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Speaker 1: God bless Erica Kirk. Welcome into turning Point tonight. We're together.

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Speaker 1: We are charting the course of America's cultural comeback, just

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Speaker 1: as Charlie would have wanted. We are continuing the fight

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Speaker 1: to save this country. There's so much to get to

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Speaker 1: from the memorial yesterday, and will play you a bunch

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Speaker 1: of clips, but what I think of the highlights of

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Speaker 1: the memorial more broadly, But first and most specifically, I'm

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Speaker 1: going to play you a clip from Erica's speech last night.

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Speaker 1: That was the most important, bar nune segment of the

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Speaker 1: entire affair. I know it was long. I know there

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Speaker 1: was a lot of prominent speakers saying very important things,

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Speaker 1: but the entire event, the entire everything that Charlie stood for,

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Speaker 1: hinged on this clip.

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Speaker 2: It is long.

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Speaker 1: I told our producer I wanted to leave the entirety

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Speaker 2: But I think it's worth it.

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Speaker 1: Watch this from Erica, my husband, Charlie.

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Speaker 3: He wanted to save young men, just like the one

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Speaker 3: who took his life, that young man, that young.

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Speaker 4: Man on the cross.

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Speaker 5: Our Savior said, Father, forgive them, for they not know

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Speaker 5: what they do.

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Speaker 4: That man, that young man, I forgive him.

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Speaker 6: I forgive him because it was what Christ did and

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Speaker 6: is what Charlie would do. The answer to hate is

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Speaker 6: not hate. The answer we know from the Gospel is

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Speaker 6: love and always love, love for our enemies, and love

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Speaker 1: I think part of the reason why I wanted to

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Speaker 1: to recover, because myself and producer Clutter getting a little

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Speaker 1: misty eyed here watching that. You know, the day after

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Speaker 1: Charlie was assassinated, I had a difficult kind of position

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Speaker 1: and difficult take on things. And I'm not at all

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Speaker 1: trying to make this about myself. I just wanted to

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Speaker 1: the head. Going through my head. Came out almost immediately

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Speaker 1: and said, we were a godless The problem is godlessness.

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Speaker 1: That is what our main problem is. And in addition

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Speaker 1: to that, part of this equation is forgiveness.

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Speaker 2: And I'll be honest with you.

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Speaker 1: We recorded that segment and I called a couple different

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Speaker 1: people in the turning point bubble and said, hey, this

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Speaker 1: my place to do. Erica has borne the overwhelming brunt

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Speaker 1: of the severity of this. Obviously, Charlie affected my life,

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Speaker 1: he has affected your life. But Erica was his life,

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Speaker 1: and it was very difficult to me for me to

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Speaker 1: exactly what Erica e said. It exactly exactly what Charlie

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Speaker 1: everybody around us in the same section Erica give the

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Speaker 1: green light that it is okay to forgive. That set

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Speaker 1: be about. The world is not fair, it is not fair.

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Speaker 1: But what Erica said there is that you can't combat

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Speaker 1: unfairness with further unfairness. You will eventually get into a

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Speaker 1: vicious circle of bloodlust. And the only way out of

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Speaker 1: that is forgiveness. And that forgiveness is perfectly exemplified at

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Speaker 1: the Cross. Forgive them, father, for they know not what

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Speaker 1: Is the only way to move forward in a world

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Speaker 1: that is unfair and will continue to be unfair. Regardless

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Speaker 1: Interesting last night in my own just emotional state, going

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Speaker 1: I don't mean this in any comical sense, an oh

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Speaker 1: memorial itself. You can email your thoughts tpt at TPUSA

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Speaker 1: Point tonight. We're together. We are continuing Charlie's legacy of

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Speaker 1: charting the course of America's cultural comeback. And I you know,

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Speaker 1: we're serious about that, the cultural comeback of the country.

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Speaker 1: But you know, sometimes you say it a little more hokey.

