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Donna DeBannon took off the mask in his victory speech last night, showing who he truly is and has been the whole time. Also, Chip Roy is here to talk a little bit about the defunding of care through tax-exempt status, and Riley Moore joins us to talk about sending troops to Nigeria.
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Kind of a frightening moment in New York, and even Van Jones said, wow, that is a different person.
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Mom Donnie took off the mask in his victory speech last night, showing who he truly, really is and has been the whole time.
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Also, Chip Roy is here to talk to us a little bit about, you know, the defunding of care through tax-exempt status.
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I mean, should there be groups that are tied to terrorist organizations that are getting tax breaks or funding from the U.S.?
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He is the representative from West Virginia, who is going to talk to us a little bit about, are we going to send troops to Nigeria?
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I want to start with the analysis from Van Jones on the Mamdani speech last night.
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I think the Mamdani that we saw on the campaign trail, who was a lot more calm, who was a lot warmer, who was a lot more embracing, was not present in that speech.
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And I think that Mamdani is the one you need to hear from tonight.
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There are a lot of people trying to figure out, can I get on this train with him or not?
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Is he going to be more of a class warrior, even in office?
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I think he missed a chance tonight to open up and bring more people into the tent.
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I think he was using the microphone in a way that he was almost yelling.
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And that's not the Mamdani that we've seen on TikTok and the great interviews and stuff like that.
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So I felt like there's a little bit of a character switch here where the warm, open, embracing guy that's close to working people was not on stage tonight.
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By the way, just a quick recommendation for anyone in New York.
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If Mamdani tries to get you on a train, don't go.
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I, you know, I might have even gotten onto that train, uh, you know, without realizing.
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I don't think as a German you'll be invited, Glenn.
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Listen, how angry he is when he's talking about Donald Trump.
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So Donald Trump, since I know you're watching, I have four words for you.
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I guess turn it up on the TV because he's got something to say.
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We will hold bad landlords to account because the Donald Trumps of our city have grown far
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too comfortable taking advantage of their tenants.
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An end to the culture of corruption that has allowed billionaires like Trump to evade taxation
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We will stand alongside unions and expand labor protections because we know, just as Donald
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Trump does, that when working people have ironclad rights, the bosses who seek to extort
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them become very small indeed, New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by
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A very angry immigrant whose own mother says he doesn't identify as an American.
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I mean, I, I, I, can I just spend a minute on this because he's absolutely right.
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I mean, unless you're a native American, you're an immigrant.
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And I make the case that you might've come from Asia, even if you're a, an American, you
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So, so I agree all built by immigrants, but we have a difference now of immigrants.
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There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism.
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When I referred to hyphenated Americans, I don't refer to naturalized Americans.
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Some of the very best Americans I've ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born
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abroad, but a hyphenated American is not an American at all.
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This is just as true of a man who puts native before the hyphen as a man who puts German or
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Americanism is a matter of the spirit and the soul.
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Our allegiance must be purely to the United States.
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We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance.
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Think about this in what's happening with the Somali communities.
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Think about, think about what's being said about and to immigrants today.
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If he is heartily and singly loyal to this republic, that no matter where he was born, he is just
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The one absolute certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility
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of its continuing to be a nation at all would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling
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An intricate knot of German Americans, Irish and Americans, English Americans, French Americans,
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Notice, by the way, he's not attacking people of color.
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So this isn't something new and it's not about racism.
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Those are the whitest white people on the planet, for the love of Pete.
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But the men who do not become Americans and nothing else are hyphenated Americans and there
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The man who calls himself an American citizen and yet who shows by his actions that he's a
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primarily the citizen in the life of our body politic, he has no place here.
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And the sooner he returns to the land in which he feels his real heart allegiance, the better
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There's no such thing as a hyphenated American who's a good American.
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The only man who's a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.
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I mean, you know, when he said that in the early 1900s, he was talking about a whole different
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People have in the past and it's been wrong to do it.
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And you know who really saw that clearer than anyone else?
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The progressives, Margaret Sanger being one of them, the progressive movement.
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They're the ones who wanted to separate races for the love of Pete.
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So he's now angry and he's, he's jamming a wedge between Americans and immigrant Americans.
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Listen to, uh, listen to the next, uh, cut here.
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As has so often occurred, the billionaire class has sought to convince those making $30 an hour
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that their enemies are those earning $20 an hour.
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As has so often occurred, the billionaire class has sought to convince those making $30 an hour
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that their enemies are those earning $20 an hour.
