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E122: Biden v Trump, The First Presidential Debate + Live Q&A · The Lila Rose Show

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So the position of President Trump, he wouldn't ban, he
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wouldn't stop the bloodshed and instead he would allow it to
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continue via the abortion pill. Now the smart thing he did here
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guys was that he called out Biden on the extraordinary pro
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abortion position of the Biden administration.
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The. The the, the, the, the total
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initiative relative to what we're gonna do with.
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OK, guys. What do you just say?
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I mean, again, this is the leader of the free world and it
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can't even put together a sentence.
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But I don't think the pro-life movement or good people of faith
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should say that Trump is their big champion and their hero.
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I don't think that's healthy. It's up to us as the voters to
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demand better. It really is.
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Welcome, guys, to the Lila Rose Podcast.
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Thanks for joining in the chat. You guys can hear.
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Awesome. Thanks, Jessica.
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Hey, John, Henry. Hey, Don.
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Fantastic. All right, we've got a lot to do
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today because last night was the first presidential debate.
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Let me know if you guys watched it.
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And it was between, of course, President Biden and now the
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Republican nominee president, former President Trump.
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We're going to break down what they said.
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We're going to hear a lot of clips.
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We're going to hear about their position on abortion, the
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border, the economy, really a sharp contrast between two
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different parties and their visions for this country.
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And also, quite frankly, the mental fitness of the
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candidates, particularly our current president.
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Have a lot of thoughts on that and some clips to watch on that.
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I think that there were so many people tuning into this debate.
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It crashed the CNN website at one point.
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The stream was glitching for a lot of people because so many
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people were tuning on this. Is the future of our country at
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stake in this election? And so many people are
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wondering, what do we do with these two candidates?
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Who do we vote for? How should we think about the
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how should we think about this election?
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So I'm going to break that down. OK, before we get into some
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clips, we're going to watch those here in a moment.
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All right, let's start with a clip from last night's debate.
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To be honest, guys, I, I was watching it while I was
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multitasking, making dinner for my family.
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And there was a moment of almost shock is a strong word, but
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definitely surprise of how far we've come as a country that
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this is our presidential debate. And I'm going to show you what I
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mean by that here in just a moment.
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But keep in mind, this is the world leader, the most powerful
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country in the world. These are the two men vying for
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the position of power for the next four years.
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One of them obviously already are sitting president.
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So let's start with this clip from the debate.
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This is President Biden, our president communicating in the
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debate. And let's let's see how this
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goes. What I'm going to do is fix the
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taxes and for example, we have 1000 trillionaires in America.
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I mean billionaires in America and what's happening, they're in
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a situation where they in fact pay 8.2% in taxes.
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If they just pay 24 percent, 25%, either one of those
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numbers, they've raised $500 million billion dollars, I
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should say, in a 10 year period. We'd be able to write, wipe out
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his debt. We'd be able to help make sure
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that all those things we need to do, child care, elder care,
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making sure that we continue to strengthen our health care
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system, making sure that we're able to make every single
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solitary person eligible for what I've been able to do with
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the with the COVID, excuse me, with dealing with everything we
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have to do with look, if we finally beat Medicare.
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Thank you, President Biden, President Trump.
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He's right. He did beat Medicare.
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He beat it to death. All right, so as you guys just
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heard, what did he say? Right?
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And there's actually a point in the debate, we're going to watch
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that a moment where Trump says, I don't even know what he just
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said. And the whole country is
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watching this. And I think that it is
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startlingly clear that President Biden is losing some of his
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mental faculties. He is the president of the free
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world. He's the president of the United
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States, the leader of the free world.
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And he has trouble putting a sentence together.
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And this isn't because of some muscle twitch.
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It's it's connected to his mental capacities at this time.
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The gentleman is 81 years old. President Biden is 81 years old.
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President Trump is 78 years old up there.
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President Trump did look as sharp as attack next to
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President Biden. This is not to say that you
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can't be extremely intelligent and mentally fit into your 90s.
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You know, my my grandfather is well into his 90s and he's
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extremely sharp. But some struggle as they get
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older. You know, that's part of aging.
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And clearly that's what's happening here with President
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Biden. Even Barack Obama, his old
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running mate here, chimed in and tweeted, this was actually just
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this morning, like an hour ago, Barack Obama tweets and says bad
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debate nights happen. Trust me, I know, OK?
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I mean, President Biden, I guarantee you, President Obama,
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maybe he had some bad debate nights.
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He was actually a really good debater.
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President Obama, he was an amazing and eloquent speaker.
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That's one of the reasons he was so successful.
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I believe in manipulating a lot of people.
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But President Obama doesn't know about a bad debate night like
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the one that Joe Biden had last night.
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He he never had a bad debate night like that, President
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Obama. So the fact that he's saying
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this, he's kind of throwing Biden under the bus, but he's
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also trying to say, like, guys, it's not a big deal, don't worry
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about it. Everybody has a bad debate
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night, not like that, Obama, not like that.
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And then Obama goes on to say, but this is about truth.
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And he says what's at stake is someone who lies versus someone
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who tells the truth. I'm sorry to tell to say this.
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I'm truly sorry to say this. But the reality is I think both
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of our candidates can twist the truth.
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And I think that our current president has manipulated and
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deceived people. We're going to talk about that
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more soon. And I have some issues with
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President Trump as well. We're going to talk about that
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as well. So for Barack Obama to make the
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statement that President Biden might be losing his faculties,
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but at least he always tells the truth.
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It's just false. It's, it's completely untrue.
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All right, let's go to this next little clip where Trump fires
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some shots back at Biden. And I'm going to continue to
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move until we get the total ban on the, the, the, the, the total
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initiative relative to what we're going to do with more
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Border Patrol and more asylum officers.
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President Trump. I really don't know what he said
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at the end of this, and I don't think he knows what he said
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either. Look.
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Yeah, I mean, it was sadly funny, but it's true.
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Many people didn't know what he was trying to say.
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Again, this is the this these are this is the leader of the
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free world. This is the president of the
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United States of America. And he can't even put together a
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sentence in a debate before the American public.
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And this is the candidate. On that alone, I can understand
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why Trump would win in a total landslide come November because
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you're dealing with someone who can't lead.
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If you can't speak, if you can't think, if you can't put thoughts
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together, how can you lead a country politically?
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You know, I think you can still be maybe a very spiritually deep
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person. Maybe you're you're in your
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elder years. You still have this beautiful
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virtue. But that's not what we're
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talking about with President Biden.
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We're talking about the president of the United States
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having one of the most taxing jobs that anybody could possibly
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have. That requires a tremendous
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amount of mental fitness. You guys might have missed this
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news story, but this came out just a few months ago.
