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Speaker 1: Joining us now is conservative political activist Ralph Reid. He

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Speaker 1: is the founder and chairman of the Faith and Freedom Coalition.

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Speaker 1: He's authored several best selling books, and his columns have

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Speaker 1: appeared in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and

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Speaker 1: National Review and many more places. Ralph, thanks for joining

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Speaker 1: us today. Great to see you.

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Speaker 6: You bad Ryan, good to be with you.

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Speaker 2: Well, I can't believe it's here.

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Speaker 1: But it's been one hundred days since President Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: has been sworn in as the forty seventh president of

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Speaker 1: the United States. His administration has been operating at rocket speed.

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Speaker 2: Many things that have been going.

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Speaker 1: Certainly he has kept all of his campaign promises so far,

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Speaker 1: and I'm very pleased to see this. But Ralph, I

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Speaker 1: just wanted to get your thoughts on his biggest accomplishments,

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Speaker 1: what you're seeing, and then what you're also hearing from

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Speaker 1: your folks over at Faith and Freedom.

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Speaker 6: Well, Ryan, I think the president was elected primarily, not exclusively,

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Speaker 6: but primarily to do three things. Number one, to strengthen

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Speaker 6: US economy, which is the envy of the world, and

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Speaker 6: to lower inflation. Number two, to secure the border. And

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Speaker 6: in this massive immigration crisis under Joe Biden, which had

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Speaker 6: no precedent in American history, it was lawlessness and we

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Speaker 6: didn't have a border effectively, and that undermined respect for

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Speaker 6: the rule of law, turned every major city in America

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Speaker 6: into a border state or city rampant crime. You know

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Speaker 6: what happened as a result, it was malpractice on a

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Speaker 6: herculean scale. And thirdly, to restore the military strength, both

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Speaker 6: the heart and soft power, and the deterrent capability of

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Speaker 6: the United States around the world, but especially in the

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Speaker 6: troubles thoughts that he inherited from Joe Biden by again

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Speaker 6: rewarding our friends and being tough on our adversaries. And

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Speaker 6: I think if you look at the first hundred days,

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Speaker 6: he has succeeded in all three. Number one, border apprehensions

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Speaker 6: are down by ninety five percent. You know, we're at

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Speaker 6: the most recent data that we have compared to two

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Speaker 6: were going to get in. Secondly, with regard to the economy,

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Speaker 6: The most recent jobs report exceed did economists expectations. They

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Speaker 6: forty four thousand jobs. It's only going to get better.

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Speaker 6: There's already commitments for five trillion dollars in investment to

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Speaker 6: companies like Apple, Amazon, Google and others announcing massive data

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Speaker 6: centers that we're going to be built overseas. They're now

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Speaker 6: going to be built in the United States. Inflations down

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Speaker 6: close to two percent, the FEDS target. I do believe

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Speaker 6: These fears and concerns over tariffs I believe are temporary,

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Speaker 6: of US power. And I think, you know, we can't

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Speaker 6: morning or today. But Ryan, what the President has done

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Speaker 6: by sending a letter to the IOTOI Kimini almost two

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Speaker 6: months ago, about six weeks ago as we speak, saying look,

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Speaker 6: you either agree to dismantle your nuclear program and it

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Speaker 6: has to be taken out of the country, or I'm

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Speaker 6: going to act and I don't bluff. And everybody knows

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Speaker 6: he's not bluffing. And for the first time since the

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Speaker 6: Iran nuclear Deal was signed in twenty fifteen, Iranian negotiators

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Speaker 6: we can get a deal. I have had the opportunity

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Speaker 6: privileged to be in Israel around the time that that

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Speaker 6: but I will tell you this, Ryan, I am grateful

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Speaker 6: end that nuclear program. We need to degrade and ultimately

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Speaker 6: destroy the terrorist proxies funded, trained, and supplied by Iran,

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Speaker 6: including the Hoovies. And it's going to be a new day.

