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Border Stand Off w/ Federal Government, Biden Sanctions Texas & Live Look at Current Events in Israel Week In Review · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome.
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  Speaker 2: It is Verdict with Center, Ted Cruz Weekend Review, Ben
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  Speaker 2: Ferguson with you, and these are the big stories that
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  Speaker 2: you may have missed that we talked about this past week.
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  Speaker 2: First up, Joe Biden is demanding that the bob wire
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  Speaker 2: in Texas come down. The problem is many in the
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  Speaker 2: federal government aren't exactly listening to the president's demands. Will
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  Speaker 2: this be a serious standoff between the state of Texas
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  Speaker 2: and the federal government? And if Joe Biden tells him
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  Speaker 2: to push further, will the federal government actually do it
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  Speaker 2: on his behalf. We'll explain the details and the legality
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  Speaker 2: of that in just a moment. Also, Joe Biden is
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  Speaker 2: now sanctioning Texas.
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  Speaker 1: That's right.
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  Speaker 2: For the first time in history, a US president is
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  Speaker 2: attacking another state, trying to get them to bow to
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  Speaker 2: his demands over the issue of an open border. And
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  Speaker 2: now it's affecting liquefied natural gas exports, and it's enriching
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  Speaker 2: Russia and China and finally, so much any of you
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  Speaker 2: have asked, how can we help the people in Israel
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  Speaker 2: after the war that has broken out. We have a
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  Speaker 2: special live look in Israel from one of our guests,
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  Speaker 2: it is the weekend review and it starts right now.
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  Speaker 2: The word they use this week on TV was insurrection,
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  Speaker 2: and Griff Jenkins Fox News put out this tweet talking
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  Speaker 2: about what you were just mentioning, take a look at this, guys,
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  Speaker 2: because this is a very interesting scenario.
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  Speaker 3: Here.
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  Speaker 2: It says a senior CBP official tells Fox the relationship
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  Speaker 2: between Border Patrol, Texas DPS and the TMD remains strong.
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  Speaker 2: Bottom line, Border Patrol has no plans to remove infrastructure
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  Speaker 2: see wire placed by Texas along the border. Our posture
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  Speaker 2: remains the same. So there were people on TV saying,
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  Speaker 2: if this is true, this is like an insurrection. I
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  Speaker 2: think that's absurd. But if you have federal government officials
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  Speaker 2: that aren't listening to the quote orders of the Biden
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  Speaker 2: administration and saying we're not going to do this, what
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  Speaker 2: does that mean?
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  Speaker 3: Well, look, and mind you, the same people who are
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  Speaker 3: saying this, So the democrats elected Democrats and the lefties
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  Speaker 3: in the press who praised, for example, people in the
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  Speaker 3: military under Trump who they said, well they won't follow
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  Speaker 3: his orders, they will resist his orders. Mind you, in
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  Speaker 3: this instance, look, I know the Border Patrol agents, many
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  Speaker 3: of them very very well, I spent a lot of
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  Speaker 3: time with him. They are horrified at what Joe Biden
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  Speaker 3: is doing. They're watching the body bags, the death, the suffering,
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  Speaker 3: the children who were assaulted, the women who were raped.
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  Speaker 3: They're seeing it on a daily basis, and it is Look,
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  Speaker 3: at some level, if you have a president who is
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  Speaker 3: so utterly out of touch that he wages war on
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  Speaker 3: the law, that he's defying the law, that he is
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  Speaker 3: instructing him go destroy go use my example, go bomb,
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  Speaker 3: go bomb the walls, you would expect some federal officials
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  Speaker 3: to say, hold on, you have no legal authority to
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  Speaker 3: do this. This is just an abuse of power. And
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  Speaker 3: look our system. We are pushing to the edges of
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  Speaker 3: a constitutional crisis because we have a president who is
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  Speaker 3: so utterly lawless that he puts his partisan political agenda
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  Speaker 3: above the rule of law, above federal immigration law, above
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  Speaker 3: the Constitution, above people's welfare, above protecting the lives of Texans,
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  Speaker 3: and it is all politics, all the time with the
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  Speaker 3: Biden Whitehouse, I.
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  Speaker 2: Got to ask you, you just said something that is
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  Speaker 2: very interesting, and that was about a constitutional crisis. Texas
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  Speaker 2: isn't having to do this alone. Thank goodness, You've got
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  Speaker 2: I think it's twenty five different states now that have
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  Speaker 2: come to the aid of Texas fighting for states rights,
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  Speaker 2: saying you have a right to defend your state.
