WEBVTT - THE ROAD FORWARD | AUGUST 9TH, 2026 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:03.199 Welcome into Real America's voice. This is Sunday the Road Forward. 0:00:03.240 --> 0:00:05.360 Stay with us as we discuss the intersection of faith, 0:00:05.400 --> 0:00:08.840 culture and everyday life. I'm doctor Tim Clinton. I'll be 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:11.760 your host our special guest joining this week. He is 0:00:11.800 --> 0:00:14.200 the President of American Values and Senior vice president of 0:00:14.200 --> 0:00:17.320 Public Policy for the Doctor James Dobson Family Institute. Gary 0:00:17.320 --> 0:00:19.560 Bauer is back with us and she is the best 0:00:19.600 --> 0:00:24.200 selling author, speaker, podcaster, a strong voice for righteousness and culture. 0:00:24.280 --> 0:00:27.280 Hidie Saint John is back. He is Senior vice president 0:00:27.360 --> 0:00:30.880 for City Serve International and Vice president of the National 0:00:30.920 --> 0:00:33.800 Faith Advisory Boy Todd Lamfeir is back with us and 0:00:33.880 --> 0:00:36.880 he is the best selling author, podcaster, and founder of Homeword. 0:00:37.320 --> 0:00:45.280 Jim Burns is with us. Thanks for watching. You hold 0:00:45.320 --> 0:00:49.919 me up today, you call. 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:00.320 Yah. 0:01:06.560 --> 0:01:09.720 While we're continuing to witness the rise of socialism in America. 0:01:09.880 --> 0:01:13.120 Really it's the rise of communism in America. Radical l 0:01:13.400 --> 0:01:17.320 Sieed and moderate Hailey Stevens battled it out for the 0:01:17.360 --> 0:01:22.440 Senate Democratic nomination in Michigan. L SIEID has won, shocking 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:25.759 the nation. The radical left, they're putting a death grip 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:28.600 on the Democratic Party and they're cascading off the cliff. 0:01:28.640 --> 0:01:31.840 If you will open borders, abortion on demand, after birth, 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:36.880 reckless spending that's driving up inflation, abolishing ice, empty prisons. 0:01:38.640 --> 0:01:42.920 Why abolish our current way of life? It's crazy and 0:01:43.000 --> 0:01:44.880 all I has continue to lock in on the war 0:01:45.200 --> 0:01:47.600 on Iran in the Middle East. The President is clear 0:01:48.320 --> 0:01:52.120 he is going to end Iran's nuclear threat. For forty 0:01:52.120 --> 0:01:55.880 seven years, they've been rogue and defiant the negotiation games 0:01:55.880 --> 0:01:58.639 that they've been going through over the last few weeks months, 0:01:59.080 --> 0:02:02.080 President Trump, He's done with it. We need to be 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:04.480 praying earnestly for our leaders and for peace in the 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:05.720 Middle East right now. 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:07.640 Riley Gaines exploded. 0:02:07.680 --> 0:02:11.160 You remember her in culture when she took a no 0:02:11.280 --> 0:02:15.240 men in women's sports stand in the NCAA. Now Indiana 0:02:15.360 --> 0:02:21.280 Fever superstar WNBA Sophie's Cunningham has taken a stand no 0:02:21.480 --> 0:02:24.760 men in women's sports and locker rooms. I'll add the 0:02:24.880 --> 0:02:29.240 WNBA coaches they're squirming a little, seemed confused over what 0:02:29.280 --> 0:02:32.200 a woman is. Social media is going wild over it all. 0:02:32.520 --> 0:02:35.840 Riley Gaines said this, the WNBA has a problem with 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:40.000 conservative politics and sports. Probably he's not going to end 0:02:40.040 --> 0:02:43.880 well here. Support by the way is growing nationally for 0:02:43.960 --> 0:02:47.240 Sophie Cunningham. They're showing up the games. It's going to 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:49.920 be interesting to continue to watch how this thing unfolds. 0:02:50.560 --> 0:02:53.560 And I've got to bring up Fauci. Those Fauci hearings. 