Speaker 1: Our individual and religious liberties are under attack. If we
Speaker 1: don't protect them, they might disappear forever. Today I discussed
Speaker 1: a way forth with someone full of wisdom and common sense.
Speaker 1: This is Outlowed with Gianno calledwell. Welcome back to Allow
Speaker 1: with Gianno calledwey. I'm so excited for today's show, and
Speaker 1: when I tell you excited, I am truly excited. My
Speaker 1: guest today is the great Doctor Ben Carson, the founder
Speaker 1: and chairman of the brand new American Cornerstone Institute, a
Speaker 1: nonprofit thing tank dedicated to promoting conservative solutions to real
Speaker 1: problems our nation face. From March twenty seventeenth to January,
Speaker 1: Dr Carson served in the Trump administration is the seventeenth
Speaker 1: Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Dr Carson was also
Speaker 1: a President of candidate in the Republican primary. Before then,
Speaker 1: he was a world renowned neurosurgeon and became director of
Speaker 1: the Pediatric neuros Surgery at the John Hopkins Children's Center.
Speaker 1: I'll ask Dr Carson about his extraordinary life, his new institute,
Speaker 1: conservative values, and much much more. Let's go well today.
Speaker 1: I'm just so ecstatic to have one of my heroes
Speaker 1: on with me today and that's none other than Dr
Speaker 1: Ben Carson. Thank you for joining out loud with Giano Caldwell.
Speaker 1: Thank you for having me. It's a pleasure now the
Speaker 1: pleasures all mine. And I want to tell you you know,
Speaker 1: I grew up on the South side of Chicago, extremely
Speaker 1: pour lights, gas and water off at the same time.
Speaker 1: And growing up one of the people that they always
Speaker 1: put before us was uh, your poster and talked about
Speaker 1: your story. But you had an even more direct impact
Speaker 1: on me, um in a way that you probably don't
Speaker 1: even know today. I got involved in media back in
Speaker 1: and it was because of people like Armstrong Williams and you,
Speaker 1: of course, who was the executive editor of American Currency,
Speaker 1: the magazine at the Washington Times distributed. And because of
Speaker 1: that that led me to writing for a think tank
Speaker 1: called Project twenty one Radio, started calling B level TV,
Speaker 1: and then went on to work at Fox News Channel,
Speaker 1: which is where I work right now, is a Fox
Speaker 1: News political analysts, and then wrote a book and again
Speaker 1: again thanks in part to you, uh, titled Taken for Granted,
Speaker 1: How Conservatism can win back to the Americans and Liberalism failed.
Speaker 1: So I have a lot uh to thank you for
Speaker 1: not only just being a leader in this movement, but
Speaker 1: certainly being an active role model and mentor to so
Speaker 1: many of us who grew up poor, um, whether they
Speaker 1: be white, black, or indifferent, to lead a better lives
Speaker 1: for ourselves. So I thank you so much for that.
Speaker 1: Dr Carson. Well, you know, it's interesting you mentioned the
Speaker 1: South side of Chicago because I remember some years ago
Speaker 1: going there to a high school called Wendell Phillips High School.
Speaker 1: My mom went, oh, really, and you would have thought
Speaker 1: a rock star had come in because one of the
Speaker 1: banks had brought copies of my book Gifted Hands for
Speaker 1: all the students and they've been reading it. And uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I talked about being a nerd versus being cool,
Speaker 1: and where each one of those things from eight And
Speaker 1: at the end, I said, so, how many people want
Speaker 1: to be cool? Almost no one raised your hand? How
Speaker 1: many want to be a nerd? And that's about everybody raising.
Speaker 1: That was pretty interesting, No, it absolutely was, and I'm
Speaker 1: I'm just so interested, especially considering the fact that our
Speaker 1: backgrounds are very similar in the white Obviously, I'm not
Speaker 1: a newer surgeon or um as prolific of a figure
Speaker 1: as you at this moment, but certainly how is it
Speaker 1: that you became CONSCIENTI conscientious of your conservative values? What
Speaker 1: drew you to conservatism? Was it a natural process giving
Speaker 1: your faith and experience or values instilled in you or
Speaker 1: or what was it exactly? Well, you know, I grew
Speaker 1: up in Detroit, so I was a Democrat. Detroit and
Speaker 1: Boston Democrats strongholds. And then I went to college and
Speaker 1: New Haven, Connecticut, another Democrat stronghold, and then an Arbor,
Speaker 1: Michigan for medical school, another demonstrating stronghold. Then to Baltimore
Speaker 1: to Johns Hopkins, another Democratic stronghold. So I was pretty
Speaker 1: died in the world Democrats. And then I did something
Speaker 1: that Democrats are never supposed to do. I listened to
Speaker 1: a Republican. I listened to Ronald Reagan, and I said,
Speaker 1: this guy sounds just like my mother, and you know,
Speaker 1: I have very common sensical, practical stuff. And at the
Speaker 1: same time, you know, I was kind of questioning what
Speaker 1: was going on in society because I was seeing these
Speaker 1: patients and so many of them were, you know, being
Speaker 1: subsidized by the government, and they were perfectly healthy people.