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  Speaker 3: And it is powerful governor after governor after governor saying
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  Speaker 3: we stand with Texas, we stand with Texas, we stand
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  Speaker 3: with Texas. And Joe Biden is trying to say to
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  Speaker 3: the states, I don't care, I want your state to
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  Speaker 3: be invaded. I want the law to be ignored because
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  Speaker 3: my partisan politics matter more than your obligation to protect
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  Speaker 3: the safety of your citizens.
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  Speaker 1: So explain the rules.
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  Speaker 2: And this is I think a very important point because
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  Speaker 2: it's gonna come up.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously.
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  Speaker 2: You have some states are sitting, for example, state troopers
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  Speaker 2: to the state. Who is that under state authority? Is
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  Speaker 2: that federal? If you're clashing, right, if you're temperate, And
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  Speaker 2: then and then the second part is the National Guard
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  Speaker 2: can work in two different scenarios, one for the governor
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  Speaker 2: and then all of a sudden, the federal government can
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  Speaker 2: come in. And that's been a big fight over the
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  Speaker 2: last several days of what if he nationalizes the federal
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  Speaker 2: you know these guardsmen, how does that play out? And
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  Speaker 2: explain how it works If there's two different people that
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  Speaker 2: are your boss, who do you decide with?
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  Speaker 3: So ordinarily, the National Guard is under the direction of
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  Speaker 3: the governors.
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  Speaker 1: And the national Guard of each state is under that
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  Speaker 1: governor of that state.
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  Speaker 3: Now, under federal law, the president has the authority to
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  Speaker 3: call up to nationalize the National Guard and put it
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  Speaker 3: under the direction of the federal government. And a bunch
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  Speaker 3: of folks on the left are demanding that Biden do
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  Speaker 3: that in Texas. I don't think think he will that.
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  Speaker 3: The clip we played of Greg Abbott, what he was
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  Speaker 3: responding to, was the claim what happens if he tries
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  Speaker 3: to nationalize the Guard? I don't think Biden will do
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  Speaker 3: that because it has a risk of backfiring if he did.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not sure what will happen. But what he cannot
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  Speaker 3: nationalize is DPS troopers. He cannot nationalize the state law enforcement.
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  Speaker 2: And so even example is Florida sent a lot of
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  Speaker 2: state troopers right to Texas this past week there was
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  Speaker 2: a caravan coming up.
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  Speaker 1: He could have no control over them, none whatsoever.
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  Speaker 3: The federal government does not have the ability to nationalize
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  Speaker 3: state law enforcement. So conceivably Biden could try to nationalize
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  Speaker 3: the National Guard, and at that point assuming the Guard
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  Speaker 3: complies with those orders, and they're not challenged in court,
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  Speaker 3: they're not struck down. Assuming the Guard complies with those orders.
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  Speaker 3: It's no different than Biden's sending in the army. It
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  Speaker 3: is federal military, but there are still state officials and
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  Speaker 3: the potential for clashes. Now, do I think you're going
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  Speaker 3: to see state and federal officials shooting each other? No?
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  Speaker 1: I do think.
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  Speaker 3: Look, you've got crazies on the left that are pushing
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  Speaker 3: you know. Might you see Biden try to order order
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  Speaker 3: federal officials to arrest state officials?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: I think that's possible, and we are starting to get
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  Speaker 3: into very uncharted territory.
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  Speaker 2: Who can be arrest in that scenario is that the
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  Speaker 2: governor on down the governor there.
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  Speaker 1: You're talking about like a guy at the border.
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  Speaker 2: He's saying I'm not going to take down that razor
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  Speaker 2: wire and they say, okay, arrest him or who's laying
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  Speaker 2: razor wire for example.
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  Speaker 3: And I don't think that's gonna happen. But Joe Biden
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  Speaker 3: is listening to the radicals, the extreme in his party,
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  Speaker 3: and he keeps escalating and escalating and escalating, and it's dangerous.
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  Speaker 3: Just like Joe Biden is endangering American lives abroad, and
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  Speaker 3: we saw three servicemen and women murdered this weekend by
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  Speaker 3: Iranian proxies because of Joe Biden's lawlessness at the and
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  Speaker 3: support of genocidal killers. At the same time, Joe Biden
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  Speaker 3: is endangering Americans here because of his lawlessness and support
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  Speaker 3: for holicidal killers that are human traffickers and drug traffickers.