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Speaker 1: is directing and guiding charting the course of America's cultural comeback.

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Speaker 1: But I think yesterday was a genuine turning point, and

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Speaker 1: I don't use those terms lightly in the American culture.

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Speaker 1: Like you said earlier, I think especially Erica's speech specifically

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Speaker 1: We're together, we are charting the course of America's cultural comeback.

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Speaker 1: White House correspondent Monica Page, who had a very very

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a great idea, And you know, maybe you

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Speaker 9: with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, but also in other

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Speaker 9: ways that maybe people don't really know of. And what

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Speaker 9: came to mind was that the Press Briefing room is

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Speaker 9: named after James S.

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Speaker 6: Brady.

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Speaker 9: He was Ronald Reagan's press secretary and was also shot

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Speaker 9: and killed while serving President Reagan. So I was thinking,

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Speaker 9: you know, maybe the President would consider doing something like

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Speaker 9: this for Charlie Kirk. So we were thinking, well, myself

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Speaker 9: and the other comms people were thinking, maybe a tent

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Speaker 9: here on the North Lawn Charlie Kirk tent would be

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Speaker 9: really cool, or just maybe a specific room in the

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Speaker 9: you know, Charlie loved nature, so something along those lines,

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Speaker 9: or maybe a little statue. So I definitely wanted to

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Speaker 9: know what the President's take was, but the President came

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Speaker 9: back pretty quickly on our flight home. I mean, it

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Speaker 9: was an exhausting day, as you know, emotionally physically, just

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Speaker 9: to be there all day and feeling all these range

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Speaker 9: of emotions. So we're very grateful that the President came

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Speaker 9: back pretty early. In our flight back home, I was

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Speaker 9: able to answer some of our questions. But if we

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Speaker 9: do see something happen at the White House other than

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Speaker 9: the Presidential Medal of Freedom, then you know that it

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Speaker 9: was from us, from you know, it was our idea

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Speaker 9: to do this. It wasn't just my idea, it was

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Speaker 9: ours here at Turning Point, USA. So it was just

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Speaker 9: a really sweet moment. And I'm hoping that more of

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Speaker 9: this happens, whether it's here at the White House or

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Speaker 9: even on college campuses, little statues of memorials, because we

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Speaker 9: know that's what Charlie loved to do.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and it really exemplifies not only Charlie, but the

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Speaker 1: and what we stand for as a country as a whole,

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Speaker 1: even outside of Charlie himself. And so yeah, I think

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Speaker 1: that would be very special. You also got to ask

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Speaker 1: President Trump another question, so it would be REMISSI if

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Speaker 1: I didn't play that as well.

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Speaker 2: So check this out cut too details.

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Speaker 9: Around that upcoming event that you can share with us.

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Speaker 9: Any further details about that event.

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Speaker 10: I think the event was just a flawless event. It

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Speaker 10: was beautiful.

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Speaker 7: I thought the last.

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Speaker 10: Song was incredible, the way it was as we were leaving.

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Speaker 10: In fact, I think I'm going to have I said,

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Speaker 10: who is singing that song? And I think what I'll

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Speaker 10: do is I'll grab it and I'll use it at rallies.

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Speaker 10: We have rallies to get people elected, and I'll use

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Speaker 11: Wasn't that beautiful?

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Speaker 10: That was the best rendition I've ever heard.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the president is they're just kind of remarking on

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Speaker 1: the fact of Yeah, you know, he pays attention to

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Speaker 1: all of the things that going on around him. I'm

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Speaker 1: not a ton to say, Monica, but do you have

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Speaker 1: any any short thoughts on that?

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Speaker 9: Yeah, so I think he misinterpreted my question. I wanted

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Speaker 9: to know more details surrounding the Presidential Medal of Freedom

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Speaker 9: event here at the White House that was going to

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Speaker 9: be taking place. I'd love to know when that would

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Speaker 9: be any more details than we can expect to happen

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Speaker 9: at this event. I do also want to add that

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Speaker 9: I forgot to mention after you asked me my other question.

