Episode 4966: Empathy The New Battleground Against The Church
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Matt VanEpps, a combat veteran and Army combat veteran, is running for Congress in Tennessee's 7th congressional district. On today's show, Steve and Matt talk about the importance of voting today and how you can be a force multiplier for Matt's campaign.
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this is the primal scream of a dying regime pray for our enemies because we're going to
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medieval on these people here's not got a free shot all these networks lying about the people
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the people have had a belly full of it I know you don't like hearing that I know you've tried
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to do everything in the world to stop that but you're not going to stop it it's going to happen
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and where do people like that go to share the big line mega media I wish in my soul I wish that any
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of these people had a conscience ask yourself what is my task and what is my purpose if that
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answer is to save my country this country will be saved war room here's your host Stephen K.
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back it's Tuesday to December in the year of our Lord 2025 big day a cabinet meeting at the White
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House 1130 press briefing at the Pentagon with our team of correspondents there led by Jack
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Posobiec at 11 we'll dip in and out of that we've got a lot going on turning points going to join us
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about what's happening in Indiana on on Friday but I want to turn first to Matt Van Epps the combat
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veteran army combat veteran that is running in Tennessee 7 it's game day Matt uh tell us what
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we got to do deploy your resources here sir yes sir Steve thank you so much sir for having me on
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election day here in Tennessee 7th congressional district I need everybody to get out and vote
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we are we are up we had a great early voting result but we're not up by a lot and we need to win this
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and that happens when everybody gets out and votes today every Republican every freedom-loving
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American in the Tennessee 7th congressional district polls are open now they close at 7 p.m.
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if you're in line by 7 p.m. you can vote they've got to let you vote and uh just asking everyone to
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get out we need you today this is too important of an election we were I was on with President Trump
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last night on a tele-rally with tens of thousands of callers and he was underscoring how important this
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election is for the direction that we want to move the country so I need everybody today and I'm so so
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grateful to be on with you today that in fact it was important enough the Speaker of the House spent
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yesterday with you going around rally after rally correct yes sir Speaker Johnson was with me all day
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yesterday we went to at least 10 events uh we did uh rally in the morning a rally in the evening he was
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on the tele-rally as well and um and it's just the outpouring of support the momentum is real uh we we
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are up but we're going to stay up when when people get up and and go and vote and listen it's a little
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cold out today here uh but it's not raining you just got to bundle up be safe make a plan make a plan
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to go at lunchtime or after work I just I need your vote your vote might be the one that that decides
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this election and it decides the direction we're going to move this country and that's an America
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first direction Matt uh where do people go if they want more information do you have your campaign
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website they can go to get more information about polling time all of that my website is
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mattfortn.com that's matt m-a-t-t-f-o-r-t-n dot com mattfortn.com it has all the information that
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you'd need your polling location links to the Tennessee Secretary of State website with election
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information more information about our campaign uh please go to mattfortn.com if you need information
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and uh I just ask for your vote and your support today it's what's going to matter to get this thing
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done Matt what's your social media you have a lot of fans here in the war room posse that want to
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help but they want to follow you throughout the day where they go absolutely our facebook and uh
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x twitter is is mattfortn um we we've got um a whole lot of information that we're we're pushing
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out there too uh our our instagram is mattfortn.com uh so mattfortn on on facebook and and x and mattfortn.com
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uh we're pushing a whole lot of content videos would ask everybody to please share those like
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those um retweet them just get get them out as much as possible that the momentum that we've built
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from the primary through yesterday to today is real and that's because of of your followers and
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listeners and people across this district who love Tennessee who love America who love freedom
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and uh just need need them today okay folks you've got your marching orders be a force multiplier
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today for matt van epps in tennessee seven it's a must win matt with your shield or on your shield
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we'll talk to you in the afternoon show sir yes sir thank you so much have a wonderful day
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thank you brother matt van epps combat veteran on multiple tours uh a great guy it's a must win
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so let's be force multipliers today with the content and anybody in tennessee seven if you need
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assistance uh let you know go to the site uh make sure you get out there and take everybody on your
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list with you let's pivot now to indiana we've got garrett uh galaweski from the national enterprise