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  Speaker 3: In both instances, it is because this Biden White House
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  Speaker 3: puts politics above the safety and security of Americans. And
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  Speaker 3: the question every Democrat is going to have to answer,
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  Speaker 3: every Democrat senator, every Democrat House member, do you stand
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  Speaker 3: with the lawlessness and the extreme agenda of the Biden
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  Speaker 3: White House or do you stand with the safety of
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  Speaker 3: the American people? And at least to date, just about
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  Speaker 3: every elected Democrat in the country puts politics above safety.
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  Speaker 3: And that's what makes where we are right now so
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  Speaker 3: extreme and so dangerous.
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  Speaker 2: You just said two words, so extreme and so dangerous.
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  Speaker 2: I do want to remind people. Wasn't this administration that
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  Speaker 2: said that the adults are finally back in charge, so
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  Speaker 2: we will have none of these issues. I just want
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  Speaker 2: to remind everybody this is what they said about their own.
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  Speaker 4: Team has any connection to reality about what is going
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  Speaker 4: on around them. Should have watched that and said, the
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  Speaker 4: adults are back in the room.
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  Speaker 3: It seems as though we have a professional adult once
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  Speaker 3: again in the White House who's just simply doing the work.
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  Speaker 1: Really, the theme I would say is the adults are back.
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  Speaker 3: Still.
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  Speaker 4: It is a relief to have adults in charge.
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  Speaker 1: Now we have adults in the White House.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, the adults are back in the room.
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  Speaker 4: There is a sense, I think the world over that
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  Speaker 4: the adults have returned.
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  Speaker 2: We have an adult in the White House now, and
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  Speaker 2: it's glorious.
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  Speaker 1: This is what adulting looks like. I'll take a kid
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  Speaker 1: in charge at this point.
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  Speaker 2: God bless so.
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  Speaker 3: We actually and the irony is every word of that
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  Speaker 3: is a lie number. Well, look, Joe Biden is a
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  Speaker 3: senior citizen, and he may be so adult that he's
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  Speaker 3: not aware of what's happening. But I'll tell you the
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  Speaker 3: agenda has been extreme and dangerous, and you look at
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  Speaker 3: things like the withdrawal from Afghanistan incompetent, naive, ideological. It
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  Speaker 3: is the opposite of adult leadership. Adult leadership focuses on
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  Speaker 3: let's follow the law. Adult leadership focuses on we've got
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  Speaker 3: a test to do. Adult leadership focuses on let's keep
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  Speaker 3: people safe. Adult leadership focuses on what's an American interest?
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  Speaker 3: Adult leadership focuses on how do we stop bad guys
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  Speaker 3: from hurting us? Everything Joe Biden and the Democrats have
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  Speaker 3: done is the opposite of adult leadership. It is naive,
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  Speaker 3: it is dangerous, it is extreme, and the country is
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  Speaker 3: a lot less safe as a result.
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  Speaker 2: Now, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation,
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  Speaker 2: you can go back and listen to the full podcast
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  Speaker 2: from earlier this week. Now onto story number two. I
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  Speaker 2: want to move also to another important issue, and this
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  Speaker 2: is one that's starting to pick up some steam here.
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  Speaker 2: It deals with liquid natural gas and these ports that
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  Speaker 2: have basically been stopped out of nowhere. And the alibi
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  Speaker 2: for the Biden White House says, we met shocking enough
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  Speaker 2: with a twenty five year old TikToker that really explained
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  Speaker 2: to us the environmental problems. So we're going to study
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  Speaker 2: the environmental problems with liquifinancial gas, and it may take
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  Speaker 2: over a year, it will certainly be after the election.
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  Speaker 2: If we were to turn these back on it's going
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  Speaker 2: to have a massive impact on Texas. But the timing
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  Speaker 2: of it center is the part that's so suspect. It
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  Speaker 2: was right after Texas and the Supreme Court ruling came
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  Speaker 2: down that said that, hey, the federal government can get
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  Speaker 2: through your razor wire.
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  Speaker 1: The ruling also, as we.