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:57.520 They were horrific and a total mess. You lied to 0:02:57.560 --> 0:03:01.079 the American people during the proceedings. He pleaded the fifth 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:05.480 over one hundred times. Just insane. How many people died? 0:03:06.080 --> 0:03:09.480 How much money did they all make? How does he 0:03:09.520 --> 0:03:14.240 get away with this criminal garbage? Senator Ran Paul announced 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:18.200 the possible Senate vote to hold Fouching and contept Congress, 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:20.760 and then he wants to make a recommendation to the 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:22.320 DOJ on what to do. 0:03:24.000 --> 0:03:24.120 This. 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:26.520 I know, our hope, our strength comes from the Lord. 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:28.480 Here's a great verse to hold on to this week, 0:03:28.520 --> 0:03:32.079 Isaiah forty one, Verse ten. Don't fear, for I am 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:34.800 with you. Don't be dismayed, for I am your God. 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:37.240 I will strengthen you, and I will help you, and 0:03:37.280 --> 0:03:40.960 I will uphold you with my righteous hand. All this 0:03:41.040 --> 0:03:43.680 and mores. We jump headfirst into our discussion here on Sunday, 0:03:43.720 --> 0:03:46.720 the road forward. Let's pray and we're going to get 0:03:46.720 --> 0:03:49.680 started God be with us, bless our time here, Use 0:03:49.680 --> 0:03:53.680 it for your glory. God, guide us, help us to 0:03:53.720 --> 0:03:56.880 stay close to your heart. May we bring great glory 0:03:56.920 --> 0:03:59.880 to you and all that we do in Jesus' name. Amen, 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:01.160 let's get started. 0:04:04.560 --> 0:04:07.400 For more encouragement and to stay connected, follow doctor Tim 0:04:07.440 --> 0:04:10.680 Clinton on Facebook, Instagram, and X. We love being a 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:18.480 part of your life. 0:04:19.800 --> 0:04:21.000 Johns now Is Gary Bauer. 0:04:21.040 --> 0:04:23.840 Bauer served in President Ronald Rega's administration for eight years 0:04:23.880 --> 0:04:28.359 as Under Secretary of Education and Chief Domestic Policy Advisor. Today, 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:31.600 he serves as president of American Values and educational nonprofit 0:04:31.680 --> 0:04:33.560 organization right there in Washington, DC. 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:35.400 He's also senior. 0:04:35.120 --> 0:04:38.279 Vice president of public Policy for the doctor James Dobson 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:41.560 Family Institute. Gary, welcome back, Thank you for joining me. 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:44.159 Thank you Tim. Always great to see you and talk 0:04:44.200 --> 0:04:45.640 about the great issues of the day. 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:46.760 Gary. 0:04:47.360 --> 0:04:51.880 President Trump a few weeks ago claimed that communism was 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:57.040 probably the greatest threat to America. And this socialism communism 0:04:57.200 --> 0:05:00.680 rise that we're seeing all over this country is shocking. 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:04.560 It's stunning. We saw it this week in the primary 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:06.719 up in Michigan. I just wanted to get your take 0:05:06.800 --> 0:05:11.040 on what you think in the what in the world's happening. 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:15.880 Gary, Yeah, as usual, Tim, President Trump, who we both 0:05:15.920 --> 0:05:20.640 admired greatly, always gets it right. Communism is like the 0:05:20.720 --> 0:05:23.640 walking dead, you know, no matter how many times we 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:26.839 think it's finally proven itself to be a failure and 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:29.240 it's gone and we don't have to worry about it anymore, 0:05:29.680 --> 0:05:33.160 it comes roaring back with a new generation that's never 0:05:33.279 --> 0:05:36.279 seen the mass murderer and all the rest that always 0:05:36.279 --> 0:05:38.800 comes with it, And I think that's exactly what we're 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:43.960 seeing today. He also said that racing Michigan was not 0:05:44.080 --> 0:05:48.800 between a socialist and a liberal Democrat. It was between 0:05:49.240 --> 0:05:53.960 a communist and a socialist, referring to the Liberal Democrat. 