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director for turning point uh action garrett talk to me for a second about indiana what's happening on
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friday why why is turning point now decided to have a show of force out there on this redistricting
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effort sir hey steve good to be on here again uh yeah so right now indiana is really at the epicenter
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i said last week that they're the last line of defense in putting republicans in the best possible
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position to win back the house of representatives to retain the house of representatives next year and so
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right now indiana has a 7-2 uh republican majority on the congressional map we have an opportunity now
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with the new map the proposed map is out and it carves out what we believe is a fair representation
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of indiana that is now 9-0 on the congressional front there's the map right there uh knowing how
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conservative leaning the indianapolis suburbs are we believe this is the best possible map so on monday
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the state senate is going to be voting on this the state senate is overwhelmingly controlled by
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republicans yet there are still republicans who are in in some cases trump plus 20 districts who do not
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want to vote in favor of this map for a whole plethora of reasons some of those actually are kind of
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personal i mean how is turning point you're going to have the rally want to get into that but you guys
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you know charlie kirk built a uh a massive operation but part of it is you were very savvy
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about what to focus on what do you think the issues are in indiana that i can't understand why we don't
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go 9-0 when you see what the democrats are doing around the nation on these gerrymandered like in
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new england 25 nothing uh california illegally but it's going to be 48 to 4 uh what what do you say
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to people in indiana what does turning point say to say hey you got to get focused on this this is a
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national issue yeah i mean the bottom line is if we lose the house next year democrats are going to
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make it extremely difficult on the trump administration to do anything they're going to put
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up massive roadblocks they're going to force out a lot of things that'll make us go majorly backwards
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they'll oppose everything a decontrolled house could easily vote to impeach trump and tie him up in
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impeachment proceedings oh and by the way because this doesn't go our way in indiana let's just say
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that that happens all of this will make gavin newsom look like a hero among the democrat party
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because he rewrites history then at that point with the california redistricting plan that had a
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chain effect then on even hard red states giving power back to the dems and laying the groundwork for
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and here's a scary thought for him to potentially become president in 2028 so that's the messaging that
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we're putting on the table in indiana that this is very much a local issue that has now turned into
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a national issue with huge implications that could make or break our ability to compete in 2028 and for
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these republicans that are opposing this it's for petty reasons it's for tyranny reasons and it's for
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self-righteousness reasons i mean one republican said to one of our activists yesterday on the phone
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that republicans should win on policy when literally next door in illinois the left has taken advantage of
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democrat controlled everything to manipulate the maps leftist states go hard in the paint on this
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stuff conservative states should do the same thing and indiana is about as conservative as any other
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hard red state that exists out there like wyoming or alabama outside of 2008 i mean you're talking
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about a hard conservative state there is no reason a 90 map should not pass no the hoosiers are the
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hoosiers are mega uh talk to me about friday what do you intend to do what time is it going to be
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where is it going to be how do people get tickets walk me through why a rally why turning points known
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for turning out the troops why did you decide to do it on friday at the state capitol well so friday
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is the last day that the house is able to take this up we believe that it'll be settled by then
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but then the following monday is going to be the first day that the state senate will then have this
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on the floor and vote on it so we want to send a message to them we want this to be the kind of final
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crescendo here where we send that punch to the state senators who might be on the fence about this
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uh to say hey the grassroots the people who have worked really hard to elect you and the republican
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base that you crawled out of the woodwork to vote for you they don't want this they want you to
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support the president and so we're going to rally everyone together at the state capitol we're hoping
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we can get hundreds of patriots out there we actually just confirmed yesterday so this is a little
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bit of breaking news that we're going to have governor mike braun there and lieutenant governor
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micah beckwith so that'll be huge to have them lock arms and be part of this and really what we're
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hoping this creates is kind of that flare signal to the rest of the conservative movement that we
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don't want to just lay down and die in here in indiana you're starting to see the mike pence people