Speaker 1: And I said, we are actually hurting these people by
Speaker 1: making them dependent on government. And that was really the
Speaker 1: beginning of my transition and wanting to change that dynamic.
Speaker 1: It is a hard dynamic to change. I gotta tell
Speaker 1: you there are many people who very solidly invested in it,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, the more dependency they can create,
Speaker 1: the greater their power becomes. And I think that was
Speaker 1: the very reason that the Kia Kushchoff many years ago
Speaker 1: said of America. He said, your grandchildren, your grandchildren's children
Speaker 1: will live under communism, and we won't have to fire
Speaker 1: a shot because he knew certain things. He knew that
Speaker 1: if you gained control of the school system so that
Speaker 1: you can indoctrinate the kids, he knew that if you
Speaker 1: gained control of the media so that you could suppress
Speaker 1: and promote those things that you wanted people to know,
Speaker 1: And that if you remove God and replace that with
Speaker 1: dependency on the government, and you increase the national that
Speaker 1: amazing levels so that you could justify massive taxes so
Speaker 1: you could redistribute to wealth and gain complete combination. And uh,
Speaker 1: it seems like it seems like those are the very
Speaker 1: things that are happening absolutely, And it reminds me of
Speaker 1: something that you wrote about in real clear politics, And
Speaker 1: I'll read um this particular line here we have painted
Speaker 1: our fellow Americans is deplorable, stupid, and worse. It is
Speaker 1: this type of malicious political rhetoric fuel by opportunistic politicians
Speaker 1: and profit driven media organizations that has rolled our deeply
Speaker 1: divided nation, and of course we continuing to see it
Speaker 1: more and more divided. Why do you think that is
Speaker 1: exactly clearly they want they want dominance, they want control.
Speaker 1: But it didn't used to be this way. No, I
Speaker 1: think it's it's quite intentional. And you know the four
Speaker 1: cornerstones that the American Cornerstone Institute is based on, Safe
Speaker 1: and liberty, and community and life. Take the community one there. Uh.
Speaker 1: This nation became strong because we had strong communities, had
Speaker 1: people who worked together, who helped each other, and they
Speaker 1: were neighbors to each other. For farmers, farmer broke his leg,
Speaker 1: everybody pitched in and harvested the crops from That's the
Speaker 1: way it used to be. Now you have a situation
Speaker 1: where that person who lived across the street from you
Speaker 1: for the last twenty years peacefully, uh, is now your
Speaker 1: enemy because they have a different yard side than you do.
Speaker 1: And what is that caused by? That's caused by politicians
Speaker 1: and the media nothing else, and we're allowing them to
Speaker 1: have too much influence on One of the things that
Speaker 1: we have to begin to do is get the American
Speaker 1: people to recognize that we are not each other's enemies.
Speaker 1: We're wasting a lot of unnecessary energy being enemies for
Speaker 1: no reason. We agree on way more stuff than we
Speaker 1: disagree on, and we cannot continue to allow ourselves to
Speaker 1: be manipulated into a hateful, intolerant people. I agree with
Speaker 1: that absolutely. And you know what's more interesting to me.
Speaker 1: You mentioned the yard signs and how a lot of
Speaker 1: folks just would hate their neighbors. Especially since the election,
Speaker 1: we've seen it dial up quite a bit, But there's
Speaker 1: beyond just that. Simplistically, there's a major attack on black conservatives.
Speaker 1: But oftentimes I know you know this because people have
Speaker 1: called you a house in word, a coon, any negative,
Speaker 1: disgusting name they can think of. They've also said it
Speaker 1: recently about Senator Tim Scott, and Jerry Reid said that
Speaker 1: he was a prop. I know people often called you
Speaker 1: a prop for the Trump administration. We're told that we're
Speaker 1: not black enough, and we're betraying our race for taking
Speaker 1: stances like we do publicly. Why is that? And how
Speaker 1: do you handle these vicious comments, especially coming from a
Speaker 1: place where you were such a beloved figure among everyone,
Speaker 1: not just conservatives, but everyone. Kids wanted to be just
Speaker 1: like you. How do you handle all of this? Well,
Speaker 1: I just remember, this is not anything that's any different
Speaker 1: then many many years ago during slavery. If you ran
Speaker 1: away and you got caught, they didn't just kill you.