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Speaker 6: It's going to be a golden age, not only in

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Speaker 6: the election that we won last November, and because this

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Speaker 1: I really appreciate your breakdown in your analytic on that,

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Speaker 1: you know, economic security, border security, global security. You know, Ralph,

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Speaker 1: I began this morning reading from Psalm chapter ninety one,

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Speaker 1: Catholic friends, Christians abroad, prayed for the outcome of this election.

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Speaker 1: And you think about where we were just one year ago,

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Speaker 1: and you just articulated the greatest difference right there. And

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Speaker 1: it's leadership. Leadership that is showing American strength. But it's

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Speaker 1: doing it in all the right ways, and it's important

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Speaker 2: And all along the way, the media has opposed this.

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Speaker 1: I know that there are judges across the country that

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Speaker 1: What is the will of the president, the duly elected

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Speaker 2: Where do you see this going?

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Speaker 1: Where do you see in terms of immigration policy? And

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Speaker 1: of course Pete Hegsath, let's not forget him. One hundred

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Speaker 1: right towards our secretary of Defense. They're opposing it all

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, Ryan, it's what a shock the liberal

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Speaker 6: Let me start with the law Fair and then I'll

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Speaker 6: turn to the Secretary of Defense for a minute, because

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Speaker 6: I think I think Pete's role is important and it's

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Speaker 6: not an accident. Why they're going after him, why they

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Speaker 6: they're trying to undermine him now. But look, this is

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Speaker 6: the Biden administration, in one of the most egregious abuses

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Speaker 6: let's be cleared. That was their strategy. Multiple indictments at

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Speaker 6: That was designed to destroy him financially. Okay, it all failed,

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Speaker 6: It all unraveled, and we can thank the good Lord

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Speaker 6: Ryan that the American people saw through it. They knew

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Speaker 6: the way, those indictments in New York and the one

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Speaker 6: All of this was directed by Joe Biden to try

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Speaker 6: these are local federal judges who are issuing nationwide injunctions,

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Speaker 6: more injunctions against this president in his two terms, more

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Speaker 6: common sense and constitutional law will prevail. But it's going

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Speaker 6: to be a slog. Let me turn to Pete real quickly.

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Speaker 6: I know Pete Hexseth. He's a friend. I strongly supported

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Speaker 6: his nomination Faith and Freedom lobbied for his confirmation. And

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Speaker 6: the reason why is for two reasons. Number One, he

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Speaker 6: is standing up for the warfighter. He is at the

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Speaker 6: implementing the Trump Agenda that I mentioned earlier, projecting strength

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Speaker 6: President Trump said the other day, when they asked him

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Speaker 6: And I would ask your viewers Ryan to pray for

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Speaker 6: He's a good man, he's a patriot, he's doing an

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Speaker 6: outstanding job. But look, there's a bureaucracy in the Pentagon,

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Speaker 6: just like there is in all these other places. There's

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Speaker 1: Him absolutely, Ralph, I so appreciate you coming on your comments.

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Speaker 1: Certainly the analysis you've given. There's a lot to pray for.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for all that you're doing at Faith and

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Speaker 1: So well, said Jack, I appreciate that. Yeah, March thirty

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Speaker 1: I really appreciate Jack you coming on. Thank you for

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Speaker 3: Thanks so much, Ryan, You're amazing man. Keep it up.

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Speaker 3: They need to give you your own show.

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Speaker 1: Blessings, Brother, God, belief you.

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Speaker 1: Joining us now is Amy Sneed. Amy is a dedicated

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Speaker 1: serves as the director of Operations at the Standing for

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Speaker 1: Freedom Center at Liberty University. Welcome, Amy, So good to

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Speaker 1: see you.

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Speaker 9: Thank you for having me this morning.

