Mike Huckabee: January 23, 2025 | Huckabee Today

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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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  • And good evening.
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  • Welcome to huckabee.
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  • Today, a program where we're guided by curiosity.
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  • I'm mike huckabee,
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  • And i get to talk at every program with people.
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  • We're not only smart, but they're interesting, too.
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  • It's a great gig.
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  • Well, that's what they say in show business,
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  • And i'm sure you're going to miss it.
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  • If the senate confirms me and a new job
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  • As president trump's ambassador to israel.
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  • But who could say no to the president?
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  • So while i still inhabit this digital bully pulpit,
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  • I want you to meet a pastoral warrior named janet morano.
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  • Now, janet has been active in the pro-life movement
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  • For decades through an organization of clergy
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  • And lay supporters who advocate not only for the unborn,
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  • But for the women who have to make life and death
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  • Decisions about the babies they carry.
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  • It is truly god's work.
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  • Janet, thanks for being with us.
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  • And i want to begin by saying, every time i do a speech
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  • With a pro-life group, i always say,
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  • Let's never forget there are two victims in every abortion.
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  • The obvious one is the baby, but the other victim
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  • Is almost always the birth mother
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  • Who was talked into the procedure
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  • By a boyfriend or a mother grandmother,
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  • Maybe by her friends, and then lives to regret it
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  • When she one day realizes what's really happened.
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  • So, janet, let's start by
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  • Talking about how you got into the movement.
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  • What was the catalyst that caused you to realize
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  • That there was a big piece of this whole issue
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  • That we were missing?
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  • Well, first of all, governor,
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  • Congratulations on your soon to be appointment to israel.
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  • And to let you know, i work with pro-life
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  • Groups over in israel.
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  • One, in fact, is a gentleman,
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  • Named near solomon with efrat crib.
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  • So i hope you can connect with him
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  • When you get to israel and be in touch with me.
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  • Of course.
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  • How did i get involved?
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  • Well, for me, you know, abortion was not even on my radar
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  • Screen, until this, priest came to my parish, back in 1990.
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  • Father frank pavone and started preaching about the issue,
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  • And it opened my eyes.
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  • And then one day, i went with father pavone
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  • And other pro-lifers to an abortion mill.
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  • And we were praying outside that abortion mill.
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  • And for me, governor, seeing visible pregnant women
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  • With visible
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  • Baby bumps going in to destroy the life of their child
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  • Like an iron curtain came behind me,
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  • Slammed door shut, and said, that's it.
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  • I'm game on from now.
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  • So god takes me home.
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  • I've got to do something to help these women
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  • That they can't think.
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  • The only choice they have
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  • Is to destroy the life of their child.
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  • So it was that thing that actually the reality hit me
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  • And i became full throttle. ever since.
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  • You know, i'm glad you mentioned, father frank pavone,
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  • A dear friend of mine and somebody who has been
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  • On the forefront of advocating for life and doing it
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  • With a, a wonderful, kind spirit.
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  • When you were talking, it's very obvious that you had what
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  • Many of us, his believers, would call a road
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  • To damascus experience where the light came on
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  • And you realize that, there are human lives being destroyed.
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  • You've spent an enormous part of your ministry,
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  • With the women and dealing with what happens.
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  • And i want to just share so that our audience understands.
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  • We're on the same page here.
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  • Years ago, in my young adult life,
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  • I spent a period of time as a local pastor of a church.
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  • I encountered something
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  • That i was not prepared for
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  • When i was counseling women who had had an abortion.
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  • Many of these women were in their late
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  • 30s, 40s, even up to late 50s.
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  • Maybe the abortion happened when they were 15 or 16
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  • And they put it out of their minds.
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  • I just repressed it.
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  • But as they got older,
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  • As they started having children of their own,
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  • They started realizing what they had done.
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  • And the guilt that they were dealing with was overwhelming.