Speaker 1: They brought you back and then they tormented you in
Speaker 1: front of everybody else so that they would get the lesson,
Speaker 1: do not run away. And it's the same lesson now,
Speaker 1: do not depart from what we told you. Do not
Speaker 1: think for yourself, and if you do, we're going to
Speaker 1: try to make an example of you so other people
Speaker 1: won't do it. But the way I the way I
Speaker 1: see it, you have to just ask yourself what is
Speaker 1: the right thing to do, and you pray, you ask
Speaker 1: God to give you wisdom, and you move forward. And
Speaker 1: the fact of the matter is, you know, I find
Speaker 1: tons of people, particularly in the African American community, who
Speaker 1: very much appreciate the stance, and many of them are
Speaker 1: really starting to wake up quite rapidly and realize that
Speaker 1: they are being used and manipulated, and I think that's
Speaker 1: one of the reasons that there was so much fear
Speaker 1: of the last administration because they were doing things that
Speaker 1: were very, very helpful to the African American community and
Speaker 1: a lot of people were starting to notice it and
Speaker 1: they don't want that, believe me, absolutely, And that's one
Speaker 1: of the things I think Maxine Waters said if any
Speaker 1: black man, if she saw black man voting for Trump,
Speaker 1: that she would never forgive them. And the Democrats were concerned,
Speaker 1: I think for the first time in decades about a
Speaker 1: Republican Acts League garnering uh so much more of the
Speaker 1: black vote than they ever have because of policy implemented,
Speaker 1: which is something that you did over at HUD with
Speaker 1: Opportunity zones, is that right, Opportunity zones was only one
Speaker 1: of the things we had envisioned centers which brought all
Speaker 1: the things that were meant to help people be able
Speaker 1: to climb the ladder and put them under one roof
Speaker 1: and coordinate them so that that young mother with three
Speaker 1: kids who never finished high school can find out how
Speaker 1: she can get child care, can get her g e D,
Speaker 1: can get advanced training, can be able to support herself
Speaker 1: and teach that to her children, so you can break
Speaker 1: those cycles of poverty. And you know, we focus through
Speaker 1: to the all the programs on self reliance, getting out
Speaker 1: of dependency. That was a major threat to many on
Speaker 1: the left. Yeah, absolutely it was and it still remains.
Speaker 1: Let's continue from there in them. And after a quick
Speaker 1: break last month, shortly after there the Trump administration, you
Speaker 1: announced that you're launching the American Cornerstone Institute, a nonprofit,
Speaker 1: nonpartisan conservative think tank. You mentioned a little bit about
Speaker 1: the institute, but what gave you the thought, the idea
Speaker 1: to start this particular institute, because it seems like you're
Speaker 1: going to be continuing in some way, shape or form,
Speaker 1: some of the work that you did it. Hut, this
Speaker 1: is self belief, but you're inserting faith in this. How
Speaker 1: did how did you come about this this idea here? Well,
Speaker 1: you know, I thought seriously about retiring and relaxing, but
Speaker 1: I couldn't really do that seeing what was happening to
Speaker 1: our country. And uh, you know, I just stopped and said,
Speaker 1: you know what's happening to us? You know, the country
Speaker 1: doesn't even look like it it did twenty years ago.
Speaker 1: We don't have the same values, and we seem to
Speaker 1: be hitting downward spiral relatively quickly. So I said, what
Speaker 1: were the things that made us to a great nation?
Speaker 1: And that's when we came up the cornerstones. Faith. You know,
Speaker 1: our faith are Judeo Christian values, told us how to
Speaker 1: relate to each other. Love your neighbor, not cancel your
Speaker 1: neighbor if you don't like what you're saying. Completely opposite now,
Speaker 1: and you know, when you come to liberty, you know,
Speaker 1: you look at some of our fundamental liberties, like freedom
Speaker 1: of speech, one of the keys to everything in this country.
Speaker 1: And yet it's being blunted now. Now some people say
Speaker 1: it's not really being blunted because you know that only
Speaker 1: refers to the government limited you speak. That's not true.
Speaker 1: It big tech and media impose a silence and the
Speaker 1: government is okay with it. It has the same militarious effect.