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Speaker 1: Well, I want to talk a little bit about some

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Speaker 1: developments that are happening right now across the country. Certainly,

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Speaker 1: your advocacy of work at Moms for Liberty has shed

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Speaker 1: light on what's going on in education going all the

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Speaker 1: way back to twenty nineteen to twenty twenty. I think

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Speaker 1: many parents were alarmed to see not only the content,

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Speaker 1: but also the policies that we're being promoted and prescribed

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Speaker 1: on school campuses across the country, not only at the

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Speaker 1: higher education levels, but certainly at K through twelve education.

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Speaker 1: In Montgomery County, Maryland, we have a family that is

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Speaker 1: at risk of not being able to graduate their daughter

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Speaker 1: Tell us a little bit about this story, what's going on,

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Speaker 1: and it's actually going to go to the Supreme Court,

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Speaker 1: I believe in Maryland.

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Speaker 9: Yes, it appears that way. These parents have started this.

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Speaker 10: Fight back in twenty twenty two when their daughter was

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Speaker 10: a sophomore, and what had happened was she was enrolled

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Speaker 10: in a health class which under previous curriculum had established

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Speaker 10: a family life and human sexuality unit of that course,

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Speaker 10: and parents had the opportunity to opt out of portions

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Speaker 10: of that course. I know, as a mother whose children

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Speaker 10: went through those courses in public school, it was made

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Speaker 10: very transparent what was going to be taught. You could

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Speaker 10: opt your child out of any portion of that that

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Speaker 10: you felt maybe didn't align with your religious beliefs, or

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Speaker 10: you felt that maybe perhaps your child wasn't prepared to

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Speaker 10: learn about In the case that's happening in Montgomery County, though,

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Speaker 10: the school has taken what should have been a unit

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Speaker 10: and transformed it into an entire health class in which

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Speaker 10: LGBTQ and other CRT minded discussions are going to be

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Speaker 10: happening in a way that parents cannot opt out of

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Speaker 10: that course. And so as these parents they're identifying their

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Speaker 10: daughter as Jane in order to protect her and anonimity,

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Speaker 10: they have identified that this does not align with their

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Speaker 10: firmly held religious beliefs, and they want their daughter to

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Speaker 10: be able to take something that still aligns with the

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Speaker 10: graduation requirement, but does not include the curriculum that just

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Speaker 10: is infiltrated with As the school has identified inclusive language

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Speaker 10: for LGBTQ content.

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Speaker 9: You know, they're met being met with resistance.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, rightly.

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Speaker 1: So what's incredible to me is that after all that

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Speaker 1: we have learned, certainly in the Commonwealth of Virginia, this

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Speaker 1: determined the outcome of the gubernatorial election, and then of

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Speaker 1: course in Maryland and other bordering states.

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Speaker 2: It's incredible to me.

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Speaker 1: That that there are many those, many of those in

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Speaker 1: academics in academia higher ed who are doubling down on

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Speaker 1: this particular agenda rather than taking the lessons, rather than

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Speaker 1: you know, amending their ways, taking a different course of action,

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Speaker 1: creating new policies. Instead, they're doubling down and they're saying, no,

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Speaker 1: you will capitulate on this issue. Why is it so

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Speaker 1: important that parents take just as these parents have in

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Speaker 1: Montgomery County. I know that there are other parents who

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Speaker 1: probably say, you know what, it's not worth the fight.

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Speaker 1: Amy is it worth the fight? And why should parents

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Speaker 1: being in charge when it comes to the classroom.

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Speaker 9: It absolutely is worth the fight. You know.

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Speaker 10: As a parent of as you mentioned, four boys my husband,

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Speaker 10: I get one shot at raising these boys, and I

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Speaker 10: can't think of many things involved in parenting them that

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Speaker 10: are more important than our children's education. And while COVID

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Speaker 10: brought us a lot of really difficult times and policies,

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Speaker 10: what it did allow was really to peel back that

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Speaker 10: curtain and see what's going on in our children's education.

