Point of View December 9, 2024 – Hour 2 : Weekend Updates

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

[00:00:20] Second hour today, we're going to spend some time talking about what's going on in Syria.

[00:00:23] And I might just mention that if you go to our website, you're going to find a couple of articles, one from National Review, one from Wall Street Journal.

[00:00:30] I'm going to share some others that we haven't posted, but maybe as the week unfolds, we'll get into that in more detail.

[00:00:36] I might also mention, as you go to the website, my Viewpoints Commentary, as I mentioned just last hour, is new, of course.

[00:00:43] And it's about financial freedom. We may talk about it a little bit later.

[00:00:46] We have a new video, the interview I did this time last week with Dr. Jack Graham on his book, The Jesus Book.

[00:00:53] And of course, you can also click on Pray for America, sign up for that.

[00:00:56] We have the Point of View highlights on Spotify that our own Megan puts together.

[00:01:02] And you will find some great material there as well.

[00:01:04] So, lots of resources there.

[00:01:07] But yesterday, I was about ready to speak in my Sunday school class.

[00:01:10] Somebody pulled me aside and said, are you going to talk about Syria?

[00:01:13] I said, well, I really wasn't planning on it.

[00:01:16] What do we know so far?

[00:01:18] And I thought, I did make a brief statement.

[00:01:21] But let's get into this in some detail because maybe you're trying to figure out what that means.

[00:01:26] And if you are certainly maybe only listening to Point of View and are really aware of what has happened,

[00:01:34] over the weekend, you've had Syrian rebel forces that have seized control of Syria, the capital Damascus.

[00:01:42] Now, that has forced the longtime dictator, President Bashar Assad, into exile in Russia.

[00:01:51] This has, of course, been a civil war that has been ongoing since 2011.

[00:01:57] We were talking last hour here with Douglas about his first book in 2017, which was like seven years ago.

[00:02:05] But here we talk about something that is almost 15 years old.

[00:02:09] It's amazing that this has been going on for some time.

[00:02:13] Thousands, of course, have been killed.

[00:02:15] Half of the population in Syria has been displaced and on and on.

[00:02:18] So, we'll get into those details.

[00:02:20] But let's, if we can, work through a few of the articles that I've made available to you.

[00:02:26] And one comes from the editors of National Review, who said,

[00:02:31] In a stunning turn of events, Bashar al-Assad's Syrian regime has collapsed.

[00:02:36] As rebel groups celebrated in the streets of Damascus and tore down large posters of his face,

[00:02:44] the dictator fled the country.

[00:02:49] And the prime minister, Mohammed Ghaziz al-Jalari, called for free elections.

[00:02:55] We'll see how far that goes.

[00:02:57] But that is what's going on.

[00:02:59] And, of course, there's been this deadlocked civil war since I mentioned 2011.

[00:03:04] Now, they go on to say that the fall of Assad marks the end not only of his leadership,

[00:03:09] but of more than 50 years of brutal rule by his family,

[00:03:14] which dates all the way back to 1971 when his father, Hafez al-Assad, seized control of Syria,

[00:03:22] and then continued on when Bashar al-Assad took over in the year 2000.

[00:03:27] This has been, of course, a savage rule at home.

[00:03:31] And the close allies of Syria have been Russia and Iran.

[00:03:38] One of the reasons why they have said maybe this is a victory for,

[00:03:43] or at least an opening or possibility for the United States.

[00:03:46] I'm going to kind of set that aside in a minute.

[00:03:48] But it certainly has been a defeat for Russia and Iran.

[00:03:53] So at this point, it's difficult to know what to expect, you think?

[00:03:58] Assad was a tyrant, but those fighting Assad were not one monolithic freedom-seeking rebel group.

[00:04:04] The rebels are a collection of a number of rebel groups with different grievances against the regime.

[00:04:11] And this includes even jihadis.

[00:04:14] Those would be jihadi terrorist groups and Muslim groups of that sort.

[00:04:18] One of those would be the insurgent leader Abu Muhammad al-Golani,

[00:04:23] who formerly fought for al-Qaeda in Iraq and has been designated a terrorist by the United States government.

[00:04:32] There will always be the realistic argument that as bad as Assad was,

[00:04:38] we have no idea what will happen without him in control,

[00:04:42] with the biggest fear that the Islamic groups could seize power in different areas of Syria

[00:04:48] and gain access to some of those abandoned weapons,

[00:04:51] which include a number of the chemical weapons which Assad, as you might know,

[00:04:56] has used against his own people.

[00:04:58] So there's a lot of if in terms of what this might mean.

[00:05:02] Let me now go to the second article, which we've posted for you to read if you would want to do so,

[00:05:09] which comes from the editors of the Wall Street Journal.

[00:05:12] The weekend collapse, they say, at long last of the Assad family regime in Syria,

[00:05:17] is no cause for mourning unless your leaders in Russia and Iran.

[00:05:22] The fall creates risks, but also opportunities for a better Syria and a more stable Middle East.

[00:05:31] Maybe. I've got my doubts, but let's see where we go.

[00:05:34] The elder Assad took power in the coup in 2070, as one mentioned.

[00:05:38] 271 took over and really ran the regime like a mafia group.

[00:05:43] The older brother was supposed to succeed.

[00:05:45] His father died in a car accident.

[00:05:46] So the younger son, trained as an ophthalmologist, became the unlikely heir,

[00:05:53] but still was one of the bloody leaders,

[00:05:56] one of the bloodiest ophthalmologists, as somebody said, we've ever had in power.

[00:06:01] Incredibly, though, let's go back and give us a little bit of history.

[00:06:04] It was President Barack Obama who invited Russia to help end the civil war that had been taking place there in Syria.

[00:06:15] And Vladimir Putin was quite willing to oblige and join with Iran to prop up, of course, Assad.

[00:06:26] Elbowing, in a sense, the United States out and establishing then now a Russian air base

[00:06:32] and a long-desired naval base in the Mediterranean.

[00:06:36] So this misjudgment, according to the editors of the Wall Street Journal,

[00:06:42] helped Iran expand its axis of resistance from Tehran to Beirut.

[00:06:47] It also reversed the strategic triumph achieved under, at that time, President Richard Nixon

[00:06:54] and the Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in the 1970s

[00:06:58] of trying to minimize the influence of the Soviet Union in the Middle East.

[00:07:04] But, of course, as they also point out, this fall of the Assad government is a defeat for both Russia and Iran.

[00:07:12] And so none of this defeat is a result of, say, the foreign policy under the current president.

[00:07:18] That would be Joe Biden.

[00:07:19] So, of course, the foreign policy under the current president,

[00:07:26] which, of course, can document really culminated in the October 7th massacre by Hamas of many Israeli citizens.

[00:07:39] And, of course, has been led by Iran and its proxies to imagine they had Israel on the run.