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:57.600 So the Democrat Party is moving further and further to 0:05:57.640 --> 0:06:02.200 the left, and it's this dangerous alliance we're seen between 0:06:02.320 --> 0:06:07.040 radical Islam and Marxism. It's a threat to our country, 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:10.039 it's a threat to our future. And it shows me 0:06:10.240 --> 0:06:13.520 that the Republican Party has got to get its act together. 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:16.120 We've got to be a lot more stude. They have 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:17.920 to be a lot more a stude. They've got to 0:06:17.960 --> 0:06:22.599 be willing to argue the philosophical case for freedom. We 0:06:22.680 --> 0:06:25.880 can't take for granted that the American people, particularly are young, 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:29.320 already understand that Gary. 0:06:29.440 --> 0:06:33.480 My understanding is Gary Peters, the incumbent decided not to run, 0:06:33.839 --> 0:06:39.400 and so there was a kind of a playoff between 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:45.000 abdual ealth Sieid and I think her name is Hailey Stevens. 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:48.279 She was supposed to be, like you said, more moderate. 0:06:48.279 --> 0:06:52.400 I guess Gary, help us understand again who these people 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:55.680 really are. We know that there's this Islamic kind of 0:06:56.760 --> 0:07:00.160 dearborn Michigan. It's just like they've taken that place over. 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:04.200 And that's who else I eed is connected to. But 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:08.160 what does all this mean again? What's happening here? How 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:12.160 can someone so radical get into that kind of place 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:13.040 that nomination? 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:17.280 There are a lot of reasons, Tim I you know 0:07:17.360 --> 0:07:20.559 you mentioned you're always kind of enough to remind people 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:24.440 that I work for Ronald Reagan for a years. I 0:07:24.680 --> 0:07:26.880 run into people today saying I just wish we had 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:31.000 another Ronald Reagan. Man. You know he would sweep into office. No, 0:07:31.080 --> 0:07:34.680 he wouldn't, because the America we have today is not 0:07:34.840 --> 0:07:40.400 the America that elected Ronald Reagan into landslides. One difference 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:45.160 is there's been a tremendous demographic change in our country, 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:48.440 and even though the left denies it and some people 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:52.560 are confused about it. Cultures are different, they have different values. 0:07:53.080 --> 0:07:56.320 We're supposed to be a country where people bring their 0:07:56.360 --> 0:08:00.720 culture with him, but then they assimilate, you know, Union 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:06.480 Many for one. Today we have the exact opposite. We 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:10.320 have people bringing Third World cultures here and hanging on 0:08:10.400 --> 0:08:14.360 to them, often having more loyalty to the traditions of 0:08:14.400 --> 0:08:18.400 the place they left for reasons I assume was that 0:08:18.440 --> 0:08:21.720 they didn't like but they come here and they recreate 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:26.200 that culture. So we have places in Michigan like Deerborn, 0:08:26.720 --> 0:08:29.920 where in some neighborhoods it looks more like a neighborhood 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:32.679 you would see in the Middle East, not a neighborhood 0:08:32.679 --> 0:08:36.760 you would see in the Middle West. And this guy 0:08:36.840 --> 0:08:41.040 that just won in Michigan, he was much more animated 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:45.640 and much more committed to arguing about the West Bank 0:08:46.800 --> 0:08:50.760 in Israel than he was about what's happening in the 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:54.920 West End of Detroit where minority families are suffering and 0:08:55.000 --> 0:09:00.960 can't walk the streets in safety. So these are alien philosophy. 