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  • Janet,
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  • I was not prepared to understand that that was a piece of this
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  • That i had never really thought about.
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  • That's where you spend an enormous part of your ministry.
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  • So what happens in these women's lives?
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  • Why do they
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  • And how can they put it out of their minds for such
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  • A long time?
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  • Well, it's not that they put it out of their minds.
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  • They've kind of shelved it, so to speak.
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  • They're fully aware of it, but they're not dealing with it.
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  • I don't want to go.
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  • There is kind of some of the expressions they use,
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  • Because we have to understand, governor, that
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  • When a woman has an abortion for the most part it's a coerced
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  • Or forced abortion.
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  • These are young girls
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  • Who are being dragged in to an abortion clinic by a parent,
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  • Or pushed in there by a boyfriend, and even husbands.
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  • I've had testimonies of even husbands who told their wives,
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  • We already have three children.
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  • We can't afford to have any more.
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  • You have to have an abortion or i'm going to leave you.
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  • This governor is not about freedom of choice.
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  • So they go in there not wanting to have this abortion,
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  • But feeling pressure to coerce or forced going through with it.
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  • And some of them just shut down.
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  • A lot of them abuse drugs and alcohol
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  • Just to numb the pain they're in for many years.
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  • A lot happens to their lives spinning out of control
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  • Until they hit rock bottom,
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  • And that's when they reach up for help.
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  • And we operate one of the largest abortion
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  • Recovery programs called rachel's vineyard,
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  • Founded by doctor theresa burke.
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  • We've been healing people
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  • On these retreat weekends for decades.
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  • And what we find is they can learn that god forgave them.
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  • So if they go to talk to their pastor,
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  • The pastor can assure them the lord is going to welcome
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  • You back. you're forgiven.
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  • The bigger step is to give themselves.
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  • And that's where an abortion recovery program steps in.
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  • That's what rachel's vineyard helps them do.
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  • It takes them back to that experience.
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  • They have to talk about it.
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  • Write a letter to their baby of forgiveness.
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  • If god puts a name on their heart and name that child
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  • So they have an opportunity
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  • To have closure with the baby on that weekend, and that's
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  • When they can come full circle and forgive themselves.
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  • And you know, governor, what's
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  • So thrilling about these women when they are finally set free?
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  • Guess what? they were 100% pro-life.
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  • They vote pro-life, and many of them
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  • Get involved in the pro-life movement.
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  • So this freeing of them and, you know, it's silent no more.
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  • We use the butterfly as an example
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  • Because they're like, locked
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  • In that little cocoon like a caterpillar.
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  • But after healed, they're sore free like a butterfly.
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  • You know, i love that you put together these weekends
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  • So that these women can come
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  • And not just have a 20 30 minute counseling session,
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  • But an extended time to really work
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  • Through the guilt, the grief,
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  • All that they're experiencing.
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  • How can people be part of a recovery weekend?
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  • How do they even sign up or
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  • Learn about it?
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  • We have a very simple website, governor.
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  • It's called abortion forgiveness.com.
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  • Again, abortion forgiveness.com.
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  • All you have to do is put in your zip code.
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  • You'll see where the nearest rachel's vineyard retreat
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  • Weekend is and what the upcoming schedule is.
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  • Then there's also some information there
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  • About some follow up bible study programs,
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  • Like forgiving and set free and surrendering the secret
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  • And save one because very, very often
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  • A women will go through that weekend.
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  • But then she wants a little bit more.
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  • She wants to continue her journey of healing.
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  • And that's when we refer them out,
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  • Then to a bible study program that might go on for a
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  • Once a week for a few months.
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  • What do we have to
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  • Understand is destroying the life of your child
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  • Is such a major
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  • Event in your life that yes, god forgives you on the weekend.
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  • You learn to forgive yourself,
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  • But then healing is an ongoing process.
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  • So many of the women describe it, governor, as
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  • Peeling an onion.
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  • Another layer goes away and another layer it goes away.
