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Speaker 1: Welcome.

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Speaker 2: It is Verdict with Center, Ted Cruz Weekend Review, Ben

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Speaker 2: Ferguson with you, and these are the big stories that

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Speaker 2: you may have missed that we talked about this past week.

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Speaker 2: First up, Joe Biden is demanding that the bob wire

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Speaker 2: in Texas come down. The problem is many in the

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Speaker 2: federal government aren't exactly listening to the president's demands. Will

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Speaker 2: this be a serious standoff between the state of Texas

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Speaker 2: and the federal government? And if Joe Biden tells him

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Speaker 2: to push further, will the federal government actually do it

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Speaker 2: on his behalf. We'll explain the details and the legality

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Speaker 2: of that in just a moment. Also, Joe Biden is

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Speaker 2: now sanctioning Texas.

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Speaker 1: That's right.

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Speaker 2: For the first time in history, a US president is

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Speaker 2: attacking another state, trying to get them to bow to

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Speaker 2: his demands over the issue of an open border. And

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Speaker 2: now it's affecting liquefied natural gas exports, and it's enriching

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Speaker 2: Russia and China and finally, so much any of you

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Speaker 2: have asked, how can we help the people in Israel

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Speaker 2: after the war that has broken out. We have a

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Speaker 2: special live look in Israel from one of our guests,

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Speaker 2: it is the weekend review and it starts right now.

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Speaker 2: The word they use this week on TV was insurrection,

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Speaker 2: and Griff Jenkins Fox News put out this tweet talking

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Speaker 2: about what you were just mentioning, take a look at this, guys,

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Speaker 2: because this is a very interesting scenario.

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Speaker 3: Here.

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Speaker 2: It says a senior CBP official tells Fox the relationship

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Speaker 2: between Border Patrol, Texas DPS and the TMD remains strong.

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Speaker 2: Bottom line, Border Patrol has no plans to remove infrastructure

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Speaker 2: see wire placed by Texas along the border. Our posture

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Speaker 2: remains the same. So there were people on TV saying,

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Speaker 2: if this is true, this is like an insurrection. I

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Speaker 2: think that's absurd. But if you have federal government officials

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Speaker 2: that aren't listening to the quote orders of the Biden

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Speaker 2: administration and saying we're not going to do this, what

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Speaker 2: does that mean?

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Speaker 3: Well, look, and mind you, the same people who are

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Speaker 3: saying this, So the democrats elected Democrats and the lefties

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Speaker 3: in the press who praised, for example, people in the

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Speaker 3: military under Trump who they said, well they won't follow

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Speaker 3: his orders, they will resist his orders. Mind you, in

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Speaker 3: this instance, look, I know the Border Patrol agents, many

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Speaker 3: of them very very well, I spent a lot of

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Speaker 3: time with him. They are horrified at what Joe Biden

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Speaker 3: is doing. They're watching the body bags, the death, the suffering,

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Speaker 3: the children who were assaulted, the women who were raped.

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Speaker 3: They're seeing it on a daily basis, and it is Look,

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Speaker 3: at some level, if you have a president who is

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Speaker 3: so utterly out of touch that he wages war on

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Speaker 3: the law, that he's defying the law, that he is

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Speaker 3: instructing him go destroy go use my example, go bomb,

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Speaker 3: go bomb the walls, you would expect some federal officials

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Speaker 3: to say, hold on, you have no legal authority to

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Speaker 3: do this. This is just an abuse of power. And

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Speaker 3: look our system. We are pushing to the edges of

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Speaker 3: a constitutional crisis because we have a president who is

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Speaker 3: so utterly lawless that he puts his partisan political agenda

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Speaker 3: above the rule of law, above federal immigration law, above

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Speaker 3: the Constitution, above people's welfare, above protecting the lives of Texans,

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Speaker 3: and it is all politics, all the time with the

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Speaker 3: Biden Whitehouse, I.

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Speaker 2: Got to ask you, you just said something that is

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Speaker 2: very interesting, and that was about a constitutional crisis. Texas

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Speaker 2: isn't having to do this alone. Thank goodness, You've got

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Speaker 2: I think it's twenty five different states now that have

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Speaker 2: come to the aid of Texas fighting for states rights,

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Speaker 2: saying you have a right to defend your state.

