Best of the Program ｜ Guests： Tim Ballard & Karen Vaughn ｜ 5⧸7⧸19
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In this episode of the Glenn Beck Show, Glenn talks to Tim Ballard, who is at the border, telling us what it's really like. And then we end the show with Karen Vaughn who is a Gold Star Mother who is sick and tired of what is happening south of the border. And she is actually giving you some solutions.
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Hello, you sick freak. Welcome to our podcast for Tuesday.
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We talked a lot about the border today because it's on fire.
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Or as they like to say, south of the border and the fuego.
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So we start with a really interesting story on, you know, the southern border.
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And it kind of morphs all the way through the show because it is on such fire.
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We have Tim Ballard, who's at the border, telling us what it's really like.
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And then we end the podcast with Karen Vaughn, who is this amazing gold star mother who's just down on the border.
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And she is sick and tired of what is happening.
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And she's actually giving you some solutions on that.
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You know who else is giving solutions? Cory Booker.
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Cory Booker. He's great. Well, not so great as much as horrible.
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That's the program. We've been doing this for four or five candidates now.
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Yeah. Anyway, we're doing all the candidates, kind of a profile of all the things that you need to know.
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If you go to blazetv.com slash Glenn and use the promo code Glenn, you will save some money.
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And you'll also be able to see this entire series as they develop.
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We've done Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, maybe one or two others.
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And it's a lot of information you're not seeing from the mainstream media.
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And Cory Booker, as we will get in a little bit today and tomorrow's podcast,
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Cory Booker is not as Spartacus as he would have you believe.
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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When the migrant caravans cross the river and the International Bridge,
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Lopez, 59, said his business is suffering due to a recent escalation in crime committed by migrants.
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Many of them are now calling for the Mexican government to shut its doors.
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Oh, I forgot to tell you, the southern border I'm talking about is the southern border of Mexico.
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This is how bad things are on the Mexican border.
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Lopez, 59, owns a stall selling blue jeans in this city of nearly 15,000 people on the southern tip of Mexico.
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Since last October, thousands of mostly Central American asylum seekers have overwhelmed his city,
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which is just steps from a bridge connecting Mexico to Guatemala.
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With no other place to go, many camp out in the town square and beg.
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But when they started to come through, there was suddenly a lot of robberies and assaults.
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So now we've got a multitude crossing the border.
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At first, many tried to help the migrants by distributing food and water.
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But when they started arriving by the tens of thousands, local merchants were overwhelmed.
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Now they're asking us for help, and we can't help everyone.
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This is from an owner of an outdoor restaurant in the town square,
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where recently arrived migrants from Central America and Haiti beg for food, beg for water.
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We have a lot of migrants, and they've caused a lot of problems here.
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We have a dead person here or a dead person over there.
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We know they don't have a place to go, but we don't want them here anymore.
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A spike in crime is forcing shopkeepers to close before dark, keeping tourists away.
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We can't receive in our home people that we don't know anything about.
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This is again from a Mexican citizen on the Mexican southern border.
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We cannot receive in our home who we don't know anything about.
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Last week, in Mexico, the Regional Chamber of Commerce accused the Central American gangs of committing most of the city's crimes.
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We have a lot of problems at the southern border, he said.
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Truly sad that this could cost us the development of the entire region.
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With no place to stay and few resources, thousands of migrant camps outside of the federal immigration detention center there in Mexico,
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waiting for documents that will allow them to cross through central Mexico to get to America.
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Some live in the main square, they hang their wet laundry on park fences and they sleep on sidewalks.
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At the immigration center, pregnant women lie on the concrete pavement and desperate parents beg passers-by for food for their children.
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Last week, dozens clambered around a blue pickup carrying crates of bananas that were being handed out by a local police, by a local priest.
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This is what's happening on the southern border of Mexico.
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Well, no, because you could predict something terrible, right, and not be endorsing.
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So before I say this, I want to make sure I'm not hurting Donald Trump's chances of being re-elected.
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Because if I endorse someone, it's the kiss of death.
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I'm stopping you for a hundred different reasons.