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  • It's like in washington, d.c.
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  • We have these women coming now for over two decades,
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  • Standing in front of the supreme court,
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  • Freezing cold testimonies and giving their testimony.
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  • And some people say, well, why do they keep doing it?
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  • And i said,
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  • Because they feel they're memorializing their child,
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  • And they're
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  • Also giving that message so that some women out there
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  • Who are considering an abortion
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  • May listen to the voices of experience, not the political
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  • Rhetoric, and say, oh, look, look what happened to them.
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  • Maybe i should reconsider this.
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  • And the other reason why they speak out
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  • Is to talk to other women who are still locked
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  • In that shameful sin of abortion,
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  • Thinking there's no hope to say, oh, yes, there is.
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  • Look at us.
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  • We've accepted the lord's forgiveness.
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  • We've forgiven ourselves.
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  • And we're here proudly
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  • To speak about the damage abortion did in our lives
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  • And how restored we are now with the lord.
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  • You know, and one of the
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  • Things that i love about what you're doing
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  • Is that you're
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  • Pushing back in action against the people who say,
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  • Yeah, you pro-life people, all you care about is a fetus,
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  • Just the unborn baby.
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  • And you're proving that's not true.
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  • And i'm so grateful.
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  • We've got a lot more to talk about that janet marotta.
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  • We're going to do that right after this brief
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  • Break with the people who make this program possible.
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  • We'll be right back.
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  • We're back with the executive
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  • Director of priest for life, janet murano.
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  • Janet, we were talking before about
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  • Women who get coerced into abortions.
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  • How easy it became for so many years
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  • To have an abortion in this country.
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  • I want to talk about what happens culturally, because
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  • This is the week that we're seeing a transition
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  • In administration
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  • From the biden administration to the trump administration.
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  • Without getting into a political discussion,
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  • I want to just open up about
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  • What do you think happens differently
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  • With the incoming trump
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  • Administration, who before, in his previous four years
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  • Was the most pro-life president in my lifetime, for sure.
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  • Well, of course, we're delighted about the election results,
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  • Because under the biden
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  • Administration, he and kamala harris,
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  • Obviously they're there's not an abortion they don't like.
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  • In fact, they supported bills and legislation
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  • And everything to see abortion legal till birth.
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  • And so, you know, that's to us is so horrific.
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  • Any abortion is bad for us.
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  • But that supporting late term abortion,
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  • And i think president trump
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  • Said it so eloquently in the debates
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  • Where he called them out on late term abortion.
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  • So with the trump administration coming in, number one,
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  • God bless america,
  • 00:11:11.968 --> 00:11:13.469
  • Because now we have a president who understands
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  • The issue of abortion.
  • 00:11:15.905 --> 00:11:17.440
  • He wants to work with congress and the pro-life movement
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  • To help protect babies and their mothers, and maybe
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  • Defund planned parenthood,
  • 00:11:24.547 --> 00:11:26.349
  • You know, and take all that government
  • 00:11:26.349 --> 00:11:28.451
  • Money away from planned parenthood.
  • 00:11:28.451 --> 00:11:30.353
  • And imagine if they gave some of that money
  • 00:11:30.353 --> 00:11:32.522
  • To the pregnancy helps center movement, you know, governor,
  • 00:11:32.522 --> 00:11:35.558
  • Because right now in america, the pregnancy health centers
  • 00:11:35.558 --> 00:11:39.228
  • Outnumber the abortion clinics almost 4 to 1.
  • 00:11:39.228 --> 00:11:42.231
  • So that's good news.
  • 00:11:42.231 --> 00:11:43.232
  • They're closing, and we keep opening up.
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  • To real give real choices for women.
  • 00:11:45.201 --> 00:11:47.370
  • So i'm encouraged, with president trump
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  • And all the people he's putting in place in his administration
  • 00:11:50.373 --> 00:11:54.043
  • Are people
  • 00:11:54.043 --> 00:11:55.044
  • Who the pro-life issue is, at their core, being
  • 00:11:55.044 --> 00:11:57.680
  • They understand how important this is.
