A Clinton-appointed judge dismissed both indictments against James Comey and Letitia James, which is a major victory for the former FBI Director and his replacement, Tish James. But is it enough? And what will happen next?
00:03:24.140So, if you watch anything on the mainstream media, they would tell you this is a complete victory for Comey and Tish James.
00:03:30.560I realize it is good news for today, very good news.
00:03:33.100But not quite so fast, necessarily, because, Mike Davis, why don't you outline for us what the court did here and what's going to happen next?
00:03:44.840Yeah, there is overwhelming evidence that James Comey lied to the Senate and obstructed a congressional investigation as it relates to Crossfire Hurricane, the biggest scandal in American history, where Democrats politicized and weaponized intel agencies and law enforcement to take out their political enemies.
00:04:07.060The prior interim U.S. Attorney, who was on 120-day appointment, refused to bring the indictment against Comey.
00:04:16.160He also refused to bring an indictment against New York Attorney General Tish James, where there is overwhelming evidence that she committed bank fraud when she lied on her mortgage application for an investment property in Virginia instead of a second home.
00:04:32.500So, she got more favorable rates, so she got more favorable rates, higher risk.
00:04:36.320Lindsay Halligan got appointed as the next U.S. Attorney and interim U.S. Attorney by the Attorney General.
00:04:44.480She sought indictments against both Comey and Big Tish James.
00:04:49.400She secured those indictments with a Democrat-controlled grand jury in the suburbs of Washington, D.C.
00:04:56.880Certainly not a rubber stamp, because this grand jury also rejected the more serious perjury charge against James Comey.
00:05:04.080They brought false statements and obstruction charges against him, but rejected the third perjury charge.
00:05:37.780There is a statute that says when you don't have like a permanent U.S. attorney installed, that the attorney general can install one, and it says for 120 days.
00:05:49.680And then it suggests that after that 120 days, a district court may appoint someone to the position.
00:05:59.520And the question here is whether only a district court judge may appoint someone to the position after the first 120 days, which has expired.
00:06:11.540And the question is whether, since it was A.G. Bondi who put Lindsay Halligan in that position, after the temporary Trump A.G., the guy who was just holding the post until Bondi got confirmed, he appointed Siebert.
00:07:27.120The president can still appoint a U.S. attorney.
00:07:30.740That person just has to get confirmed by the Senate, the whole advice and consent thing.
00:07:35.340And so, what you can't do is that you can't appoint someone for the 120 days and they overstay their 120 days and then replace them with another acting U.S. attorney for another 120 days or else the appointments clause and the statute means nothing.
00:07:51.880Because then the president and the attorney general can just appoint one after the next after the next without ever having the U.S. attorney confirmed by the U.S. Senate.
00:08:03.060And so, that's the issue here and that's something that Judge Curry brought up.
00:08:06.580And by the way, the amendments to this law that says that the judges get to decide, that was passed after the whole Alberto Gonzalez U.S. attorney scandal where it became politicized in 2006 under George W. Bush.
00:08:20.880And so, the amendment was passed in 2007 in response to that.
00:08:25.100And it was designed to limit executive branch power.
00:08:28.520But, Mike, what the statute says, it's 28 U.S. Code 546 on vacancies, is except as provided in subsection B, the attorney general may appoint a U.S. attorney for the district that's vacant.
00:08:41.700Subsection B is the only subsection for which the attorney general may not appoint the U.S. attorney.
00:08:57.040The Senate has not refused to do advice and consent on Lindsey Halligan.
00:09:00.980So, the one exception in the statute to Bondi's ability to do this is not met.
00:09:06.760Then, when it goes on to talk about the judges, it says, if an appointment expires, the district court for such district may appoint a U.S. attorney to serve until the vacancy is filled.
00:09:19.020And the question here is whether that is an exclusive authority by the district judge or a concurrent one.
00:09:26.620Like, they can do it or A.G. Bondi could do it.
00:09:31.240And A.G. Bondi clearly thinks she can do it.
00:09:34.200That this is not an exclusive power to the district court.