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  Speaker 2: Talked about extensively on the show, it didn't say you
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  Speaker 2: had to stop putting down razor wire, and it didn't
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  Speaker 2: say to Texas you had to pick it up. And
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  Speaker 2: it was almost like the White House said, Okay, well,
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  Speaker 2: if you're going to mess with us, and then twenty
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  Speaker 2: five other governors got involved and said, hey, we're going
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  Speaker 2: to send troopers at state troopers and our guardsmen, National
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  Speaker 2: Guardsmen to help in Texas. Wasn't a shout across about
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  Speaker 2: Texas with US out of nowhere plan of theirs that
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  Speaker 2: was like, hey, we're basically going to put sanctions on
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  Speaker 2: you guys because you need to get line in any
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  Speaker 2: other state that's helping you, you could be next.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, and yes. So what happened was last week
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  Speaker 3: the Biden administration announced that it was halting new permits
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  Speaker 3: for the export of liquid natural gas and for export
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  Speaker 3: terminal projects to export liquid natural gas. Now what does
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  Speaker 3: that mean? It means three things. Number One, what Joe
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  Speaker 3: Biden did is effectively sanctioned the state of Texas. This
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  Speaker 3: is declaring war on Texas. And I think you're exactly right.
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  Speaker 3: He did it because he's pissed off that Texas is
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  Speaker 3: standing up to the Biden administration on the border, is
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  Speaker 3: fighting to secure the border. And he said, all right,
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  Speaker 3: if you're going to stand up and fight us, we're
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  Speaker 3: going to attack you and try to destroy jobs in
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  Speaker 3: the state of Texas. This was very deliberate a sanction
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  Speaker 3: on the great state of Texas. Number Two, this is
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  Speaker 3: a fine on American families. Joe Biden said, hardworking families.
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  Speaker 3: I don't care about Americans. I'm going to punish you
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  Speaker 3: by driving up energy costs. Number Three, this announcement is
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  Speaker 3: a subsidy for Vladimir Putin. Understand This announcement is Joe
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  Speaker 3: Biden saying, I am going to give billions of dollars
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  Speaker 3: to Putin and Russia. Why because look, our allies, Europe, Asia,
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  Speaker 3: they need natural gas. Natural gas it's produced in a
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  Speaker 3: gases form and then it's liquefied to be transported typically
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  Speaker 3: on ships. Natural gas is incredibly important for heating for
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  Speaker 3: power for all of the world, and Europe imports a
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  Speaker 3: ton of natural gas. Asia imports a ton of natural gas.
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  Speaker 3: The largest producer of natural gas in the world is
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  Speaker 3: the United States of America. Now Russia is a massive
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  Speaker 3: producer of natural gas as well. When Joe Biden says
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  Speaker 3: we're going to halt new export terminals for natural gas,
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  Speaker 3: he is handing a gift to Vladimir Pudin. Because the
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  Speaker 3: Europeans are not going to suddenly not heat their homes.
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  Speaker 3: They're not gonna say, Okay, we're gonna freeze to death
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  Speaker 3: because Joe Biden's mad. No, They're going to get the
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  Speaker 3: gas somewhere, and if they don't get it from the US,
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  Speaker 3: they're much much more likely to get it from Russia.
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  Speaker 3: So this is a gift to Russia. And here's the
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  Speaker 3: final amazing thing. You know what this decision also does.
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  Speaker 3: What is that hurts the environment?
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  Speaker 2: Explain it, because this is the amo that everybody listening needs.
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  Speaker 3: It is critically important. And I'll say twofold number one.
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  Speaker 3: US natural gas is produced much much more cleanly than
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  Speaker 3: natural gas virtually anywhere else on Earth, much much more
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  Speaker 3: cleanly than Russian natural gas. So if you want less
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  Speaker 3: pollution in the air, if you want less carbon in
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  Speaker 3: the air, you want to consume US natural gas because
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  Speaker 3: we have significant environmental protections on how we produce it
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  Speaker 3: here there they don't. So what Joe Biden is saying is, hey,
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  Speaker 3: let's rely more on the Russians. Let's have them produce
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  Speaker 3: more gas. Let's have them pollute the environment even more.
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  Speaker 3: And by the way, if you notice the atmosphere, it
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  Speaker 3: doesn't stop at a country's border, like the atmosphere goes
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  Speaker 3: all around the planet. So do you know who the
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  Speaker 3: biggest polluter on the face of the planet is.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to go with either China or Russia. That's
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  Speaker 1: my best guess.
