In many circles, former Governor Mike Huckabee is known for his down home, common sense. While fighting grows in the Washington sandbox, Huckabee has created his own lane, diagnosing problems and creating a wealth of solutions for success.
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Huckabee Today | Mike Huckabee; January 17, 2025 | Huckabee Today | January 17, 2025
- And hello from little rock, arkansas,
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- Where we attack big subjects
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- With some raised eyebrows and an occasional chuckle.
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- Hello, i'm mike huckabee,
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- And this term limited program is called huckabee.
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- Today.
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- Pardon me, i'm a little hoarse today,
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- Which i guess is better than being,
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- Well, a little bull because we'll leave the bull
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- To somebody else.
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- But the hoarseness is what a lot of people are experiencing
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- This time of year.
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- Pardon the voice.
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- You're going to love the program today.
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- The transition between two very different
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- Administrations is taking form.
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- More appointments being announced almost every day.
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- But it's a lot
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- More than an exchange of mere positions of people.
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- It's a transformation rather than a transition.
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- Coming into government with the trump
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- Administration, our platoons of conservatives,
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- Many of whom have been waiting in the wings
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- For fruits of victory.
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- They've had the benefit of the wisdom from a washington
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- Powerhouse called the heritage foundation.
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- Heritage provides a work place on values
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- For conservative thinkers and candidates alike.
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- It's not just for
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- Running an effective government, but for competing in elections
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- Where truth is often pretty hard to find.
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- The skipper
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- Of that battleship of ideas
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- And the president of the heritage
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- Foundation is kevin roberts.
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- He's with us tonight.
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- He emerged from a hardscrabble childhood
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- In lafayette, louisiana, to the heights of a ph.d.
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- And then to the world of public policy.
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- His latest book is called dawn's early light
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- Taking back washington to save america.
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- We are very happy to welcome doctor kevin roberts
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- To be with us.
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- Kevin, congratulations on the book and the election.
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- Welcome to the show.
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- And i'm going to jump into it by just saying that we're now
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- Just days away from donald trump's inauguration.
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- Explain why this could
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- Truly be dawn's early light.
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- Governor, it's a real pleasure to be with you.
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- You're one of my political heroes.
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- As i mentioned to you last year,
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- This is dawn's early light in the 21st century.
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- That is a rebirth,
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- If you will, of the principles of the american revolution
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- And the war of 1812, from
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- Which, as you know, we get that phrase
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- Because the american people have spoken that over
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- The last generation.
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- Most of them believe that the american dream
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- Has slipped away
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- Because of errant policies, mostly at the federal level,
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- Some at the state level.
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- And what they see in the election
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- Of donald trump and j.d. vance.
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- And this wonderful appointment of so many cabinet level
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- Officials, is a renewed promise that the american dream
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- Can be revitalized.
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- In the book,
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- I talk about that,
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- But also talk about the role that we need to play
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- Individually and our own families and churches
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- And communities to participate in that renewal.
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- Kevin, i
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- Enjoyed so much when you were on my weekly show
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- Just a few weeks ago and we had a discussion about
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- Not only the contents of the book of dawn's
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- Early light, but about the priorities
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- That the president is going to bring.
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- The one thing that it appears
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- Is that he's bringing people into government
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- Who are unemployed, genetically, disrupters.
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- These are not people coming with their oil can
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- Just to lube up the equipment and let it keep running.
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- These are people who are coming to dismantle the machinery
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- And change it and put it where it needs to be.
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- So help us understand
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- What are some of the things that you are able to see
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- That the president could really dismantle,
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- That would change washington for the benefit of the citizens?
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- And who are some of the people who will be those mechanics
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- Doing it?
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- Well, i'll start with the high level
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- Before giving you a couple of examples.
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- Governor, at the high level, you mentioned my,
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- As you put it, hardscrabble
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- Childhood in lafayette, louisiana,
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- One of the great places on earth.