00:09:38.800And there's a little bit of funny business in this Clinton-appointed judge's opinion where Judge Curry, her name is,
00:09:44.700she, your guy Will Chamberlain, who was on our AM update this morning, pointed this out as a good point.
00:09:49.520She had to break up the quotation of the statute and add her own words to make her argument.
00:09:54.980She goes to the part that says, hey, subsection D provides a single option for how subsequent appointments may be made.
00:10:01.860And she changed the words from, if an appointment expires, the district court for such district may appoint a U.S. attorney.
00:10:08.420She inserted, the district court and only the district court may appoint a U.S. attorney.
00:10:15.680Like, that language is not in the statute.
00:10:18.260And so the whole thing comes down to whether after that initial 120 days dies, can the district court and the A.G. appoint a replacement or only the district court?
00:10:31.660And it's, look, this is what happened here.
00:10:33.820You had this Obama chief judge of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, who, that's the appellate court over the Eastern District of Virginia,
00:10:43.740hand-selected this Clinton judge from South Carolina, this Judge Curry, and she came in there and she got the result that the Democrats wanted here.
00:10:56.860As you said, Will Chamberlain at the Article 3 Project pointed this out on his X thread, where it's very clear that this Judge Curry made up language in the statute to get the results she wanted.
00:11:12.120And that is going to get reversed on appeal, maybe not at the Fourth Circuit, because the Fourth Circuit is dominated by Democrats, but it will certainly get reversed by the Supreme Court of the United States.
00:11:23.940But the Democrats got what they wanted here.
00:11:27.300They got an embarrassment for Lindsey Halligan, and they got delay in this case.
00:11:32.700And so it is a purely political result here.
00:11:36.300And if this judge would have actually followed the statutes, you read them in harmony.
00:11:41.440You do not create constitutional conflict.
00:11:44.180That is one of the key canons for the judges to follow.
00:11:50.000You do not create constitutional problems when you're interpreting the law unless you have to.
00:11:55.800If the judge, if the Supreme Court doesn't take it, you know, if the Fourth District upholds this, this Judge Curry and U.S. Supreme Court says we're not taking this, then this decision would stand.
00:12:10.260And there's, then it would, it would, if it's not, basically if like, if the Fourth District, the Fourth Circuit affirms her and SCOTUS refers, refuses to take it, then this judgment will stand.
00:12:25.300She won't be able to prosecute this case.
00:12:26.940But now there's a debate about whether anyone will be able to prosecute this case.
00:12:33.700Letitia James is 100% going to get re-indicted.
00:12:36.980But the question is whether Comey can be re-indicted.
00:12:41.540This is, again, assuming that Halligan is off the case.
00:12:46.440Comey has an argument that there was never, there was never a proper indictment, Dave, because the person who indicted him was not properly in the role.
00:12:58.960And Judge Curry, in her opinion, says, thus restoring James Comey to the position he was in pre-indictment.
00:13:05.860So she's basically trying to like completely nullify the indictment as though it was never brought.
00:13:11.540And the statute of limitations on him expired, I think, six days after she got the indictment.
00:13:16.420So while normally the rule is you can re-indict somebody when your indictment gets thrown out, within six months of the day your indictment gets thrown out,
00:13:24.980there's a question in this case about whether that would be possible, given the judge's language about the whole thing is like nullified as though it never happened to begin with.
00:13:53.540I guess if you translate that Latin phrase, it means it's void from the beginning or you snooze, you lose.
00:14:01.800And I think that's more like it because here the judge in this case, she even emphasizes your point that you mentioned or the point that she mentioned in footnote 21.
00:14:12.060And this is where she hid in some dicta, which is non-binding language, which does show her hand that she does not think this case should be refiled.
00:14:21.440And it says here on this footnote, an invalid indictment cannot serve to block the door of limitations as it swings closed.
00:14:34.640Now, I think also from a public policy standpoint, you can make the argument that it's not good public policy to allow someone to appoint a prosecutor who does not meet the qualifications to be a prosecutor,
00:14:47.520who is there for the sole purpose of going after the president's enemies and got in there just shortly before the statute of limitations expired.