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So apparently there was a special counsel assigned to
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investigate President Biden. And some of you guys might
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remember the story if you're really into tracking this.
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But President Biden actually sidestepped criminal charges
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after an invest. And this is NBC reporting, by
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the way. This is not some conservative
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outlet. You know, it's reporting this.
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This is NBC, which if anything, is favors President Biden.
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They report President Joe Biden sidestepped any criminal charges
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as the investigation into his handling of classified documents
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concluded. But the political blowback from
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the special counsel's report could prove even more
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devastating. What it says exactly here is
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that the special counsel wrote in in the potential trial that,
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quote, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he
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did during our interview with him as a sympathetic, well
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meaning elderly man with a poor memory.
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It was tough enough for Biden to reassure voters about his health
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before this report hit, and now people are questioning his
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mental fitness. It goes on to say that it was
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unclear that Biden could even remember when his son Beau was
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born. He had difficulty membering,
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remembering personal family memories, along with memories,
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of course, about our country and his job.
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If you can't even remember your own child and the circumstances
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of his birth, if you can't even remember what you had for lunch
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the day before, you can't even remember.
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We know what you're supposed to be doing in your job.
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Can you really serve as the President of the United States?
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This is not some conspiracy theory from the right.
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This is not just talking mean or being impolite or rude.
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These are real serious matters and a tremendously serious
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concern that now the entire American public shares after
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watching the debate last night. It was there was no avoiding the
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fact that President Biden, I believe, is not ready to be
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president again. And he's not, should not be
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president now, separate from all the issues, separate from all
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the other questions of policy and performance.
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Coming back to his ability to even put together a cogent
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statement in a debate. It's very concerning.
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And that alone, I think might cost him by a land side, might
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cost him the election. All right, well, let's go to the
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issues, though. That's really what matters,
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should be mattering. That's what we should be
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focusing on. Unfortunately, we have to focus
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on even the question of can this person even lead?
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But let's go to the issues. Of course, the issue that I
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think is crucial and is most important is how we treat the
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most vulnerable members of society.
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Listen, the economy matters, foreign affairs matter, the
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border matters, national security matters.
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Of course these things matter. It's hard to exist as a country
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without a strong border, without a strong economy, without strong
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relationships to other countries.
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And in the and we need peace. We want peace in order to have a
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strong economy and have strong and flourishing society.
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All of that is true. But even if we had all of that,
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if we are killing our children and the law is permitting the
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killing of children, we cannot flourish as a society.
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Violence is at the core of our society and injustice is at the
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core of our society. Of course, I'm talking about
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abortion. Abortion is the leading cause of
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death in this country. 2800 children are killed every single
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day by abortion. We can't continue on with such a
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moral stain on our national conscience and continue to allow
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this to happen. But it's happening.
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So how did the candidates cover this?
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Let's go to that. There were a lot of shots fired
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back and forth between the candidates on the issue of
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abortion, and I want to watch them and analyze them with you
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guys. Let's start with this first
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clip. First presidential election
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since the Supreme Court overturned Roe V Wade.
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This morning, the court ruled on yet another abortion case
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temporarily allowing emergency abortions to continue in Idaho
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Despite that state's restrictive ban.
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Former President Trump, you take credit for the decision to
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overturn Roe V. Wade, which returned the issue
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of abortion to the states. However, the federal government
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still plays a role in whether or not women have access to
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abortion pills. They're used in about 2/3 of all
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abortions. As president, would you block
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abortion medication? First of all, the Supreme Court
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just approved the abortion pill and I agree with their decision
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to have done that and I will not block it.
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And if you look at this whole question that you're asking a
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complex but not really complex, 51 years ago you had Roe V Wade
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and. We got to pause it here because
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what Trump just did was he's already been disappointing in
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recent comments on life, but what President Trump just did
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right out of the gate in this debate was extremely
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disappointing. And then he does something else
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that's also disappointing. But I want to start with this
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because it's really important for us all to know what just
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happened. The commentator, the Dana Bash,
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asked the question of the candidates, where do they stand
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on basically the abortion pill? And the Supreme Court just ruled
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yesterday effectively to not stop the abortion pill,
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certainly not stop it. And there's a huge ongoing
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lawsuit associated with the abortion pill ever since the
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Food and Drug Administration ultimately fast tracked its
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usage and it can be sent via mail.
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Now you have these lethal drugs being sent via mail.
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They can be sent to a 12 year old in her home by someone
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without any in person consultation, without any
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parental knowledge. I mean, it's really horrific,
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this trafficking of abortion drugs that are are lethal and
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they land also one out of every 25 women in the emergency room,
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one out of every 25 women who takes an abortion pill lands in
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the emergency room. And out of all those 25 women
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who take the abortion pill, 25 babies at minimum are being
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killed. And So what does Trump say in
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response? I mean, she's saying 2/3 of all
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abortions in America are the abortion pill.
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And Trump tragically, instead of saying it's horribly tragic that
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this happens. I'm pro-life through and
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through. We need to protect life.
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We need to change hearts and minds.
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I mean, Trump could have done a softball answer and he didn't
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even, you know, not even come out of the gate and say ban it,
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ban it all. He could have just said, of
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course, we got to fight for their lives.
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Instead, he says the Supreme Court just approved the abortion
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pill and that he agreed with their decision.
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And that Trump would not block the pill.
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President Trump is saying that he agrees with the decision to
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allow children to be killed by the abortion pill legally in
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this country. And that's 2/3 of all abortion.
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So the position of President Trump, which is so tragic here,
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this is the man that appointed the justices that gave us the
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fall of Roe V Wade. The whole point of the fall of
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Roe V. Wade is so that we can ban
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abortion and provide legal protections for children who
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deserve it. That's the whole point.
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And what are we doing with this great gift of Roe V Wade being
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overturned? Now the very man who helped it
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make it happen is saying he wouldn't ban, he wouldn't stop
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the bloodshed, and instead he would allow it to continue 2/3
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of it via the abortion pill. So it's terribly disappointing.
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These are human beings we're talking about.
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This is not some idea or theoretical child or just some
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potential child or potential life.
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These are human beings, boys and girls.
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They're beating hearts, children that deserve to live that are
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being killed via the abortion pill.
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There's stories of women who take the abortion pill and then
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they see their baby, you know, in the toilet after they're
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miscarrying these horribly bloody miscarriages in their
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homes. I mean, it's horrific, horrific.
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And here here's President Trump saying he supports it
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ultimately. And then he goes on to say that
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it's a state's issue and it needs to be a state's issue.