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  Speaker 3: When it comes to this, China, by a huge order
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  Speaker 3: of magnitude, China is massively the biggest polluter on the
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  Speaker 3: face of the planet. China is also building more coal
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  Speaker 3: plants right now than the United States has in the
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  Speaker 3: entirety of our country. They're building new coal plants that
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  Speaker 3: exceed the total coal plants in America. Now, why does
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  Speaker 3: that matter? If you care about the environment, if you
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  Speaker 3: care about pollution, if you care about carbon, which country
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  Speaker 3: year after year after year has led the world in
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  Speaker 3: reduction carbon emissions.
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  Speaker 2: America. Why because, well, I think when we have tons
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  Speaker 2: of regulation, do we actually care about the environment.
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  Speaker 3: Both true, but that's not Neither of those are Why
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  Speaker 3: what is it?
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  Speaker 5: Then?
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  Speaker 3: The biggest reason is the wide scale substitution of natural
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  Speaker 3: gas for coal and electricity production. So you want to
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  Speaker 3: talk about what really pollutes the hell out of the environment,
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  Speaker 3: it's burning coal in power plants to turn on electricity.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's interesting. A lot of liberals they think,
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  Speaker 3: you know, they think, oh, I've got an electric car,
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  Speaker 3: I've got I've got a fancy electric car. Isn't that great?
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  Speaker 3: And it never occurs to them. Where does that electricity
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  Speaker 3: come from? Well, like, well, it comes from the wall.
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  Speaker 3: I plug it in and it just magically spews from
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  Speaker 3: the wall.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Well, well no, that electricity has to be generated, has
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  Speaker 3: to be generated in a power plant. Now how is
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  Speaker 3: it generated? For years, the predominant method of generating electricity
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  Speaker 3: was burning coal. The United States has a ton of coal.
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  Speaker 3: We're essentially the Saudi Arabia of coal. The problem is
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  Speaker 3: when you burn coal, it pollutes a lot and it
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  Speaker 3: emits a ton of carbon. Now what we have seen
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  Speaker 3: in the last decade because of the shale revolution, so
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  Speaker 3: the shale revolution shale, and it's also the fracking revolution.
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  Speaker 3: We have unlocked massive reserves of natural gas. And what
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  Speaker 3: that has done in the United States is we have
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  Speaker 3: seen tons of coal electricity plants shutting down and being
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  Speaker 3: replaced with natural gas electricity plants. Why does that matter
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  Speaker 3: because a natural gas electricity plant emits much much much
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  Speaker 3: less pollution than a coal plant, and it emits much
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  Speaker 3: much much less carbon than a coal plant. And that
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  Speaker 3: is why America leads the world in carbon reductions. At
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  Speaker 3: the same time we're doing this, China is building coal
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  Speaker 3: plants like crazy. And so when Joe Biden steps in
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  Speaker 3: and says we want to stop America from selling natural
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  Speaker 3: gas to the world, he is a saying, by your
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  Speaker 3: natural gas from Russia, from Iran, from Venezuela, from enemies
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  Speaker 3: of America run by dictators who are very dangerous number one.
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  Speaker 3: But number two, he's also saying, producer electricity from coal,
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  Speaker 3: which pollutes the environment much much more. Understand if all
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  Speaker 3: you cared about was the environment, Joe Biden's announcement this
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  Speaker 3: past week was horrible for the environment, and he did it.
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  Speaker 3: I think you're exactly right as a petulant attack on Texas.
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  Speaker 3: He's mad that Texas is fighting to secure the border,
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  Speaker 3: and he said, all right, I'm going to destroy jobs
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  Speaker 3: in the great state of Texas.
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  Speaker 2: Last question on this. And I think it's interesting to
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  Speaker 2: see that this could backfire in a big way. The
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  Speaker 2: Washington Post, the liberal, hardcore socialist Washington Post, put out
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  Speaker 2: an opinion piece by the editorial board saying Biden's it's
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  Speaker 2: their headline, Biden's liquid natural gas decision is a win
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  Speaker 2: for political symbolism, not the climate. They're even calling him
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: out for. This was petty and obviously a decision made
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: to hurt Texas and that can cost seventy thousand Americans
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: or jobs, and doing it for these other reasons, and
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  Speaker 2: by the way, saying it's not about the climate, No.
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  Speaker 3: That's exactly right. Here's what the Washington Post editorial board said.