[00:07:46] But so far what has happened is Israel has turned the tables, first by diminishing Hamas in Gaza,

[00:07:54] then by eliminating some of the leadership of Hezbollah to the north

[00:07:58] and demonstrating that it can strike even heavily defended targets in Iran.

[00:08:04] And so, of course, what you've had up until right now is President Biden has been kind of a caretaker president.

[00:08:12] But we'll now see if, indeed, by January 20th, a President Donald Trump maybe does something a little bit different.

[00:08:23] He would like, of course, to stay out of the conflict.

[00:08:25] But there's still U.S. interest in Syria.

[00:08:29] So we'll see what that might indeed take place.

[00:08:32] So when we come back from the break, I want to suggest to you some scenarios.

[00:08:36] These come from our good friend Jim Dennison because what is going to unfold in Syria will affect Israel and ultimately affect the United States.

[00:08:46] We'll come back with more right after this.

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

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[00:11:04] After a few more minutes, Joe, I want to spend just a little bit more time talking about Syria.

[00:11:08] It will be in the news.

[00:11:09] And again, I recognize that for some of us, it's a small country on the other side of the world.

[00:11:15] We might say, why should we be concerned?

[00:11:17] Well, if you're concerned about Middle East policy, if you're concerned about Israel, even concerned about U.S. interests, there are some significant reasons to pay attention to that.

[00:11:27] And that's really going to be the question that incoming President Donald Trump will have to address.

[00:11:33] Right now, I think it's fair to say that Joe Biden is sort of a caretaker president.

[00:11:38] He was maybe briefed on this, but there's no action I think he will take, although he surprised us more than once, so we'll see how that unfolds.

[00:11:48] But what about the possibility of this becoming another jihadist state?

[00:11:53] We don't need another place in the world that becomes favorable to terrorists.

[00:11:59] We've faced that before with Iran, Iraq, certainly Afghanistan and many, and Pakistan and others.

[00:12:07] And so there is certainly the possibility that the United States, which has a small military base in Syria, could in some way prevent the revival of another Islamic state.

[00:12:22] Remember, ISIS took over Iraq, and that was what came to be known as ISIS.

[00:12:29] You have thousands of ISIS fighters and families that are really detained by Kurdish forces in Syria.

[00:12:37] But what would happen if they take over?

[00:12:40] And, of course, there's another issue as well, and that is the United States wants to defend allies.

[00:12:46] Of course, the obvious one is Israel, but let's talk about another one, Jordan.

[00:12:51] Jordan could become a renewed target for some kind of jihadist revolt.

[00:12:55] Israel, of course, will also be wary, they say, of radical intentions and on the weekend bombed a chemical plant used for weapons in Syria,

[00:13:04] lest it fall into the hands of the new regime.

[00:13:07] The Kurds, who control parts of northern Syria, are friendly to U.S. interests and are a target for Turkey's Islamic leader, Erdogan.

[00:13:16] So there's just a lot going on there in Syria.

[00:13:20] But I thought for just a minute, before we move on to other topics, of which there are many,

[00:13:26] our good friend Jim Dennison has actually tried to set forth a number of scenarios

[00:13:33] and reminds us, of course, this civil war has been going on since 2011.

[00:13:38] And even more recently, the various rebel forces launched an assault on Aleppo, which is in Syria,

[00:13:46] which is the second largest city, and now has actually entered into Moscus and driven Assad from power.

[00:13:54] As I mentioned before, you have Abdel Muhammad al-Golani, who is a former al-Qaeda chief

[00:14:00] and is an individual that is well as part of that rebel group.

[00:14:05] So where this goes, I think, brings us down to four scenarios.

[00:14:10] Three which aren't very good, and a fourth one which I'd like to believe, but maybe is less likely,

[00:14:17] but certainly would be the best scenario.

[00:14:19] So the first three scenarios he talks about,

[00:14:22] scenario A is where Israel determines that Iran is responding to the fall of Assad

[00:14:28] and begins to excel, and it's accelerating its quest for nuclear weapons.

[00:14:33] Russia, China, and North Korea then defend Iran by striking back at Israel.

[00:14:39] The U.S., of course, forced to come to the aid of Israel,

[00:14:44] and then you have American forces that are attacked.

[00:14:47] NATO fulfills its treaty obligations,

[00:14:49] and what we do is we are on the pathway to World War III.

[00:14:54] Let's hope and pray that scenario number A does not take place.

[00:15:00] Jim Dennison talks about then scenario B.

[00:15:03] That's where rebels who are now controlling Syria comprise an existential threat against Israel,

[00:15:09] and that draws the United States and the West into the conflict as well.

[00:15:14] And so you've already seen the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

[00:15:19] talking about the collapse of the Assad regime as a historic day in the Middle East,

[00:15:25] one that offers great opportunity but also is fraught with significant dangers.

[00:15:30] And those dangers exist because the rebels, some which are nationalists,

[00:15:35] others which are Islamicists, all are gathered together,

[00:15:38] and as a result, that could be a situation in which, right now,

[00:15:44] Israel has taken control of a buffer zone on the Syrian border as a defensive position.

[00:15:52] You've got to recognize if you ever traveled to Israel,

[00:15:55] if you were in the Golan Heights, you can look into Syria.

[00:15:59] Many of you probably remember that when the apostle Paul, back then known as Saul,

[00:16:06] was traveling on the way to what?

[00:16:09] Damascus, which is, of course, where Syria is.

[00:16:11] He had, of course, a spiritual experience, became a believer, a Christian.

[00:16:16] And so, in some respects, it's a reminder again of how close Israel is to Syria.

[00:16:24] As a matter of fact, one of the gates in the old city of Jerusalem is called what?

[00:16:30] The Damascus Gate, because that would be the direction you would go if you go to Damascus.

[00:16:36] So, in this one, whether, again, there would be involvement of the United States, of Russia, of China, of Iran,

[00:16:47] I mean, again, you can see that that's not necessarily a pleasant scenario either.

[00:16:52] It may not be World War III, but it isn't necessarily one that is going to bring about any kind of peace and stability in the Middle East.

[00:17:01] So, I've given you scenario A, scenario B.

[00:17:04] What about scenario C?

[00:17:06] This is in which the rebels control what's going on in Syria, and they actually do align with the terrorist groups in that area.

[00:17:16] Then U.S. forces might have to conduct some kind of airstrikes and those kinds of things.

[00:17:23] And so, again, the question being raised, if the fall of Assad regime leads to renewed terrorist activity in Syria,

[00:17:31] that could lead, of course, to either scenario A or B that we've talked about.

[00:17:36] So, at this point, you're saying, well, there are any good scenarios?

[00:17:39] And that's the one that he refers to as scenario D, that none of this takes a place.

[00:17:45] That the rebels seek to govern Syria in a responsible manner and decide to leave Israel in peace.

[00:17:53] Possible, if for no other reason than Israel poses such a threat to the rebels.

[00:17:57] That Iran sees the folly of building a nuclear threat against Israel and doesn't go any further down that road.

