Point of View December 11, 2024 – Hour 2 : Today’s Top Stories

[00:00:04] Across America, Live, this is Point of View, Kirby Anderson.

[00:00:20] Second Hour Today, we're going to get into some other issues. Of course, we will say just a little bit more about the individual that tried to kill that and actually did kill the CEO, oftentimes referred to as the CEO assassin.

[00:00:33] I still have a question as to whether or not when do we use the word assassination and not. Obviously, we use that when we talk about political figures.

[00:00:40] Does a CEO qualify? We'll just call it a CEO assassin. And more importantly, some of the reactions that have been sympathetic to the murder that took place.

[00:00:51] And so we'll cover some of that. A very good piece that came out by David Keating about not only do we need a DOGE, that is a Department of Government Efficiency to begin to streamline government.

[00:01:05] We need something very similar to actually focus on free speech. And then I will spend some time talking about some of the attacks, whether it has been some of the threats on government cabinet nominees or even an individual was arrested for allegedly assaulting representative Nancy Mace.

[00:01:27] We also have my commentaries I've had over the last two days on propaganda tests and maybe a few other topics we can get into in the short hour that we have here.

[00:01:39] I hope you appreciated the conversation we had with Dr. Paul Baraka. He is still hanging around.

[00:01:44] We're going to go to dinner after this, but I just wanted to spend some time letting you know, first of all, that we do still have room for you on a trip to Greece.

[00:01:53] And number two, I wanted you to hear some of the things just coming out of their prophecy conference, which are new and exciting and innovative.

[00:02:00] So all that is front and center. And let me, if I can now get to, of course, what has unfolded over the last couple of days.

[00:02:09] That is, we know a lot more about the shooter now. As a matter of fact, yesterday when he was actually being brought into the Blair County Courthouse in Pennsylvania,

[00:02:19] shouting out all sorts of things and his explosion as a particular article I have in front of me came just 24 hours after he appeared in court for his arraignment.

[00:02:30] You're not familiar. This individual, and I intentionally don't use his name, faces two counts of second degree criminal possession of a weapon.

[00:02:38] One count of second degree possession of a forged document. One count of third degree criminal possession.

[00:02:46] And, of course, a first, I guess is now a second degree murder charge.

[00:02:50] All of that is going to make it very difficult for him to ever see the light of day once again.

[00:02:55] He was caught, if you've not heard the story, with several fake IDs, a ghost gun, a silencer, which they believe was used to murder the individual who was the CEO of the health company.

[00:03:08] He also, interestingly enough, was caught by people that said, gosh, doesn't that guy kind of look like that assassin?

[00:03:18] And one of the men in Altoona, Pennsylvania said it really kind of started out as a joke.

[00:03:23] And then somebody else said, well, he does kind of look like that guy.

[00:03:26] And now they're about 10 feet away from him, and he didn't leave. He had a mask, a hood, and a backpack.

[00:03:31] And so, eventually, the worker that took the order thought, oh, he looks too much like it.

[00:03:37] Part of it was the eyebrows. You've heard people talk about that before.

[00:03:40] And so he was taken into custody.

[00:03:42] And, of course, there are people trying to make sense of what he did.

[00:03:46] And yet, I think the simple issue is he wanted to kill people, and he killed an individual based upon, I think, all sorts of misguided reasons,

[00:03:56] from any kind of mental issue to also being further radicalized.

[00:04:02] I want to get to our two articles that I've posted for you to read, because I think they really take us on to some of these issues.

[00:04:09] But you've got to understand that his sister, who's a cardiologist at a teaching hospital near the medical school,

[00:04:18] not just many miles from where we're broadcasting from today, was horrified by this.

[00:04:23] And, of course, the whole family has said, oh, our family is shocked and devastated by that.

[00:04:27] And they asked for prayer for Thompson's family and for praying for all that was involved.

[00:04:33] Yes, there are people saying, how is it that we had pictures of this individual and no family member said, wait a minute, I think that's my son.

[00:04:43] I think that's my brother.

[00:04:44] And, again, he was estranged for them, so who knows.

[00:04:47] But what I do want to focus on, because we'll learn more about him as time goes on,

[00:04:52] the really sad commentary that has come from individuals who actually wanted to almost try to give some justification for his actions.

[00:05:04] And my first article is from somebody I quote from quite often, Jim Garrity, who said, you know,

[00:05:09] when people are trying to figure out what he wanted to do, well, he says it's just really simple.

[00:05:13] He wanted to kill somebody.

[00:05:15] Yesterday they arrested him, of course, at the McDonald's in Altoona, Pennsylvania.

[00:05:19] Of course, this came from yesterday, so it's the day before.

[00:05:22] And then, of course, there are a million ways that this individual could have made the world a better place.

[00:05:28] And in some respects we've learned enough to know that he had the ability and even the resources to have made it a better world.

[00:05:37] First of all, he was born into a wealthy family, Jim Garrity reminds us.

[00:05:42] His family owns several country clubs, including the Hayes Field Country Club in Hunts Valley.

[00:05:47] He has a cousin who is actually a Republican delegate in Maryland.

[00:05:52] His late grandfather was a self-made real estate developer.

[00:05:57] So not only did he come from a family that had financial means, he also went to a very prestigious prep school, the Gilman School.

[00:06:05] Did I hear somebody the other day said that tuition there was $40,000 a year?

[00:06:10] He was a leader in the Student Robotics Club.

[00:06:13] He also had later on been involved as a head counselor for pre-collegiate studies program for those heading off to Stanford University.

[00:06:23] He was not only the valedictorian from the Gilman School, but also went to the University of Pennsylvania and received, what,

[00:06:32] not only a bachelor's degree, but a master's degree in engineering with a major in computer and information science.

[00:06:39] Then he even worked for a while with a Maryland-based studio that is known for some of these video games.

[00:06:46] And in some respects, everything looked pretty good until he decided to take a break and go to Honolulu.

[00:06:56] That time he started a book club in Hawaii.

[00:07:00] And one of the books that certainly caused a lot of concern was the book by the Unabomber, The Manifesto.

[00:07:09] And as a result, they even provided a four-star review of this book called Industrial Society and Its Future,

[00:07:18] which was written by Ted Kaczynski, who is, of course, best known as the Unabomber.

[00:07:23] So here we have this, if you will, dissent from an individual that is a robotics whiz, majored in computer science,

[00:07:32] worked at a video game company, had all sorts of success.

[00:07:38] And then he kind of signs on to with the Unabomber's manifesto and then begins to complain about health care.

[00:07:46] One of the things Jim Garrity points out, at the age of 26, if he was under the Affordable Care Act,

[00:07:52] he may have only paid for health insurance once, maybe not have paid for health insurance.