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and the hardcore radical leftists kind of lock arms together on twitter they're starting to go after
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some really good conservative activists and including myself i even had one online account
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comment my home address on my tweet so we as mega conservatives are definitely over the target here
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they're definitely upset that we're having the event there and that's a good thing that means that we
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could potentially be in the right spot at the right time to make this happen you actually got uh you
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got doxxed so they're going to send swat teams out to you is that what they intend to do
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yeah yeah i uh i had to call my wife back at home and be like hey um this might be happening but yeah
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i mean this is crazy it was within 24 hours of me appearing on your show last weekend that the
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pence republicans and the hardcore leftists kind of came together it was the uni party at its finest
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and that told me that you know i'm over the target when you're over the target you become the target
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this is something we fought with alex degrasse and the team in 2001 to pick up i think eight seats
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is this something that young people are understanding that this is all a preamble this is all part of
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the process this is a preamble to the midterms and this is read this redistricting fights are going
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to be going on for a while but you you have to win them it's like getting into the college football
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playoffs there's certain games you have to win that are young people becoming aware of that
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garrett yeah yeah they're understanding the long-term effects here it's chess not checkers and
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for a generation that really embraces the idea of authenticity they're seeing right through the
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reason the rationale behind some of these senators not supporting the president i mean we only briefly
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touched on this over the weekend but one senator mike boacek said he's voting no to president trump's
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redistricting plan because he doesn't particularly like the names that president trump was calling tim
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waltz during the election i mean petty stuff like this and we're even hearing that party leaders
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high up republican party leaders in the indiana gop are refusing to speak out on this because new
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district lines could mean that they won't be able to sit on the state central committee anymore
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for the gop that's how absurd this has gotten and young people are seeing right through it so we're
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hoping to have a huge wave of young people show up to this we have some fantastic turning point
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chapter leaders in indiana that are being vocal about this that are spreading the message evangelizing
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other young people to understand the importance of what's at stake here
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garrett one more time where do people go to participate on on friday and where they go to
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get more information about turning point and what you guys are working on over there yes we would love
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to have every freedom fighting patriot in indiana and everywhere within an earshot of indiana i'm in
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cincinnati right now it's only about a two-hour drive so if you're in even western ohio and you feel
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called to participate in this please do uh it's tpaction.com slash rally indiana our event our rally
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our all-in for indiana event is friday december 5th at noon in the capitol rotunda it's inside you
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won't have to worry about freezing to death we're gonna have governor mike braun there we're gonna have
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lieutenant governor micah beckwith we're gonna have some awesome other speakers as well some really
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young bright elected officials in indiana that are fighting on the front lines and we want you there
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to tpaction.com slash rally indiana garrett what is your uh what's your personal social media
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coordinates yes follow me on twitter uh b gals wi i call wisconsin home thank you brother appreciate
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you thanks great team charlie kirk incredible incredible team over at turning point and andrew and
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the guys doing a great job eric uh andrew tyler all of them this friday in indiana nothing can be
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hired dave bratz with me uh megan basham interesting piece in uh axios about empathies being turned
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against christians are used as a wedge issue to divide christians we're gonna get to all that we're
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everybody if grace and mo would be uh and elizabeth be kind enough to put out in all the different
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platforms i think we're like on 10 now different chats etc make sure first multiplier first off for
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van epps also if you're in the district uh you know if you need help get into the poll go to his
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website get somebody get your list let's get out this is big today we won this one by 22 and let's
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say we're not up by 22 right now for a host of reasons we can debate that afterwards today it's all
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about victory uh and then of course the republican establishment he just had garrett lay it out right
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as these young people starting to see the way the world works right the republican establishment
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coming against maggot coming against trump in indiana and they're going to go hold one of
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these classic turning point rallies bratt your thoughts on both of those
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yeah well i i think it's important what what you just said the numbers gap uh right it's not just
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politics it's a it's a confidence thing if if the republicans all get out and the christians and the