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I mean, the, the case is that the Republican, the Republican party, the rich, evil, rich people,
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billionaires, billionaires, uh, are saying, are trying to convince everybody that the problem
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The, uh, you know, the, so those, so exactly the opposite of what he's doing.
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He's trying to convince the people who are $20 hour, uh, laborers that the 32 billionaire class
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They want the people to fight amongst ourselves so that we remain distracted from the work
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We refuse to let them dictate the rules of the game anymore.
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They can play by the same rules as the rest of us.
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And if we embrace this brave new course, rather than fleeing from it, we can respond to oligarchy
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and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves.
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Now he goes on the very next sentence, which we didn't grab.
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After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump, how to defeat him, it's the
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If there is any way to terrify a despot, it's by dismantling the very conditions that allowed
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He accumulated power by making money, by creating businesses, by building, you know, New York.
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So what he's saying here, you want to talk about the mask coming off.
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What he's saying here is we have to now dismantle that system of capitalism because that's what
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After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump, how to defeat him, it is
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If there is any way to terrify a despot, it is by dismantling the very conditions that
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This is not only how we stop Trump, it's how we stop the next one.
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It's going to be interesting to watch New York City over the next four years.
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Very, very interesting because he is he's going to be pushed by the left.
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They are going to demand that he does these things and he wants to do them.
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So let's see what he gets done and how many great changes are coming to that city.
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Stu, give me an update, a quick highlight of everything that we covered in hour number
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one and any new additional information on the election last night.
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Yeah, it was always going to be an uphill battle for Republicans and off your election
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Also, most of these elections taking place in blue states.
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So it kind of gave you a range of outcomes from, if everything goes, the best case possible
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for Republicans would be close victories, squeaking out victories in some of these states,
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and probably close losses in some of the situations.
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And the range of outcomes went to the idea that it could be a blowout all over the board,
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much closer to that side of the outcome spectrum, if you will.
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It was a bad night for Republicans, and there's very little I can find, honestly, to be super
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But it is important to not overstate the meaning of all of this either.
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This is an uphill battle for Republicans anyway.
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So it doesn't mean 2026 is lost or 2028 is lost.
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But look, if you thought everything was going swimmingly, this is a nice wake-up call.
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You should be concerned, and we're going to have to work really hard.
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And I think this should be a wake-up call for everybody in the administration as well.
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The president is doing things that are affecting our economy here.
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He is working on changing the globalist design to make things American first.
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And, you know, other countries, you know, they can be first, too, in their own way.
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But trying to bring back, you know, to get away from this globalist new world order and
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back to a system where everybody is working for their country and trying to help and work
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And when it comes to 2026, you know, the gas prices being as low as they are is not good
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enough because energy prices for electricity are going up.
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People need to have some confidence that the economy is turning page in a better direction
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Otherwise, it could be very tough, as it always is for a sitting president.
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It would be a huge, huge upset of tradition if the Republicans gain.
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He is introducing a new bill called the what is it called?
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You're actually I don't remember what the name of it is.
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It's to stop care from having a tax status in any terrorist organizations.
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I mean, that is the clearest a bill has ever been the no tax exemptions for terror act.
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We came up with that on Friday when we were filing the bill and we were coming back and
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forth and my chief of staff came up with that title credit to her.
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And if I can take one minute to pretend that I'm sitting in Glenn Beck's studio on television
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and I'm going out and I'm going to do whiteboards.
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OK, and so for your listeners out there, like pretend for a minute that I've got that video
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Imagine, if you will, enormous number of bubbles of NGOs and all of these nonprofits that are
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out there under the cloak of things like Catholic charities or Jewish groups or evangelical
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Oh, and they seem all nice and they're doing all these nice and warm and fuzzy things.
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But they're all involved with moving people into our country.
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They're all a part of the 250 organizations that the Center for Immigration Studies said
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were a part of the mass invasion during the Biden administration.
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Now over here, create a group of bubbles that are all of the groups that are pushing the
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district attorneys that are radical Marxist, the Soros funded DAs that are putting criminals
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And there's a whole cadre over there under the Wren Collective that the Law Enforcement
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Now over here on this board, show the bubbles that.
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They want to see radical Sharia on our streets.