[00:18:05] That Russia, already embroiled in a battle in Ukraine, decides to kind of stay out of the conflict.

[00:18:10] But possible, and Israel is able to conclude its conflict in its military action against Tomas

[00:18:18] and tries to create some kind of stable relationship with its Palestinian neighbors.

[00:18:25] It's possible, maybe not as likely as we'd like it to be,

[00:18:30] but you do have an incoming President Donald Trump who would like to avoid any kind of military action in the Middle East.

[00:18:37] You have an incoming ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, who might bring it about.

[00:18:43] But if nothing else, again, we should pray for the peace of Jerusalem

[00:18:47] and also recognize that in Matthew 24, Jesus warned that there would be wars and rumors of wars until the Lord returns.

[00:18:58] So, these are the scenarios that are unfolding.

[00:19:02] And over the next few weeks and months, we'll probably be looking at Syria.

[00:19:07] But what unfolded over the weekend is certainly causing people in the State Department,

[00:19:13] in the Defense Department, to begin to rethink what kinds of actions we might take,

[00:19:19] especially with an incoming President Donald Trump.

[00:19:23] Just before I take a break, let me mention a couple of real quick items.

[00:19:26] The first, as you heard me mention before, Daniel Penny, he was that Marine veteran

[00:19:34] who actually was trying to subdue an individual, Jordan Neely, on a subway

[00:19:40] and then was actually accused of what would be considered negligent homicide.

[00:19:49] And today, a jury reached a unanimous verdict on count two of the indictment, involuntary manslider.

[00:19:56] And so, as a result, he was found innocent.

[00:20:00] At that point, Jordan Neely's father, who's been estranged from his son,

[00:20:05] nevertheless yelled out in protest.

[00:20:07] Kind of hard to tell what those words are, and I can't repeat them on the air, even if I did.

[00:20:11] Also, you have from the brother and sister from Black Lives Matter,

[00:20:17] referring to this as a racist, using a bad word, country.

[00:20:21] And, of course, there's also going to be a lawsuit, a criminal suit against him.

[00:20:26] So, his liability is still there, but it's a really sad commentary indeed.

[00:20:31] And when we come back from the break, real briefly, it does seem like we have been able to actually arrest,

[00:20:41] and I'm pretty sure going to be easy to convict, the individual who is responsible for the murder

[00:20:48] of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside of a Manhattan hotel.

[00:20:54] I'll come back and explain why it's pretty obvious that this is the individual

[00:20:58] who actually indeed did shoot this individual and kill him.

[00:21:04] And the evidence is so incredible that I think, unless you are dealing with one of the most remarkable pieces

[00:21:11] of circumstantial evidence, I think we have actually indeed caught the individual

[00:21:16] who tried to and then was successful in murdering the CEO of UnitedHealthcare.

[00:21:22] Let's take a break.

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

[00:23:13] Mack, once again, I might just mention, as I think I said just a minute ago,

[00:23:16] that we have a new video and an interview that I did this time last week with Dr. Jack Graham on his book,

[00:23:22] The Jesus Book.

[00:23:24] It's about 36 minutes.

[00:23:25] By taking out some of the breaks and everything like that,

[00:23:28] you can watch that, and it's on the website, pointofview.net,

[00:23:32] and you're free to watch it or maybe even provide a link so that others can learn about it as well.

[00:23:37] One of the things we talked about with Jack Graham is the fact that the interest in the Bible has increased,

[00:23:44] and that comes to one of our other articles we've posted today on our website.

[00:23:49] It comes from our good friend, Dr. Jerry Newcomb.

[00:23:53] Bible sales are increasing.

[00:23:55] He says,

[00:23:56] The Good Book is the world's most widely distributed book.

[00:23:59] It's also the world's bestseller.

[00:24:01] And now sales of the Judeo-Christian scriptures are rising.

[00:24:04] He says,

[00:24:05] The Wall Street Journal reports on a recent uptick in sales.

[00:24:08] The headline declares,

[00:24:09] Sales of Bibles are booming, fueled by first-time buyers and new versions.

[00:24:14] The subtitle notes,

[00:24:15] Publishers attribute a 22% jump in Bible sales this year to rising anxiety,

[00:24:21] a search for hope, or highly focused marketing and designs.

[00:24:26] A lot of reasons for that,

[00:24:27] But nevertheless, the point that Jerry Newcomb is making is,

[00:24:31] This is a significant trend.

[00:24:34] The Bible has played a key role in our life as our nation.

[00:24:38] It then gives us some quotes, which you might want to use.

[00:24:41] You might want to post this on your website that you might have,

[00:24:45] or Facebook page, or maybe you have a Twitter post on X, whatever it might be.

[00:24:50] But first of all, he quotes from a good friend, Dr. Erwin Lutzer,

[00:24:53] longtime pastor of Moody Church and best-selling author,

[00:24:57] who penned these words in his book,

[00:25:01] Exploding the Myths That Could Destroy America.

[00:25:05] Erwin Lutzer said,

[00:25:07] An atheist logic tells him that he is of no value than a baboon or a grain of sand,

[00:25:13] yet his life contradicts such a conclusion.

[00:25:16] He may provide for his wife and his family,

[00:25:18] and if you were to steal his car,

[00:25:21] he would want you to be punished,

[00:25:23] all of this,

[00:25:24] because he is created in the image of God.

[00:25:26] We are still coasting on the values derived from our rich Judeo-Christian heritage.

[00:25:32] As a matter of fact,

[00:25:34] Jerry Newcomb goes on to say,

[00:25:35] You know, it's hard to live without purpose,

[00:25:37] but life does have meaning,

[00:25:39] and we find that purpose in the pages of Holy Scripture.

[00:25:43] Quotes from Augustine in his book,

[00:25:45] The Confessions.

[00:25:45] A little bit later he said,

[00:25:47] But if life is merely an accidental product of time, matter, and chance,

[00:25:52] then life has no design.

[00:25:53] It has no real meaning.

[00:25:55] And then in this case,

[00:25:56] quotes from Huxley,

[00:25:58] Adidas Huxley,

[00:25:59] who basically,

[00:26:00] if I can summarize his quote,

[00:26:04] basically was saying

[00:26:05] that we wanted life to have no meaning

[00:26:07] because then it would allow us to be involved sexually without any restraint.

[00:26:14] But Jerry Newcomb brings us back to this question.

[00:26:18] Ultimately,

[00:26:18] the question is,

[00:26:19] What is the purpose of life?

[00:26:21] It can only be answered by the author of life,

[00:26:24] God himself.

[00:26:25] Indeed,

[00:26:26] if there's a God,

[00:26:26] life has a purpose,

[00:26:27] and he's revealed that in his Bible and in his word.

[00:26:31] And then he gives us some historical quotes.

[00:26:33] Just before we wind down this section here,

[00:26:36] let me give you a few.