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church all get out uh we win these races by large margins and that sends very good news and good
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messaging across the country uh that this is what is possible for conservatives if you want to see
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what's at stake right voting is a privilege uh it's a right it's a duty god god uh wants us to
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participate uh in the civil realm uh to ensure justice uh go out to fox news right now you got a choice
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between god no god at the university of oklahoma not that far away kind of down in the god belt
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uh where uh students given an f a zero out of 25 for mentioning god in an essay uh with no guardrails
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attached uh you know no no no requirements of the essay the the gal just writes a nice essay
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kind of kind of kind of in the god belt oklahoma is the god belt what are you doing it can happen
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at the university of oklahoma this is not brown this is not brown university or one of the more radical
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of the i'm not berkeley um that's outrageous talk to me about indiana how important i think young
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people are awakening to the fact that politics is tough it's a dirty game it's a hard game this
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audience knows it because you put your people would rather spend their time on other stuff i understand
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we'd rather spend our time on other stuff but you got to get down the trenches this is the way you win
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this is the way you get guys like trump into office why is redistricting so big and why is it
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important the turning point really the apparatus of the youth vote in our country why is it important
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that there engages anybody well just empirically you know turning point uh was uh responsible for
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the young folks showing out and for the trump victory uh and so again uh the turning point the
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young people right now right the young men and women uh the 20 year olds 25 year olds uh they're kind
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of the prophetic voice out there right now right they're they're uh you know you got megan bashing
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come up she's uh similar uh they're calling uh calling it like they see it they they know uh what
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this uh biden inflation did to them they know about to get in a house uh at the age of 40 years old
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we don't talk about price here we talk about process learn the process speaking of process i'm
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so proud when we have people on here and then the cutting edge of the mainstream media like axios
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picks it up megan uh basham so megan you came on a couple weeks ago and you talked about this
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what's happening within the evangelical christian movement and lo and behold um axios picks it up
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they got really good writers over there particularly following religion uh maybe not that they're
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particularly religious but they follow it very closely they basically say and if we can get
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the article up empathy is the new battleground for christianity and particularly on the political side
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asking the glow for a minute of uh dave bratt uh putting me with the young people as a mom of a
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teenager so i really love that i'm so glad i came today i noticed that i noticed that brett um but
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but yes so you know we talked about it because this has really been the steering mechanism to try to move
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evangelicals toward the left we talked about last time that they are kind of the most important voting
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block to republicans the gop doesn't win without them so you've seen democrats for a long time trying
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to find a way into the uh evangelical landscape and empathy has been a key way that they've done that
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and you know the difference between empathy and compassion is really important because empathy
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demands that we don't ask questions that we don't look at issues of justice in these truth claims that
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we don't even look at the truth of these truth claims and you can look at how the blm movement for
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example said you're not allowed to ask questions you're just supposed to sit and let us express
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ourselves and feel our pain so you weren't allowed to ask questions like okay well did george floyd
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actually die because um someone choked him or did he die of an overdose so those questions aren't allowed
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that's the the empathy steering mechanism it's a it's a steering wheel on your back as my friend
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the writer joe rigney has said so now we are starting to see um the right and christian conservatives
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catching on to this and so you have seen books like the sin of empathy or ali beth stuckey's toxic
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empathy saying no this is actually sinful because what it's asking you to do is to identify with um
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false or immoral feelings like say the transgender movement so that's what it's asking you to do
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and you know just in this last week we saw an appalling example of this so we talked also last
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time about the national association of evangelicals it's an associate it's the largest association of
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evangelical churches in the world their immigration arm is world relief they have taken something like
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330 million dollars from the federal government since 2021 to resettle quote-unquote refugees in 2021
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they took 56 million to resettle refugees including those from afghanistan including the shooter of
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those two national guards people so after the day before that shooting president trump announced that there
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would be additional vetting so he announced a while ago there would be additional vetting of the afghani
