Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - January 27, 2025


Ep 1129 ｜ Selena Gomez Sobs Over Deportations of Terrorists


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1 hour and 1 minute

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158.9724

Word Count

9,806

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649

Misogynist Sentences

16

Hate Speech Sentences

40


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.760 Did Kataji Brown Jackson practice witchcraft at President Trump's inauguration? We'll get into
00:00:07.780 that. But first, we've got to look at some amazing pro-life news. Donald Trump is winning so much,
00:00:15.400 especially in this regard. So we'll take a look at his pardons. But also, we will be debunking
00:00:20.560 some of the toxic empathy myths that you are hearing from progressives and so-called progressive
00:00:26.240 Christians when it comes to immigration and deportation. We've got so much to discuss
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00:00:49.380 Hey, guys. Welcome to Relatable. Happy Monday. Hope everyone is having a wonderful day,
00:00:55.100 a wonderful week so far, as I like to remind us sometimes on Mondays, is that God's eternal plan
00:01:01.200 of redemption is always going off without a hitch. Whatever is happening personally, professionally,
00:01:07.380 politically, God is in total control. And as Elizabeth Elliott used to say,
00:01:12.500 the only thing you have to do today is the will of God. And I like to add on to that. If you don't
00:01:18.740 know what that is, just do the next right thing in faith with excellence and for the glory of God.
00:01:25.620 God is so good that he gives us his Holy Spirit as a helper, that he gives us his word as a lamp
00:01:31.740 into our feet and a light into our path, that we get to be friends with him through Christ. And so no
00:01:37.680 matter what is going on in your life or in the world today, the fact that we have Jesus, who is the
00:01:44.420 same yesterday, today, and forever, Hebrews 13, 8, that is where we derive our joy. But we also
00:01:50.240 happen to be living in a pretty good time in America right now. I was recording my episode last
00:01:58.280 week from Washington, D.C. It was so cool to be there while Trump was being inaugurated. I mean,
00:02:05.200 I wasn't actually at the ceremony, but the atmosphere in D.C., as you know, it is a deeply blue city.
00:02:13.180 It was a sea of red. And I don't just mean red as the representation of Republicans, but literal
00:02:20.280 red MAGA hats were everywhere. I was at a restaurant. This was the night of the inauguration. We were just
00:02:27.280 at an Italian restaurant in Georgetown, Chief Related Bro and I, and a table off to the side
00:02:34.760 started singing happy birthday to someone at their table. And for whatever reason, after happy birthday
00:02:39.840 was sung, another person, not at that table, in the middle of the restaurant, just yelled,
00:02:44.980 America is back, baby! And the whole restaurant erupted in Trump cheers. Okay? So that's what was
00:02:51.380 happening in Georgetown, a very posh and liberal suburb of D.C. last week. And the entire week was
00:02:58.260 like that. Like every museum, every place that we went was just filled with these exuberant Trump
00:03:03.260 supporters. And so that felt like being a part of history, even if I didn't go to the actual
00:03:09.360 inauguration ceremony. And so I'm glad, I'm glad to be back as much as I liked D.C. It smells like pot
00:03:17.340 everywhere. That is the bad thing. It smells all the liberals inside their home as they were mourning
00:03:23.380 Trump becoming president. I guess they were smoking weed and they were trying to comfort themselves with
00:03:28.100 that. And it was seeping onto the streets. It really does smell like weed everywhere. And the
00:03:32.460 only other bad thing that happened is that I was at the airport and someone brought their pit bull
00:03:36.520 on, not onto my plane because I would have, I don't know, you would have already known about it because
00:03:42.800 I would have made the news. It, no, I saw it in the airport. I can't, first of all, I can't believe
00:03:47.900 the dogs are just like allowed in all of these places anyway, but a pit bull, there are so many
00:03:54.700 things that should be illegal with that. And as I'm about to read you some of the executive orders
00:03:59.900 that Trump has already signed, I am hoping, I am petitioning with any political capital that I have
00:04:06.420 that he will also sign an executive order banning dogs on airplanes, unless you are blind or something.
00:04:14.520 And just pit bulls in general. You can send me your hate mail. That's fine. You can send me your mean
00:04:20.180 comments. I don't care. I thrive on them. I hope that president Trump, in addition to all of the
00:04:25.800 awesome things that he's already done, I hope that he bans pit bulls once and for all. He hasn't done
00:04:30.240 that, but he has done these things before we get into some of my favorite accomplishments of the past
00:04:35.460 week or so. I just want to give like bullet point highlights of things that Trump has signed
00:04:40.600 via executive order and measures that he has taken. His administration has already taken in making
00:04:48.800 America awesome. Like Trump 2.0 is amazing. Way better than Trump 1.0. I love it. He issued an
00:04:56.060 executive order recognizing two genders, male and female, on official documents, prohibited the use
00:05:01.320 of so-called gender identity or preferred pronouns in federal agencies. Thank the Lord. Again, very sad
00:05:07.760 that this has to be explicitly stated. He said it in his inaugural address that there are only two
00:05:12.780 genders, male and female. Like what a dystopian, sad society that we live in today that the president of
00:05:18.300 the United States has to declare that in his inauguration. And yet clarity is something that
00:05:24.300 I will always be grateful for. Trump abolished DEI programs within the federal government. They are
00:05:30.360 working very hard to make sure that this is the meritocracy that it should be. Trump issued an
00:05:35.300 executive order mandating that so-called transgender women inmates, so those are men pretending to be women
00:05:41.800 who have declared themselves women, be housed in men's facilities based on their biological sex. Of
00:05:49.320 course, I wouldn't say biological sex because there's only one kind of sex and that is biological.