[00:07:58] And yet that becomes then, if you will, the justification for some of these individuals saying,

[00:08:05] well, he was justified because of all the problems in the health care industry.

[00:08:10] As one person said, John Wick meets Aaron Brockovich.

[00:08:15] And so when we come back from the break, I want to talk about that because, again,

[00:08:19] there's so many things he could have done.

[00:08:22] Jim Garrity talks about you could have given money to the National Association of Free and Charitable Clinics.

[00:08:27] You could have been providing ways to help defray the cost for individuals

[00:08:33] that maybe had to engage in some kind of health studies or research or surgeries.

[00:08:41] And that's not what he did.

[00:08:43] We now know what he did do.

[00:08:44] But when we come back, we'll talk about some of the people that thought maybe he was justified.

[00:08:49] What about that?

[00:08:50] Talk about this right after that.

[00:08:58] This is Viewpoints with Kirby Anderson.

[00:09:02] Yesterday, I talked about some of the tests Glenn Beck proposes in his new book, Propaganda Wars.

[00:09:07] The first three are the liar-liar test, the what is a woman test, and the egg-throwing gorilla test.

[00:09:13] If you don't know what those are, you might consult the transcript for yesterday's commentary.

[00:09:18] His fourth test is the bias test.

[00:09:20] People and institutions are more likely to cite facts that support their ideological or religious views.

[00:09:26] If a secular liberal news source reports something favorable to conservatives or Christians, it is likely to be true.

[00:09:33] The fifth test he calls the bloodthirsty tyrant test.

[00:09:36] If someone supports or calls for violence, you should not trust that information.

[00:09:41] The mainstream media has frequently downplayed the violence and threats from Antifa.

[00:09:46] He argues that if you think your cause is so righteous that it justifies burning cities down, then you shouldn't trust that source.

[00:09:53] Another test is the original source test.

[00:09:56] This test is more difficult because you shouldn't always take at face value a statement that isn't a firsthand account.

[00:10:03] It takes time and patience to find the original source.

[00:10:06] Glenn Beck devotes a few pages to show how the false story of 500 people who died in a hospital in Gaza was repeated verbatim by multiple outlets.

[00:10:15] A final test is the crazy uncle test.

[00:10:18] Along with Christmas carols and Thanksgiving turkeys, one American holiday tradition is getting trapped by a completely absurd conversation with a crazy uncle.

[00:10:27] Glenn Beck suggests we treat the entire social media industry as though it is a crazy uncle.

[00:10:32] You will need wisdom and a degree of skepticism to navigate the propaganda wars in the 21st century.

[00:10:39] I'm Kirby Anderson, and that's my point of view.

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[00:11:04] Back once again, second article that we posted here today by Charlie Cook.

[00:11:07] As a matter of fact, there have been a whole search of really good articles, but I picked this one because it's a reminder of the kind of responses that have been given to the murder of the CEO of UnitedHealthcare.

[00:11:20] And he points out that this has been met with two what he calls disgraceful responses.

[00:11:26] I agree.

[00:11:27] One explicitly grotesque, the other implicitly so.

[00:11:32] The first, the explicitly grotesque response has been to openly cheer the death of Brian Thompson and to cheer on the murderer, the individual that is now in custody, on the grounds that he deserved to die.

[00:11:48] Now, the reality is most of those have shown up in social media and should be outrageously condemned.

[00:11:56] One of those individuals that has actually made that statement lost her job, and I think justifiably so.

[00:12:04] But then he goes on to talk about what he calls the implicitly grotesque response has been to declare that one is against the idea of an assassination of a CEO of UnitedHealthcare.

[00:12:16] But at least I can kind of understand it, maybe even sympathize with that.

[00:12:22] And then gives you some very good examples from mainstream media, from various professors at universities and the rest.

[00:12:31] You can read through that paragraph.

[00:12:32] I won't bore you with a long list.

[00:12:34] And then he says, really, the question is, we should ask why a human being was murdered in cold blood and why it is justifiable to imply that there might be sufficient reason for that act.

[00:12:49] He says there does not, and there is no reason for that.

[00:12:53] He says, I have no interest in negotiating with those who disagree.

[00:12:58] He says, what I will do, however, is attempt to convey to those figures exactly why their reactions are so misplaced and, indeed, why condemnation of it is the prerequisite to a functioning civil society.

[00:13:12] The Washington Post, for example, he does quote.

[00:13:15] Of course, he gives you quotes from CNN, CBS, New York Times, people at Columbia, all sorts of places.

[00:13:21] But Washington Post says, this violent attack on one man is really an attack on society itself.

[00:13:26] That is correct.

[00:13:27] And he says, why?

[00:13:29] Well, because everyone has grievances.

[00:13:31] There's nothing within our social compact that permits a small subset of them to exempt themselves from its elementary standards.

[00:13:41] Were America to adopt such a system, which we unfortunately find in other countries,

[00:13:47] then would remain not only an attack on people like the CEO of UnitedHealthcare,

[00:13:53] but you could replace the word CEO with a senator, a representative, maybe the director of health and human services or the like.

[00:14:03] We saw some of that, of course, even with, well, maybe I can understand why some people would be upset with Donald Trump

[00:14:09] and why you could understand why an assassination would take place.

[00:14:13] And he says, the New York Times in particular has been keen to inform its readers about the hate and the anger and the frustration and rage against health insurance providers that supposedly exist in the land.

[00:14:28] But he says, wait a minute.

[00:14:30] If indeed that is justifiable, he says, we really don't even have to imagine a different scenario.

[00:14:38] Because what if indeed that CEO was maybe the CEO of ABC News or maybe the editor of the Washington Post and the New York Times?

[00:14:50] Unlike health insurance, it is an indisputable fact that a super majority of Americans hate the legacy media

[00:14:58] and that a majority of Americans exhibit anger, frustration and rage towards it.

[00:15:03] But you might say, well, yeah, but we're talking about health care.

[00:15:07] Well, then he gives you another example.

[00:15:09] He says in one of the really craven pieces from the New York Times, they talk about how a doctor proposes that Thompson's assassination,

[00:15:20] that is assassination, again, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, reignited people's contempt for their health plans

[00:15:27] and that this matters for how it lays bare America's deep-seated anger towards health care.

[00:15:33] Well, at this point, Charles Cook says, well, then let's just take you back 15 years,

[00:15:39] because at that time we had a president, his name was Barack Obama,

[00:15:43] who inspired precisely those emotions in a majority of the country's voters.

[00:15:49] You might remember, those of you that have been around for a while, between 2009 and 2014,

[00:15:54] this country was riven, he uses the word by, with contempt and deep-seated anger towards the Affordable Care Act.

[00:16:02] His opponents staged massive protests.