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refugees the day before that world relief issued a statement condemning that decision and in fact
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their vp matthew sorens who is heavily active in evangelical churches you will see him often on the
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weekends giving presentations they send materials out to churches saying you must welcome the stranger
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he called it a needless re-traumatizing of the afghani refugees the very next day the afghan
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terrorist killed two national guardsmen so that's how this empathy debate is working within the church
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so they they figured they pulled some verticals the whole gay rights thing lgbtq plus uh they've got
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uh climate change blm and immigration is this are they saying that that uh christians are not empathetic
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enough have to be more empathetic and getting people to be more empathetic not compassionate to drive
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them as you said before to kind of this uh woke or progressive uh evangelical christianity
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yeah that's exactly what it is and keep in mind though that they set the terms for who you're
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supposed to feel empathetic toward so you're supposed to feel empathetic toward the the uh man who claims
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he's a woman who wants access to women's private spaces but you're not supposed to feel empathetic to
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the women who feel threatened by this you're supposed to feel empathetic for the blm activists who are
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insisting that hands up don't shoot happened but you're not supposed to feel empathetic for the
00:25:26.300
police officer who has now had his reputation destroyed over a lie and you see this again and
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again you're supposed to feel empathetic for the illegal immigrants who have come here who are
00:25:37.100
bringing uh trafficking issues who are bringing crime and drug issues but you're not supposed to feel
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empathetic for the communities that are being impacted by this or for the guardsmen who have been
00:25:50.280
killed because we did not sufficiently vet these immigrants as they were coming here so they're
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really directing you to say here's how who you are supposed to feel empathetic for and you're not
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supposed to ask simple questions of justice or truth when you do it and you know it's so marxian
00:26:07.600
because that was marx right he supposedly felt this empathy for all of mankind but he didn't even
00:26:13.360
take care of his own family uh day bratt your thoughts well my thoughts are uh megan just hit
00:26:21.880
it out of the park that was brilliant as usual i'll just add a couple footnotes uh the left brings
00:26:29.160
these conversations up only to damage uh evangelical protestant christian thought right that's when it
00:26:35.540
comes up so when when these articles are written and they say empathy is a central teaching in the bible
00:26:41.480
well actually it's it's not a central teaching in the bible and the term values is not even used in
00:26:47.600
the bible virtues is used sometimes and i'll get at that in a second uh but the key terms uh in the
00:26:54.360
christian teachings in jesus are uh first of all the kingdom of god repent uh you'll never hear uh
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morning mika and joe uh giving sermons on repent for the kingdom of god is at hand uh the second major
00:27:08.380
concept of jesus is called the gospel and the third is obedience to god the father almighty
00:27:14.140
right and so what megan is getting at and uh this is one of my favorite books after the bible is closing
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american mind by alan bloom and values along with empathy empathy is a modern psychological term
00:27:26.620
values similarly are subjective you want to know what's not subjective god and the good here's old
00:27:33.820
plato over here in my picture pointing up the argument of the greeks and reason was the good
00:27:39.540
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rally in indianapolis on redistricting on friday uh jack basobics on joining us in the pentagon
00:29:25.660
um grace and mo have up right now i think our other getter channel just go to grace she's putting
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it out to the to the posse uh we're going to have a side channel follow the hearing and we'll dip in
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and out of that the hearing about child protection that's going to become a big part of this uh internet
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um amnesty bill to try to get through that we're stopping so anyway that's there the activist joe
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allen is there jack basobics at the pentagon gonna be a brief there um cabinet meeting 11 30
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you're gonna see it all we're gonna juggle it all we're gonna get it done um megan
00:30:01.060
you had a concept that the war and posse loved last time you called the evangelical the the
00:30:06.780
the hardcore conservative evangelical community the lone bulwark oftentimes on a lot of these issues
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they've stood in the breach over and over and over again and obviously the progressive left
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is targeted that group to try to you know chip away at it but also to drive wedges in the middle and have
00:30:26.720
a big breakup you can tell this by the intensity they're doing it how can we respond then to this
00:30:32.020
empathy this whole issue of they're using empathy as the new battleground uh for christians ma'am
00:30:39.140
well you know the first one um and this is not just to plug my book but i do go into this in
00:30:44.280
shepherds for sale how evangelical leaders traded the truth for a leftist agenda and that was a very
00:30:49.580
key piece of it this empathy debate because when my book came out the the two subjects i was probably
00:30:54.940
most attacked on were one how could i go after world relief and these um immigration
00:31:01.300
organization ngos that were supposedly doing all this christian work all over the world how could
00:31:05.720
i expose those people that was so unchristian and then the other one was the title nine abuse issue
00:31:11.360
they were attacking me for saying well wait a minute we need to investigate the truth claims of these
00:31:16.040
women adult women who are claiming that they were abused when they had relationships with adult men
00:31:21.840
who were supposedly in some sort of power over them so you know the first thing i had to do through
00:31:26.680
that was simply say i'm not moving these are the facts i'm laying them out and when the mob comes
00:31:32.480
and sometimes it will you simply cannot move but what you can take comfort in is knowing that
00:31:37.300
eventually the truth is going to come out and a whole lot of people are suddenly going to pretend
00:31:41.920
