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00:01:29.000Charlie has been traveling all over the country.
00:01:32.000I caught up on the Charlie Kirk crazy train in Arizona and it took me to Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, while Charlie went up to Wisconsin, Illinois, came back here.
00:01:45.000Three this morning and here and then tomorrow we're going to Asheville, so pray for us.
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00:01:58.000So he's 27, as Pastor said, and I'm 56, and it's just not fair, Charlie.
00:02:05.000Well, Rob is also my pastor, and I met Rob a year and a half ago.
00:02:09.000I'm an evangelical Bible-believing Christian.
00:02:12.000And my whole life, I was told that the politics that I was doing and that was my career was inconsistent and incongruent with the gospel and Christianity.
00:02:21.000And then I met Rob, who was serving in office and was outwardly spoken politically.
00:02:27.000And I learned that there's a huge lie that's being taught in Christianity today that Christians shouldn't contest in the political arena.
00:02:34.000And that is, I think, anti-biblical and against everything that we're supposed to call to do.
00:02:39.000In the Old Testament, there's many examples of people that we view as heroes that contested to influence secular government.
00:02:51.000There's multiple examples of godly people trying to influence secular government for good.
00:02:57.000Jesus Christ said at Caesarea Philippi, he said, on this rock build my ecclesia.
00:03:03.000We say, we use the word church, but when William Tyndale actually translated the original Koigne Greek from Greek into English, English was the peasant's language, he went into this what this word ecclesia actually means.
00:03:16.000And Rob was the first one to really mention it to me.
00:03:18.000And ecclesia is exactly what we're doing tonight.
00:03:21.000It was a political gathering of civic-minded people that wanted the betterment of their own community.
00:03:26.000Now, Jesus, using that term, he didn't use synagogue or temple.
00:03:33.000So I believe that Jesus wanted comprehensive Christianity, not compartmentalized Christianity, where we just wall ourselves off and not get into the culture and into every arena of our country or our nation.
00:03:47.000When I had shared with Charlie about this idea that we, you know, when Jesus said to Peter, who do men say that I am?
00:03:53.000And then he says, you're the Christ and Son of the Living God.
00:03:55.000He says, bless are you, son of Marjonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed that to you.
00:03:58.000And then he goes on to say, upon this rock, his testimony, I will build my, and again, as Charlie said, ecclesia.
00:04:04.000And the reality of it is he co-opted a secular term.
00:04:08.000He didn't use a religious term like Charlie said.
00:05:33.000And an ecclesia was gathering around two big words, ella eutheria and isonomia.
00:05:39.000Those are Greek words for freedom and equality.
00:05:42.000I wonder what country was founded around the ideas of freedom and equality.
00:05:45.000So you understand that the founding fathers, 51 of 55, of the signers of the Declaration, were Bible-believing, regular church-attending Christians.
00:05:53.000The First Great Awakening inspired the American Revolution and the formation of our country, 1787 Constitutional Convention, 1791, the ratification of the Bill of Rights, but our birth certificate, 1776, the Declaration of Independence.
00:06:06.000They knew exactly what Ecclesia meant because that translation was just about 150 years old.
00:06:13.000When Tyndale said, no, no, no, no, church does not mean the church in Rome.
00:06:18.000It means the gathering of people that care about their community.
00:06:21.000A church does not mean the hierarchical church.
00:06:24.000And I don't mean any slights towards our Catholic friends.
00:07:01.000And no other country in the history of the planet was ever formed on the ideas of rights coming from God, not from government, on natural rights that had really rules for the road for our government and our leaders.
00:07:17.000The Constitution was written for people like your governor.
00:07:20.000That's why the Constitution was written.
00:07:22.000Because when his tyrannical orders start coming down that were shutting down gatherings of believers and small businesses, but keeping abortion clinics open and keeping weed dispensaries open or liquor stores open, that kind of checks and balance is exactly why the Constitution was written.
00:07:38.000Or in California, Rob McCoy, my pastor right here, under three separate hearings in front of a judge for just having the same type of gathering that you're having right now.