Speaker 1: That's what's going on in this country right now. No
Speaker 1: longer the beacon. In fact, I was looking at a
Speaker 1: program last week and students and other countries are being
Speaker 1: interviewed about whether they want to come to America and
Speaker 1: to a person, they said, they're used to, but no,
Speaker 1: they wouldn't want to come to America now. And uh,
Speaker 1: that that really touched me about how the perception of
Speaker 1: this country is changing so incredibly rapidly. And then, you know,
Speaker 1: with with the community, you know, we have far more
Speaker 1: that binds us together than that divince. I said, Yet
Speaker 1: we allow the entities like the media to come in
Speaker 1: and to grab any little thing that we disagree about,
Speaker 1: and to capitalize on any differences, you know, be at race,
Speaker 1: be it gender, be an economic status, you know, it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter to be it religion, whatever, and drive wedges
Speaker 1: between the people, and then trying to get each segment
Speaker 1: to think that they are the savior and that they
Speaker 1: are the ones who will make things fair for them.
Speaker 1: This is particularly obnoxious in the in the black community,
Speaker 1: where they're trying to get everybody to think that you're
Speaker 1: a victim and that somehow any difficulties that you're having
Speaker 1: are the fault of someone else. You know, my mother
Speaker 1: used to always quote a point to us when we
Speaker 1: can't an excuse, called yourself to blame. And my brother
Speaker 1: and I didn't want to hear that point, so we
Speaker 1: stopped making excuses and it worked out just fine for us.
Speaker 1: And then, you know, the whole concept of life, you know,
Speaker 1: the further away we get from respecting life from the
Speaker 1: womb to the tomb, the more callous and course our
Speaker 1: behavior becomes with respect to each other. And uh so
Speaker 1: that's why you know we're focusing on those things. It's
Speaker 1: not only a think tank, it's also a d tank.
Speaker 1: And we've got various projects going on. Will be launching
Speaker 1: the Little Patriots this summer in which uh we're teaching
Speaker 1: children at a very young age the true history of
Speaker 1: America and about civics and about how our government works,
Speaker 1: things that we have either thrown away or rewritten in
Speaker 1: an inappropriate way. And of course that's exactly along the
Speaker 1: lines of Marxism. Karl Marks that give me your young
Speaker 1: people for three or four years and I'll have them
Speaker 1: for life. But we want to start early teaching them
Speaker 1: the right things. Wow, and you know you you you
Speaker 1: mentioned something that I want to go back to. You
Speaker 1: talked about victimhood, which we know it's heavily and excessively
Speaker 1: exist in the black community, existing in every community, to
Speaker 1: be perfectly honest, but we do have a lot of
Speaker 1: folks who have capitulated to the idea that they can't
Speaker 1: do particular things because of the neighborhood. They grew up
Speaker 1: in that maybe they come from a single parent home them, Um,
Speaker 1: they've been on government assistance. You're black, Therefore you're incapable,
Speaker 1: as some would argue, especially on the left, and you're
Speaker 1: incapable of succeeding. Now that this is disgusting in every way. Um,
Speaker 1: I think it's real and legitimate racism when you consider
Speaker 1: people that way. And I know there's some good intentioned
Speaker 1: white liberals who seem to have this idea and run
Speaker 1: with it on a consistent basis. Is disgusting. But I
Speaker 1: want to ask you something a bit more specific, which
Speaker 1: I think some of this comes from. Do you believe
Speaker 1: that institutional racism exists today? I think the place where
Speaker 1: it exists is among the people who see someone like
Speaker 1: me or someone like you and decide how they must
Speaker 1: think based on their race. That's that's the institutional racism.
Speaker 1: But in terms of our society, you know, I grew
Speaker 1: up in Detroit and in Boston, you know, late fifties
Speaker 1: and the sixties, And believe me, I can tell you
Speaker 1: real racism. And I say that we had to deal
Speaker 1: with it every day and it was rough. It's nothing
Speaker 1: like that today, nothing like that at all. And you know,
Speaker 1: you take something like the George Floyd case, which, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, it was horrible, I mean absolutely horrible, No
Speaker 1: no excuse there, but that is an incredibly unusual situation
Speaker 1: and to try to take that and make it seem
Speaker 1: like an everyday occurrence, I think it is a real
Speaker 1: distortion of what's going on. And then to use that
Speaker 1: to incite riots and destruction of you know, that just
Speaker 1: doesn't make a whole lot of sense. We do need
Speaker 1: to discuss it. We do need to talk about police reform,
Speaker 1: We need to talk about alternative ways for police to
Speaker 1: apprehend people and to control people. There needs to be
Speaker 1: all of those discussions. But intelligent people, you know, learn
Speaker 1: from mistakes. And I think that officer obviously did things
Speaker 1: that were completely inappropriate. That needs to be investigated in
Speaker 1: terms of why he did things that were completely inappropriate,
Speaker 1: and appropriate measures need to be taken. But that does
Speaker 1: not include destroying the lifetime work of people in that neighborhood. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and and and I agree, especially the last point of
Speaker 1: destroying other people's work or in your own community. To
Speaker 1: be honest, a lot of this happening folks who may
Speaker 1: be poor or marginalized people. This happened in their community.