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Speaker 9: One of the last exchanges that I did have with

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Speaker 9: Charlie was when he was here at the White House

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Speaker 9: and I saw him and I got a picture with him.

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Speaker 9: I was like, Charlie, we got to get ourselves the

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Speaker 9: tent here on the North lawn. And he said that

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Speaker 9: he always wanted to do his show from the north

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Speaker 9: lawn of the White House. So I think that it's

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Speaker 9: to be our responsibility here to make sure that happens

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Speaker 9: for him. But other than that, I mean, it was

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Speaker 9: just an incredible event and I'm very grateful that the

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Speaker 9: event and give such amazing remarks and be there for

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Speaker 9: Erica on stage. That's definitely a couple of moments there

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Speaker 9: that I just would never forget.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And you know, lastly, today, I know you're you're

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Speaker 1: doing double time here. We're gonna working in pretty hard today, Monica.

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Speaker 1: But you were also in the press briefing room and

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Speaker 1: asked a couple of questions of Carolyn Levitt, and I

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Speaker 1: thought on you thought too, was a very moving answer

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Speaker 1: from the White House Press secretary. Play cut three and

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Speaker 1: I'll get your reaction a little lighter note.

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Speaker 12: Caroline I'd love to know what your favorite memory of

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Speaker 12: Charlie is. Sure, Charlie was a great guy, and he was,

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Speaker 12: of course a very influential person and in the conservative movement,

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Speaker 12: in the MAGA movement. He was so helpful to the

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Speaker 12: President during the campaign and to all of us who

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Speaker 12: worked on that campaign, that historic campaign. I myself had

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Speaker 12: many great memories going on Charlie's amazing podcast.

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Speaker 9: And his show.

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Speaker 12: He was always willing to text people with words of encouragement.

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Speaker 12: In fact, my last text exchange was with him was

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Speaker 12: the day before he died, and he was asking for

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Speaker 12: my husband and I's address to send a children's book

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Speaker 12: to our son. And I think that just speaks to

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Speaker 6: That he was.

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Speaker 12: And I know so many of us here at the

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Speaker 12: White House are going to miss him very much.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a really interesting little peak behind the curtains

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Speaker 1: to the guy he actually was. Monica, what did you

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Speaker 1: think about the Press Secretary's response to that?

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Speaker 9: It was definitely an amazing opportunity to be in the

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Speaker 9: new media seat today on behalf of Charlie, on behalf

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Speaker 9: of Turning Point, on behalf of front Lines. Definitely a

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Speaker 9: really cool experience and I'm so grateful that I got

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Speaker 9: to ask the questions that, you know, kind of burning

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Speaker 9: questions for most of us here, especially as a as

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Speaker 9: a concern's Antifa and violence surrounding Antifa. We know the

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Speaker 9: President's designating Antifa as a messic terror organization. Excuse me,

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Speaker 9: We would love to know what more that he would

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Speaker 9: do to just ensure this kind of violence never happens again.

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Speaker 9: And then I wanted to make it personal and end

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Speaker 9: on a lighter note because I know Caroline was a

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Speaker 9: good friend of his, and he definitely supported Caroline through

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Speaker 9: her congressional campaign. And I just was out of curiosity

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Speaker 9: wanted to know, you know, what was that relationship like

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Speaker 9: behind closed doors that maybe none of us, not all

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Speaker 9: of us get to see every day. And I wasn't

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Speaker 9: expecting such a personal answer. So when she gave that

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Speaker 9: really sweet message of you know, giving us a little

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Speaker 9: glimpse into maybe their relationship, I was a little shocked.

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Speaker 9: I was a little surprised because I didn't know that

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Speaker 9: they texted like that. I didn't know that, you know,

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Speaker 9: he was going to send them a book for their child.