0:09:01.800 --> 0:09:04.280 They're gaining ground. And then you add on top of that, 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:08.040 every year we graduate out of our left wing universities, 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:13.120 more young Americans that have been indoctrinated into socialism and 0:09:13.200 --> 0:09:17.800 Marxism and have been taught anti American history, not American history, 0:09:17.840 --> 0:09:21.800 and all of this together is a witch's brew that 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:26.720 risk America losing everything we have stood for for the 0:09:26.760 --> 0:09:28.040 last two hundred and fifty years. 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:30.640 We saw a tweet come out by former Secretary of 0:09:30.679 --> 0:09:33.920 State Mike Pompeo, and he said, here's a sentence that 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:38.000 you probably thought you never read ten years ago. Hamas' 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:43.240 supporter may well be well. He is the Democrats nominee 0:09:43.840 --> 0:09:47.840 to represent Michigan in the Senate. The Democratic Party, he said, 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:50.600 is headed down a truly dark road. All Americans need 0:09:50.600 --> 0:09:53.280 to wake up to this threat. I mean people are 0:09:53.320 --> 0:09:57.000 talking now openly about this is a real, real threat 0:09:57.200 --> 0:09:59.559 to America. We're not talking about people just trying to 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:04.040 get elect in office. Something is like you said, Gary Brewing, 0:10:04.280 --> 0:10:05.240 and it's not good. 0:10:06.200 --> 0:10:06.400 Yeah. 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:06.640 You know. 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:12.839 Tim Adlai Stevenson, I believe, ran against Dwight David Eisenhower 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:15.280 at one point, and they were very different about a 0:10:15.280 --> 0:10:17.480 whole lot of things, you know, the size of government 0:10:17.480 --> 0:10:20.560 and so forth. But America wasn't going to be an 0:10:20.640 --> 0:10:25.520 appreciably different place if Stevenson won or Eisenhower won as 0:10:25.559 --> 0:10:29.800 he did. On broad important things, there was agreement, and 0:10:29.840 --> 0:10:31.839 that was the case. You know, you can go right 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:35.240 up to JFK and Richard Nixon. I mean they went 0:10:35.280 --> 0:10:38.560 at each other. They had big disagreements, but not about 0:10:38.640 --> 0:10:41.760 whether America was a good place, not whether we were 0:10:42.120 --> 0:10:45.040 a shining city on a hill, not on the question 0:10:45.080 --> 0:10:48.840 of whether our liberty came from God or came from government. 0:10:49.280 --> 0:10:52.000 On the big things, we were all in the same page. 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:55.920 No longer the age we are living in, there are 0:10:56.000 --> 0:11:02.160 two widely separate ideologies I could competing with each other. 0:11:02.559 --> 0:11:05.960 And if the group that we saw won this primary 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:09.720 this week in Michigan, if they end up running America, 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:12.880 it will not be a safe place for people like us. 0:11:13.280 --> 0:11:15.439 It will not be a place with as much freedom 0:11:15.520 --> 0:11:19.320 for our grandchildren as you and I Tim were fortunate 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:22.360 enough to enjoy in our years in America. 