Speaker 1: So this it was, it was despicable. But on the
Speaker 1: point of police reform, we have had documented instances where
Speaker 1: police officers unjustly harm people or murdered. Evil police have
Speaker 1: gone to jail, so we know police performance absolutely necessitous.
Speaker 1: And and talking about this institutional the idea of institutional racism,
Speaker 1: which I personally do believe exists. Do you think their
Speaker 1: systems in place now right now where people are being
Speaker 1: marginalized because of their race. I'm you know, as as
Speaker 1: long as there is evil in the world and people
Speaker 1: with small minds, Uh, you're going to have unfairness. Uh.
Speaker 1: Do we need to make sure we have in place
Speaker 1: measures that detect that unfairness and deal with it? Absolutely?
Speaker 1: And do we do? We need to acknowledge the fact
Speaker 1: that that has improved dramatically and will continue to improve.
Speaker 1: You know, there was a time when people honestly believe
Speaker 1: that black people were inferior intellectually. You know, you can
Speaker 1: hold onto that if you too, But there's multiple examples
Speaker 1: now show that that's not true. Um, So a lot
Speaker 1: of the behaviors that we encountered decades ago, we're based
Speaker 1: on false information that has been corrected, and I think
Speaker 1: we see a major change doesn't mean that we have
Speaker 1: completely eliminated the problem and that we don't need to
Speaker 1: be concerned about it and continue to work toward resolution.
Speaker 1: You know, to that point on there was a time
Speaker 1: where they believe that black folks were intellectually inferior. I
Speaker 1: think that still exists today and that I can provide
Speaker 1: the example of them saying, hey, we need to eliminate
Speaker 1: math because uh it's racist now. So with that being
Speaker 1: the case, they're continuing that long legacy, just in a
Speaker 1: different way of attempting to marginalize black folks. So it's
Speaker 1: it's it's one of those things that have to be
Speaker 1: called out. But I want to go back to a c.
Speaker 1: I would to your institute the four key principles faith, liberty,
Speaker 1: community in life. Now. You ran for president in and
Speaker 1: when you ran, and I remember because I was I
Speaker 1: worked with Armstrong Armstrong Williams that is is a close
Speaker 1: uh confidant of yours, and I was support very supportive
Speaker 1: of your candidacy. I thinks a lot of other people
Speaker 1: were as well, and interesting enough for me to note
Speaker 1: some of the things you would say, we're kind of
Speaker 1: focused on those four principles. And what's also interesting to
Speaker 1: me is before Donald Trump entered the scene, you were
Speaker 1: really advancing in the polls, and Donald Trump came in
Speaker 1: and said a lot of the same things that you
Speaker 1: were saying. He was just forceful. That was interesting you
Speaker 1: You legitimately could have been president. So the policies were
Speaker 1: quite similar. Our personalities are diametrically opposed, absolutely they are.
Speaker 1: But he used your same rhetoric Muslin Band. He used
Speaker 1: a lot of the same things that you were saying,
Speaker 1: what you were dialing up in the polls, and he
Speaker 1: was just more forceful. You could have been president. Looking
Speaker 1: back on that time, how does that make you feel?
Speaker 1: If there was no Donald Trump, it might have been
Speaker 1: have been Carson presidency. Well, he frequently says to me,
Speaker 1: He says, Ben, aren't you glad you didn't win? I
Speaker 1: have to admit you know that there maybe si validity
Speaker 1: there because you know, for the left and only thing
Speaker 1: worse than Satan as a black conservative, they just can't
Speaker 1: can't even abide the thought. And uh, you know they
Speaker 1: would have been after me too, maybe for different reasons.