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Can you say, I heard, I was in a Dunkin' Donuts yesterday.
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And I heard some, you know, just some homeless guy talking, mumbling, saying crazy things.
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People will totally believe, obviously, that you were in a Dunkin' Donuts yesterday.
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So this is a very, wait a minute, you didn't need to make this about fatness.
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I mean, you could have said one of any seven or eight Dunkin' Donuts you were in yesterday.
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Anyway, I think the way the Democrats have handled this, they own the border.
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And when people see the humanitarian crisis, when they see the sex slave industry that is
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being grown by the Democrats, to biblical proportions, when they see the chaos, when they see the damage
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to the churches and to the businesses and to the towns and to the American cities all across
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our southern border, the devastation and the blight that is coming, Donald Trump wins the next
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election because I don't care what anybody says, even the economy, even the economy may be blamed
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Texas right now stands to lose 292,000 jobs and $32 billion just in trade over the next 18 months
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We have, you know, these trucks that are coming in and they're coming from Mexico and Central America.
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Well, all those trucks, they got across the border.
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So we have our cheap goods that we buy in Walmart and our fruits and vegetables and everything else
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So as these trucks are coming across the border, there are not enough inspectors
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because the inspectors are busy setting up cots.
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The inspectors are busy out trying to stop people from coming where they're not coming through a port of entry.
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And because of this slowdown, prices are going to go through the roof.
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China will just eat that, that the, the, the, the loss up for us.
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But if we are sending, if we are sending things across the border, it's also in slowdown there.
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Now, I don't really care what happens to Mexico in many ways because they brought it upon themselves.
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And their problems getting worse makes our problems at the border worse.
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This is going to go to where, I mean, I, I talked about this off air for a very long time.
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I don't even know if I've said it on air before.
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We are headed towards a, a time when you will see massive rushes.
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I think I've been saying this since I was in Israel.
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It will get to the point where people will be killing farmers for food.
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And then it will turn into killing farmers for the land.
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How are the police in these border towns expected to survive?
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Do you realize that right now the federal government, because of the Democrats, not funding security,
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He said, Glenn, do you realize that they are dumping a thousand people a day in this small town?
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In 24 days, that increases your population by 24,000.
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Well, all of the churches right now, they're all setting up because they've got to be compassionate.
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You set up your gym and your church and your church yard and you put tents up and, you know,
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The cities now are having to take money from other funds.
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How many of your police right now are working in border towns just to keep up with the thousand people a day?
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Our federal government is just bussing in, opening up the doors and saying, you're on your own.
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These women and children that are given names from bad guys on the other side of the border.
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By the way, when you get across, somebody will become looking for you.
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And what are the churches supposed to do when the churches know that guy is not a good guy?
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That guy is going to put that child in jeopardy.
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Are they supposed to stand up to the bad guy and say, you're not taking this child?
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These cities and these churches are collapsing on our border.
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It's exactly what's happening on the southern border of Mexico.
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We're talking about the freaking Mueller report still.
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You're telling us about all the different genders.
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I'm telling you, I am telling you, a massive loss is coming when what's happening at our border is exposed.
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What they're doing is destroying lives on all sides.
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And if the right can do those two things, Donald Trump wins an overwhelming victory.
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You know, I just want to, can we just go over for a second?
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Let's make a list of the things that the Democrats are so out of touch with the average American person.
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Now, that one's not as clear because so many people hate capitalism now.
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But once people really get that, that they really are about the end of the free market system, that is going to be horrible for them.
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There's a story today about Republicans praying for Bernie Sanders to be the candidate.
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I mean, if you lose, the stakes are even higher than another candidate.
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They're the ones saying that there wasn't a crisis.
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They're on the side of the Palestinians and anti-Israel.
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They were nowhere to be found on this story that came out yesterday about this mosque in Philadelphia
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having this little pageant with kids where they were taught to sing songs and recite poetry about beheading the infidels
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What are the things that have said lately that you've thought, this is insane?
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When I saw the Philadelphia thing, they don't care.
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But, you know, the average person's not going to see that one.