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Unfortunately, even the Republicans, some of them, like
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Carrie Lake and President Trump, were mad when Arizona, a state,
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recently tried to ban all abortions, saying we shouldn't
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do this. So the Republicans and the
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leadership, some of them are talking out of both sides of
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their mouth. On the one hand, they're saying
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it's a state's issue. It's OK, it's a state's issue.
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Let the states figure it out on abortion, which, by the way, the
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states shouldn't get to figure it out.
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This is not a question that states should get to decide who
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lives, who dies? Children.
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Do they get to live? Do they get to die?
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No, you don't get to enslave somebody just 'cause you live in
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Louisiana versus New York, it should be illegal.
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Slavery should be illegal everywhere.
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Similarly, you don't get to kill someone in the womb because you
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live in Louisiana versus New York.
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Killing people in the womb. Human beings should be illegal
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everywhere. But when Arizona, there was a
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ruling that came out, this Arizona Supreme Court to ban
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abortions, President Trump came out against it, saying they
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shouldn't do that, they shouldn't do that.
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So even when the states have decided to be pro-life,
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President Trump is against it. So it's deeply disappointing.
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Let's keep listening to what he says, how he finishes out the
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statement. And everybody wanted to get it
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back to the states. Everybody, without exception,
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Democrats, Republicans, liberals, conservatives,
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everybody wanted to back religious leaders.
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And what I did is I put 3 great Supreme Court justices on the
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court and they happened to vote in favor of killing Roe V Wade
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and moving it back to the states.
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This is something that everybody wanted.
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Now, 10 years ago or so, they started talking about how many
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weeks and how many this and getting into other things, but
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every legal scholar throughout the world, the most respected,
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wanted it brought back to the states.
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I did that. That's not.
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True, by the way, it is important here, you know.
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I hate that I have to fact checked here, but the reality is
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no, not every legal scholar thinks that to kill or not to
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kill preborn children in the womb should be left up to the
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states. There's a ton of legal scholars,
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including some of our own Supreme Court justices, who
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believe that these children in the womb have the right to life
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regardless of what state they live in.
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And that under the 14th amendment of our own
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Constitution, all human beings, all persons, should have equal
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treatment under the law, including a preborn child.
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To have equal treatment under the law means that you can't
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just be killed because you're in the womb.
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It means that you need to have your rights protected and your
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first right is life. And in fact, the 14th Amendment
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even says that no state shall deprive anyone of life,
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property, life first. You can't have your life taken
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from you without due process. There's no due process in an
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abortion. The child's committed no crime.
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It's not like they go before a jury of their peers and they get
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the death penalty. No, of course not.
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They're innocent. So even what Trump is saying
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here is tragically inaccurate. Let's keep listening.
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On the higher amount the rest of his statement.
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Now the states are working it out.
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If you look at Ohio, it was a decision that was it was a an
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end result that was a little bit more liberal than you would have
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thought. Kansas, I would say the same
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thing. Texas is different, Florida is
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different, but they're all making their own decisions right
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now. And right now the states control
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it. That's the vote of the people
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like Ronald Reagan. I believe in the exceptions.
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I am a person that believes, and frankly, I think it's important
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to believe in the exception. Some people, you have to follow
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your heart. Some people don't believe in
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that, but I believe in the exceptions for rape, incest, and
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the life of the mother. I think it's very important.
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Some people don't follow your heart, but you have to get
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elected also. And because that has to do with
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other things, you got to get elected.
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The problem they have is they're radical because they will take
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the life of a child in the eighth month and 9th month and
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even after birth, after birth. If you look at the former
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governor of Virginia, he was willing to do this.
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He said we'll put the baby aside and we'll determine what we do
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with the baby, meaning we'll kill the baby.
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What happened is we brought it back to the States and the
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countries here. So I like some of what Trump is
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doing here and saying, and I'm going to note that in a moment.
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But here's the thing Trump is saying.
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Well, I support exceptions. Follow your heart.
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Abortion pills, OK if the baby's conceived to rape and incest
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abortion, killing the baby's OK abortion's OK.
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And you know, life of the mother, it's OK again, you
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there's no medically necessary abortion.
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We, we've debunked this so many times at live action medical
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experts have debunked this. The left is still pushing this
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narrative, this lie, unfortunately.
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But the reality is in a late term situation where there's a,
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a crisis and a pregnancy and a medical emergency, you can
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deliver the baby alive. You don't need to kill the baby.
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You can do an emergency C-section or an emergency
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delivery. In order to address the
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immediate health issues the mother's facing and keep that
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baby, like you don't need to kill the baby first.
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And if it's preterm, a preterm delivery and it's a medical
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emergency, in extremely rare cases, that's not considered an
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abortion. The intent there's not to kill
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the baby. We wish we had the medical
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technology to save the baby's life.
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So even to say we need exceptions to abortion law,
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elective abortion for medical emergencies is also false,
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unfortunately. But listen, this is what I wish
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President Trump had said, and I hope his campaign is listening
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right now. We're going to send this to his
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campaign. We, we want this from President
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Trump. He gave us the fall of Roe V.
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Wade through those justices that he appointed.
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And we're grateful for that. But this is what he should have
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said. This is the winning message.
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I wish Trump had said, I am proud we overturned Roe.
20:53
No one has the right to murder. I wish he had said that killing
20:56
our children through abortion is a national horror that is only
20:59
paralleled by slavery in our history, that this is a national
21:02
horror and that life is precious, every life deserves to
21:06
live. And that I wish he had said that
21:08
as president, he will do everything in his power to
21:11
protect children from the mass slaughter of abortion and that
21:15
life is worth fighting for. You just said that and said
21:18
that's what I'm going to fight for instead of going this route
21:21
of saying all these exceptions, abortion pills, OK, he's trying
21:25
to win, I guess brownie points with the left here with the pro
21:30
abortion lobby, they're not going to vote for you anyways.
21:32
President Trump, they're not going to vote for you anyways.
21:35
And so to try to do this compromise posture, you know,
21:39
first of all, I just, it's, it's wrong.
21:41
It's morally wrong to do that. And I don't even think it's
21:44
politically smart. You want to rally your base
21:47
right now, President Trump, you want to rally the pro-life
21:49
movement, You want to rally people along to your cause to
21:52
say, we're going to fight for life.
21:53
We're going to do whatever we can in our power to protect life
21:56
because life is worth fighting for.
21:57
Like that's a positive message right there.
21:59
We're going to help families be stronger and healthier, going to
22:01
do more, more for women. You know, you can have that have
22:05
that message to that message is important.
22:07
But this was this was a mess. This was a big mess and
22:11
disappointing from President Trump.