Speaker 1: It wouldn't have been because of inflammatory comments, but uh,
Speaker 1: they still would have been there, believe me. So you know,
Speaker 1: the Lord knows what's what's best. It's it's fine. I'm okay,
Speaker 1: And I actually enjoyed very much this position that I'm
Speaker 1: in now as we tried to find rational, logical approaches
Speaker 1: to the things that are going on and be able
Speaker 1: to explain those two people in a very reasonable, understandable
Speaker 1: way and help the people of American the recognize that
Speaker 1: we're not each other's enemies. Stop being manipulated. This is
Speaker 1: so vitally important for everything that we do. I agree
Speaker 1: with that wholeheartedly. Now, you know, I'm I'm really thoughtful
Speaker 1: about how I grew up, and I mentioned South Side
Speaker 1: of Chicago, Mama addicted to crack cocaine, and there was
Speaker 1: a lot of obstacles, just like you experience. But one
Speaker 1: thing that I like to say, beyond any institutional racism,
Speaker 1: beyond any obstacles, it doesn't matter what the obstacle is,
Speaker 1: even if it's the President of the United States. My
Speaker 1: faith supersedes all laws and supersedes any individual. It supersedes
Speaker 1: any van datta that maybe against me. What does your
Speaker 1: Christian faith mean to you and were you able to
Speaker 1: really utilize that as a vehicle to move beyond poverty
Speaker 1: and all the things that you experienced in your youth. Uh,
Speaker 1: it has helped me enormously. Uh. Anytime I faced obstacles,
Speaker 1: and I've had some pretty substantial obstacles along the way,
Speaker 1: it believes me. Um, and I would pray that Cod
Speaker 1: would either remove the obstacles or give me wisdom to
Speaker 1: know what to do. I can't think of a single
Speaker 1: time that my prayers were not answered. And uh, well
Speaker 1: I can't think of a couple of times when they
Speaker 1: were in retrospect, very inappropriate prayers. And I looked back
Speaker 1: and I understand. I said, boy, thank you Lord for
Speaker 1: not answering that he knows what he's doing. And you
Speaker 1: think about that. Those principles of loving your fellow man,
Speaker 1: caring about your neighbor, of taking care of the poor,
Speaker 1: not in a way that keeps them poor, but in
Speaker 1: a way that provides them with opportunities. You know, these
Speaker 1: these are are Christian biblical type principles. And when we
Speaker 1: manifested those, we did well. Now that this is some
Speaker 1: people say, yeah, but you had slavery. Uh, we weren't perfect. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, the country was inhabited by people, and people
Speaker 1: are not perfect, and over the course of time, slavery
Speaker 1: has been a scourge on humanity. Today there are more
Speaker 1: slaves than there have ever been in the history of
Speaker 1: the world. It's still a problem even today to two
Speaker 1: thousand and one, and we should work very hard to
Speaker 1: eliminate it. But do recognize that, you know, that was
Speaker 1: no big aberration. This, this is things that have been
Speaker 1: going on forever. Doesn't excuse it, you know, it doesn't
Speaker 1: doesn't make it okay, but it puts it in context. Absolutely. No.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you you're sharing that. I know, faith and
Speaker 1: and Christian values for some people can be such a
Speaker 1: private thing, but certainly be in a public figure. I
Speaker 1: think people oftentimes will look at your life and your
Speaker 1: journey and and just want to know more and want
Speaker 1: to know what God has done for you personally, which
Speaker 1: is everything. So I'm really appreciative to to hear that
Speaker 1: from you myself. It gives me confidence that we're going
Speaker 1: to get out of this situation that we're in right
Speaker 1: now in this country. Because I always say God plays
Speaker 1: the long game. We tend to play the short game.
Speaker 1: We beat panic. Can we say that's just going but
Speaker 1: I think it's actually very important detonation see how the
Speaker 1: left does things, because I don't think they would have
Speaker 1: believed it if you just said, you know, they're going
Speaker 1: to be doing this and this and this and now,
Speaker 1: they wouldn't do that. Now you can see they would
Speaker 1: do that, And I think that's very important going forward. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: and that makes me wonder And by the way, I
Speaker 1: appreciate that faith it gives you. Confidence is faith is
Speaker 1: the assurance the confidence the title deed the scripture says,
Speaker 1: I appreciate that. Now do you think that the Republicans
Speaker 1: are going to win back the House and the Senate
Speaker 1: here and it's coming up election? I think if they
Speaker 1: are courageous enough to insist on election reform an election integrity,
Speaker 1: absolutely they went it back. If they leave things like
Speaker 1: they are, they'll never win anything back. Mm hmm. I mean,
Speaker 1: you look at the things that happened when you have
Speaker 1: secretary of State and governors and people who can say, well,
Speaker 1: that doesn't really matter whether the signatures match, and it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter whether you get the balance in one time
Speaker 1: or not. It doesn't matter if the balance aren't folded
Speaker 1: indicating that they weren't actually mailed. None of that stuff
Speaker 1: really matter just okay, Well, as long as you're letting
Speaker 1: that go on, forget it, you're never gonna win anything. Right,
Speaker 1: So we'll see what Republicans do, but you can't do
Speaker 1: much of you don't have the majority. So understanding that federally,
Speaker 1: that that's an issue, but certainly we have a lot
Speaker 1: of state houses and governorships that that kind of legislative
Speaker 1: reform can be implemented. There's a lot of concentration on
Speaker 1: that now, and that's that's a very good thing. It
Speaker 1: will help us. And and shining the light and insisting
Speaker 1: on you know, one of the things that the Democrats
Speaker 1: do is they insist on things even when they're in
Speaker 1: the minority. They seem to be much better at that.