00:05:54.660 Their sex at birth rather than their so-called gender identity. We've told many true harrowing
00:06:00.900 stories of these men who say that they're women. They are transferred into women's prisons. And then as
00:06:06.060 Kamala Harris very openly advocated for on the taxpayer dime, they get to go through so-called gender
00:06:11.260 transition. But interestingly, they very rarely get castrated. And so they are still assaulting and
00:06:16.740 raping these poor, vulnerable women in the women's prisons and federally funded facilities. So thank
00:06:22.620 the Lord, Trump has protected women, all of you people out there. So Trump hates women. Well, he literally
00:06:28.260 just took male sex offenders who identify as women out of women's prisons back into male prisons. Yeah,
00:06:35.500 he is protecting women more so than all of you fake feminists out there who are for these male
00:06:43.640 pedophiles and rapists who identify as women being in women's prisons. The irony. Trump pardoned 23 pro-life
00:06:50.040 activists, we're going to get into this more today, that were charged in violation of the FACE Act. We
00:06:55.140 will explain that in just a bit, as well as roughly 1,500 people who were charged in connection with the
00:07:01.460 January 6th Capitol riot. I don't have time to get into all of that. I know that there was a lot of
00:07:06.620 disagreement even on the conservative side about whether this was right because some of these people
00:07:11.160 were violent. Look, the charges in the prosecution went too far in all of these cases. Those people who
00:07:18.260 are truly bad people, who are truly violent criminals, they will get caught doing something
00:07:23.020 else at some point. But this was political prosecution. And the same accountability was
00:07:30.100 not offered for or was not given to BLM rioters and Antifa and those who destroyed cities in the
00:07:39.540 summer of love in 2020. And so we're hoping for impartiality here. So he did pardon those January 6
00:07:47.220 rioters. I think that was the right thing to do, especially when you look at some of the people
00:07:50.980 that Biden had just pardoned. He issued an executive order attempting to end birthright citizenship
00:07:56.880 for children of illegal immigrants, or it did end it. That's what it is aiming to do.
00:08:04.820 And we will see how that goes. You've got a lot of people who are upset about that. But birthright
00:08:10.540 citizenship incentivizes people to come here illegally and then give birth. And we should take away that
00:08:17.620 incentive. We should take away every incentive that someone has to come here illegally. He signed
00:08:22.380 an executive order ordering the attorney general to pursue the death penalty for all crimes of a
00:08:27.460 severity demanding its use, including the murder of law enforcement officers and capital crimes committed
00:08:32.740 by an alien illegally present in this country. I mean, all capital murder. And I think instances of
00:08:41.580 rape, I think should demand the death penalty, especially when you're talking about child rape. I think
00:08:47.520 that people should get the death penalty for that. Absolutely. But this is a step in the right
00:08:51.840 direction. He left the Paris climate agreement. It's great. It was an unfair deal for Americans to
00:08:58.060 have to be paying for. And he announced his intent to withdraw the U.S. from the WHO. Again, that's good.
00:09:04.860 We don't want to be under control of the WHO. Trump signed an executive order to freeze nearly all U.S.
00:09:09.860 foreign aid for 90 days and mandated a comprehensive review of foreign assistance programs to ensure
00:09:15.000 alignment with policy goals. Again, I think that's a good thing you've probably heard the saying before,
00:09:22.100 and it absolutely rings true, that foreign aid is money from poor people in rich countries to
00:09:31.900 rich people in poor countries. It doesn't actually get down to the people in poor countries who really
00:09:38.280 need it. It just lines the pockets of their corrupt leaders. So at the very least, a comprehensive
00:09:44.140 review is what we should do. Now, let's get into more details about him pardoning pro-lifers because
00:09:52.380 this is amazing, amazing news. We've talked to one of those pro-lifers who was imprisoned on
00:09:58.560 Relatable, Herb Garrity, who was just released, and just praise God for that. So let's get into that a
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00:11:06.100 code Allie. During the campaign, we talked a lot about the Biden administration, the DOJ,
00:11:16.920 prosecuting pro-lifers who obstructed the entrance of a clinic under something called the FACE Act,
00:11:24.040 and it's a rather obscure law. It was signed into law by Bill Clinton, but most of us hadn't
00:11:30.620 heard about it until it was weaponized. It was used against these pro-lifers who do not commit
00:11:36.380 violence, by the way, but they did obstruct the entrance to a murder mill. This is called the
00:11:42.100 Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act or FACE Act. Trump's DOJ sent a memo last Friday pledging to
00:11:50.200 end the weaponization of the FACE Act, and he pardoned the 23 pro-life protesters who had been
00:11:59.580 prosecuted under this law. Here's him doing that in Salt 1. 23 people were prosecuted.
00:12:08.120 They should not have been prosecuted. Many of them are elderly people. They should not have been
00:12:16.960 prosecuted. This is a great honor to sign this.
00:12:26.200 Okay, let me tell you a little bit more about these people. Not all 23 of them. Unfortunately,
00:12:31.720 I just don't have time to tell you about all of their heroism, but I'll tell you about some of them.
00:12:38.300 Lauren Handy is a young woman who was a part of the group that recovered the 115 human remains from an
00:12:44.440 abortion facility in Washington, D.C. They had been protesting there. There was a medical waste truck
00:12:50.180 outside the clinic, and the guy, the medical waste management guy, didn't know what kind of
00:12:58.260 trash he was taking away or what material he was taking away. And so Lauren Handy and some other pro-life
00:13:04.900 activists asked if they could have the material, the waste. I hate saying trash because these are
00:13:14.260 actually human beings. But he thought that it was just trash. So they asked if they could have these
00:13:20.980 bags. And when they opened them at home, they found full-term babies. Five were full-term. And you
00:13:30.720 probably remember at the time, the news about this, pro-life organizations like Live Action reported on
00:13:37.920 this. They were called the Washington Five. And maybe you saw the gruesome pictures. There was one
00:13:44.320 little picture of this baby that had been aborted probably around 30 weeks gestation, whose eye was
00:13:50.980 still open, but whose skull had been crushed by the brutal abortion procedure. And so understandably,
00:13:59.900 they were incensed. They were devastated by what they saw. And from my understanding, and someone tell me if
00:14:07.180 I'm not understanding the timeline of events correctly, but this is what inspired them to
00:14:11.860 protest again in front of the clinic and try to obstruct the entrance. And just think about what
00:14:21.880 the previous administration represented. They represented calling evil good and good evil, that
00:14:27.640 they didn't prosecute the people who had crushed the skulls of living babies inside their mother's
00:14:33.460 womb. They didn't investigate to see if they were actually performing what it looked like, which was
00:14:39.400 actually an illegal abortion that is used or used to be legally used in the third trimester called a
00:14:47.000 DNX, where you literally deliver the baby and you suck the brain out while they're still alive. It's
00:14:53.220 horrible. I hate to even say that, but that is what abortion is in some cases. And so the Biden
00:14:58.580 administration didn't look into that, didn't investigate that. No, they didn't look into the
00:15:03.860 murders at all. Instead, they actually prosecuted the people that tried to stop the murder, including
00:15:09.940 Jean Marshall, a 74-year-old, Joan Bell, a 76-year-old, John Hinshaw, a 69-year-old. All of these were
00:15:19.460 prosecuted under the FACE Act. And then Bevelyn Williams, a 33-year-old mom of a toddler, she was a part of,
00:15:27.400 I understand, another event where she was blocking the entrance to an abortion clinic, and she was
00:15:33.660 sentenced to three and a half years in federal prison for FACE Act violations and quote-unquote
00:15:39.880 unlawful assembly. She was preaching the gospel outside an abortion clinic, and she allegedly
00:15:46.420 was blocking the door, which led to accidentally injuring a clinic worker. She claimed that this was
00:15:54.600 not on purpose. She wasn't trying to be violent. She was just trying to stop people from going into
00:16:01.320 this murder mill. But thankfully, praise God, she was pardoned by President Trump.