like they were on your side all along because that's exactly what i've experienced in the evangelical
00:31:46.460
world now in terms of being the lone bulwark something that's really important to know is that
00:31:51.300
the evangelical rank and file are much much more conservative than their leadership class and
00:31:56.860
that's consistent whether it's the southern baptist convention the presbyterian church in america the
00:32:02.400
anglicans you just see it again and again leadership class much more liberal and that's because they're
00:32:07.920
being inculcated in these things like um the empathetic discussion in their seminaries so they're
00:32:13.960
bringing this into their churches and it has had some effect but you know it takes time to trickle down
00:32:19.140
into the pews and so you know the second thing i want to say is what we're seeing right now is what
00:32:24.120
i'm terming the great rehab tour so all of these uh evangelical luminaries who head seminaries or who
00:32:32.220
are you know internationally known pastors big best-selling authors they're now trying to pretend that they
00:32:38.420
were never over there promoting black lives matter or they were never over there promoting um me too
00:32:44.920
movement and things like that the immigration movement what what i want is that unless there is
00:32:50.480
repentance we can't let this great rehab tour happen because they will do it again there needs to be
00:32:55.420
accountability and so while i'm not here you know trying to be a lady defarge trying to insist that
00:33:01.620
everybody's head has to come off i'm not saying that i am saying if they do not recognize their error
00:33:06.500
then no they don't get to keep their platform and their audience you should still continue
00:33:11.060
not giving money and attention to those people so you know that's a big component for me is that
00:33:16.180
um if you showed in the day of battle that you were going to bend the knee then you no longer get to
00:33:23.020
be trusted as a leader you should no longer get to occupy that leadership role in our movement so now
00:33:27.980
that things have started to shift right and the overton has moved they're all kind of scrambling
00:33:32.000
to get at the front of the line again and i don't want to allow that um you know there's a few
00:33:36.460
who have openly said i erred i was wrong i got caught up in a moment i'm a little more
00:33:40.880
charitable with those guys but if they're just simply trying to reposition without any acknowledgement
00:33:45.680
of how they participated in this black lives matter madness in this um insistence that to love our
00:33:53.580
neighbor or to welcome the stranger meant that we had to accept our own destruction then no i am not
00:33:59.040
willing to continue to let you be the voice and the face of evangelical ideas wow and what a
00:34:06.440
great literary reference lady defarge one of the great characters in all literature from tale of
00:34:11.600
two cities and if you've ever seen the 1939 film you will know exactly what megan is talking about
00:34:18.260
megan where do people go to get your book where they get your writings and where they keep up with
00:34:22.920
you on social media yeah shepherds for sale is a bit where i expose many of these things and it's
00:34:28.380
important to know about world relief because i would say they are integrally responsible for what
00:34:33.860
happened to those national guardsmen um so you can find that anywhere books are sold amazon target
00:34:38.480
walmart uh you can find me on x at at meg basham and you can find me on instagram where i don't hang
00:34:44.760
out quite as much at journalist megan basham megan thank you so much for joining us today appreciate
00:34:50.380
you thanks for having me for driving and for driving the conversation uh brad before we go to
00:34:55.560
poso at the pentagon and i'm gonna dip into this hearing on capitol hill uh megan's solution here
00:35:01.100
your thoughts well i think she's spot on and if you'll notice she's following one of the core
00:35:07.180
tenets of jesus that i mentioned which is repent for the kingdom of god is at hand uh you don't get
00:35:13.540
it every which way right nietzsche uh came up with the concept of uh values and the modern conception is
00:35:21.240
your values my values let's just agree to disagree uh well the great catholic tradition saint augustine
00:35:28.220
aquinas calvin luther the protestant reformation uh they had systems of thought that had to be
00:35:33.940
internally consistent we're missing those those these days uh just war theory all these concepts
00:35:39.660
were objective truths proven by reason and in accord with the revelation in the bible uh those two things
00:35:47.920
are great guardrails for western civilization they have to all fit together unfortunately today uh when
00:35:53.980
these teachers uh in the schools and uh one thing uh megan you know she she basically mentioned the
00:35:59.240
seminaries uh but k-12 education they're indoctrinated by these uh dangerous helpers called
00:36:05.860
school counselors who all teach uh values values clarification uh you're okay i'm okay we're not
00:36:13.520
all okay right and so the central doctrines of christianity uh are embedded in the kingdom of god
00:36:20.360
repent for the kingdom of god is at hand and keep your ears open for that and and also when it comes
00:36:25.420
to values and virtues jesus also said the first command is love god first uh so whenever you get
00:36:31.500
to this empathy and everything about these modern values and virtues toward your neighbor uh it doesn't
00:36:38.240
work if god the father's not involved in that conversation if it's not god guiding those values and
00:36:43.860
virtues god ensures along with human reason that things are systematic our founders all knew that
00:36:50.000
uh james madison who went to princeton wrote the constitution uh no finer mind when it was when it
00:36:56.020
was when it was a religious school hang on one second we have um breaking news that's a blockbuster
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uh this is from meredith lee hill uh it or from meredith lee at the hill i think it is a new this is
00:37:10.820
house armed services committee chair mike rogers one of the cardinals tells politico he's planning to
00:37:17.020
release the ndaa text this thursday rogers said the moratorium on state artificial intelligence laws
00:37:24.800
the gop leaders are pushing quote lost its momentum doesn't have enough support end quote he doesn't
00:37:32.660
believe it will be included at this point before a vote next week quote i think that's gone unquote
00:37:38.940
blockbuster this is the number one thing the tech bros are trying to push and it looks like right now
00:37:44.360
from one of the most senior guys on capitol hill and the guy really in charge of the nda mike rogers
00:37:49.340
it's done now that doesn't mean it's done as you know in this game it only means we're going to go
00:37:54.340
the next round but right now their efforts to try to slide it into the big beautiful bill we killed
00:38:00.000
their efforts to try to slide it into ndaa it looks like right now for mike rogers that it may be stopped
00:38:06.520
it's not that we're going to not go to the ramparts in this thing we have to kill it mike davis will join
00:38:10.960
me hopefully this afternoon to talk about this some more let's go to the pentagon do i have jack
00:38:15.520
basovic jack basovic at the pentagon can you hear me sir
00:38:19.320
steve i read you loud and clear from inside the five-sided puzzle palace
00:38:25.980
well tell me about today you're going to finally get we're going to get a briefing at 11 o'clock
00:38:30.880
there's you know this this issue with recalling kelly to for court martial they're trying to go