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Now on top of the board, put the Arabella Group, which are Democrat operatives with Clinton
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And they're all an organization with and coordinated with the bubbles above them, which are the funding
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streams from Bill Gates, from George Soros, from radical billionaires across the country
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and taxpayer dollars, money through the United Nations, grant money from the United States
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Remember the first bubbles that I put on the board and all of that money is then being coordinated
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in a war against you and me and freedom and Western civilization.
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So, yes, I believe CARE and every other one of these organizations that are radicalized
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against Americans ought to be not just disbanded from their C3 status, but probably broken up.
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And we should go through and look at the conspiracy that they're involved in and probably violating
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But at a minimum, we should take away their tax status.
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So I introduced legislation to do that as a shot across the bow, and we need to go further
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I have, you know, I made it as you were doing it.
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I just kind of put it together the way you suggested all these little bubbles.
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And what's crazy is that we did not assume that our tax dollars were going to any of these
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I mean, they have gotten so wicked and so smart the way, you know, I always knew that Soros
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and the Tides Foundation and is suspect that, gosh, you have all of this money and it's all
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going out the door and nobody knows where that money is going.
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And we focus when we find out, you know, what the budget is.
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We're like, wait, you're doing turtle studies on what?
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What about the other, you know, trillion dollars that nobody is tracking that we that are just
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And I'm glad you said that, because Republicans, with all due respect to my colleagues, get
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distracted with shiny objects and they go say and I look, I've done it, too, right, because
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And you go out there and you say, oh, yeah, what to the turtle funding or what to this waste?
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The real engine is that flow of money so that, OK, dollars that are going in, you know, to
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organizations that a lot of people view and because they do some good work, they go to
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some organization, take Catholic charities or take some evangelical groups or whatever,
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And you're sending them money because, oh, they're doing good things and they're helping
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But then you start realizing you peel back the onion and they're all a part of all of this
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and the grants that flow through so that when you're Todd Benzman or my friends from the
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Center for Integration Studies and you're down at the Darien Gap and you see that the United
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Nations money, United States taxpayer money grants were going to these organizations to funnel people
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from around the world to come up through Mexico and into the United States or be flown by plane
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And then you wonder why we have so many Somalis and so many Muslim Sharia adherents that have
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It's heavily because of what we've been funding.
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It's heavily because of our money that we give to the United Nations.
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And we need to be look what I've done with this bill is one step of a thousand we need to take.
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The bill that I did two weeks ago to say, let's start vetting people for adherence to Sharia law.
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I'm going to introduce a bill this week to say we should freeze all immigration until we've
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actually got a handle on all of the ways in which it's being abused, whether it's birthright
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citizenship, apply or veto, which says we have to educate illegal children, the Sharia adherents
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and making sure that we're not importing people that are hostile to Western civilization,
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These are all things we need to do, Glenn, and we're not doing it.
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And we're funding the demise of our own country.
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And Congress needs to back up President Trump with at least as aggressive agenda as he's
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We can't just pass the big, beautiful bill and then pat ourselves on the back and hope we
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Let's codify some of the president's executive orders.
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Let's pass health care freedom and dismantle the stranglehold that insurance companies and
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hospital corporations have over our health care.
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And then they'll want to go support us at the ballot box.
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You know, there's this big reject a pack thing that is going on right now.
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And look, I think if you're going to do that, then you've got to do the American Cubans,
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There's there's a ton of these and I just want them all to play by the same rules.
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You know, whatever those rules are, everybody plays by the same rules.
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But, you know, one one of the things we don't look at is, you know, you look at like a pack
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Not election years is about 60, what, 60 million, 60 million dollars.
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But they're spending all this money in the United States and everybody says, oh, well,
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they're just they're controlling the United States.
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OK, but if you look at Saudi Arabia, that's money and they're spending ninety three million
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dollars and since 1986, two point one billion dollars on our universities.
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And they're not alone and and nobody is saying anything about that.
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Glenn, I cannot thank you enough for bringing that up.
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I'm not going to get into all this controversy the last week and everything that's been going
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And and, you know, with the Heritage Foundation, all that stuff like, look, here's the bottom
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There is a vast, vast amount of money flowing into the United States from the Middle East
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and to our universities and into political organizations and designed very heavily to advance
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a march of people who want to upend our way of life.
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The Chi Combs are a hundred percent a part of that.
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And by the way, this is why we should be banning not just Chinese Communist Party
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But frankly, any foreign national shouldn't be owning our land.
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Like, why are we letting people own Texas and buy Texas?
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This is one of the things, by the way, that I get a really strong reaction from people on
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But then I talk about something else, Glenn, and it's related to what we're talking about.