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When I saw where their stance is on Venezuela, the average people, you know, they are going to see Venezuela.
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I mean, Ilhan Omar with her anti-Semitism, it was a big one.
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Some of the stances that Democrats are taking, I mean, you look at, you know, expanding the Supreme Court,
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you know, abolishing the Electoral College, you know, Medicare for all, more, you know, reparations.
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I mean, the late-term abortion thing is one that we could spend a lot of time on.
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I mean, late-term abortion is another great one.
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Yeah, I mean, late-term abortion, there are no candidates.
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As far as I know, there's 21 candidates in this field.
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I don't think there's any of them that have come out against abortions up till the last second before birth.
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There's not one, they couldn't find one candidate in the field who was like, no, only eight and a half months?
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This is a party that used to actually have people in it who were pro-life.
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But, I mean, people who actually would be pro-life Democrats.
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I mean, do you remember when we did, you know, Bart Stupak?
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He was one of the guys who was a congressman, and he was very pro-life, supposedly, despite his, you know.
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And then he came up with a Stupak amendment, and that was what got Obamacare through.
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I mean, if he actually was pro-life, and I hope, you know, who knows if he's just putting on a face for voters.
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But, I mean, if he actually was, he's got to be incredibly disappointed.
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It's gone completely the opposite way of what was promised to him.
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And it's no surprise to anyone except him at the time.
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We are going to talk to you a little bit about the border and what we need to do.
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We need to organize ourselves, quite honestly, and begin to expose the human toll and the human cost of our border out of control.
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Well, we begin that today, and we're going to need you to help spread the word.
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Hey, it's Glenn, and if you like what you hear on the program, you should check out Pat Gray Unleashed.
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His podcast is available wherever you download your favorite podcast.
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But I heard you lying about what's going on at the border.
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Like some of these people are increasing crime along the border.
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These are good, decent, hardworking family people.
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Some of them actually might be, but even if they were, even if they were the best, you
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Okay, so, you know, Jean Valjean, he was, he broke a window to steal a loaf of bread because
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Because when you dump a thousand people into a small town every single day, another thousand
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And no country can survive a million and a half people you don't know coming in.
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You dump a thousand people into a town, even if they're all saints, at one point, those
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thousand people in a town of 15,000 or 20,000 and they don't have anything and you're in
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your home and you've got your job and you've got your food, they're starving.
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What do you think happens even to the best of people?
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You don't have to guess because we do see it going on.
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And it's going on in Mexico, the Mexicans who were welcoming them with open arms as
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they crossed the border and they were helping them and feeding them and giving them water
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and places to go to the bathroom and all these things, medical care, they're a little less
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And I mean, there's story after story about how, okay, enough.
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Are you saying it's like if your country is a lifeboat, if you don't control it, people
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It seems to be a concept that Democrats can't understand, though.
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As this is going on and as people see this happening every single day, you know, and I heard
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you guys talking about this a few minutes ago, the open borders, that's what they want.
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I mean, you're going to eliminate ICE during this crisis?
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I think when people understand this, I'm going down to the border this weekend and bring
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some cameras and I'm going to show you what I see.
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Remember, the last time I did this, we saw what?
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And because we went down with a heart, we went down, we had credibility when those cages
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And when you care and you're consistent, it's not about political.
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So I'm going down this weekend to the border because these churches, Pat, are absolutely
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So the local American citizens who have been abandoned by the Democrats in Congress, abandoned
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They don't care because they're in Washington, D.C.
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And they're not being swamped by illegal immigration in Washington, D.C.
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Can you imagine if their homes were swamped and they had to fight their way out of their
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Almost none of these people are from border states, let alone residing there now.
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But most of them are not even from a border state.
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They don't know what they're talking about when they talk about immigration.
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Because people will, the left, if the left figures out a way to get down there and play
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And if they get down there and they play to the heart, they will win again.
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Even though they've caused this crisis, they will win again.
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They want to see people actually doing things to help.
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We are for a country that is leading with aid, but leading also with law and order.
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We are looking for a country that is just trying to, that is using common sense.