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Speaker 9: It just goes to show that Charlie, I mean Charlie

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Speaker 9: the idea of you know, people you know, starting their

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Speaker 9: own family. So it just it really touched my heart.

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Speaker 9: And you know, just trying to bring closure to something

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Speaker 9: that's just been so heavy for all of us and

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Speaker 9: just end things on a lighter note. And I'm really

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Speaker 9: glad that Caroline got to share that with us. It

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Speaker 9: was very very special.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it totally was. You mentioned a couple of the

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Speaker 1: other things you asked, and we will get to those things.

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Speaker 1: You think those are very important. Maybe we'll play them

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Speaker 1: on the show tomorrow. But yeah, just in remembrance of Charlie.

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Speaker 1: With all of the things that we're going on the

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Speaker 1: last couple of days, it's been great to hear, you know,

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Speaker 1: your first hand experience of the whole process, and really

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Speaker 1: really appreciate you, Monica for taking the time and sharing

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Speaker 1: with us all of those little you know, sneak peaks

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Speaker 1: behind the curtains. Really really really fascinating to talk. Thank you,

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Joebob, Thanks Monica, see you tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Coming up next here on turning Point. Tonight, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: talk more about the memorial. There's there's so many angles

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Speaker 1: and so many avenues to cover. We're not gonna want

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Speaker 1: to miss it, and you know it might even bleed

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Speaker 1: into tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: There's just so much to get to.

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Speaker 1: You can email the show TPT at tpusa dot com

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Speaker 1: with any of your thoughts, whether you watched the.

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Speaker 2: Memorial from home or you were there.

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Speaker 1: Would love to hear your experience and even how it

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Speaker 1: might have moved you. Send those emails to TPT at

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Speaker 1: tpusa dot com. No go away, We'll be right back

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Speaker 1: after the break. Welcome back to you. Turning point tonight.

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Speaker 1: We're together where you're continuing to chart the course of

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Speaker 1: America's cultural comeback. You can email the show anytime you

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Speaker 1: want TPT at tpusa dot com. I love hearing all

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Speaker 1: your thoughts, especially if you were there at the event

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Speaker 1: yesterday or watched it live one of one hundred million

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Speaker 1: people that watched it through whatever medium that you watched

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Speaker 1: at TBT at tpusa dot com. I wanted to bring

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Speaker 1: we talked to Monica Page, who was with Trump and was,

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Speaker 1: you know, in and out like Trump was, which is

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Speaker 1: totally fine, but somebody who was there for I think

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Speaker 1: since six in the morning we walked over together. Chris

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Speaker 1: Hand is the host of The Chris Hand Show and

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Speaker 1: also a friend of this show. He's a guest several times. Chris,

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Speaker 1: thanks for joining us. I really appreciate taking time.

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Speaker 2: Hey, thanks for having me. Last yesterday was just amazing.

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Speaker 13: I mean, full on from the moment that we walked

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Speaker 13: up because we you know, full disclosure, a little backstory,

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Speaker 13: and then we walked over with your producer Glenn and

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Speaker 13: walking in there, you could just tell the tone was different.

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Speaker 13: You know, there's a sea of one hundred thousand people,

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Speaker 13: and as soon as we say, hey, guys, we got

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Speaker 13: parted for us, you could tell that the mood was

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Speaker 13: completely different from the onset. And then when we got

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Speaker 13: you felt that same quiet come back as people were

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Speaker 13: given their heartfelt testimony about Charlie and what Charlie meant

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Speaker 13: to their life. And I think everybody has their own

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Speaker 13: Charlie's story, but this audience wanted to hear them, and

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Speaker 13: they listened, and they listened intently. And I can't think

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Speaker 13: of another event that I've ever been a part of

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Speaker 13: where you could hear a pin drop and a crowd

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Speaker 13: of seventy thousand people.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, well you actually brought up a good point.