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  Speaker 3: Quote on Friday. However, that same Biden administration ordered a
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  Speaker 3: de facto halt to the approval of new facilities for
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: exporting the resources to countries with which the United States
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: does not have free trade agreements, a category that includes
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  Speaker 3: all of Europe. So, by the way, this is also
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: a sanction on Europe. It's an election year sop to
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: climate activists that will do much more to unsettle vital
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: US alliances then to save the planet. That's a quote
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  Speaker 3: from the Washington Post. That's how far out of the
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: bounds of reasonableness when your two left wing for the
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: Washington Post. Well, that's got to be the Biden administration.
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  Speaker 1: As before.
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  Speaker 2: If you want to hear the rest of this conversation
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  Speaker 2: on this topic, you can go back and dow the
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  Speaker 2: podcasts from earlier this week to hear the entire thing.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: I want to get back to the big story, number
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  Speaker 2: three of the week. You may have missed.
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  Speaker 1: Senator.
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  Speaker 2: You and I have talked so much about what is
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  Speaker 2: happening in Israel. And look, there's a lot of other
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: issues that obviously are happening in the news, other things
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: that are happening in this administration and policies in Iran.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: But I do want to pause and you and I
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: talked about this and go back. Joining us now as
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  Speaker 2: a guest, Yell ex Stein is the president and the
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  Speaker 2: CEO of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, doing
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: amazing work on the ground, especially with those that were
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: affected by the horrific attacks in Israel. First of all,
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: thank you for coming on. We really appreciate it and
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: the work you're doing. You're in Israel right.
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  Speaker 5: Now, correct, Thank you so much for having me. What
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  Speaker 5: an honor.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, welcome, We're very glad to have you on Verdict.
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  Speaker 3: And tell us where in Israel are we talking to you?
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  Speaker 5: So I'm in central northern Israel where we've had a
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: few rockets from Hamas come in. I've been in the
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: bomb shelter both with my children and also with different
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: senators from America. Governor Kakabi. I was in the bomb
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: shelter with him in Tel Aviv. And the biggest threat
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: right now in northern Nidral is actually Frezzalah, which would
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: make the war come with Kamas feel like something small.
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: So here in northern Nigel we're very on edge that
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: a huge figure war with the Hadalah would break out,
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: which would see around one hundred and fifty thousand rockets
• 20:52
  Speaker 5: on tiny Israel.
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  Speaker 3: Tell us what is the spirit? What is the morale
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: that people are feeling in Israel with obviously in the
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: wake of October seventh and the horrors that unfolded then
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: and now several months of active warfare. How are people
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: doing on the ground in Israel.
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  Speaker 5: Israel is resilient. Israel has always been resilient. We've never
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: lost sight that. Since nineteen forty eight we've been in
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: a fight for our survival and there's no other country
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: to go to. There are twenty two Arab states with
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: a population of four hundred and forty million people living there,
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: and there's one Jewish state with population around seven point
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: five million Jews. So no one in Israel has lost
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: sight of that. And we are all unified and resilient
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: and finding moments of hope and moments of movements of
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: peace and comfort as well that we're together and that
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: God is with us, and that we see how there
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: are hundreds of millions of mostly Christian friends around the
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: world who are standing with us as well. I just
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: saw an estimate that there's around seven hundred million Christians
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: around the world who are praying for Israel. So I
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: think what's in a way most difficult for Israel right
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  Speaker 5: now and the people is to see how anti Semitism
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: is rising again, to see how once again the world
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: is questioning if the Jewish people should have a right
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  Speaker 5: to exist being okay with Israel and the Jewish people's annihilation.
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  Speaker 5: So I want to start off, I think thank you
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  Speaker 5: to you in a world that is lacking such moral clarity. You,
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: since October seventh and before have been providing such a
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: moral compass to all of your listeners, all of your followers,
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: which especially day so unique and sacred and what everyone
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: here in Israel is just appreciative for.
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  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, yell, thank you. I will tell you we
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: are proud to stand with the people of Israel. October
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: seventh made clear to the world, to anyone paying attention,
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  Speaker 3: that this is a battle between civilization and barbarism, and
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: this is Israel standing against the face of evil. And
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: I'll tell you, Heidi and I are family. We are
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: praying for the people of Israel. The people of America
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: stand with you. And as horrific as what happened on
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: October seventh was, I believe there are at least two
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  Speaker 3: good things that will come of this. Number One, Israel
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: stated commitment to utterly eliminate Hamas if and when that happens,
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: and I think we've made real and meaningful progress towards that.