[00:16:06] They held rancous and raucous town halls.

[00:16:09] They griped to every pollster who would listen.

[00:16:13] And in 2010, they delivered an electoral shenylaking to Obama's political party.

[00:16:19] And the point he's making is, if indeed this has reignited some of the people's concerns about health care,

[00:16:27] and in some respects, this is sort of an implicit understanding why somebody would want to actually kill the CEO of UnitedHealthcare,

[00:16:37] I don't think anybody back then would have said that would have been justification for trying to assassinate Barack Obama.

[00:16:45] And so I think it's an illustration that sometimes we see a justification for violence,

[00:16:53] and that justification for violence is used if it fits with our particular political understanding.

[00:17:01] And as I mentioned just a few minutes ago, and it's worth mentioning again,

[00:17:05] the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, put out this particular tweet.

[00:17:09] He says, this year there have not been just one, but two assassination attempts on President Trump.

[00:17:16] Now some of Trump's cabinet nominees and their families are facing bomb threats.

[00:17:22] He says this is dangerous and unhinged.

[00:17:25] It is not who we are in America.

[00:17:28] Joe Biden and all Democratic leaders have an obligation to speak up and condemn this right now.

[00:17:33] One of the examples, which we can now point to, went from just a threat to an actual assault,

[00:17:41] and that is the Capitol Police yesterday, actually last night, if I want to be honest about when it took place,

[00:17:48] actually have been able to arrest a man who actually assaulted Representative Nancy Mace.

[00:17:55] She's a Republican from South Carolina.

[00:17:58] You might remember that she wanted to make sure that even a transgender man now calling himself, now herself a woman,

[00:18:06] would not be using the women's bathrooms in Capitol Hill.

[00:18:11] And she said on X, I was physically assaulted and accosted tonight on Capitol grounds over my fight to protect women,

[00:18:19] and the Capitol Police have arrested him.

[00:18:22] She goes on to say, all violence and threats keep proving our point.

[00:18:26] Women deserve to be safe.

[00:18:28] Your threats will not stop my fight for women.

[00:18:31] And it sort of brings us back to one of the things I have mentioned on the last two days in my commentary.

[00:18:37] For those of you watching online, I'm holding up the latest book by Glenn Beck.

[00:18:42] And Glenn Beck has a chapter in there in which he talks about how to know what is true.

[00:18:48] And he gives us seven different points that he makes.

[00:18:51] The first test to evaluate whether something is true is what he calls the liar-liar test.

[00:18:56] If somebody has lied to you before, he uses the example in 2020,

[00:19:01] when multiple media outlets and 51 current and former government officials knowingly lied about the Hunter Biden laptop,

[00:19:09] maybe you shouldn't be so trusting of them the next time.

[00:19:12] The second one he calls a what-is-a-woman test,

[00:19:15] when an expert says that something is obviously wrong,

[00:19:20] we can recognize that we might, as reasonable people, might disagree on many topics,

[00:19:25] but we wouldn't want to trust an expert that doesn't seem to have basic common sense.

[00:19:30] His third test is what he calls the egg-throwing gorilla test.

[00:19:34] Our listeners in California would know this one because that's when Larry Elder, who's black,

[00:19:40] ran for California governor.

[00:19:41] He was attacked for being racist.

[00:19:44] One L.A. Times reporter claimed Elder had a white supremacist worldview.

[00:19:49] And, as a matter of fact, one woman even went to the rallies wearing a gorilla mask and threw eggs at him.

[00:19:55] And, again, you don't have to believe people that make up those kinds of statements.

[00:20:00] A fourth test was the bias test.

[00:20:02] If somebody cites facts that are contrary to their ideological religious views,

[00:20:07] probably true because most people tend to only cite facts that reinforce their view.

[00:20:12] And this brings us to the one I'm talking about now.

[00:20:15] He calls this the bloodthirsty tyrant test.

[00:20:19] If someone supports or calls for violence, you should not trust that information.

[00:20:25] And there seems to be a lot of that bloodthirsty tyrant test that we can apply right now

[00:20:31] as we begin to see some of the attacks that are taking place, some of the threats that are taking place.

[00:20:38] And he even uses the example that, indeed, the mainstream media has been downplaying the threats from Antifa

[00:20:44] and from some of the unhinged left.

[00:20:47] And if you think your case is so righteous it justifies burning down cities or attacking people,

[00:20:54] maybe I shouldn't trust you either.

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[00:23:10] And now, here again, is Kirby Anderson.

[00:23:13] Back once again, I thought I'd talk about a couple things that have developed in the news over the last half hour or so.

[00:23:19] I want to thank Paul Baraka, who's still around here, to actually identify some of those.

[00:23:24] I was going to talk about this tomorrow, but might as well talk about it today.

[00:23:28] And that is there are people that are now well aware of the fact that one of the reasons there's some concern about Kash Patel coming into the FBI

[00:23:38] is there's now pretty good evidence of the fact that the FBI director, that would be McCabe, back in 2017,

[00:23:48] he's the one who also signed the illegal FISA warrant on Donald Trump,

[00:23:53] also ordered Google plus Apple not to disclose to Kash Patel or others that they were targets of the FBI who were spying on them.

[00:24:04] Kash Patel will be, of course, the nominee put forward by Donald Trump.

[00:24:07] And I think is somebody who is seen as somewhat controversial, because if nothing else,

[00:24:13] you think he would probably want to get rid of Christopher Wray.

[00:24:17] Well, it's pretty obvious now that Christopher Wray is on the way out.

[00:24:20] Christopher Wray is the FBI director.

[00:24:22] But just think about this for a minute.

[00:24:25] If you are dealing with the Justice Department and the FBI,

[00:24:30] okay, first of all, the FBI director in 2017 was McCabe.

[00:24:35] The FBI director over the last couple of years has been Christopher Wray.

[00:24:39] He would have to have renewed the order.

[00:24:42] So we now recognize that for the, let's say, last seven years,

[00:24:48] the FBI has indeed been spying on who now might be the new FBI director.

[00:24:56] You see where that takes you?

[00:24:58] And you can see why there are a couple of individuals that have decided that they're going to probably step down before,

[00:25:04] of course, Donald Trump will fire them.

[00:25:06] So it's kind of intriguing to see how that one has unfolded.

[00:25:11] And the other one has to do with the drone footage.

[00:25:14] If you were listening to our Millennial Roundtable yesterday,

[00:25:17] you probably have heard about the fact that we've had these mystery drones in the air.

[00:25:24] So we have lights in the sky.

[00:25:26] Just because we have lights in the sky doesn't mean we have little green men.

[00:25:29] Well, there was a very famous book that I've quoted before,

[00:25:32] Lights in the Sky and Little Green Men,

[00:25:33] which is kind of a Christian view of what about UFOs.