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- And what strikes me about all of these cabinet
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- Appointees, regardless of where they're from
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- And what their childhoods might have been like,
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- Is that they have the mindset
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- Of the ordinary person of lafayette, the ordinary person
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- In little rock, the ordinary person
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- In the bronx, whatever those those people believe,
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- Whatever their political affiliation is,
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- And it's this
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- And that is that the people of the officials in washington
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- For too long have worked against their interests.
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- And whether it's donald trump himself or jd vance, who just
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- Yesterday was visiting the grave of his wonderful grandmother,
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- He mentioned in the best convention speech ever,
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- Which was at the republican convention.
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- All of these men and women coming into the administration
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- Have the everyday american in their heart.
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- And that's going to lead to,
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- I think, a couple of policy priorities
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- Right at the beginning of the administration.
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- That ought to give us encouragement.
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- The first, which is very likely chronologically on inauguration
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- Day and inauguration
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- Evening to be the first, is closing the southern border.
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- We can believe that two things can be true at the same time,
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- That we can care very deeply for those
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- Who want to be migrants to this country legally.
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- And we also can understand, as scripture would tell us,
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- That we have to adhere to the rule of law,
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- That if, in fact, we don't have the rule of law,
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- How can we sustain a civil society
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- If it is the last, best hope on earth for these people?
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- And then the second very broad reform,
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- But one that is going to get very specific in every agency
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- Is the leadership of vivek ramaswamy, me and elon musk
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- On the department of government efficiency.
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- It isn't just the ideas, governor, is you know, that
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- That those two men are bringing to the table.
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- But the fact that
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- They are going to have housed in every single, single agency,
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- A representative of doge
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- To help push the career bureaucrats toward
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- What the cabinet secretaries and deputy
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- Secretaries want to get done.
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- I believe that these important figures, the vacancy line,
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- Along with the great cabinet secretaries, are going to renew
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- The american spirit toward a self-governance in people.
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- I think you made a great
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- Point about the office of government efficiency.
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- If there is such a thing as government efficiency.
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- My experience is that it's very hard to find,
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- But there's something that
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- They come into power with that no one has had before.
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- And it's the supreme court chevron decision
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- That really does say that
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- These bureaucratic agencies cannot just make up law.
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- I don't think the average american
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- Had any idea when that decision came down, what a big thing
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- It was,
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- Because it sounds rather esoteric,
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- But it is a huge hammer in the hands of those
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- Who wish to reform government and put it back in
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- The control of elected officials.
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- Why is that so important, and how will it help shape
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- The role that vivek and ellen are going to be tasked with?
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- It's important because it
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- Restores constitutional order to this country, which is to say
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- That congress makes laws, not some unelected bureaucrat.
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- And look,
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- Your audience understands
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- That well because they're smart people.
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- But i think it's also important
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- Not to just exist in the abstract.
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- And and then the sort of constitutional theory world,
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- But to mention a couple of real world examples.
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- One of them that comes to mind is a friend of mine in wyoming.
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- During my time there as a small rancher with her husband,
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- And one day she's out on her ranch
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- And there's this government official out there
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- Traipsing across her property.
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- He was an armed agent of the environmental protection agency,
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- Looking for some, quote unquote, intermittent pond
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- On her property and, you know, arid tundra of central wyoming.
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- It's that kind of thing that the chevron decision
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- Will bring to an end, because since its creation in the 1970s,
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- The epa has accrued power, not just,
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- You know, for itself, but against the american people.
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- And congress has looked the other way.
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- These kinds of examples can be are repeated
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- Millions of times every decade with ordinary americans.
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- And so to sum up here, governor,
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- When people hear the chevron decision and they think, oh,
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- This is some sort of legal theory, and yes, it's good,
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- But i'm not sure how it affects my life.
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- I guarantee you
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- That every single one of us will benefit from this decision,
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- But also we will benefit from great men
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- And women being appointed by the president
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- To be able to, in this kind of nonsense.
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- I'm glad you helped
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- Explain that, because i do think it is huge.
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- Well, we've got a lot more we want to talk about
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- With doctor kevin roberts of the heritage foundation.
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- So stay with us.
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- We're going to be right back after a short break.
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- This is.