00:16:07.120 And here she is reuniting with her family. You've got to watch this. If you're just listening,
00:16:11.600 you've got to watch it on YouTube. This is so sweet. Praise God. Sot too.
00:16:15.580 Guys, I couldn't even watch that. I had to look down because
00:16:45.560 I was going to start sobbing. And if I started sobbing, then I wasn't going to be able to continue
00:16:49.860 doing this podcast. Just praise, praise God for that. I'm so thankful. And, you know,
00:16:55.920 some people are saying, oh, I can't, this is, you know, not allowing people to be held accountable
00:17:00.760 by the law. This isn't law and order. I mean, these same people had nothing to say about Biden's
00:17:07.680 pardons. Right before he left office, he granted pardons and commutations to more than 8,000 individuals,
00:17:13.740 which is more than any other modern president by far. He also commuted the sentence of 37 out of
00:17:21.100 40 inmates on federal death row, bringing their sentences now to life without parole rather than
00:17:26.500 the death penalty. Let me give you an example of someone who is now not going to see the justice
00:17:32.580 that according to the Bible he deserved. Thomas Stephen Sanders, he was sentenced to death for the
00:17:38.060 kidnapping and murder of a 12-year-old little girl in Louisiana. Biden said, nope, you don't have to
00:17:43.440 have the death penalty anymore. Richard Allen Jackson, he was convicted of the kidnapping,
00:17:47.580 rape and murder of a 22-year-old jogger in Asheville, North Carolina. Okay. His sentence commuted.
00:17:56.800 The Biden administration released 11 terrorists from Guantanamo Bay, including two suspected bodyguards
00:18:04.040 of Osama bin Laden. Also Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two other architects of the 9-11 attacks will
00:18:10.540 avoid the death penalty as a result of a Biden administration plea deal. So like, I just want to
00:18:17.240 show you the contrast of who Trump is versus who Biden is. And if you're saying, oh my gosh,
00:18:26.500 these pardons, they're so bad. I can't believe these pro-lifers or January 6th protesters that
00:18:32.540 they're not getting punished anymore, that they're not getting the punishment that they deserve. Like,
00:18:37.520 where were you literally two weeks ago? I say yes and amen to Trump pardoning these pro-lifers.
00:18:45.600 I mean, when you compare that to the people that Biden decided to give grace to, who should have been
00:18:56.260 given the just end of capital punishment? No. Don't tell me that you care about justice, that you are worried
00:19:05.660 about accountability and the rule of law. Just say that you don't like Trump and you allow anti-Trump media
00:19:13.080 to dictate your compassion and your outrage. Just admit that. Trump is also doing many other things in
00:19:21.520 the way of pro-life advocacy that I'm very thankful for. He revived the Mexico City policy that basically stops
00:19:30.640 our tax dollars from funding organizations abroad that promote or perform abortions. He is reinstating or
00:19:39.760 he intends to reinstate the Hyde Amendment or he had an, let me say that differently, the second executive order
00:19:48.760 that he signed in this regard further cements the Hyde Amendment. So that bans federal funding for abortion.
00:19:56.400 Biden, Kamala Harris were very much against the Hyde Amendment, even though Biden at one time was for
00:20:02.320 the Hyde Amendment. He was never successful, I guess, in overturning it. But that was a campaign promise
00:20:08.040 of Kamala Harris. She said, no, your tax dollars, we will force your tax dollars to pay for abortion.
00:20:14.800 So abortion specifically for poor women who have to rely on welfare to get abortions. Kamala Harris
00:20:23.780 wanted to make sure that your tax dollars would be forced to pay for the dismembering of poor babies.
00:20:30.020 And Trump says, nope, that's not going to, that's not going to happen. Again, just the contrast here.
00:20:37.440 In response to Dobbs v. Jackson, President Biden's Department of Health and Human Services established a
00:20:42.300 government website called ReproductiveRights.gov to provide resources and information to people
00:20:47.440 about abortion to make sure that they can travel for abortion, to make sure that they can get the
00:20:51.620 cost covered for abortion. Well, Trump's administration took that website down on
00:20:56.360 inauguration day. It is no longer accessible. Also, we had Vice President Vance speak at the March for
00:21:04.240 Life. We had President Trump give an amazing video message to the marchers that we will play in just a
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00:22:41.840 All right. So Vice President Vance is only the second sitting vice president to address the March
00:22:48.760 for Life. Mike Pence did, and now it's J.D. Vance. Donald Trump addressed the March for Life
00:22:55.180 in person in 2020 satellite before that. Only Trump, Bush, and Reagan. They're the only ones that
00:23:03.140 have addressed the March for Life. Isn't that kind of incredible? Because this is the 52nd, I believe,
00:23:09.040 the 52nd March for Life. Only three presidents have addressed the crowd. Isn't that amazing?
00:23:15.960 And Trump was one of them. Okay, here we've got Vance's speech or part of Vance's speech at the
00:23:23.760 March, thought three. Thank you for having me, and it is an honor to be standing with you here today
00:23:29.540 for Life. We are proud to march with you, and yes, we will be back next year.
00:23:34.500 We march to protect the unborn. We march to proclaim and live out the sacred truth that every single
00:23:45.300 child is a miracle and a gift from God. Our society has failed to recognize the obligation
00:23:52.800 that one generation has to another is a core part of living in a society to begin with.
00:24:01.020 So let me say very simply, I want more babies in the United States of America.