00:07:50.000California Department of Health threatening with arrest.
00:07:54.000Why is it the founding fathers put in these restrictions against government?
00:07:58.000Because they knew these times were coming.
00:08:00.000They knew that tyrannical leaders were eventually going to try to use governments to go after believers, go after Christians, go after people of faith.
00:08:11.000And we have to understand that the First Amendment, if you ask an average public educated young person in our country, you ask them, where do your rights come from?
00:08:19.000They're like, well, it comes from D.C., it comes from politicians.
00:08:22.000It's so wrong and it's so immoral that we have done such a poor job of communicating our values to young people because you're starting to see America change.
00:08:30.000It's because we have not communicated our values well to young people.
00:08:40.000Our rights are given to us, granted by God, and government is there first and foremost not to violate it and at best to protect those rights.
00:08:49.000So, for example, in the midst of a pandemic, the First Amendment doesn't go away.
00:08:54.000Church all of a sudden doesn't become unessential just in the midst of a pandemic.
00:08:57.000In fact, church becomes more essential in the midst of crisis.
00:09:08.000So, Charlie and I, our paths crossed, and it was interesting because it just seems like it's skyrocketed since this whole COVID thing.
00:09:16.000And just like many of you here in North Carolina and California, early on, we didn't know the severity of the virus.
00:09:22.000And so we started to willingly yield to the governor's request to social distance and not have gatherings.
00:09:30.000But then on Palm Sunday, April 4th, it's a sacrament to us, and we participate in that sacrament the first Sunday of the month at the beginning of our holy week, which is Palm Sunday.
00:09:43.000And the governor comes out and says, No, no, church is non-essential.
00:10:09.000I was the mayor during, well, I was mayor pro tem when 12 of our young people were shot in a dance hall, Country Western Dance Hall, two of my congregants, killed.
00:10:49.000I don't ever want any danger to come to my city.
00:10:52.000But when the governor said on his directive that the church is non-essential, April 3rd is Saturday, I realized that word had gotten out because we were going to follow CDC standards.
00:11:02.000We were going to have communion regardless of what the governor was saying.
00:11:05.000I'm not going to allow the governor to say the church is not essential.
00:11:45.000And then when the governor embraced all the BLM Inc. Riots in Los Angeles, where 75% of the businesses that were burned and looted in Los Angeles were Jewish-owned.
00:11:59.000And he praised them, and they were shoulder to shoulder, no masks.
00:12:03.000And at that point, we've been doing nightly one-hour live streams for all our shut-ins, 65 and older folks who had comorbidities and concerns.
00:12:12.000We had no less than 12 doctors and two psychologists, and every night we go over the data.
00:12:16.000The death rate in our county of 750,000, 780,000, is 1/100th of 1%.
00:12:25.000And by the way, that's people who died with COVID, not from.
00:12:29.000Of the tragically over 100 victims in our county, only two have died from COVID, the rest with.
00:13:43.000And the judge said, on a scale of 1 to 10, as far as danger to the community, you're at 10.
00:13:49.000And I said, all right, I see how we're going to do this.
00:13:52.000And we opened the church, violated the restraining order.
00:13:55.000And the day that I went to the church, when they said that they were going to give citations to 1,000 of our congregants, I walked up to the church, and this will blow your mind.
00:14:04.000The church was surrounded by congregations that drove three hours north.
00:14:09.000And they said to me, We came today so that we get the citation so you can worship in peace.
00:15:13.000And we both interpret the passage the same way, except the pastors don't know what I know because they haven't held office, and I have.
00:15:22.000When I was elected to that office, I put my hand and I raised my right hand and I swore to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
00:15:31.000And in that Constitution, I thought, I better read it if I'm going to defend it.
00:15:37.000As Charlie said, it protects us from the infringement of the government upon our God-given rights.
00:15:44.000And in the first three words of the preamble of the Constitution, the authority in Romans 13 is listed, and it's real simple: we, the people.