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- We're back with doctor kevin roberts,
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- Head of the heritage foundation
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- Conservative think tank that's been around
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- Since the reagan years, but has a real role to play
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- In helping move conservative ideas.
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- President trump
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- Is going to come into office unlike any president 100 years.
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- He was a president, lost an election,
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- Had four years to think about what i would do differently.
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- Now he comes back in.
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- In some ways,
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- Kevin, i think he's going to be a much stronger president
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- Than had he won reelection in 2020,
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- Because he had been so sucker punched
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- By a lot of people that he placed in office,
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- But they weren't loyal to him or to his america first agenda.
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- He's had a good opportunity to spend four years preparing
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- For this term, and i'm seeing a very different approach
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- That he's taking. evaluate for us.
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- What has changed in donald trump,
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- His priorities and his power to get it done?
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- A dare i say,
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- Governor, i think it's providence
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- That his second term
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- Is nonconsecutive with the first,
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- You know, it didn't feel that way
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- In 2020 given all the circumstances of that election.
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- But if you think about his being able
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- To take four years of preparing, not just his own priorities
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- For this second term,
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- But also thinking about
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- The kinds of men and women
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- He would appoint to keep positions.
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- I think the country will be
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- Much better off as a result,
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- Even though we had to suffer
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- A lot
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- By having the interlude known
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- As the biden-harris administration.
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- I think in particular, what i have seen and we've had,
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- Of course, a close up look at heritage
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- With so many colleagues going into the administration
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- Is a combination of real resolve
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- That is, regardless of whatever the political winds are,
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- This president is going to
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- Go to the mat for the american people.
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- That's always been true about trump.
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- But if it's possible for trump this time around
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- To be even more resolved in that regard, it is.
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- And then the second thing, in terms of specifics,
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- There is a real sense
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- Of the chronology in which things need to happen.
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- And on that point, just bear with me
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- Because you and your audience might say, come on, roberts,
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- You're talking about chronology.
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- You sound like a think tank guy.
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- It's really important in washington.
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- As you know, governor,
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- That you not only have your priorities,
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- But you also have a sense of the playbook that that, that
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- They need to follow.
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- In other words, there needs to be a closing of the border.
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- There needs to be a change in the permitting process
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- For oil and gas.
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- There must be, of course, change and deregulation
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- For the economy to get going again.
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- And there must be a renewal of the trump tax cuts.
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- The chronology in which this happens, in other words,
- 00:11:54.175 --> 00:11:57.778
- Develops the political momentum by which trump is going
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- To be able to take on more priorities.
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- By the time we get into the second half of the year.
- 00:12:03.351 --> 00:12:05.786
- I could not be more optimistic about the opportunities ahead,
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- But also what i've seen thus far from the president.
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- You're incredibly well-written.
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- Book has some quotes that i want to
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- Just share with our audience.
- 00:12:17.698 --> 00:12:19.533
- These are things that you say about the liberal elites.
- 00:12:19.533 --> 00:12:23.237
- Some of the best rhetoric i've heard.
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- He says, you say, calling some of the elites
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- Skittle haired, they them activists.
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- One of my favorites.
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- Another adderall addicted diversity consultants,
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- Hipster trust fund socialist.
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- Kevin, i love that it's, you know, it's it's pretty blunt.
- 00:12:40.021 --> 00:12:43.924
- Pretty right out there.
- 00:12:43.924 --> 00:12:46.394
- But it's one of the reasons that i think people
- 00:12:46.394 --> 00:12:48.295
- Are going to enjoy the book dawn's early light so much.
- 00:12:48.295 --> 00:12:52.199
- I guess i'm asking,
- 00:12:52.667 --> 00:12:54.035
- How come you can't just come out and say what you really think?
- 00:12:54.035 --> 00:12:57.872
- It's it's like my older sister said that
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- She's mentioned in the book.
- 00:13:01.442 --> 00:13:02.677
- We have a great relationship,
- 00:13:02.677 --> 00:13:04.178
- But she she read the book and she said, kevin,
- 00:13:04.178 --> 00:13:06.647
- You finally found an outlet for your crazy sense of humor,
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- Which which was honed by dealing with a lot of academics.