[00:26:38] The Pilgrims,

[00:26:39] for example,

[00:26:40] in their Mayflower Compact of 1620,

[00:26:44] talked about their voyage was for the glory of God

[00:26:47] and for the advancement of the Christian faith.

[00:26:50] He quotes from President John Adams,

[00:26:53] one of our nation's founders,

[00:26:55] second president,

[00:26:56] first vice president,

[00:26:57] who said,

[00:26:57] I've made it a practice every year

[00:26:59] for several years to read through the Bible.

[00:27:01] He then quotes from Ulysses S. Grant,

[00:27:05] the 18th president of the United States,

[00:27:07] who declared,

[00:27:07] Hold fast to the Bible as the anchor of your liberty.

[00:27:11] Write its precepts in your hearts

[00:27:13] and practice them in your lives.

[00:27:16] He then goes on to quote from Theodore Roosevelt,

[00:27:20] 26th president of the United States,

[00:27:22] who observed,

[00:27:22] If a man is not familiar with the Bible,

[00:27:25] he has suffered the loss

[00:27:27] which he has better make it all possible haste to correct.

[00:27:31] And finally,

[00:27:32] he quotes from Ronald Reagan,

[00:27:34] 40th president of the United States,

[00:27:36] said of scriptures,

[00:27:37] It is my firm belief

[00:27:38] that the enduring values presented in its pages

[00:27:41] have a great meaning for each of us in our nation.

[00:27:45] The Bible can touch our hearts,

[00:27:47] order our minds,

[00:27:48] and refresh our souls.

[00:27:50] So again,

[00:27:50] this article that we have posted here

[00:27:53] by Jerry Newcomb,

[00:27:54] as well as the video,

[00:27:56] which is available today at the website,

[00:27:58] pointofview.net,

[00:27:59] is an interview we did with Jack Graham

[00:28:01] on the Jesus book.

[00:28:03] He spends some time,

[00:28:04] of course,

[00:28:04] talking about the significance of the Bible,

[00:28:07] the trustworthiness of the Bible,

[00:28:09] kind of the historical aspect of the Bible,

[00:28:12] and all of that

[00:28:13] is available on the website

[00:28:15] at pointofview.net.

[00:28:17] So I hope you'll take the time

[00:28:18] to put it to good use.

[00:28:21] Real quickly,

[00:28:22] let me just mention

[00:28:23] that indeed,

[00:28:24] it looks like we have found

[00:28:25] the individual

[00:28:26] who killed Brian Thompson.

[00:28:28] Some people said assassinated,

[00:28:30] and I was listening to a talk show host

[00:28:32] that says,

[00:28:33] When is a murder

[00:28:35] considered an assassination?

[00:28:36] We certainly consider

[00:28:38] that when you

[00:28:39] try to kill a political figure,

[00:28:41] that's called an assassination.

[00:28:43] Would we also call it

[00:28:45] an assassination

[00:28:46] when you try to kill a CAO?

[00:28:49] Maybe,

[00:28:50] and we'll have to see

[00:28:51] whether or not

[00:28:51] that's a good use of the term.

[00:28:53] But nevertheless,

[00:28:54] we now are pretty sure

[00:28:56] this is the killer

[00:28:57] because we know

[00:28:58] that he took a bus

[00:28:59] from New York

[00:29:01] to Altoona, Pennsylvania,

[00:29:03] and that's about 280 miles

[00:29:06] from New York City.

[00:29:06] He was found with a gun,

[00:29:08] a silencer,

[00:29:10] false identification cards

[00:29:12] similar to those

[00:29:13] believed to have been used

[00:29:14] by the killer,

[00:29:15] and so those seem

[00:29:17] pretty significant.

[00:29:18] The man who was detained

[00:29:20] at a McDonald's

[00:29:21] showed the police

[00:29:21] the same fake

[00:29:22] New Jersey identification

[00:29:24] that the man

[00:29:25] who was believed

[00:29:26] to be the gunman

[00:29:27] presented when he checked

[00:29:28] into a hostel

[00:29:29] in Upper West Side

[00:29:31] of Manhattan

[00:29:32] on November 24th.

[00:29:34] He also arrived

[00:29:35] on a Greyhound bus,

[00:29:37] and again,

[00:29:38] it is believed

[00:29:39] to be the very same

[00:29:40] Greyhound bus

[00:29:41] that was indeed

[00:29:43] taken from New York City,

[00:29:46] and then also

[00:29:47] they of course

[00:29:48] have the handwritten manifesto,

[00:29:51] which actually

[00:29:52] is one that is

[00:29:53] criticizing

[00:29:54] health care companies

[00:29:56] for putting profits

[00:29:57] above care,

[00:29:58] and so I'd say

[00:30:00] I think we've got

[00:30:01] everything we need

[00:30:02] to know

[00:30:03] that he's the killer,

[00:30:04] and I suspect

[00:30:05] we will have

[00:30:06] a fairly quick

[00:30:07] conviction,

[00:30:08] probably will

[00:30:09] actually plead out

[00:30:11] guilty

[00:30:11] because of what

[00:30:13] he has done.

[00:30:14] It also sets aside,

[00:30:16] can I say real quickly,

[00:30:17] some of these

[00:30:18] really bizarre

[00:30:19] things that were

[00:30:20] said on the air.