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Speaker 3: And it is powerful governor after governor after governor saying

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Speaker 3: we stand with Texas, we stand with Texas, we stand

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Speaker 3: with Texas. And Joe Biden is trying to say to

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Speaker 3: the states, I don't care, I want your state to

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Speaker 3: be invaded. I want the law to be ignored because

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Speaker 3: my partisan politics matter more than your obligation to protect

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Speaker 3: the safety of your citizens.

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Speaker 1: So explain the rules.

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Speaker 2: And this is I think a very important point because

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Speaker 2: it's gonna come up.

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Speaker 1: Obviously.

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Speaker 2: You have some states are sitting, for example, state troopers

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Speaker 2: that federal? If you're clashing, right, if you're temperate, And

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Speaker 2: then and then the second part is the National Guard

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Speaker 2: can work in two different scenarios, one for the governor

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Speaker 2: come in. And that's been a big fight over the

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Speaker 2: last several days of what if he nationalizes the federal

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Speaker 2: you know these guardsmen, how does that play out? And

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Speaker 2: explain how it works If there's two different people that

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Speaker 2: are your boss, who do you decide with?

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Speaker 3: So ordinarily, the National Guard is under the direction of

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Speaker 3: the governors.

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Speaker 1: And the national Guard of each state is under that

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Speaker 3: Now, under federal law, the president has the authority to

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Speaker 3: call up to nationalize the National Guard and put it

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Speaker 3: under the direction of the federal government. And a bunch

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Speaker 3: of folks on the left are demanding that Biden do

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Speaker 3: that in Texas. I don't think think he will that.

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Speaker 3: The clip we played of Greg Abbott, what he was

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Speaker 3: to nationalize the Guard? I don't think Biden will do

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Speaker 3: that because it has a risk of backfiring if he did.

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Speaker 3: I'm not sure what will happen. But what he cannot

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Speaker 3: nationalize is DPS troopers. He cannot nationalize the state law enforcement.

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Speaker 2: And so even example is Florida sent a lot of

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Speaker 2: state troopers right to Texas this past week there was

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Speaker 2: a caravan coming up.

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Speaker 1: He could have no control over them, none whatsoever.

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Speaker 3: The federal government does not have the ability to nationalize

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Speaker 3: state law enforcement. So conceivably Biden could try to nationalize

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Speaker 3: the National Guard, and at that point assuming the Guard

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Speaker 3: complies with those orders, and they're not challenged in court,

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Speaker 3: they're not struck down. Assuming the Guard complies with those orders.

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Speaker 3: It's no different than Biden's sending in the army. It

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Speaker 3: is federal military, but there are still state officials and

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Speaker 3: the potential for clashes. Now, do I think you're going

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Speaker 3: to see state and federal officials shooting each other? No?

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Speaker 1: I do think.

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Speaker 3: Look, you've got crazies on the left that are pushing

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Speaker 3: you know. Might you see Biden try to order order

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Speaker 3: federal officials to arrest state officials?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I think that's possible, and we are starting to get

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Speaker 2: Who can be arrest in that scenario is that the

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Speaker 1: You're talking about like a guy at the border.

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Speaker 2: He's saying I'm not going to take down that razor

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Speaker 3: And I don't think that's gonna happen. But Joe Biden

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Speaker 3: is listening to the radicals, the extreme in his party,

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Speaker 3: and he keeps escalating and escalating and escalating, and it's dangerous.

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Speaker 3: Just like Joe Biden is endangering American lives abroad, and

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Speaker 3: we saw three servicemen and women murdered this weekend by

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Speaker 3: Iranian proxies because of Joe Biden's lawlessness at the and

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Speaker 3: support of genocidal killers. At the same time, Joe Biden

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Speaker 3: is endangering Americans here because of his lawlessness and support

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Speaker 3: for holicidal killers that are human traffickers and drug traffickers.

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Speaker 3: In both instances, it is because this Biden White House

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Speaker 3: puts politics above the safety and security of Americans. And

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Speaker 3: the question every Democrat is going to have to answer,

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Speaker 3: every Democrat senator, every Democrat House member, do you stand

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Speaker 3: with the lawlessness and the extreme agenda of the Biden

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Speaker 3: the American people? And at least to date, just about

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Speaker 3: every elected Democrat in the country puts politics above safety.

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Speaker 3: And that's what makes where we are right now so

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Speaker 3: extreme and so dangerous.