[00:25:36] And just because they're UFOs, although we call them different things now,

[00:25:39] doesn't mean that they are aliens.

[00:25:42] But it's been interesting since so much of that has happened in New Jersey.

[00:25:46] And when we had Paul Baracchi, I was going to ask him about that,

[00:25:48] because he used to live in New Jersey.

[00:25:50] The governor of the state of New Jersey, Phil Murphy,

[00:25:53] has said that these drones are very sophisticated.

[00:25:57] He says the minute we get eyes on them, the drones go dark.

[00:26:00] He says, I don't blame people for being frustrated,

[00:26:03] but a lot of people want to know what's going on

[00:26:05] because these drones have gone over a number of things,

[00:26:08] including the Picatinny Arsenal,

[00:26:09] which is an army facility in Morris County.

[00:26:13] And, of course, these are technically UFOs,

[00:26:17] but it doesn't mean that's necessarily little green men.

[00:26:19] But one of the things I was going to quote from

[00:26:21] is one of the individuals that Paul knows is Representative Jeff Van Drew.

[00:26:27] He is an individual that, when we first started talking about him years ago,

[00:26:31] was a Democrat, then became a Republican,

[00:26:33] and more recently had said on Fox News,

[00:26:36] from very high sources, very qualified sources,

[00:26:41] very responsible sources.

[00:26:42] I'm going to tell you the real deal.

[00:26:46] Iran launched a mothership probably about a month ago

[00:26:49] that contains these drones.

[00:26:51] That mothership is off the East Coast of the United States of America.

[00:26:55] They've launched drones in everything that we can see or hear,

[00:26:58] and these come from high sources.

[00:27:01] These drones should be shot down,

[00:27:03] whether it was some crazy hobbyist that we can't imagine,

[00:27:06] or whether it is Iran.

[00:27:08] I think it's very possible it could be.

[00:27:11] They should be shot down.

[00:27:13] They're not getting the full deal,

[00:27:14] and the military is on alert with this.

[00:27:17] Well, that's the statement he made before.

[00:27:19] No surprise, the Pentagon said today

[00:27:22] that there's no evidence that drones

[00:27:24] that had been spotted over New Jersey

[00:27:26] were from a foreign entity or adversary

[00:27:29] and dismissed a claim by a U.S. lawmaker,

[00:27:32] well, you heard who that was,

[00:27:33] being launched off of an Iranian mothership.

[00:27:36] So first of all, where did he come up with that

[00:27:39] if indeed that isn't the case?

[00:27:41] And so you don't know if the Pentagon

[00:27:44] is just trying to tamp down some of those statements

[00:27:48] or whether that was an erroneous statement.

[00:27:51] But nevertheless, it seems like every single day

[00:27:54] here on Point of View,

[00:27:55] we have something to talk about,

[00:27:57] and those drones are going to be something

[00:27:59] we'll pay attention to,

[00:28:01] and we'll see whether or not a member of Congress

[00:28:04] or the Pentagon turn out to be accurate

[00:28:07] in some of the statements they have made.

[00:28:09] So anyway, let me get to one more piece of information

[00:28:13] that I thought you would find very helpful,

[00:28:16] and as you probably figured out by now,

[00:28:18] all sorts of things I was going to talk about

[00:28:20] we'll probably have to postpone until tomorrow,

[00:28:23] but that's okay.

[00:28:23] We've got a little bit of time

[00:28:25] with our two guests tomorrow,

[00:28:26] and I'll mention who they are in just a minute.

[00:28:28] But my next article is by David Keating,

[00:28:32] and I think he's got a good idea here.

[00:28:35] He's the president now of what's called

[00:28:37] the Institute for Free Speech.

[00:28:39] Of course, we've had him on many years ago

[00:28:42] talking about many conservative ideas,

[00:28:44] but he starts out by saying this,

[00:28:47] that Donald Trump proposes to cut bureaucratic waste

[00:28:50] to the Department of Government Efficiency,

[00:28:52] known as DOGE.

[00:28:54] He should apply the same approach to free speech.

[00:28:57] He suggests a task force,

[00:28:59] which he could name the Federal Initiative

[00:29:03] to Reduce Speech Threats,

[00:29:05] or call it FIRST.

[00:29:06] So we have DOGE,

[00:29:08] and the fact that he suggests this

[00:29:10] in the Wall Street Journal suggests

[00:29:12] that maybe something like this might happen.

[00:29:14] This group called FIRST,

[00:29:16] if it was indeed implemented,

[00:29:18] could identify federal regulations

[00:29:20] and guidelines that harm speech

[00:29:23] or new rules that could protect it.

[00:29:26] And he gives you three very good examples of that.

[00:29:30] The first is what he calls

[00:29:32] new rules for bureaucrats.

[00:29:35] Turns out that federal law grants

[00:29:37] very broad powers to people in the executive branch

[00:29:41] to regulate employees' conduct.

[00:29:43] And this case,

[00:29:45] known as Murphy v. Missouri,

[00:29:48] really had to do with more social media,

[00:29:50] helped expose how federal employees

[00:29:52] facilitated the censorships

[00:29:54] through social media platforms.

[00:29:56] In other words,

[00:29:57] the federal government cannot censor you,

[00:29:59] but the federal government

[00:30:00] can encourage others,

[00:30:02] like social media,

[00:30:03] to censor you,

[00:30:04] and then have clean hands.

[00:30:06] And so this could be

[00:30:08] a desire to rewrite the rules

[00:30:11] that would prohibit the censorship.

[00:30:14] In case you were interested,

[00:30:16] yes,

[00:30:16] we have a booklet

[00:30:17] that I produced recently

[00:30:19] on censorship

[00:30:20] that goes into this

[00:30:21] in some detail.

[00:30:22] What are some of the legal issues?

[00:30:24] What are some of the constitutional issues?

[00:30:26] And what could be done?

[00:30:27] And so this piece by David Keating

[00:30:30] is on the website,

[00:30:32] and you could read it

[00:30:33] and then put that together

[00:30:34] with some of the material

[00:30:35] that is in my booklet,

[00:30:37] which again is free of charge.

[00:30:39] The second area he talks about

[00:30:41] is the Johnson Amendment.

[00:30:43] If you're not familiar with that,

[00:30:45] that was implemented in 1954

[00:30:48] by then Senator Lyndon Johnson,

[00:30:51] which says that a 501c3 organization

[00:30:56] cannot be involved

[00:30:57] in direct political activity.

[00:30:59] Now, it was really intended

[00:31:01] to kind of constrain

[00:31:03] some of the anti-communist groups

[00:31:06] that were coming against him

[00:31:07] in the campaign.

[00:31:08] It was passed

[00:31:10] without any kind of discussion.