[00:30:22] You've heard me

[00:30:23] many times say

[00:30:24] I'd rather wait

[00:30:26] and be right

[00:30:26] than be the first

[00:30:28] out and be wrong,

[00:30:29] and there were

[00:30:30] people coming up

[00:30:31] with the idea

[00:30:32] that this was

[00:30:33] justified because

[00:30:34] this individual

[00:30:35] was denied

[00:30:36] some kind of

[00:30:37] health care,

[00:30:37] or that this

[00:30:39] was actually

[00:30:40] a hit

[00:30:40] that was

[00:30:41] contracted

[00:30:42] by the CEO

[00:30:44] who did not

[00:30:44] want to testify,

[00:30:45] so wanted

[00:30:46] to be killed

[00:30:47] so he didn't

[00:30:48] have to testify

[00:30:49] against,

[00:30:50] was it,

[00:30:51] just a variety

[00:30:52] of other things

[00:30:53] that were proposed

[00:30:54] at the time,

[00:30:55] all of which

[00:30:56] I suspect

[00:30:57] we now know

[00:30:57] will be false,

[00:30:58] and as a result

[00:31:00] we'll illustrate

[00:31:01] again what

[00:31:02] a dangerous

[00:31:03] world that we

[00:31:04] live in

[00:31:04] when we've

[00:31:05] talked about

[00:31:06] the need

[00:31:06] to protect

[00:31:07] Donald Trump

[00:31:08] and J.D. Vance

[00:31:09] and maybe even

[00:31:11] some of the

[00:31:11] other individuals

[00:31:12] that are going

[00:31:13] to be nominees

[00:31:15] for the Trump

[00:31:16] administration,

[00:31:17] whether it's

[00:31:18] certainly

[00:31:19] Kash Patel

[00:31:20] or Pete Hegseth

[00:31:21] or maybe even

[00:31:23] Robert F. Kennedy

[00:31:24] or Tulsi Gabbard

[00:31:25] or people like that,

[00:31:26] and when we come

[00:31:27] back from the break,

[00:31:28] I do want to

[00:31:29] for just a few

[00:31:29] minutes read

[00:31:30] a piece from

[00:31:31] Victor Davis Hanson

[00:31:33] which he says

[00:31:34] what Trump

[00:31:36] nominees

[00:31:36] will actually

[00:31:39] not do

[00:31:40] which I thought

[00:31:41] was a really

[00:31:41] good piece

[00:31:42] in that regard,

[00:31:43] but just before

[00:31:45] we take a break

[00:31:45] and we get back

[00:31:46] into some of the

[00:31:47] issues in the news,

[00:31:48] I thought since

[00:31:49] it was appropriate

[00:31:51] that this weekend

[00:31:52] we had the

[00:31:53] reopening of

[00:31:54] Notre Dame

[00:31:55] that one of the

[00:31:57] pieces I was

[00:31:58] going to post

[00:31:58] was the fact

[00:32:00] that here

[00:32:01] you have such

[00:32:02] a contrast

[00:32:03] in France

[00:32:04] between again

[00:32:05] reopening for the

[00:32:07] first time since

[00:32:07] the fire

[00:32:09] April 2019,

[00:32:10] the architects

[00:32:12] at the time

[00:32:12] wanted to put

[00:32:13] a modern kind

[00:32:15] of glass and

[00:32:16] steel cover

[00:32:17] on this medieval

[00:32:19] cathedral,

[00:32:19] I'm grateful

[00:32:21] that they

[00:32:21] decided to

[00:32:22] reject that

[00:32:23] and instead

[00:32:24] try to restore

[00:32:25] this with

[00:32:26] timeless beauty

[00:32:27] and something

[00:32:28] that really

[00:32:29] has inspired

[00:32:30] people for

[00:32:31] decades

[00:32:32] and centuries,

[00:32:35] but what a

[00:32:35] contrast too

[00:32:36] between this

[00:32:38] iconic gothic

[00:32:39] ceiling that

[00:32:40] has now been

[00:32:41] rebuilt

[00:32:42] and the

[00:32:43] cultural decay

[00:32:44] that was on

[00:32:46] full view

[00:32:47] and full display

[00:32:49] during the

[00:32:50] 2024 Olympics.

[00:32:52] Remember when

[00:32:53] you had that

[00:32:53] opening ceremony

[00:32:54] that openly

[00:32:56] mocked

[00:32:57] Christianity

[00:32:57] and glamorized

[00:32:59] lust and all

[00:33:00] the rest?

[00:33:01] If nothing else,

[00:33:02] I think it was a

[00:33:03] great antithesis

[00:33:04] to the secularism,

[00:33:06] the hedonistic

[00:33:07] display,

[00:33:09] and if nothing

[00:33:10] else,

[00:33:10] just a reminder

[00:33:12] that yes,

[00:33:13] there are still

[00:33:14] great icons

[00:33:16] of history

[00:33:17] and of beauty

[00:33:19] and restoring

[00:33:20] Notre Dame

[00:33:21] back to its

[00:33:24] beauty

[00:33:24] and to its

[00:33:26] grandeur,

[00:33:27] I think was

[00:33:28] something that

[00:33:29] we haven't really

[00:33:30] mentioned but

[00:33:31] was worth

[00:33:32] mentioning since

[00:33:32] it took place

[00:33:33] over the weekend

[00:33:34] along with so

[00:33:35] many other

[00:33:36] things we're

[00:33:36] talking about

[00:33:37] here today

[00:33:38] on Point of

[00:33:38] View.

[00:33:39] Let's take a

[00:33:39] break though.

[00:33:40] What about

[00:33:41] these nominees,

[00:33:42] these Trump

[00:33:43] nominees?

[00:33:44] Have some

[00:33:44] comments about

[00:33:45] that before

[00:33:46] we end today

[00:33:47] right after

[00:33:48] these important

[00:33:48] messages.

[00:33:55] You're listening

[00:33:56] to Point of

[00:33:57] View, your

[00:33:58] listener-supported

[00:33:59] source for

[00:34:00] truth.

[00:34:01] Once again,

[00:34:02] one of the

[00:34:02] pieces by

[00:34:03] Victor Davis

[00:34:03] Hanson,

[00:34:04] you just

[00:34:04] got to love

[00:34:05] the way he

[00:34:06] writes some

[00:34:06] of this,

[00:34:07] and that is

[00:34:07] he's pointing

[00:34:08] out that

[00:34:08] many of

[00:34:09] these nominees

[00:34:10] are controversial.

[00:34:11] Got it.

[00:34:12] But I think

[00:34:13] what was so

[00:34:13] interesting how

[00:34:15] he put this

[00:34:15] together is he

[00:34:16] said let's

[00:34:17] just look at

[00:34:17] four of these

[00:34:18] nominees,

[00:34:19] and the

[00:34:20] first of

[00:34:20] those is

[00:34:21] the FBI

[00:34:21] director

[00:34:22] nominee

[00:34:22] Kash

[00:34:23] Patel,

[00:34:24] and he

[00:34:24] gives us

[00:34:25] seven things

[00:34:26] that this

[00:34:27] particular

[00:34:28] Trump

[00:34:28] nominee

[00:34:29] will not

[00:34:30] do.

[00:34:30] Number one,

[00:34:32] he will not

[00:34:32] serially lie

[00:34:33] under oath

[00:34:34] to federal

[00:34:35] investigators,

[00:34:36] as did the

[00:34:37] interim FBI

[00:34:38] director Andrew

[00:34:39] McCabe,

[00:34:40] a current

[00:34:41] critic of

[00:34:42] of course

[00:34:42] Kash

[00:34:43] Patel.

[00:34:44] Number two,

[00:34:44] he will not

[00:34:45] forge an FBI

[00:34:46] court affidavit,

[00:34:47] as did

[00:34:48] convicted

[00:34:48] felon and

[00:34:49] agency

[00:34:50] lawyer Kevin

[00:34:51] Clinesmith.

[00:34:52] Number three,

[00:34:53] he will not

[00:34:53] claim amnesia

[00:34:55] 245 times

[00:34:56] under congressional

[00:34:57] oath to

[00:34:58] evade

[00:34:59] embarrassing

[00:34:59] admissions,

[00:35:00] as did the

[00:35:01] former director

[00:35:01] James Comey.

[00:35:03] Number four,

[00:35:04] he will not

[00:35:04] partner with

[00:35:05] a foreign

[00:35:05] national to

[00:35:07] collect dirt

[00:35:07] and subvert

[00:35:08] a presidential

[00:35:09] campaign,

[00:35:09] as the FBI

[00:35:10] did with

[00:35:11] Christopher

[00:35:11] Steele in

[00:35:12] 2016.