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Speaker 1: I wasn't really even considering we were going to talk

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Speaker 1: about this, but yeah, just early in the morning, we

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Speaker 1: were texting each other because Secret Service locks down the building,

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Speaker 1: as they should, by the way, but there's there's really

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Speaker 1: only one way to get in. Everybody had to enter

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Speaker 1: support Charlie. Everybody to go through the same entrance. But

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Speaker 1: we obviously had to get in kind of sooner and

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Speaker 1: graciousness which the audience just said, yeah, go go go

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Speaker 1: right on through, that doesn't exist in you know, any

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Speaker 1: sort of other context, especially you know, a sporting event,

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Speaker 1: let alone a you know, an event held by the

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Speaker 1: other side of the political aisle.

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Speaker 2: Nobody just says, oh, yeah, just go go right on through.

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Speaker 2: We know we got to get there.

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Speaker 1: We had, you know, two pregnant women with us, my

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Speaker 1: wife included, along with a couple of other people that

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Speaker 1: just needed we need to get in the building for

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Speaker 1: you know, various reasons, and the crowd was so gracious

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Speaker 1: in letting us do that.

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Speaker 2: You just don't see that anywhere else. So, yeah, thanks

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Speaker 2: for bringing that up.

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Speaker 1: That was actually a point that I hadn't touched on yet,

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Speaker 1: But Chris, I wanted to play this clip from JD Vance,

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Speaker 1: which I thought was so emblematic of really everybody who

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Speaker 1: was able to speak at Charlie's memorial yesterday. I know

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Speaker 1: people have heard this clip, but I think it's worth

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Speaker 1: talking about play cut too.

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Speaker 11: I was telling somebody backstage that I always felt a

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Speaker 11: little uncomfortable talking about my faith in public.

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Speaker 1: As much as I.

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Speaker 11: Loved the Lord and as much as it was an

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Speaker 11: important part of my life, I have talked more about

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Speaker 11: Jesus Christ in the past two weeks than I have

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Speaker 11: my entire time in public life. And that is an

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Speaker 11: undeniable legacy of the Great Charlie Kirk. You know, he

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Speaker 11: loved God, and because he loved God, he wanted to

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Speaker 11: understand God's creation and the men and women made in

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Speaker 11: his image.

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Speaker 2: Chris, what are your immediate thoughts to that? My first

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Speaker 2: thought is amen.

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Speaker 13: My second thought is this guy is the example of

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Speaker 13: the American story. And I've said this about JD. Vance

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Speaker 13: for a long time. This is the new American story.

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Speaker 10: Right.

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Speaker 13: He dealt with town going to hell because of NAFTA,

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Speaker 13: he dealt with parents with addiction issues, like everybody knows

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Speaker 13: somebody that's gone through this. But then he just added

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Speaker 13: a new element to the American story because so many

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Speaker 13: people in these last eleven twelve days have felt that

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Speaker 13: same feeling, like yeah, I pray privately, but now I'm

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Speaker 13: going to bring my faith into the public square. Now

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Speaker 13: I'm done hiding it. Millions of Americans feel that way,

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Speaker 13: and not just Americans. We've seen it in Korea, Australia, England,

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Speaker 13: you name it. This is this is a global trend.

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Speaker 13: And JD. What you don't see in that clip because

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Speaker 13: they panned to the crowd, but I watched and you

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Speaker 13: were sitting right there next to me, is we're staring

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Speaker 13: at JD. He really got choked up. He was really

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Speaker 13: truly moved by that, and you can kind of hear

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Speaker 13: it in his voice as they come back to him

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Speaker 13: on the shot. But he meant that and he felt that,

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Speaker 13: and I think that that really resonated with a lot

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Speaker 13: of Americans.

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Speaker 1: But I think is really I said this earlier in

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Speaker 1: the show, the kind of the theme of all of

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Speaker 1: this and including the reaction, especially on the other side

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Speaker 1: of the aisle, is oh my God.

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Speaker 2: One in a positive light of everybody out.