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I'm for, I'm for the rule of law and I'm for helping people.
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And quite honestly, they are not for helping people.
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We weren't, I think we went about this the wrong way from the beginning because we were
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And for the people who are coming across the border, uh, learning the language so that
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We should have been against marriage being a certificate from the government.
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The government has no place in anyone's marriage.
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And every time we approach it from a negative, we lose.
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We are for the rule of law, but we are also for American cities, not going bankrupt because
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the government, the federal government has, has dropped the ball.
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We are not for our churches going down and bankruptcy.
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We are for our communities being able to have our churches be the ones that everyone relies
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on, but when they are swamped, we need to help them.
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And at the same time, we need to stand up strongly.
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I'm telling you, Pat, when people really understand the full effects of what's going on the border,
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because they made such a big deal of, you know, Jim Acosta is going to be, he's going
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That should be played every day from here until the end of the election.
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Because when they, they made such a big deal that there wasn't a crisis, a humanitarian
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And they're mostly admitting it now, even the New York Times.
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And if we are the ones that lead with the heart and the message, fund the government, fund the
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So we have the resources on the border to stop the insanity.
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If we're saying that, and we're the ones that had the heart that were there helping Americans
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And Trump will walk away with a huge victory, huge victory.
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I think, I think that was proven a few years ago when we went down there and delivered
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toys and food to the kids at Christmas time, because we got a lot of flack for that initially.
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But like you said, it also lent credibility that, you know, we do care.
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We're the only ones with credibility when it came back around.
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And, and you know what, it's, it's not even about toys.
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It's, it's this time, it's, this is about water.
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Put yourself in a border town in the United States of America and you get a bus load of
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Now, can you imagine if the rest of the country was like, well, you'll have to deal with it.
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Well, this is, goes back to a proposal that was floated by Trump a couple of weeks ago.
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And everyone thought was so hateful that you'd bring these illegal immigrants to sanctuary
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I don't understand why this is a hateful policy.
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Instead, you're dumping them in small towns where they have absolutely no resources to deal
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I mean, and, and again, how many times have we been told by the left that the sanctuary
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cities are the only people who actually have compassion?
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Well, if that's true, uh, you can drop them off there.
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A city like San Francisco has far more resources than a border town and they say that they want
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I post a signup list online and all the mayors can go and rush to the signup list and post
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Some of them have said, like Seattle said, we want to bring them and like, they can be
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And I think, I think Americans would on both sides of the aisle would be happy to say whatever
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extended travel costs there was, they're moving them anyway.
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Whatever extended travel costs there was would be worth it because here's a city that is actually
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advocating to help them with all their basic needs.
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Again, 30,000 a month in a town like Seattle, that's just a, that's just a good, it should
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And I think Portland, part of this too, comes off as a troll.
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Like you're just like, oh yeah, well then you take them.
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I mean, legitimately, these towns are saying they want them.
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Here's the thing, here's the thing, we have said the same thing about abortion.
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Well then we're gonna stop, we're gonna give you those babies.
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The Second Amendment had this at one point too where, I think it was Sarah Silverman,
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the comedian, she was like, well, oh you guys want gun rights, huh?
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They absolutely should have them whenever they need them.
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I mean, like that is something, if they really believe these things, and I think some of them
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Like we started charities to get guns to black people.
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It was the Democrats that repealed the gun rights under the Jim Crow laws against black
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If you could, you could ask Martin Luther King Jr. as he attempted to get a gun permit and
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could not get one because of the laws that the Democrats set up in the racist South.
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Tim Ballard, you know him as the founder of the and CEO of Operation Underground Railroad.
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He is also the CEO of the Nazarene Fund, but he has spent a decade working as a special agent
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for the Department of Homeland Security, where he was assigned to the Internet Crimes Against
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He was also an undercover operative for the U.S. child sex tourism jump team.
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He has dismantled human trafficking rings of all over the world.
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He called me last night with something I didn't expect to ever hear from Tim Ballard.
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We've been to some of the worst places in the world.