00:15:55.000And if they violate that Constitution, it says in our Declaration of Independence, it's our right and our duty to push back.
00:16:17.000Daniel, when King Darius came forth with a decree saying that anyone who follows the rabbinical laws and prays publicly will be put to death.
00:17:02.000Any sort of disobedience throughout the scriptures, there's plenty of examples that when God's law and God's will is violated, that the people of the church and of the kingdom are supposed to stand up for what is moral and what is right and what is good.
00:17:17.000We must do so prayerfully and faithfully.
00:17:20.000But we know exactly what this was all about.
00:17:39.000This seems to be the greatest attack on religious freedom in American history, and Christians should never put up with that.
00:17:56.000Part of the pushback with the governor and the reason why we did what we did is rights are like muscles.
00:18:03.000If you don't exercise them, you lose them.
00:18:05.000Now, look, I know my fellow shepherds, and many of them that I went to Israel with here in North Carolina, and by the way, thank you for your prayers.
00:18:13.000It's sustained us, and we've been so blessed by all the believers in North Carolina who've been praying for us.
00:19:13.000But when it comes to paying a price for liberty, like standing up, where you're going to be targeted, you blame everyone and you just give up.
00:20:03.000In fact, I think it actually confirms exactly what the Bible tells us: that without a relationship with God through his Son, Jesus Christ, we don't even know what liberty and freedom is.
00:20:11.000We're just aimlessly going in the woods thinking we know what freedom and liberty is.
00:20:15.000Liberty is a value you have to teach young people.
00:21:23.000Because as Rob frequently says, in the words of the stairwell at Harvard University in the law school, it says, the law is the wise restraints that keep men free.
00:23:02.000We live in a time in American history where young people can have anything they want at any time, yet there has never been a generation that has been so empty.
00:23:09.000It's because if you do not have the law as basically the framework around all of this, what we call liberty and freedom, which is really nothing more than the capacity to indulge, you'll be a slave to that device instantaneously.
00:23:31.000I think we want security, significance, and satisfaction.
00:23:34.000I think only through a relationship with Jesus Christ and understanding the full story, the full truth of the Bible, then we can actually understand what freedom really is.
00:23:45.000Not this cheap soundbite freedom that they talk about on television.
00:23:48.000Like, oh, yeah, freedom is going out to a nightclub at 2 a.m.
00:25:03.000I have been stunned at how not just pastors haven't opened, I thought, I said, this lockdown thing won't last 10 days.
00:25:10.000We knew within mid-March that this thing was very contagious, very much a threat for a certain part of the population, of which is a very small part of the population, predominantly people with pre-existing underlying health conditions in nursing homes.
00:25:25.000But 95% of the population very much should have been allowed to open up by early April.
00:25:30.000The businesses, the suicides, all that stuff could have been prevented and avoided.
00:25:33.000I said, I thought more of the American people.
00:27:48.000And while we've been doing church, the secular progressive left has been in the ecclesia indoctrinating our children and making our churches irrelevant.
00:28:25.000When the church gets involved in politics, you get movements like Ronald Reagan that defeat Cold War communism, the greatest economic boom in American history, and a revival of the American dream.
00:28:35.000When churches disengage from politics, like in California, where they've aborted more children than the entire population of Canada, like in California, where churches have disengaged from politics, where in the midst of a pandemic, they have just passed SB 145 into law.
00:28:52.000It decriminalizes pedophilia in the state of California.
00:28:55.000Remember when we went through all these conversations 10 years ago and we said they're going to try to go for pedophilia next, and everyone said, no way, no way, no way?
00:29:06.000In fact, I think every church, I think maybe five churches spoke out against it.
00:29:09.000We're now in California, it's state law that a judge can now tell a pedophile you do not have to register in the sex registry database.
00:29:17.000Gavin Newsom, in the midst of a pandemic, businesses are absolutely going under wildfires like you've never seen before, homeless on everything.
00:30:49.000I don't think it's the perfect application.