- 00:13:09.950 --> 00:13:14.188
- You know, i was a, american history professor.
- 00:13:14.188 --> 00:13:17.558
- I referenced that in the book and had to sit
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- Through all these dumb faculty meetings.
- 00:13:19.460 --> 00:13:21.429
- And i'm thinking,
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- These people are so smart,
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- And let's just posit that they're good people.
- 00:13:23.898 --> 00:13:26.200
- But, i mean, they couldn't get their head
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- Out of a paper bag if their life depended on it.
- 00:13:28.202 --> 00:13:30.838
- And so if you think about correcting some of the problems
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- In this country, governor,
- 00:13:33.808 --> 00:13:35.176
- It has to start with the people
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- Who purportedly teach our students.
- 00:13:36.577 --> 00:13:38.312
- We ought to have a sense of humor,
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- As you often personify in your career.
- 00:13:40.014 --> 00:13:43.617
- Well, i hope i do, because i
- 00:13:44.218 --> 00:13:46.287
- Think that without the sense of humor, one would probably sit
- 00:13:46.287 --> 00:13:50.458
- In a tub of warm water with razor blades
- 00:13:50.458 --> 00:13:52.893
- Most every evening if, one had to be in government.
- 00:13:52.893 --> 00:13:56.697
- Let me speak to something that
- 00:13:57.298 --> 00:14:00.301
- You had a lot of criticism
- 00:14:00.301 --> 00:14:01.669
- Over the course of the last election year
- 00:14:01.669 --> 00:14:03.838
- That you personally.
- 00:14:03.838 --> 00:14:05.005
- But heritage, you created a project called project 2025.
- 00:14:05.005 --> 00:14:09.343
- All of us who have ever dealt with a think tank,
- 00:14:09.343 --> 00:14:11.412
- Whether it's on the left or the right, understand?
- 00:14:11.412 --> 00:14:13.447
- Think tanks come up with a plethora of
- 00:14:13.447 --> 00:14:16.150
- A plethora of ideas, put them on the table and say,
- 00:14:16.150 --> 00:14:20.054
- If there's anything you see here that you like,
- 00:14:20.054 --> 00:14:23.057
- Pick it up and put it on your tray.
- 00:14:23.057 --> 00:14:25.159
- The democrats went berserk.
- 00:14:25.760 --> 00:14:27.795
- They thought that somehow you had written donald trump's
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- Playbook, that he was taking orders from heritage.
- 00:14:30.397 --> 00:14:34.435
- But, you know, in a way, it seemed like the controversy
- 00:14:34.435 --> 00:14:37.271
- Ended up being positive, despite all the controversy,
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- Because
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- People had a chance to actually look at some of the ideas
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- And think about them.
- 00:14:44.512 --> 00:14:46.013
- But was it frustrating
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- With the disinformation that was put out by the media
- 00:14:47.982 --> 00:14:51.285
- And the left?
- 00:14:51.652 --> 00:14:52.787
- But of course, i repeat myself when i distinguish them.
- 00:14:52.787 --> 00:14:56.557
- It was frustrating.
- 00:14:57.024 --> 00:14:58.058
- Look, i'm i'm an open book.
- 00:14:58.058 --> 00:14:59.660
- I'm a candid guy who was very frustrating for us at heritage.
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- And yet, i will tell you, governor,
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- Our faith,
- 00:15:04.565 --> 00:15:05.699
- My confidence in my colleagues and also president trump
- 00:15:05.699 --> 00:15:09.069
- And all the people across the conservative movement
- 00:15:09.069 --> 00:15:11.338
- Was that if we stayed the course and we corrected the record
- 00:15:11.338 --> 00:15:14.508
- And we highlighted
- 00:15:14.508 --> 00:15:15.543
- Where the left was not just lying, but spending
- 00:15:15.543 --> 00:15:18.078
- Tens of millions of dollars mischaracterizing this,
- 00:15:18.078 --> 00:15:21.382
- That we would prevail.