Speaker 1: And the Republicans just getting their way. We need to
Speaker 1: look at their playbook. Yeah, I think to a degree,
Speaker 1: Donald up had already looked at the playbook and ran
Speaker 1: it pretty pretty hardcore. But speaking of that, as you know,
Speaker 1: in January, there was issues at the at the Capitol.
Speaker 1: There was a riot at the capital. As you know,
Speaker 1: there's been numerous figures within the Trump administration who said
Speaker 1: that they either don't support the president anymore or they're
Speaker 1: ending their move into the movement and meaning to make
Speaker 1: America great again. They're not going to be a part
Speaker 1: of it. Some very prominent folks Nicki Haley among others,
Speaker 1: and Stacy Dash it was just released reported anyway, she
Speaker 1: said that after that happened at the Capitol that she's
Speaker 1: no longer part of the mega movement. But I believe
Speaker 1: she still considers herself to be a conservative. How did
Speaker 1: that impact you and and what do you think about
Speaker 1: that situation? Well, I have a tendency to be a
Speaker 1: big picture guy. I look at the big picture, and
Speaker 1: the big picture says, if we on the conservative side
Speaker 1: are fractionated, cannot join forces and work together, whether it's
Speaker 1: Donald Trump at the head of the table or whoever
Speaker 1: it is at the head of the table, if we
Speaker 1: cannot unite behind them because of our little pet teeds
Speaker 1: and little things and anger in us, and we're not
Speaker 1: And again take a take a page from the democrats playbook.
Speaker 1: They had big disagreements. You know, you have those who
Speaker 1: are moderate and those who are far left, but they
Speaker 1: put it behind them when it comes to something important
Speaker 1: to them. And if conservatives learn how to do that,
Speaker 1: believe me, they will be a formidable force, and that's
Speaker 1: why there are a lot of people out there feigning
Speaker 1: those flames. They want the Conservatives to be divided and
Speaker 1: each other's Believe me, that's the only way that they
Speaker 1: can stay in power. I understand that certainly. I want
Speaker 1: to pick up from there in a moment, but first
Speaker 1: let's go to break in terms of the capital of
Speaker 1: the riot at the Capitol how how did that impact
Speaker 1: you specifically? How did you feel about that situation? Do
Speaker 1: you steal support the president? Are you giving up on
Speaker 1: the movement? Are you continuing stronger? Straight straight ahead? How
Speaker 1: did it impact you? Well, it was horrible, but I
Speaker 1: do not buy into the fact that that the President
Speaker 1: caused it, And the FBI has plenty of evidence now
Speaker 1: that there were groups who were planning this long before
Speaker 1: the president speech, and they were warned about it, and
Speaker 1: in fact, the President had recommended that they had ten
Speaker 1: thousand trips there and others had requested it, and it
Speaker 1: was the leadership of the House that detailed it because
Speaker 1: they didn't think it would look good. That were the
Speaker 1: real blame lies. You have that many people, and you
Speaker 1: know you have some who have nefarious intentions, and you
Speaker 1: don't provide the kind of security that's necessary. And then
Speaker 1: you want to blame that all on one person. I
Speaker 1: don't think so. But does he bear any any blame
Speaker 1: in this situation? He said he was going to go
Speaker 1: to the capital. Well, I think there's plenty of blame
Speaker 1: to go around. You know, there there were warnings that
Speaker 1: everybody could have heeded, and I think, you know, we
Speaker 1: we should have done everything we could to make sure
Speaker 1: that we cool the situation. No, particularly knowing that there
Speaker 1: were groups there who were intending to be violent. Okay,
Speaker 1: So so President Trump could have approached it quite differently
Speaker 1: than he did. Yeah, I mean, I think and in
Speaker 1: virtually every situation that goes awry, you know, in retrospect,
Speaker 1: you could have done upsetter mm hmm. No, I appreciate
Speaker 1: that that assessment. Dr Carson. Now, but before I let
Speaker 1: you go, I wanted to ask you about, um, your
Speaker 1: career in medicine clearly enormously successful, a giant in the
Speaker 1: medical field. UM, And you've talked about before how you
Speaker 1: got interested in medicine. Now, is there is still a
Speaker 1: chance that you might go back into medicine at some point?