[00:35:13] Number five,

[00:35:14] he will not

[00:35:15] use the FBI

[00:35:16] to draft social

[00:35:17] media to

[00:35:17] suppress news

[00:35:18] unfavorable to

[00:35:20] a presidential

[00:35:20] candidate on

[00:35:21] the eve of

[00:35:22] an election.

[00:35:23] Number six,

[00:35:24] he will not

[00:35:25] have suppressed

[00:35:25] FBI knowledge

[00:35:26] that Hunter

[00:35:27] Biden's laptop

[00:35:28] was genuine

[00:35:29] to allow the

[00:35:30] lie to spread

[00:35:31] that it was

[00:35:31] Russian

[00:35:32] disinformation

[00:35:32] on the eve

[00:35:33] of the 2020

[00:35:34] election.

[00:35:35] And number

[00:35:36] seven,

[00:35:36] he will not

[00:35:37] raid the

[00:35:37] home of an

[00:35:38] ex-president

[00:35:39] with SWAT

[00:35:40] teams,

[00:35:40] surveil

[00:35:41] Catholics,

[00:35:42] monitor parents

[00:35:43] at school board

[00:35:44] meetings,

[00:35:44] or go after

[00:35:45] pro-life

[00:35:46] peaceful

[00:35:46] protesters.

[00:35:47] So there's

[00:35:48] at least

[00:35:49] seven things

[00:35:49] that a

[00:35:50] possible

[00:35:51] new

[00:35:52] FBI

[00:35:53] director

[00:35:54] Kash Patel

[00:35:55] will not

[00:35:55] do,

[00:35:56] which,

[00:35:56] as you're

[00:35:57] figuring out,

[00:35:58] were done

[00:35:58] under the

[00:35:59] Biden

[00:36:00] administration.

[00:36:01] Well,

[00:36:01] then he goes

[00:36:02] on to say

[00:36:02] there's another

[00:36:03] controversial

[00:36:04] nominee,

[00:36:06] and that

[00:36:06] would be the

[00:36:07] decorated combat

[00:36:08] veteran

[00:36:08] Pete Hegseth.

[00:36:10] And again,

[00:36:11] he comes up

[00:36:11] with eight

[00:36:12] things that

[00:36:13] Pete Hegseth

[00:36:14] will not

[00:36:14] do.

[00:36:15] Number

[00:36:15] one,

[00:36:15] he will

[00:36:16] not go

[00:36:16] AWOL

[00:36:17] without

[00:36:17] notifying

[00:36:18] the president

[00:36:18] of a serious

[00:36:19] medical procedure,

[00:36:20] as did the

[00:36:21] current Secretary

[00:36:22] Lloyd Austin.

[00:36:24] Number

[00:36:24] two,

[00:36:25] he won't

[00:36:25] install race

[00:36:26] and gender

[00:36:27] criteria for

[00:36:27] promotion and

[00:36:28] mandate diversity,

[00:36:29] equity,

[00:36:30] and inclusion

[00:36:31] training.

[00:36:31] Number

[00:36:32] three,

[00:36:33] he won't

[00:36:33] insinuate

[00:36:34] falsely that

[00:36:35] cabals of

[00:36:37] white supremacists

[00:36:39] have infiltrated

[00:36:40] the military

[00:36:41] only to

[00:36:42] alienate

[00:36:42] that entire

[00:36:43] demographic

[00:36:43] and thus

[00:36:44] ensure the

[00:36:44] Pentagon

[00:36:45] came up

[00:36:46] with 4,000

[00:36:47] recruits short.

[00:36:48] Number

[00:36:49] four,

[00:36:49] he won't

[00:36:50] oversee

[00:36:50] the scramble

[00:36:51] from Kabul

[00:36:52] that saw

[00:36:53] $50 billion

[00:36:54] in U.S.

[00:36:56] equipment

[00:36:56] abandoned

[00:36:57] to Taliban

[00:36:58] terrorists.

[00:36:59] Number

[00:36:59] five,

[00:37:00] he won't

[00:37:00] wash passively

[00:37:01] as a

[00:37:02] Chinese spy

[00:37:02] balloon

[00:37:03] traverses

[00:37:04] the continental

[00:37:05] United States

[00:37:06] for a week.

[00:37:07] Number

[00:37:07] six,

[00:37:08] he won't

[00:37:08] allow the

[00:37:08] chairman of the

[00:37:09] Joint Chiefs

[00:37:10] to promise

[00:37:10] his Chinese

[00:37:11] communist

[00:37:11] counterpart

[00:37:12] that the

[00:37:13] People's

[00:37:13] Liberation

[00:37:14] Army

[00:37:14] would be

[00:37:15] the first

[00:37:15] to be

[00:37:15] informed

[00:37:16] if the

[00:37:16] President

[00:37:17] of the

[00:37:17] United States

[00:37:17] was going

[00:37:18] to issue

[00:37:19] a dangerous

[00:37:19] order.

[00:37:20] Number

[00:37:20] seven,

[00:37:21] he wouldn't

[00:37:21] rotate

[00:37:22] into the

[00:37:22] Pentagon

[00:37:23] from a

[00:37:23] defense

[00:37:24] contract

[00:37:25] boardership

[00:37:26] and then

[00:37:27] leave office

[00:37:27] to rotate

[00:37:28] back there

[00:37:29] to leverage

[00:37:30] procurement

[00:37:30] decisions.

[00:37:31] And number

[00:37:32] eight,

[00:37:32] he won't

[00:37:32] oversee

[00:37:33] the Pentagon

[00:37:34] serial flunking

[00:37:35] of fiscal

[00:37:36] audits.

[00:37:36] I think

[00:37:37] you can

[00:37:37] kind of

[00:37:38] get the

[00:37:38] idea.

[00:37:39] Last

[00:37:39] two,

[00:37:40] Robert

[00:37:41] Kennedy,

[00:37:41] you know,

[00:37:42] nominee for

[00:37:43] Health and

[00:37:43] Human Services,

[00:37:44] comes up

[00:37:44] with four

[00:37:45] of those.

[00:37:46] Number

[00:37:46] one,

[00:37:47] Robert F.

[00:37:48] Kennedy will

[00:37:48] not oversee

[00:37:49] his agency

[00:37:50] circumventing

[00:37:51] U.S.

[00:37:51] law by

[00:37:52] transferring

[00:37:52] money to

[00:37:53] communist

[00:37:54] China to

[00:37:55] help it

[00:37:55] produce

[00:37:55] lethal

[00:37:56] gain-of-function

[00:37:57] viruses

[00:37:58] of the

[00:37:58] COVID-19

[00:37:59] sort in a

[00:38:00] manner of

[00:38:00] Dr.

[00:38:01] Fauci.

[00:38:01] Number

[00:38:02] two,

[00:38:02] he won't

[00:38:02] organize

[00:38:03] scientists

[00:38:04] to go

[00:38:04] after critics

[00:38:05] of mandatory

[00:38:05] masking

[00:38:06] and defame

[00:38:07] them.