- 00:15:21.382 --> 00:15:22.750
- And ultimately,
- 00:15:22.750 --> 00:15:23.617
- What happened to the example
- 00:15:23.617 --> 00:15:25.286
- That you mentioned is that the left
- 00:15:25.286 --> 00:15:27.221
- Gave us a lot of earned media that we
- 00:15:27.221 --> 00:15:29.056
- Otherwise wouldn't have been able to afford.
- 00:15:29.056 --> 00:15:30.825
- We weren't seeking that.
- 00:15:30.825 --> 00:15:32.059
- We're just trying to advise elected officials, as you know.
- 00:15:32.059 --> 00:15:35.262
- But once they created that, it caused thousands of americans
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- To find out more about the policies in project 2025.
- 00:15:39.033 --> 00:15:43.304
- And when they went there,
- 00:15:43.304 --> 00:15:44.572
- They said, you know, this is really well done.
- 00:15:44.572 --> 00:15:47.208
- We're grateful that heritage did this.
- 00:15:47.208 --> 00:15:49.076
- And so
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- I'm reminded 30 plus years ago
- 00:15:49.810 --> 00:15:51.579
- When i became president of heritage,
- 00:15:51.579 --> 00:15:53.447
- I was told by some skeptics that think tanks were irrelevant.
- 00:15:53.447 --> 00:15:58.018
- I think one of the lessons we've learned
- 00:15:58.018 --> 00:15:59.386
- Is that at least one think tank, the heritage foundation,
- 00:15:59.386 --> 00:16:01.822
- Is pretty doggone relevant, and we look forward to
- 00:16:01.822 --> 00:16:03.858
- Remaining so for a long time.
- 00:16:03.858 --> 00:16:07.228
- We only have about a minute left, kevin.
- 00:16:08.028 --> 00:16:09.630
- But before we close out, i want you to share why
- 00:16:09.630 --> 00:16:12.466
- Faith is so important to you.
- 00:16:12.466 --> 00:16:13.868
- Because, you are a man of deep conviction and faith.
- 00:16:13.868 --> 00:16:17.171
- You've been called a person
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- Who is more catholic than the pope,
- 00:16:18.606 --> 00:16:20.908
- But it's a term
- 00:16:20.908 --> 00:16:22.009
- That i would receive if someone said that about me
- 00:16:22.009 --> 00:16:24.845
- As a great compliment.
- 00:16:24.845 --> 00:16:27.615
- Why is faith such
- 00:16:27.615 --> 00:16:29.416
- An integral part of who you are and what you believe?
- 00:16:29.416 --> 00:16:32.519
- Well, it goes back to a particular moment
- 00:16:33.354 --> 00:16:36.156
- In my childhood that i write about in the book,
- 00:16:36.156 --> 00:16:38.058
- And it was difficult to to write about my brother
- 00:16:38.058 --> 00:16:41.061
- When he was 15 and when i was nine took his own life.
- 00:16:41.061 --> 00:16:44.498
- And and i remember mike and the being in the back
- 00:16:44.498 --> 00:16:48.102
- Seat of my grandparents car, they really helped raise me.
- 00:16:48.102 --> 00:16:51.372
- They were people of great faith.
- 00:16:51.372 --> 00:16:53.374
- And i just remember the holy spirit intervening in my life.
- 00:16:53.374 --> 00:16:57.144
- That's one of the reasons my non-catholic friends,
- 00:16:57.144 --> 00:17:00.047
- You included, say, i've never met a catholic
- 00:17:00.047 --> 00:17:01.882
- Who talks about the holy spirit as much as you do.
- 00:17:01.882 --> 00:17:04.318
- That's why.
- 00:17:04.318 --> 00:17:05.219
- And ever since then, although of course,
- 00:17:05.219 --> 00:17:07.388
- I'm imperfect, like like any anyone else.
- 00:17:07.388 --> 00:17:10.624
- Faith has helped me be a much better husband, a better father.
- 00:17:10.624 --> 00:17:13.627
- But i'll also say, let me hope a better leader.