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Speaker 2: You just said two words, so extreme and so dangerous.

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Speaker 2: I do want to remind people. Wasn't this administration that

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Speaker 2: said that the adults are finally back in charge, so

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Speaker 2: we will have none of these issues. I just want

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Speaker 2: to remind everybody this is what they said about their own.

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Speaker 4: Team has any connection to reality about what is going

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Speaker 4: on around them. Should have watched that and said, the

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Speaker 4: adults are back in the room.

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Speaker 3: It seems as though we have a professional adult once

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Speaker 3: again in the White House who's just simply doing the work.

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Speaker 1: Really, the theme I would say is the adults are back.

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Speaker 3: Still.

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Speaker 4: It is a relief to have adults in charge.

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Speaker 1: Now we have adults in the White House.

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Speaker 5: Okay, the adults are back in the room.

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Speaker 4: There is a sense, I think the world over that

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Speaker 4: the adults have returned.

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Speaker 2: We have an adult in the White House now, and

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Speaker 2: it's glorious.

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Speaker 1: This is what adulting looks like. I'll take a kid

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Speaker 1: in charge at this point.

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Speaker 2: God bless so.

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Speaker 3: We actually and the irony is every word of that

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Speaker 3: is a lie number. Well, look, Joe Biden is a

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Speaker 3: is the opposite of adult leadership. Adult leadership focuses on

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Speaker 3: let's follow the law. Adult leadership focuses on we've got

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Speaker 3: Adult leadership focuses on how do we stop bad guys

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Speaker 3: from hurting us? Everything Joe Biden and the Democrats have

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Speaker 3: it is dangerous, it is extreme, and the country is

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Speaker 3: a lot less safe as a result.

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Speaker 2: Now, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation,

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Speaker 2: from earlier this week. Now onto story number two. I

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Speaker 2: want to move also to another important issue, and this

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Speaker 2: It deals with liquid natural gas and these ports that

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Speaker 2: have basically been stopped out of nowhere. And the alibi

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Speaker 2: with a twenty five year old TikToker that really explained

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Speaker 2: to us the environmental problems. So we're going to study

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Speaker 2: the environmental problems with liquifinancial gas, and it may take

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Speaker 2: over a year, it will certainly be after the election.

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Speaker 2: If we were to turn these back on it's going

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Speaker 2: to have a massive impact on Texas. But the timing

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Speaker 2: of it center is the part that's so suspect. It

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Speaker 2: was right after Texas and the Supreme Court ruling came

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Speaker 2: down that said that, hey, the federal government can get

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Speaker 2: through your razor wire.

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Speaker 1: The ruling also, as we.

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Speaker 2: Talked about extensively on the show, it didn't say you

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Speaker 2: had to stop putting down razor wire, and it didn't

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Speaker 2: say to Texas you had to pick it up. And

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Speaker 2: it was almost like the White House said, Okay, well,

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Speaker 2: if you're going to mess with us, and then twenty

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Speaker 2: five other governors got involved and said, hey, we're going

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Speaker 2: to send troopers at state troopers and our guardsmen, National

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Speaker 2: Guardsmen to help in Texas. Wasn't a shout across about

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Speaker 2: Texas with US out of nowhere plan of theirs that

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Speaker 2: was like, hey, we're basically going to put sanctions on

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Speaker 2: you guys because you need to get line in any

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Speaker 2: other state that's helping you, you could be next.

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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, and yes. So what happened was last week

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Speaker 3: I think you're exactly right as a petulant attack on Texas.

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Speaker 2: You and I have talked so much about what is

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Speaker 5: Now, correct, Thank you so much for having me. What

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Speaker 5: So I'm in central northern Israel where we've had a

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Speaker 3: Tell us what is the spirit? What is the morale

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Speaker 5: Israel is resilient. Israel has always been resilient. We've never

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Speaker 5: So I want to start off, I think thank you

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Speaker 3: Well, yeah, yell, thank you. I will tell you we

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Speaker 3: was newly created, but what happened on October seventh exposed it.

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Speaker 3: And I think shining a sunlight on it is a

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Speaker 1: And so.

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Speaker 3: Know that despite the viciousness, you're saying that millions and

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Speaker 3: millions of Americans and people across the world stand with

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Speaker 5: It's incredible, it's so inspiring. I read the words of

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Speaker 5: Isaiah five, for example, and says in the last of days,

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Speaker 5: good will be evil, and evil will be called good.