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Speaker 10: And that happened through a lot of these zoom meetings

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Speaker 10: that were taking place, that parents were able to look

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Speaker 10: over the shoulders of their children and see what was

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Speaker 10: really being taught in the classroom. And I think what

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Speaker 10: you mentioned about doubling down on this is what's happening

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Speaker 10: exactly in Montgomery County right now. There are cases that

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Speaker 10: are being held at the Supreme Court level right now

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Speaker 10: with this exact same school district who are telling parents

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Speaker 10: that they cannot opt out of curriculum that does not

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Speaker 10: align with their religious beliefs. And by the way, this

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Speaker 10: is across multiple religious backgrounds. These are Jewish parents, Muslim parents,

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Speaker 10: Christian parents who are locking arms and saying these are

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Speaker 10: not the values that our children are going to be taught.

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Speaker 10: And we have a right as parents to say no,

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Speaker 10: and we can still enroll our children in public education.

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Speaker 10: But if the parents are not rightly involved, as you mentioned, Ryan,

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Speaker 10: those conversations are never going to happen. You can't blindly

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Speaker 10: hand your children over to the school for the day

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Speaker 10: and assume that everything they learn is going to align

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Speaker 10: with your family's values and beliefs. And I think now

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Speaker 10: more than ever, parents really have to step up and

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Speaker 10: get involved.

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Speaker 1: Talking about getting involved, I know for a lot of

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Speaker 1: people this can be overwhelming. There are a lot of

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Speaker 1: parents who are facing the dilemma when it comes to

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Speaker 1: how do you handle the content and schools. How do

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Speaker 1: you handle the fact that there are little alternatives when

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Speaker 1: it comes to education that are being presented to parents.

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Speaker 1: So in some cases they feel economic constraints. They both

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Speaker 1: have to work, Mom and dad have to work. They

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Speaker 1: don't know what course of action that they can take

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Speaker 1: in terms of being unsure of what to do. What

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Speaker 1: advice would you give to parents in that situation.

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Speaker 10: I think you're exactly right, and I really would encourage

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Speaker 10: parents to pray about what is best for each and

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Speaker 10: every one of their individual children. And you know, right now,

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Speaker 10: I would love to say that there are so many

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Speaker 10: different pieces of broad, sleep sweeping legislation in different parts

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Speaker 10: across our country that are providing more options for parents.

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Speaker 10: You know, we're seeing places like Arizona and Florida where

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Speaker 10: school choice and vouchers and education savings accounts are really

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Speaker 10: making their way to the top of the legislative agenda. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 10: here in the Commonwealth of Virginia, we're not in that

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Speaker 10: position yet. I hope we will be soon, But I

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Speaker 10: think parents really have to strongly consider what sacrifices might

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Speaker 10: need to be made in order to provide your children

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Speaker 10: with the best education and by the way. I don't

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Speaker 10: think that that means we completely abandon public education. I

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Speaker 10: know here at Liberty University have a wonderful teaching and

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Speaker 10: education program where our students are learning how to go

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Speaker 10: out into the world and teach and grow these young minds.

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Speaker 10: But they're doing so out of their love for the

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Speaker 10: Lord and seeing this as their mission field. This is

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Speaker 10: their opportunity to spread the Gospel, and so many of

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Speaker 10: them will enter public education. And I think that, you know,

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Speaker 10: when we look at the broad scope of the United States,

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Speaker 10: I believe it's ninety or more percent of students across

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Speaker 10: the United States will attend public education.

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Speaker 9: So parents have options.

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Speaker 10: I know our family has chosen options, and those have

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Speaker 10: looked different over the course of different years for each

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Speaker 10: of our children. And I think parents need to strongly

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Speaker 10: consider where is the best place for my child right now?

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Speaker 10: And that may be choosing Christian education, that may be

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Speaker 10: just getting involved more in your local public school system.

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Speaker 10: And I often tell parents, you know you mentioned it

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Speaker 10: can feel overwhelming. I think a lot of it is

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Speaker 10: just showing up, So show up, meet your children's teachers, involved,

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Speaker 10: attend a local school board meeting. You know, Zoom has

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Speaker 10: made it easier than ever to stay on top of

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Speaker 10: those meetings as they're all live. So it's important that

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Speaker 10: parents understand what's really happening and then decide where are

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Speaker 10: the best places for each of their children.