00:14:55.160And then because of that, you give them six extra months to redo it and cure the defect that would game the system.
00:15:02.880And I think that's a good public policy argument to convince the appellate courts that, no, the door is closed.
00:15:09.080Okay, but Mike, that footnote that Dave is talking about is this Judge Curry cites two non-binding federal district court cases outside of her district.
00:15:22.780One is in, well, one's from the, okay, yeah, hold on a second.
00:15:27.040Yeah, one's from the district of Maryland and one's from the northern district of Illinois.
00:15:33.100Neither is from the eastern district of Virginia.
00:15:35.140They would only be influential if they were her level, but she needs, she needs fourth circuit authority or a Supreme Court authority to, to say this cannot be refiled.
00:15:47.820And what she, what she cites, what Dave's quoted from there is quote, this is from a parallel court in Maryland.
00:15:55.280An invalid indictment, however, cannot serve to block the door of limitations as it swings closed.
00:15:59.440And then she has one from the northern district of Illinois that's similar.
00:16:05.040And then the judge goes on to say, but if the earlier indictment is void, there is no legitimate peg on which to hang such a judicial limitations tolling result.
00:16:14.960Meaning it's, if the initial indictment is void, you can't get the six months extension.
00:16:46.160So that, that, and this just further shows that this judge Curry is going out of her way as a political actor to protect Tish James and James Cumming.
00:16:56.840That's very clear in the first sentence of both of her orders.
00:17:00.520And I'll just, she, she gratuitously added these irrelevant digs at Lindsey Halligan that were not at all a part of her, a necessary for analysis.
00:17:11.480She says on the dates of the indictment for both Comey and Halligan, Lindsey Halligan, a former White House aide with no prior prosecutorial experience, blah, blah, blah.
00:17:53.260It was the very first sentence of the order, too, no less.
00:17:56.980And I think the reason why she put it in there was to demonstrate why this case should not be allowed to be filed under the savings clause, which says you get that extra six months if it's a procedural defect.
00:18:12.060She's trying to explain in advance of why this thing was null and void to begin with, because you had someone who is not qualified to be a prosecutor who was there for the sole purpose of just getting this indictment right before the statute of limitations.
00:18:53.880You are absolutely right that you could be dropped in and you could do it.
00:18:57.280And so could Lindsay Halligan, quite frankly.
00:18:59.260But the reason why they bring this up, I think, is more than gratuitous.
00:19:03.440I think it's just to show that this was an attempt at a bad faith prosecution where they fired Eric Siebert, Mike Davis's friend from the Federalist Society.
00:21:06.240And as you point out, in the first line of both opinions, dismissing Comey and dismissing James.
00:21:12.280I mean, look, I think it's fair because when I first read it, I thought it was gratuitous.
00:21:16.640But I do think the reason why she included that was to have a public policy reason why this should not be refiled.
00:21:23.020It's even though she dismissed this without prejudice, which said you could refile it.
00:21:27.420She's saying you shouldn't let an administration take advantage of the system that gives them an extra six months when, from the beginning, it was void.
00:21:34.360She was not qualified to be U.S. attorney, not appointed properly.
00:21:38.400And she got in and appointed for the sole purpose of getting in there just days before the deadline.
00:22:08.320If you're giving federal judges the ability to appoint these executive branch interim officers but not the attorney general, that shows the statute.
00:22:18.560If that's how it was written, which it wasn't, but if that's how these Democrat judges are going to misinterpret this statute to keep power and protect their allies, it's unconstitutional.
00:22:29.920It's a violation of the separation of powers.
00:22:38.000We talked about this before we went on air.
00:22:40.000But we also have Article 2 of the Constitution.
00:22:43.220So judges can appoint magistrate judges, for example, right?
00:22:46.980And they do that every day in the federal court system.
00:22:49.640They have the appointment power over U.S. magistrate judges that do pretrial work, do discovery.
00:22:54.780But I don't think U.S. district court judges have the Article 3 power to pick Article 2 interim officers over the objection of the president of the United States and the attorney general of the United States.