Speaker 1: Would you would you do that? Pretty unlikely at age
Speaker 1: sixty nine. I think I probably would. I would find
Speaker 1: it a little more uh stressful and demanding that my
Speaker 1: body might have the energy for. But I stayed obviously
Speaker 1: quite interested in it. Still do a lot of reading
Speaker 1: and keeping up with what's going on. Okay, I understand,
Speaker 1: And let me ask you this question, which I think
Speaker 1: would probably be a head scratcher. If the Biden administration
Speaker 1: wanted to use you in an advisatory capacity, would you
Speaker 1: do it? As a medical expert? I would always be
Speaker 1: willing to do things to help our nation. I don't
Speaker 1: care who was asking. No. I appreciate that, Thank you
Speaker 1: so much. I'm not a highly person person, but I
Speaker 1: am a highly patriotic person, and if there are things
Speaker 1: that can be done that were supporting Uplift donation, always
Speaker 1: do those things. All right? Well, I appreciate that one.
Speaker 1: In final question to you, Dr Carson, you obviously became
Speaker 1: well known for your work as a newer certain years ago,
Speaker 1: but you first gained national fame, if you will, in
Speaker 1: a political context among conservatives in when you spoke at
Speaker 1: the National Proper Breakfasts and seemed to be critical of
Speaker 1: then President Obama's policies. Did you ever think back then
Speaker 1: that one day you would have served in the president's
Speaker 1: cabinet and be so involved in politics and the leadership capacity.
Speaker 1: Uh no, that that certainly was not part of the plan.
Speaker 1: It's interesting though, you know, some of the people on
Speaker 1: the left have said to me that was very offensive
Speaker 1: what you said during that prayer breakfast, and I said,
Speaker 1: it seems to me that it would only be offensive
Speaker 1: or sort of if it applied to you, which made
Speaker 1: him eve the name here. I'm sure it did. I'm
Speaker 1: sure it did. Is there anything new for you coming up?
Speaker 1: Do you have any big projects coming up? The folks
Speaker 1: at homes you knew about? And where can people find you?
Speaker 1: On social media? And Elselie, Well, people should go to
Speaker 1: American Cornerstone dot org and uh there's some beautiful video
Speaker 1: tapes there, uh, some news letters, op eds, all kinds
Speaker 1: of things, and there's even a donate button, so there's
Speaker 1: all kind of good things to do there. Get involved.
Speaker 1: This is the real key thing. This country is up
Speaker 1: for it and by the people, not up formed by
Speaker 1: the government, and that means we have to take an
Speaker 1: active role. If we don't take an active role, the
Speaker 1: government just expands and we wind up with the very
Speaker 1: kind of situation that people were fleeing from when they
Speaker 1: came to this country in the first place. So so true.
Speaker 1: And is Dr Ben Carson on social media? Uh? We
Speaker 1: have UH Facebook page and we'll continue to to use that,
Speaker 1: but we're also looking at some other very interesting developing
Speaker 1: platforms to make sure that you and actually get your
Speaker 1: voice out there without worrying about whether somebody is going
Speaker 1: to be looking over your shoulder and deciding whether you
Speaker 1: can say that or not. Thank you so so much
Speaker 1: for joining me here on out Loud with Giano Caldwell
Speaker 1: and your your message. We'll go far along. We we
Speaker 1: really appreciate for all you mean to this country, to
Speaker 1: this world, and UH, as a Christian one Christian to another,
Speaker 1: thank you for continuing to speak about your faith because
Speaker 1: there's a lot of people who are hurting, who can't
Speaker 1: see a way forward, but they hear about your story
Speaker 1: and now all of a sudden they believe. And I
Speaker 1: think that's certainly an aspect of faith and abundance. So
Speaker 1: thank you, UH, and we're praying for you, and thank
Speaker 1: you for what you're doing for our country. We really
Speaker 1: appreciate it. I want to give a special thanks to
Speaker 1: Dr Ben Carson for an extraordinary interview. If you're enjoying
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