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Speaker 1: You know, transparency certainly helps when, like you say, if

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Speaker 1: parents are even if they just click in, if they

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Speaker 1: click to join that link and watch, you know, those

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Speaker 1: those live meetings, if they show up in person, if

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Speaker 1: they simply just ask and raise questions. It's interesting how

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Speaker 1: that kind of transparency, that kind of accountability, that kind

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Speaker 1: of disclosure, all of a sudden gets those who who

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Speaker 1: might be purveyors of illicit materials, those who are purveyors

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Speaker 1: of the perverse, all of a sudden, they're back on

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Speaker 1: their heels. They're in retreat because the light is shining

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Speaker 1: on them. You know, it's important that people recognize they

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Speaker 1: can do something. Parents can be put in the driver's

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Speaker 1: seat and take action. Certainly, there's a rise in Christian

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Speaker 1: education and educational alternatives. I do want to hear just

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Speaker 1: your thoughts on Christian education being a Christian parent. Certainly

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five, there is a greater need, probably

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Speaker 1: now more than ever in America to have more Christian education.

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Speaker 10: Absolutely, and you know, as I mentioned, our family has

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Speaker 10: chosen a variety of education models for each of our children.

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Speaker 10: Right now, we have one child gearing up for the

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Speaker 10: excitement of graduation from public school, and the other three

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Speaker 10: are here at Liberty Christian Academy. I know many parents

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Speaker 10: who have chosen to enroll their students in Liberty University's

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Speaker 10: online academy, which covers K through twelve. In fact, you know,

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Speaker 10: we saw so many alternatives to education that began in

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Speaker 10: twenty twenty and twenty twenty one as schools closed their

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Speaker 10: doors and parents were saying, my children's education still needs

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Speaker 10: to move forward, and this is now happening at our

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Speaker 10: kitchen table. I want to choose what they're learning. And

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Speaker 10: so we saw that big spike here through Luoa, and

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Speaker 10: that really has not diminished. I think people have really

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Speaker 10: seen that there's a quality and a value to a

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Speaker 10: Christian education, and I think even parents who may not

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Speaker 10: consider themselves to be Christian are seeing just the quality

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Speaker 10: of education that's provided. And it's an opportunity then for

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Speaker 10: those students to come in and hear about the hope

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Speaker 10: and the love of Jesus. And so I think now

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Speaker 10: more than ever. There are so many opportunities and it's

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Speaker 10: a great time for parents to make that switch.

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Speaker 2: It absolutely is.

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Speaker 1: There's no better time than right now.

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Speaker 2: Amy Sneed.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for all you're doing at the

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Speaker 1: Standing for Freedom Center at Liberty University and certainly your

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Speaker 1: advocacy for parental rights. It is the reason that we

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Speaker 1: live in these times. God made us for these times.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for standing in the gap in this moment,

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Speaker 1: and thank you for joining Sunday right forward.

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Speaker 9: Absolutely thanks for having me.

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Speaker 1: Joining us now is Gary Bauer. Bauer served in President

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Speaker 1: Ronald Reagan's administration for eight years as Under Secretary of

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Speaker 1: President of American Values and Education nonprofit organization. Gary, thank

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Speaker 1: you so much for joining Sunday the Road Forward.

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Speaker 11: Great to see you, Great to see you. Good to

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Speaker 11: be with you.

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm certainly excited that we've just crossed that critical

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Speaker 1: threshold of the first one hundred days of the new

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Speaker 1: Trump administration. Lots of accomplishments across the board, when you

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Speaker 1: look internationally, when you look domestically, when you look at

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Speaker 1: our military, border security, all of it economically as well,

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Speaker 1: there's a lot that this administration is certainly accomplished. But

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Speaker 1: it seems as though the media wants to double down

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Speaker 1: on the propaganda, on the false narratives, on all the

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Speaker 1: various lies that have been foisted upon the public, and

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Speaker 1: they want a memory hole all the lessons that we

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Speaker 1: just learned Gary in twenty twenty three and twenty four.