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Speaker 1: There sharing their their relationship experience with God and their

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Speaker 1: their religious affiliation and their Christian values. But then also

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Speaker 1: on the you know, the lib side of the aisle going,

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Speaker 1: oh my God, we are in trouble because the loud

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Speaker 1: minority that has directed culture for all too long is witnessing.

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Speaker 1: I think so many people like you just said, start

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Speaker 1: to go. You know what, I'm gonna start saying this.

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Speaker 1: It has not necessarily been commonplace in American culture, especially

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Speaker 1: for public figures, but now it is, and now is

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Speaker 1: the time to continue pushing the message because ultimately, at

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Speaker 1: the end of the day, it's what's best for everybody.

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Speaker 1: Obviously your personal relationship, but as a society and a

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Speaker 1: culture as a whole.

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Speaker 2: It's best for everyone, Chris.

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Speaker 1: You know, I think one of the things that you know,

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Speaker 1: people people kind of tend to, especially in the modern

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Speaker 1: political erica, is I'm gonna make my arguments based solely

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Speaker 1: on reason, not bring religious religion into it, because that's

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Speaker 1: a knock that the left gives us a lot. Do

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Speaker 1: you think that kind of element is going to start

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Speaker 1: to change and people are gonna go, No, we are

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Speaker 1: a we are a Christian founded society, and we are

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Speaker 1: going to lean into that.

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Speaker 2: So I hope we lean into that.

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Speaker 13: But I would say be more like Charlie, and I

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Speaker 13: would say Charlie could decimate you either way. He could

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Speaker 13: hit you with straight facts or he could bring in faith.

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Speaker 13: And I think that you should be equipped for both.

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Speaker 13: You should put on the armor of God, but you

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Speaker 13: should also arm yourself with knowledge. And these things don't

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Speaker 13: have to be separate, but you should be equipped to

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Speaker 13: win the argument either way. And that's that's what Charlie

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Speaker 13: could do. He could absolutely tear you apart from a

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Speaker 13: faith aspect, or he could tear you apart with stats

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Speaker 13: and numbers. But I think that leaning into our faith

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Speaker 13: is definitely something that we need to do and something

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Speaker 13: that we're gonna see a lot more of in the future.

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Speaker 13: We've we've said a lot in this country that elections

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Speaker 13: come every two years, every four years, and we get

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Speaker 13: a new guy in, but then oh, something changes and

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Speaker 13: the things that we wanted to happen didn't happen. But

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Speaker 13: what we've really needed in this country is a heart change,

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Speaker 13: and I think that for the first time in a

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Speaker 13: long time, we're seeing a heart change on a massive level,

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Speaker 13: and just for the mere fact of people not being

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Speaker 13: afraid to do it is going to change this nation.

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Speaker 13: Does that mean you need to do it every time? No,

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Speaker 13: not necessarily, but you should be equipped to do both.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there's probably an argument to be made of like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: they're one and the same, but they can be bifurcated

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Speaker 1: in certain scenarios and certain circumstances. But I get what

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Speaker 1: you're saying, and I think that's a good tact to take. Lastly,

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Speaker 1: as we're wrapping up here, we did the whole first

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Speaker 1: segment on Erica's speech and the significance of that without

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Speaker 1: getting into the nitty gritty details of forgiveness in that

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Speaker 1: whole element, which I think was the most important moment

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Speaker 1: of the entire event.

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Speaker 2: What did it feel like to you in that room?

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Speaker 1: I kind of shared my thoughts of it, but just

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Speaker 1: from another perspective, what was, for lack of a better

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Speaker 1: the vibe.

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Speaker 13: Like I saw a lot of grown men putting on sunglasses.