00:23:07.180All right, so we don't know what's going to happen.
00:23:10.440I mean, we assume Bondi will appeal this.
00:23:13.160By the way, we covered this on AM Update when it happened.
00:23:17.300But Bondi did try to cure whatever defect may be present by this halogen not having been chosen by district judges by on October 31st issuing a memo saying, like, I ratify, you know, what she's done.
00:23:32.240And this judge said, nice try, but no cigar.
00:23:55.560I have to tell you my analysis on this.
00:23:57.280If I were SCOTUS, I'm like, I can kill at least one of these things, the Comey indictment and case, in one fell swoop.
00:24:06.060And that'll save me from having to get involved on all of the substantive issues that are also going to come up my way via vindictive prosecution and all the other arguments that he's raising.
00:24:17.620They're like, it's a procedural error.
00:24:22.240Like, I can get out of this scot-free.
00:24:24.180So I would not, I would not bank necessarily in the Supreme Court taking this, because speaking of the P word, okay, we'll see.
00:24:33.680But if, if it's reversed and they say that the statute of limitations is, is extended, or if it's, let's say, even if they don't reverse it, if they at least find that the statute of limitations goes for six more months, Comey can be re-indicted.
00:24:59.120The only question would be, would she, who's going to re-indict her?
00:25:04.280Because if Halligan actually is Ixnade, then, and it's because we need a judge to decide who's, like, this doesn't make any sense to me, Dave Ehrenberg.
00:25:14.820So what's the, like, let's just say Halligan's gone.
00:25:18.900Who's going to decide who's the interim acting U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia?
00:25:26.240A Judge Curry's order actually says it'll be decided by the judges.
00:25:30.480If that happens, then you've got some judge-selected U.S. attorney, and then you have Trump saying, okay, well, I want Mike Davis, let's say, to be the actual U.S. attorney for Eastern District of Virginia.
00:25:44.920And he has to go through Senate confirmation, and then you have all these Democrats who don't want to necessarily—
00:26:11.020Like, you see how this could be gamed so inappropriately by the Democrats if the ruling goes any way other than the way Mike and I think it should go.
00:26:22.920The gaming seemed to be from the piggybacking on previous acting U.S. attorneys to get someone you wanted without having to go through the U.S. Senate.
00:26:31.580I see why you'd be upset about the judges doing it, and that could be a constitutional issue.
00:26:35.980But this statute has been around a long time.
00:26:38.740It has never been thrown out as unconstitutional.
00:26:41.020So maybe that's something the Supreme Court would take a look at.
00:26:43.680But Judge Curry's order said the judges will decide, and if the judges do appoint the next acting U.S. attorney, there's no way that that acting U.S. attorney will prosecute either the Comey or the James case because they're a weak sauce.
00:26:57.260Although, if Trump gets to appoint his own confirmed by the Senate, I think you'll see the return of at least the James case.
00:27:05.420What happens when these Democrat activist judges in the Eastern District of Virginia pick their fake Republican as their U.S. attorney, the next Fed sock cock?
00:27:15.720So then what happens when Pam Bondi and President Trump say, okay—
00:27:40.940Then the district court judges are going to say, no, you're the president of the United States, but you don't get to fire your U.S. attorney because we're the all-powerful judges and we interpreted this statute to give us all the power over the U.S. attorney for the next three years?
00:27:55.540We just saw this, this exact situation with Eric Siebert.
00:27:58.340He was appointed by the judges because he exceeded his 120 days, and then Trump effectively fired him.
00:28:05.460So, yes, I would think the president could fire that person, and then the judges would have to reappoint someone else.
00:28:24.800Is it President Trump and Pam Bondi who want a Republican who will actually do the job, or these Democrat judges who are obstructing this with their games?
00:28:34.600If they want a Republican U.S. attorney, they've got a Republican U.S. Senate the last time I checked.
00:28:39.920Why can't they just get the U.S. Senate to confirm them?