22:13
Now, the smart thing he did here guys was that he called out
22:17
Biden. He called out Biden on the
22:20
extraordinary pro abortion position of the Biden
22:23
administration, especially Kamala Harris.
22:26
I think she's really pulling the strings here because the reality
22:29
is, if you sat President Biden down, what does he believe deep
22:32
in his heart? Does he even know what he
22:33
believes deep in his heart and abortion?
22:35
I think the guy is really controlled by the Democratic
22:38
machine. He's kind of a product or a
22:40
puppet of the Democratic machine.
22:42
And President Biden, I would argue, is even a puppet of
22:45
Planned Parenthood here. That's his talking points.
22:48
And what are his talking points? We want row.
22:51
Back. We want women's choice.
22:55
And what that means is there should be no intervention, no
22:59
policy protecting these children.
23:01
In fact, women should have to do what they want with their
23:03
doctor. That's the that's the Democratic
23:05
talking point. Even if it means late term
23:08
abortion, Even if it means abortion full term, Even if it
23:12
means abortion for any reason. Even if it means the abortion
23:15
pill being sent via the mail to a 13 year old girl without even
23:18
a doctor's visit and she can land in the emergency room.
23:20
Her parents don't even know what's going on.
23:23
The Democrats have notoriously been against parental consent
23:26
and notification when it comes to abortion.
23:29
It's crazy. It's outright crazy.
23:31
It's it's madness. And President Trump is reminding
23:35
people that's where Biden stands.
23:37
All right, do we have a clip of Biden talking about where he
23:39
stands here? All right, let's pull up.
23:41
Biden now talking about abortion.
23:44
What his? Take away now coming together on
23:47
this issue, it's been a great thing.
23:49
Thank you, President Biden. It's been.
23:51
A terrible thing, what you've done.
23:53
The fact is that the vast majority of constitutional
23:55
scholars supported Roe when it was decided, supported Roe, and
23:59
that was, that's this idea that they were all against It is just
24:02
ridiculous. And this is the guy who says the
24:05
state should be able to have it. We're in a state where in six
24:08
weeks you don't even know whether you're pregnant or not,
24:10
but you cannot see a doctor. Have your and have him decide on
24:14
what your circumstances are, whether you need help.
24:17
The idea that states are able to do this is a little like saying
24:20
we're going to turn civil rights back to the states.
24:23
Let each state have a different rule.
24:25
Look, there's so many young women who have been including a
24:27
young woman who just was murdered and he, he went to the
24:31
funeral and the idea that she was murdered by a, by a, by an
24:36
immigrant coming in to they talk about that.
24:39
But here's the deal. There's a lot of young women to
24:42
be raped by their by their in laws, by their by by their
24:45
spouses, brothers and sisters, by just.
24:49
It's just ridiculous. And they can do.
24:51
Nothing here. OK, guys, what did he just say?
24:55
I mean, wow. OK, so he starts by saying he
24:59
loves Roe, basically. And then President Biden starts
25:01
talking about illegal immigration, undocumented
25:04
immigration, and saying that there was a young woman who was
25:06
murdered. Completely non sequitur, totally
25:09
different issue. There was a glitch in his brain
25:11
clearly there. And then President Biden has
25:14
this line where he talks about what about the one he's talking
25:17
about abortion again, kind of he says, what about the young women
25:21
raped by their in laws, by their spouses, by their brothers and
25:25
sisters? And he kind of trails off at the
25:27
end. What did you guys just hear?
25:30
Because it sounds like President Biden is saying that we need to,
25:35
we need Roe V. Wade back because otherwise
25:37
young women will be assaulted by their own sisters.
25:43
It doesn't make any sense. And that just happened.
25:48
So more of the mental unfitness stuff happening here in real
25:51
time. And also, there's no coherent
25:54
language coming out of his mouth about abortion anyways.
25:56
What we do know is the policy of the Democratic Party and we do
26:01
know the policies of the Biden administration, regardless of
26:03
what he says here in this debate.
26:05
And the policies are repeal, repeal any pro-life law, get rid
26:08
of them all. We want abortion on demand
26:10
without apology and there should be no limit.
26:13
It's all what women want or whatever one woman or one
26:15
abortionist wants. Whatever Planned Parenthood
26:17
wants, they get. Keep in mind, Planned Parenthood
26:19
gets over 1/2 of a billion dollars from taxpayers every
26:22
single year. And under Biden's, Biden's
26:24
administration, he would give them more.
26:27
So that's a sharp contrast here between the candidates.
26:30
It's very clear that we're dealing with, unfortunately, 2
26:34
pro-choice candidates. We, we're, that's the reality
26:37
guys. And I know some people who
26:38
really support and love Trump or get upset when I say this.
26:41
And I'm not trying to upset you. I'm trying to tell you the
26:43
truth. The truth is this, President
26:46
Trump is not a pro-life candidate.
26:48
He's not President Biden is certainly not a pro-life
26:50
candidate. He's very pro abortion.
26:53
President Trump is less pro abortion than President Biden.
26:56
That is a fact. He supports some restrictions on
26:59
abortion. But what are we?
27:01
Talking about when we use even that language, some restrictions
27:04
on killing babies, It's OK to kill other babies.
27:08
How do we get here, guys? Separate from the mental and
27:11
fitness stuff, how do we get to the point where we have these
27:13
two powerful men on the most public debate stage in the world
27:18
debating which babies it's OK to kill and agreeing on the babies
27:23
that it is OK to kill as long as they're little enough?
27:26
Tragic. We need new leadership, guys.
27:29
We need new leadership long term.
27:30
And you know they that we will have new leadership in the
27:32
future. One way or another.
27:34
These gentlemen are pushing 80s, nineties soon.
27:38
So we're going to have new leadership, but it's up to us as
27:41
the voters to demand better. It really is.
27:44
It's up to us as the people to always speak the truth, to
27:48
always, even when there's a cult of personality going on, even
27:50
when we love maybe other things that President Trump did,
27:53
whatever it might be, to still speak the truth, to still speak
27:57
the truth and let the chips fall.
27:59
You can still vote for the lesser of two evils.
28:01
For those familiar with, as an example, Catholic moral teaching
28:04
on elections, you have the right to follow your conscience.
28:07
You should vote your conscience always.
28:10
And you often have a choice between 2 evils and you pick the
28:13
lesser of two evils. But I don't think the pro-life
28:16
movement or good people of faith should say that Trump is their
28:20
big champion and their hero. I don't think that's healthy
28:23
because look what we just got on this national debate stage.
28:26
Let me know what you guys think in the comments.