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Speaker 13: I know that I saw a lot of women crying,

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Speaker 13: and I saw a lot of people realize that Erica

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Speaker 13: is a lot stronger than we even thought she was. Yeah,

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Speaker 13: like she was strong, but that level of strength. I

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Speaker 13: leaned at my wife and I said, I don't know

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Speaker 13: how she's doing this because I don't think I'm ready

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Speaker 13: to forgive him, and this is Charlie's wife. But then

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Speaker 13: you kind of start to rationalize in your head, if

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Speaker 13: she's ready, then we have to, as Christians, were called.

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Speaker 2: To do this.

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Speaker 13: Yeah, I don't know how she can be there already,

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Speaker 13: but I think that that's a testimony to her faith

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Speaker 13: and a testimony to her strength and a testimony to Jesus.

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Speaker 13: And I don't think you can explain it any other way.

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Speaker 2: Rationally, yeah's one hundred percent true.

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Speaker 1: And I think also after you you look at the

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Speaker 1: element of forgiveness and what that does you kind of

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Speaker 1: look at it in the perspective of running the organization,

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Speaker 1: and to be honest with you, it'd be very difficult

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Speaker 1: for somebody to harbor resentment in their heart and run

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Speaker 1: the organization like that. But again, it's it's comforting to

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Speaker 1: know that Erica has been able to get there as

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Speaker 1: quickly as she had and very very positive in terms

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Speaker 1: of running the organization with a heart like hers. I

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Speaker 1: think there's no telling what Turning Point is going to

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Speaker 1: be able to do going forward.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, and it's a testimony.

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Speaker 13: It's a testimony that the organization is in the right

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Speaker 13: hands because Charlie led with his faith and now we're

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Speaker 13: seeing Erica do the exact same thing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that is absolutely correct.

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Speaker 1: Chris Hand hosted a Chris Hand Show, also friend of

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Speaker 1: the Turning Point tonight show which you may may see

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Speaker 1: a little bit more of him coming up here in

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Speaker 1: the next couple of days or weeks. But thanks for

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Speaker 1: joining us, Chris, really appreciate you taking the time. Hey,

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Speaker 1: I love the show, watch it every night. Praying for

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Speaker 1: you and praying for your beautiful wife and that you

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Speaker 1: guys have the health happiest baby in the entire world.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate it, mat thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: Coming up next year in Turning Point Tonight, we'll try

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Speaker 1: to get to some of your emails, time permitting, TPT

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Speaker 1: at TPUSA dot com. I won't rant about that, so

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Speaker 1: we can go to commercial break and be right back

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Speaker 1: after this.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to Turning Point Tonight. We're together.

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Speaker 1: We are continuing to chart the course of America's cultural comeback.

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Speaker 1: You can email the show anytime you want, TPT at

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Speaker 1: tpusa dot com. I look forward to seeing all of

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Speaker 1: the emails regarding Charlie's memorial service, as well as any

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Speaker 1: of the thoughts you have on today's show. TPT at

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Speaker 1: tpusa dot com. We only have time to get to

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Speaker 1: one email, and I thought this was just interesting and funny.

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Speaker 1: I won't I won't say who it's from, but it

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Speaker 1: just said twenty twenty eight, and then the email itself

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Speaker 1: only said Erica for President.

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Speaker 2: She has by vote.

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Speaker 1: And you know, I reckon, guys, were you know that's

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Speaker 1: a little bit, a little bit of levity there, But.

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Speaker 2: I think it's one it would be deserved.

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Speaker 1: I can't say that I would disagree, but I think

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Speaker 1: that kind of strikes to the core of what Erica

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Speaker 1: was doing.

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Speaker 2: The grace and the genuineness.

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Speaker 1: That I think she displayed would invoke that kind of

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Speaker 1: feeling in a lot of people. Maybe we can get

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Speaker 1: that trend started Erica twenty twenty eight. You know, WoT

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Speaker 1: wouldn't be a bad decision in my book. But TPT

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Speaker 1: at TPUSA dot com if you have any other thoughts,

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Speaker 1: we'd like to share anything from the memorial, whether you

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Speaker 1: were there or whether you watched it live, we'd love

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Speaker 1: to hear it, and we'll hopefully get some more of

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Speaker 1: those emails tomorrow. I wanted to end the day, and

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Speaker 1: there's so many clips that could be played. You may

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Speaker 1: recanize Mete. We didn't play a clip from Preident Trump,

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Speaker 1: not for any other reason because there's not enough time.