00:24:11.840 Yes, and amen. I mean, as we will talk about more in a little bit, such a perfect pick for Donald
00:24:18.080 Trump. I think everyone is excited about J.D. Vance's political future. Here is part of Trump's
00:24:24.900 message to the March for Life marchers. Stop four.
00:24:28.720 Thank you for turning out once again to show your extraordinary love and compassion for the
00:24:34.840 unborn. Each year, Americans of every age, color, and background travel to our nation's
00:24:40.620 capital by the tens of thousands to stand up for precious little babies who cannot stand up
00:24:46.560 for themselves. We will work to offer a loving hand to new mothers and young families, and we
00:24:52.000 will support adoption and foster care. We will protect women and vulnerable children.
00:24:59.020 His New York accent really came out there. Foster care. I was so glad, and he knew. I mean,
00:25:04.840 whoever helped him write this knew not to bring up something like IVF, because some people think
00:25:10.560 that that's part of the pro-life conversation, but he's talking to a lot of pro-life evangelicals and
00:25:14.660 Catholics there who do not support that, but do support adoption and foster care. Also talked
00:25:21.580 about bringing those who have attacked churches and crisis pregnancy centers to justice. I mean,
00:25:27.580 praise God. Again, just the partiality that was showed toward wickedness by the Biden administration.
00:25:35.300 It's really being rectified now by the Trump administration, and I appreciate that so much.
00:25:42.320 All right. Now, let's talk about immigration, because I've gotten a lot of messages from y'all about
00:25:51.220 your friends who are posting about the devastating effects of Trump's presidency on the immigration
00:26:01.160 population in the United States, and we are seeing my warning, and the warning of many others too,
00:26:10.520 I'm sure, come to fruition when it comes to the response and the propaganda that we are receiving,
00:26:21.620 that we are being bombarded with on this subject. I said sometime last year, I don't remember,
00:26:27.680 I guess it was probably after the election, that you are about to get for the next several months and
00:26:32.760 the next several years, a whole lot of toxic empathy, especially on the subject of immigration.
00:26:40.060 They are going to show you the crying mother of three who is here illegally and who has worked hard
00:26:48.400 and who is facing deportation and is scared because of Donald Trump's draconian anti-illegal
00:26:58.460 immigration policies, and they are going to pull at your heartstrings. They're going to punch you in
00:27:03.840 the gut, and they are going to tell you if you are a good person, if you have any humanity, if you have
00:27:09.760 any compassion, if you have any empathy for this woman, you will stand strong against the authoritarian,
00:27:17.040 anti-Christian, anti-love regime of Donald Trump, who is doing this cruel thing of making people who are
00:27:25.600 here, they won't even say here illegally, they'll call them asylum seekers or refugees,
00:27:30.240 making them leave. They'll call it racist, but even more than that, they will certainly call it
00:27:38.020 heartless and mean. What the media will not show you is the other side of the moral equation. The media
00:27:45.100 will not remind you of Lake and Riley. They will not remind you of Kate Steinle. They will not remind you
00:27:52.660 of Molly Tibbetts. They will not show you the gang members that are being deported back to Colombia.
00:27:58.420 They will not show you the rapists and the other sex offenders and the murders and the gang members
00:28:05.940 that are being sent back to various parts of Mexico and South America and Haiti and the Middle East.
00:28:12.740 They won't show you those. They will pick and choose their purported victims, and they will tell you
00:28:18.520 that is the entire story, and they will use that to emotionally manipulate you.
00:28:24.440 But remember, Christians are not called to toxic empathy. We are not called primarily to empathy at
00:28:31.380 all. Empathy feels how someone feels. But Christians are called to love, and love is inextricably
00:28:38.540 intertwined with the truth. Remember 1 Corinthians 13 6, love never rejoices in wrongdoing. It rejoices
00:28:46.160 with the truth. The God who is love, 1 John 4 8, is also the source of truth, and his word is a really
00:28:55.080 good guide for what is morally right when it comes to all things, but including when it comes to
00:29:01.820 immigration. And it is not as easy as, well, I feel bad for this person. If I feel bad for this person is
00:29:09.760 how you make policy decisions you will make really, really bad and destructive, harmful policy
00:29:16.140 decisions. Okay? So I'll give you some examples from my book in just a minute, but let me back up and
00:29:21.680 tell you what's happening on immigration that I think is a really, really good thing and makes our
00:29:26.280 country better and is just and righteous and actually compassionate. So an ICE report, ICE is Immigration
00:29:34.540 and Customs Enforcement, from September 2024, indicated there are approximately 425,000 convicted
00:29:43.960 criminals living in the U.S. illegally. So illegal beyond just coming here the wrong way. They've
00:29:49.700 also been convicted of other crimes, many times violent crimes. This figure includes individuals
00:29:54.340 convicted of assault, sexual assault, crimes involving dangerous drugs like fentanyl. You'll notice that
00:30:01.500 these caravans that you see coming through Mexico, usually from South America, that most of them are
00:30:06.880 military-aged men. They don't look starving. They all are well-dressed. They all have their iPhones.
00:30:15.860 And I'm not saying that they're all coming here to commit heinous crimes, but even if one of them is,
00:30:21.900 that's enough. And even if none of them are, they still don't have a right to be here, okay? Because
00:30:26.160 we're a country, and a country has sovereignty, and a sovereign country has borders. You know you have to
00:30:31.880 have that, to have citizenship, right? In order for your citizenship to matter, and therefore your
00:30:36.440 rights as a citizen to matter, you know that a country has to have borders and sovereignties,
00:30:40.620 right? Or sovereignty, right? Because if it doesn't, then the country doesn't exist, and your rights
00:30:46.080 dissolve because they don't have any meaning, because they don't have anyone to protect or enforce them.
00:30:51.380 So here's what I said on X just the other day. The total arrests of illegal aliens from January 23rd to
00:31:03.820 January 26th, 2,373 to be exact. And they've also clarified this. For the record, targeted enforcement
00:31:13.060 operations, so this is like gathering these illegal aliens up, deporting them, are planned arrests of
00:31:18.500 known criminal aliens who threaten national security or public safety. Violent gang members arrested
00:31:26.660 on Sunday. Nearly 50 illegal aliens were taken into custody during a raid targeting drug trafficking in
00:31:32.500 Venezuelan gang members in Colorado, according to the DEA. You remember this when we talked about
00:31:38.540 Trende Aragua, the very dangerous Venezuelan gang that had basically taken over apartment complexes
00:31:43.340 in Aurora, Colorado, and they were like, oh, no, this isn't happening. And then Vance did that
00:31:48.560 interview, and the interviewer was like, it's only a handful of apartment complexes. And he was like,
00:31:54.360 do you hear yourself? A handful of apartment complexes in the United States of America have
00:31:59.220 been taken over by a gang of illegal aliens from Venezuela, and you think that that's all right?