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The corporatification of Texas and of our, you know, great red states.
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We are allowing corporations to come in and buy up our homes, literally, buying up our homes.
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We're allowing them to buy up our hospitals, prevent doctors from being able to form their
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We're allowing them to buy up our land, our cattle, our meatpacking plants, some foreign
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But it's major corporate and a lot of it's foreign.
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And I don't want to be governed by boardrooms in New York City any more than I want to be governed
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And that's one of the principal things I want to fight on as attorney general.
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I tell you, there's this big, beautiful hospital that was built just where my home in Texas was.
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And I was so excited to have this really great hospital that close.
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And after it was built, it was, I think it was like Texas Doctors Hospital.
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And it was just all these independent doctors that wanted to do a hospital the way they wanted
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And I walk in and because I didn't even know they had opened, but we had an emergency.
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And so I'm like, take him to the emergency room.
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And the reason why is because these corporate hospitals said, if you do anything with that
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You won't be having any privileges at our hospital.
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And the big corporate hospital put them out of business.
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And I know we're covering a lot of topics, but it's all it's all related.
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Glenn, I mean, this this is a war against our way of life.
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And Republicans better get busy providing alternative solutions, both calling out the war so that
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people know it, see it because they all feel it, but also then provide alternatives.
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Look, I put out five years ago, a 50 page document called that case for health care freedom.
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And we'll actually introduce the bill five years ago.
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I put out the case for health care freedom two years ago.
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And that document outlines an array of options where we empower patients, empower doctors, expand health savings accounts, expand direct primary care, give people tools, allow them to be able to control their care and drive prices down.
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Free up doctors so you're not having corporate owned hospitals and insurance companies making
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Now, that is an environment that most Americans would prefer and nobody will be left out.
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Let's go to talk about that to the American people.
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Let's talk about driving housing prices down by eliminating private equity and all of these big
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corporate ownership of local dirt in our communities.
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Allow only individuals to own homes in our dirts in our communities and farms to be locally owned by Texans.
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We can then have cattle that you grow in Texas, slaughter in Texas, put in stores in Texas and eat by Texans.
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But I want to make sure we don't have corporate decision makers with crony capital dollars from
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government that are regulated telling us how to live and then wonder why the socialists are on the
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march and wonder why Mabdani is elected because we're not offering bold solutions that will excite
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That was, by the way, what Charlie Kirk did a great job of and why he inspired young people.
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And he was also unafraid to talk about his faith.
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Chip Roy introduces Bill to strip absurd tax exempt status from CARE and other groups with terrorist
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If you want to get involved in his his Senate campaign.
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Let's say hello to our friend, Congressman Riley Moore, a Republican from West Virginia.
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You know, Riley, before we get into what's happening in Africa, can I just ask you what
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the heck is going to happen if the Supreme Court decides to say the president doesn't
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Well, you know, Glenn, I'm sitting on pins and needles on this one because I have been
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I think it's going to help reindustrialize our country, bring back these jobs that are actually
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meaningful to communities like mine in the state of West Virginia.
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We are going to have to try to find some way to work around this, depending on how this
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case comes down, if it were to come down in the negative and look through the details of
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that or pass legislation here to give the president the authority, which I think he rightfully
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already has as the president of the United States to levy these tariffs.
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So I'm very hopeful that this goes the way that it should, but certainly watching very
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Just based on the questions that are coming out in the Supreme Court today, they seem very,
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And, you know, I'm not sure the president has that constitutional authority.
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I'm just worried about the aftermath because we're deep in it now.
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Riley, let me talk to you about Nigeria and what's happening in Nigeria.
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It is the scariest, most deadly country in the world.
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If you happen to be a Christian and nobody seems to to be talking about it.
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And, you know, you have been involved in, you know, urging Secretary Rubio to say Nigeria
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is a country of particular concern, which I don't know what that means exactly.
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So that is that designation actually sits in U.S.
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So it does unlock 15 different levers for the president.
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When a country is designated a country of particular concern, that could be holding development
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money that could be going to international institutions to freeze assistance through there.
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That could also halt security assistance, which would be arms sales and training and things
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It gives the president the authority to do a number of different things that can really,
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I think, leverage the Nigerians to actually start caring about our brothers and sisters
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in Christ who have been getting murdered for the profession of their faith in our Lord
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And we're going to see how the Nigerians react to this.
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Now, I've been having meetings with Department of State.