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I can't believe what I'm seeing on our own border in America.
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This is, like you said, we've been all over the world seeing a crisis where children are
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And it's, you know who the defense is, it's the churches, it's the local communities who
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are running to help because our policies don't support a child rescue right now.
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In fact, our policies are incentivizing traffickers to utilize the system.
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So we are right now, we are in between El Paso and Las Cruces, New Mexico.
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We think a lot of these kids that are being dumped daily at our churches, a thousand
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a day to one church, to one church network in New Mexico.
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We don't think these kids belong to their parents.
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The people claiming to be their parents, but we don't know what to do.
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We don't know how to train them, what to tell them.
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And I went down, I talked to a lot of these people who are being helped out these churches.
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What's happening is there's, I mean, there's literally, and I have intel from Guatemala,
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There's radio ads, okay, for smugglers advertising.
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If you don't have a child, they give them a child that they've kidnapped from someplace.
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Once they get them through, they'll bring them back south.
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And they pair children up with the people who pay money to the smugglers.
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And then they give them a name if they don't have a name of a sponsor.
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And they say, when you get there, show the name to the customs official.
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And with a name in hand, the person claiming to be the sponsor, and a child in hand, they
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And then the only people there to take care of them and to do any kind of vetting or helping
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And these are the greatest people on the planet.
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They're frustrated that the government's not supporting the efforts.
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But they've run because they see children in need.
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We're here to train them, to teach them what to look for.
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And I mean, Glenn, I saw this five-year-old kid yesterday.
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And so we're making efforts right now to make sure this kid doesn't end up with the
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quote-unquote sponsor who's going to be a trafficker.
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We are – our system is facilitating trafficking events.
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I want to ask you if you can talk about the two areas of the country that they are going
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to, that they seem to be concentrating in two areas.
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A lot of them are going to Atlanta and North Dakota.
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And this is very concerning because Atlanta is one of the highest trafficking cities in
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And then in North Dakota, they're building the pipeline.
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And even the folks – the church folks actually pointed this out to me.
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And they actually rescued one of the little girls.
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They did some follow-up work on their own and realized that these kids were being sent
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to North Dakota because they're there to service, sexually service, the workers on
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So – and they're – but this is just a small group of Christian volunteers who are
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trying to play intel analyst and rescue children on their own because the kids are just dumped
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And the Homeland Security or the Border Patrol, they can't do anything, can they, because
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of the way the – because of the way the Democrats have set the laws up.
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But the policies in place say when that kid comes in, if they have a kid in their hands,
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you have to let them go right away, 20 days max.
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But they don't even have time to wait to 20 days because the next 1,000 are coming in
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Our laws are forcing them to just drop them off.
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And luckily, the churches have come and said, well, where are you going to drop them off?
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We'll make sure we're there, and we'll take them, and we'll do the job that Congress
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How are these, with 1,000 a day, new, in 12 days, that's 12,000 people.
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How are these cities handling this here in the United States?
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I read a story today where they're now – they're just using taxpayer dollars.
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They're going into their city funds, and they're cutting other things because they
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have to provide water, they have to police it, they have to do something, and they don't
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You know, the state of New Mexico was generous enough to provide a medical – a mobile medical
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So all the kids that we get, we're taking them to make sure they're okay, to check
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them for diseases, checking them for sexually transmitted diseases.
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I mean, Glenn, I met a woman yesterday who – she couldn't pay the passage.
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She was trying to get out of Guatemala because her daughter was being hounded by traffickers,
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And so she said, I've got to get out, but I couldn't pay the fare.
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She had to be raped six times along the path from Guatemala to the border.
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That was her pay to the traffickers, to the smugglers.
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And then they come here, and now we're servicing them.
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This is the churches mostly, and they're busting at the seams, and they need help.
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They need financial help to provide medicine for these children, for these abused women.
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They need food, and they need more manpower to do the vetting, to do the job that Congress
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isn't doing, basically to vet these kids and make sure that they don't get sent down the
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path to some sex trafficker in Atlanta or North Dakota or anywhere else in the United States.