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: That is a very very good thing for Israel. That
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: is a very very good thing for America because Hamas
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: hates Israel and hates America and they want to murder
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: us both. And secondly, you referenced anti Semitism. I think
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: one of the things October seventh did is it laid bare.
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: It exposed the vicious anti Semitism we see globally but tragically,
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: especially in US universities. And listen, I believe that anti
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: Semitism was there on October sixth. I don't think that
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: was newly created, but what happened on October seventh exposed it.
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  Speaker 3: And I think shining a sunlight on it is a
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: key step to eliminating it.
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  Speaker 1: And so.
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  Speaker 3: Know that despite the viciousness, you're saying that millions and
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: millions of Americans and people across the world stand with
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  Speaker 3: the people of Israel.
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  Speaker 5: It's incredible, it's so inspiring. I read the words of
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  Speaker 5: Isaiah five, for example, and says in the last of days,
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: good will be evil, and evil will be called good.
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: And I see how in the beginning of the war
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: in October eighth, people were debating if Somemas beheaded babies
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: or just peacefully burned them alive. And then it took
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: less than one minute it TOAs bread the lie that
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: Israel bomb the hospital, which ended up in the Samas rocket.
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: But there is so much hatred towards the Jewish people,
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: there's so much anti Semitism. But what I see stor
• 24:48
  Speaker 5: Cruise is exactly what you're saying, that this isn't nineteen
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  Speaker 5: thirty eight. Today, it's a different reality because we have
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: the state of Israel which is able to protect the
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: Jewish people, and we have millions of Christians around the
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: world who stand with us. And that's exactly the message
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: of the Fellowshifts. You know, we've all learned about the
• 25:07
  Speaker 5: righteous gentiles during the Holocaust, who've learned about the core
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: ten Boons mas Chris Shimmler's And there's even a forest
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  Speaker 5: in Jerusalem that's planted outside of the Aadbushian for the
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: righteous gentiles. And what I see today is if we
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  Speaker 5: had to plant a tree for every righteous gentile who's
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: standing with Israel, cover an entire continent with trees. And
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: so what I represent on the ground here in Israel
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  Speaker 5: is millions of Christians who are feeding the hungry, clothing
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: the naked, who are not political at all, but are
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: standing with the biblical words of the Bible nahmuani comfort
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: you comfort nite people by bringing food to Holocaust survivors
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  Speaker 5: and their bomb shelters and providing bulletproof ambulances. And that
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  Speaker 5: is the difference today between twenty twenty four and nineteen
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  Speaker 5: thirty eight, and it's significant.
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  Speaker 1: Well, y'all, I want to amen, Amen, absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: I want to ask you and inform the vertical listeners
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  Speaker 2: because there's so many listeners a show that ask Center
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: Cruz when he's traveling and myself, they asked the same question,
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: what can we do to get involved? Talk a little
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: bit about what the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews does.
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  Speaker 2: The mission you mentioned and this is something that I
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: learned from you when we got to sit down and
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: break bread, is that there are these, for example, the
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: ambulances that they need, not just ambulances, but bulletproof ambulances,
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: and these are some of the resources that you guys
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: are helping with those on the ground that desperately need
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: these life saving not just care, but also the meals
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: and everything else.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you so much so. The International Fellowship of Christians
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  Speaker 5: and Jews is the largest philanthropic organization in Israel and
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: we represent the Christian community on the ground in the
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: Holy Land. We have three different areas that we focus on.
• 26:52
  Speaker 5: One is Alia, bringing Jews from at risk countries home
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: to Israel and the vision of the Bible. And that's
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: actually continued since October seventh. Almost every day we had
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: people landing in Israels from Ukraine, from the Arab world,
• 27:05
  Speaker 5: different places where they're persecuted. The second is focusing on
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: poverty and welfare, where we provide food and meals and
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: all the basic needs to people who are hungry and hurting.
• 27:16
  Speaker 5: And the third is security. And so on October seventh,
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: we were already prepared on the ground. We already provided
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: over five five hundred bomb shelters on the ground in Israel.
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: We already distributed bullet PROOFSS, we already distributed bulletproof ambulances.
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: We already in Barzilai Hospital which got four direct rocket attacks,
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: we already protected their labor and delivery and NICKU unit
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: that's completely fortified so that they were protected. And to
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: October seventh, we were already, we were already mobilized, We
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: already had the connections with all of the security officials,
• 27:52
  Speaker 5: with all of the welfare officials. And what happened on
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: October seventh was that suddenly the people who are normally
• 27:58
  Speaker 5: there to provide aided became the victims. We had a
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  Speaker 5: head of social work, a head social worker in southern
• 28:05
  Speaker 5: Israel who was kidnapped. We were calling her to say,
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: what do you need, how can we help? She was
• 28:09
  Speaker 5: in a gaza. She was kidnapped by the Kamas terrorists.