  • 00:11:57.680 --> 00:11:59.882
  • And so i'm looking forward
  • 00:11:59.882 --> 00:12:01.184
  • For the next four years to see things turned around,
  • 00:12:01.184 --> 00:12:04.320
  • And also to have the justice department
  • 00:12:04.320 --> 00:12:07.089
  • Not weaponize and go after pro-life is who are peacefully
  • 00:12:07.089 --> 00:12:10.493
  • Praying outside these abortion mills
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  • And offering real choices for women.
  • 00:12:12.161 --> 00:12:14.297
  • So i think it's going to be a new page will be turned.
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  • He was the most probably president
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  • In his first four years, so i'm hoping he can top it in
  • 00:12:19.235 --> 00:12:22.772
  • The next four.
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  • I do too, i truly do.
  • 00:12:26.075 --> 00:12:27.944
  • And what you said about the way that the justice department
  • 00:12:27.944 --> 00:12:31.881
  • Went after pro-life people, a 75 year
  • 00:12:31.881 --> 00:12:35.218
  • Old grandmother in tennessee arrested
  • 00:12:35.218 --> 00:12:38.387
  • And sentenced to 12 years in prison
  • 00:12:39.188 --> 00:12:41.824
  • For praying and singing at an abortion clinic.
  • 00:12:41.824 --> 00:12:45.261
  • This was outrageous.
  • 00:12:45.261 --> 00:12:47.029
  • I mean, somehow people who wanted to save a baby's
  • 00:12:47.029 --> 00:12:50.600
  • Life were a bigger terrorist.
  • 00:12:50.600 --> 00:12:53.703
  • And people who blew up abortion, pregnancy centers
  • 00:12:53.703 --> 00:12:57.473
  • As alternatives.
  • 00:12:57.874 --> 00:12:59.075
  • And i'm glad you mentioned the abortion alternative
  • 00:12:59.075 --> 00:13:01.878
  • Centers, the pregnancy crisis facilities across the country.
  • 00:13:01.878 --> 00:13:06.382
  • Once again, pro-life people have often been accused.
  • 00:13:06.382 --> 00:13:08.851
  • Well, you don't care about anything
  • 00:13:08.851 --> 00:13:10.386
  • Other than the baby in gestation.
  • 00:13:10.386 --> 00:13:12.521
  • Once it's born, you don't care.
  • 00:13:12.521 --> 00:13:14.557
  • I've been to dozens and dozens of these across the country.
  • 00:13:14.557 --> 00:13:17.793
  • They provide diapers.
  • 00:13:17.793 --> 00:13:19.262
  • They provide baby food.
  • 00:13:19.262 --> 00:13:20.663
  • They provide, baby car seats.
  • 00:13:20.663 --> 00:13:24.267
  • Training for not just the moms, but the fathers as well.
  • 00:13:24.267 --> 00:13:28.604
  • The pro-life movement is so much more in its breath,
  • 00:13:28.604 --> 00:13:33.309
  • But to the point of abortion as a whole.
  • 00:13:33.309 --> 00:13:36.746
  • I mean, i think a lot of people mistakenly thought,
  • 00:13:36.746 --> 00:13:38.881
  • Well, if roe v wade is overturned, abortion goes away.
  • 00:13:38.881 --> 00:13:42.118
  • I've said for years, it does not mean it goes away.
  • 00:13:42.118 --> 00:13:44.553
  • It may be more abortion.
  • 00:13:44.553 --> 00:13:46.956
  • It just means the states will now control it.
  • 00:13:46.956 --> 00:13:50.493
  • The tragedy is because of the abortion pill.
  • 00:13:50.493 --> 00:13:53.863
  • It now is easier to have an abortion.
  • 00:13:53.863 --> 00:13:56.465
  • It doesn't even involve a medical professional.