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So why are these towns being selected for the buses just to come and just dump them
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I mean, that's just the towns that are closest to the border, and then the churches who are
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there that raise their hand and say, we will take them.
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If no one else will take them, we will take them.
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I mean, these Christian folks that I've been working with, and they're unbelievable.
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I mean, if you're Christians, you don't really have a choice.
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You're going to dump them off on the side of the road someplace where they get no food,
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I mean, they don't go home, and they're volunteering their time.
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And they're just helping these children who are just, they come in just tattered and torn.
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I never thought I'd see this in this country, what we're seeing.
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So, Tim, I'm going to go down to the border with you this weekend and see what's going on
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These churches are not part of the problem, are they?
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I mean, some of these, we just have to make sure that the churches, they're not the ones
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that are holding their hand up and saying, open borders.
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In fact, they don't even want to talk about, you know, when we get into politics or anything,
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they're like, you know what, we're just helping these kids.
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They don't carry any kind of political philosophy other than their only philosophy is love one another.
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And these kids are in need, and we are going to stand for them if no one else will.
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We are going to open up the Nazarene Fund and Mercury One.
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I don't want to put this through the Nazarene Fund.
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If you go to mercuryone.org right now, there's a banner that is placed up for this humanitarian crisis.
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And we're going to help those churches with, you know, with some basics from water and some food and things that they just cannot.
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They just can't afford on their own anymore, so they don't collapse under the weight.
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And then also, will some of this money go to fund your work to make sure that we catch the bad guys that are using these children?
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That's why we're here right now is to train more volunteers and get more manpower on the border.
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But you're going to – we spoke last night, and I know you can't get into it, but you're going a step further than just training how to spot.
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We're going to go into the interior and catch these bad guys, are we not?
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We're working with Homeland Security Investigations, whose job it is to find trafficking organizations.
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I can't get into details, of course, but to go in.
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And look, when we find these trafficking organizations who are responsible for this in our big cities, we're going to find other children, American children, who are already stuck in this as well.
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So this is going to lead us down these rabbit holes that will allow us to bust up other trafficking rings that have existed in this country for decades, probably.
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Tim Ballard, the founder and CEO of Operation Underground Railroad and the CEO of the Nazarene Fund.
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And I've never heard the desperation in his voice like I heard last night because he had been talking to people in these towns who are like, we're crushed.
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We need to support Donald Trump's efforts on the border.
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We need to forthrightly stand again and be heard leading the charge for the border to be secured.
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We can't let that fall by the wayside because it's invisible to most Americans today, but it is a massive, massive problem.
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And if we don't fix this quickly, at 1,000 people a day being dropped off on some of these cities, think of how fast that adds up because that's just one city.
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And let me tell you, Democrats, you are going to lose the next election, and you deserve every bit of it, but you're going to lose in a spectacular way if the American people connect their head and their heart.
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We need to go down and help these cities and help these churches so they have at least water for people.
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We need to expose it, and we need to send the message, secure the border.
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If you would like to help us, please go to mercuryone.org.
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These guys are coming in here, and they are positioning themselves all across the country to be able to have a new sex trafficking ring.
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Those in the Democratic Party who have been saying there's not a problem, open borders, that have caused this crisis,
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you, the judgment on your head because of what's happening to children is going to be a price much higher than the loss of the next election.
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If you would like to help us, please go to mercuryone.org.
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.
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She is the mother of a fallen Navy SEAL, Aaron Carson Vaughn.
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He was killed in action in Afghanistan when his chopper carrying 30 Americans was shot from the sky, rushing into battle.
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It put Karen on a new path, and she's here to talk to us about it.
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You know, life without a child, after you bury a child, is complicated.
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There's never a moment where you feel like you've gotten past that, or there's never going to be a door closed on that,
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and like, oh, that was just a chapter of my life.
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You struggle every single day just trying to figure out the new normal, and you miss that person every single day of your life.
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I think about this with my kids all the time, especially with them entering teenage years now,
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and the suicide rate that's going through the roof with teenagers,
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and I just cannot get my arms around what it is like or what it must be like to lose a child.