[00:38:08] Number

[00:38:08] three,

[00:38:08] he won't

[00:38:09] give

[00:38:09] pharmaceutical

[00:38:10] companies

[00:38:10] near lifetime

[00:38:11] exemptions

[00:38:12] from legal

[00:38:13] jeopardy for

[00:38:14] rushing into

[00:38:14] the production

[00:38:15] of mRNA

[00:38:16] vaccines not

[00:38:17] traditionally

[00:38:18] vetted or

[00:38:19] tested.

[00:38:20] And number

[00:38:20] four,

[00:38:20] he won't

[00:38:21] leave office

[00:38:21] to monetize

[00:38:22] his health

[00:38:23] and human

[00:38:24] services

[00:38:24] expertise and

[00:38:26] thus make

[00:38:26] millions from

[00:38:27] pharmaceutical

[00:38:28] companies.

[00:38:28] And one

[00:38:30] last controversial

[00:38:31] nominee would

[00:38:32] be Tulsi

[00:38:32] Gabbert,

[00:38:33] nominee for

[00:38:34] the director

[00:38:35] of national

[00:38:36] intelligence.

[00:38:37] And he

[00:38:37] says Tulsi

[00:38:38] Gabbert has

[00:38:39] not joined

[00:38:40] the 51

[00:38:41] former U.S.

[00:38:43] intelligence

[00:38:43] authorities to

[00:38:45] lie on the

[00:38:45] eve of the

[00:38:46] 2020 election

[00:38:47] that the

[00:38:48] Hunter Biden

[00:38:48] laptop had

[00:38:49] all the

[00:38:50] hallmarks of

[00:38:50] a Russian

[00:38:51] information

[00:38:52] disinformation

[00:38:53] operation.

[00:38:54] Tulsi

[00:38:54] Gabbert has

[00:38:55] not lied

[00:38:56] under

[00:38:56] congressional

[00:38:57] oath like

[00:38:58] the former

[00:38:58] director of

[00:38:59] national

[00:39:00] intelligence

[00:39:01] James

[00:39:01] Clapper,

[00:39:02] who claimed

[00:39:02] he only

[00:39:03] gave the

[00:39:03] least

[00:39:04] untruthful

[00:39:04] answer in

[00:39:05] congressional

[00:39:06] testimony.

[00:39:07] Tulsi

[00:39:07] Gabbert also

[00:39:08] has not

[00:39:08] encouraged the

[00:39:09] FBI to

[00:39:09] monitor a

[00:39:10] presidential

[00:39:11] campaign in

[00:39:12] efforts to

[00:39:13] discredit it

[00:39:13] in the

[00:39:14] manner of

[00:39:14] the former

[00:39:15] CIA director

[00:39:16] John Brennan,

[00:39:17] who lied

[00:39:17] not once but

[00:39:18] twice under

[00:39:19] oath.

[00:39:19] And Tulsi

[00:39:20] Gabbert has

[00:39:20] not failed to

[00:39:21] foresee the

[00:39:22] American

[00:39:22] meltdown in

[00:39:24] Kabul,

[00:39:24] the Russian

[00:39:25] invasion of

[00:39:26] Ukraine,

[00:39:26] the Hamas

[00:39:27] terrorist attacks

[00:39:28] on Israel,

[00:39:29] or the

[00:39:29] Houthis

[00:39:29] takeover of

[00:39:30] the Red

[00:39:31] Sea.

[00:39:31] The point

[00:39:32] he's making,

[00:39:33] I think you

[00:39:33] can kind of

[00:39:34] figure it out

[00:39:34] by now,

[00:39:35] is if you're

[00:39:36] going to be

[00:39:36] critical of

[00:39:37] the incoming

[00:39:38] nominees,

[00:39:39] recognize what

[00:39:40] the previous

[00:39:41] people that have

[00:39:42] held those

[00:39:43] positions have

[00:39:44] said and

[00:39:44] done.

[00:39:45] And the

[00:39:46] old phrase,

[00:39:47] if you're

[00:39:47] living in a

[00:39:48] glass house,

[00:39:49] you probably

[00:39:50] don't want to

[00:39:51] be throwing

[00:39:52] rocks.

[00:39:53] And so

[00:39:53] again,

[00:39:54] if you'd

[00:39:54] like to

[00:39:54] read it in

[00:39:55] its entirety,

[00:39:56] and I

[00:39:56] summarized it

[00:39:57] quickly,

[00:39:57] Victor Davis

[00:39:58] Hanson did

[00:39:59] a really

[00:39:59] good job

[00:40:00] of reminding

[00:40:01] us of why

[00:40:03] there is

[00:40:04] such a

[00:40:04] controversy

[00:40:05] right now,

[00:40:06] because some

[00:40:06] of these

[00:40:07] nominees want

[00:40:08] to clean up

[00:40:09] the mess that

[00:40:10] was created

[00:40:11] over the

[00:40:11] last four

[00:40:12] years.

[00:40:13] But my

[00:40:13] last piece is

[00:40:14] by Beckett

[00:40:15] Adams.

[00:40:15] He calls it

[00:40:16] the six

[00:40:16] stages of

[00:40:17] grief.

[00:40:18] Now,

[00:40:18] if you're

[00:40:18] familiar with

[00:40:19] the whole idea

[00:40:20] of death and

[00:40:20] dying,

[00:40:21] I wrote a

[00:40:21] book back

[00:40:22] 40 decades

[00:40:23] ago on

[00:40:24] death and

[00:40:25] dying.

[00:40:26] It's

[00:40:26] denial,

[00:40:27] anger,

[00:40:28] bargaining,

[00:40:28] depression,

[00:40:29] and acceptance.

[00:40:30] But he

[00:40:30] says for

[00:40:31] some of the

[00:40:32] at least

[00:40:32] Democrats out

[00:40:33] there,

[00:40:34] there's been

[00:40:34] a fifth

[00:40:35] and then

[00:40:35] now a

[00:40:36] sixth stage

[00:40:37] of grief.

[00:40:37] It's called

[00:40:38] delusion.

[00:40:39] And they've

[00:40:40] talked about

[00:40:41] how people

[00:40:42] have tried

[00:40:42] to defend

[00:40:43] Joe Biden's

[00:40:45] pardon of

[00:40:45] his son

[00:40:46] Hunter Biden.

[00:40:47] And what

[00:40:48] they've been

[00:40:48] doing,

[00:40:49] according to

[00:40:49] Beckett Adams,

[00:40:50] in this

[00:40:51] delusion,

[00:40:52] is trying

[00:40:52] to just

[00:40:53] rewrite

[00:40:53] history.

[00:40:54] I'll just

[00:40:55] end with

[00:40:55] two of

[00:40:56] those

[00:40:56] examples.