[00:31:13] It was a voice vote,

[00:31:14] but it has been sometimes used to say,

[00:31:17] as we've talked about before,

[00:31:19] that churches and pastors

[00:31:22] cannot address political issues.

[00:31:24] Now, the IRS, it turns out,

[00:31:26] actually has had

[00:31:28] quite a bit of latitude

[00:31:30] that has been given to pastors.

[00:31:32] It's only been one church

[00:31:33] that's ever even been threatened with this,

[00:31:35] and that didn't last very long.

[00:31:37] But still, it's somewhat murky,

[00:31:40] and sometimes it can actually be used

[00:31:43] as a target to maybe eliminate

[00:31:47] unfavorable speech

[00:31:48] towards a political candidate,

[00:31:50] towards a particular government agency.

[00:31:53] It can have a real chilling effect,

[00:31:55] and so the other thing

[00:31:57] that this so-called first

[00:31:58] or federal initiative

[00:32:00] to reduce speech threats could do

[00:32:02] would be to clarify

[00:32:04] the Johnson Amendment,

[00:32:05] which has certainly needed

[00:32:07] some clarification

[00:32:08] even from the Supreme Court.

[00:32:10] And then the last one

[00:32:11] has to do with

[00:32:12] the Securities and Exchange Commission,

[00:32:15] because there are limits

[00:32:16] on any kind of political donations.

[00:32:19] The SEC imposes

[00:32:21] very strict contribution limits

[00:32:24] for people that are

[00:32:25] like investment advisors.

[00:32:27] And so, again,

[00:32:28] these are attempts

[00:32:30] to, in many cases,

[00:32:32] prevent or censor

[00:32:34] or prohibit

[00:32:35] or constrain

[00:32:37] free speech.

[00:32:38] And so the idea is

[00:32:40] we do have a First Amendment,

[00:32:43] but oftentimes,

[00:32:44] as he points out,

[00:32:46] federal agencies

[00:32:46] too often serve

[00:32:48] as censors,

[00:32:49] and this organization

[00:32:51] could prevent them

[00:32:52] from censoring again

[00:32:54] and abolishing

[00:32:55] or reforming

[00:32:56] speech-restricting regulations

[00:32:58] would allow us

[00:32:59] to have greater freedom

[00:33:01] of speech.

[00:33:02] And it kind of goes

[00:33:03] hand-in-hand

[00:33:04] with some of the things

[00:33:04] we've talked about

[00:33:05] with Kelly Shackelford.

[00:33:06] We have more freedom

[00:33:08] in terms of religious liberty

[00:33:10] than we've ever had before,

[00:33:12] and we also need

[00:33:13] more freedom

[00:33:14] in terms of

[00:33:15] the free speech rights

[00:33:16] that each American

[00:33:17] should enjoy.

[00:33:18] So it's a good piece.

[00:33:20] I thought you would appreciate

[00:33:21] some of the material

[00:33:22] that he's put together

[00:33:23] and whether or not

[00:33:24] there is a group

[00:33:26] called First,

[00:33:27] similar to Doge,

[00:33:29] will be something

[00:33:30] we'll be monitoring.

[00:33:31] But if you first

[00:33:33] hear about it,

[00:33:34] actually,

[00:33:35] you first heard about First

[00:33:36] right here on Point of View.

[00:33:37] We'll take a break

[00:33:38] and come back with more

[00:33:39] right after this.

[00:33:55] You're listening to

[00:33:57] Point of View,

[00:33:58] your listener-supported

[00:33:59] source for truth.

[00:34:01] Back for a few more minutes.

[00:34:02] Let me just mention tomorrow

[00:34:03] we're going to be talking

[00:34:03] about a book,

[00:34:04] Trust Matters,

[00:34:05] and I think you're going

[00:34:07] to see how important

[00:34:08] that is.

[00:34:09] We've talked about

[00:34:10] the issue of truth

[00:34:11] and the last two days

[00:34:13] my Viewpoints commentaries

[00:34:14] have talked about

[00:34:15] propaganda tests

[00:34:17] and propaganda evaluation

[00:34:19] of whether somebody

[00:34:20] is truthful to you

[00:34:21] and of course

[00:34:22] we wonder who we can trust

[00:34:23] so I think you'll

[00:34:24] really appreciate

[00:34:25] the conversation

[00:34:26] tomorrow about

[00:34:27] Trust Matters.

[00:34:28] And then we'll also

[00:34:29] do a short piece

[00:34:30] on Angel Tree

[00:34:31] because again,

[00:34:32] in the Christmas season

[00:34:33] there is a time

[00:34:34] for us to give back

[00:34:35] and I'd like to give you

[00:34:36] some examples

[00:34:37] and that's one more example

[00:34:38] of something you can do

[00:34:39] to make something

[00:34:40] very special

[00:34:41] for a family

[00:34:42] that desperately

[00:34:43] would benefit

[00:34:44] from your financial

[00:34:46] and personal involvement

[00:34:48] in their lives.

[00:34:49] So just a few things

[00:34:49] we'll talk about.

[00:34:50] Then we'll get an update

[00:34:51] on all of those issues.

[00:34:53] I started the program today

[00:34:55] knowing that we might

[00:34:56] be talking about missions

[00:34:57] and I thought we would

[00:34:58] certainly be talking

[00:34:59] about prophecy

[00:35:00] and I knew we would

[00:35:01] cover a little bit

[00:35:02] of the reaction

[00:35:04] to the shooter,

[00:35:05] the murderer

[00:35:07] but I really didn't think

[00:35:09] we would necessarily

[00:35:10] today get into

[00:35:11] talking about drones

[00:35:12] and yet there we are

[00:35:13] talking about drones.

[00:35:15] I'm going to,

[00:35:16] I guess I should have

[00:35:17] since we talked

[00:35:17] or the Millennial Roundtable

[00:35:19] yesterday did.

[00:35:20] If I talk about UFOs

[00:35:22] too long,

[00:35:23] Megan's going to get

[00:35:24] a piece of aluminum foil

[00:35:25] and make me a tinfoil hat

[00:35:26] come in here

[00:35:27] and put it on my head

[00:35:28] but nevertheless

[00:35:29] that was a conversation

[00:35:30] took place yesterday

[00:35:31] and I didn't really think

[00:35:32] we'd get into the issue

[00:35:33] of Christopher Wray

[00:35:34] but it looks like

[00:35:34] he's stepping down

[00:35:35] so every single day

[00:35:37] things are happening

[00:35:38] around here

[00:35:38] and going back

[00:35:40] to the issue of drones

[00:35:41] there are some people

[00:35:42] that have said

[00:35:42] this is

[00:35:43] whether you agree

[00:35:44] with the Pentagon

[00:35:45] statement or not

[00:35:46] or you agree

[00:35:47] with what one of the

[00:35:48] members of Congress

[00:35:49] from the state

[00:35:51] of New Jersey says

[00:35:52] there have been some

[00:35:53] that have wondered

[00:35:53] if there is a foreign power

[00:35:55] that's trying to just

[00:35:56] test us.