0:11:22.440 --> 0:11:25.840 Gary, I'm gonna close this way election integrity. Again, in 0:11:25.880 --> 0:11:28.600 the midst of all this stuff, you're seeing all this happen, 0:11:28.720 --> 0:11:30.839 and then you come back and think, well does it 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:33.480 even matter? I mean, based on what we've learned about 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:36.800 voter rolls in things like that, the integrity side of 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:39.559 the things missing. Gary, something's going to happen. Is the 0:11:39.679 --> 0:11:43.280 Save America Act gonna get through the Senate or not? 0:11:43.559 --> 0:11:44.040 You think? 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:44.720 Yeah? 0:11:44.800 --> 0:11:47.240 You know, Gosh, I try to be optimistic these days 0:11:47.240 --> 0:11:50.560 about everything. Why do I have a hard time being 0:11:50.600 --> 0:11:51.839 optimistic about this? 0:11:52.480 --> 0:11:52.720 You know? 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:56.000 People talked about getting rid of the filibuster because that 0:11:56.000 --> 0:11:58.920 would be the way to pass it. Unfortunately, I don't 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:04.520 believe we've got fifty Republicans willing to pass it. Even 0:12:04.559 --> 0:12:08.120 though there are fifty three Republican Senators now, a couple 0:12:08.120 --> 0:12:10.800 of the ones that won't vote for it are leaving, 0:12:10.960 --> 0:12:15.960 one retired, one got defeated in his primary. But I 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:19.400 want to see an up or down vote, you know, 0:12:19.600 --> 0:12:23.160 who is the majority on this, and then voters can 0:12:23.200 --> 0:12:26.000 make their judgment. And as far as whether it matters, 0:12:26.120 --> 0:12:29.840 we need to have the mental attitude of let's turn 0:12:29.880 --> 0:12:32.240 out in such numbers that it's too big to rig. 0:12:32.800 --> 0:12:35.439 Yeah, Gary, I'll tell you what. We got to pray, 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:37.400 and we got to work. We got to roll up 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:39.240 our sleeves and get after it. 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He was 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:38.200 arrested just a couple of days ago. But I want 0:15:38.200 --> 0:15:41.200 to point to a deeper issue. I mean, I obviously 0:15:41.240 --> 0:15:43.560 I'm very concerned if it was arson, But if you 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:45.480 could see out my window right now, I live up 0:15:45.520 --> 0:15:47.920 on Livingston Mountin. Normally we can see about one hundred 0:15:47.960 --> 0:15:51.000 miles to the south. I can't see past my railing 0:15:51.240 --> 0:15:54.840 right now because we are absolutely inundated with smoke that's 0:15:54.880 --> 0:15:58.440 billowing in from Spokane, Washington, which is five and a 0:15:58.480 --> 0:16:01.240 half hours away from here. So that shows you the 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:06.239 devastation of the fires in Spokane. And here's the bigger issue, 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:09.200 the reason that Washington State is burning and the reason 0:16:09.240 --> 0:16:12.720 that Oregon is burning over a million acres. This is 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:16.160 the worst forest fire, the worst wildfire in the history 0:16:16.160 --> 0:16:18.800 of Oregon State. It's set to do that same thing 0:16:18.800 --> 0:16:22.360 for Washington State. Yes, you can blame an arsonist on it, 0:16:22.400 --> 0:16:24.160 but what you really need to blame are the radical 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:27.480 environmentalists who we have been electing to office now for decades. 0:16:27.960 --> 0:16:30.600 In the late nineteen seventies, my granddad. 0:16:30.240 --> 0:16:32.280 Who used to work for the Forest Service, told me 0:16:32.680 --> 0:16:36.120 that if we did not clean the forest bed, we 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:39.600 would have wildfires the likes of which we have never seen. 0:16:40.040 --> 0:16:42.320 And many of you will remember the controversy of the 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:45.320 spotted owl in the eighties. This is what started all 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:48.040 this stuff, and so we refuse to clean the forest bed. 0:16:48.080 --> 0:16:50.960 When I was running for Congress in twenty twenty two, 0:16:51.400 --> 0:16:54.760 I walked with the Forest Service through the forests of 0:16:55.040 --> 0:16:59.800 western Washington State. They have literally blocked off fire roads. 