the hands
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Of an elderly jew in need.
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I wasn't only saying people have a heart.
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There are good people today.
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Call, scan or go online now.
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And jews will rush your food box today saudi arabia.
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This is a holy moment.
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What you're doing is not simply being kind.
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You are prophetically stepping into the scriptures
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And being part of their redemption and our own.
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All right.
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We now are ready for megan bash.
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Megan, welcome back to the show.
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Hey, andrew. thanks for having me.
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Good to be here. it's great to see you.
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I i've just been we've the whole first half of the show.
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We've just been going off on don
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Lemon, don lemon and keith ellison.
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This whole bolshevik neo bolshevism
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That is taking over the,
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I would say the activist class, the agitator class of the far
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Left find it incredibly disgusting.
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Very disturbing. what's going on here?
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Give us your reaction of what we saw
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Minneapolis at cities church and then you have some.
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You've been doing some research and some investigation
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Into some of these players that were involved in this.
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I want to hear it all.
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Megan basham, the floor is yours.
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Yeah.
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I mean, obviously it's appalling and abhorrent
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To see what these activists did storming into this church.
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You know, i've talked to some pastors
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Associated with this church.
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They're telling me that the children
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Were terrified that they were they were crying that,
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And i think the pastors handled it
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Very well,
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But they did have to end the service early
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Because these kids were terrorized
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And they couldn't continue with the service.
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So they shut it down, and they reconvened later
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That night and finished
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Holding the service after all of these protesters left.
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But you know, what i think
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Is really important to note here is that, the police,
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The local law enforcement did not arrest anyone.
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So they knew that this was happening. they were on site,
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They were observing, and they did nothing.
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So obviously this is a violation of the face act.
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It is illegal
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To break into a church and disrupt worship services.
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And yet local minneapolis police did nothing.
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They said that they were trying
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To balance, freedom to worship with free speech.
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But your free speech rights do not entitle
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You to break into churches and disrupt the services
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Going on there.
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So, you know, that obviously is just one more point
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To how lawless it has become on the ground
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In minneapolis and minnesota at large.
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And so clearly,
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We need some federal authorities
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To go in there and take charge.
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And on that note, one of the guys who was
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A ringleader of this mob is a guy named william kelly.
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He was one of the guys who was circling.
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If you watch the videos online demanding,
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Whether or not that
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The people in this church support ice,
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He was demanding to know what they've done
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For their somali brothers and sisters.
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And he's a paid professional agitator.
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He claims to be a combat veteran,
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And he has been seen repeatedly
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Outside of christ church in dc as well,
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Because that's the church that pete hegseth goes to.
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Right?
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So he's been there harassing them weekly.
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And, i spoke to one of the pastors
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Associated with that church,
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And he told me that
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It has become so severe that at one point
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They screamed through bullhorn and, with amplification
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And they actually burst a, a church members
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Eardrum with these tactics and sent him to the hospital.
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So, you know, one question i have at
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This point is how these guys are able to continue harassing
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Churches and church members this way, and why
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They're not behind bars,
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Because william kelly
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Was reportedly arrested a few weeks ago in dc
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For this very kind of thing, for harassing dc church,
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And he's released again and back out on the streets
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Bothering christians
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This is james talarico who's running for u.s.
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Senate in the state of texas.
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He's the rising star, rising star.
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This year.
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You get a white democrat guy that's a seminarian.
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He's a presbyterian seminarian,
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Seminarian, and he goes on ezra klein's podcast
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And ezra klein asks him, do you think christianity
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Is more true than other religions?
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And this answer, just like, just blew me away at
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How tepid and weak it was.
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201 how do you think about the competing claims
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Of different religions?
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Do you believe christianity
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To be more true than other religions?
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I believe christianity points to the truth.
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I also think other religions of love point to the same truth.
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I think of different religious
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Traditions as different languages,
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And i've learned more about my tradition
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By learning more about buddhism and hinduism
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And islam and judaism.
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And so i see these beautiful
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Faith traditions as circling the same truth
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About the universe, about the cosmos, yeah.
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Okay.
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You know what scripture
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Calls those beautiful faith traditions outside of his own?
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It calls them idolatry.
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They're false religions.
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These are the religions that are created
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By the spirit of the air, which is demonic.
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So we need to understand that
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Any religion that does not honor
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Christ is a demonic religion, and it is a false religion.
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So, you know, i love my friends and other faith traditions,
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But i don't want them
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Worshiping false gods, so i will continually try
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To draw them to christ.
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And that shows you
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That whatever else james tallarico is, he's
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Not a christian because a christian understands
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That when christ says, i am the way, the truth,
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And the life, when he tells us
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That you're not getting to god through any other door,
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We know that that's the truth.
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And that's what we preach, because we love people
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And we want them to go to heaven,
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And we don't want them to follow false religions to hell.
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So, you know, i would just say that this has, clearly,
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Definitively proved that james talarico is no christian,
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Which we already knew because he doesn't follow
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Christ's commands on issues like protecting the unborn,
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On protecting life, on, sexuality and gender identity.
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So we knew that this was not a christian.
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But i do think,
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And you guys can tell me what you think about this,
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But i think we see a a growing battle culturally.
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And this proves that we are
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Still a very
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Culturally christian nation, but we are facing
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A growing battle over who does christ belong to,
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Because i think in the past the left
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Just kind of denigrated christians and churches.
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But now what they're realizing is that a better method
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Is to try to,
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Claim christ as their own for their left wing agenda.
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And anyone who knows their bible
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Will see why that won't work.
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But i think they're going to increasingly try to do that.
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It reminds me of what
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Scott adams actually what he said
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In one of his last streams where he said, you know, i'm
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Very touched by all these christians
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That are trying to get me to convert,
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He said, because it shows the sincerity of their own belief
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That they believe this is the way and that ultimately,
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Help lead scott to, converting.
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And do you think he got a call from james talarico saying,
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No, actually, they don't worry about it
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Because it's all pointed towards the truth.
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Islam is a religion of love.
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And just follow that one to the to the truth of the cosmos.
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Megan basham, thank you for coming on.
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We appreciate it greatly. we'll see you again soon.
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Excellent analysis as always.
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We'll talk to you soon.
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As this year draws to an end,
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I'd like to express my
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Heartfelt gratitude to our partners, the fellowship
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Of christians and jews.
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And i'd like to say thank you to our audience
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Who have supported them in prayer, with finances
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And standing strong for the people of israel.
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The fellowship is one of america's
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Most beloved
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Organizations, spanning more than 40 years of ministry,
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Providing tangible help
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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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Megan Basham: January 20th, 2026 | Charlie Kirk Today

January 20, 2026 | 23:29

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