00:32:04.480 That's not a justification. So apparently, a lot of those guys out of here. Praise God.
00:32:09.000 Other examples of ICE arrests of violent aliens this week, according to the Boston Herald,
00:32:14.940 25-year-old Haitian national, I don't even know how to pronounce his name, but he was arrested by ICE
00:32:22.260 agents last week in their first raid of the Boston area. He was convicted more than a dozen times before
00:32:27.960 being taken into custody on Wednesday. And here is a video of him saying, I'm not going back. Stop five.
00:32:35.280 I'm not going back to Haiti. One of those threats is this illegal alien from Haiti.
00:32:40.740 ICE says he's a gang member with 17 criminal convictions in recent years.
00:32:46.020 Trump, you feel me? You're biting forever, bro. Thank Obama for everything that he did for me, bro.
00:32:52.440 Did you hear that? He said, thank Obama for everything he did for me, bro. And I'm not going back to Haiti.
00:32:58.620 Well, it looks like you are because you have been arrested and you are saying that from the back of
00:33:05.960 the cop car. So because I love my neighbor, I want that person gone. Because I love the most
00:33:14.920 vulnerable people in this country, I don't want that person here. Because I love the country in which
00:33:22.600 God has providentially placed me, whose welfare I pray for and seek as I am called to do. I support
00:33:30.500 exactly what Trump is doing here. Because I want those people gone. I want my community safe. I want
00:33:38.140 the children in poor communities, especially that are hardest hit by that, by this. I want them safe.
00:33:45.220 There was another illegal alien, Julio Cesar Diaz Martinez. He was arrested on January 23rd for
00:33:53.660 sex trafficking and overstaying his visa, which means, by the way, because he had a visa, he was
00:34:00.180 vetted and technically legal, but he overstayed. So then he became illegal and he was a sex trafficker.
00:34:08.620 Then we have Jose Roberto Rodriguez Urbina, an alleged MS-13 gang member. He was arrested on
00:34:16.420 January 22nd for overstaying his terms of admission to the U.S. He is wanted in El Salvador on extortion
00:34:23.220 charges. So those are just a few, just a few of the illegal aliens, the very dangerous people who have
00:34:31.240 been deported. Praise God. J.D. Vance was asked about some of their immigration law enforcement
00:34:40.780 that has occurred over the past week on Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan. She brought up the
00:34:48.300 fact that some Afghan, she would call them refugees, some of them legitimately are refugees, are now being
00:34:56.280 sent back home. And she said, you know, some of these people are people who helped us during the
00:35:01.640 Afghanistan crisis a few years ago, the debacle. And I just, it's like that meme of that, like goose
00:35:06.960 chasing the person, like, like, uh, who caused that? Like who caused that debacle? Like who caused the
00:35:13.800 disaster in Afghanistan that made these poor Afghans have to come over to the United States? Of course,
00:35:19.520 the answer is Joe Biden. She didn't go into that, but anyway, um, that's what they're talking about
00:35:24.740 here. And she calls all of these people, asylum seekers and says they've all been vetted. Why do
00:35:28.800 they have to go home? And, uh, J.D. Vance has a response to that. Here is SOT7. Well, Margaret,
00:35:38.700 I don't agree that all these immigrants or all these refugees have been properly vetted. In fact,
00:35:42.860 we know that there are cases of people who allegedly were properly vetted and then were literally planning
00:35:48.860 terrorist attacks on our country. That happened during the campaign. If you may remember, I don't want
00:35:53.660 my children to share a neighborhood with people who are not properly vetted. And because I don't
00:35:58.180 want it for my kids, I'm not going to force any other American citizens, kids to do that either.
00:36:02.460 No. And that was a very particular case. It wasn't clear if he was radicalized when he got here
00:36:06.200 or while he was living. I don't really care, Margaret. I don't want that person in my country.
00:36:11.060 And I think most Americans agree with me. Yeah. So that kind of became the meme yesterday.
00:36:15.860 That became the rallying cry. It's like make America great again. And then I don't really care,
00:36:21.100 Margaret. That's now we need like we need hats and we need t-shirts that when Vance runs for office
00:36:28.300 in four years, I don't really care. Margaret needs to be on the red hats that he sells. It's like,
00:36:34.740 okay, like let's, uh, let's tussle about the details of whether this terrorist was radicalized
00:36:42.500 in the United States or whether he was radicalized back home. It doesn't matter. Like he's got to go home.
00:36:47.280 That's the point. He also made another good point about immigration policy here in SOT6.
00:36:54.480 I think the president is to be commended for actually coming in and doing something with
00:36:59.740 this incredible mandate the American people gave him. He's not sitting in the Oval Office doing
00:37:04.640 nothing. He's doing the American people's business. And I think they're going to see a lot of good
00:37:08.200 effects from it. This is a very unique country and it was founded by some immigrants and some
00:37:13.280 settlers. But just because we were founded by immigrants doesn't mean that 240 years later
00:37:17.840 that we have to have the dumbest immigration policy in the world. No country says that temporary
00:37:23.080 visitors, their children will be given complete access to the benefits and blessings of American
00:37:29.020 citizenship. Okay. I think that every high school teacher should play that clip when you're talking
00:37:34.620 about logic and argumentation and fallacies because he pointed it out so perfectly. She tried to make
00:37:40.000 the argument, well, we're a nation of immigrants. Alexander Hamilton was an immigrant. Okay. So
00:37:44.880 we should allow MS-13 gang members to take over apartment complexes in Colorado? Can you track with
00:37:50.680 me, Margaret? I'm trying to square that circle and you're not explaining it. But he did a perfect job
00:37:55.800 of going straight into the argument. Just because we had immigrants 250 years ago doesn't mean we have
00:38:00.720 to have the world's dumbest immigration policy today. That was a perfect way of saying that. And if they
00:38:06.340 were ever made to explain their connection, the logical connection that they're making, okay,
00:38:11.540 because Alexander Hamilton was an immigrant, like we need to have open borders today, logically take
00:38:18.520 me there. Like make the argument. The burden of proof should be on them. They are making the absurd
00:38:25.180 claim that basically functionally we should not have borders and we should not have any specifications
00:38:32.260 or parameters at all when it comes to immigration policy. I just want to clarify some things when
00:38:38.260 it comes to asylum seekers, because you hear this term interchangeably with illegal immigrants. You
00:38:45.000 will be seeing a lot of videos from people saying these are all refugees. These are people seeking
00:38:49.440 asylum and they're being deported. That is not what is happening. People who are here legally as
00:38:55.580 refugees are not being rounded up and deported and neither are asylum seekers. But one,
00:39:01.640 even for asylum seekers and refugees, asylum seekers, let me give you the actual definition,
00:39:07.540 same criteria as refugee, according to the DHS, a person who is unable or unwilling to return to his
00:39:13.380 or her country of nationality because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of
00:39:18.820 race, religion, nationality, membership, and a particular social group or political opinion.