  • 00:13:56.465 --> 00:13:59.201
  • But this is a dangerous procedure.
  • 00:13:59.201 --> 00:14:01.304
  • So, janet, speak to the fact that maybe it's easier,
  • 00:14:01.304 --> 00:14:05.374
  • But it's far less safe, far less safe
  • 00:14:05.374 --> 00:14:08.411
  • For a person to administer her own abortion at home.
  • 00:14:08.411 --> 00:14:12.648
  • Yeah, well, the chemical abortion governor
  • 00:14:12.648 --> 00:14:14.517
  • Is extremely dangerous.
  • 00:14:14.517 --> 00:14:15.918
  • First of all, the women go
  • 00:14:15.918 --> 00:14:16.953
  • To, the abortion clinic to get the pills.
  • 00:14:16.953 --> 00:14:20.022
  • They have planned parenthood.
  • 00:14:20.022 --> 00:14:21.691
  • There's no medical information taken.
  • 00:14:21.691 --> 00:14:23.893
  • They don't even know
  • 00:14:23.893 --> 00:14:24.894
  • If it's an atopic pregnancy or what it is.
  • 00:14:24.894 --> 00:14:26.862
  • And they give them those pills, the first pill
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  • They take at the clinic,
  • 00:14:28.731 --> 00:14:30.566
  • Then they go home with their little paper bag,
  • 00:14:30.566 --> 00:14:32.435
  • And they have to take the rest of the pills themselves.
  • 00:14:32.435 --> 00:14:34.570
  • Now, first of all, think about this.
  • 00:14:34.570 --> 00:14:37.473
  • If they begin to regret this procedure
  • 00:14:37.473 --> 00:14:40.209
  • When it's a surgical abortion,
  • 00:14:40.810 --> 00:14:42.411
  • They can blame the clinic and the doctor.
  • 00:14:42.411 --> 00:14:44.680
  • But now who are they going to blame?
  • 00:14:44.680 --> 00:14:46.649
  • They become the abortions by taking the pills themselves,
  • 00:14:46.649 --> 00:14:50.186
  • And then unfortunately, the bathroom
  • 00:14:50.186 --> 00:14:52.321
  • Becomes the abortion clinic.
  • 00:14:52.321 --> 00:14:53.956
  • We have testimonies, these women that were horrified
  • 00:14:53.956 --> 00:14:57.326
  • When they saw the remains of their baby in the toilet
  • 00:14:57.326 --> 00:15:00.129
  • Or in the shower, and they were traumatized by it.
  • 00:15:00.129 --> 00:15:03.632
  • We're finding women are coming for healing
  • 00:15:03.632 --> 00:15:06.268
  • From chemical abortion sooner than they were coming
  • 00:15:06.268 --> 00:15:09.372
  • For surgical abortion, because it's so traumatic.
  • 00:15:09.372 --> 00:15:13.242
  • They're seeing their baby.
  • 00:15:13.242 --> 00:15:14.877
  • You know, it's so traumatizing.
  • 00:15:14.877 --> 00:15:18.080
  • And it's very irresponsibility.
  • 00:15:18.080 --> 00:15:19.749
  • Abortion clinics,
  • 00:15:19.749 --> 00:15:20.483
  • Because they don't
  • 00:15:20.483 --> 00:15:21.350
  • Even have a true diagnosis of pregnancy,
  • 00:15:21.350 --> 00:15:23.352
  • And they're just giving out these pills like candy.
  • 00:15:23.352 --> 00:15:26.088
  • They can get the mail order.
  • 00:15:26.088 --> 00:15:28.491
  • So it's really tragic.
  • 00:15:28.491 --> 00:15:29.892
  • And i am hoping with the new administration,
  • 00:15:29.892 --> 00:15:32.828
  • We can lock down, what they're doing
  • 00:15:32.828 --> 00:15:35.331
  • With these pills and maybe get them recalled.