00:30:51.000For those of you that don't know the parable of the talents or just a refresher, it's one of Jesus' actually most harsh teachings.
00:30:57.000At the end of the parable of the talents, he has some of his most direct, most clear condemnation of people that do not follow this teaching.
00:31:08.000A master gives one of his workers a certain currency, let's say, you know, $2, just to use equivalent, two talents, two talents, two talents.
00:31:17.000One person, they're different amounts.
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00:33:42.000One of the most critical years in American history, obviously, 1776.
00:33:47.000And as Washington was holding Dorchester Heights over Boston, the British, when the snows would thaw, they would take over Dorchester Heights and the Continental Army would have to depart.
00:33:59.000Washington didn't have any artillery to hold the hill.
00:34:04.000And a young guy by the name of Henry Knox comes to him and says, I know where some artillery is.
00:34:25.000They go into the summer and they sign what is the longest standing birth certificate in the history of the 6,000 years of recorded world history.
00:34:34.000For 244 years, this is the oldest nation under one birth certificate.
00:34:38.000And they wrote these words, we hold these truths to be self-evident.
00:34:41.000Or actually, it says, when in the course of human events becomes necessary, it wasn't for America.
00:34:48.000And they go on to talk about God four times in the Declaration of Independence, also pointing out from Isaiah that God is our king, our judge, and our lawgiver, executive, legislative, judicial.
00:35:36.000Most of them had dysentery, and their families would be affected.
00:35:40.000They willingly inoculated themselves, exposed themselves to the virus, not on behalf of liberty, but for the opportunity to simply fight for liberty.
00:35:52.000Not to protect it, but to fight to obtain it.
00:35:56.000And at that point, not only was half the army dying of dysentery, a third of them didn't even have boots.
00:36:01.000They had to wrap their feet in burlap sacks.
00:36:03.000And in less than nine days, the conscriptions would be up and this entire experiment in liberty would be over.
00:36:41.000These are the times that tribe men's souls, the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot, will in the season shrink from the duty of their country.
00:36:46.000But those who defend it now deserve the love and respect of all men and women.
00:36:50.000Tyranny like hell is not easily conquered.
00:38:13.000Pledging your lives, your fortunes, and you got to show up for less of a line than it takes to get a Starbucks coffee or Dunkin' Donuts, fill in a couple of bubbles and everything that has an R next to it, and then go home.
00:39:14.000We're building the southern border while we're finally taking child sex trafficking seriously.
00:39:18.000And I got to worry about this guy's tone.
00:39:20.000Like, this is what I have to hear at this point.
00:39:24.000And look, I'm the first one to admit, being a Bible-believing evangelical Christian, I think it can be puzzling at times for certain Christians when they say, how good, a three-times married, twice-divorced man, how could he be worthy of my vote?
00:39:36.000Look, before we get out the moral measuring stick, okay, all of us fall short of the glory of Jesus Christ.
00:39:55.000More ministers, more pastors, more Christians have been invited to the Oval Office in this administration than any administration in recent history.
00:40:02.000And why did President Donald Trump speak, why was it him that was the first president ever to speak at the March for Life?
00:40:07.000George W. Bush, Christian, never spoke at the March for Life.
00:40:10.000George H.W. Bush, Christian, never spoke in the March for Life.
00:40:14.000Ronald Reagan never spoke at the March for Life.
00:40:17.000Why is it that the Playboy from New York, all of a sudden, the guy that talks in a unique way and has his own style?
00:41:02.000First president of American history in my life, not American history in my lifetime, not to start a new war instead of bringing our troops home from these endless misadventures overseas.
00:41:54.000I would say to you, okay, we cannot vote for him, but make sure that you take Judges 14 out of the Bible, just cut that out with some scissors.
00:42:03.000And then also take Hebrews 11 and cut that out because we can't put Samson in.
00:42:08.000Name one moral thing about Samson's life.
00:42:13.000He was prophesied from the womb to deliver God's people.
00:42:16.000Only Jesus was the other one to do that.