28:28
I'm going to be taking questions more throughout the rest of this
28:32
segment on the debate. But the reality is we have two
28:35
candidates who support abortion, 1 supports it less.
28:39
That is the reality. It's a sad reality.
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I want to run to the economy briefly here.
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I have some thoughts. So this is complicated, of
30:24
course. You know, anytime that there is
30:26
a debate about who did what for the economy, it gets very
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complex because there's a lot of factors involved.
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The president of the United States, of course, has a big
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influence on the economy, but that's not the only factor going
30:36
on. There's other things going on.
30:37
And so that's always the debate. But what I wanted to get to here
30:40
was a few things. First of all, just some facts,
30:43
guys, if you didn't already know this.
30:44
The GDP grew strongly under both presidents.
30:49
They actually grew at a similar rate.
30:53
And then when COVID hit, it fell a bit under Biden or fell a bit
30:56
under Trump, excuse me, but it let it's been leading.
30:59
So it looks like Biden's kind of leading, but that was in part
31:01
due to COVID. The stock market, these are just
31:04
the numbers over the last eight years.
31:05
The stock market performed better under Trump, again, at
31:08
14% versus 11. Inflation is the big one.
31:12
Everyone knows this because you're seeing those prices at
31:14
the grocery store or the gas station.
31:16
Biden inflation is 20 percent, 20% inflation in less than four
31:21
years. That's crazy compared to 5% from
31:25
Trump. So this is the big one.
31:28
This is what people are mad about.
31:29
This is what people are saying. Does my grocery bill look better
31:33
under Biden? Does my gas bill look better
31:36
under Biden? No.
31:37
It looks much better under President Trump.
31:39
Now, is that fully Biden's Trump?
31:41
Was it fully because was that fully Biden's fault?
31:44
Was that fully Trump? Trump's, you know, the good
31:47
things that he did that led to a lower inflation rate?
31:49
Those debates can happen, and we're not going to get into
31:52
those debates. But I think looking at the
31:53
facts. You can see why people consider
31:56
Trump a better decision for the economy.
31:59
The other part of this has to do with policies, of course, and
32:03
tax cuts. Trump is more for tax cuts.
32:06
That's a fact. And Biden actually campaigns on
32:08
how he'll tax the wealthy more. And what Trump responds with is
32:12
to say, well, when you cut taxes on businesses, when you cut
32:16
taxes on business owners, they can reinvest that money back
32:20
into the economy instead of giving it to the bloated federal
32:22
government. And Biden of.
32:24
Course says well just tax them more because they're rich.
32:26
Well, the reality is the folks that usually have the most money
32:29
are also driving most of the economic growth in this country.
32:32
And that, of course, is the classic argument for why tax
32:35
cuts generally are a good thing to stimulate the economy,
32:38
because that money gets reinvested back into the economy
32:40
instead of going to the bloated federal government.
32:43
I don't like taxes. I prefer smaller government.
32:46
I think that the government is so full of a lot of waste and
32:49
corruption that less is better and it also can help.
32:52
Curb spending because there's less money coming in.
32:55
It often doesn't, by the way. Spending just happens and we
32:57
just go more into debt. But the reality is.
33:01
We as a country are stronger when we allow businesses and
33:05
individuals to have more of their money, to spend more of it
33:08
on their businesses, families and communities.
33:11
And this brings me to my next point about policy.
33:14
Biden talked about childcare. And the need for childcare, he
33:17
actually mentioned it a few times in last night's debate.
33:19
But Biden's vision for the economy and for the American
33:23
family is for the government to subsidize childcare and that
33:28
would throw mothers particularly back into the workforce so that
33:31
they can make more money and that will supposedly help their
33:33
families more. I don't think this is the right
33:36
vision. I don't think this is a truly
33:38
pro family policy. I think this is an actually pro
33:41
government in charge policy to say the government should
33:45
subsidized daycare, drop the baby off, the mother can go to
33:48
work. Because the reality is often
33:50
these are families struggling to get by.
33:52
They need 2 incomes and the mother is not going to some
33:55
super high paying job if she can't afford daycare.
33:57
Often it's not a high paying job and instead of incentivizing the
34:01
mother and empowering the family to be able to make it on one
34:05
income and for the mother to be able to be with her kids,
34:08
they're saying drop the kid off at a subsidized government
34:11
daycare and you can go push paper at this other low paying
34:14
job. How is that good for?
34:17
Anybody it's not good for the child because they are in some.
34:22
Daycare where they are not being loved and cared for the way they
34:25
would by their own parent. It's not good for the mother
34:28
because she's off in a job that's not some high paying
34:31
great job anyways and she's pushing paper just to survive,
34:36
right? Or maybe she's working in the
34:37
food industry. Or the services industry and
34:40
she's not with her baby or her babies.
34:43
She's not getting that precious time.
34:44
That's that's very depressing for most women, by the way.
34:48
And it's not helpful for the husband in the picture if there
34:51
is a husband or the man, because he's now doing all of this work
34:54
and he can't even provide a home.
34:56
They can't live on one income. The economy is struggling so
34:59
badly. He can't even live on one income
35:01
so that he can even provide a home for his wife to stay home
35:04
with the child, right? And it's not good for the future
35:07
of the country because you're not investing in the American
35:09
family. You're investing in this, I
35:12
think feminist vision of the woman should always be out in
35:15
the workforce no matter what, even after she's three months
35:17
postpartum. That is not empowering to the
35:21
American family, to women, to men or to certainly not
35:24
children. So this vision of government
35:27
funded daycare is not a good one.
35:29
All right here. I want to read this.
35:33
The fiscal year 2025 budget released earlier this month
35:36
proposes major investments to increase accessibility and
35:39
reduce childcare costs, guaranteeing affordable, high
35:42
quality childcare from birth until kindergarten, with most
35:46
families paying no more than $10 a day and the lowest income
35:50
families paying nothing at all. Why don't you just give a cash
35:55
credit to families with young children so the mother doesn't
35:58
have to leave her child at birth or a few weeks or months after
36:03
to go into the workforce? And I hate to say this, but I
36:06
think it has to do with a competing vision of the human
36:10
person. I believe that the competing
36:12
vision that the Democrats are promoting with these policies
36:15
and Biden is promoting with these policies is not a family
36:18
first vision. It doesn't value motherhood.
36:21
Instead, it values money and work.
36:25
It's actually a very Marxist view of the world that we are
36:28
cogs and workers and we need to kind of be treated equally and
36:31
have equal opportunities. But the family is not this
36:34
important institution. That work really defines you.
36:37
And instead of your, your relationships and your identity
36:41
is as a human being is precious enough as is.