00:28:42.320Because we have blue slips, which is a bullshit process where home state senators get to hand select the U.S. attorney who would prosecute them,
00:28:50.220the district court judge who would oversee their corruption trial, and the U.S. marshal who had escorted them to prison.
00:28:56.460So President Trump can't pick a U.S. attorney in a lot of these blue states because these Democrat senators are refusing to return blue slips.
00:29:04.340All you need is a majority in the Senate to change the rules, and the Republicans control the Senate.
00:29:08.240So if you want to change the rules, your friends in the Senate can do so.
00:29:11.380That's a fair point, but there would be 100 senator revolts if they lost this power.
00:29:18.200And it doesn't seem like it should go away, but it won't.
00:29:21.020But in the meantime, you can't have these Democrat judges misinterpreting federal statutes to give federal judges more power to protect their political allies.
00:29:34.400So if the—okay, let's say they—it gets decided in a way that gives the government six months to refile against Comey and James, both of them.
00:29:49.040So I don't know whether Halligan is on the case in this scenario or she's not, but the government gets six more months to reindict them both.
00:29:55.460Do they have to go back before a grand jury again?
00:30:10.740Are we a little scared about that, Mike?
00:30:12.220Because now the cases have had so much attention.
00:30:14.740You know, the alleged grand jury pool has been manipulated by nonstop media coverage about how this is retribution and so on.
00:30:22.740Are we a little worried about her ability to do it twice?
00:30:24.720I would—if I were the attorney general, I would bring—I would seek the indictment in the Richmond Division of the Eastern District of Virginia and not the Alexandria Division of the Eastern District of Virginia.
00:30:37.460I'd go somewhere where the people are a little bit less Democrat and less crazy.
00:31:02.260It's time to go for the main course down in Fort Pierce, Florida.
00:31:05.860And that's what Mike's been saying all along, that there could be a sort of a grand conspiracy case coming out of Florida that's going to pull in all of these same actors.
00:31:13.640And the statute of limitations on that will not have run, not for Comey, not for any of these guys.
00:31:58.800She's made a long, long history now of saying it doesn't matter whether there's a victim, doesn't matter whether there's a bank complaining or who lost any money.
00:32:07.960All that matters is you committed fraud in the abstract, and that will subject you to liability.
00:32:14.540In her case, potentially criminal liability.
00:41:51.860What, Ronald Dahl has this great quote, I'm sorry to like go off on a tangent here, but he has this great quote about how, no matter how beautiful you are, your ugly thoughts will begin to appear on the outside very quickly if you have ugly thoughts on the inside.
00:42:05.280And beautiful people remain beautiful well into their old age.
00:42:08.660We all have a grandmother, right, that we can like close our eyes or like a godmother we can think about and how beautiful they were even in their 80s, right, because they were beautiful on the inside.
00:42:16.860And that twisted, warped, and cruel people filled with hate, that those people become twisted, warped, and cruel no matter how fleeting their beauty might be.
00:42:27.580They'll always become that on the outside.
00:43:05.740I'm just saying we all need to work on it, including you, Katie.
00:43:09.820I'm, I'm saying it from love, um, along with Jen Psaki, who understands because she actually still has her TV job.
00:43:19.300The hair and makeup can make a difference, but has decided to bring her least attractive self onto Katie's podcast.
00:43:26.420Maybe it's because they, they know literally nobody's watching, but I don't know here.
00:43:30.300Look at this absurd exchange about the problem with today's media.
00:43:40.140More and more of the questions in there are by sycophants are by people who are not asking about news that the American people cares about, but they're asking about, I mean, literally a question has started more than once.
00:43:57.000Or they are, um, you know, putting out conspiracy theories.
00:44:01.620There are people who, and they are getting a lot of the questions.
00:44:04.820There are some of the people who are in the press pools.
00:44:07.040This means that reporters who are there to cover MBS being at the White House or to cover Zelensky being at the White House or to ask these questions that Mary Bruce fortunately asked yesterday.
00:44:21.000And that is, you don't know that and see that unless you've lived there, but that's a huge, huge problem because it's becoming more of a Kremlin-esque press corps.