- 00:17:13.627 --> 00:17:17.197
- And so in the last year,
- 00:17:17.197 --> 00:17:18.999
- When we were going through all of this
- 00:17:18.999 --> 00:17:20.634
- Unpleasantness of the left's
- 00:17:20.634 --> 00:17:22.369
- Mischaracterization of our project,
- 00:17:22.369 --> 00:17:24.505
- Not just my faith, but the faith of all of my colleagues
- 00:17:24.505 --> 00:17:27.441
- And heritage, the faith of so many friends and supporters
- 00:17:27.441 --> 00:17:30.811
- Gave us this really key attribute, which is fortitude.
- 00:17:30.811 --> 00:17:35.616
- There are a lot of cardinal virtues,
- 00:17:35.616 --> 00:17:37.251
- But i've learned in my career, in public policy
- 00:17:37.251 --> 00:17:39.453
- And in leadership
- 00:17:39.453 --> 00:17:40.554
- That if we just ask the lord not only
- 00:17:40.554 --> 00:17:42.289
- To provide us the path ahead, but to give us the fortitude
- 00:17:42.289 --> 00:17:46.226
- Not to give up, he provides that left to our own devices,
- 00:17:46.226 --> 00:17:50.030
- I think we would be pretty limited in our ability there.
- 00:17:50.030 --> 00:17:52.566
- But the last thing i would say is faith makes me joyful.
- 00:17:52.566 --> 00:17:55.836
- How could you not wake up as a son
- 00:17:55.836 --> 00:17:57.871
- Or daughter of jesus christ and and and wake up
- 00:17:57.871 --> 00:18:01.442
- In the united states and somehow not be very joyful?
- 00:18:01.442 --> 00:18:05.479
- That's why it's important.
- 00:18:05.479 --> 00:18:07.681
- What a beautiful way for us to
- 00:18:08.282 --> 00:18:10.851
- Conclude the conversation that i know is a great encouragement
- 00:18:10.851 --> 00:18:14.922
- To those who are watching.
- 00:18:14.922 --> 00:18:16.023
- Doctor kevin roberts, thank you for joining us here
- 00:18:16.023 --> 00:18:18.258
- On huckabee today.
- 00:18:18.258 --> 00:18:19.660
- I know i learned a lot.
- 00:18:19.660 --> 00:18:21.428
- Our audience, i'm sure, did too.
- 00:18:21.428 --> 00:18:23.397
- Don't forget doctor roberts new book.
- 00:18:23.397 --> 00:18:25.132
- Well worth reading.
- 00:18:25.132 --> 00:18:26.500
- Dawn's early light taking back
- 00:18:26.500 --> 00:18:29.336
- Washington to save america.
- 00:18:29.336 --> 00:18:32.706
- Well, when we come back, we'll be reading some of your emails.
- 00:18:32.706 --> 00:18:36.343
- Things that you're saying to us.
- 00:18:36.343 --> 00:18:38.345
- So stay right where you are.
- 00:18:38.345 --> 00:18:40.214
- Listen carefully.
- 00:18:40.214 --> 00:18:41.548
- Our sponsors make us possible.
- 00:18:41.548 --> 00:18:53.811
- One of our favorite parts of the show
- 00:18:54.465 --> 00:18:55.800
- Is when we let you do some talking.
- 00:18:55.800 --> 00:18:57.902
- Especially, like with my voice is messed up as it is.
- 00:18:57.902 --> 00:19:01.372
- But then again, i got to read them.
- 00:19:01.372 --> 00:19:03.341
- So i'll be reading your words.
- 00:19:03.341 --> 00:19:05.543
- But i have to do it with a scratchy throat.
- 00:19:05.543 --> 00:19:07.512
- Here we go.
- 00:19:07.512 --> 00:19:08.379
- Connie sent this to us.
- 00:19:08.379 --> 00:19:09.914
- She says
- 00:19:09.914 --> 00:19:11.049
- Many have probably told you, but in case they didn't.
- 00:19:11.049 --> 00:19:13.184
- I'll say it.
- 00:19:13.184 --> 00:19:14.318
- You were born to be the american ambassador to israel.
- 00:19:14.318 --> 00:19:17.855
- God's been training you for this all your life.