00:42:54.000What Samson's parents, Manoah and his wife, what Samson's parents didn't realize is God was seeking an occasion to move against the Philistines.
00:43:00.000He was willing to do what God's people weren't.
00:43:03.000He wasn't going to tolerate Satan occupying territory that belongs to God.
00:45:50.000How many of you have gotten those obnoxious texts where it's like, please, Joe and Camel, I need your help, or these surveys, all that stuff.
00:46:06.000And it's one of the greatest untapped assets in the political atmosphere right now that no one's talking about.
00:46:11.000You take out your smartphone and you text every single person in your contact book, a copy-paste, a message of why you're voting for Trump.
00:46:18.000Imagine an average American has 2,000 contacts in their phone.
00:46:22.000If you text every single one of them, it'd be the same as if Trump got $100 million of advertising on television.
00:46:28.000Now, some of you guys are like, oh, I don't want to offend my friends.
00:46:30.000Then you're not willing to actually get him across the finish line.
00:46:33.000Because the people that you might not offend you, you'd be surprised at how many people might just need that text from you right now in North Carolina.
00:46:41.000Do you know how lucky you guys are to live in North Carolina?
00:46:44.000I have people in California when I go to speak at Jack Kidd's church, God bless that guy.
00:46:48.000We have 15,000 people that show up and they say, you know what I would give to live in a state where I can make a difference?
00:46:54.000And yeah, we're working for California.
00:47:18.000I pray that people in North Carolina's eyes will be opened.
00:47:21.000You know there are people in New York right now praying for you in Illinois in states where their vote because the electoral college doesn't matter more.
00:48:18.000We need to step into the ecclesia with this understanding that the nation needs good government, and good government only happens with good people and good ideas.
00:49:11.000I'm going to kind of reinforce what we talked about at dinner, so you're going to have to hear it twice.
00:49:15.000So, no, there's a crisis happening with young people in this country, and almost every political leader on both sides don't quite recognize it.
00:49:25.000We're playing with a potential revolution that could happen in the next 18 to 24 months in our country.
00:49:30.000And conservatives usually view it purely ideological.
00:49:39.000Conservatives will say, young people are about to revolt because we filled them with bad ideas since they were young, and they have no appreciation for our country.
00:50:48.000And they're like, I've never been asked that question.
00:50:50.000If you can't answer that question, if all of a sudden you, after four years, do not have a skill that a high schooler doesn't have, why are you borrowing all this money to go study all these classes to learn America is awful and learn that God doesn't exist?
00:51:36.000They never should have gone to college in the first place.
00:51:38.000Maybe community college, maybe go get a skill, go become a computer engineer, a plumber, a carpenter, HVAC, work with your hands, police officer, firefighter, entrepreneur, or join the military.
00:51:47.000But maybe the four-year university path wasn't for you.
00:51:49.000Out of those that graduate, 44% of those that make it out of the university system, 44% 10 years after, 10 years after, are employed in jobs that don't require college degrees.
00:52:01.000So they have a bunch of debt, no skills, filled with bad ideas, and all of a sudden they're working in jobs that don't actually require a college degree.
00:52:09.000So why did they go in the first place?
00:52:11.000And it's because we have been fed this continuous narrative that you must go to college to succeed in this country.
00:52:23.000If you want to be a doctor, if you want to go study engineering, or if you want to get a skill in that job interview, if you can say, oh, no, no, no, I'm going to become a lawyer.
00:53:18.000I want anyone who's over the age of 40 to think back to your life when you were in your 20s.
00:53:23.000When you worked hard and you applied yourself, you probably saw your life get a little bit materially better each year.
00:53:30.000You maybe started to take out a mortgage, maybe a car loan.
00:53:33.000What was happening either consciously or subconsciously is you were building faith in the American way of life.
00:53:42.000And all of a sudden, the harder you worked, the more you wanted the country to succeed, because with it, you were succeeding.