[00:35:57] I mean after all

[00:35:58] we had a balloon

[00:35:59] that made its way

[00:36:00] through the entire

[00:36:01] expanse of the United States

[00:36:03] and no action

[00:36:04] was taken

[00:36:05] and some people

[00:36:06] have said

[00:36:07] as we are in the midst

[00:36:09] of 40 days

[00:36:10] until Donald Trump

[00:36:11] takes over

[00:36:11] are there going

[00:36:13] to be some nations

[00:36:15] many of our adversaries

[00:36:16] that want to test

[00:36:17] what Joe Biden

[00:36:19] can or cannot do

[00:36:20] and that's a possibility

[00:36:21] which brings me

[00:36:22] to my last article

[00:36:24] this one is written

[00:36:25] by our good friend

[00:36:26] Byron York

[00:36:26] who of course

[00:36:27] is the editor

[00:36:28] of a newspaper

[00:36:29] that has looked

[00:36:30] at this for some time

[00:36:31] and he asked

[00:36:31] a really important

[00:36:32] question

[00:36:33] that's probably

[00:36:34] occurred to you

[00:36:35] can the nation

[00:36:36] wait until

[00:36:37] January 20th

[00:36:39] he asked that

[00:36:40] because after all

[00:36:41] when he wrote this

[00:36:42] Donald Trump

[00:36:43] still has to wait

[00:36:45] 40 days

[00:36:46] when he wrote this

[00:36:47] Joe Biden had 42 days

[00:36:48] but now we're

[00:36:49] two more ahead

[00:36:49] so it's still

[00:36:50] 40 days

[00:36:51] in which

[00:36:52] Joe Biden

[00:36:53] is still the

[00:36:53] President of the

[00:36:54] United States

[00:36:55] and he says

[00:36:56] anybody watching

[00:36:57] the events

[00:36:57] in Paris

[00:36:58] over the weekend

[00:36:59] would think

[00:36:59] that President-elect

[00:37:00] Donald Trump

[00:37:01] has already

[00:37:01] taken office

[00:37:02] because not only

[00:37:03] was there

[00:37:04] in the Cathedral

[00:37:05] of Notre Dame

[00:37:06] we talked about

[00:37:07] that yesterday

[00:37:07] but he also

[00:37:08] took the time

[00:37:09] to meet with

[00:37:10] French President

[00:37:10] Emmanuel Macron

[00:37:11] and of course

[00:37:13] Ukrainian President

[00:37:14] Vladimir Zelensky

[00:37:15] but he's still

[00:37:18] not the President

[00:37:19] he still

[00:37:19] of course

[00:37:20] gets national

[00:37:22] briefings

[00:37:23] and things

[00:37:23] of that nature

[00:37:24] he still

[00:37:25] of course

[00:37:25] has Secret Service

[00:37:26] protection

[00:37:27] but he is

[00:37:29] not the President

[00:37:30] yet

[00:37:30] and at the same

[00:37:32] time

[00:37:33] we're watching

[00:37:33] how Donald Trump

[00:37:34] is quickly

[00:37:35] as he says

[00:37:36] assembling

[00:37:36] his administration

[00:37:38] several weeks

[00:37:39] of mostly

[00:37:41] quiet working

[00:37:41] he's been

[00:37:42] speaking more

[00:37:43] publicly

[00:37:43] in recent days

[00:37:44] about what

[00:37:45] he will do

[00:37:45] when he assumes

[00:37:46] the presidency

[00:37:47] on January

[00:37:48] 20th

[00:37:49] and many

[00:37:51] people

[00:37:51] including

[00:37:52] of all

[00:37:53] people

[00:37:53] Politico

[00:37:54] it's kind

[00:37:54] of left

[00:37:54] to center

[00:37:55] Biden

[00:37:56] has effectively

[00:37:56] disappeared

[00:37:57] from the radar

[00:37:58] and then others

[00:37:59] within the

[00:38:00] Democratic Party

[00:38:01] on Capitol Hill

[00:38:02] even his own

[00:38:02] administration

[00:38:03] feels like

[00:38:04] he left

[00:38:04] the Oval

[00:38:05] Office

[00:38:05] weeks ago

[00:38:06] so we have

[00:38:07] at best

[00:38:08] a caretaker

[00:38:09] president

[00:38:10] right now

[00:38:10] that's not good

[00:38:12] and yet he is

[00:38:13] still President

[00:38:13] of the United

[00:38:14] States

[00:38:14] Donald Trump

[00:38:15] is not

[00:38:16] if an emergency

[00:38:17] or crisis

[00:38:17] arises

[00:38:18] Joe Biden

[00:38:19] President Biden

[00:38:20] even in his

[00:38:21] weakened condition

[00:38:22] he says

[00:38:22] will have to

[00:38:23] deal with it

[00:38:24] and right now

[00:38:25] it doesn't seem

[00:38:26] like he's spending

[00:38:26] a whole lot of

[00:38:27] time trying to

[00:38:28] do anything

[00:38:29] other than

[00:38:30] Trump proof

[00:38:31] some of his

[00:38:32] policies

[00:38:32] also they're

[00:38:34] trying to push

[00:38:35] through somebody

[00:38:35] in the SEC

[00:38:36] right now

[00:38:37] that I hope

[00:38:38] it doesn't happen

[00:38:38] but we'll get

[00:38:39] to that maybe

[00:38:39] another day

[00:38:40] and then he goes

[00:38:41] on to say

[00:38:42] that certainly

[00:38:42] most Republicans

[00:38:43] a lot of

[00:38:44] Democrats

[00:38:44] even some

[00:38:45] Democrats

[00:38:46] and independents

[00:38:47] and all

[00:38:47] would prefer

[00:38:48] the inauguration

[00:38:50] came before

[00:38:50] January 20th

[00:38:51] well why is it

[00:38:53] January 20th

[00:38:54] well it goes

[00:38:55] back to the fact

[00:38:56] that it used

[00:38:56] to be

[00:38:57] the inauguration

[00:38:58] was March

[00:38:59] 4th

[00:39:00] and of course

[00:39:01] we have the

[00:39:02] 20th amendment

[00:39:03] that then

[00:39:04] was ratified

[00:39:05] in 1933

[00:39:06] to replace

[00:39:08] the earlier

[00:39:08] inauguration