[00:40:57] The first

[00:40:58] is one of

[00:40:58] the co-hosts

[00:40:59] in CBS's

[00:41:00] View is

[00:41:00] Anna Navarro,

[00:41:02] in which

[00:41:02] she said,

[00:41:03] you can't

[00:41:05] argue that

[00:41:06] Joe Biden

[00:41:07] is doing

[00:41:07] anything that

[00:41:08] previous

[00:41:08] presidents have

[00:41:09] not done.

[00:41:10] She says,

[00:41:11] Woodrow

[00:41:12] Wilson pardoned

[00:41:13] his brother-in-law

[00:41:14] Hunter

[00:41:14] to butts.

[00:41:16] I can't

[00:41:17] even say

[00:41:17] this with a

[00:41:17] straight face.

[00:41:18] So tell

[00:41:19] me how

[00:41:19] Joe Biden

[00:41:20] is setting

[00:41:20] a precedent.

[00:41:21] And of

[00:41:22] course,

[00:41:22] you've never

[00:41:22] heard of

[00:41:23] that

[00:41:23] incident

[00:41:23] because it

[00:41:24] never

[00:41:24] happened.

[00:41:25] There

[00:41:25] was no

[00:41:25] Hunter

[00:41:26] to butts.

[00:41:26] If you

[00:41:27] listen to

[00:41:28] this for a

[00:41:28] second,

[00:41:28] you recognize

[00:41:29] this almost

[00:41:29] has got

[00:41:30] to be a

[00:41:30] joke.

[00:41:32] Woodrow

[00:41:32] Wilson

[00:41:33] never

[00:41:33] pardoned

[00:41:34] his

[00:41:34] brother-in-law.

[00:41:35] It's a

[00:41:35] pure

[00:41:35] fabrication.

[00:41:36] Where did

[00:41:37] she get

[00:41:37] that?

[00:41:38] It turns

[00:41:38] out she

[00:41:38] got that

[00:41:39] from

[00:41:39] chat

[00:41:39] GBT.

[00:41:40] Those

[00:41:41] AI

[00:41:41] bots

[00:41:42] sometimes

[00:41:42] they make

[00:41:43] some real

[00:41:43] mistakes

[00:41:43] and sometimes

[00:41:44] they

[00:41:44] hallucinate

[00:41:45] non-existent

[00:41:47] events.

[00:41:48] And so

[00:41:49] she tried

[00:41:50] to defend

[00:41:50] it by

[00:41:51] saying,

[00:41:51] well,

[00:41:52] I got

[00:41:52] it from

[00:41:52] AI,

[00:41:53] so take

[00:41:53] it up

[00:41:53] with AI.

[00:41:54] No,

[00:41:54] it's not

[00:41:55] historically

[00:41:55] accurate.

[00:41:56] And then

[00:41:57] the other

[00:41:57] one was,

[00:41:58] of course,

[00:41:59] Charles

[00:41:59] Pierce.

[00:42:00] He's a

[00:42:00] political

[00:42:01] columnist

[00:42:01] and he

[00:42:02] actually has

[00:42:03] written this

[00:42:03] 1,000-word

[00:42:04] story,

[00:42:05] but the title

[00:42:06] is A

[00:42:06] President

[00:42:07] Shouldn't

[00:42:07] Pardon

[00:42:07] His

[00:42:08] Son?

[00:42:08] Hello,

[00:42:09] anybody

[00:42:09] remember

[00:42:09] Neil

[00:42:10] Bush,

[00:42:12] I can't

[00:42:12] again say

[00:42:12] that with a

[00:42:13] straight face,

[00:42:14] because Neil

[00:42:15] on the

[00:42:16] son of

[00:42:16] George

[00:42:17] Herbert

[00:42:17] Walker

[00:42:17] Bush.

[00:42:18] George

[00:42:19] Herbert

[00:42:19] Walker

[00:42:20] Bush's

[00:42:20] son

[00:42:21] was

[00:42:21] what?

[00:42:21] George

[00:42:22] W.

[00:42:23] Bush.

[00:42:24] And so

[00:42:24] again,

[00:42:25] as the

[00:42:25] person

[00:42:26] said,

[00:42:26] he never

[00:42:27] pardoned

[00:42:27] his son

[00:42:27] Neil,

[00:42:29] because

[00:42:29] Neil

[00:42:29] was not

[00:42:30] his

[00:42:30] son,

[00:42:31] and no

[00:42:32] context is

[00:42:32] required.

[00:42:34] All the

[00:42:35] more reason

[00:42:35] to watch

[00:42:37] and read

[00:42:37] with some

[00:42:38] level of

[00:42:39] scrutiny,

[00:42:39] over the

[00:42:40] next two

[00:42:41] days,

[00:42:41] you're going

[00:42:41] to see

[00:42:42] my

[00:42:42] commentaries

[00:42:43] that deal

[00:42:43] with how

[00:42:44] to discern

[00:42:44] truth from

[00:42:45] error,

[00:42:46] how to

[00:42:47] exercise

[00:42:47] discernment.

[00:42:48] We've

[00:42:49] needed it

[00:42:49] more than

[00:42:50] ever before.

[00:42:51] First of

[00:42:51] all,

[00:42:52] let me

[00:42:52] thank Megan

[00:42:52] for her

[00:42:53] help

[00:42:53] engineering

[00:42:53] the program

[00:42:54] today.

[00:42:54] Steve,

[00:42:55] thank you

[00:42:55] for producing

[00:42:56] the program.

[00:42:56] Tomorrow is

[00:42:57] our Millennial

[00:42:58] Roundtable.

[00:42:59] I think you

[00:43:00] will really

[00:43:00] enjoy that

[00:43:01] conversation,

[00:43:01] and we'll

[00:43:02] be here all

[00:43:03] through the

[00:43:03] week talking

[00:43:04] about issues

[00:43:05] that are

[00:43:05] important to

[00:43:05] you.

[00:43:06] We'll see

[00:43:06] you back

[00:43:07] here tomorrow

[00:43:07] right here

[00:43:08] on Point

[00:43:08] of View.

[00:43:11] Who can

[00:43:12] you trust?

[00:43:14] Years ago,

[00:43:15] many of us

[00:43:16] could probably

[00:43:16] have provided

[00:43:17] a fairly long

[00:43:18] list,

[00:43:19] but today,

[00:43:20] well,

[00:43:21] today it

[00:43:21] seems we

[00:43:22] almost can't

[00:43:23] trust anyone.

[00:43:24] Educators

[00:43:25] don't even

[00:43:25] know what a

[00:43:26] woman is

[00:43:27] anymore.

[00:43:28] Many so-called

[00:43:29] public servants

[00:43:30] have shown all

[00:43:30] they care about

[00:43:31] is themselves.

[00:43:32] The FBI has

[00:43:34] been accused

[00:43:35] of bias,

[00:43:36] law-breaking,

[00:43:37] betrayal,

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[00:43:38] It's largely

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[00:43:40] with no Clark

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