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Glenn, you know, nobody knows how they would deal with it.
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I used to think that people who lost a child surely got only put that on people who weren't that close to their children
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or didn't really have a real maternal or paternal instinct,
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because I thought, how could anybody that felt like I did about my kids, you know,
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coached them in their peewee baseball leagues and basketball leagues and, you know, went to church with them.
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You know, every time the doors opened and led their youth groups,
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and, you know, I just thought that couldn't happen to someone like me because I couldn't survive it.
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But the truth is that we're all very much stronger than we think we are,
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and we can get through anything, as you've proven time and time again.
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Glenn, you know, we're strong people, and it's always mind over matter, right?
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When struggles or, you know, attacks from people or different things pop up in our lives,
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we figure out a way to overcome them because we're made a lot tougher than we think we are.
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So that's how you get through it, just one day at a time, and you keep figuring it out, you know?
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So you've done the Moms for America and the Moms March movement is really kind of your, what?
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And, Glenn, I don't know if you remember, we got to talk back in 2017 when I released my book about Aaron,
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World Changer, and I got to sit with you in your studio for an hour and do your show.
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And, you know, I just love chatting with you because you've been a victor for America.
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You started a revolution about exposing the dangers that were threatening our society,
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and I want you to know, I said this to you before, but I want you to know that my son,
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who was a big, badass, tough Navy SEAL, member of SEAL Team 6,
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thought you were the greatest thing that ever came into America's existence.
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And I want you to know our family has honored your sacrifice and your service.
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But here's what happened to me is after Aaron died, I realized that I could no longer sit on the sidelines
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and watch other people protect and defend this nation.
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He fought for it, and he died for it on foreign soil.
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But we are being destroyed, as you've said, so adequately and so many times from within.
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And so if we're willing to send our sons and daughters to foreign nations to die to protect us from threats over there,
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then what the heck are we doing if we don't also fight what's happening inside our own government
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to make sure that America is not demolished from within?
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And so that's why my husband and I both got up, and we straightened our backs, and we straightened our knees,
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Till the day we die, till we draw our last breath, we will not allow his sacrifice to be wasted,
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and we won't allow the pain we've experienced to be wasted.
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We are fighting for the sovereignty of our nation.
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It is an all-out war in every way, and, you know, you mentioned, and I don't want to drag this out,
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I mean, is there any reason that any of us who are paying attention to our culture don't understand?
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We absolutely understand why suicide rates are so high.
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We've completely disrespected the value of life.
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We've put things in front of our children that never should have been in front of our children.
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We've shoved ideologies down their throats saying that people have no value.
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And I don't know how somebody loses a child to suicide.
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You know, it's been a walk of pride with a straight back and, you know, a son who died fighting for his nation,
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But I'm not without the thought sometimes, what if he hadn't died in battle,
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and he'd come back here and been treated the way so many veterans have been treated in our society,
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Those thoughts have crossed my mind if he felt that hopelessness in this society that left him
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and abandoned him after he gave so much for it, which is, you know,
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which is just another facet of what we're experiencing.
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So that's why I joined an organization called Moms for America.
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We are fighting for the sovereignty of our nation,
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and we are a national movement of moms who are out there to reclaim our culture for truth, family, and freedom.
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That's our motto, and that's what we're doing in every single way we possibly can.
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This was the number one target, and the culture has been lost,
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and it needs to be rejuvenated, but it truly has been lost.
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Imagine how abandoned you would feel if the United States government was bringing a bus to your small town
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and dropping 1,000 people off every single day.
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and we have talked to moms and dads and kids that are living in those situations.
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and when did it become okay in our society to allow women and children to be the front line of defense for our nation?
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And then you talk to the border security agents down there that are completely overwhelmed by what's happening,
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and then you still have people like Nancy Pelosi hiding behind her walls saying that walls are something we should be ashamed of wanting.
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We've been to D.C. over and over again, and we've tried to reason with these legislators.
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And, you know, Glenn, the thing is we've realized this, and this was hard for me to come to the conclusion of,
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but we have realized that America will not be won by legislators in Washington, D.C.