00:39:23.460 Okay. So that is the actual definition. It is not just someone who leaves a less rich country for
00:39:29.100 the richer country of the United States. It's not just someone who wants to work. It's not just
00:39:33.420 someone who wants a better life. It's not just someone who wants their kid to be a citizen.
00:39:37.240 It's not just someone who doesn't like living where they live or doesn't see a whole lot of
00:39:42.060 opportunity there. I don't blame those people for wanting to come to a country like America,
00:39:47.560 but that doesn't make them an asylum seeker. It doesn't make them a refugee. It makes them a
00:39:54.600 migrant or an immigrant. And there are legal ways to go about becoming a citizen of the United States
00:40:01.120 or trying to work here legally. But not everyone who shows up at the border and says that they're
00:40:06.660 seeking asylum actually qualifies for that. And even if they do, there has to be a certain number
00:40:13.240 of asylum seekers and refugees that we take every year. And America traditionally, compared to the
00:40:18.660 rest of the world, is insanely generous, insanely accessible, insanely open to those who are true
00:40:25.020 refugees and asylum seekers. And by the way, we also take tons and tons of legal immigrants every year,
00:40:32.380 more than the vast majority of countries. But again, as we've talked about, for some reason,
00:40:38.540 America is seen as having this moral obligation to accept anyone and everyone without any vetting
00:40:45.180 that no one expects of Zimbabwe. No one expects of Japan. But for some reason, America and many
00:40:54.780 Western European nations, because I don't know, we have to pay reparations for supposed sins of our past,
00:41:01.720 we're supposed to allow everyone in. And if we don't, it's some form of bigotry. So not everyone who
00:41:07.960 is an illegal immigrant is an asylum seeker or refugee. Even if you are an asylum seeker or a
00:41:13.720 refugee, there's only a certain number of those that any country can allow in. And that's fine.
00:41:20.920 That is just good immigration policy. We can have a debate on how many that should be, what the limit
00:41:28.780 should be. But there has to be some kind of limit. Not everyone has a right to go into a country just
00:41:35.500 because they want to. And again, countries have the right, the responsibility to care for the
00:41:42.000 citizens of their country first. In the same way that you care about your kids more than you care
00:41:47.660 about my kids, more than you care about your neighbor's kids. You don't hate your neighbors
00:41:51.940 because you lock your door at night. You don't hate the person who shows up at your door. Say a
00:41:59.260 stranger shows up at your door. They need food, water. Maybe you give them food and water,
00:42:03.840 but they say, well, no, I want to come in and I want to sleep in your kid's bed and I'm going to
00:42:09.020 stay here and you can't kick me out. Well, because you're a sane person, because you care about your
00:42:15.220 home. You care about not only the things in your home, but you care about the people in your home.
00:42:19.460 You care about the children that God has given you to steward. You're going to kick that person out.
00:42:23.960 You don't hate that person, but you don't know that person. And you know that your primary
00:42:29.040 responsibility is to your family and your children. Yeah, countries are like families.
00:42:35.360 The American government has a primary responsibility to its own people. And according to Romans 13,
00:42:41.840 it has been instituted by God to reward good and to punish evil for it does not bear the sword in
00:42:48.460 vain. We can have compassionate refugee policy and still enforce our borders and make sure that we
00:42:54.640 have limitations on our immigration that best protects the rights and the safety and well-being
00:43:02.480 and prosperity of our own people. You'll remember Biden's immigration disaster was extremely deleterious,
00:43:12.720 especially to the most vulnerable population, and that is children. They just refused to allow Texas
00:43:20.740 and the border states to secure their border. They undermined every effort by Texas and Arizona to
00:43:26.660 place any kind of physical obstruction, to disincentivize this dangerous track of people,
00:43:32.220 the sex trafficking, the drug trafficking, the gun trafficking that exists at the border.
00:43:37.060 Texas has worked really hard to try to block entrance and access, and the Biden administration very
00:43:43.460 actively undermined that. You can go back and listen to the episodes where we covered that in detail.
00:43:49.900 Under the Biden administration, the Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs
00:43:56.660 Enforcement Agency, ICE, said that they could not account for 32,000 unaccompanied migrant children
00:44:03.540 who failed to appear for their immigration court hearings. You heard a lot about that, the separation
00:44:09.480 of parents and children at the border under the Trump administration. Did any of those social
00:44:13.360 justice evangelicals have anything to say about this, the tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors?
00:44:21.620 Were they sex trafficked? Were they kidnapped? Were they murdered? We don't know where they are,
00:44:27.300 but because we incentivized this track through liberal loose immigration policy, they came here and
00:44:34.220 they haven't been found. You'll also remember we've talked about many times the young children who were
00:44:42.020 found in the desert at the border. They were abandoned by the coyotes or the traffickers or even their
00:44:48.900 parents or just the grownups that had taken them there. On November 24th, for example, of last year,
00:44:56.700 the spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Safety said that he found a two-year-old little girl
00:45:01.580 by herself at the border. She was a part of a group of 211 illegal immigrants, which included 60
00:45:08.760 unaccompanied children and minors ages 2 to 17. That is what we incentivize. That is what we encourage
00:45:17.380 when we open our borders. And when we say, yeah, you're probably going to be able to get in and work
00:45:23.340 and get benefits. But when we say, no, it's not worth it for you to even try, then we disincentivize
00:45:31.200 that kind of dangerous track that endangers especially women and children. And as you see
00:45:38.800 all of this, like, and we don't even have time to get into the back and forth with Trump in Columbia.