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:04.760 They are chained shut so that firefighters cannot get in 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:08.440 to contain these fires. And so people say it's not political, 0:17:08.600 --> 0:17:12.360 it is absolutely political. Here in Washington State. We care 0:17:12.400 --> 0:17:15.920 more about pigeons than we do about people. We care 0:17:16.040 --> 0:17:20.440 more about animals and more about birds and protecting habitat 0:17:20.480 --> 0:17:23.080 than we do in protecting the habitat of human beings 0:17:23.080 --> 0:17:25.560 that live here. And we're reaping the consequences for it. 0:17:25.640 --> 0:17:27.800 So this is not just a name. 0:17:28.160 --> 0:17:30.600 I've grow up here. We've always had hot summers. 0:17:30.760 --> 0:17:34.679 The forest here are spectacular, the fires are new, and 0:17:34.720 --> 0:17:37.240 you can blame it directly on radical environmentalism. 0:17:37.400 --> 0:17:40.679 You know, Riley Gaines speaks a number of our events. 0:17:40.680 --> 0:17:43.359 We've been together a lot you with her, etc. 0:17:44.680 --> 0:17:45.480 She took a. 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:49.719 Bold stand, took on the endc double a and just said, hey, listen, 0:17:49.840 --> 0:17:52.160 no men in women's sports and bye. 0:17:52.160 --> 0:17:52.720 I'll tell you what. 0:17:53.200 --> 0:17:57.399 Social media blew up over it recently. Sophie Cunningham, Indiana Fever. 0:17:58.520 --> 0:18:00.960 I mean she flatter, it's with it. I mean she 0:18:01.119 --> 0:18:04.080 is all over the place, took a stand the w NBA. 0:18:04.520 --> 0:18:06.840 It's a mess going on right now. Seriously, we got 0:18:06.840 --> 0:18:10.560 coaches who are all they're blubblering all over themselves trying 0:18:10.560 --> 0:18:12.639 to figure out what to say, how to deal with this. 0:18:12.720 --> 0:18:14.919 I can't even figure out. It's the w NBA. They 0:18:14.920 --> 0:18:17.359 can't figure out what a woman is seriously hiding. 0:18:17.359 --> 0:18:18.359 It's unbelievable. 0:18:18.400 --> 0:18:20.919 People are showing up at the games and in the 0:18:20.960 --> 0:18:24.160 support of Sophie Cunningham, and you've got this trans community 0:18:24.200 --> 0:18:27.439 losing their mind. It's unbelievable. Just your take, Where do 0:18:27.480 --> 0:18:31.080 you think this is going? She isn't she's not moving, 0:18:31.200 --> 0:18:32.000 she's not budgeting. 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:35.199 Well, Praise the Lord for her. Praise the Lord for 0:18:35.240 --> 0:18:37.760 Sophie Cunningham and my friend Riley Gaines. Praise the Lord 0:18:37.760 --> 0:18:40.600 for these very bold and courageous women. It shouldn't be 0:18:40.800 --> 0:18:43.919 bold and it shouldn't require courage to say that a 0:18:43.920 --> 0:18:48.639 woman is a woman and biology does not change because 0:18:48.680 --> 0:18:52.280 somebody decides they don't want to be that particular member 0:18:52.320 --> 0:18:55.200 of that particular sex. It's ridiculous. The WNBA should be 0:18:55.280 --> 0:18:58.280 ashamed of itself. They should be ashamed, and they're not. 0:18:58.480 --> 0:19:01.680 The recent the most recent curve fuffle happened here in Portland, 0:19:02.080 --> 0:19:05.520 in Portland, Oregon. They played over here, and the mess 0:19:05.520 --> 0:19:08.679 of the WNBA, it's embarrassing. And you know, I'd like 0:19:08.720 --> 0:19:10.919 to say to you, they say they don't know what 0:19:11.040 --> 0:19:13.040 they say. They don't know what a woman is, just 0:19:13.119 --> 0:19:15.879 like a Tankie Brown Jackson when she was when she 0:19:16.080 --> 0:19:18.640 was interviewing to be on the Supreme Court. What a 0:19:18.680 --> 0:19:21.120 sham of a Supreme Court justice that woman has turned 0:19:21.160 --> 0:19:23.679 out to be. But it started when she said that 0:19:23.720 --> 0:19:26.840 she couldn't answer the question because she's not a biologist. Listen, 0:19:27.240 --> 0:19:29.359 this isn't that they don't know what a woman is. 0:19:29.680 --> 0:19:32.760 They lack the courage to tell the truth. They lack 0:19:32.840 --> 0:19:36.080 the courage to stand up to wokeism. These are lies 0:19:36.119 --> 0:19:37.200 that are coming from these people. 