00:53:49.000We have now sent young people with all that ideological, philosophical nonsense, college, and then we send them to all the urban centers across the country.
00:53:57.000That's why you see these rural areas decaying slowly.
00:54:00.000What happens when you go live in Raleigh?
00:54:05.000Your entire paycheck goes to overly inflated groceries, tax bills, nightlife, whatever, and you're not saving any money, not building equity, and you're probably working a minimum wage job or a job that doesn't require a college degree, which you're underpaid.
00:54:19.000What does that mean after five years, 10 years?
00:54:22.000Eventually, you're going to say, is this system working for me?
00:54:26.000They're crippled with $75,000 in student loan debt.
00:54:29.000They're not seeing their life get materially any better.
00:54:31.000They're not building any equity or ownership.
00:54:33.000Don't be surprised when all of a sudden they want to burn down the world around them.
00:54:37.000So what's happening is a confluence of two things.
00:54:39.000Really bad ideas, and we didn't do our job on the ideological, and they're not seeing their life get materially better.
00:54:45.000And then, what do conservatives say to young people all the time?
00:55:05.000And so what we've done is such a disservice to students.
00:55:08.000And I'm telling you right now, we're playing with a 75 million person revolution that will stun all of you in a way.
00:55:14.000And we are so lucky running up against Joe Biden.
00:55:16.000I'm telling you right now, if they ran like a more articulate, wiser, higher IQ version of Alexandria Casio-Cortez, we would get blown out of the water.
00:55:27.000Because this transcends party lines, this transcends this.
00:56:39.000Because as soon as you start to see hyperinflation, which is imminent, you see growth go down, you see the wealthiest people continue to get their earnings higher.
00:56:48.000You're playing with something that is really going to be a tinderbox.
00:57:51.000We have to tell young people, go get married.
00:57:53.000We're going to make it easier to have lots of kids.
00:57:55.000We're going to give you opportunities.
00:57:57.000We're going to open up our economy fully.
00:57:58.000We're never going to shut down our country again based on half-truths and nonsensical science.
00:58:04.000And we have to de-urbanize our country very quickly.
00:58:07.000We've got to get people to leave the urban areas, reclaim towns like Asheboro, like Boone, like these forgotten cities, and have young people take ownership of the once great cities in America.
00:58:54.000Can you list the things that your school board deals with that would allow your community to live quiet and peaceable lives in all godliness and reverence?
00:59:01.000So I don't want to hear anyone complain about education in Asheboro ever again.
00:59:15.000I'm not trying to make you guys that, but stop complaining about it if you're not, if you don't even know the names, you're not contesting those races.
00:59:20.000You know that they're putting 1619 stuff into all your curriculum in the state, right?
00:59:24.000They're putting critical race theory, white fragility, white privilege.
00:59:27.000They're stuffing it in all the curriculum.
00:59:29.000And I get this question all the time: what do we do with education?
00:59:31.000I say, name one school board member, name two, name three.
00:59:35.000They have full jurisdiction over the curriculum, over teacher.
00:59:58.000I have to convince people to go fill in bubbles.
01:00:01.000Like, that's the level of engagement that we have to bring people to.
01:00:05.000In California, in the last 10 years in political and politics, $300 million has been spent in political campaigns, $200 million by two entities: the CTA, California Teachers Association, the SEIU, Service Employee International Union.
01:00:18.000It's gone to one party, and thus they dominate the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of our government in California.
01:00:24.000And it's basically a nation-state and run by one party.
01:00:32.000We lead, it's just all the things you shouldn't lead in, we do.
01:00:37.000And 15 million evangelical Christians.
01:00:41.000And the only entity left to turn the tide is the church.
01:00:47.000If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and heal their land.
01:03:07.000And number two is act like what you do matters.
01:03:11.000And that's that's a biblical principle.
01:03:13.000Act like what you do civically is actually going to be a reflection of the country you want to live in.
01:03:17.000I don't know if all the speeches and all the podcasts and all the radio shows and three hours a night and crisscrossing the country, never being in one place for more than five hours.