[00:39:09] date of

[00:39:09] March 4th

[00:39:11] simply because

[00:39:12] at that time

[00:39:13] we had

[00:39:13] the Great

[00:39:14] Depression

[00:39:14] and there

[00:39:15] was a desire

[00:39:16] to actually

[00:39:17] speed that

[00:39:18] up

[00:39:18] but even

[00:39:19] so

[00:39:19] January

[00:39:20] 20th

[00:39:21] seems a

[00:39:21] long way

[00:39:22] away

[00:39:23] well

[00:39:24] Byron

[00:39:24] York

[00:39:24] goes on

[00:39:24] to say

[00:39:25] that so

[00:39:26] the

[00:39:26] inauguration

[00:39:26] date

[00:39:27] is

[00:39:27] January

[00:39:28] 20th

[00:39:28] it can't

[00:39:29] be changed

[00:39:30] without amending

[00:39:31] the Constitution

[00:39:32] it's worked

[00:39:33] relatively well

[00:39:34] for the 90

[00:39:36] years since

[00:39:36] it was

[00:39:37] implemented

[00:39:37] but things

[00:39:38] have changed

[00:39:39] a little bit

[00:39:40] I'm not sure

[00:39:41] we'll change

[00:39:41] it but it's

[00:39:42] something to

[00:39:42] think about

[00:39:43] because he

[00:39:44] goes and

[00:39:45] gives a couple

[00:39:46] of examples

[00:39:46] for example

[00:39:48] when at the

[00:39:49] end of

[00:39:49] eight years

[00:39:50] rather exhausted

[00:39:52] President George W. Bush

[00:39:53] was kind of limping

[00:39:54] to his second

[00:39:55] term

[00:39:56] that was a time

[00:39:57] when we had

[00:39:58] of course

[00:39:58] this crisis

[00:40:00] in 2008

[00:40:02] you might remember

[00:40:02] that

[00:40:03] and there were

[00:40:04] Democrats

[00:40:04] who were frustrated

[00:40:05] that it was

[00:40:06] taking time

[00:40:06] before a

[00:40:07] newly elected

[00:40:09] President Barack

[00:40:10] Obama could

[00:40:11] take office

[00:40:12] even after

[00:40:13] the 2020

[00:40:14] election

[00:40:15] there were

[00:40:16] some that

[00:40:16] wanted Donald

[00:40:17] Trump out

[00:40:17] of the office

[00:40:18] so Joe

[00:40:18] Biden could

[00:40:19] come into

[00:40:19] office

[00:40:20] of course

[00:40:20] we know

[00:40:20] what happened

[00:40:21] there

[00:40:21] and he

[00:40:22] says we

[00:40:23] have kind

[00:40:23] of a

[00:40:24] very unusual

[00:40:25] situation

[00:40:26] now

[00:40:26] Joe Biden

[00:40:28] is 82

[00:40:29] years of

[00:40:30] age

[00:40:30] he is no

[00:40:31] longer

[00:40:32] mentally

[00:40:32] or physically

[00:40:33] up to the

[00:40:34] job of being

[00:40:35] a full-time

[00:40:36] president

[00:40:36] president

[00:40:36] and so

[00:40:38] Biden is

[00:40:39] ready to

[00:40:39] go

[00:40:40] Trump is

[00:40:41] ready to

[00:40:41] replace him

[00:40:42] but the

[00:40:43] Constitution

[00:40:44] demands that

[00:40:45] we wait

[00:40:46] till January

[00:40:47] 20th

[00:40:48] and in

[00:40:49] these 40

[00:40:50] days

[00:40:50] let's just

[00:40:51] hope and

[00:40:52] pray

[00:40:52] and I do

[00:40:53] mean pray

[00:40:53] because that's

[00:40:54] our latest

[00:40:55] pray for

[00:40:55] America

[00:40:56] email that

[00:40:57] we are just

[00:40:58] sending out

[00:40:58] here

[00:40:59] pray for the

[00:41:00] transition

[00:41:00] pray for a

[00:41:02] number of

[00:41:02] things

[00:41:02] because

[00:41:03] indeed

[00:41:04] Donald Trump

[00:41:05] certainly

[00:41:06] can't wait

[00:41:07] any longer

[00:41:08] to get

[00:41:08] into office

[00:41:09] and some

[00:41:09] of his

[00:41:09] nominees

[00:41:10] can't wait

[00:41:11] any longer

[00:41:11] to get

[00:41:11] into positions

[00:41:12] of authority

[00:41:13] because we

[00:41:14] still live

[00:41:15] in a very

[00:41:15] dangerous

[00:41:16] time

[00:41:17] so

[00:41:18] pray for

[00:41:19] this country

[00:41:19] and we'll

[00:41:20] certainly

[00:41:20] encourage you

[00:41:21] to do

[00:41:22] so

[00:41:22] as I

[00:41:23] mentioned

[00:41:23] my

[00:41:23] commentary

[00:41:24] over the

[00:41:24] next

[00:41:24] last two

[00:41:25] days

[00:41:26] had to

[00:41:26] do with

[00:41:27] some of

[00:41:28] the tests

[00:41:29] that

[00:41:29] our friend

[00:41:31] actually

[00:41:32] talked

[00:41:32] about

[00:41:32] because

[00:41:33] Glenn

[00:41:33] Beck

[00:41:34] has

[00:41:34] come up

[00:41:35] with

[00:41:35] seven

[00:41:35] I think

[00:41:36] I only

[00:41:36] mentioned

[00:41:36] five

[00:41:36] the other

[00:41:37] two

[00:41:37] were the

[00:41:37] original

[00:41:38] source

[00:41:38] test

[00:41:38] and then

[00:41:39] what was

[00:41:39] called

[00:41:40] the

[00:41:40] crazy

[00:41:40] uncle

[00:41:41] test

[00:41:41] but whether

[00:41:42] you look

[00:41:43] at the

[00:41:43] bloodthirsty

[00:41:43] tyrant

[00:41:44] test

[00:41:44] the bias

[00:41:45] test

[00:41:45] the what

[00:41:45] is a

[00:41:46] woman

[00:41:46] test

[00:41:46] the egg

[00:41:46] throwing

[00:41:47] gorilla

[00:41:47] test

[00:41:48] or the

[00:41:48] original

[00:41:49] source

[00:41:49] test

[00:41:50] that's

[00:41:51] a good

[00:41:51] one

[00:41:51] go back

[00:41:52] to the

[00:41:52] original

[00:41:52] source

[00:41:53] Glenn

[00:41:54] Beck

[00:41:54] spends

[00:41:54] pages

[00:41:55] talking

[00:41:55] about

[00:41:55] how

[00:41:56] this

[00:41:56] false