  • 00:15:35.331 --> 00:15:37.633
  • Even.
  • 00:15:37.633 --> 00:15:40.636
  • Jack, we only have about a
  • 00:15:41.203 --> 00:15:42.304
  • Minute left, and i want to make sure that
  • 00:15:42.304 --> 00:15:43.973
  • We get to the end of the march for life.
  • 00:15:43.973 --> 00:15:46.575
  • It's 52nd year.
  • 00:15:46.575 --> 00:15:48.277
  • At the national level.
  • 00:15:48.277 --> 00:15:51.147
  • It's a huge outpouring of pro-life people.
  • 00:15:51.147 --> 00:15:54.483
  • Rarely gets much press attention, even though
  • 00:15:54.483 --> 00:15:57.219
  • It's a magnificently large gathering of people.
  • 00:15:57.219 --> 00:16:01.023
  • The press tends to ignore it, but it keeps going on.
  • 00:16:01.023 --> 00:16:04.226
  • And so,
  • 00:16:04.460 --> 00:16:05.494
  • How can people participate in the march for life?
  • 00:16:05.494 --> 00:16:07.563
  • We only have about a minute.
  • 00:16:07.563 --> 00:16:09.365
  • Okay, well, this is, governor, my 36
  • 00:16:09.365 --> 00:16:12.501
  • Consecutive march for life.
  • 00:16:12.501 --> 00:16:14.203
  • I haven't missed 1 in 36 years.
  • 00:16:14.203 --> 00:16:16.472
  • I would say just, you know, come to washington.
  • 00:16:16.472 --> 00:16:18.908
  • The events start, actually, on january 22nd.
  • 00:16:18.908 --> 00:16:22.144
  • There'll be a prayerful
  • 00:16:22.144 --> 00:16:23.412
  • Remembrance of the victims of in front of the supreme court
  • 00:16:23.412 --> 00:16:26.515
  • The next day.
  • 00:16:26.515 --> 00:16:27.183
  • There's activities all over d.c.
  • 00:16:27.183 --> 00:16:28.918
  • And, of course, the morning of the march
  • 00:16:28.918 --> 00:16:30.352
  • For life is a beautiful prayer service and constitutional.
  • 00:16:30.352 --> 00:16:33.422
  • At 830,
  • 00:16:33.422 --> 00:16:34.390
  • Conducted by father pavone and members
  • 00:16:34.390 --> 00:16:36.158
  • Of the natural pro-life religious council.
  • 00:16:36.158 --> 00:16:38.127
  • And then we go to the ellipse and we march up constitution
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  • Avenue past the capitol and up to the supreme court,
  • 00:16:41.130 --> 00:16:44.500
  • Where when they get there at 2:00, 230,
  • 00:16:44.500 --> 00:16:47.103
  • They'll hear more testimonies of women from silent no more.
  • 00:16:47.103 --> 00:16:52.808
  • Well, i hope people will come.
  • 00:16:53.409 --> 00:16:55.177
  • Please give my sincere regards to your colleague,
  • 00:16:55.177 --> 00:16:59.281
  • Father frank and janet.
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  • Thank you for being with us today.
  • 00:17:00.950 --> 00:17:02.885
  • Thanks for. sharing. thank you for having me.
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  • God bless you and your work in the new administration. and,
  • 00:17:05.254 --> 00:17:09.758
  • Thank you so much.
  • 00:17:10.192 --> 00:17:11.794
  • A godly woman and a godly work will stay with us
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  • Through this next break.
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  • We're going to be looking into our digital mailbox,
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  • Reading some emails that you have sent to us.
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  • We'll be right back.
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  • We always love hearing from you.
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  • You can send your comments
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  • To us at comments at mike huckabee.com.
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  • Here's some things you've been saying.
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  • This comes to us with a viewer.
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  • It says i am currently reading
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  • The books written by bodie and brockton,
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  • Which i started reading
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  • After seeing them interviewed on your weekend program.