00:44:38.520Unlike the good old days prior to Trump, when the media was so hard on people like Obama and Biden, I'll give you the soundbite, Benny, then you take it out on the backside.
00:46:56.720But then graduate into what is, without question, the single greatest fraud, the most dangerous fraud, pulled on the American people, which Jen Psaki was the architect of.
00:47:09.420To her great and abiding shame, which was that Joe Biden did not suddenly develop stage five pancreatic cancer metastasized to his bone, which all experts say is a death sentence.
00:47:27.880Prostate cancer metastasized to his bones, which takes, according to medical experts, 12 years or more.
00:47:33.420They knew that Joe Biden had this terminal illness.
00:47:37.420They knew that he was suffering from it.
00:47:39.460He was most likely being prescribed an enormous amount of medication to deal with it.
00:47:44.340And that's what made Joe Biden so zoinked out of his brain, falling directly on his ass in front of military graduations.
00:47:52.640Right. Like this was a this was one of the largest scale lies ever perpetrated on the American people.
00:47:58.900And that's a long list to be at the top of.
00:48:01.740And so Jen Psaki was the major proponent and purveyor of that sinister lie that put this diseased and crippled old man into the hardest job in American history.
00:48:14.100And at the time when he was getting people killed with these Afghanistan withdrawals, when he was crippling our nation with open borders and so on, being taken advantage of because he was a dying man.
00:48:31.620And so for Jen Psaki, of all people, to have a bloody cheek and to go on there and harp about reporters not asking tough questions or the press secretary not getting tough questions when she herself was on a level of Kremlin Soviet propaganda, encouraging not only Joe Biden to run again, when who knows how long he has to live.
00:48:56.220We know he's an end stage cancer treatment right now.
00:48:58.920So what was the what was the goal there, Jen?
00:49:01.620Was the goal there for Joe Biden to die in office and then Kamala to take the reins?
00:49:06.800How sick and dark and twisted are you people?
00:49:09.480Get ye to a nunnery, to a church, like, like, get down on your knees and pray for forgiveness for what you've done to the American people.
00:49:17.180That's clearly the worst and darkest thing that I probably hopefully will ever see in American politics.
00:49:28.100But no, I so Jen Psaki is living in la la land, of course, if she thinks that Trump is the one getting sick of questions as opposed to her old boss.
00:49:38.160When the White House press corps had press briefings under her and her successor, Karine Jean-Pierre, the only hard questions that were asked for the most part were questions like the Republicans are arguing X.
00:50:14.780Like, what is it that those six lawmakers did wrong in the video as opposed to how dare you threaten death for innocent U.S. lawmakers?
00:50:23.580Right. So that's why he has more fair and balanced reporters in there now, because he's like, maybe I could get some fair questions from one or two in between getting abused by everybody else that's in there.
00:50:37.540That's what Caroline Leavitt goes through every day.
00:50:39.360She wants to pretend that in the good old days when she was there, it was universally tough questions for Biden.
00:50:46.560And she was just super deft at handling that.
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00:56:04.820Megan, I just want to – it is your show, so I just want to give you an opportunity to explain that joke because it is absolutely one of my favorite rants of yours in history.
00:56:47.020And he was worried about his waistline.
00:56:49.580And he did it again, Benny, because we caught him out in the field at yet another disaster wearing literally this – a tight – I don't think his tight black T-shirt would have fit me.
00:57:00.160He got like my size and put it on his man body.
00:57:04.760And it looked normal in one of the shots.
00:57:07.340And then when he got to the anchor shot, it looked all super cinched again.
00:57:11.400The man loves showing off his teeny tiny waistline.
00:57:16.040I mean, I guess he's just trying to delay the inevitable androgynous morph into the Rachel Maddow archetype.
00:57:21.800Which, by the way, we didn't get a chance to say, like the clip of Katie Couric and Jen Psaki, they're like indistinguishable, right?
00:57:28.620It's like they're all coalescing into the same hive mind, the same person, the same like sort of hermaphroditic, like sad, crippled old person.