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Speaker 5: And I see how in the beginning of the war

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Speaker 5: in October eighth, people were debating if Somemas beheaded babies

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Speaker 5: or just peacefully burned them alive. And then it took

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Speaker 5: less than one minute it TOAs bread the lie that

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Speaker 5: Israel bomb the hospital, which ended up in the Samas rocket.

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Speaker 5: But there is so much hatred towards the Jewish people,

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Speaker 5: there's so much anti Semitism. But what I see stor

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Speaker 5: Cruise is exactly what you're saying, that this isn't nineteen

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Speaker 5: thirty eight. Today, it's a different reality because we have

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Speaker 5: the state of Israel which is able to protect the

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Speaker 5: Jewish people, and we have millions of Christians around the

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Speaker 5: world who stand with us. And that's exactly the message

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Speaker 5: of the Fellowshifts. You know, we've all learned about the

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Speaker 5: righteous gentiles during the Holocaust, who've learned about the core

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Speaker 5: ten Boons mas Chris Shimmler's And there's even a forest

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Speaker 5: in Jerusalem that's planted outside of the Aadbushian for the

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Speaker 5: righteous gentiles. And what I see today is if we

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Speaker 5: had to plant a tree for every righteous gentile who's

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Speaker 5: standing with Israel, cover an entire continent with trees. And

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Speaker 5: so what I represent on the ground here in Israel

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Speaker 5: is millions of Christians who are feeding the hungry, clothing

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Speaker 5: the naked, who are not political at all, but are

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Speaker 5: standing with the biblical words of the Bible nahmuani comfort

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Speaker 5: you comfort nite people by bringing food to Holocaust survivors

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Speaker 5: and their bomb shelters and providing bulletproof ambulances. And that

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Speaker 5: is the difference today between twenty twenty four and nineteen

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Speaker 5: thirty eight, and it's significant.

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Speaker 1: Well, y'all, I want to amen, Amen, absolutely.

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Speaker 2: I want to ask you and inform the vertical listeners

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Speaker 2: because there's so many listeners a show that ask Center

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Speaker 2: Cruz when he's traveling and myself, they asked the same question,

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Speaker 2: what can we do to get involved? Talk a little

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Speaker 2: bit about what the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews does.

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Speaker 2: The mission you mentioned and this is something that I

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Speaker 2: learned from you when we got to sit down and

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Speaker 2: break bread, is that there are these, for example, the

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Speaker 2: ambulances that they need, not just ambulances, but bulletproof ambulances,

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Speaker 2: and these are some of the resources that you guys

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Speaker 2: are helping with those on the ground that desperately need

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Speaker 2: these life saving not just care, but also the meals

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Speaker 2: and everything else.

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Speaker 5: Thank you so much so. The International Fellowship of Christians

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Speaker 5: and Jews is the largest philanthropic organization in Israel and

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Speaker 5: we represent the Christian community on the ground in the

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Speaker 5: Holy Land. We have three different areas that we focus on.

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Speaker 5: One is Alia, bringing Jews from at risk countries home

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Speaker 5: to Israel and the vision of the Bible. And that's

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Speaker 5: actually continued since October seventh. Almost every day we had

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Speaker 5: people landing in Israels from Ukraine, from the Arab world,

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Speaker 5: different places where they're persecuted. The second is focusing on

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Speaker 5: poverty and welfare, where we provide food and meals and

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Speaker 5: all the basic needs to people who are hungry and hurting.

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Speaker 5: And the third is security. And so on October seventh,

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Speaker 5: we were already prepared on the ground. We already provided

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Speaker 5: over five five hundred bomb shelters on the ground in Israel.

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Speaker 5: We already distributed bullet PROOFSS, we already distributed bulletproof ambulances.

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Speaker 5: We already in Barzilai Hospital which got four direct rocket attacks,

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Speaker 5: we already protected their labor and delivery and NICKU unit

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Speaker 5: that's completely fortified so that they were protected. And to

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Speaker 5: October seventh, we were already, we were already mobilized, We

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Speaker 5: already had the connections with all of the security officials,

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Speaker 5: with all of the welfare officials. And what happened on

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Speaker 5: October seventh was that suddenly the people who are normally

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Speaker 5: there to provide aided became the victims. We had a

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Speaker 5: head of social work, a head social worker in southern

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Speaker 5: Israel who was kidnapped. We were calling her to say,

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Speaker 5: what do you need, how can we help? She was

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Speaker 5: in a gaza. She was kidnapped by the Kamas terrorists.