  • 00:17:42.762 --> 00:17:45.765
  • And this viewer says, i've been struck by things
  • 00:17:45.765 --> 00:17:48.935
  • Hitler said and did prior to ennis
  • 00:17:48.935 --> 00:17:52.105
  • Annexing austria in his campaign to conquer europe.
  • 00:17:52.105 --> 00:17:56.075
  • Thus, i'm troubled by comments president
  • 00:17:56.075 --> 00:17:57.977
  • Trump has recently made about making canada
  • 00:17:57.977 --> 00:18:00.280
  • Our 51st state and taking back the panama canal.
  • 00:18:00.280 --> 00:18:04.417
  • Although probably made in jest.
  • 00:18:04.417 --> 00:18:06.252
  • He probably should refrain from statements
  • 00:18:06.252 --> 00:18:08.888
  • That are comparable to hitler's rhetoric.
  • 00:18:08.888 --> 00:18:11.491
  • Okay, let me say i don't think there's any danger
  • 00:18:11.491 --> 00:18:15.061
  • That donald trump,
  • 00:18:15.061 --> 00:18:16.329
  • Despite what some of the left said, is trying to mimic hitler.
  • 00:18:16.329 --> 00:18:19.866
  • First of all, when he talked about canada
  • 00:18:19.866 --> 00:18:21.367
  • Being the 51st state, he was doing it in jest.
  • 00:18:21.367 --> 00:18:24.904
  • He was making the point to prime minister trudeau
  • 00:18:24.904 --> 00:18:28.775
  • Is that canada is really having some serious struggles.
  • 00:18:28.775 --> 00:18:33.112
  • And maybe
  • 00:18:33.112 --> 00:18:33.947
  • In order to be successful,
  • 00:18:33.947 --> 00:18:35.181
  • They should just become the 51st state
  • 00:18:35.181 --> 00:18:37.317
  • And the prime minister could become the governor of canada.
  • 00:18:37.317 --> 00:18:40.920
  • Now, he wasn't seriously saying the u.s.
  • 00:18:40.920 --> 00:18:42.689
  • Is going to go take over canada.
  • 00:18:42.689 --> 00:18:44.390
  • Not in your life.
  • 00:18:44.390 --> 00:18:45.825
  • Was he saying that
  • 00:18:45.825 --> 00:18:47.193
  • You have to understand
  • 00:18:47.193 --> 00:18:48.294
  • Donald trump has an enormously vivid sense of humor,
  • 00:18:48.294 --> 00:18:52.232
  • And that's what he was doing as relates to panama.
  • 00:18:52.232 --> 00:18:56.002
  • People don't understand
  • 00:18:56.502 --> 00:18:57.770
  • What's going on in panama is that the chinese are moving in
  • 00:18:57.770 --> 00:19:01.874
  • And doing everything possible
  • 00:19:01.874 --> 00:19:03.443
  • To completely take over the panama canal.
  • 00:19:03.443 --> 00:19:06.579
  • Now, back in the 1970s, under jimmy carter,
  • 00:19:06.579 --> 00:19:09.515
  • We left the canal and said, panama can run it.
  • 00:19:09.515 --> 00:19:13.319
  • Many people were concerned that someday.
  • 00:19:13.319 --> 00:19:15.021
  • What if someone else takes it over?
  • 00:19:15.021 --> 00:19:16.789
  • That's what's happening.
  • 00:19:16.789 --> 00:19:18.391
  • And if the chinese get ahold of it, they control
  • 00:19:18.391 --> 00:19:22.195
  • Basically shipping throughout the world.
  • 00:19:22.195 --> 00:19:25.365
  • He was issuing a warning.
  • 00:19:25.365 --> 00:19:27.800
  • China.
  • 00:19:27.800 --> 00:19:28.968
  • If you think you
  • 00:19:28.968 --> 00:19:30.136
  • Can take over the canal, you got another thing coming.