36:45
And what do we get when that happens?
36:47
You get broken families, less time as together as a family,
36:51
more more stress and division on the family.
36:54
It breaks down families and it's not as healthy for children.
36:57
We talk about this a lot on the podcast.
36:59
You guys have heard me do interviews with people like
37:01
Erica Komisar to talk about the psychological importance of the
37:04
first few years of child development and how important it
37:07
is for that baby to be with their mother in particular.
37:10
So public policy should support that, not break that down
37:13
further. And unfortunately, that's what
37:15
the Democrats want here. And there even has been some
37:19
talk in Republican circles about government funded daycare.
37:22
We got to cut that immediately. I think any Republican leaders,
37:27
you know, we're live action, We're constantly talking about
37:30
policy for both parties. And the policy should always,
37:33
always support the family unit as opposed to just pushing the
37:37
parents into the workforce. The idea should be how do we
37:39
create healthier families that can have more time for each
37:43
other and care for each other instead of pushing them into the
37:46
workforce just to become cause in the economic machine.
37:49
So I'm not a fan of the child care policy of President Biden.
37:52
I agree. Inflation is way too high.
37:54
You know, would that get better under Trump?
37:56
I don't know. I don't know.
37:58
I can't tell you that. But what I can say is the
38:00
Democratic vision for public policy for the family is not a
38:04
good one. It's anti family and I don't
38:06
think it's worth. I don't think anyone should be
38:09
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I think both the left and the right agree on that.
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We're not going to spend a lot of time on the show about this,
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That is not in any way hateful of people who are from other
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I think unfortunately, the the language here can get so
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You don't like immigrants. I mean, nothing could be further
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the interest in the right of any sovereign country to protect
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and they were actually against the dignity of the immigrant
42:12
because in some cases, families were separated.
42:15
By the way, I'm a completely against family separation.
42:18
I think it's horrible. But some of that was happening
42:20
under President Obama and then Vice President Biden.
42:24
So it's not like family separation never happened under
42:26
the Democrats. The reality here is it's a mess.
42:29
And the posture and tone of the Biden administration has been
42:33
looser on immigration than the Trump administration.
42:37
I'm not going to go into all of the details here.
42:39
We're going to do another segment on this.
42:40
I did do a podcast early on in this podcast history when it was
42:45
just an audio show, but we actually deep dived some myths
42:49
about immigration and what is the proper way to think
42:52
philosophically about immigration policy.
42:55
You can find that episode on podcast app.
42:57
If you're watching on YouTube, go check it out and download it.
43:00
We talked about the Christian response to immigration and I
43:03
actually got really great feedback on that episode.
43:05
People on both the left and the right saying I thought what you
43:07
said was really fair and I agreed with it.
43:09
So I think it's important that we share our fundamental
43:11
principles together. And a couple of the principles I
43:14
share in that podcast when it comes to immigration are these
43:16
every nation does have a right to its sovereign borders.
43:19
They have a right to borders. That's important.
43:22
Open borders is not some good goodwill thing to do.
43:25
It's actually not goodwill for your own people.
43:28
And the number two people, individuals from other
43:32
countries, have the right to seek a better life for
43:34
themselves. A lot of people coming to the
43:36
United States are coming here because they want a better life
43:38
for themselves. They're fleeing violence or poor
43:40
economic conditions in their country of origin, and they have
43:43
the right to seek that. That doesn't necessarily mean
43:45
they have the right to enter any country they want to, but they
43:47
have the right to seek it. There's a lot more I get into
43:49
that show, but please go check it out.
43:52
There have been a lot of reports, guys of just crime
43:56
associated with illegal immigration, some recent
44:00
heartbreaking reports. And, and the thing that I think
44:03
makes these reports so controversial is this the left
44:06
will say or Democrats will say typically, well, you're just
44:08
picking these horrible stories and saying that generalizing it
44:11
to all immigrants. All in all, undocumented
44:13
immigrants aren't like that. Of course, that's true.
44:16
But what the right says typically with this is that if
44:18
you see undocumented immigrants committing heinous acts against
44:21
American citizens or residents, like this case, this young girl
44:25
who was just murdered, recently assaulted and murdered, she was
44:30
12 years old and she was killed by two undocumented immigrants.
44:34
She wasn't talked about in the debate.
44:37
She was kind of referenced in the debate last night.
44:39
Here's an article on it. She was a Houston girl.
44:42
We can Scroll down here so we can see she was a girl from
44:46
Houston, 12 years, 12 year old Jocelyn and two undocumented
44:51
immigrants in the middle of the night killed her beneath the
44:53
bridge and threw her body savagely in a Creek.
44:57
And a lot of people are just shocked by this.
44:59
And what's so heartbreaking is it didn't need to happen.
45:02
If these men had been undoc, if these men had been apprehended,
45:05
if these men had been deported, if they hadn't been allowed to
45:07
come in here in the 1st place, Jocelyn would be alive today,
45:10
right? And that, of course, is the
45:12
argument from those criticizing Biden that these men came here
45:15
under under Biden and Jocelyn would be alive today if we had
45:19
had a stronger, stronger border policies.
45:22
One thing that Trump was quick to say in the debate, too, is
45:24
that a lot of military and a lot of Border Patrol supports
45:27
President Trump and like the way he does things more than Biden
45:30
and. That is a fact they are they do
45:33
learn more conservative because the the again the world view
45:37
often coming from the left on this it sounds very pro human
45:41
person like pro immigrant. Pro pro woman right?
45:45
But the policies to achieve being pro immigrant or pro woman
45:49
often do the opposite. Abortion as an example is not
45:52
pro woman, it's anti woman. An open border as an example is
45:55
not ultimately anti pro immigrant, it's anti immigrant.
45:59
Especially those that have come here legally and especially
46:02
those that are already here. And of course, opening our
46:05
borders leads to more chaos at the border as well.
46:08
And less regulation at the border means more drug
46:10
trafficking, more human smuggling, more sex trafficking,
46:13
all of these horrific things. The last huge topic of the
46:18
debate was foreign wars. That's a big one.
46:21
We are probably going to do an episode, we're going to be doing
46:23
another episode on the Israel Gaza war.
46:25
I've talked about that before. But the bottom line is this.
46:28
There was a, there was a quote from Trump in here where he
46:31
talked about the needless deaths.
46:32
I don't know if we have that clip from President Trump.
46:35
Let's let's pull this up and watch this.
46:40
Yeah. And Ukraine, if we had a real
46:42
president, the president that knew that was respected by
46:45
Putin, he would have never, he would have never invaded
46:48
Ukraine. A lot of people are dead right
46:51
now, much more than people know. You know, they talk about
46:53
numbers. You can double those numbers,
46:55
maybe triple those numbers. He did nothing to stop it.