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America will be restored at the dining room table.
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And in the classrooms across this country, just the other night I had the privilege of speaking at a –
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Hillsdale College has charter schools going in across the country where, you know,
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they're refusing to teach revisionist history, and the children's reading assignments will be straight from the Constitution,
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And, you know, this is the way that we'll regain our culture and we'll regain the sovereignty of who we are
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when we start educating the next generation about the greatness of America instead of focusing on all of our failures.
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There's – but we're crying out loud, where else in the world are they beating down the gates to get in because they're so horrible, right?
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I mean, if we're so horrible, why is everybody trying to come to America?
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And we both know the answer to that because we're free, because brave men like my son and 1.3 million others have laid down their lives to protect the sovereignty of this nation.
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And, again, moms across this nation are rising up.
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We did a State of the Union address when Nancy Pelosi played her little tricks with Donald Trump, and all that went sideways.
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On that night, Moms for America brought women from across the country, and we held our own State of the Union.
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And, you know, by the end of that address, we had 1.4 million moms who were signing on saying,
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I want to be part of this movement because moms are starving for leadership because they know what's happened to their children in the classroom,
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and they just need somebody to pal up with them and say, we can fight this battle together.
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But you've got to have people on your right and left and on your six.
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We all know that instinctively, so that's what we're trying to do.
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I mean, Tanya and I just talked about this just the other night.
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We were having a, we're just, we've got a family crisis that we're dealing with right now.
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And I said, honey, I don't, I honestly don't, I'm going to explode.
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I don't know how to deal with the, you know, hey, can you think about how we're going to save the country, you know, for, for 12 hours a day?
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And then how are you going to save your family for the other 12 hours a day?
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And even, even people on the left have come to us and said, you know what?
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And you're right, Glenn, you shouldn't have to fight for the country all day.
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Then go home and fight for your family, because there should be a country instilling the values in your family to keep you from having to fight that battle constantly.
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And, you know, we've let people take this culture from us, this culture of goodness, of right behavior, of kindness, of biblical principles.
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You know, so Karen, talk to the person, talk, talk to the person who is, you know, just drop the kids off and they are relating to what both of us are saying.
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I tell you what, that where I am right now is join us moms for America.
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We have got so many programs for you to get involved in.
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If you want to get in the fight, we've got ways for you to get in the fight right now.
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I don't know if there's any gold star family members out there listening.
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People who have lost a child or a spouse or a parent to this war, like me.
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But we're mounting a gigantic movement to Washington, D.C., as we speak of gold star families, where we are going to stand up and lock arms on the steps of the Capitol and say that we strengthen our resolve that America will never be a socialist government.
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We're doing these trips to the border where we're seeing firsthand what's happening to the families across this nation.
00:56:28.300
We've got groups of moms meeting across the country.
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We've got, I don't know, probably, I don't even know what the number is now.
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Thousands of women meeting across the country in small groups in their homes, studying the Constitution, studying how to bring these principles back into their home that have been so lost in our culture.
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So there are just myriad ways that people can get involved at Moms for America.
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If you want to instill these values in your family members as well and you want to spread this message of hope across America again, we don't care if you're a mom, a dad.
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If you've never had a child, we want you to lock arms with us and say, not on our watch, not in this generation.
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So go to our website, momsforamerica.us, or you can find us on Facebook at Moms for America or Moms March for America.
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We have both of those pages, and we would be honored for anybody to join forces with us.
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We are mounting a massive movement here, and we are going to reclaim our culture.
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You gave me hope for a long time, and you know what?
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I am no longer willing to accept the things I cannot change, Glenn.
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I am changing the things I cannot accept, and I cannot accept what's happening in our culture.
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I can't accept the culture of weakness where kids are so weak these days that they don't feel like there's any options for them.
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No, we need to raise a new generation of fire-breathing children who will change the world.
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And that's what we can do when we join together and share our energy and our thoughts.
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The website where you can find her is officialkarenvaughn.com.
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Karen, it's been too long since you've been on the show.