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We are going to meet with the Nigerians here at some point as well here in D.C.
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So we're going to see what they're going to bring to the table.
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But also the president, who always puts all options on the table, has said if they don't
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start fixing this, there could potentially be kinetic military action on in Nigeria.
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To me, you have complex issues that are going on over there where you have in the middle
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Obviously, Islamic terrorists, these Fulanis, these are herdsmen tribe.
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And they have been attacking Christians in that middle band.
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The northern part of the country is mostly Muslim.
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Southern part of the country is mostly Christian.
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So that middle part where they graze their cattle and all that is where you see a lot of
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But then in the northern part of the country is where you have ISIS, Boko Haram.
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That's where they are operating and where they're taking over towns and communities, as we saw
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Terrorism franchising going on over there all through the Lake Chad region, actually.
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So that's where I think, if it made sense to have some type of military action in forms
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of an airstrike or something like that, to be able to tamp down some of the leadership
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and break up some of that structure in there, that's something that would make sense.
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But to me, just speaking for myself, I want to try to work with the Nigerians for them
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President Trump obviously mentioned his true social, me specifically, to look into this,
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I think the Nigerians actually have the chance right now to actually strengthen their relationship
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with the United States if they're going to do the right thing.
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But we can't allow to continue the slaughter of Christians, where we have over 7,000 just
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this year have been killed for being Christian.
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We can't allow that to continue as a Christian country ourselves, which we are.
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I know some might debate that, I promise you, and nobody knows more about the founding of
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this country than Glenn Beck, is that this is a Christian nation founded on Christian values,
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and we have to stand up for these people, because nobody else is paying attention to this
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other than you and some folks at Fox News, and that's really about it.
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Well, I tell you, you know, I was planning on bringing my cameras with me, and I was going
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to go to Nigeria in the first quarter, and I have had briefings and warnings from the highest
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I mean, I've been to war zones, and this one, they're like, this is the most dangerous
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That's pretty remarkable that nobody's really talking about it.
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And it's this silent genocide that's just continued on now since 2009, where we have in between
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50 to 100,000 Christians murdered for their faith.
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Our brothers and sisters over there suffering, and no one's done anything about it.
00:38:27.720
You might remember they bring back our girls movement around 2000, 12-ish, 14, 70 of those
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And there are a lot of levers that the administration's able to pull here, I think, to get the Nigerians
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This is an oil-rich country with a lot of critical minerals.
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I think at the end of the day, it's a question of prioritization and what their actual goals
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are, and we need them to focus on this, or the president is going to start to focus on
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Well, I will tell you, you know, 19,000 churches have been burned.
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And yet, from what I'm hearing, there are some in the Nigerian government that are like,
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Well, there's really 50,000 to 100,000 people in 19,000 churches have been burned in little
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squabbles that don't have anything to do with radicalized Islam?
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And the figures that I've gotten from folks on the ground is, look, do terrorists kill
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But we're talking about five to one is the ratio of Christians versus non-Christians being
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Secondly, I want to point out for everybody, President Trump put this designation on Nigeria
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It was taken off by the Biden administration because they claimed the killings had more
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And actually, the root cause was climate change.
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Yes, that's why these killings are happening, because of climate change, which that's where
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we saw the murder rate just skyrocket during the Biden administration.
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And President Trump, who cares very deeply about these issues, he's not going to allow
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He said, if there is an attack, it will be fast, vicious and sweet, just like the terrorist
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I will tell you, I've been reading up on it and doing our homework, and it reminded me
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of how the Germans went into Poland, where they would just take whole communities and
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they would just put them in the church and then lock the doors and then burn it to the
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They're gathering Christians up, putting them in, locking the doors, and then burning it
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So all of these women and children and men die in a fire in their church.
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The average person needs to call their member of Congress and elevate this and make this an
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issue that is on their radar, that they care about.
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I'm introducing a resolution, which would be a sense of Congress, that we support the
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president and we support the people and the Christians of Nigeria and their plight.
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And we condemn what the Nigerian government is doing.
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So that resolution should be getting introduced here soon.
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So that would be something that would be hugely helpful.
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It will be interesting to see who votes for that and who doesn't.
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That would have been a no-brainer 15 years ago.
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And now I wonder if you can even get that passed.
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And certainly, you know, if I'm whipping the votes, I don't have Elon Omar in my yes column.
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Congressman Riley Moore, you can follow him on x at rep, Riley Moore, or rileymoore.house.gov.