00:38:36.580
after our own pete hexeth on a uh on a a rule of uh on the rules of war uh about giving quarter
00:38:44.200
they're really gearing up on this morning joe's lighted up about this we still have a carrier
00:38:48.720
battle group and an amphibious ready group uh off the coast of venezuela everybody's kind of
00:38:54.000
on tenor hooks are we going to go to war this afternoon or what jack basovic
00:38:57.760
well steve those are the very questions that we're going to be asking about soon as the briefing
00:39:03.820
begins here kingsley wilson is going to be coming out depending on press secretary and many of those
00:39:07.760
questions i've been talking to you to the uh the group here and i think you'll see a lot of war room
00:39:12.960
alumni and a lot of war room regulars uh we get the great brianna morello is here laura loomer is here
00:39:18.940
matt gates is here sona savannah hernandez monica page so uh it's really a murderer's row of folks who
00:39:26.760
by the way and people are saying oh this new pentagon press corps they're you know they're lapdogs
00:39:31.420
they're sycophants they're all the rest i say hold on a second these are not exactly people who are
00:39:35.760
fans of the military industrial complex they're fans of maga world peace and there's a lot of
00:39:41.180
people who have very serious questions even libertarians here from zero hedge we got liam
00:39:44.820
cosgrove over here from zero hedge we're going to be asking serious questions about what exactly is
00:39:49.580
going on in venezuela there's certainly going to be questions about the drone strikes admiral bradley
00:39:54.500
who by the way you know i uh i was familiar with admiral bradley during his tenure down at uh in the
00:40:00.160
navy down at dev grew you know these strikes this was sop i think that narrative got blown up faster
00:40:05.140
than a narco boat but even by the new york times itself but again you still see senator wicker is
00:40:10.840
launching this investigation into pete hegseth at the same time mark kelly is coming around
00:40:16.240
sowing dissension in the ranks hang on don't bury the lead wicker is like wicker's the senate equivalent
00:40:24.820
almost of mike rogers right in in the house armed services you have a republican that is agreeing with
00:40:33.080
the democrats and the most radical democrats to actually start a formal inquiry into the rules
00:40:38.860
of engagement about this uh about this boat and particularly the second shot sir
00:40:42.960
steve that's exactly right and i'll tell you something if charlie kirk were here right now
00:40:49.060
he would be lighting up the senators on that committee right now uh mark wayne mullen eric
00:40:55.220
schmidt there's so many good senators on there to say guys what is going on why is a republican committee
00:41:01.140
putting president trump's secretary of war under investigation for doing his job and by the way
00:41:08.160
following the sop of drone strikes that has been going on for over a decade why are republicans in
00:41:14.520
the senate undercutting president trump's own cabinet secretary so let me ask jack posobiec
00:41:20.800
why is it happening why is it happening sir i've got my theory but i want to hear yours you're over
00:41:26.120
in the pentagon today it's outrageous but why what do you think it's happening here this is folks this is
00:41:31.380
not a small thing steve steve because they're using this they're using this to go after president
00:41:35.380
trump and this is republicans are teaming up with democrats
00:41:38.740
steve it's all about getting leverage who controls the pentagon who controls the military
00:41:46.920
who controls the deep state they have no problem these are drone strikes in somalia drone strikes
00:41:51.380
in yemen drone strikes in afghanistan they would have no problem whatsoever but if pete hegseth on
00:41:56.460
the orders of donald trump is conducting these types of kinetic strikes here in the western hemisphere
00:42:00.980
is conducting hemispheric defense the entire beltway is totally against that they want liberal
00:42:07.680
hegemony that's what this fight is about and they're using pete hegseth to get to trump
00:42:13.020
so jack we're going to go live when you guys start at 10 o'clock what we'd love to do is if we got
00:42:18.800
time is pull you out before the cabinet meeting starts academy is supposed to be 11 30 but as you
00:42:22.800
know these cabinet meetings have a history of starting a little late so we'd love to get you right after
00:42:27.620
the uh right after the press briefing if we can we will and and steve we'll be up here live as well
00:42:34.080
for human events daily two to three today we're going to be doing it live right here from the
00:42:38.040
pentagon fantastic look forward to watching our own jack so we got a whole team there today of course
00:42:44.800
you got the great matt gates you got laura loomer there i mean it's maga and it's america first at
00:42:50.980
the pentagon is that a great day just amazing big news too michael dell i think has committed six
00:42:57.080
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we're going to try to get into this between the pentagon and the cabinet very important what's happening
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and let me repeat folks you have a massive voice and that's why why did we hire joe allen four years ago
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to make sure that you had the intellectual substrate underneath you of years of people talking about
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a very smart guy writing about this and talking about it writing a book and bringing all these guests in
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because i think you may have changed history here because the tech bros wanted this in this moratorium
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as we call it ai amnesty more than life itself it was insane what they were doing and it's right there
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posse got involved you lit it up article three just fantastic now it ain't over till it's over as you
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know they can put this thing back in tomorrow morning and try to slide it in but we'll be on it
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done with debt ma'am did you have a good thanksgiving we missed you right on the show right beforehand
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did you have a good thanksgiving wonderful spent it with uh my dear friend heather locklear and her
00:46:45.000
fabulous family and uh her dad was missing this year he is a marine so semper fi bill lockwood
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we locklear we love you uh we call him lockwood in a private joke but um rest in peace my friend
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we had a lovely one i hope you did too sir we did jay and jay and i wanted you on here to kick off the
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week because this is the time when people say hey you know i gotta get gifts i gotta get i need
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that credit card if you've gotten letters if they're trying to cut you off if it's if they have
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cut you off the letter sitting there it's just not going to go away done with debt are the guys you
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need to intercede for you walk us through how that can happen how can the audience engage with
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done with debt and get them on their side thank you steve this is the most important time of year