00:58:52.960Because they wanted to see the show and they wanted to see the guests and so on.
00:58:56.300But like they also wanted to be together.
00:58:58.600And so sitting there, getting all the inside jokes, laughing with one another, rolling our eyes at the ridiculous left, it's therapeutic.
00:59:07.020And so while the right is having like some infighting right now, Benny, and they're important infights, like they do need to be settled.
00:59:13.800Like the stuff on Israel, there's something shifting in the party and it's going to have to go through this and settle wherever it needs to settle.
00:59:25.020Net, net, nobody who's having these fights is going to vote for a Kamala Harris.
00:59:28.900They're all going to vote for a Donald Trump or a Marco Rubio and I think for a J.D. Vance too, even though the neocons, he won't be their first choice.
00:59:35.880But they're not going to vote for an AOC over him.
01:23:32.840If you want to take that out of context, go right ahead.
01:23:35.400Again, that to me shows that you need a hug more than anyone else.
01:23:38.200They were acting like you touched the back of his ass.
01:23:43.260I feel like I wouldn't get as much hate if I did that versus...
01:23:49.580Watching people turn on you has been one of the most unexpected, strange, terrible things since he died.
01:23:57.100Again, and I know you get this because you have a very, you have a thick skin and a soft heart.
01:24:02.480The thing is, is that the more that people, and it gets outlandish more and more crazy as time goes on because there's just a void that apparently needs to be filled.
01:24:12.540But I'm okay with the world not understanding me.
01:25:17.960I call my pastor, and he tries to knock some sense into me.
01:25:21.320You know, but listen, first off, that is aligned, and it's very important to understand this, to separate the two.
01:25:27.540So, for your own soul, you're supposed to forgive people, and you're supposed to love them and practice the Beatitudes, the exact inverse of what the world tells you to do.
01:25:42.360But there's a verse in Romans, Romans 13, that says that the governments and the law of the nations is established by God, and he gives them the sword to wield, not for the good men, but for the terror of evil men.
01:25:57.580And it is good to – that's a New Testament.
01:26:02.820And it is calling for us as a moral and good people to make sure that our government has the sword to punish evil, to make sure that they live in – not just live in fear.
01:26:29.060As I raise my own kids, as I see the world around me, I'm realizing something, Megan, that the – it can all be boiled down to one question, critical for our ruling class, which is, is there a God, and do you think you're God?
01:26:43.680You know, are you God, or is there actually a higher power above what we're all doing?
01:26:48.860And those who believe in that higher power totally structure their lives differently, entirely.
01:26:53.940The tax don't work, the ad hominems don't work, the pejoratives don't work, the deplatforming or the jailing, it doesn't work.
01:27:02.120You're totally aligned, and that's why you can still see joyful audiences in spite of good and bad things happening to our movement all the time.
01:27:21.760When you are persecuted, the Christian church is a church and not completely smote because of a martyrdom, a man named Stephen who was the first martyr.
01:27:31.880And that's what actually inspired Christianity, that him dying, Stephen getting killed for his belief, let people know, wait a second, this isn't just an old story.
01:27:41.820This is something people believe in because people don't die for a lie.
01:28:11.120That is another one of the points as I go through all these books, so many books.
01:28:14.500I was talking to Frank Turek about it backstage after Erica, that in favor of believing, believing in the resurrection, believing that Jesus was Christ, which is no man will die for a lie.
01:28:26.900And the disciples who were put to death after Jesus was crucified and came back, and they told everyone about it.
01:28:36.420They said what they witnessed, that they saw him.
01:28:38.880It wasn't just like he was missing from the grave.
01:28:41.180They actually saw him, and they were killed for it.
01:28:43.740And no man would willingly go to his death.
01:28:45.800These were Jews who were going to be killed for saying this blasphemy that Jesus was Christ and that he'd come back, and they went to their deaths willingly following his example.
01:28:56.480So anyway, I know everybody already knows this, but I am on my own little faith discovery at a ripe old age in life, Benny, and it's been very helpful to me.
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