• 28:12
  Speaker 5: We had heads of cities who their children were murdered,
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: and so the Fellowship moved in on October seventh to say,
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: until the local national government is able to get together
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: to care for the fitsteens, we're here. We're on the
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: ground in Stoat As there were terrorists roaming, going shelter
• 28:30
  Speaker 5: to shelter bringing food. As the first responders were going
• 28:34
  Speaker 5: down south to fight the terrorists, the Fellowship was there
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: providing thousands of Bullipho's helmets and flat jackets. Because simply put,
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: Israel wasn't prepared for October seventh. It took us by surprise.
• 28:48
  Speaker 5: And so the fact that the Fellowship has been there
• 28:51
  Speaker 5: on the ground providing security for over fifteen years, we
• 28:55
  Speaker 5: were able to mobilize on October seventh, and we haven't sapped, since.
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  Speaker 2: That needs right now for specifically people in the US
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: that do want to get involved and want to help,
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: and how can they get involved in help well.
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: One of the biggest needs right now is actually for
• 29:10
  Speaker 5: food and basic needs for those who are evacuated, people
• 29:13
  Speaker 5: who haven't had a business, people who haven't had jobs,
• 29:16
  Speaker 5: many of them for over four months. We have reserve
• 29:18
  Speaker 5: soldiers who are called up four months ago, who have
• 29:21
  Speaker 5: barely come home, who haven't been able to work, and
• 29:24
  Speaker 5: those families, many of them were poor before October seventh,
• 29:27
  Speaker 5: and so one of the biggest needs that we're seeing
• 29:29
  Speaker 5: is really for the basics to bring food to the
• 29:33
  Speaker 5: families whose husbands are in reserve duty, who are poor
• 29:36
  Speaker 5: before the war and now are desperate, to the evacuees,
• 29:40
  Speaker 5: to the Holocaust survivors. I was in Serot just a
• 29:43
  Speaker 5: few week and a half ago. Scaut is a city
• 29:46
  Speaker 5: on the border with Gaza that was evacuated right after
• 29:50
  Speaker 5: October seventh, almost four months ago, and there are five
• 29:53
  Speaker 5: hundred elderly over eight years old who they said, we
• 29:56
  Speaker 5: would rather stay here and die in our homes than
• 29:59
  Speaker 5: live again as refugees. Most of them are Holocaust survivors.
• 30:03
  Speaker 5: And so there's no gross restores open, there's no infrastructure there,
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: and so it's the Fellowship who's they're providing food to
• 30:10
  Speaker 5: these elderly in the evacuated, war torn city of Stereos.
• 30:15
  Speaker 5: So right now it's the basics, which means we're not
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: looking for millions of dollars, we're not looking for huge donations.
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: Twenty five dollars provides a food box to one of
• 30:25
  Speaker 5: those elderly and Stereos.
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  Speaker 2: It's incredible the work that you guys are doing. Where
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: can people find out more specifically online?
• 30:33
  Speaker 5: So online you could go to our website www dot
• 30:36
  Speaker 5: ISCJ dot org and get all the information there. And
• 30:41
  Speaker 5: I'm veridicated to showing on a day to day basis
• 30:45
  Speaker 5: what the Fellowship is doing. So you can follow me
• 30:47
  Speaker 5: y Lxtein on all social media platforms, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn
• 30:52
  Speaker 5: and get day to day, real time updates on the
• 30:54
  Speaker 5: donations are saving lives.
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  Speaker 3: Well yeah, well, thank you so much for joining us,
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: and thank you for all that you are doing, and
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: know that our prayers are with you, our prayers are
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: with the people of Israel, and truth will prevail, Israel
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: will stand against the face of evil, and America stands men.
• 31:14
  Speaker 5: I can't tell you how comforting those words are and
• 31:16
  Speaker 5: how much you've put truth to action. So thank you,
• 31:20
  Speaker 5: thank you, thank
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: You as always, thank you for listening to Verdict with Sentner,
• 31:25
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• 31:27
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• 31:29
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• 31:31
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• 31:34
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• 31:37
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