- 00:19:17.855 --> 00:19:20.324
- Christian pastor, governor, tour guide to israel, broadcaster.
- 00:19:20.324 --> 00:19:24.562
- All have given you skills
- 00:19:24.562 --> 00:19:26.264
- That you now have and you're going to need as ambassador.
- 00:19:26.264 --> 00:19:30.201
- Thank you, connie, for the kind words, and i certainly hope
- 00:19:30.201 --> 00:19:34.372
- You pray for a peaceful jerusalem.
- 00:19:34.372 --> 00:19:37.475
- We get this from donna.
- 00:19:37.975 --> 00:19:39.077
- She lives in dayton, ohio and says,
- 00:19:39.077 --> 00:19:41.145
- Can we still write to you at this email address
- 00:19:41.145 --> 00:19:43.614
- After you've gone to israel?
- 00:19:43.614 --> 00:19:45.783
- I wish i could say yes.
- 00:19:45.783 --> 00:19:47.618
- Comments.
- 00:19:47.618 --> 00:19:49.420
- Mike huckabee.com.
- 00:19:49.420 --> 00:19:51.322
- But chances are
- 00:19:51.322 --> 00:19:53.124
- My email is going to be locked up somewhere
- 00:19:53.124 --> 00:19:55.860
- In some government vault,
- 00:19:55.860 --> 00:19:57.628
- And, i may be the last person to see it.
- 00:19:57.628 --> 00:20:01.165
- I'm sure i'll have some way for you to contact me.
- 00:20:01.165 --> 00:20:03.501
- Finally, a quick word from roman frederick, colorado says,
- 00:20:03.501 --> 00:20:06.771
- I hope your pink jacket will be an influential factor
- 00:20:06.771 --> 00:20:09.974
- When discussing issues with hamas and hezbollah.
- 00:20:09.974 --> 00:20:14.145
- Shock therapy.
- 00:20:14.479 --> 00:20:16.047
- Indeed.
- 00:20:16.047 --> 00:20:17.215
- Well, coming up, a final thought. we'll be right back.
- 00:20:17.215 --> 00:20:28.812
- Well, i've saved this email for the last.
- 00:20:29.231 --> 00:20:32.400
- This comes to us from terri from maryland, and she says,
- 00:20:32.400 --> 00:20:35.971
- I quote, i really enjoyed watching your tv shows.
- 00:20:35.971 --> 00:20:39.908
- I think the only thing i won't miss is the pink suit.
- 00:20:39.908 --> 00:20:43.645
- Terri, it was just a jacket.
- 00:20:44.246 --> 00:20:46.982
- I didn't have pants that color.
- 00:20:46.982 --> 00:20:49.084
- You will be approved by congress for the position of ambassador
- 00:20:49.084 --> 00:20:52.087
- To israel. no doubt about that.
- 00:20:52.087 --> 00:20:54.556
- Good luck on your new journey in life.
- 00:20:54.556 --> 00:20:57.959
- Well, terry, thank you.
- 00:20:57.959 --> 00:20:59.528
- But, you know,
- 00:20:59.528 --> 00:21:00.862
- I might even take that pink jacket with me to israel.
- 00:21:00.862 --> 00:21:04.299
- Nobody would wonder, where is he?
- 00:21:05.033 --> 00:21:07.669
- We can't find him.
- 00:21:07.669 --> 00:21:09.404
- Yeah. they could.
- 00:21:09.404 --> 00:21:10.772
- Well, i'm mike huckabee, and we're on the air
- 00:21:10.772 --> 00:21:12.374
- From little rock every weekday evening,
- 00:21:12.374 --> 00:21:14.509
- At least until the end of this month.
- 00:21:14.509 --> 00:21:16.745
- I very much enjoyed sharing my guest with all of you
- 00:21:16.745 --> 00:21:19.381
- And getting your feedback as well.
- 00:21:19.381 --> 00:21:21.816
- Thanks for watching.
- 00:21:21.816 --> 00:21:22.918
- And stay around
- 00:21:22.918 --> 00:21:24.085
- Because alan jackson is coming up next right here on tbn.
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- Good night and god bless.
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