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Speaker 1: Never mind the fact that the previous president was was

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Speaker 1: somebody that had no cognitive capabilities whatsoever. It's questionable whether

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Speaker 1: or not he ever had the mental faculties of the

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Speaker 1: capabilities to exercise his function in office. And that's being

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Speaker 1: memory hold. Never mind about that. Now the lies continue.

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Speaker 1: It's as though they're doubling down and continuing to run

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Speaker 1: with reckless abandon What say you.

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Speaker 11: Well, you know what you just finished your question with

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Speaker 11: really is a key thing to reflect on a little

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Speaker 11: bit we now know beyond a shadow of a doubt

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Speaker 11: that Joe Biden was not president in any reasonable sense

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Speaker 11: of that word. I mean, the evidence was pretty strong

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Speaker 11: all along the way. But now you've got, you know,

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Speaker 11: book after book coming out quoting all sorts of people

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Speaker 11: that worked in the Biden administration, some reporters making their

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Speaker 11: version of a confession that the whole Biden presidency was

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Speaker 11: being manipulated by a group of left wing aids and

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Speaker 11: advisors who carted Biden out periodically, but on a day

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Speaker 11: to day basis. We're signing the orders, we're making the decisions.

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Speaker 11: And when you think about it, they were willing to

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Speaker 11: continue this farce, this charade. As late as June of

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Speaker 11: last year, they were still pushing the idea that Joe

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Speaker 11: Biden was totally capable of being president for another four

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Speaker 11: years until he had that disastrous debate where anybody with

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Speaker 11: eyes to see and ears to hear knew that something

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Speaker 11: go in a direct an opposite direction. Look, I think

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Speaker 11: this is the biggest corruption scandal in modern American history,

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Speaker 11: and we can't let it go. We can't let it

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Speaker 11: go down a memory hole. There needs to be a

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Speaker 11: major investigation because the American people were being lied to directly,

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Speaker 11: day after day after day. It had to be by dozens,

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Speaker 11: if not hundreds of people around President Biden in order

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Speaker 11: to hide his true health condition from the American people,

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Speaker 11: and that cannot be tolerated. Now, on these last hundred

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Speaker 11: days that we've just lived through, Donald Trump has done

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Speaker 11: more in one hundred days than Joe Biden did in

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Speaker 11: four years. It's been remarkable. You mentioned that I served

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Speaker 11: in the Reagan administration.

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Speaker 8: I loved Ronald Reagan.

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Speaker 11: I think we did a lot. I have to say

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Speaker 11: in all honesty that we did not move with the

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Speaker 11: same alacrity and speed as we've seen Donald Trump in

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Speaker 11: these last in these first one hundred days. And quite frankly,

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Speaker 11: the media is not just lying about it. It's not

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Speaker 11: fake news. I think you used a word, and it's

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Speaker 11: more accurate than the others. We're being subjected to propaganda

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Speaker 11: at a level I have never seen in this great country.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I fully agree. I would be remissed. I want

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Speaker 1: to make sure to touch on this this morning, but

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Speaker 1: you served as under secretary in Education under President Reagan.

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Speaker 1: I did want to talk a little bit about education policy.

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Speaker 1: Certainly the Trump administration has expressed the desire. Many US

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Speaker 1: voters agree with this and have voted for this, but

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Speaker 1: to dismantle the US Department of Education as something that

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Speaker 1: was put in place back in President Jimmy Carter's administration

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Speaker 1: as a bargain with teachers' unions. Unions have been obviously

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Speaker 1: lobbying and using that organization in order to control education

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Speaker 1: in the country, not the taxpayers, that they're not in charge,

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Speaker 1: the parents aren't in charge, but the unions are. Talk

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Speaker 1: a little bit about that in terms of your insights there.