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Speaker 1: There's not enough time to play all of the clips

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Speaker 1: from all of the speakers. But I thought Senator or sorry,

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Speaker 1: Secretary Rubio was fantastic. Wanted to play brief clip from

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Speaker 1: him before we signed off. Here's Marco Rubio at Charlie's

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Speaker 1: memorial yesterday.

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Speaker 2: I watched this, but.

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Speaker 7: I'm confident he would agree. One of the things he

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Speaker 7: wants us to take away from this from all of

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Speaker 7: this is the following his deep belief that we were

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Speaker 7: all created, every single one of us, before the beginning

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Speaker 7: of time, by the hands of the God of the

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Speaker 7: universe and all powerful God, who loved us and created

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Speaker 7: us for the purpose of living with him in eternity.

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Speaker 7: But then sin entered the world and separated us.

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Speaker 2: From our creator.

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Speaker 7: And so God took on the form of a man

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Speaker 7: and came down and lived among us, and he suffered

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Speaker 7: like men, and he died like a man. But on

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Speaker 7: the third day he rose unlike any mortal man.

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Speaker 2: And then, and to.

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Speaker 7: Prove any doubters wrong, he ate with his disciples so

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Speaker 7: they could see, and they touched his wounds. He didn't

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Speaker 7: rise as a ghost or as a spirit, but his flesh.

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Speaker 5: And then he rose to the heaven.

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Speaker 7: But he promised he would return, and he will. And

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Speaker 7: when he returns, because he took on that death, because

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Speaker 7: he carried that cross, we were freed from the sin.

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Speaker 2: That separated us from him.

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Speaker 7: And when he returns, there will be a new heaven

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Speaker 7: and a new earth, and we will all be together,

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Speaker 7: and we are going to have a great reunion there

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Speaker 7: again with Charlie.

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Speaker 2: And all the people we love.

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Speaker 7: Thank you, and God bless you.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 1: One of the criticisms, and I'm not even calling him criticisms.

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Speaker 1: I just think they are words spoken by lost individuals

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Speaker 1: right now. One of the things that those folks are

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Speaker 1: saying is that, well, you got to watch out for

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Speaker 1: Christians pretending to be Christians in order to move votes.

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Speaker 2: And all they're saying is nothing genuine. It's just a.

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Speaker 1: Grift to get more power. Okay, I understand that concern,

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Speaker 1: so to speak, but grifters don't have that deep of

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Speaker 1: an understanding of what they're trying to grift on. They

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Speaker 1: keep it very very surface level. And that is not

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Speaker 1: what JD said. That is not what Rubio said, That

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Speaker 1: is not what so many other of the people that

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Speaker 1: displayed their own personal relationship with God at Charles's memorial yesterday.

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Speaker 1: Grifters are lazy by nature. They don't actually dig into

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Speaker 1: the weeds of what they think or what they pretend

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Speaker 1: to think. What we saw yesterday is a bunch of

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Speaker 1: people who I believe genuinely have a relationship with God,

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Speaker 1: and we're putting it on display in a way that

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Speaker 1: they had never done before. And the people that do

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Speaker 1: that genuinely do it with an understanding deeper than anybody

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Speaker 1: who's trying to play the politics of the day. And

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Speaker 1: I think that's what we saw primarily yesterday. I could

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Speaker 1: go on and on about this, maybe we'll talk about

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Speaker 1: it more tomorrow, but that's got to do it first,

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Speaker 1: to show or at a time we will see a

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Speaker 1: same time, same place tomorrow. Send your email tpt at

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Speaker 1: tpusa dot com. God Bless America.