00:45:43.720 Trump tried to send illegal aliens from Columbia back to Columbia. Columbia said, no, they went back
00:45:49.860 and forth. Trump was like, OK, here's some tariffs. And Columbia eventually was like, OK, we'll take him
00:45:54.760 back. It's all just a really bitter reminder. All of this that we see happening so fast with this
00:46:02.100 deportations and enforcement of the law, the flexing of the muscle by Donald Trump to make smaller
00:46:08.780 countries do the right thing. That Lakin Riley's death was a policy choice. It was a policy choice.
00:46:17.360 It was the result of deliberate policy decisions by the Biden administration
00:46:22.620 and other politicians. Biden acted for four years like nothing could be done.
00:46:28.400 Something could have been done. He didn't want to. All of the murder, all of the rape,
00:46:34.720 all of the preventable crimes. Citizens commit crimes too, but all crimes by illegal aliens are
00:46:40.100 preventable. All of these preventable crimes took place that represent a loss of life, a loss of
00:46:45.900 dignity, a loss of property, a loss of economic opportunity. All of those were the result of a
00:46:52.120 policy choice. We are seeing that now that Trump has accomplished more in five days when it comes
00:46:57.600 to immigration than Biden did over four years and over four decades in Washington, D.C. You're going to
00:47:09.180 see a lot of gaslighting, a lot of toxic empathy from Christians, from celebrities. I want to give you
00:47:17.000 one example. Do we have Selena Gomez? Sot 10? Okay, let's play Sot 10 as an example.
00:47:26.000 I just want to say that I'm so sorry. All my people are getting attacked. The children
00:47:37.160 I don't understand. I don't understand. I'm so sorry. I wish I could do something, but I can't.
00:47:48.560 I don't know what to do. I'll try everything, I promise.
00:47:54.480 All right. I don't know what she thinks is happening. Mexicans in general are not just
00:48:03.020 getting deported. Actually, we're protecting children because we're deporting criminal,
00:48:10.320 violent, illegal aliens first. We are protecting the children of this country by protecting our
00:48:18.460 borders, by disincentivizing the sex trafficking that occurs because of the liberal immigration law
00:48:26.840 that has prevailed over the past not only four years, but by and large over the past several
00:48:33.120 decades. What is happening right now is righteous and good and, again, compassionate for our country.
00:48:41.260 You're going to see a lot from Christianity today. You're going to see a lot from the typical
00:48:46.000 so-called progressive Christians that this is not the way of Jesus, that this is not Christian.
00:48:57.620 I wish I had time to just read you my entire chapter in Toxic Empathy about this, but I don't,
00:49:08.620 unfortunately. I do encourage you. I thought that this book, Toxic Empathy, was going to be most
00:49:14.440 important before the election and that it wouldn't have as much use after the election because
00:49:22.500 everyone had kind of known what they needed to know. But now I realize it's really more important
00:49:29.180 than ever because you are going to be manipulated and you are going to be gaslit and you are going to
00:49:38.000 be told that you're not a good Christian if you support deportation, if you support borders,
00:49:42.520 and you support the enforcement of immigration law. Not only do I lay out the facts about the dangers
00:49:51.220 of illegal immigration, but I also give you the biblical case for enforcing borders, for having
00:49:58.500 borders. Everywhere that walls are depicted, either literally or symbolically throughout scripture,
00:50:05.640 they are seen as symbols or as the protection of order. And God is a God of order. He placed us in a
00:50:14.140 garden, not a jungle. He is a God of parameters. He is a God of definitions. Borders, countries were all his
00:50:21.900 idea for our good. The Tower of Babel and the confusion that ensued after that because people couldn't speak
00:50:30.100 the same language. That was a curse, not a blessing. God has given us families and communities and
00:50:39.800 countries so that we could build societies in which people, in particular, the most vulnerable people
00:50:47.080 could thrive. Anarchy and lawlessness and chaos, those are all seen as descriptions of what Satan loves
00:50:56.160 throughout scripture. Order and parameters and borders and strength. These are all part of what God wants
00:51:04.680 for us. Now, does that mean that we can't have any immigration? That's not it at all. That's certainly
00:51:10.320 not what I argue in my book. Does that mean that we can't love people who are different than us? That we
00:51:16.300 shouldn't have mercy for people who are true refugees or sojourners? That's not at all. What God argues,
00:51:22.900 what the Bible argues, or what I argue in my book. And I had planned to read you a long excerpt from
00:51:28.660 this, but we're running out of time and I want to get to my last subject first. So I really do
00:51:33.680 encourage you to get Toxic Empathy. You can see it's a pretty short book. If I can say without
00:51:39.600 sounding braggadocious, it is a New York Times bestseller. And I hope that it helped a lot of people
00:51:45.120 before the election see things in a way that is very different than what the progressive media
00:51:50.440 wants you, how they want you to see them. And this is from a Christian perspective,
00:51:55.220 but also factual perspective. You will be so armed with data and with logic and with biblical
00:52:02.440 support for the conservative position on the big subjects, including immigration, including gender
00:52:09.080 and abortion and all of that. If you get this book, Toxic Empathy, you can get it on Amazon,
00:52:13.280 toxicempathy.com. All right. I want to talk about, I wanted to make sure that I have some time to talk
00:52:19.340 about Ketanji Brown Jackson and her witchcraft puka shells. Okay. I saw this and I haven't seen
00:52:26.080 anyone else talk about it. And I just think it's, I just think it's interesting and actually more
00:52:31.400 important, more important than people might think. So we'll talk a lot about the dangers and the
00:52:37.800 pervasiveness of witchcraft on this, on this podcast. So this is a, this is all part of that
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00:54:02.260 Okay, so I saw this post on X going around by some Democratic commentator named Christopher Webb,
00:54:08.800 and it is a picture of Ketanji Brown Jackson, and she's wearing this cowrie shell. It's called cowrie
00:54:14.760 shells. I would have called them puka shells. I don't know what the difference is, but they're a
00:54:19.840 shell necklace, a shell earrings, and I would have thought nothing of it. You know, it's fine or like
00:54:27.160 fashion choices. I do see how it's kind of an ode to Ruth Bader Ginsburg because she would always wear
00:54:32.720 the like white thing on her chest, and so I could see how that's like a symbol of resistance, but I
00:54:38.700 would have never known that it was maybe more than that. So this person says, Christopher Webb says,
00:54:44.400 I love this so much. At the inauguration, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wore a distinctive collar adorned
00:54:49.020 with cowrie shells, which are believed to offer protection from evil in African traditions. This choice
00:54:55.880 mirrors the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's practice of using collars to convey a message.