0:19:37.359 --> 0:19:38.000 Shame on them. 0:19:38.000 --> 0:19:40.600 I hope the NBA. I hope the WNBA goes bank up. 0:19:40.680 --> 0:19:41.840 It's painful to watch, anyway, I. 0:19:41.840 --> 0:19:43.960 Hope they go bank It's a mess. 0:19:44.000 --> 0:19:46.000 Seriously, Hey, before you go, I've got to ask you 0:19:46.000 --> 0:19:49.959 about the Fauci hearings. You talk about horrific and you 0:19:50.000 --> 0:19:52.680 talk about a mess that was unbelievable, pleading the fifth 0:19:52.720 --> 0:19:56.360 what someone hundred times and more. And then this week 0:19:56.480 --> 0:19:59.520 RFK Junior shocks the nation when he comes back and says, hey, 0:19:59.600 --> 0:20:02.199 it isn't COVID and talking about the origins of that. 0:20:02.200 --> 0:20:06.600 He's talking now about RSB and he's talking about limes disease. Right, 0:20:09.000 --> 0:20:12.960 what in the world, seriously is this true? You know 0:20:13.000 --> 0:20:15.879 that it's unbelievable to me that this is happening in 0:20:15.920 --> 0:20:18.480 our culture. Just the closing thought or two from you 0:20:18.520 --> 0:20:19.679 about all that, well. 0:20:19.600 --> 0:20:21.560 I think it just it should be a reminder to 0:20:21.680 --> 0:20:25.879 us that elections have consequences. Again, like the wildfires in 0:20:26.040 --> 0:20:29.359 Washington State that didn't just happen randomly, They happen because 0:20:29.400 --> 0:20:32.560 of bad leadership. The same thing is true, and and 0:20:32.880 --> 0:20:36.359 OURFK Junior is uncovering it. We have terrible people, I 0:20:36.400 --> 0:20:41.080 would say, in many cases, wickedness in the highest positions 0:20:41.119 --> 0:20:45.000 of authority in our country, continuing even into the healthcare industry. Listen, 0:20:45.080 --> 0:20:48.399 I lost my dad in COVID. I watched my dad 0:20:48.440 --> 0:20:52.240 die on FaceTime because they wouldn't allow us into the hospital. 0:20:52.480 --> 0:20:54.879 I watched my dad suffer and die after he was 0:20:55.080 --> 0:20:58.159 vaxed and boosted. So no one's going to tell me 0:20:58.680 --> 0:21:02.560 that this wasn't done on purpose. These people have an agenda. 0:21:02.800 --> 0:21:04.480 All you gotta do is go look at the World 0:21:04.520 --> 0:21:08.640 Economic Forum and look and see into Fauci, the high 0:21:08.720 --> 0:21:11.399 Priest of the branch Convidians. Go look and watch it. 0:21:11.480 --> 0:21:14.440 That guy's diary. They knew exactly what. 0:21:14.359 --> 0:21:14.920 They were doing. 0:21:14.960 --> 0:21:16.760 They need to be held accountable. I was listening to 0:21:16.800 --> 0:21:19.040 the news this morning. It sounds to me like the 0:21:19.080 --> 0:21:22.720 Attorney General of Louisiana is going to hold him accountable 0:21:22.720 --> 0:21:26.080 because they deposed this guy and he basically pled the 0:21:26.080 --> 0:21:29.159 fifth and his definition. Turns out it wasn't that he 0:21:29.160 --> 0:21:31.680 couldn't recall. He recalled what he had for breakfast. He 0:21:31.760 --> 0:21:34.960 kept a diary. He's lying, and when you lie to 0:21:35.040 --> 0:21:38.679 the American people, there should be accountability. I hope to 0:21:38.760 --> 0:21:41.920 goodness that we hold these guys accountable. We can never 0:21:42.040 --> 0:21:43.359 let this happen again. 0:21:43.680 --> 0:21:45.600 Yeah, we need to speak up and suit up and 0:21:45.680 --> 0:21:48.720 show up and amen, God be with us. 0:21:48.920 --> 0:21:51.960 Yeah, you know amen. He indeed so much for joining me. 0:21:52.480 --> 0:21:53.240 Thanks for having me. 0:21:54.200 --> 0:21:55.080 Coming up next. 0:21:55.320 --> 0:21:59.160 Senior vice president for City Serve International and Vice President 0:21:59.480 --> 0:22:02.080 of the National Faith Advisory Board, Todd lam Fear is 0:22:02.119 --> 0:22:05.639 back with this. Did people ever come to you asking 0:22:05.680 --> 0:22:09.040 for help? Maybe hope, encouragement? How about for prayer? 0:22:09.680 --> 0:22:10.480 Do you ever wish you. 0:22:10.480 --> 0:22:13.760 Understood the issues better that people were wrestling with, or 0:22:13.800 --> 0:22:17.359 how to use the Bible more effectively and caring for people? 0:22:17.960 --> 0:22:19.479 If so, I'd love to get a copy of our 0:22:19.560 --> 0:22:23.359 Caring Council Bible in your hands, featuring one hundred and 0:22:23.400 --> 0:22:26.200