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Speaker 11: Well, when we were in the Reagan administration at the

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Speaker 11: Department of Education in the early years, President Reagan had

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Speaker 11: made a promise that he would abolish the Department of Education,

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Speaker 11: and we found that we just could not get the

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Speaker 11: Congress to act. So Secretary of Education Bill Bennett and

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Speaker 11: I did the best we could to scale the department

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Speaker 11: back and make it a force for education excellence. I

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Speaker 11: think we accomplished some of that, but not nearly what

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Speaker 11: we wanted to accomplish. Every Republican presidential candidate since has

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Speaker 11: promised to abolish the Department but then didn't act on it.

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Speaker 11: President Trump promised to abolish the Department and lo and behold,

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Speaker 11: he got elected president and now he's keeping his promise.

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Speaker 11: That's unheard of in Washington, d C. The media is

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Speaker 11: lying about this too. They're trying to scare the average

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Speaker 11: American family into thinking that all the programs that they

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Speaker 11: may count on, whether it's loans and grants to help

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Speaker 11: get your child through a college or university, or whether

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Speaker 11: it's programs for special needs children or low income children,

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Speaker 11: that President Trump's going to get rid of all those programs.

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Speaker 11: He's not going to do that. Those programs, when appropriate,

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Speaker 11: will survive. In other cases, the programs will be turned

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Speaker 11: into vouchers that will be sent directly to the parents,

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Speaker 11: so the parents can decide how to spend that money

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Speaker 11: for their special needs child to get the education that

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Speaker 11: their child or their poor child needs. So this is

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Speaker 11: a fight worth having. I'm glad the President's taking these steps,

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Speaker 11: and I'm glad we have a Secretary of Education now

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Speaker 11: that's trying to fulfill that promise.

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Speaker 1: You know, just in just the last minute or so, Gary,

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Speaker 1: because we're running out of time, do you believe that

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Speaker 1: Congress can do anything to act in this manner? You

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Speaker 1: know in the next eighteen months or do you think

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Speaker 1: it's all going to have to be done from the

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Speaker 1: executive branch.

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Speaker 11: I think it's going to be difficult to do much

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Speaker 11: of this and all of this, or even a significant

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Speaker 11: portion of it. In Congress. We have a narrow majority

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Speaker 11: in the House. In the Senate, we've got a little

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Speaker 11: bit more leeway. But as most people know, to get

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Speaker 11: anything done in the Senate, except in exceptional circumstances, you

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Speaker 11: can't do it with fifty one votes. You have to

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Speaker 11: have sixty votes. So unless the Senate leadership and the

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Speaker 11: House leadership can work together and figure out a way

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Speaker 11: to get past that sixty vote requirement, we're going to

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Speaker 11: have to count on the President using executive orders and

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Speaker 11: executive powers to do a lot of the things that

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Speaker 11: we've seen do in these first one hundred days, in

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Speaker 11: which I believe he will continue to do, particularly if

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Speaker 11: we get clarification from the Supreme Court that he does

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Speaker 11: have a broad set of rights dealing with executive orders.

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Speaker 1: It will certainly be interesting to watch, and I know

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Speaker 1: many Americans' hopes are that Trump accomplishes what he has promised.

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Speaker 1: I certainly appreciate your insights Gary, Thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for joining us and providing with a great commentary this morning.

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Speaker 11: Thank you absolutely great to be with you.

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Speaker 1: Hey, thanks for watching Sunday The Road Forward. Lots of

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Speaker 1: exciting things are happening in our nation. I want to

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Speaker 1: leave you with a final thought that comes from the

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Speaker 1: Apostle Paul. So, whether therefore you eat, or drink, or

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Speaker 1: whatsoever you do, do all to the glory of God.

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Speaker 1: I hope that you are encouraged to see the opportunities

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Speaker 1: that lie ahead. The harvest fields are white with opportunity

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Speaker 1: to give glory to God and all that we say

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Speaker 1: and in all that we do. So let's get busy

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Speaker 1: serving Him. Until next time, God bless you.