46:58
In fact, I think he encouraged Russia from going in.
47:01
I tell you what happened. He was so bad with Afghanistan.
47:03
It was such a horrible embarrassment, most embarrassing
47:07
moment in the history of our country that when Putin watched
47:10
that and he saw the incompetence that he should, he should have
47:13
fired those generals like I fired the one that you
47:15
mentioned. And so he's got no love lost,
47:17
but he should have fired those generals.
47:19
No general got fired for the most embarrassing moment in the
47:24
history of our country, Afghanistan, where we left
47:26
billions of dollars of equipment behind.
47:28
We lost 13 beautiful soldiers and 38 soldiers were
47:32
obliterated. And by the way, we left people
47:34
behind too. We left American citizens
47:36
behind. When Putin saw that, he said,
47:39
you know what? I think we're going to go in and
47:41
maybe take my this was his dream.
47:43
I talked to him about it, his dream.
47:45
The difference is he never would have invaded Ukraine, never.
47:50
Just like Israel would have never been invaded in a million
47:55
years by Hamas. You know why?
47:57
Because Iran was broke with me. I wouldn't let anybody do
48:00
business with him so. You know, Trump is doing a
48:03
pretty good job communicating here.
48:05
Of course, the the argument from his campaign, which is that
48:08
under Biden we've had Israel, Gaza war, we have Putin invading
48:12
Russia, invading Ukraine. This did not happen under
48:14
President Trump. And that there were apparent
48:18
policies under Biden that seemed to signal weakness to the
48:22
international community. And President Trump is saying,
48:25
under me, it would have never happened, Starting with the
48:27
withdrawal from Afghanistan, where we left a ton of equipment
48:29
behind and endangered a ton of Americans, including American
48:33
soldiers, because we withdrew in such a sloppy way.
48:36
Now, the opposition would say, OK, well, withdrawing from any
48:40
country your military is very messy, period.
48:42
And thank God we did it because now we're not on the ground in
48:45
Afghanistan as much as we were before.
48:48
Yeah. But did it have to be so messy?
48:49
Did it have to be so bloody? And now because of these wars
48:53
that we're seeing in the Middle East, Israel, Gaza, the war
48:57
between now Ukraine and Russia, we're seeing 10s of thousands of
49:01
deaths in those regions and that could spread.
49:06
And that is the fear today. There is a fear that these wars
49:09
will escalate, More countries will jump into the fight and
49:13
then we're facing potentially World War three.
49:16
Are we safer under President Trump versus President Putin?
49:20
Which which? President would make us safer.
49:22
A lot of military supports President Trump.
49:25
A lot of our military does support President Trump.
49:26
So curious your guys's thoughts on that.
49:29
We'll probably deep dive out in a future episode and get some
49:31
experts in the room to maybe debate and discuss it.
49:34
But that is the big question, that existential question
49:36
hanging over a lot of people's heads is which which future
49:40
would be safer, the President Trump future or the President
49:43
Biden? And if the last four years is
49:45
any indication, it's not looking good, guys.
49:46
It is not looking good. We need to pray for an end to
49:49
the war in Russia and Ukraine. The war in Ukraine need to pray
49:53
for an end to the the Gaza Israel war.
49:55
But you can't have you do not achieve peace simply by
49:59
immediate, an immediate ceasefire.
50:02
As an example, in Israel, Gaza, if there was a ceasefire from
50:05
the Israeli side and Israel, the IDF just stopped, stop firing
50:09
rockets, stop trying to put out Hamas, Would that being peace,
50:12
Would that mean peace in Israel, Gaza?
50:14
The reality is Hamas, it was under a ceasefire.
50:17
There was a peace agreement when Hamas on October 7th came into
50:21
Israel early in the morning on a Saturday morning and slaughtered
50:24
1200 Israelis, including children.
50:27
There was a ceasefire then. So these are very volatile
50:30
regions and long standing conflicts that are not so
50:32
simple. And the question is what is the
50:34
United States's posture? Do we engage?
50:37
Do we not engage? This, of course, is always the
50:39
debate. All right, guys, we're going to
50:41
do a special segment for Locals Only subscribers over on our
50:47
Locals page. Before we do that, I wanted to
50:49
watch one more ad and AD from the Democrats about abortion.
50:54
This is actually from a Democrat supported.
50:57
I think it's a PAC. There's a lot of money right now
51:01
being poured into this election between President Trump, former
51:04
President Trump, and President Biden.
51:06
We're going to see hundreds of millions of dollars is probably
51:08
going to top billions of dollars in money in this election.
51:12
It is a very consequential election 2024 and you're going
51:15
to see a lot of that money being spent on abortion messaging.
51:19
Tragically, you're going to see most of that money being spent
51:22
on pro abortion messaging from Biden supporters because
51:27
President Trump is not really campaigning on life.
51:30
He's campaigning on compromising life, unfortunately.
51:33
So I want to take a little look at some of this, some of these
51:36
ads and we'll close out with this.
51:38
This is actually sadly humorous. I mean, you can see the the
51:44
craziness of this worldview, but this is from a, a company that
51:49
is pushing for Biden. They're against Trump, of
51:51
course, claiming that Republicans want to ban
51:54
contraception. And they're doing that with this
51:58
ad to show people what the world would look like under President
52:01
Trump. So let's take a look.
52:02
I'll. Be quick.
52:22
ID please. Do you need an ID to buy condoms
52:25
now? It's a new legislation passed by
52:27
Republicans in Congress after they voted against the Right to
52:29
Contraception Act Get. Out of here.
52:31
I don't make the rules. Will these be used with the
52:34
spouse? No.
52:37
Are you in a committed monogamous relationship?
52:39
We haven't really had the talk yet.
52:41
Is this heterosexual copulation? Yes.
52:45
Does that matter? Do you like Taylor Swift?
52:48
I mean her heirs torta was lit. I'm sorry, you're not eligible
52:53
to buy the condoms. Do you still want to buy the
52:58
Rose? OK, so for those listening on
53:08
podcast, what we just watched what you just heard, it was an
53:12
ad and it is from the Democrats of pro abortion ad and it's
53:17
saying that Republicans are trying to take away
53:19
contraception and they're showing a man they're showing a
53:24
couple who are in a in a car outside of a gas station, not
53:30
married or anything, obviously just like a hook up, a random
53:33
hook up. He stops, runs into a gas
53:35
station to buy a single, like cheap little gas station rose
53:39
and to buy birth control condoms to go back in and finish a
53:43
hookup. And the lady is stopping him and
53:45
almost like an Angel saying, you sure you want to do this?