[00:41:56] story

[00:41:57] of 500

[00:41:58] people

[00:41:58] who were

[00:41:59] died

[00:41:59] in a

[00:42:00] hospital

[00:42:01] in Gaza

[00:42:01] was

[00:42:02] repeated

[00:42:02] verbatim

[00:42:03] by all

[00:42:04] sorts

[00:42:04] of

[00:42:04] media

[00:42:05] outlets

[00:42:05] and it

[00:42:06] wasn't

[00:42:06] right

[00:42:06] in the

[00:42:07] first

[00:42:07] place

[00:42:08] and it

[00:42:08] just

[00:42:08] got wrong

[00:42:09] further

[00:42:10] down

[00:42:10] the

[00:42:10] line

[00:42:10] it

[00:42:10] was

[00:42:11] the

[00:42:11] classic

[00:42:11] telephone

[00:42:12] test

[00:42:12] that you've

[00:42:13] heard of

[00:42:13] before

[00:42:14] and of

[00:42:14] course

[00:42:15] the crazy

[00:42:15] uncle

[00:42:15] test

[00:42:16] he suggests

[00:42:16] that

[00:42:17] if you

[00:42:17] see it

[00:42:18] on social

[00:42:18] media

[00:42:19] treat that

[00:42:20] with about

[00:42:20] as much

[00:42:20] credibility

[00:42:21] as the

[00:42:22] crazy

[00:42:22] uncle

[00:42:22] that

[00:42:23] maybe

[00:42:23] grabbed

[00:42:24] you at

[00:42:24] Thanksgiving

[00:42:25] or the

[00:42:25] crazy

[00:42:26] uncle

[00:42:26] that might

[00:42:26] grab

[00:42:27] you

[00:42:27] at

[00:42:27] Christmas

[00:42:27] and tell

[00:42:28] you

[00:42:28] something

[00:42:29] that he's

[00:42:29] seen

[00:42:30] you don't

[00:42:31] have to

[00:42:31] believe

[00:42:31] that

[00:42:32] either

[00:42:32] and

[00:42:32] just

[00:42:33] because

[00:42:33] it's

[00:42:33] in

[00:42:33] social

[00:42:33] media

[00:42:34] you don't

[00:42:34] have to

[00:42:34] believe

[00:42:35] that

[00:42:35] as well

[00:42:36] we'll try

[00:42:37] to sort

[00:42:37] out some

[00:42:37] of these

[00:42:38] claims

[00:42:39] and counter

[00:42:40] claims

[00:42:40] tomorrow

[00:42:41] and if

[00:42:42] not

[00:42:42] we'll

[00:42:42] certainly

[00:42:43] get those

[00:42:43] solved

[00:42:43] by the

[00:42:44] end

[00:42:44] of the

[00:42:44] week

[00:42:44] I would

[00:42:45] hope

[00:42:45] and if

[00:42:46] you again

[00:42:46] value

[00:42:47] some

[00:42:47] of the

[00:42:48] information

[00:42:48] that we're

[00:42:49] making

[00:42:49] available

[00:42:49] today

[00:42:50] there's

[00:42:50] a

[00:42:50] banner

[00:42:50] there

[00:42:50] to

[00:42:51] give

[00:42:51] the

[00:42:52] gift

[00:42:52] of

[00:42:53] truth

[00:42:53] we have

[00:42:54] a

[00:42:54] hundred

[00:42:54] and twenty

[00:42:55] thousand

[00:42:55] dollar

[00:42:55] matching

[00:42:56] challenge

[00:42:57] so it's

[00:42:57] a dollar

[00:42:58] for dollar

[00:42:58] match

[00:42:59] and you

[00:43:00] could start

[00:43:00] giving even

[00:43:01] today

[00:43:01] if you'd

[00:43:02] like to

[00:43:02] do so

[00:43:02] I want to

[00:43:03] thank

[00:43:03] Megan

[00:43:04] for help

[00:43:04] engineering

[00:43:04] the program

[00:43:05] Steve

[00:43:05] thank you

[00:43:05] for producing

[00:43:06] the program

[00:43:06] we'll see you

[00:43:07] tomorrow

[00:43:07] right here

[00:43:08] on point

[00:43:09] of view

[00:43:09] if you

[00:43:12] have ever

[00:43:12] wondered

[00:43:13] what kind

[00:43:14] of impact

[00:43:14] you have

[00:43:15] when you

[00:43:15] give to

[00:43:16] point

[00:43:16] of view

[00:43:17] let me

[00:43:18] introduce

[00:43:18] you to

[00:43:19] bill

[00:43:19] his story

[00:43:20] is a

[00:43:21] perfect

[00:43:22] illustration

[00:43:23] well I've

[00:43:24] been a

[00:43:25] supporter

[00:43:25] of point

[00:43:25] of view

[00:43:26] since

[00:43:26] the

[00:43:27] seventies

[00:43:27] and I

[00:43:28] appreciate

[00:43:29] the fact

[00:43:29] that truth

[00:43:30] and love

[00:43:30] are discussed

[00:43:31] equally

[00:43:31] and that

[00:43:32] God's

[00:43:32] word

[00:43:32] never

[00:43:33] changes

[00:43:33] we have

[00:43:34] four

[00:43:35] generations

[00:43:35] in my

[00:43:36] family

[00:43:36] who have

[00:43:36] been

[00:43:37] taught

[00:43:37] these

[00:43:37] things

[00:43:38] these

[00:43:39] truths

[00:43:39] and the

[00:43:39] fifth

[00:43:40] generation

[00:43:40] we've

[00:43:41] just been

[00:43:41] blessed

[00:43:41] with

[00:43:42] who I'm

[00:43:43] sure

[00:43:43] will be

[00:43:43] blessed

[00:43:44] by this

[00:43:44] ministry

[00:43:45] also

[00:43:45] so I

[00:43:46] just

[00:43:46] appreciate

[00:43:47] the fact

[00:43:47] that it's

[00:43:48] solid

[00:43:48] it's

[00:43:48] truthful

[00:43:49] it's

[00:43:49] honest

[00:43:49] and there's

[00:43:50] no

[00:43:50] changing

[00:43:51] God's

[00:43:52] word

[00:43:52] and that

[00:43:53] is the

[00:43:54] kind of

[00:43:54] multi-generational

[00:43:56] impact

[00:43:56] you have

[00:43:57] when you

[00:43:58] support

[00:43:58] point

[00:43:59] of view

[00:43:59] so give

[00:44:00] today

[00:44:01] equip

[00:44:01] the next

[00:44:02] generation

[00:44:03] with the

[00:44:03] clarity

[00:44:04] of God's

[00:44:05] unchanging

[00:44:06] word

[00:44:06] you can

[00:44:07] give online

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[00:44:08] pointofview.net

[00:44:11] or call us

[00:44:12] at

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