  • 00:19:30.136 --> 00:19:33.740
  • This comes to us from donna dayton, ohio.
  • 00:19:33.740 --> 00:19:35.742
  • She says the fires in california may cause catastrophic health
  • 00:19:35.742 --> 00:19:40.113
  • Issues and major casualties somewhere down the road.
  • 00:19:40.113 --> 00:19:43.483
  • Similar to the way that 911 did.
  • 00:19:43.483 --> 00:19:45.952
  • Imagine the chemicals
  • 00:19:45.952 --> 00:19:47.220
  • Released into the air by reason of the fires.
  • 00:19:47.220 --> 00:19:50.757
  • So very true.
  • 00:19:51.124 --> 00:19:53.326
  • And this from linda.
  • 00:19:53.326 --> 00:19:54.627
  • She lives in alabama, says
  • 00:19:54.627 --> 00:19:56.262
  • Thanks for your integrity, honesty and love of the usa.
  • 00:19:56.262 --> 00:20:00.099
  • You kept me encouraged during the presidential campaign
  • 00:20:00.099 --> 00:20:02.735
  • Being truthful and providing trusted information.
  • 00:20:02.735 --> 00:20:06.739
  • I congratulate your nomination as ambassador.
  • 00:20:06.739 --> 00:20:09.542
  • Well, thank you very much, linda, from your kind comments.
  • 00:20:09.542 --> 00:20:14.914
  • Now, i got some final thoughts that i want to share with you,
  • 00:20:14.914 --> 00:20:18.551
  • And i'm going to do it right here with my pink jacket,
  • 00:20:18.551 --> 00:20:21.054
  • Because i had to wear it at least once more.
  • 00:20:21.054 --> 00:20:23.623
  • I'll share those thoughts with you right after this.
  • 00:20:23.623 --> 00:20:31.014
  • Enough serious stuff for today.
  • 00:20:31.233 --> 00:20:33.169
  • In this inaugural season, i went looking to see
  • 00:20:33.169 --> 00:20:36.038
  • If history offered any interesting reminisces.
  • 00:20:36.038 --> 00:20:39.041
  • I found a couple i liked.
  • 00:20:39.041 --> 00:20:41.043
  • Our first president, george
  • 00:20:41.043 --> 00:20:42.311
  • Washington, viewed his election with trepidation.
  • 00:20:42.311 --> 00:20:45.581
  • He said my movements to the chair of government
  • 00:20:45.581 --> 00:20:48.751
  • Will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit
  • 00:20:48.751 --> 00:20:52.988
  • Who is going to the place of his execution.
  • 00:20:52.988 --> 00:20:56.292
  • Gerald ford struck a lighter note
  • 00:20:56.992 --> 00:20:59.328
  • When he entered the white house
  • 00:20:59.328 --> 00:21:00.763
  • After richard nixon's resignation.
  • 00:21:00.763 --> 00:21:03.165
  • Gerald ford said the marine band doesn't know whether to play
  • 00:21:03.165 --> 00:21:07.269
  • Hail to the chief.
  • 00:21:07.269 --> 00:21:08.704
  • You've come a long way, baby.
  • 00:21:08.704 --> 00:21:12.007
  • Well, my take is this
  • 00:21:12.007 --> 00:21:13.709
  • If we can keep our sense of humor
  • 00:21:13.709 --> 00:21:15.378
  • While washington moves all those chairs around,
  • 00:21:15.378 --> 00:21:18.714
  • We'll do just fine.
  • 00:21:18.714 --> 00:21:21.150
  • I'm mike huckabee, and we're on the air
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  • From little rock each weekday evening.
  • 00:21:23.452 --> 00:21:25.821
  • Thanks for watching.
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  • Stay tuned right here on tbn for alan jackson.
  • 00:21:27.056 --> 00:21:30.259
  • He's coming up next for us.
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  • Good night and god bless. you.
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