00:55:03.480 She does look upset in that picture, but I said, this is witchcraft, and a lot of people were upset
00:55:09.980 by that. It's not witchcraft. It's just a fashion statement. Okay, maybe it is. It could just be a
00:55:15.120 coincidence. I can't say exactly what she was thinking that morning when she got dressed, but I did want to
00:55:21.000 look into this. Is it really witchcraft? It is witchcraft if it is this idea that she is fending
00:55:27.360 off some kind of evil spirits, and voodoo and this kind of mysticism is extremely prevalent in Africa
00:55:35.820 and places like Haiti, so I wanted to look into it a little bit more. Speaking to the Huffington Post
00:55:42.000 following the inauguration, fashion and costume historian Shelby Ivey Christie said, in many African
00:55:47.360 traditions, cowrie shells are believed to carry protective properties and spiritual significance.
00:55:52.420 She said, they're often seen as conduits of ancestral wisdom and protection used in divination practices
00:55:58.700 and spiritual ceremonies. Okay, so that is witchcraft. Like, that is witchcraft. I don't know if that's what
00:56:07.140 she's practicing here. If so, I think that it is extremely troubling for a Supreme Court justice who,
00:56:16.420 as we saw in her confirmation hearing, cannot define what a woman is because she's not a biologist,
00:56:22.240 whom we have also seen from the various statistics that are put out, that she has the most words to
00:56:30.420 give in all of the arguments compared to, like, I don't know, it's like tens of thousands of words
00:56:35.620 in her arguments versus, like, Clarence Thomas, who has to say very little to say so much. And so
00:56:46.720 someone with this much power, with this much to say, potentially, possibly practicing or believing
00:56:53.960 in some kind of witchcraft is actually very scary. This was especially true, this person says, in many
00:57:00.660 West African societies, which is where Brown Jackson's aunt served in the Peace Corps, the
00:57:05.320 same aunt is credited with giving Brown Jackson's parents the idea for their daughter's name,
00:57:09.600 Ketanji, to show pride in their African ancestry. So this is piecing things together that possibly
00:57:15.240 this was a purposeful act of trying to wear something that was a conveyor, a conduit of her
00:57:23.740 ancestral wisdom, and that this is some kind of divination symbol. Kauri shells are still used today
00:57:33.240 in divination rituals in one Yoruba tradition, a diviner, is that how you would pronounce that?
00:57:44.960 Well, basically, a medium communicates with the 16 original ancestor spirits by casting the 16 Kauri
00:57:52.640 shells on a carved wooden tray as he poses a question about the future. The Kauris answer
00:57:58.160 this medium by landing either face up positive or face down negative. So like flipping a coin,
00:58:04.600 that's according to Emory University. I just want to remind you that divination is an abomination to
00:58:10.180 the Lord, who is the creator of all things, but the source of all goodness and truth. So divination refers
00:58:16.500 to the practice of like you're seeking knowledge or seeking wisdom from ancestors or from the other
00:58:23.280 side, from dead people through some kind of supernatural means. And as we talked about a
00:58:30.700 couple of weeks ago, we were talking about oils, like witchcraft is the use of some kind of medium
00:58:34.600 or material in order to access supernatural power. So all of these things kind of go hand in hand.
00:58:39.460 And Deuteronomy 18, 9 through 14, God says, there shall not be found among you one who burns his son
00:58:46.240 or his daughter as an offering, as an offering anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes
00:58:51.620 or interprets omens or a sorcerer or a charmer or a medium or a necromancer. Okay. So talking to the
00:58:57.880 dead, trying to talk to the dead. People have asked me before, like, should we like be praying to the
00:59:03.300 dead? No, that is necromancy or one who inquires of the dead. For whoever does these things is an
00:59:10.340 abomination to the Lord. And because of these abominations, the Lord, your God is driving them
00:59:15.720 out before you. 1 Samuel 15, 23, for rebellion is as the sin of divination and presumption is as
00:59:23.620 iniquity and idolatry. Practicing divination is listed as one of the reasons for Israel's exile in
00:59:29.980 2 Kings 17, 17 and Acts 16. Paul and Silas encounter a young girl who's practicing divination
00:59:36.660 and Paul casts out the evil spirit that is actually empowering her to practice divination. So it is
00:59:43.400 real in the sense that it might actually access you some things that are true, but there are only two
00:59:51.820 kinds of powers in the world, and that is heavenly power that comes from God and satanic, demonic power
00:59:57.520 that comes from hell. And so any kind of access to the supernatural, if it is outside of the bounds
01:00:04.620 that God has given us, whether it is the superstitious belief that shells are going to protect you or that
01:00:09.640 they're conduits of some kind of supernatural wisdom or protection or something, or whether it's like
01:00:15.280 straight up like casting spells or something like that, anything that is outside of God's bounds of
01:00:20.500 seeking supernatural power, that is a form of witchcraft and demonic activity that we should
01:00:27.480 mess around with, that is not fashionable, that is completely inappropriate. Again, if this is her
01:00:32.440 intent for Supreme Court justice, really for anyone, but especially someone who has such a long-term
01:00:39.080 impact on our laws in the future of our country. Pray for her, pray for her family, pray for this
01:00:46.320 country, pray for President Trump, that he would continue to be bold and succeed. He does not give
01:00:51.820 one rats behind what anyone thinks right now, and I love this Trump. I love that for us, and I love that
01:01:00.140 for this country, and I'm just, I'm grateful for it. I had my skepticism about how this, how this
01:01:07.380 administration would go, how this round would go, honestly. And you guys know, I, in the primary, I was a,
01:01:13.760 I was a DeSantis supporter, but I have been so pleased with just how this past week has gone,
01:01:21.040 really how things have gone since the election, but especially this past week. And so I'm just
01:01:24.920 praising God again for the mercy that he has shown us through President Trump, but we've, obviously,
01:01:30.580 we've got a lot of praying still to do, a lot of convincing and persuading still to do, and
01:01:35.340 I think that the Lord can equip us to be up to the task. All right, that's all we've got time for
01:01:39.880 today. We'll be back here tomorrow.