53:50
I mean, honestly, when I watched this ad, I was like, oh, is this
53:53
an ad for why we should ban contraception?
53:57
Because it means that irresponsible men can't just be
54:01
having sex with women outside gas stations and just handing
54:03
them a gas station rose and thinking that that's chivalry,
54:06
that's love, that's romance. OK, That's not such a dystopian
54:10
future right there. That maybe that's not a good
54:12
thing to do, not a good thing, not a good way to have a
54:15
relationship with somebody. I don't know, call me old
54:18
fashioned, but I don't think hooking up at a gas station is
54:22
love, is romance. I don't think that's romantic.
54:26
I think that's usually the stereotype of what people do
54:29
with prostitutes and trafficking of individuals.
54:32
And, you know, there's like this in the side of the road late at
54:36
night. This is where bad things happen.
54:38
This is not a vision of any kind of positive future for men or
54:42
for women. But that's what this ad shows.
54:45
And they're saying, oh, this poor guy, He can't go buy
54:47
himself a condom to deal with his irresponsibility further.
54:49
I mean, The thing is really sad. Here's the reality.
54:53
As you guys know, contraception fails.
54:56
In fact, half of the women who have abortions were on
54:58
contraception the month they got pregnant.
55:00
Condoms fail. They actually have a failure
55:02
rate. That you can see on an insert in
55:05
the condom package that they don't always work.
55:07
OK, what happens when that fails?
55:10
That birth control, pregnancy often happens.
55:12
There's a new life that's conceived.
55:13
Then what happens? The contraceptive culture and
55:16
mentality says, OK, let's go get an abortion now.
55:19
We didn't want to be parents, let's go get an abortion.
55:21
Abortion is America's backup contraception.
55:24
It's horrible. And that's not a pro-life
55:28
country. That's not a just or loving
55:30
country. I'm not a country I want to live
55:32
in. I want my future, my kids to
55:34
grow up in. So in a way, this ad is
55:37
accomplishing the opposite of what it wants to do by saying
55:39
yeah or people watching I think are like, wow, this is this is
55:43
not the future that I want or a good future for men and for
55:46
women unless and the other thing.
55:49
That you know. What is what is this narrative
55:50
of Republicans want to ban contraception?
55:52
What they're really talking about guys, is this, did you
55:55
know that a lot of contraceptives today, and you
55:58
even read the insert on in a birth control box, a lot of
56:02
contraception has a backup mechanism that does design so
56:06
that the woman's uterine lining is weakened so that the baby
56:11
that's newly conceived is not able to implant and there's a
56:14
very early term abortion. That's what a lot of
56:17
contraception, hormonal contraception is designed to do,
56:20
kill very early conceived children so that they no longer
56:25
can grow by making the womb a hostile environment that of
56:29
course, is against the rights of that newly conceived child.
56:32
And that's why along with all of the health disadvantages, all of
56:36
the great toll that contraception can have, hormonal
56:39
contraception can have on a woman's health.
56:41
That's why a lot of people are against it.
56:43
So this is a very dishonest ad in one sense about the reason
56:47
why people are considering banning contraception.
56:49
It's not to ban contraception per SE.
56:51
It's to ban abortifacients, contraception that actually can
56:55
act and and does act as an abortifacient.
56:58
But in addition, contraception is not the way.
57:01
It's not loving. It's not romantic like they're
57:04
trying to show in this crazy ad. And again, it's the different
57:08
visions. It's a competing vision, right,
57:09
of a country. The vision of hook up sex, the
57:13
vision of sex without responsibility, sex without love
57:16
and commitment. Unfortunately, a lot of
57:18
Democratic policies promote that vision versus the vision of
57:23
supporting marriage, supporting family, supporting children,
57:26
supporting responsibility. I'm not saying every Republican
57:28
policy does that. No, I'm not saying that.
57:31
But that is the vision that we're fighting for and those are
57:34
the policies that we're working towards as well.
57:36
All right, guys, I'm going to take a look at this chat here.
57:39
Thanks so much, guys for coming on in.
57:41
Caroline, thanks so much for the comment.
57:43
She says I always learn a lot listening to these.
57:45
Thank you so much, Caroline, for listening.
57:48
There's a lot of heated debate in the chat section today.
57:51
You guys are on fire. I love it.
57:54
A lot of people talking about the faith, great.
57:56
We want to always do this through a faith-based lens, of
58:00
course, because that is this is God's world.
58:03
There were some comments earlier.
58:05
I wanted to just make sure I responded to some of these notes
58:08
here that you guys put in. Thanks again for listening for
58:10
those on YouTube live right now. Lot of comments about Biden and
58:15
Trump. It not being fair to Biden to
58:18
allow him to continue to act as president.
58:22
I've seen that comment a lot. How can they do this to him?
58:26
And they call it elder abuse. What Jill Biden is doing to
58:29
allow her husband to continue to be president.
58:31
Yeah, it's pretty rough, guys. All right, what do we do in
58:34
conclusion here? Let's pray.
58:36
Let's pray for our candidates. Let's pray for President Biden
58:40
to step down. Let's pray for new leadership in
58:44
this country that is pro-life and pro family and that can also
58:48
live in a right, right in a right way.
58:51
I have a strong moral compass. I think that is the future.
58:55
By the way, I think what you're seeing right now with Trump
58:57
versus Biden, it's sort of a death thrall of an old way of
59:01
doing politics. And I think there can be a new
59:04
generation of political leadership that is very focused
59:07
on faith, on family, and on the common sense policies.
59:10
And that's it's honest and true. I do believe that that's
59:14
possible for this country. I am not just, I think I'm not
59:17
being unrealistic. I think I am optimistic, but I
59:20
don't think I'm unrealistic because I believe the human
59:23
person is capable of so much good.
59:25
And if we pray for that, if we work towards that ourselves, and
59:28
if we ask for that from our current candidates and not get
59:31
caught up in this, I think a false narrative that we have to
59:37
consider Trump this hero in order to beat Biden.
59:39
I don't think that's true. I think we can call a spade a
59:41
spade and still vote for the lesser of two evils.
59:44
I think that sets a long term foundation for how we think
59:49
about politics, where we call a spade a spade, where we don't
59:53
speak lies, where we call our politicians to higher account.
59:57
Well, we also understand that in politics, people make
1:00:00
compromises and we do. When we get to that voting box,
1:00:02
we'll follow our conscience and often vote for need to vote for
1:00:05
the lesser of two evils. Thanks again so much for
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1:00:21
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1:00:24
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1:00:26
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1:00:30
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