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as you know a lot of people go through debt throughout the year right living paycheck to
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paycheck i'm not saving up you know a lot of people like to buy gifts throughout the year i've
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always thought how do you do that but it's actually a brilliant idea um i could never do that uh so what
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done with that will do and if you're in this position right now and you're thinking how can i
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save a little money for my kids how do i put a little aside for uh an emergency in my case i had a lot
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of things um i had uh you know death and taxes at my door and cancer and all of that and that
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happens to a lot of people believe it or not but this time of year is also sort of defcon 5 we are
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running around trying to figure out how am i going to pay the mortgage or the rent how am i going to
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pay the kids school and also uh christmas gifts or hanukkah whatever it is that you celebrate so
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what done with debt will do for you and they will do it immediately overnight and if you are in this
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calls as well and what they do they don't want to put you into bankruptcy they don't want to put you
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into one big umbrella debt right consolidated debt they're going to try to get you out of this
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in a way that you could actually end up with money in your pocket and some people do but you have
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to talk to them first they are a team of master negotiators steve i've worked with them now for
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three years they are nothing but the best of the best they know all the institutions to talk to they
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know the pennies on the dollar who will write off what who will you know go for pennies on the dollar
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and what uh what uh what what ideas they have they'll bring to them they know exactly what
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these people are offering but they can actually negotiate with them and they deal with these guys
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every day they solve you know bands every day so here's what they can do and and they're not
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promising this but here's what they can do when you get involved and tell them you tell them you're
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the specifics of your case they can help go get because many times a credit card company's written
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it off so if they get anything it's cash so they as we say pennies on the dollar or some discount to
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the face amount of what you owe that's a possibility number two they can cap immediately the interest
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payments that keep and the penalties that keep adding up so this is why it's so important to engage
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these people is and talk to them don't take it from us you got to talk to them but the two things
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they can do right off the bat is that they can they can get a discount to the face amount that you
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own and they can cap uh they can cap the fees and penalties if you get them engaged and remember
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this whole thing well i can just declare bankruptcy just declaring bankruptcy is not the you know it
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sticks for you a long time you have a tough time getting uh being able to rent a house get a car all
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that just don't think it just goes away so when people tell you just declare bankruptcy that's why you've
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got to talk to professionals and that's why you go to them with that it's saved it's saved
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jillian and uh it could potentially save you but it won't start until you get in touch with them
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if you just sit there and worry about it and worry about it so don't ruin the holidays get get engaged
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with them today exactly and the number one thing you can do right now is not pay another bill before
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you get in touch with done with that go to donewithdebt.com and get on a track that will get you to
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your financial freedom once again thank you so much steve i love being here happy monday to happy
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to stay to you jillian thank you glad you had a great thanksgiving glad you uh you glad you uh did
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it with heather and because i know she was so close to her father who was a marine and uh hope you have
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a great holiday season look forward to seeing in a week or two thank you sir see you soon jillian
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barbary dave brad's gonna stick with me um at least for a while i think he's here till 11 30 we got a lot
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to go through number one huge huge huge win tentatively for the war impossible mike rogers
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one of the most powerful people in on the hill in the house uh house armed services committee chair
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what we call the cardinals um he has just said that he doesn't believe that the moratorium or what we
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call ai amnesty is going to be in this uh in the ndaa he's going to put forward language on thursday
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just as he does it's lost momentum why did it lose momentum boom this audience and many more
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that have worked on a lot of grassroots groups have worked on this they're not comfortable where
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the oligarchs or the technocrats or the tech bros want to take us very serious discussions about
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artificial intelligence this is why for four years we've had joe uh joe allen who happens to be in
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the hearing right now taking notes and doing reporting he's going to be with us this afternoon
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anyway we've got the pentagon we're going to go to we've got the cabinet we're going to go to we've
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got dave bratt we've got a whole array of folks here to give you the signal not the noise
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in the morning edition of the war room when you're buried in credit card and loan debt it's only human
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