01:03:26.000I don't know what I have done and what Rob has done and what we have done.
01:03:30.000I don't know if it'll make any difference.
01:03:36.000But the reason I'm doing it, and I'll never forget when Jordan Peterson, who's not a Christian, but he knows the Bible better than most Christians, looked at me in the eyes and he says, act like what you do really matters.
01:04:49.000That is the beginning of societal nihilism and the country will not survive a generation.
01:04:54.000Do you think the people that stormed Normandy Beach, they're like, I don't know if this actually is going to mean anything, me going this way.
01:05:02.000Do you think that the people that were making the bullets and the munitions and the supply lines, they're like, I don't know if my one extra shift to make this aircraft carrier is going to make a difference?
01:05:12.000That's why they were the greatest generation.
01:05:15.000Every single person believed that their individual contribution will be a reflection of a moral good.
01:05:21.000And I'm just raising the fire alarm here, and I don't mean to be overly alarmist, but the number one question I get from Christians is: does my vote actually matter?
01:05:30.000And what do I, does it actually move the dial?
01:05:37.000And then the other thing you guys got to do is learn.
01:05:40.000I think, and this is the one thing of hope I have to say, I think we're on the verge of a great awakening, but it's different than people might think.
01:05:45.000It's because I see people getting deeper and more serious about the issues that are coming to our time.
01:05:51.000Our podcasts that are most listened to are the ones that are two hours plus.
01:05:55.000I see Christians and pastors waking up and diving deeper into what is supply and demand?
01:08:06.000I didn't know politics, but I got a quick education at the point where Charlie and I meet, we travel the country, and I can contend with the best of them.
01:08:12.000But this is a story that moved me, and I pray it does the same for you.
01:08:17.000The primary for the state assembly race, not only was I being attacked by the opposing party, I was being attacked by my own party.
01:08:25.000I was the only Republican remaining, and they put another person up there because they said they didn't want a Christian in there.
01:08:31.000My party spent a million dollars against me.
01:08:33.000I had been a Republican longer than I'd been a Christian, longer than I'd been a father, longer than I'd been a husband.
01:10:45.000I was 16 years old in the Great Depression.
01:10:47.000We didn't know where our next meal was going to come from.
01:10:50.000Had it not been an appointment to the Naval Academy, I would have never received a college degree.
01:10:55.000And you, Rob, being a history major, you didn't realize that we had the 17th to 20th smallest military on the face of the earth because we were in isolationist mode.
01:11:05.000And I was in Pearl Harbor on December 7th when the Japanese bombed and they sunk my ship and the harbor was on fire.
01:11:13.000And I pulled my shipmates out and they were dead.
01:11:17.000He said the next day we took on a two-fronted war against two fascist nations.
01:11:21.000We brought them both to their knees, set up constitutional republics in both countries.
01:11:25.000And we did that by lifting that same fleet from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.
01:11:28.000And I was on an opposite ship when we went into Tokyo Harbor to accept the surrender of the Japanese.
01:12:11.000Last night at 7 p.m., something that can only be explained in prayer.
01:12:15.000And Rob will tell you, I monitor this stuff every 30 minutes.
01:12:20.000We have a multi-million dollar operation gone through it, not like the campaign, but it's pretty good.
01:12:25.000And something last night at 7 p.m. just broke, where we were monitoring Midwest polling for the president, and independence just shifted like eight points in a day.
01:12:36.000And what we are seeing in real time, and it'll only happen if we turn out, we contact our friends and do this, is a late break that we couldn't have prayed for.
01:12:45.000We only could have prayed for that, we couldn't have dreamt for.
01:12:48.000North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Arizona are basically the three states that are the most important for the president's victory.
01:12:56.000They are using a lot of the public polls to tell you that he can't win.
01:13:01.000Apps, I'm telling you right now, right here, that if everyone shows up on Tuesday in record numbers, we win North Carolina by four or five points.
01:13:08.000Tom Tillis gets re-elected and you have a new governor.