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Speaker 5: We had heads of cities who their children were murdered,

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Speaker 5: and so the Fellowship moved in on October seventh to say,

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Speaker 5: until the local national government is able to get together

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Speaker 5: to care for the fitsteens, we're here. We're on the

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Speaker 5: ground in Stoat As there were terrorists roaming, going shelter

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Speaker 5: to shelter bringing food. As the first responders were going

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Speaker 5: down south to fight the terrorists, the Fellowship was there

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Speaker 5: providing thousands of Bullipho's helmets and flat jackets. Because simply put,

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Speaker 5: Israel wasn't prepared for October seventh. It took us by surprise.

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Speaker 5: And so the fact that the Fellowship has been there

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Speaker 5: on the ground providing security for over fifteen years, we

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Speaker 5: were able to mobilize on October seventh, and we haven't sapped, since.

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Speaker 2: That needs right now for specifically people in the US

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Speaker 2: that do want to get involved and want to help,

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Speaker 2: and how can they get involved in help well.

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Speaker 5: One of the biggest needs right now is actually for

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Speaker 5: food and basic needs for those who are evacuated, people

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Speaker 5: who haven't had a business, people who haven't had jobs,

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Speaker 5: many of them for over four months. We have reserve

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Speaker 5: soldiers who are called up four months ago, who have

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Speaker 5: barely come home, who haven't been able to work, and

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Speaker 5: those families, many of them were poor before October seventh,

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Speaker 5: and so one of the biggest needs that we're seeing

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Speaker 5: is really for the basics to bring food to the

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Speaker 5: families whose husbands are in reserve duty, who are poor

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Speaker 5: before the war and now are desperate, to the evacuees,

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Speaker 5: to the Holocaust survivors. I was in Serot just a

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Speaker 5: few week and a half ago. Scaut is a city

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Speaker 5: on the border with Gaza that was evacuated right after

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Speaker 5: October seventh, almost four months ago, and there are five

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Speaker 5: hundred elderly over eight years old who they said, we

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Speaker 5: would rather stay here and die in our homes than

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Speaker 5: live again as refugees. Most of them are Holocaust survivors.

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Speaker 5: And so there's no gross restores open, there's no infrastructure there,

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Speaker 5: and so it's the Fellowship who's they're providing food to

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Speaker 5: these elderly in the evacuated, war torn city of Stereos.

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Speaker 5: So right now it's the basics, which means we're not

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Speaker 5: looking for millions of dollars, we're not looking for huge donations.

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Speaker 5: Twenty five dollars provides a food box to one of

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Speaker 5: those elderly and Stereos.

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Speaker 2: It's incredible the work that you guys are doing. Where

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Speaker 2: can people find out more specifically online?

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Speaker 5: So online you could go to our website www dot

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Speaker 5: ISCJ dot org and get all the information there. And

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Speaker 5: I'm veridicated to showing on a day to day basis

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Speaker 5: what the Fellowship is doing. So you can follow me

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Speaker 5: y Lxtein on all social media platforms, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn

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Speaker 5: and get day to day, real time updates on the

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Speaker 5: donations are saving lives.

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Speaker 3: Well yeah, well, thank you so much for joining us,

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Speaker 3: and thank you for all that you are doing, and

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Speaker 3: know that our prayers are with you, our prayers are

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Speaker 3: with the people of Israel, and truth will prevail, Israel

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Speaker 3: will stand against the face of evil, and America stands men.

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Speaker 5: I can't tell you how comforting those words are and

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Speaker 5: how much you've put truth to action. So thank you,

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Speaker 5: thank you, thank

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Speaker 2: You as always, thank you for listening to Verdict with Sentner,

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Speaker 2: Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you don't forget to deal

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Speaker 2: with my podcast and you can listen to my podcast

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Speaker 2: every other day you're not listening to Verdict or each

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Speaker 2: day when you listen to Verdict afterwards, I'd love to

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Speaker 2: have you as a listener to again Ben Ferguson Podcasts,

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Speaker 2: and we will see you back here on Monday morning.